When is gold not gold?

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...

When Diversity Is Worth Gold

What is bright is not always gold.

To the Editor: The recent paper from Myerson et al1 on the “reliability” of formulae for calculation of echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) mass needs to be carefully considered. Quantitative echocardiography presents problems of reproducibility, but less than expected from initial studies performed without 2D guidance. There is evidence that the test-retest “error” of echocardiography is s...

Not all that glitters is gold

Type-2 clones are duplicated passages of source code that have identical sequences of tokens (whitespace and comments are ignored) except for the textual representation of identifiers and literals—parameters. Commonly, type-2 clones are detected by simply abstracting from the parameters’ textual representation. This normalization, however, frequently results in similar but otherwise unrelated c...

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

As the leading employer of nurse expert witnesses, I welcome the work the RCN is doing to improve the standard of this service. Performance in the witness box not only reflects and exposes an individual's credibility, but also publicly demonstrates the professionalism of nurses in general.