INTRODUCTION Our objective was to determine the proportion of publications arising from abstracts presented at the Quebec Urological Association (QUA). We wanted to analyze differences in publication rates according to certain parameters, and to examine the quality of publications using journal impact factors. METHODS All abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the QUA between 2000 and ...

The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even sometimes undermining development progress. State failure has dimensions of both will and capacity. Failure ...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] EFFECT SIZES AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR MULTIVARIAT...

Quantitative long-term measurements of VOC concentrations by PTR-MS: annual cycle at a boreal forest site T. M. Ruuskanen, R. Taipale, J. Rinne, M. K. Kajos, H. Hakola, and M. Kulmala University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 68, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland Received: 19 September 2008 – Accepted: 20 ...