REVIEW: Maintaining the climate struggle

Maintaining Technical Currency in Today's Technology Climate

Maintaining the integrity of peer review.

FOR MOST JOURNALS, peer review remains the cornerstone of deciding which manuscripts to publish. At its best, peer review does much more than simply decide between accept and reject. Thoughtful, unbiased analyses by scientific peers often reveal issues not considered by the authors themselves, attention to which during revision almost always improves the quality of the paper. Sometimes, valuabl...

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...

Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science

Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions...

The Struggle for Existence

"It is in the nature of things" is surely, today, just as good an explanation of a biological phenomenon as it ever was; and now, as always, it is singularly unilluminating. That some of the problems to which such an explanation is usually given are susceptible to analysis appears obvious; at least an approach can be made toward segregating the many factors which, acting independently ox throug...