Expenses of Scientific Work

Microsimulation Modelling of Work-related Expenses: a New Approach

Based on a representative data set of more than 36,000 original tax report extracts, we develop a microsimulation model that calculates the fiscal impact of changes in the area of tax deductible work-related expenses, in particular expenses for travelling from private home to the place of work, in Germany. The new model allows a more accurate estimation of the fiscal impact of changes in the Ge...

Piratism of scientific work.

A.S. Awidi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Consultant Hematologist, Jordan University Hospital, Amman (Jordan) To the Editor, I wish to draw your attention to the paper by E.A. Alsabti and M. Hammadi (Acta haemat. 61: 47–51, 1979). In that paper the authors claim to have studied the pattern and occurrence of inherited bleeding syndromes in Jordan over a period of 1 year. In the abstract t...

On the scientific work of

Good oral presentation of scientific work.

Evaluating Scientific Work by Means of Diffusion

There are two approaches for evaluating scientific papers. The classic way is to choose well established representatives of the specific scientific community and have them evaluate their colleague’s work. The other method of evaluation, the so called peer-evaluation method, is where peers (famous or otherwise) of the author evaluate the paper. Peer-evaluation resembles the diffusion process in ...