LETTERS 185 Misrepresentation and Fantasy: R. N. Cahn, J. D. Jackson, C. Quigg * A National Institute for the Environment: P. D. Saundry * Adaptive Optics in Astronomy: F. Seitz * Space Science Crunch: J. Katz; H. Tananbaum * National Protein and Nucleic Acid Databases: E. Adman, M. Gellert, M. Cohen, N. M. Allewell, B. S. Baker, J. Villafranca * Smallpox Virus: Better to Store?: P. Hess 0 Elep...

The Journal of Neuroscience has received a report describing an investigation by Memorial University, which found substantial data misrepresentation in the article “Bidirectional Dopaminergic Modulation of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in Orexin Neurons” by Christian O. Alberto, Robert B. Trask, Michelle E. Quinlan, and Michiru Hirasawa, which appeared on pages 10043–10050 of the September 2...

[1] In their paper, Lanfredi et al. [2003] raise several issues about our analysis of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data for areas north of 30 N between 1981 and 1999. As we describe below, their comments represent a basic misunderstanding of the data, a misrepresentation of our work, or an anticipation of our recently published results. Here we address these issues in order in ...

Ranked lists of output trees from syntactic statistical NLP applications frequently contain multiple repeated entries. This redundancy leads to misrepresentation of tree weight and reduced information for debugging and tuning purposes. It is chiefly due to nondeterminism in the weighted automata that produce the results. We introduce an algorithm that determinizes such automata while preserving...

The argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR), advanced by these authors in support of the thesis that quantummechanics cannot provide a complete description of a physical system, has been receiving close attention in foundational studies and debates on quantum mechanics ever since the famous paper of EPR appeared in 1935 [1]. Not lacking in subtlety, the EPR argument was bound to be misre...

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its 2000 update of the toxicological effects of vinyl chloride (VC), it was concerned with two issues: the classification of VC as a carcinogen and the numerical estimate of its potency. In this commentary we describe how the U.S. EPA review of VC toxicology, which was drafted with substantial input from the chemical industry, weaken...