OBJECTIVES Authors may choose to work with professional medical writers when writing up their research for publication. We examined the relationship between medical writing support and the quality and timeliness of reporting of the results of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. STUDY SAMPLE Primary reports of RCTs published in BioMed Central journals from 2000...

Live coding emphasizes improvisation. It is an art practice merging the act of musical composition and performance into a public act of projected writing. This paper introduces the improvisational features of the Threnoscope system, which implements a live coding microlanguage for drone-based microtonal composition. The paper discusses the aims and objectives of the system, elucidates design de...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people involved in medicine are under pressure to publish research, but there is little understanding of how to describe structured writing. AIM This paper aims to describe the structure of original research papers published in the British Journal of General Practice with a view to providing insight into the nature of such analyses, and particularly to help ...

Holmgren E. 2006. Forest Commons in Boreal Sweden – Influences on Forest Condition, Management and the Local Economy. This thesis examines the influences of Swedish forest commons on forest condition, management and the local economy. The approach is rationalistic, i.e. outcomes of forestry activities are assessed in relation to aims. According to the stated objectives, forest commons should se...

PURPOSE Edwin Beer introduced the first endoscopic treatment of papillary bladder tumors in 1910. This historical review describes how his landmark discovery paved the way for office cystodiathermy to treat recurrent papillary tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical writings of Edwin Beer and all studies pertaining to the treatment of papillary bladder tumors from 1879 to the present were r...

Patterns of Protocols are introduced for describing communication across networks, providing conceptual patterns for behaviors of protocols and common terminology for their operations. The two basic structural patterns are Protocol-ProviderPeer-Pair-Packet and User-Provider-Agent, orthogonal to one another. The first views protocols in a common manner related to instances at each node, addresse...

A case report is a detailed narrative that usually illustrates a diagnostic or therapeutic problem experienced by one or several patients. Case reports commonly serve as the first line of evidence for new interventions or they function as alarms that an issue exists with an already established therapy. Case reports are of minor importance in evidence-based medicine; however, they make meaningfu...

This article distills the economic and current significance contained in the political economy of J.R. Commons. It compares descriptions of his three main works that discuss “sovereignty”: A Sociological View of Sovereignty (SVS), Legal Foundations of Capitalism (LFC), and Institutional Economics (IE). Through this comparison, we find that the role of sovereignty in his theory changed dramatica...