2011). SOPs are necessary for a clinical research organization whether it concerns a pharmaceutical company, a sponsor, a contract research organization, an investigator site, an Ethics Committee or any other party involved in clinical research to achieve maximum safety and efficiency of the performed...
fluctuating from day to day. We can assess this stability by determining whether leaders belong to the same or different profiles from one day to the next (i.e., is a leader who is a member of Profile A on one day also a member of Profile A on the next day). From a theoretical p...
He considers translation to be art and the most difficult thing is to completely reflect the art of original text in the translated version. I agree the idea that the translation is recreation. He also believes that translation is a competition. In the process, not only the source language an...
While research exists on what constitutes meaningful learning, our study reveals the term meaningful is an ill-defined concept that is interpreted in multiple ways, often from a teacher-centric perspective. Less is known about what constitutes meaningfulness in the context of higher education, particul...
of 174,209 valid responses, representing the largest ever survey of sexual behaviour among men who have sex with men anywhere in the world. A detailed description of the methods has been published elsewhere [34]. EMIS was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Portsmouth...
So what exactly is the definition of "substantially transformed"? To answer that you need to trawl a mountain of correspondence (or let the Jewelers Vigilance Committee do the hard work) involving the National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD). It's the arm of the U.S. Customs and Border...
Long covid (post covid-19 condition) is a complex condition with diverse manifestations, uncertain prognosis and wide variation in current approaches to management. There have been calls for formal quality standards to reduce a so-called “postcode lottery” of care. The original aim of this stu...
Foreign correspondence is expensive, and a 1990s-era rule of thumb was that it cost $250,000 to keep a reporter posted overseas. So, even assuming that the figure is closer to $500,000, the $14.9 million paid in bonuses last year would fund 30 correspondents. Or, twice the number of ...
Correspondence to Sunday Eke Nto. Ethics declarations Ethical approval and consent to participate The studies involving humans were approved by the National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria (NHREC). The study was conducted by the local legislation and institutional requirements. The participants ...
In the 1990s, China launched an ambitious plan (Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and State Council of China 1995) for global leadership in science. One may consider the plan to be successful, as the country is now the largest contributor to research papers worldwide. China ...