RJA # 6c: Protopage

link to protopage:

• http://protopage.com/erikheggem/_api/sendInvitations

RJA # 6a: Periodical Articles

Periodical Articles Found:

• author: not named
• title: Meetings - Growth hormone's risks outweigh its benefits
• title of periodical: Science News
• volume/issue #: 170
• date: 1966 Washington, D.C.
• pages which article appears: page 3

• resources searched: Auraria Library
• keywords used: human growth hormone, growth hormone
• search strategies used: boolean, search engine math
• date of search: October 5, 2009
• number of hits: 45,269
• relevance of hits (1-5): 2

RJA # 5c: Search String Check

I commented on these blogs:

• http://boa76.blogspot.com/2009/09/ethics-and-engineering-ethics-and.html#comment-form

• http://drtyffknee.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-search-strings.html#comment-form

RJA # 5b: Books

• Books:
  
  
  
  Here are a couple books that I found that may be useful:
  
  
  
  
  Author: Otto Westphal



• Title of book: Human Growth Hormone: a methodological and clinical study



• Volume: 182 of Acta Paediatrica Scandanavica



• Series: Acta paediatrica Scandanavica



• place of publication: Sweden



• name of publisher: Almqvist and Wiksell bokhandel



• date of publication: 1968

• resource searched: Google book search



• keywords used: human growth hormone



• Search strategies used: Search engine math



• date of search: October 5, 2009



• number of hits: 34,000



• relevance of hits (scale of 1-5): 5

• Authors: Steven Harvey, C.G. Scanes, William H. Daughaday
  
• Title: Growth Hormone


• Volume: N/A


• Series: N/A


• place of publication: Boca Raton, FL


• name of publisher: CRC Press, Inc.


• publication date: 1995

• Resource searched: Google book search


• Keywords used: human growth hormone


• Search strategies used: search engine math


• date of search: October 5, 2009


• number of hits: 32,500


• relevance of hits (1-5): 3

RJA # 5a: Reference Articles

Reference Articles:

This is the one decent reference work I was able to find that gives a definition of a growth hormone, it is from the Encyclopedia Brittanica Online.

• author not mentioned


• Article Title: "growth hormone (GH)"


• Title of Reference Work: Encyclopedia Brittanica Online


• place of publication: couldn't find


• name of publisher: Encyclopedia Brittanica


• publication date: 2009


• page: 1 of 1


• http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9038236 accessed Oct. 5, 2009

• Resource searched: Encyclopedia Brittanica Online
• Keywords used: "HGH", "GH", "human growth hormone", "growth hormone"
• Search Strategies Used: search engine math
• date of search: October 5, 2009
• number of hits: 20
• Relevance of hits (scale of 1-5): 2

RJA #4c: Research Question Check

Research Question Check:

Blogs commented on:

• http://kebenglish.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3-exploring-research-topic-at.html#comments

• http://drtyffknee.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html#comment-form
  

RJA #4b: Search Strings

Search Strings:

Search Engine Math:

• + growth + hormones
• + growth hormones -protein

Boolean:

• growth AND hormones
• human AND growth
• humans AND NOT children
• growth hormones AND NOT anabolic steroids