Authorship of Retraction Notices: “If Names Are Not Rectified, Then Language Will Not Be in Accord with Truth.”

Authorship of Retraction Notices: "If Names Are Not Rectified, Then Language Will Not Be in Accord with Truth."

Retraction notices appear regularly in many scholarly journals, especially top-tier journals of science and engineering. One disconcerting feature of this emergent genre is evasion of authorship, that is, the deliberate obscuring of who has authored a particular retraction notice. This communication illustrates and discusses problems of evaded authorship of retraction notices. To address these ...

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If Not Turing's Test, Then What?

ence, then it will be worthwhile to identify good problems, and even more worthwhile to discover the attributes that make them good problems. This discovery process is necessarily empirical, so we examine several challenge problems, beginning with Turing’s famous test, and more than a dozen attributes that challenge problems might have. We are led to a contrast between research strategies—the s...

If not appendicitis, then what else can it be? A retrospective review of 1492 appendectomies.

OBJECTIVE To audit the appendectomies at our institute, and summarise atypical pathological results with a discussion of appropriate management. DESIGN. Retrospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All patients who underwent appendectomy for presumed acute appendicitis from June 2003 to June 2008 were recruited. Incidental appendectomy was excluded. Patient demographi...

0 Vacuum Energy : “ If Not Now , Then When ? ”

For a flat universe presently dominated by static or dynamic vacuum energy, cosmological constant (LCDM) or quintessence (QCDM), we calculate the asymp-totic collapsed mass fraction as function of the present ratio of smooth energy to matter energy R 0 = (1 − Ω m0)/Ω m0. Identifying these collapsed fractions as anthropic probabilities, we find the observed present ratio R 0 ∼ 2 to be likely in ...