How to cope when becoming paralysed

How should editors respond to plagiarism ? COPE

This paper aims to stimulate discussion about how editors should respond to plagiarism. Different types of plagiarism are described in terms of their: extent, originality of the copied material, context, referencing, intention, author seniority, and language. Journal responses to plagiarism are also described including: educating authors, contacting authors’ institutions, issuing corrections, a...

How to Cope with NP-Completeness

NP-complete problems arise frequently in practice. In today’s lecture, we discuss various approaches for coping with NP-complete problems. When NP-completeness was discovered, algorithm designers could take it as an excuse. It is true, that I have not found an efficient algorithm. However, nobody will ever find an efficient algorithm (unless P = NP). Nowadays, NP-completeness is considered a ch...

How to cope with climate’s complexity?

Climate exhibits a vast range of dissipative structures. Some have characteristic times of a few days; others evolve on thousands of years. All these structures are interdependent; in other words, they communicate. It is often considered that the only way to cope with climate complexity is to integrate the equations of atmospheric and oceanic motion with the finer possible mesh. Is this the sol...

The casting misfit: how to cope.

C onstructing a casting that seats well and is retentive and comfortable to the patient taxes even the most conscientious dentist. The final seating is dependent upon so many sequential elements that any single procedure may prove to be an unacceptable link, resulting in failure. We must face the fact that under average conditions, when the casting, whether extracoronal or intracoronal, comes f...

How to Cope with a Turbulent Environment