In the last lecture, we saw how we should write the title for a paper. We also critiqued some titles of published papers. In this lecture, we will continue the topic of writing in the large. We will discuss writing the date, the abstract, and the introduction. We will also critique an abstract of a paper written by Tom and his former student Geeta. Zobel, in [1], recommends a writer to ask hims...

Good scientific writing requires good science and good writing. Unfortunately, the last time most of us were asked to think about the mechanics of writing was in grade school. As a result, many of us have forgotten the rules of grammar, the weakness of the passive voice, and the need for topic sentences and transitional phrases in the construction of a paragraph. In addition, few of us have bee...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review examines recent contributions to the evolving field of historical writing in psychiatry. RECENT FINDINGS Interest in the history of psychiatry continues to grow, with an increasing emphasis on topics of current interest such as the history of psychopharmacology, electroconvulsive therapy, and the interplay between psychiatry and society. The scope of histo...

We introduce NebulOS, a Big Data platform that allows a cluster of Linux machines to be treated as a single computer. With NebulOS, the process of writing a massively parallel program for a datacenter is no more complicated than writing a Python script for a desktop computer. The platform enables most pre-existing data analysis software to be used, as scale, in a datacenter without modification...

This paper presents our new, querybased multi-document summarization system used in DUC 2007. Current graph-based approaches to text summarization, such as TextRank and LexRank, assume a static graphmodel which does not model how input text emerges. A suitable evolutionary graph model that is related to human writing/reading process may impart a better understanding of the text and improve the ...

profitably for its correlative features. The nature of the subject makes it impossible to scan the book rapidly or to read it through like a novel, but it is nevertheless highly readable throughout. Klein does not hesitate to review critically the data he has assembled, and his detailed salvos at several hypotheses (such as immunological surveillance) make it clear that he is opinionated in the...

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the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

The study is a comprehensive synthesis of information on 26 known Hungarian species Zygaenids. This work used as guide for the distribution maps Zygaenidae species. It second summary geographical preparatory this was started 40 years ago with planned collecting activities, revisions museum, institutional and private collections, writing faunistic monographs Zygaenids from several geographic reg...