What are your problems?

What are your problems?

I recently attended a webinar titled "Sales Excellence for B2B Selling in Emerging Markets". The topic obviously sounds "Oh so commercial", but guess what? The audience were all from the social sector. Now why did we need such a webinar? It turns out that all of us are either creating products or offering services (or both). Only, what we do is for a social objective. The presenter of the webinar was Scott Roy from "Whitten & Roy Parthership" (USA) and he did a great job of tailoring his talk with the social sector in mind! The main message that he…
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A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

The workshop is organized by Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Collaboration with UDEHP) KAHER, Belagavi, Karnataka. This workshop will be useful for Faculty in Medicine, Health Research Scholars and Students preparing for Entrance Exam for Higher Ph. D etc The workshop covers: - Designing Studies, Protocol Writing & Statistical Fallacies; Literature Search & Review, Impact Factor; Study Designs, Sampling Techniques and Analysis; Sample Size Estimation and Study Designs and Diagnostic evaluation For more details: Contact: Organizing Secretary Dr. N.K. Tyagi, Professor and Head, KLE Acamedy Of Higher Education And ResearchDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, JNMC campus, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi -590010…
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Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers. R Dal-Ré, A Marušić. Neth J Med. 2019;77(2):92–96. Link: http://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=2093 ; PMID: 30895939. Recently several predatory journals seem to claim that they follow all the ICMJE (The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations to gain the appearance of legitimacy. The term ‘predatory journals’ could be assumed, that these are open access journals that publish poor quality articles, with poor or no peer-review process, owned by publishers providing no transparent editorial services. Their main objective is financial gain by article processing charges to authors. In this paper, the authors…
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