The extra dimensional defects that are introduced to generate the lattice chiral zero modes are not simply a computational trick, but have interesting physical consequences. After reviewing what is known about the layered phase they can generate, I argue how it is possible to simulate Yang-Mills theories with reduced systematic errors and speculate on how it might be possible to study the fluct...

Introduction An agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designed a new confidentiality approach in order to maximize the amount of information published in response to a mandatory reporting law–while protecting the identity of reporting entities. The approach is based on the randomness of actual reported data. Procedures have been established for constantly reviewing the report...

Four methods for reviewing a body of research literature – narrative review, descriptive review, vote-counting, and meta-analysis – are compared. Meta-analysis as a formalized, systematic review method is discussed in detail in terms of its history, current status, advantages, common analytic methods, and recent developments. Meta-analysis is found to be underutilized in IS. Suggestions on enco...

We are all authors, but at the same time we are all reviewers. We write articles, anticipate that they will be reviewed quickly and favorably and hope that they will be accepted. We write reviews and anticipate that our recommendations will be honored and our concerns will be addressed. The work of authors is visible and rewarding (if published), the work of reviewers is anonymous and not that ...

I commend Burton et al. [1] for publishing their review in the journal. Important reviews should be subject to the widest readership and most rigorous critique if they are to properly influence future practice. Reviews that are solely conducted by small groups in academia can miss out on the wider stakeholder engagement journals’ offer that encourages debate and fosters learning. A feature of t...

This article overviews human language identification (LID) experiments, especially focusing on the modification methods of stimulus, mentioning the experimental designs and languages used. A variety of signals to represent prosody have been used as stimuli in perceptual experiments: lowpass-filtered speech, laryngograph output, triangular pulse trains or sinusoidal signals, LPC-resynthesized or...

BACKGROUND Scientific reviewing is a voluntary process to determine if a manuscript deserves publication. REVIEW MEANS: Responsibly Evaluate, Verify and Improve the manuscript, Educate the authors and editors, and Weigh your expert opinion against the submitted work. Provide your review in a respectful, unbiased and timely manner. REVIEW METHODS Make sure editors know about your willingness t...