"Letters" in Science

An introduction to the special issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters on USArray science

Letters, we've got letters...

So, you want to write a letter to the editor? A recent editorial by Golub in JAMA prompted us to outline more fully our vision of Annals of Emergency Medicine’s Correspondence section and its place within the journal and the peer review process. Like most peer-reviewed publications, Annals of Emergency Medicine contains a correspondence section, commonly known as Letters to the Editor. Journals...

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“Fronti Nulla Fides”: No reliance can be placed on appearance. In a letter to the editor (AI Mugazine, Winter 1989), Benjamin Kuipers criticizes various points made in an earlier paper of ours (Akman and ten Hagen 1989). First, a side (nonetheless important) remark: Although Kuipers asserts that he distributes QSIM to interested researchers, our experience has been otherwise. Akman has tried tw...

SURFACE SCIENCE LETTERS ENHANCEMENT OF HYDROGEN UPTAKE IN METALS AND SUBSURFACE BONDING * Miguel LAGOS

The interaction of metallic surfaces with gases and liquids is an important problem of current interest. In particular, the interaction of hydrogen with the surface of transition metals has received considerable attention. In a series of experiments [l-3] it was shown that the uptake rate of hydrogen by Nb and Ta can be drastically modified by thin overlayers of Pd and Pt. Since an experimental...

Referral letters: are form letters better?

An essential mode of contact between general practitioners (GPs) and hospital staff is the referral letter. This must be clear and concise with sufficient information to aid the GP, the consultant and the patient. In order to ensure this, a proposal was made for the use of a structured or standardized referral letter: a form letter. This report shows that form letters were shorter than typed le...