abstract background: participation of woman in decision-making processes is one of the key indicators of an appropriate relationship between a woman and the health care professionals. this study aimed to recognize the factors facilitating respect for woman’s decision-making in spontaneous birth. materials and methods: this paper employed a meta-synthesis on articles published in four biomedical...

BACKGROUND The inclusion of qualitative studies in systematic reviews poses methodological challenges. This paper presents worked examples of two methods of data synthesis (textual narrative and thematic), used in relation to one review, with the aim of enabling researchers to consider the strength of different approaches. METHODS A systematic review of lay perspectives of infant size and gro...

BACKGROUND There is a growing recognition of the value of synthesising qualitative research in the evidence base in order to facilitate effective and appropriate health care. In response to this, methods for undertaking these syntheses are currently being developed. Thematic analysis is a method that is often used to analyse data in primary qualitative research. This paper reports on the use of...

Building fire-adaptive communities and fostering fire-resilient landscapes have become two of the main research strands wildfire science that go beyond strictly biophysical viewpoints call for integration complementary visions living there, with their legacy knowledge subjective dimensions. Both indigenous fire management (IFM) local (LFM) are rooted in traditional among most important contribu...

In 2010 the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry launched a Thematic Series entitled “Synthesis in the glycosciences” with 14 contributions from renowned research groups in carbohydrate chemistry [1-14]. This series impressively demonstrated the power and the passion, the creativity and the cleverness of modern synthetic glycoscience. But this success is on a continuing journey. Thus, “Synthe...