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Preparation of manuscripts for publication: improving your chances for success.

The abstract provides an overview of the paper, highlighting the major findings and conclusions of the work. Abstracts are almost always the initial decision point that an editor uses to further consider submitted papers. Likewise, abstracts also provide the first impression of the value of the work for reviewers and can influence the outcome of the review process. Once in print, virtually all ...

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An abstract that needs work (and the title could use help also): (Modified to protect the innocent) Effects of synthetic goopogen on flabby tissue transcriptome in mice measured by serial analysis of gene expression In order to characterize the action of the hormone goopogen on flabby tissue, we have investigated the effects of goopectomy (GPX) and synthetic goop (SG) replacement on global gene...

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Sampling Precision to Depth 10000: Evaluation Experiments at CLEF 2007

We describe evaluation experiments conducted by submitting retrieval runs for the monolingual Bulgarian, Czech and Hungarian information retrieval tasks of the AdHoc Track of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. In the ad hoc retrieval tasks, the system was given 50 natural language queries, and the goal was to find all of the relevant documents (with high precision) in a particular...

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