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Is Your Journal Indexed in PubMed? Relevance of PubMed in Biomedical Scientific Literature Today
Introduction: The arrival and spread of internet has enabled development of better bibliographic scientific databases with significantly improved capacity for storage and retrieval. In recent years, electronic database searching has become the default mode of bio-medical information retrieval. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) ..
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Relevance Index (RI): Proposal of a Novel Parameter to Evaluate the Impact of Scholar Articles and Scientists for Specific Areas of Science
Abstract: In order to objectively evaluate scientists, several parameters are often used. At present most of these parameters reflect the impact of journals rather than the relevance of specific scientific articles or individual scientists in a particular area of science. Alternative methods such as the increasing popular h-inde..
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On Peer-Review and the Publication Machinery
My opinion: "that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd….” - Bertrand Russell (1929)I vividly remember my first rejected article. The year was 1988, the pre-email era, and the big brown envelope arrived in the mail. It contained one copy of the manuscript; three hostile ..
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Pre-Publication Peer Review - My Confession About being Reviewed and Reviewing others
Intro : Besides some fields of my interest (like psychometrics and patient reported outcomes), the peer review process (learning, doing, and understanding it) [1-5, just to mention some of my favorite references], is one the most challenging task for me evoking a variety of different emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. This is ..
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An Offline Signature Verification Technique
Abstract: A fundamental problem in the field of off-line signature verification is the lack of a signature representation based on shape descriptors and pertinent features. The main difficulty lies in the local variability of the writing trace of the signature which is closely related to the identity of human beings. Hand-writte..
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Academic Exploitation - The Hideous Hidden Truth
My opinion: Credit for doing a work is important to anybody, Medical professionals are no exception.Publications in journals and textbooks are highly preferred form of academic credits in medical field. It serves as a form of reputation for obtaining jobs, promotions, grants and prestige. (1) The term ‘academic exploitation&..
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The US Healthcare System: Current Issues And Proposal For Further Reform
My opinion: AbstractThis article discussed the strength and limitations of the current US healthcare system and provided some preliminary reform proposals. The US health system spending is the highest around the world, yet its performance is disappointing. The issues of the US health system include ideological clash on health care..
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Search For Alien Existence: A Novel Approach
Abstract: Man and science have remained concerned and indulged in the quest of systematic search for aliens for several decades now. Both, the scientists and the common people have been haunted by the possibility of alien existence, which has led to emergence of a group of strong propagators of their existence based on unidentif..
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A Novel Integrated Vial Archiving And Tracking System
Abstract: Enrolling large numbers of research subjects into clinical studies is necessary to test hypotheses, but this requires the management of an even larger number of biological specimens. We have developed an integrated hardware and software system capable of tracking the use and storage of tens of thousands of biological s..
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High Quality Image Compression
Abstract : With the wide use of computers and consequently need for large scale storage and transmission of data, efficient ways of storing of data have become necessary. Dealing with such enormous information can often present difficulties. Image compression is minimizing the size in bytes of a graphics file without degrading th..
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