There are several reasons for expecting authors to spell scientific terms correctly. First, the conventions for scientific names are meant to allow scientists to communicate precisely and accurately with each other. Incorrect spelling or terminology of the names of microorganisms can cause confusion and perpetuate mistakes. Second, an incorrectly spelled name in the title 4 of an article means ...

Petya Bankova is Associated Professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria). Her scientific interests concern field anthropology childhood, children plays, everyday life culture during communist period Bulgaria. She author three monographs: Images Meetings Tradition, They Recognized him by his Name: Ethno-conf...

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To the editor: Following the recent emergence of an Influenza virus variant in Mexico and the threat of its pandemic potential, both the media and scientific experts spontaneously referred to ‘Mexican flu’. However, the name secondarily used by WHO to designate this virus was ‘Influenza A(H1N1) virus’. This refers to the scientific designation of the taxonomic species Influenza A virus combined...

My name is Dale E. Bauman and I am Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University. I am coauthoring this letter with Adam L. Lock, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in my department. As members of the scientific community, we appreciate the opportunity to provide comment on trans fatty acids in nutrition labeling and we are writing to communicate scientific ...

The popularity of the EM algorithm owes much to the 1977 paper by Dempster, Laird and Rubin. That paper gave the algorithm its name, identified the general form and some key properties of the algorithm and established its broad applicability in scientific research. This review gives a nontechnical introduction to the algorithm for a general scientific audience, and presents a few examples chara...