scholarly journals Welcome Message from Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Investigation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Castejón OJ
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Biomedical Investigation ◽  
Design And Methods

This new Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Investigation appears as an expression of the vertiginous and rapid advancements in worldwide in biomedical Sciences and Clinical Research. It will be an online indexed journal in major bibliographic databases and adhere to strict standards of editorial quality in a globalized academic scenario. Our main goal is to publish the most relevant original research and secondly to obtain the broadest possible visibility and the widest dissemination of their scientific contents. We will also publish preliminary research communications, review papers and postgraduate thesis and seminars highly recommended by their mentors or advisors. We will adopt the peer review system and we ask to the authors to send the address and email of three reviewers. The prestige of our journal will be measured by its impact factor and other recent emerging and alternative indicators of research performance. Due to its complex nature modern biomedical research has become increasingly inter- and transdisciplinary and collaborative scientific work. Educational researchers should describe concepts, study design and methods in order to provide transparency, clarity, appropriate ethic guidelines, and a constructive and critical approach. In such a way we can obtain a modern and updated perspective that allows the readers interested to study in depth this emerging field of biomedical research.

scholarly journals Imaging methods are vastly underreported in biomedical research

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Marqués ◽  
Thomas Pengo ◽  
Mark A Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Quality Of Reporting ◽  
Imaging Methods ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Microscopy Techniques

A variety of microscopy techniques are used by researchers in the life and biomedical sciences. As these techniques become more powerful and more complex, it is vital that scientific articles containing images obtained with advanced microscopes include full details about how each image was obtained. To explore the reporting of such details we examined 240 original research articles published in eight journals. We found that the quality of reporting was poor, with some articles containing no information about how images were obtained, and many articles lacking important basic details. Efforts by researchers, funding agencies, journals, equipment manufacturers and staff at shared imaging facilities are required to improve the reporting of experiments that rely on microscopy techniques.

scholarly journals Long-term ABA Therapy Is Abusive: A Response to Gorycki, Ruppel, and Zane

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen H. Sandoval-Norton ◽  
Gary Shkedy ◽  
Dalia Shkedy
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
Aba Therapy ◽  
Continued Use

Abstract Objective In a recent response to a review of ABA literature, methodologies, and ethics, the authors of the response attempted to negate the compilation of research presented. The goal of their response was to advocate for the continued use of ABA and attempt to demonstrate that it is in fact effective in treating autism. The research utilized in the response does not pertain to the population discussed, does not present any neuroscientific research, and does not address intrinsic motivation, elevated levels of anxiety, or various other pertinent issues associated with the nonverbal autism population. Methods The current paper helps clarify any misinterpretation of the original research and seeks to advocate for greater protections and ethical compliance within this vulnerable subset of individuals on the autism spectrum. Additionally, more recent research has been included to assist in this clarification. Results Despite decades of usage as the primary method for this population worldwide, ABA has never been shown to be even slightly efficacious for the nonverbal Autism population. Conclusions Research in ABA continues to neglect the structure the autistic brain, the overstimulation of the autistic brain, the trajectory of child development, or the complex nature of human psychology, as all of these factors were ignored in the response and are ignored in ABA practice itself. Providing a treatment that causes pain in exchange for no benefit, even if unknowingly, is tantamount to torture and violates the most basic requirement of any therapy, to do no harm.

scholarly journals Instability Strip: Writing, Flesh and Paradox in Research Performance

1969 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Event Horizon ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Compositional Elements ◽  
The Moment

In this paper I argue that the relation of flesh and writing in the paradoxical time and space of research performance can be productive of difference. I draw examples from a series of my original research performance works The Bride Stripped Bare (2003-5), Event Horizon (2009) and Instability Strip (2010). Based on a common core text, each focused on different dilemmas of the representation, perception and reception of pain through a series of non-identical iterations. In each new presentation, the performer's flesh - my flesh - was brought into a differently paradoxical relation with text, with other elements of performance composition and with co-present others. The results were sometimes painful, sometimes pleasurable, but always surprising. Writing about performance labours to recreate the moment of engagement. Writing within performance sustains unstable relationships with other compositional elements, including other kinds of writing. Writing stands either side of a space that cannot now be filled: it is not my intention to force it to stand in for what is absent. Rather, I want to draw attention to the potential of unstable performance encounters for fleshing out imagined change, staying in excess of processes of textualisation that attempt its capture through syntactical iteration.

Welcome Note from Editor-in-Chief

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Lavezzi
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Science Domain

It is with great pleasure that I write this editorial to welcome you to the first issue of this new International journal, “Pakistan Biomedical Journal” (PBMJ). The topics covered by the journal are certainly broad and interesting. Biomedical science is a collection of applied sciences that help us understand, research, and innovate within the _eld of healthcare. It includes disciplines like molecular biology, clinical virology, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering, among others. It's designed to apply the biological sciences to advance not only individual health but also the area of public health. Biomedical Research can help health professions better understand things like the human body and cell biology, making advances in our understanding of epidemics, health initiatives, and human health in the age of longer life expectancy. It aids our understanding of infectious disease and provides research opportunities into some of our most troubling health issues. The journal will continue to publish high quality clinical and biomedical research in health and disease later in life. Peer review will remain a vital component of our assessment of submitted articles. I am very happy to have a team of excellent editors and editorial board members from the top international league covering in depth the related topics. They will ensure the highest standards of quality for the published manuscripts and, at the same time, keep the process time as short as possible. We hope to bring best researches in the _eld of biomedical sciences that may serve as a guideline in health awareness, understanding the mechanisms and its management in future. We definitely look forward to receiving your excellent studies to making PBMJ synonymous with high quality in the biomedical science domain.

scholarly journals Are the biomedical sciences ready for synthetic biology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Maxwell S. DeNies ◽  
Allen P. Liu ◽  
Santiago Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Experimental Control ◽  
Discovery Science

AbstractThe ability to construct a functional system from its individual components is foundational to understanding how it works. Synthetic biology is a broad field that draws from principles of engineering and computer science to create new biological systems or parts with novel function. While this has drawn well-deserved acclaim within the biotechnology community, application of synthetic biology methodologies to study biological systems has potential to fundamentally change how biomedical research is conducted by providing researchers with improved experimental control. While the concepts behind synthetic biology are not new, we present evidence supporting why the current research environment is conducive for integration of synthetic biology approaches within biomedical research. In this perspective we explore the idea of synthetic biology as a discovery science research tool and provide examples of both top-down and bottom-up approaches that have already been used to answer important physiology questions at both the organismal and molecular level.

scholarly journals Is It Meanwhile Biomedical Sciences or Still “Ars Medica”?

Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2313
Author(s):  
Wolfgang H. Jost
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Biomedical Sciences

Scientific work is usually quite time-intensive and frequently replete with frustrations [...]

scholarly journals Bibliometric analysis of adverse drug reactions and pharmacovigilance research activities in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 204209862092248
Author(s):  
Sunil Shrestha ◽  
Krisha Danekhu ◽  
Bhuvan KC ◽  
Subish Palaian ◽  
Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Research Activities

Background: Bibliometric analyses have been used previously to study the measures of quality and impact of research performed in several health-related areas such as adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and pharmacovigilance (PV), etc. This method can assess the research performance of publications quantitatively and statistically. There is no evidence of bibilometric studies analyzing ADRs and PV from Nepal. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess scientific output on ADRs and PV-related research activities in Nepal using a bibliometric analysis of publications from 2004 January to December 2018, that is, 15 years. Methods: A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus and Nepal Journal Online (NepJOL) databases. ‘Adverse Drug Reactions‘ or ‘ADRs‘ or ‘ADR‘ or ‘Adverse drug reaction‘ or ‘AE‘ or ‘Adverse Event‘ or ‘Drug-Induced Reaction‘ or ‘Pharmacovigilance‘ or ‘PV‘ and ‘Nepal‘. The search covered 15 years (January 2004 to December 2018) of study on ADRs and PV in Nepal. Only articles retrieved from databases were included, whereas published/unpublished drug bulletins, pharmacy newsletters and thesis were excluded. The articles thus retrieved were recorded, and thereafter analyzed. Word count code was used for the analysis of keywords used in the retrieved articles. Results: A total of 124 articles were retrieved, with the highest rate of publications in 2006 and 2007, with 16 papers each. Among the articles, 10 (8.1%) were published in Kathmandu University Medical Journal (KUMJ). Single papers were published in 38 different journals. Brief reports (1.6%), case reports (31.2%), case series (0.8%), education forums (0.8%), letters to the editor (5.6%), original research articles (41.9%), review articles (9.7%), short communications and short reports (8.1%) on ADRs and PV were recorded. Out of 124 papers, 52 (41.9%) were original research publications. The majority (74.1%) of research was done in the category of ADR incidence, types, prevention, and management, followed by policy and suggestions for strengthening national and regional pharmacovigilance centers of Nepal (14.5%). Conclusions: During the study years, there was an increase in scientific publications on drug safety. A total of 124 published articles were found during bibliometric analysis of ADRs and PV research activities in Nepal.

scholarly journals PubMed Central: An Essential Resource for Information Professionals and Researchers

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Joanne L. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Original Research ◽  
National Library ◽  
Electronic Journals ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Biomedical Journals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Subject

Objective – A review of the journals containing research listed in PubMed Central (PMC), but not selected for inclusion in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collection. The authors identified reasons why journals had not been included in the collection and if any met the NLM selection criteria and were appropriate for inclusion. Design – Descriptive study. Setting – National Library of Medicine, United States. Subjects – 571 journals that were not included in the NLM collection but had research articles in PMC. Methods – In October 2009, a report was produced from the NLM library system listing journals tagged as having articles in PMC and not being in the NLM collection. Information was gathered on the journals identified and these were checked against the Collection Development Manual of the NLM and the NLM checklist used for selecting electronic journals. The reason for non-selection of the journal was recorded and the subject category, according to the Library of Congress Classification, was noted. Recorded reasons why journals were not selected: • Less than 15% of articles were within scope of NLM collection • Not enough articles published • Coverage (lacking original research or not for a scholarly audience) • Insufficient information to determine reason For journals where the criteria seemed to be met, the decision on selection to the NLM collection was reviewed. Main Results – The authors identified 571 journals that had articles in PMC but did not meet the criteria for inclusion in the NLM journal collection. The majority of these journals (73%) were outside the NLM scope and a further 10% had not published a sufficient number of articles to be considered. A further 3% were assessed as not intended for a scholarly audience or lacked original research and another 3% could not be reviewed due to lack of information available. There were 65 journals (11%) that were referred for further review as the selection criteria seemed to be met and 11 of these journals have subsequently been added to the NLM collection. This is in relation to 482 new print and electronic journals in total that were added to the NLM collection in 2009. However, only 369 of the 571 journals (65%) had one or more articles included in PMC; of these, 238 had one article and 33 had more than four articles in the archive. The reason that some journals had no articles in PMC at the time of this review was due to the time it takes to process new articles and embargos set by the publishers that restrict immediate listing on open access databases such as PMC. A number of these journals may also be new and may not have had a sufficient number of articles or enough information available to be able to include them in the NLM collection. To add context, the authors state that PMC contained over 115,000 NIH-funded articles by the end of November 2010. The subject areas these non-selected journals were classified under included Engineering (15%); Medicine (14%); Mathematics (10%); Chemistry (10%); and Computer Science (9%). Library Science was assigned to 2% of the journals. The Medicine journals were more likely than those in the other subject areas to be new journals without sufficient articles to be included in the NLM collection. Conclusion – When the journal title is out of the scope of the NLM collection, an individual article in that journal can still be included in PMC. This provides a solution to the problem of how to collect biomedical research that is not published in biomedical journals. This may be more important in the future as the field becomes more interdisciplinary. This also provides a useful resource for libraries and researchers searching for full-text biomedical articles. The authors conclude that analyzing the articles from the journals not selected for inclusion in the NLM collection will provide helpful information about the types of biomedical research being published in non-biomedical journals. This will highlight particular areas the NLM should pay attention to in the future.

Combining Popular Game Consoles and OSGi to Investigate Autonomous In-The-Field Biomedical Data Acquisition and Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Christopher Armstrong ◽  
Diarmuid Kavanagh ◽  
Sara Lal ◽  
Peter Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Hardware Platform ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Biomedical Investigation ◽  
Selection Of

Combining Popular Game Consoles and OSGi to Investigate Autonomous In-The-Field Biomedical Data Acquisition and ManagementThe need and interest in conducting biomedical research outside the traditional laboratory is increasing. In the field testing such as in the participant's home or work environment is a growing consideration when undertaking biomedical investigation. This type of research requires at a minimum semi-autonomous computer systems that collect such data and send it back to the laboratory for processing and dissemination with the smallest amount of attendance by the participant or even the experimenter. A key aspect of supporting this type of research is the selection of the appropriate software and hardware components. These supporting systems need to be reliable, allow considerable customizability and be readily accessible but also able to be locked down. In this paper we report a set of requirements for the hardware and software for such a system. We then utilise these requirements to evaluate the use of game consoles as a hardware platform in comparison to other hardware choices. We finish by outline one particular aspect of the supporting software used to support the chosen hardware platform based on the OSGi framework.

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