Scientific conferences, such as the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) annual meeting, provide an important channel for the exchange of information between researchers. However, the ultimate means of disseminating research information is publication in a relevant peer-reviewed journal. The goal of this study was to follow up published abstracts in the Journal of Bone and Joint S...

This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school. ASCI dissertation series number 324.

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius, Bioline International , African Journals online Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com http://www.bioline.br/md http://www.ajol.com Received: January 2008 Accepted (Revised): June 2008 Published Septemeber 2008 Full Length Research Article Effects of Metha...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the structured abstracts in biomedical journals indexed in MEDLINE over a three-year period as an initial step in exploring their utility in enhancing bibliographic retrieval. DESIGN The study examined the occurrence of structured abstracts in MEDLINE from March 1989 to December 1991, characteristics of MEDLINE records for articles with structured abstracts, editoria...

this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Veterinarius Full-text available at http://www.ajbrui.com & http://www.bioline.br/md Received: November, 2005 Accepted (Revised): November, 2005 Published January, 2006 Full Length Research Article The Importance of O – Level Grades in Medical School Admission: The University of Ado–Ekiti Expe...

CONTEXT The section of a research article most likely to be read is the abstract, and therefore it is particularly important that the abstract reflect the article faithfully. OBJECTIVE To assess abstracts accompanying research articles published in 6 medical journals with respect to whether data in the abstract could be verified in the article itself. DESIGN Analysis of simple random sample...

Contents The Representation of Culture in Arabic pedagogy books to non-Arabic languages Danesh Mohammadi, Sakineh Zarenejad....................................................... 1 Critical Study of the‏‏manifestations of Mamluke's life from the novel “Alsaeroun‏‏niyam...

Review The titles and abstracts of all identified articles were reviewed by two study investigators. We excluded articles that were not written in English, published before 1980, did not include human data or original data, did not have a full article available for review, were not relevant to minority health, did not have a cultural competence intervention, did not target health care providers...