(Re)Use of Research Results (Is Rampant)

Rampant software errors undermine scientific results

Errors in scientific results due to software bugs are not limited to a few high-profile cases that lead to retractions and are widely reported. Here I estimate that in fact most scientific results are probably wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected. The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management ar...

Investigation of Sharing and Reuse of Research Data among Researchers

Purpose: Sharing research data leads to the reusing that data. The purpose   is to describe the status of sharing and reusing research data amongst researchers. This examines the attitude, experience and barriers in reusing research data. Methodology: Applied quantitative survey method was used. Population  was 154 participants all faculty members of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University. Instrum...

Probabilistic Reuse of Past Search Results

In this paper, a new Monte Carlo algorithm to improve precision of information retrieval by using past search results is presented. Experiments were carried out to compare the proposed algorithm with traditional retrieval on a simulated dataset. In this dataset, documents, queries, and judgments of users were simulated. Exponential and Zipf distributions were used to build document collections....

Rampant Cheating by Pathogens?

Pathogenic bacteria often cooperate during infection. Communication through quorum sensing allows bacteria to coordinate gene expression in a population density–dependent manner; biofilm formation increases population resistance to hostand antibiotic-related stresses. Although such cooperative behaviors benefit pathogens at the population level, individual cells experience costs of cooperation....

Is withholding clinical trial results "research misconduct"?