Scientific Review: Avoiding Hyperventilation

Plagiarism’s Poison: Avoiding Scientific Misconduct

The scientific body of literature is an integral part of oncology advanced practice that provides advanced practitioners (APs) with evidence for clinical decision-making and directly impacts patient quality of care and outcomes. Advanced practitioners not only utilize information from the literature but continue to make significant contributions to the existing body of knowledge. In both cases,...

Avoiding URL Reference Degradation in Scientific Publications

While we applaud PloS’ use of Digital Object Identifi ers (“The What and Whys of DOIs,” PLoS Biol 1: e57 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000057), we also note the lack of provisions in your instructions for authors for preserving access to electronic information residing at a cited Internet addresses via Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Medical and scientifi c literature increasingly cites informat...

Knowing and Avoiding Plagiarism During Scientific Writing

Plagiarism has become more common in both dental and medical communities. Most of the writers do not know that plagiarism is a serious problem. Plagiarism can range from simple dishonesty (minor copy paste/any discrepancy) to a more serious problem (major discrepancy/duplication of manuscript) when the authors do cut-copy-paste from the original source without giving adequate credit to the main...

Effects of Hyperventilation Can hyperventilation cause syncope?

Avoiding Data Overfitting in Scientific Discovery: Experiments in Functional Genomics

Functional genomics is a typical scientific discovery domain characterized by a very large number of attributes (genes) relative to the number of examples (observations). The danger of data overfitting is crucial in such domains. This work presents an approach which can help in avoiding data overfitting in supervised inductive learning of short rules that are appropriate for human interpretatio...