'Simple' or 'elegant' criteria are not valid

Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

Are all clinical studies sponsored by industry not valid?

Industry-sponsored studies have such a bad reputation that some journals require an additional statistical analysis by an independent statistician. This commentary discusses some of the reasons why academic people tend to believe that "academic" science is better than industry-driven science. Most likely, when it comes to publications, the risk of fraud exists in both worlds as the pressure to ...

The Status of Young People who are not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET Rate)

The issue of employment and unemployment has always been one of the most important issues in the country. Considering the age structure of the countrychr('39')s population, adopting policies to create suitable job opportunities for young people and consequently reduce their unemployment is of particular importance. Lack of youth employment and economic pressure on families can expose them to so...

Faculty Members’ Evaluation by Students: Valid or Invalid

Introduction: Evaluation of university faculty members which is aimed to improve teaching quality is performed through several methods. One of the most common and conflicting methods is faculty evaluation by students. This method is commonly used in most universities in spite of controversy over its validity. This paper presents a glance at the current research literature on the viewpoints of f...

Simple Priced Timed Games are not That Simple

Priced timed games are two-player zero-sum games played on priced timed automata (whose locations and transitions are labeled by weights modeling the costs of spending time in a state and executing an action, respectively). The goals of the players are to minimise and maximise the cost to reach a target location, respectively. We consider priced timed games with one clock and arbitrary (positiv...