PURPOSE Health care providers must maintain familiarity with current biomedical evidence, but clinicians struggle to maintain their awareness of current research because of the demands of daily practice and the exponential growth of medical knowledge. Clinical information specialists (informationists), trained experts in reviewing and filtering the medical literature in response to complex clin...

Single case designs are a set of research methods for evaluating treatment effects by assigning different treatments to the same individual and measuring outcomes over time and are used across fields such as behavior analysis, clinical psychology, special education, and medicine. Emerging standards for single case designs have focused attention on the need for effect sizes for summarizing and m...

There are now signs in the United States as well as in Europe that the importance of a positive human-nonhuman animal relationship in research laboratories is appreciated more seriously. In addition to knowledge and skills, primary attributes of animal research personnel must be feelings of compassion and sensitivity toward animals to safeguard the reliability of scientific research data.

The paper presents the research results related to the use of large utility-managed customer datasets for identifying customer trends and variations that may provide insights to the potential for energy efficiency opportunities. The emphasis is residential customers although the results can be applied to other sectors and building types. An approach to guide the statistical analysis and researc...

This paper outlines a research methodology for investigating the process of digital game design. This methodology has been successfully developed and applied during a doctoral inquiry investigating the design of games and simulations to promote conceptual learning in physics. A key challenge of that inquiry was to both outline and legitimate the design process as one of research. This paper fol...

Steps of the scientific method [1] are shaped like an hourglass starting from general questions, narrowing down to focus on one specific aspect [2], and designing research [3] where we can observe [4] and analyze this aspect. At last, we conclude [5] and generalize [6] to the real world. Formulating a Research Problem Researchers organize their research by formulating and defining a research pr...

3. With the largest number of life insurance policies enforced in the world, India's insurance sector accounted for 4.1 per cent of GDP in 2006-07, up from 1.2 per cent in 1999-2000 and further increase is expected which reflect insurance sector has immense potential for growth. This study is better reasoning of policyholder decision making because of the wide size of diversified insurance mark...