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Do we publish what we preach? Analysis of Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Society publication rates

IntroductionThe purpose of this study is to analyse the publication rate of studies presented as podium presentations in the Spanish Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECHC) congresses. MethodsOne hundred and twenty-two abstracts presented at the SECHC congresses held in 2007, 2009 and 2011 were included for the purpose of the study. The oral communications were categorised by study type, sample included and follow-up. In June 2017, possible publications of these studies were searched in PubMed. Type of study, delay in publication, journal and impact factor obtained were recorded. The concordance between the information presented at the congress and their subsequent full-text publications was analysed. ResultsThe publication rate was 17.21% (21 of the 122 abstracts studied) after 6 years, with a mean time spent for publications of 36.71 months, and a mean impact factor of 1.51. There were no differences between results initially presented at the congresses and those subsequently published (p>0.05). DiscussionThe majority of papers presented at SECHC congresses do not end up with a publication. The papers that are published do not usually contain significant differences compared to the content delivered at the congress.

Labor at the Taylor Society

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to add information on which voices contributed to the scientific management narrative from Frederick Taylor’s 1915 death to the early 1930s with a focus on the role of labor union representatives. The strategy is to analyze the role of labor representatives as participants in Taylor Society meetings and publications. The research contributes to the management history literature by bolstering the picture of the Taylor Society as a liberal, pro-labor organization. The research also shows that the Taylor Society was an early proponent of the idea that assembling diverse groups for dialogue improves organizational problem-solving.Design/methodology/approachThe research analyzes historical sources including all issues of the Society’s bulletin from 1914 to 1933 and unpublished material from the Morris Cooke papers and the papers in the Frederick Taylor archive at Stevens Institute of Technology.FindingsTaylor Society leaders took a proactive view of encouraging labor voices to join managers and academics in society meetings. At the beginning, few labor leaders spoke at the society, and often, at least some of their comments were critical of scientific management. By 1925, labor participation increased with William Green, American Federation of Labor (AFL) president appearing several times. In addition, labor leaders became positively inclined toward having scientific management experts working in industrial settings. The labor leaders who participated at Taylor Society meetings in the late 1920s and early 1930s considered scientific management insights as useful for labor and wanted to cooperate with the researchers.Originality/valueThe paper augments a revisionist view of interwar scientific management as progressive and pro-labor, a contested point in the management history literature. The research also shows how the Taylor Society was an early proponent of the importance of diversity, at least in the areas of gender and socioeconomic status, for effective problem-solving.

Taking a giant step in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The Fleischner Society have published a White Paper on the diagnostic criteria of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) 1 Lynch DA Sverzellati N Travis WD et al. Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Fleischner Society White Paper. Lancet Respir Med. 2017; (published online Nov 15.)DOI:10.1016/S2213-2600(17)30433-2 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (550) Google Scholar capturing new data that have emerged since the last publication of the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS)/Latin American Thoracic Association (ALAT) guidelines for the diagnosis of IPF. 2 Raghu G Collard HR Egan JJ et al. An official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT statement: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: evidence-based guidelines for diagnosis and management. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011; 183: 788-824 Crossref PubMed Scopus (5323) Google Scholar These new data have direct implications on clinical practice. Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Fleischner Society White PaperThis Review provides an updated approach to the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), based on a systematic search of the medical literature and the expert opinion of members of the Fleischner Society. A checklist is provided for the clinical evaluation of patients with suspected usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). The role of CT is expanded to permit diagnosis of IPF without surgical lung biopsy in select cases when CT shows a probable UIP pattern. Additional investigations, including surgical lung biopsy, should be considered in patients with either clinical or CT findings that are indeterminate for IPF. Full-Text PDF

Editor's Note

Summary form only give, as follows. IEEE TDSC is today a well established journal in the field of information and computer dependability and security attracting top quality papers covering different topics within this field. This increase in quality and coverage has been made possible by the dedicated work of the Editorial Board Members and Reviewers and of Guest Editors who have over the years organized special issues on a variety of topics. As a result, the impact factor of IEEE TDSC has recently increased to 2. 926. Also in order to make it possible the timely publication of accepted papers, the TDSC’s annual page budget has been increased from 700 to 1100. This change will take effect in 2018 and I hope that it will help in further attracting high quality timely papers on topic of interest to the research community. Many individuals have contributed to the success of TDSC. First and foremost I would like to thank the authors for submitting their best research work to TDSC. Special thanks are due to the Associate Editors in Chief, Professor Joon-Gail Ahn (Arizona State University) and Professor Neeraj Suri (Technical University of Darmstadt); their advice and assistance on many different issues concerning TDSC have been invaluable. As my term of service as Editor-in-Chief will end on 1 January 2018, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the reviewers for their dedicated work in reviewing papers, and the Editorial Board and IEEE Computer Society Publications Staff for their continuous assistance. I would like to extend my best wishes to Professor Jaideep Vaidya, the incoming Editor-in-Chief of TDSC. His distinguished research track in the field of information and computer dependability and security gives us confidence that under his leadership this journal will continue to thrive in its mission to serve our research community.

Scholarly Societies and Society Publishers Stakeholders Report

Scholarly Societies and Society Publishers Stakeholders Report

Abnormal uterine bleeding.

It is not uncommon for a woman to suffer from abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) or heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) at some point during her lifetime. Once pathology is excluded, in practice, management needs to be individualised, taking into account the improvement of the woman's symptoms and quality of life. Peer-reviewed journals, governmental and professional society publications. There is now agreement on a structured, universal approach to the diagnosis of AUB, with the aide memoirs PALM (polyps, adenomyosis, leiomyoma, malignancy) and COEIN (coagulopathies, ovulatory dysfunction, endometrial, iatrogenic, not otherwise classified). Once malignancy and significant pelvic pathology have been ruled out, medical treatment is an effective first-line therapeutic option, with surgery, including endometrial ablation and hysterectomy, offered when medical management has failed to resolve symptoms and fertility is no longer desired. There remains controversy around the management of the types and subtypes of adenomyosis and leiomyoma, and understanding their impact on clinical reproductive outcomes. Standardised assessment tools for measuring outcomes of AUB are being developed. Novel diagnostic and monitoring tools should be developed to help stratify treatment for women with AUB, particularly relating to 'unclassified' and 'endometrial' causes.

Announcement and Description of the Journal of Chemical Education Editor-in-Chief Position

The Board of Publication of the Division of Chemical Education announces the opening of a search for the ninth Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Education. The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Education is responsible for all aspects of its publication either directly or cooperatively through the copublication agreement with the American Chemical Society Publications Division. This announcement describes the Editor-in-Chief position and its responsibilities, the associated editorial support staff, and the application procedure.

I-IV, [The History of Turkish Literature I-IV] ed. Abdullah Uçman et al., Turkish Historical Society Publications

Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi [The History of Turkish Literature], the work that existed in name only for long times, of İsmail Hakkı Ertaylan took its place among the publications of Turkish Historical Society. The book had been written in Arabic alphabet and published as four separate volumes in Baku in 1925-26; yet, all of them were published in one great volume by Turkish Historical Society. Transliteration and editing of the book were carried out by a committee under the leadership of Abdullah Uçman. The committee consists of Mehmet Çelenk, Seda Işık, İpek Şahbenderoğlu, Özge Şahin, Bengü Vahapoğlu, Sibel Işık and Seval Şahin. İsmail Hikmet Ertaylan is always mentioned as a significant writer of Turkish Literature historiography in higher schools in Turkey, however most of the readers could not get through to his work as it was written in old alphabet. Moreover, copies of the book were not available in Turkish libraries as it was published in Baku.

Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

Think Like Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the By David Bollier. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2014. 192 pp. ISBN 9780865717688.What do agriculture in India and urban planning in Croatia have in common? In Think Like Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, David Bollier brings together examples of co-operative practices from around the world to show how the idea of the commons can transform social relations, challenge economic assumptions, and tackle climate change. Bollier is an author and activist whose research draws on his experiences as policy strategist and grassroots organizer. Despite Bollier's extensive insider engagement with collective endeavours, Think Like Commoner provides an approachable overview of the commons for the general public by using accessible language and maintaining conversational tone. Although academics may find the book light on theory, activists will be empowered by the focus on practice.Think Like Commoner is divided into eleven chapters. Each chapter consists of self-contained argument and could easily be read alone, but the chapters also build on one another to create more sophisticated narrative. book is premised on the idea that has an instinctual understanding of what constitutes the commons. As result, Bollier does not provide an overarching definition of the commons. Instead, he builds on the concept throughout the book, suggesting early on that the commons is both things that no one owns and are shared by everyone (Bollier, 2014, p. 2) and a parallel economy and social order that quietly but confidently affirms that another world is possible (p. 4).The lack of single, authoritative definition allows Bollier to launch into examples of contemporary commons in Chapter 1. This, however, presents conceptual challenges later in the book. In Chapter 2, Bollier revisits Garrett Hardin's seminal article The Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin's account of catastrophic mismanagement has defined mainstream understandings of the commons since its publication in 1968. In contrast, Bollier argues that the situation described by Hardin is not true commons because resource use is not governed by social norms. next three chapters expose the legacy of the tragedy of the commons and show how the privatization of natural resources paved the way for control of cultural assets and intellectual inquiry. Chapter 6 looks at the neglected history of the commons, while Chapter 7 elaborates on the challenges of private property. Chapters 8 and 9 focus on the commons in areas ranging from digital innovation to Indigenous traditions. Although at times these clusters of ideas seem arbitrary, Bollier resists the urge to categorize the commons, explaining that any classification system will necessarily reflect the analysts' cultural bias (2014, p. 127). A similar hesitancy to establish system of thought characterizes the final two chapters of the book. Chapter 10 is devoted to the ways that embracing the commons could change the way we think, and Chapter 11 argues that theories of the commons have not kept pace with an explosion of practices in diverse domains.Think Like Commoner is tangible representation of the focus on practice over theory. For instance, Bollier explains how the book is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, and the appendices incorporate content from other works also under Creative Commons licenses. In essence, these licenses permit content to be used as long as credit is given to the author and derivative uses remain legally shareable. By drawing attention to the agreements that encourage his ideas to be shared, Bollier grounds his work in concrete commitment to the inclusive and commons-based exchange of knowledge. …

Open Access Article Processing Charges (OA APC) Longitudinal Study 2016 Dataset

This article documents Open access article processing charges (OA APC) Main 2016. This dataset was developed as part of a longitudinal study of the minority (about a third) of the fully open access journals that use the APC business model. APC data for 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 are primarily obtained from publishers’ websites, a process that requires analytic skill as many publishers offer a diverse range of pricing options, including multiple currencies and/or differential pricing by article type, length or work involved and/or discounts for author contributions to editing or the society publisher or based on perceived ability to pay. This version of the dataset draws heavily from the work of Walt Crawford, and includes his entire 2011–2015 dataset; in particular Crawford’s work has made it possible to confirm “no publication fee” status for a large number of journals. DOAJ metadata for 2016 and 2014 and a 2010 APC sample provided by Solomon and Björk are part of the dataset. Inclusion of DOAJ metadata and article counts by Crawford and Solomon and Björk provide a basis for studies of factors such as journal size, subject, or country of publication that might be worth testing for correlation with business model and/or APC size.

An Update on Society Publications [Publication Activities

An Update on Society Publications [Publication Activities

The History of the Jehovah's Witnesses: An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship

Zoe Knox's analysis of the English‐language historiography of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society was published in this journal in 2011. It assessed four types of historical writing on the organisation: the Watch Tower Society's own publications; material produced by two categories of detractors, namely ex‐Witnesses and Christians writing from other denominational perspectives; and academic studies. There are vast quantities of all but the last of these. Her article thus concluded with a call for scholars to take this religious community more seriously as an historical subject, echoing an appeal made by Rodney Stark and Laurence Iannaccone to social scientists in 1997. This review essay is intended to supplement Knox's historiographical analysis by appraising recent publications on the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses. As we shall see, although scholarship on this topic remains sparse, particularly given the organisation's visibility, since 2011 several important books have appeared alongside others which make contributions to the limited sum of our knowledge of the origins and emergence of the organisation and the way it has operated in different historical contexts. In short, the field requires reappraisal in light of these publications.

Deprivation of Liberty: Collected GuidanceThe Law Society Deprivation of Liberty: Collected Guidance 400pp £29.95 Law Society Publishing 9781784460433 1784460435

Deprivation of liberty (DoL) is a complicated subject that healthcare professionals may find challenging. Understanding and applying safeguards against DoL can be difficult because regulations and guidance are complex and varied.

How open access is crucial to the future of science

ABSTRACTA commentary published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management argued that open access publication has strong negative implications for the future of science. Unfortunately, that commentary was founded in serious and deep misconceptions about the distinctions between open access, commercial, and society publications, and the rigor of peer review in open access journals. To the contrary, open access responds more appropriately than traditional closed publishing venues to the needs and participation of an increasingly global scholarly research community, and peer review by a broader community may in many cases be more rigorous, responding to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of modern research. We respectfully suggest that The Wildlife Society consider a transition from closed access to open access for The Journal of Wildlife Management, as a means of optimizing and maximizing its role in communications in the field. © 2017 The Wildlife Society.

"Wielka rzeź Armagedonu". O czasach końca w publikacjach Towarzystwa Strażnica

"Wielka rzeź Armagedonu". O czasach końca w publikacjach Towarzystwa Strażnica

電力・エネルギー部門編修活動のご紹介

The Editorial Committee is working in planning and editing of the publication of Power and Energy Society. In this article, activities of the committee of the last term are reported, and recent trend and future problems are also discussed. The process of planning and editing of the publication, and the challenges to reduce the necessary months for reviewing papers and to increase the number of submitted papers are shown.

British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Teresa Barnard

Reviewed by: British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Teresa Barnard Angela Escott Teresa Barnard, ed. British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 194pp. This diverse and stimulating collection of essays about women who challenged gender boundaries in the 18th century is grouped according to three categories: science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Some of the women discussed in these chapters have already been extensively written about, but hitherto unexplored areas of their work are uncovered here, while other chapters introduce women whose contribution to the intellectual life of the 18th century has been unrecognized. Taking the strategic version of feminism expressed by Anna Laetitia Barbauld in her poem “The Rights of Women” (1792) as the inspiration for this collection, Teresa Barnard and Ruth Watts introduce the context for these essays: the women to whom the collection is devoted intervened in masculine discourses, but they were disadvantaged by lack of education, travel experience, and networks available to men. The essays dealing with contributions to science range from Mary Wortley Montagu’s role in the introduction of smallpox vaccinations in Britain, the research into and description of volcanoes by poets Anna Seward and Eleanor Anne Porden Franklin, and finally Mary Wollstonecraft’s writing on pediatrics. Daniel Grey notes that there has been much critical work on Montagu’s fiction and her accounts of her visits to Turkey but very little about her influence on the introduction of smallpox vaccination. She was seriously affected in her personal life by the disease, and her poem “The Small Pox” (1716) records this. Her attempts to hide the disfigurement by experimenting with Turkish remedies were disastrous. Grey investigates the origins of inoculation in the Middle East and China. He sets Montagu’s activity in the context of the work of female medics such as Judith Drake, noting the barriers that women faced. He suggests that Montagu knew the Royal Society publications on the subject and the 1714 report by Emanuele Timonim, physician to the British Embassy in Constantinople, before she had her son and later her daughter inoculated. She became an active campaigner in defence of the vaccine. Her anonymous challenge to detractors of the practice was only attributed to her in the mid-twentieth century. She continued to recommend the remedy through personal influence, which Grey suggests was significant for the gradual acceptance of inoculation and its role in reducing the serious damage of the disease. Teresa Barnard’s own article assesses how two contemporary poets were inspired by a topical interest in volcanoes. Women were excluded from scientific debates by lack of education, and contemptuous chauvinistic satire, similar to that which ridiculed women travellers. Franklin acquired her knowledge of science at the Royal Institution public lectures and at informal meetings. She was particularly interested in geology, and her epic poem The Veils (1815) introduces, as does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Rosicrucian doctrine from medieval [End Page 197] natural philosophy. In The Veils, influenced by Erasmus Darwin’s poem The Botanic Garden (1791), geological detail is combined with poetic imagination. Anna Seward, the other woman poet who was inspired by descriptions of volcanoes, was invited by Darwin to collaborate on this poem. She did not accept his invitation, but she did write an introduction. Subsequently, she was moved by Patrick Brydone’s description of Mount Etna to compose a poetic description of an erupting volcano. Although she did not travel beyond England herself, she read Brydone and Sir William Hamilton, and supported her descriptive poetry with informative footnotes. Barnard closely analyses how Seward’s poetry made Brydone’s scientific descriptions and explanations of Etna more accessible. The chapter sheds new light on the intellectual explorations of women writers who were disadvantaged by their exclusion from male networks and by their limited opportunities for travel. Malini Roy draws attention to unfinished letters by Mary Wollstonecraft on child-rearing, a subject of great interest following the work of philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who advocated more freedom for the child to develop an “authentic” self under the influence of Nature. Theories about good practice in childbirth became polarized between...

The Winds of Change [Publications Round-Up

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The Waterbird Society's Publication Award for Outstanding Contribution to Conservation

The Waterbird Society's Publication Award for Outstanding Contribution to Conservation

Type E botulism associated with fish product consumption – Germany and Spain

EFSA Supporting PublicationsVolume 13, Issue 12 1157E Technical reportOpen Access Type E botulism associated with fish product consumption – Germany and Spain European Food Safety Authority, European Food Safety AuthoritySearch for more papers by this authorEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlSearch for more papers by this author European Food Safety Authority, European Food Safety AuthoritySearch for more papers by this authorEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 January 2017 https://doi.org/10.2903/sp.efsa.2016.EN-1157Citations: 1 Requestor: European Commission Question number: EFSA-Q-2016-00820 This article was originally published on the EFSA website www.efsa.europa.eu on 21 December 2016 as part of EFSA's urgent publication procedures. AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Sobel J, Malavet M, John S. Outbreak of clinically mild botulism type E illness from home-salted fish in patients presenting with predominantly gastrointestinal symptoms. Clinical Infectious Diseases: an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2007 Jul 15; 45(2):e14-6. Heymann DL. Control of communicable diseases manual. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association; 2014. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Scientific advice on type F botulism, 2013. Available from: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/botulism-scientific-advice-type-F-botulism.pdf. Fach P, Perelle S, Dilasser F, Grout J, Dargaignaratz C, Botella L, et al. Detection by PCR-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of Clostridium botulinum in fish and environmental samples from a coastal area in northern France. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2002 Dec; 68(12): 5870– 6 Barash JR, Arnon SS. A novel strain of Clostridium botulinum that produces type B and type H botulinum toxins. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2014 Jan 15; 209(2): 183- 91. Carter AT, Peck MW. Genomes, neurotoxins and biology of Clostridium botulinum Group I and Group II. Research in Microbiology. 2015 May; 166(4): 303- 17. Hyytia E, Hielm S, Korkeala H. Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum type E in Finnish fish and fishery products. Epidemiology and Infection. 1998 Jun; 120(3): 245- 50 Dykes JK, Luquez C, Raphael BH, McCroskey L, Maslanka SE. Laboratory investigation of the first case of botulism caused by Clostridium butyricum type E toxin in the United States. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2015 Oct; 53(10): 3363- 5 (EFSA) European Food Safety Authority, (ECDC) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The European Union summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses, zoonotic agents and food-borne outbreaks in 2015. EFSA Journal [Internet]. 2016; 14(12) 4634, 231 pp. doi 10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4634 Lindstrom M, Vuorela M, Hinderink K, Korkeala H, Dahlsten E, Raahenmaa M, et al. Botulism associated with vacuum-packed smoked whitefish in Finland, June-July 2006. Euro surveillance: bulletin européen surles maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 2006 Jul 20; 11(7):E060720 3. Citing Literature Volume13, Issue12December 20161157E ReferencesRelatedInformation