Reply to Rao and Desai

Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al

In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Dr. Madhusudan Mohanlal Desai.

D M. M. Desai was born in Surat, Gujarat, on 10th June 1919. His father, Shri Mohanlal Desai was an eminent lawyer and a corporator of Bombay (Mumbai) Municipal Corporation for many years; his mother Viravati was a homemaker. Dr. Desai studied at Elphinstone school and Elphinstone College, Mumbai, before joining Seth G. S. Medical College, Mumbai. The decision to study medicine was made by his ...

Commentary and Discussion: Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al.

In the last issue of this journal, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly, the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity t...

2009 winner: Ravi Desai.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2009 JCS Prize is Ravi Desai, for his paper entitled ‘Cell polarity triggered by cell-cell contact via E-cadherin’ (Desai et al., 2009). The $1000 prize is awarded annually to the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best published in the Journal that year. To be considered for the prize, the firs...

World Medical Association's tainted president, Ketan Desai.