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In occupational and environmental health research, individual, group and community research participants have a unique and vested interest in the research findings. The ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence are helpful in considering the ethical issues in the disclosure of research findings in occupational and environmental health research. Researchers need to include ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To describe the importance of, and methods for, successfully conducting and translating research into clinical practice. BACKGROUND There is universal acknowledgement that the clinical care provided to individuals should be informed on the best available evidence. Knowledge and evidence derived from robust scholarly methods should drive our clinical practice, decisions and...

Background: Dystrophins and dystrobrevins are distantly related proteins with important but poorly understood roles in the function of metazoan muscular and neuronal tissues. Defects in them and their associated proteins cause a range of neuromuscular disorders. Members of this superfamily have been discovered in a relatively serendipitous way; we set out to compile a comprehensive description ...

VALUES, PRACTICES AND OUTCOMES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORRECTIONS In 2006, Professor Alison Liebling and Dr Ben Crewe successfully applied for a large, ESRC research grant for a project titled Values, Practices and Outcomes in Public and Private Corrections. The study was shaped by previous research by both investigators, and drew upon their expertise in the analysis of prison life and their exc...

Almost every time there is a genuinely important decision to be made in an organization, a group is assigned to make it -or at least to counsel and advise the individual who must make it." Hackman [23] Meeting analysis, that is the study of meeting expenses, productivity, processes, and outcomes, is relevant to GSS practice And research for several reasons. Many reviews and surveys [1, 2, 3, 15...

In Germany, until 1985, there was a more or less subjective carcass classification system in use which was mainly based on conformation of the ham. In 1985 this system changed into a carcass classification system based only on objective fat and muscle measurements using different instruments such as the Hennesy Grading Probe or the Fat-0-Meter (FOM). For each instrument one formula is used to e...

Health research published in journals provides an everincreasing number of studies and trials that espouse the benefits of all sorts of interventions. But how do consumers of research, for example the readers of Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (JFAR), know whether to believe the findings of research articles that they read? Clearly, health journals have an unambiguous responsibility to suppo...