Resources for Learning (and Teaching) How to Conduct Meta-Analyses

Very good Reuters report on the dramatic increase in death sentences and executions in Egypt.

"Use Publons to track your publications, citation metrics, peer reviews, and journal editing work in a single, easy-to-maintain profile."

التعبئة والإحصاء: زيادة نسبة المصريين تحت خط الفقر إلى 32.5%

عن عبد الناصر وضرورة الجدال حوله

Computational peeling art anyone?

Good article on mindfulness - raises & address questions I have. Managing mental health cannot be 'one size fits al…

Weakly regulated painkillers (tramadol) are causing untold damage in West Africa, but stricter controls could have dire consequences for patients. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt unpicks an opioid crisis even more complex than America’s.

Experts identified 38 distinct MI techniques with high agreement on clarity, uniqueness, preciseness, and distinctiveness ratings. Of the identified techniques, 16 were classified as relational techniques. The remaining 22 techniques were classified as content-based. Sixteen of the MI techniques were identified as having substantial overlap with techniques from the BCTTv1. The isolation and classification of MI techniques will provide researchers with the necessary tools to clearly specify MI interventions and test the main and interactive effects of the techniques on health behavior. The distinction between relational and content-based techniques within MI is also an important advance, recognising that changes in motivation and behavior in MI is a function of both intervention content and the interpersonal style in which the content is delivered.

"The Egyptian authorities are relying on arbitrary and excessive probation measures as a repressive tactic to intimidate peaceful activists into silence after their release from prison

The course examines specific techniques relating to plotting and temporality including flashbacks, unreliable narration and framed narratives.

"as a psychiatrist, if I ever had the misfortune to develop severe depression, my treatment of choice would be electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)."

I met a traveller from an antique land

Here you can learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe. This site, with its biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science is designed for students and everyone interested in the history of Islamic and European culture.

Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 11,446 volumes across 6,787 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.

"This web-based audience response system lets you embed interactive activities directly into your presentation"

Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif ─ Trustee resigns from British Museum over BP sponsorship and artefacts repatriation

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

jamovi is a new “3rd generation” statistical spreadsheet. designed from the ground up to be easy to use, jamovi is a compelling alternative to costly statistical products such as SPSS and SAS.

EpubPress is a browser extension for Chrome & Firefox for turning your favorite web content into ebooks.

If you’re not planning a long-term career in academia and you only anticipate performing common statistical tests,…

"This course provides an overview of skills needed for reproducible research and open science using the statistical programming language R. Students will learn about data visualisation, data tidying and wrangling, archiving, iteration and functions, probability and data simulations, general linear models, and reproducible workflows. Learning is reinforced through weekly assignments that involve working with different types of data."

Summary of Sapiens

"What is the evidence base for the medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids? What is the difference between cannabis preparations and medicinal products and why is this important? How is this issue regulated in the EU? These and other questions are explored in this report which responds to growing interest in this topic as more European countries develop policies and practice in this area."

Translate a search query between Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed syntax