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Appraisal of a scientific paper in your area of expertise or interest requires some skills and careful planning to make the most efficient use of your time. The most important skills you need are critical appraisal skills. A careful planning scheme for appraisal of a scientific paper however, largely depends on the reasons for reading i.e. to keep yourself up-to-date, to carry out a literature review in order to write a research proposal, or to conduct a journal club, etc. Nonetheless, a careful comprehensive planning scheme should at the very least encompass some general steps and the aim of the present article is to provide the details of such general steps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a list of publications received by the journal including "Scientific Productivity: The Effectiveness of Research Groups in Six Countries," by Frank M. Andrews; "Metropolitan Reform: An Annotated Bibliography," by Paula C. Baker, Elinor Ostrom, and Robert Goehlert; and "Scale and Social Organization," edited by Fredrik Barth.

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The article presents a list of books about scholarly works of theater criticism, history and theory. The books include "Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater," by Milly S. Barranger, "Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times," by Linda Ben-Zvi, "Peter Brook: A Biography," by Michael Kustow, "Hamlet: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism," by Huw Griffiths and "The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia," by Philip Kolin.

Lists books submitted for review to "The Library Quarterly" as of January 2004. "Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation," by Marta Savigliano; "Cooperative Efforts of Libraries," edited by William Miller; "Engineering Economy: Applying Theory to Practice," by Ted G. Eschenbach; "Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction at the Millennium," by Leslie Starr.

The article presents abstracts related to mass media on topics which include new media technology, the representation of reality by media, and a decline in book reading among Icelandic youth.

The article presents a list of publications received by the journal as of September 1980, including "Innovation Research and Public Policy," edited by John A. Agnew, "Ideas and Intervention: Social Theory for Practice," by Joe Bailey, and "Multihospital Systems: The Process of Development," by Diana Barrett.

The article presents a list of new book collections related to the humanities. These include "Cognition and the Brain: Philosophy and the Neuroscience Movement," by Andrew Brook and Kathleen Akins, "Reading Epistemology: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary," by Sven Bernecker and "Movies and the Meaning of Life," by Kimberly Blessing.

Part book and part toy, the 1905 "The House That Glue Built" gave young readers an opportunity to cut and paste paper objects into rooms found within the book's pages. Its Arts and Crafts design was a novel departure from other Glue Books at the turn of the twentieth century, and a sophisticated marketing agenda by publisher Frederick A. Stokes helped propel its success. This article examines "The House that Glue Built "as book, object, and toy and traces its evolution within the publishing world from concept to international best seller, becoming the cornerstone of the seventeen-volume Glue Series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A list of the books and films received for review by the periodical is presented, including "Urban Design, Chaos and Colonial Power in Zanzibar," "Loval Lives: Migration and the Politics of Place" and "Soviet Polar Census Expeditions."

The article lists books that were received in 2009 by the periodical including "The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West," by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng, "Roy Lichtenstein," by Graham Bader and "Aesthetic Essays," by Malcolm Budd.

The article presents tips for teachers and school librarians on how to middle school boys to participate in book clubs in the U.S. The authors suggest that educators select books that will appeal to boys, with elements such as diverse content, a male protagonist, and short chapters. They also recommend holding book club meetings during lunchtime and promoting book clubs in English classes.

A list of books received by the journal for review as of March 2009 is given, including "A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914," edited by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten, "Rituals of War: the Body and Violence in Mesopotamia," by Zainab Bahrani, and "Architectural Excellence in a Diverse World Culture," by William T. Baker.

The article presents a list of books on various subjects. Some of the books are "An Introduction to Field Theory and Interaction Theory," by Chris Argyris, "Social Psychology," by Solomon E. Asch, "Elementary Statistics: With General Applications," by Morris Myers, "Basic Facts About the United Nations, "Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South," by Carl Bridenbaugh, "An Autobiographical Study," by Sigmund Freud, "The Case of Dora and Other Papers," by Sigmund Freud, "Fringe Benefits--1951: The Nonwage Labor Costs of Doing Business," "The Birth and Death of the Sun," by George Gamow, "Sociology: An Analysis of Life in Modern Society," by Arnold W. Green, "Solitude and Privacy: A Study of Social Isolation, Its Causes and Therapy," by Paul Halmos, "Child Adoption in the Modern World," by Margaret Kornitzer, "The Employment of Negroes in Public Welfare in Eleven Southern States, 1936-1949," by John R. Larkins, "The Structure of Society," by Marion J, Levy, "Democracy and the Economic Challenge," by Robert M. MacIver, "Annual Report of the Bureau of Police," by Robert F. Peterson.

The article presents a list of books the periodical received to be reviewed, including "Rethinking Tragedy," edited by Rita Felski, "Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara," edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall, and "Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility," by Christine So.

The article presents information about various books received. "Women on the Job: The Attitudes of Women to their Work," by Judith Buber Agassi; "Bureaucratic Propaganda," by David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson; "Scientific Productivity: The Effectiveness of Research Groups in Six Countries," by Frank M. Andrews; "Defining Females: The Nature of Women in Society," edited by Shirley Ardener; "Nonviolent Action and Social Change," edited by Severyn T. Bruyn and Paula M. Rayman.

A list of publications received by the journal is presented, including "Microeconomic Principles," by William P. Albrecht, "The Bottom Line: Communicating in the Organization," by T. Harrell Allen, and "The Managerial Approach to Tertiary Education," by Bernard Baron.

A list of books received for review is presented.

A list of art related books from September-December 2006 is presented. "Else/where: Mapping," edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall is listed. "Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents," by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker is featured. "Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice," by Juliette Aristides is also mentioned.

The article offers a list of books received by the journal. Titles include: "Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform," by Leslie Butler, "Impersonality: Seven Essays," by Sharon Cameron, and "The Shadow of Death: Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment," by Mark Canuel.

The article presents a list of books received by the January 1984 issue of "Canadian Journal of Sociology." Some of the books are "Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities," edited by Sameer Y. Abraham and Nabeel Abraham, "The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber," by Jeffrey C. Alexander, "Madness and Modernity: A Study in Social Psychoanalysis," by C.R. Badcock, "Cities and Urban Living," edited by Mark Baldassare, "Racial and Ethnic Competition: Comparative and Race Relations," by Michael Banton, "Crises in the World-System," edited by Albert Bergesen, "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age," by Hans Blumenburg, "Beginnings: Essays on the History of Canadian Sociology," by Douglas F. Campbell, "Approaching Social Theory," by E. Ellis Cashmore and Bob Mullan, "Introduction to Sociology," by Lewis A. Coser, Buford Rhea, Patricia A. Steffan, and Steven L. Nock, "Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action," by Cohn Crouch, "Killing for Profit: The Social Organization of Felony Homicide," by Mary Lorenz Dietz, "Contemporary Field Research: A Collection of Readings," edited by Robed M. Emerson

A directory is presented listing books received but not reviewed by the publication.

A bibliography is presented of scholarly books, including "Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s," by Graham Bader, "Sporting Sounds: Relationships between Sport and Music," edited by Anthony Bateman and John Bale, and "Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome," by Mark Bradley.

A list of books on anthropology in the 2000 issue of Current Anthropology is presented. Included are "Psychosocial Wellness of Refugees: Issues in qualitative and quantitative Research," by Frederick L. Ahearn, "Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia: The Number One Reindeer Brigade," by David G. Anderson, and "Madumo: A Man Bewitched," by Adam Ashforth.

This article presents a list of publications from which selections will be chosen for review in future issues of "Administrative Science Quarterly." The list of publications includes "Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative," by E. K. Abel, "What's the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety," edited by C. Ansell and D. Vogel, "Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit," by J. A. Mathews, "Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street," by L. M. Roth, "Emotional Intelligence at Work: A Professional Guide," by D. Singh, and others.

Multi-agent systems and agent-oriented methodologies support analysis, characterization and development of complex software systems. These methodologies introduce different definitions for the essential components of multi-agent systems and cover different phases of the system development life cycle. Therefore, appropriate frameworks for evaluation and comparison of different methodologies would support developers to adopt the best methodology, or a combination of different methodologies, based on the project requirements. This review covers the system development phases and the main conceptual components in the context of multi-agent systems. Then, the evaluation frameworks proposed in the literature for comparison and evaluation of agent-oriented methodologies are reviewed. Evaluation frameworks proposed in the literature are categorized into three categories: methodology-based, phase-based and feature-based evaluation frameworks. The paper concludes with the agent-oriented methodologies' usage challenges, their current limitations and potential future directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the books on family relations. It presents book abstracts and book review essays. A book abstract is a brief summary of a book. A book review essay, however, centers around issues raised in two or more books: Book review essays are peer-reviewed and subject to revision, request for resubmission, and rejection. Book abstracts and book review essays are based on books published within the past two years. These books are based on following topics: Adolescence; Aging; Communication; Cross Cultural Issues; Families and Religion; Families Around the World; Marriage and Family Therapy; Parent-Child Relationships; Parent Education; Public Policy Effects on Families; and Sexuality. Names of some of these books are: "Adolescents After Divorce"; "Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence"; "Adolescent Health: The Role of Individual Differences"; "Teenagers: An American History"; "Research on Family Resources and Needs Across the World"; "Family Scripts"; and "Pathways to Manhood: Young Black Males Struggle for Identity."

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The article presents a list of publications received by the journal as of March 2002, including "Rolling the Dice with State Initiatives: Interest Group Involvement in Ballot Campaigns," by R. M. Alexander, "Managing Emergent Phenomena: Nonlinear Dynamics in Work Organizations," by S. J. Guastello, and "Dignity at Work," by C. Hodson.

The article presents a list of books related to business and finance. Some of the books are "The Politics of Israel: The First Decade of Statehood," by Marver H. Bernstein, "Guidebook to California Taxes With Special Emphasis on Relationship to Federal Taxes," by Russell S. Bock, "The Mechanics of Inflation," "Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today," by Raya Dunayevskaya, "Prosperity through Competition," by Ludwig Erhard, "Practical Financial Statement Analysis," 4th ed., by Roy A. Foulke, "Supply and Demand," by Hubert Henderson, and "Corporate Bonds: Quality and Investment Performance," by W. Braddock Hickman.

A bibliography is presented of scholarly books that have been received by the journal, including "Art and the Human Adventure: Andre Malraux's Theory of Art," by Derek Allan, "Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion, and the Visual Arts," edited by Barbara Baert, and " Assyrian Palace Sculptures," by Paul Collins.

The article contains list of books that are to be reviewed by the journal "Review of Religious Research." "Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans," by Akbar S. Ahmed, "Fundamentalism," by James Barr, "The Fancies of the Church," by William Basset. "Shaping the Coming Age of Religious Life," by Lawrence Cada and Raymond Fitz, "Growth Counseling," by Howard Clinebell, "The Sociology of Hope," by Henri Desroche, "The Two Marxisms," by Alvin W. Goulder, "The Church and the Older Person," by Robert M. Gray and David M. Moberg, "Christian Ethics and the Community," by James F. Gustafson, "Moral Development, Moral Education and Kohlberg," edited by Branda Munsey, "Journey to the Inner Space," by Rodney R. Romney, "The Concise Dictionary of Christian Ethics," edited by Bernard Stoeckle and many others.

The article lists books related to philosophical analysis including "On World Government," by Dante Alighieri, "The Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies," by Einat Avrahami, and "Literary Theory: A Reintroduction," by David Ayers.

This paper speaks to deans, department chairs, and members of tenure and promotion committees--that is, the gatekeepers of scholarly contributions in universities. It offers an extension of the article by Aguinis, Cummings, Ramani, and Cummings (2020a) on the "A is an A" approach to evaluating research contributions by proposing to consider the role of scholarly books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is mainly conducted to find out the English language needs of Customer Contact and Secretarial Operation Coordination Level IV trainees. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling technique was used to select content area teachers while comprehensive sampling technique was used to include trainees and English language teachers. A survey research was the design of this study. To this end, questionnaire and interview were employed to collect data. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis were used in the study. The findings of the study showed that writing, speaking, reading and listening skills are prioritized by trainees according to their order. In the area of micro skills, listening to lectures to take notes and listening to class discussions were showed as highly needed micro-skills. With regard to speaking activities, asking and answering questions and participating in whole class discussion were highly needed speaking micro-skills. Reading reference books and reading lecture notes, writing different project works like term papers, assignments and sample personal and business letters were identified as the most important speaking and writing micro-skills. Vocabulary was found more important than grammar. Most trainees reported that they find asking and answering questions and writing different project works like term papers and assignments, sample personal and business letters difficult. The reason for this might be because the courses offered are inefficient to help them develop these skills. Disparity was also found between their language problems and the courses they take. Finally, based on these findings, recommendations were also forwarded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents list of books on American history. "The National Archives of the United States," by Herman J. Viola; "History for the Public: A Report on the Historians-in-Residence Program," edited by G. David Brumberg, Margaret A. John and William Zeisel; "History of Psychology," by David Hothersall; "Dictionary of American Medical Biography," edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff and Todd L. Savitt.

With the development of electronic publications, the digital publishing industry is increasing. The digital features of a digital publishing platform and electronic books bring new changes of learning style and learning outcomes in the process of reading. This paper discusses the popularization of service function of words extraction on digital publishing platforms, which can provide assistance to readers of electronic books as well as corresponding paper books. It can help readers to solve the problem with reading original works more efficiently and conveniently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Backgrounds. The objective of the present research was to systematically revise the international literature about the genetic biomarkers related to oral cancer (OC) evaluating the recent findings in clinical studies. Methods. A comprehensive review of the current literature was conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines by accessing the NCBI PubMed database. The authors conducted the search of articles in the English language published from 2008 to 2018. The present systematic review included only papers with significant results about correlation between wound healing, genetic alteration, and OC. Prognostic capacity of genetic markers was not evaluated in vivo. Results. The first analysis with filters recorded about 1884 published papers. Beyond reading and consideration of suitability, only 20 and then 8 papers, with case report exclusion, were recorded for the revision. Conclusion. All the researches recorded the proteomic and genetic alterations in OC human biopsy cells. The gene modification level in the different studies, compared with samples of healthy tissues, has always been statistically significant, but it is not possible to associate publications with each other because each job is based on the measurement of different biomarkers and gene targets. Further investigations should be required in order to state scientific evidence about a clear advantage of using these biomarkers for diagnostic purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kathleen Stock has recently argued that Gregory Currie's account of fiction is beset by two patchwork puzzles. According to the first, Currie's account entails that works of fiction end up being implausible heterogenous complexes of utterances that furnish a fictional world and utterances that aim at representing the actual world. According to the second, competent engagement with a fiction can implausibly result in switching from one mental attitude to another -- namely, belief and make-belief. In this paper, I argue for two main claims. First, that a few alterations to Currie's account make it immune to Stock's puzzles. And, second, that such a modified account presents clear advantages over the alternative one offered by Stock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of books received by "The Art Bulletin" from November 2004 to January 2005.

The article presents a list of books received for reviewing. Some of them are: "100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know," edited by Joseph Pickett; "The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works," edited by Keith Newton; "Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing," by Do Mi Stauber; "German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook," edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl; "Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye," by Katharine Sands, and many more.

The article presents a list of books received by the magazine "Administrative Science Quarterly," which will be reviewed in upcoming issues including "Every Trainer's Handbook," by D. Agochiya, "Understanding Organizational Culture," by M. Alveson and "Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda," by M. Barnett.

The article presents a list of books received related to sociology. Some of the books include "Deviant Behavior: A Social Learning Approach," by Ronald L. Akers; "Radical Social Work," by Roy Bailey and Mike Brake; "The Peoples Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic," by Hugh Brody; "The Sociology of the Third World: Disparity and Involvement," by J.E. Goldthorpe; "Industrial Society: Structures, Roles and Relations," by Edward B. Harvey; "The Sociology of Language," by Thomas Luckmann; "Irish Settlements in eastern Canada," by John J. Mannon.

This paper describes a particular book called Souvenirs du monde des montagnes, which draws its iconography from the history of a Swiss mountain family from 1910 to 1930. By simply dipping into the first few pages, the reader will be lost between real and virtual universes, wonder about the evolution of the images' meanings, and question an object's true content. This setup, developed using state-of-the- art computer vision technology, offers unprecedented freedom: we can make technological references disappear to place the user in fruitful turmoil between visible and hidden meanings. The shadow of a bird lies over the pages, foxes' lanterns light up the text, paper mountains emerge. once the last page has been turned, the reader will never look at books in the same way again. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lists several books about art. "Sublimation or Symptom," edited by Parveen Adams; "Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936" by Martha Banta; "Bertha Alyce: Mother Exposed," by Gay Block.

A sentence such as We finished the paper is indeterminate with regards to what we finished doing with the paper. Indeterminate sentences constitute a test case for two major issues regarding language comprehension: (1) how we compose sentence meaning; and (2) what is retained in memory about what we read in context over time. In an eye-tracking experiment, participants read short stories that were unexpectedly followed by one of three recognition probes: (a) an indeterminate sentence (Lisa began the book), that is identical to the one in the story; (b) an enriched but false probe (Lisa began reading the book); and (c) a contextually unrelated probe (Lisa began writing the book). The probes were presented either at the offset of the original indeterminate sentence in context or following additional neutral discourse. We measured accuracy, probe recognition time, and reading times of the probe sentences. Results showed that, at the immediate time point, participants correctly accepted the identical probes with high accuracy and short recognition times, but that this effect reversed to chance-level accuracy and significantly longer recognition times at the delayed time point. We also found that participants falsely accept the enriched probe at both time points 50% of the time. There were no reading-time differences between identical and enriched probes, suggesting that enrichment might not be an early, mandatory process for indeterminate sentences. Overall, results suggest that while context produces an enriched proposition, an un enriched proposition true to the indeterminate sentence also lingers in memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Product design and development (PDD) involves various types of tradeoffs, for which multi-objective optimization has been a prevailing approach. Complex PDD optimization problems are associated with multidisciplinary decision makers and may encompass different levels of the design decision hierarchy. A practical concern is that many conflicting goals with diverse decision variables have to compete to arrive at equilibrium solutions, entailing a paradigm of leader-follower joint optimization (LFJO). In line with a typical decision chain of engineering optimization, comprising such consecutive stages as problem formation, optimization modeling, model solution, and optimization evaluation, this paper provides a state-of-the-art review of the LFJO problems that are widely observed in the PDD literature, along with a survey of LFJO mathematical modeling methods. Also reviewed is the status quo of bilevel programming (BLP) models for LFJO problems with focus on their engineering implications for PDD. The paper also reviews the prevailing algorithms for solving BLP mathematical models, as well as common practice of LFJO model evaluation in the PDD literature. Finally, the critical issues of LFJO problems and outlook for further research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently in the connected digital world, targeted attack has become one of the most serious threats to conventional computing systems. Advanced persistent threat (APT) is currently one of the most important threats considering the information security concept. APT persistently collects data from a specific target by exploiting vulnerabilities using diverse attack techniques. Many researchers have contributed to find approaches and solutions to fight against network intrusion and malicious software. However, only a few of these solutions are particularly focused on APT. In this paper, we introduce a structured study on semantic-aware work to find potential contributions that analyze and detect APT in details. We propose modeling phase that discusses the typical steps in APT attacks to collect the desired information by attackers. Our research explores social network and web infrastructure exploitation as well as communication protocols and much more for future networks and communications. The paper also includes some recent Zero-day attacks, use case scenarios and cyber trends in southeastern countries. To overcome these challenges and attacks, we introduce a detailed comprehensive literature evaluation scheme that classifies and provides countermeasures of APT attack behavior. Furthermore, we discuss future research direction of APT defense framework of next-generation threat life cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]