Good publications need good research

Good publications need good research

The dilution of academic standards and poor quality publications have become a global concern. Recently, in an editorial of Current Science, SC Lakhotia, an eminent scientist from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has raised a very important issue regarding predatory journals and academic pollution. This problem is presently worrying almost every conscientious academician. [1] Substantial efforts ...

I-20: Good Science and Good Ethics@ WhyWe Should Discourage Payment for Eggs inStem Cell Research?

Background: To evaluate current scientific and legal trends in provision of human eggs for stem cell research and to propose a policy which is both ethically and scientifically sound Materials and Methods: Literature survey of European and US policies on payment for egg donation in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) research; comparative analysis of potential for success in SCNT and induced p...

Good Writers Need to be Good Listeners, Too

Asthma: the need for good control.

World Asthma Day is an annual event organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) in collaboration with healthcare groups and asthma educators to improve asthma awareness and the care of asthma patients around the world. Each year GINA chooses a theme and prepares and distributes World Asthma Day materials and resources. This year’s World Asthma Day was 5 May 2009, with the theme “You Ca...

All you need is a good init

Layer-sequential unit-variance (LSUV) initialization – a simple method for weightinitialization for deep net learning – is proposed. The method consists of the twosteps. First, pre-initialize weights of each convolution or inner-product layer withorthonormal matrices. Second, proceed from the first to the final layer, normaliz-ing the variance of the output of each layer to be e...