Papers Reviewed
International
Trade, it is usually referred to exchange of goods and services across
international borders and country territories. In most nations it represent a
significance of the gross domestic...
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Diversity
supports the well-being of any healthy and productive ecosystem. The scholarly
research enterprise is no different in this regard. Diversity needs to be
designed into the research ecos...
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When I started my PhD I was rather naïve about the workings
of academia, never mind open science. This is my story on how I learned
that open science, and in my case open source publishing, can n...
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There are a few different ways that an
author can make money through digital publishing without actually selling their
content directly to consumers. For example authors can publish writing on
blog...
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Astronomy
&
Astrophysics manuscript no. Research_Paper
c
ESO 2017
June 16, 2017
The hypothesis of the virtual reality world; according to
astrophysical and mathematical p...
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[Update 5.30PM 2015-03-26: Wiley have now ‘freed’ the wrongly-paywalled articles in response to this. It doesn’t change the fact that these articles were wrongly on sale for 2 months and 26 days. T...
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Rejection is one of the unpleasant but inevitable components of life. There are positive components to rejection: they build character, they force you to deal with negativity and sometimes they for...
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We work in one of the few offices in the country dedicated to helping students (health professional, life sciences, population and social sciences) and postdocs navigate the job market. Our team d...
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Hi Reddit!
I’m Katie Rizzone and I’m a primary care sports medicine physician at the University of Rochester Medical Center. I specialize in musculoskeletal ailments including strains, sprains, t...
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According to Guggemos, Slavicek and Kresin, about 5-6![1]. This is one of those simple ideas, which is probably quite tough to do experimentally. It involved blasting water vapour through a pinhole...
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The HeLa cell line, named after the patient Henrietta Lacks, was one the first human cell lines to be used for tissue culture. In the decades since its origin, it has become a feature in labs acros...
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On another shift, the 45 year old man with a tracheostomy from the prior case is brought back into the emergency room. This time, he is actively bleeding from his tracheostomy site...
My approach
G...
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I have to say the news that 55 Italian MPs have written to the House of Lords (via The Times) urging for a rejection of the three-parent-babies law recently approved by the House of Commons got me ...
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Early on Sunday morning (21st August 2016), I spotted the following ( anonymized) #icanhazpdf request tweet:-
After spotting this, I did indeed find that the publication of this Charles Darwin pap...
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Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science. It also enables us to catch errors earlier, minimisin...
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Intraclass correlation (ICC) is one of the
most commonly misused indicators of interrater reliability, but a simple
step-by-step process will get it right. In this article, I provide a
brief revie...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Anirban Banerjee and I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA. I am a microbiologist an...
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A brief account of the Medical Hypotheses Affair may be found here: http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-affair-times-higher.html But there is one general aspect which ...
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Arguably, there is little that could be more decisive for the career of a scientist than publishing a paper in one of the most high-profile journals such as Nature or Science. After all, in this co...
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Extreme temperature and precipitation events are often driven by unusual patterns in atmospheric circulation such as strong high and low pressure systems. Learning about these large-scale meteorolo...
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Good morning, Reddit! This is Peter Diamandis here to answer your questions. You may know me from the XPRIZE Foundation or Singularity University. 20 years ago, I had a vision to use an incentive p...
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ACS AMA
Hi Reddit, my name is Paul Weiss. I am Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, of Materials Science & Engineering, and at the California NanoSystems Institute where I ...
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Hello, I am Manolis Dermitzakis (everyone calls me Manolis), Professor of Genetics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. I will be connecting with you from (surprisingly) sunny Geneva (though...
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I am Karim Brohi, a trauma surgeon and director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences at Barts Health and Queen Mary University & London. The Centre for Trauma Sciences has a broad research into al...
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Hi r/Science! My name is Dr. Arif Kamal and I am a palliative care physician at Duke University.
Palliative care, also known as palliative medicine, is specialized medical care for people living w...
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We regret to hear that Stephen Hawking died tonight at the age of 76
We are creating a megathread for discussion of this topic here. The typical /r/science comment rules will not apply and we will...
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Here are some new papers of interest.
Separate treatment of hospital and urban wastewaters: A real scale comparison of efflu\nents and their effect on microbial communities – Teofana Chonova, FranÃ...
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Hi reddit!
My name is Karen Mifsud. I’m Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol in the Neuro-Epigenetic Research Group. Our current research is investigating how the brain copes wit...
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There was some talk on Twitter around prison rates and inequality:
I wonder why. "Rates of imprisonment are higher in unequal countries t.co/ibDN21PqZX" pic.twitter.com/EJy9vSCMFL MT @ChartsandMap...
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