Review Of Recommendations Research Articles

Implications of the Cass Review for health policy governing gender medicine for Australian minors.

To summarize the key recommendations of England's independent inquiry into gender identity services for children and young people (the Cass Review) and to evaluate their relevance to Australian health policy. The Cass Review's findings and recommendations have clear applicability to Australian health policy. As a matter of priority, Australian health authorities need to seriously engage with the Cass Review's findings and recommendations. To not do so will put the health and well-being of vulnerable children and young people at risk.

Literature Review: Bulletin Media in Learning as a Literacy Resource in Strengthening the National Literacy Movement Program

Through a survey of numerous articles connected to bulletin media in learning, this study intends to provide information on the utilization and development of bulletins as a learning medium. This study is classified as a literature review. The information data used was collected from scientific journals accredited by the Science and Technology Index (SINTA). The information was gathered by analyzing published data from 2016 through 2022. Researchers examined, analyzed, and collaborated to evaluate, assemble, and review the results. Choosing nine journal papers that investigate the use and development of bulletins as learning media. 9 articles were picked at random to represent the chosen theme research, namely the use and development of bulletin media. The literature review includes information on the title of the scientific article, the author, the source of the journal publication, the methods used, the findings, and the review's recommendations in describing specific concepts and explanations that are still missing from the essence of the scientific article. This scientific article review is meant to serve as a source of inspiration for educational progress through the use of various media in molding excellent education in accordance with national goals

Therapeutic alliance in the treatment of adolescent substance misuse: a systematic review.

Therapeutic alliance has been found to play an influential role in predicting outcomes for adults and adolescents in psychotherapy. However, thus far, the information concerning the impact of therapeutic alliance on outcomes for adolescents in treatment for substance misuse has not yet been critically synthesised. In accordance with PRISMA guidelines, the current review aimed to systematically collate published research investigating the association between alliance and outcomes for adolescents undergoing substance misuse treatment. Database searching produced 1083 records, with 16 studies meeting eligibility criteria. Twelve out of the 16 studies (75%) reported significant alliance-outcome relationships, whereby higher alliance ratings predicted better treatment outcomes, as well as improved engagement and retention in treatment. In addition, the review explored the conditions whereby alliances better predict outcomes, with reference to the alliance rater, the timing of the alliance rating and comorbid diagnoses. These results, however, largely remain inconclusive. The evidence as it stands demonstrates the importance of the therapeutic alliance in predicting outcomes for adolescents in substance misuse treatments. The implications of the review's findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.

Early career researchers have questions about peer review—we asked the ASLO editors for answers

Early career researchers have questions about peer review—we asked the <scp><i>ASLO</i></scp> editors for answers

Review of RFID and IoT integration in supply chain management

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is increasingly complex and dynamic. Radio frequency identification (RFID) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to play a significant role in fulfilling customer requirements in the supply chain. In this work, the integration of RFID with IoT is called RFID-IoT. RFID-IoT strives to develop automated sensing, seamless, interoperable and highly secure systems by connecting IoT devices through the internet. In this paper, the authors have systematically reviewed the selected literature on the application of RFID-IoT in supply chain management. The contribution of this paper is to review the current state-of-the-art literature and potential trend on the application of RFID-IoT in SCM. There is a need for an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of up-to-date literature to help enhance the management system efficiency, maximize productivity, and minimize cost. This work also explores the current challenges of the reviewed papers in RFID-IoT implementation in the supply chain. The conceptual framework model has been conducted from four major critical SCM perspectives: product manufacturing, shipping and distribution, inventory and retail shop. In the future, this review's highlighted insights and recommendations will hopefully lead to increased efforts toward developing RFID-IoT technologies.

Expertise Makes Perfect: How the Variance of a Reviewer's Historical Ratings Influences the Persuasiveness of Online Reviews

Online reviews have become an important source of information for consumers’ purchase decisions. Drawing upon the consumer expertise and persuasion literature, this study proposes that consumers are more willing to accept a reviewer's recommendation when his/her historical ratings in a certain product domain display greater variance. Five experiments provide consistent support for this hypothesis and the underlying process. Study 1 tests the proposed effect of a reviewer's rating variance on consumers’ willingness to accept the reviewer's recommendation. Studies 2 and 3 show that this effect can be attributed to perceptions regarding the reviewer's expertise. Moreover, this “variance-expert inference” effect is attenuated when the consumption experience of the reviewer is limited (Study 4) and when the consumers are familiar with the products (Study 5). The theoretical implications for the online review and persuasion literature and practical implications for online retailers are discussed.

The opportunities and risks of mobile phones for refugees' experience: A scoping review.

Although mobile phones (MPs) are inexorably changing the forced migration experience, the realm of digital migration studies is still fragmented and lacking an analytical focus. Many research areas are still unexplored, while no narrative, scoping or systematic reviews have been conducted on this topic to date. The present review analyzed scientific contributions in Humanistic and Social Sciences with the aim to provide an overview of existing studies on the role of mobile phones (MPs) on refugees' experience, and to inform practice and policymaking for advancing the use of MPs for the protection of migrants' human rights. A scoping review was conducted using the Arksey and O'Malley framework and the JBI Reviewer's Manual recommendations. A three-step search was carried out in four bibliographic databases by three independent reviewers. Review selection and extraction were performed using an interactive team approach. Forty-three theoretical and empirical contributions were selected, and their content analyzed. The contributions ranged from 2013 to 2018 and varied in terms of disciplines, objectives, methodology, contexts, and migrants' origin, with the most studied group being Syrians. Five different topics concerning refugees' experience and MPs' usage emerged: (a) media practices in refugees' everyday lives; (b) opportunity and risks of MPs during the migration journey; (c) the role of MPs in maintaining and developing social relations; (d) potential of MPs for refugees" self-assertion and self-empowerment; (e) MPs for refugees' health and education. The results showed that modern devices, such as mobile phones, bring both risks and opportunities for refugees' experience, thereby both favouring and threatening asylum seekers' and refugees' human rights. Recommendations to policymaking and services and associations for advancing the use of MPs for the protection of the rights of migrants have been proposed.

Conceiving, designing and trailing a short‐form measure of job quality: a proof‐of‐concept study

AbstractThe government has accepted the Taylor Review's recommendation that it should report annually on job quality in the UK. This article argues that three principles need to be followed in choosing the right measures and shows how these principles have been used to create a short job quality quiz (www.howgoodismyjob.com).

Managing Tax Complexity: The State of Play after Henry

The most recent, significant tax reform review in Australia, popularly known as the Henry Review, was publicly released just over six years ago. This article provides a critical examination of Australia's experience in tax complexity management since the Henry Review. Two main observations are put forward. First, not surprisingly, very few of the Henry Review's recommendations related to tax simplification have been implemented. The Henry Review has achieved relatively more with respect to personal income taxation than business income taxation. Second, tax complexity in Australia has been increasing since the Henry Review from both the legal and economic perspectives. An attempt is then made to explain why it is so hard to simplify the tax system in Australia and elsewhere.

Bias and effort in peer review

Here, we develop a theory of the relationship between the reviewer's effort and bias in peer review. From this theory, it follows that journal editors might employ biased reviewers because they shirk less. This creates an incentive for the editor to use monitoring mechanisms (e.g., associate editors supervising the peer review process) that mitigate the resulting bias in the reviewers' recommendations. The supervision of associate editors could encourage journal editors to employ more extreme reviewers. This theory helps to explain the presence of bias in peer review. To mitigate shirking by a reviewer, the journal editor may assign biased referees to generate information about the manuscript's quality and subject the reviewer's recommendations to supervision by a more aligned associate editor.

The Editor's Role as a Harriet Shaw Weaver

Two weeks ago visited Dublin, Ireland, where summer meeting of Anatomical Society was held. A literary walk was included in conference program, and it began just after poster session. About 50 participants attended in two groups. It started at a famous pub on Duke Street, and an actor guided each group. In pub, we were guided to a small private hall where found a picture of James Joyce and a framed letter he had written (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 Photograph of James Joyce and his letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver. Taken at 'The Duke' in Dublin The actor told us that letter was written to a magazine editor, Harriet Shaw Weaver, and when Joyce could not find anyone to publish his major work, Ulysses, Weaver set up Egoist Press for this purpose at her own expense. It is thought that without editor's help, great novel would never have been published, and thereafter Joyce would not have become a world famous writer. On my way home, thought about how much reviewer's recommendations to a journal editor should be taken into account. Should editor rely upon a reviewer's opinion or does he have right to accept or reject paper against reviewer's recommendation? Should he play role of one who 'plucks a pearl from mud' as Weaver did? A recent paper shows that journal editors tend to place considerable weight on reviewers' recommendations. If all reviewers recommended not rejecting an article, editors still rejected manuscript 20% of time. If all reviewers recommended rejection, editors rejected piece 88% of time. Further, if reviewers were divided, editors rejected manuscript 70% of time (P=0.001) [1]. It is noteworthy that if all of reviewers recommended rejection, editors still accepted paper 12% of time. The publication process involves author-editor interaction for which both get credit once article gets published-the author directly, editor indirectly [2]. However, process of peer review can be prone to biases towards ideas that affirm prior convictions of reviewers and against innovation and radical new ideas [3]. In reviewing process, peer reviewers should avoid intellectual suppression due to Matthew effect and Heider's assimilation-contrast theory. The Matthew effect is phenomenon in which the rich get richer and poor get poorer. In case of academic publication, it means that manuscripts of famous researchers have a greater chance of being published even if they are inadequate, while unknown authors' work may be required to meet a higher standard or even rejected simply due to lack of an established reputation [4]. Heider proposed distinction between two types of affective reactions in relation to emotional expressions of others. He argued that we experience concordant affective reactions to ideas of persons who belong to our in-groups and discordant affective reactions to those with whom we do not identify [5]. The role of editors is to comprehend degree of concordance of reviewers and determine whether to accept or reject an author's work on its own merits. Sometimes they should be a 'devil's referee' [6], and sometimes they should be a Harriet Shaw Weaver. At pub, two actors performed a portion of 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett. Two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, waited endlessly and in vain for arrival of someone named Godot. Godot's absence has led to many different interpretations. For me, as an author, after submitting a manuscript to a journal, decision letter can be a figurative 'Godot' that feel am waiting for endlessly. Until that letter finally arrives, wonder whether editor will truly be my advocate. Editors should remain sympathetic to fact that authors who have submitted a manuscript to a journal are waiting for a letter that begins I am pleased to inform you that… While enforcing strong standards of rigor and ethics, best editors will be on lookout for unconventional ideas that should be published. It is such ideas that will move science and clinical practice forward most.

The Convergence Review and the principle of Australians' access to and opportunities for participation

The recent Australian Convergence Review's second principle states: Australians should have access to and opportunities for participation in a diverse mix of services, voices, views and information. However, in failing to define its own use and understanding of the terms 'access' and 'participation' the Convergence Review exposes itself to criticism. These terms would no doubt be made unambiguously clear should the Review's recommendations move towards policy, and this paper contributes to this discussion by framing access and participation, from the perspective of the 'produser' Bruns, 2008, around three separate but related issues: the failure to frame the discussion that will be undertaken by the Australian Law Reform Commission's 2012-2013 Copyright Inquiry; the prioritising of the market over and above media accountability and the health of the public sphere; and the missed opportunity to develop a national framework for digital literacy and advanced digital citizenry.

Bad evidence: the curious case of the government-commissioned review of elective home education in England and how parents exposed its weaknesses

Governments in the United Kingdom have been contracting out policy reviews to individuals. One such review, of elective home education in England, reveals serious shortcomings to this practice. This paper explores the shortcomings – methodological and presentational – with the review, and highlights the fact that there was no governmental mechanism or code against which a commissioned review can be held accountable. Although a select committee held an inquiry, it was home educators using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and social media who identified weaknesses in the review. The review's recommendations were not implemented, but this was only because a general election was called.

Need for Intraoperative Ultrasound and Surgical Recommendation for Partial Nephrectomy

This study aimed to evaluate the need for intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) and recommendation for surgical approach in the resection of renal tumors through a survey of practicing urologists, with correlation to tumor imaging features and urologist practice pattern. An institutional review board-approved retrospective review, compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, of 44 renal tumors that underwent laparoscopic partial nephrectomy at the study institution was performed. The numeric component of the RENAL nephrometry score (radius [diameter], % exophytic, nearness [to collecting system/renal sinus], location) was calculated for each case using preoperative computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging. Five anonymized images of each tumor were presented to 4 academic urologists with varying practice patterns. Reviewers independently scored each case for its need for IOUS, for recommendation of a surgical technique, and for the difficulty of the proposed surgery. The RENAL scores were as follows: RENAL 1 (low complexity, score 4-6; n = 19); RENAL 2 (moderate complexity, score 7-9; n = 23); RENAL 3 (high complexity, score 10-12; n = 2). The only RENAL score component significantly influencing need for IOUS was percentage exophytic (P = 0.00002). There was an inverse relationship between normalized and averaged need for IOUS and percentage exophytic (P < 0.0001). The predominant influence for recommendation of surgical method was the reviewer him/herself, with each reviewer's recommendations closely matching his/her practice pattern. Size and percentage exophytic represented the only tumor features significantly (P = 0.03) influencing surgical recommendation. There was a significant difference in the perceived need for IOUS and surgical recommendation when 4 academic urologists reviewed a series of renal masses requiring resection. Percentage exophytic correlated inversely with need for IOUS. Urologist's practice pattern and tumor size and percentage exophytic were most predictive of surgical recommendation.

Wine Tax Reform: The Impact of Introducing a Volumetric Excise Tax for Wine

The recent Henry tax review recommended substantial changes to Australian alcohol taxation policy. Here, the implications for the Australian wine industry of the Henry tax review's recommendations are explored using a computable general equilibrium model. The results show that: (i) replacement of the Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) with a revenue-neutral volumetric excise tax would have a small negative impact on the wine industry; (ii) removal of the WET rebate would have a substantial negative impact on small wineries; and (iii) applying the packaged beer excise rate across all alcoholic beverages would have a notable negative impact on the wine industry.

The effectiveness of extreme rainfall alerts in predicting surface water flooding in England and Wales

The extreme rainfall alert (ERA) pilot was a response to the Pitt Review's recommendation that ‘the Met Office and Environment Agency (EA) provide an early assessment of the costs, benefits and feasibility of techniques which can predict where rain will fall and where surface water flooding will occur’. In April 2009, the ERA became an operational service provided to the EA professional partners and Category 1 and 2 responders—organizations with legal responsibilities to respond to flooding. ERAs are intended as a first step towards warnings for surface water flooding (SWF). This article assesses the effectiveness of the ERA pilot at predicting SWF. ERAs relating to three case study areas and issued during the pilot were compared with reports of SWF, identified from the data available relating to all sources of flooding. While data were found to be lacking in quality and consistency, it is possible to provide an initial assessment of the effectiveness of the ERA pilot. The existing ERA rainfall thresholds do not relate directly to SWF in all areas. As the ERA service specifically intends to warn for rainfall likely to cause severe SWF in urban areas, it is impossible to draw strong conclusions without further investigating the magnitude of flooding which occurred both when an ERA was and was not issued. As SWF magnitude and extent data were extremely sparse, it is recommended that systematic collection of comprehensive data relating to flood events should be implemented nationally. This will facilitate more accurate investigations of the links between rainfall intensity and SWF, which it is vital to understand in order to provide the most effective surface water flood warnings possible. Copyright © 2011 Royal Meteorological Society

Behind the Signs—A Global Review of Fish Sustainability Information Schemes

This article presents the results of a global review of organizations that provide sustainable fisheries information—including ecolabels, recommendation lists, and supermarkets—to consumers and supply chain intermediaries. It examined 17 organizations and key supermarkets that communicate on the sustainability of world fisheries and aquaculture products. Certification schemes assess a relatively small number of specific fisheries and indicate sustainability through labels. Recommendation lists cover more species and areas but in less detail. Most schemes showed improving conformance with FAO guidelines for fisheries and aquaculture certification. However, significant variation in fisheries’ assessment exists, calling into question the accuracy and precision of information and advice provided. Inconsistent approaches and contradictory advice among certification schemes and recommendation lists potentially increase consumer confusion and reduce their credibility. The review identifies seven critical attributes that schemes must address—scope, accuracy, independence, precision, transparency, standardization, and cost-effectiveness—and recommends that certification schemes and recommendation lists enhance their consistency and credibility through compliance with these attributes and FAO guidelines. Fish sustainability information schemes play an important role in securing a sustainable future for the oceans. Uptake of this review's recommendations should reduce consumer confusion and increase confidence in the benefits of sustainable purchasing.

A Proposed Visual Education for All Australian Students

In the light of a decision taken in April 2009 that the arts will be included in a projected national curriculum it seems relevant to examine First We See: The National Review of Visual Education, which was completed in August 2008. That Review recommends the development of a visual education curriculum for the compulsory years of schooling. Under the guiding concept of “visuacy,” a neologism deriving from “visual literacy,” the newly conceived subject is intended to have educational outcomes complementary to literacy and numeracy. I examine the arguments and recommendations of the Review, and briefly examine the methodology of Phase One of the Review (i.e., a literature review, a questionnaire, and school visits) for its relevance to the Review's recommendations.

A Critique of theStern Review's Mitigation Cost Analyses and Integrated Assessment

This article is an assessment of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a major climate policy study done for the UK government by a group led by Sir Nicholas Stern. In this article, I examine both the mitigation cost and integrated assessment aspects of the Review. Although the Review makes many significant contributions, I believe that the framework the Review adopted to formulate policy recommendations is difficult to understand, and probably not well matched to the problem being addressed, and that the Review's specific recommendation for large emission reductions in the short run to facilitate stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by mid-century is not justified by the analysis. This outcome was the result of using relatively high climate damage projections, relatively low GHG mitigation cost projections, and very low discount rate assumptions relative to current expert opinion and what is in the literature. Moreover, the Review's formulation appears to treat the climate policy problem as a deterministic “one shot” benefit-cost analysis rather than a problem of sequential decision-making under uncertainty.

The Information Requirements for an Effective Regional Policy: A Critique of the Allsopp Review

This paper considers the recommendations of the Allsopp Review on the adequacy of UK regional economic statistics. It raises general concerns over the philosophy underpinning the review and specific questions as to whether the review's recommendations are sufficient to operate effectively the present UK regional policy regime. In particular, the institutional arrangements that make up the 'new localism' in UK regional policy have data requirements that are more extensive than simply monitoring performance against government targets. Many of these in formational requirements were simply not considered or were given an inappropriately low weight in the Review's deliberations.