BACKGROUND Reporting of health research is often inadequate and incomplete. Complete and transparent reporting is imperative to enable readers to assess the validity of research findings for use in healthcare and policy decision-making. To this end, many guidelines, aimed at improving the quality of health research reports, have been developed for reporting a variety of research types. Despite ...

This Article-in-Press has been permanently withdrawn. The editorial policy of Medical Hypotheses makes it clear that the journal considers "radical, speculative, and non-mainstream scientific ideas", and articles will only be acceptable if they are "coherent and clearly expressed." However, we received serious expressions of concern about the quality of this article, which contains highly contr...

“This correspondence is now closed”: but in medical ethics the traditional editorial fiat is often less easy to issue. The quality of argument and counter-argument demonstrated by so many contributors to the Journal of Medical Ethics illustrates not so much that they are undefeated because they have gone on trying, but the existential importance, for them and for many of their readers, of the c...

The Intraoperative MRI is of great importance in the surgical removal of gliomas or cranial base tumors. However, the sole use of a intraoperative MRI is problematic, so that a dual system has been developed to optimize the utilization of the equipment, which can be used both for neurosurgical patients and for outpatient or stationary Patients. Within the framework of the new head Center at the...

Routing in IP networks is a computation distributed across many routers and subnetworks with inputs specified as low-level instructions in a device-by-device manner. Predicting the impact of input changes is extremely difficult; thus, network designers must not only decide what policies to deploy, but also must encode those policies in a low-level configuration and then run the protocols to see...

The connectivity of devices, machines and people via Cloud infrastructure can support collaborations among doctors and specialists from different medical organisations. Such collaborations may lead to data sharing and joint tasks and activities. Hence, the collaborating organisations are responsible for managing and protecting data they share. Therefore, they should define a set of access contr...

We propose several methods for speeding up the processing of particle physics data on clusters of PCs. We present a new way of indexing and retrieving data in a high dimensional space by making use of two levels of catalogues enabling an efficient data preselection. We propose several scheduling policies for parallelizing data intensive particle physics applications on clusters of PCs. We show ...

This article examines the impact of social policies on the living conditions of poor families—particularly women—in Latin America from the late 1980s to the present. It identifies three distinct trends of familialism in the region’s social protection systems. The first social policy trend is characterized by poverty alleviation policies addressing the family in an “elliptical” way, taking for g...

The work environment of practitioners working with migrants may be very demanding as they are frequently exposed to the sad narratives such a vulnerable population, lack professional support, or frequent change policies towards refugees and asylum seekers. Little research has been conducted explore job satisfaction organizational characteristics that can hinder promote satisfaction. present stu...