Violations of Standard Practices by Predatory Economics Journals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Carlos O. Trejo-Pech ◽  
Sharon V. Thach ◽  
Jada M. Thompson ◽  
John Manley
Keyword(s):  
Economics Journals ◽  
Standard Practices

Editorial

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Chi Kien ◽  
Do Ngoc Minh ◽  
Nguyen Hoang Ha ◽  
Nguyen Linh Trung
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Object Identification ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
International Visibility ◽  
National University ◽  
Standard Practices

Dear readers,The year 2017 marks the 55th anniversary of the Journal of Information & Communications of the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the 18th anniversary of its scientific publication – the Research and Development on Information and Communication Technology (RD-ICT) journal. Again, the purpose of RD-ICT is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to disseminate original and innovative ideas in the fields of information technology, communications and electronics in Vietnam and worldwide.Without kind support and invaluable contribution of readers and authors, and hard work of the anonymous reviewers and editors under the former editorship of Prof. Nguyễn Thúc Hải, Prof. Trần Văn Lộc and Prof. Nguyễn Cảnh Tuấn, RD-ICT would not be what it is today – a total of 37 issues in Vietnamese and 14 issues in English.To contribute to the development of research in Vietnam, toward standard practices, high quality and international visibility, RD-ICT has been taking measures by following current practices of prestigious international research journals. In this editorial, we would like to inform you some of the things we have been doing lately.Since June 2014, RD-ICT has applied online journal management and publishing, thanks to the well-known open-source Open Journal System of the Public Knowledge Project, which is used by thousands of online scientific journals worldwide. The editorial board of RD-ICT is currently being extended to include international prominent scientists, thus forming a team of international associate editors, under the complementary technical editorship of Prof. Đỗ Ngọc Minh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States), Prof. Nguyễn Hoàng Hà (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) and Prof. Nguyễn Linh Trung (Vietnam National University, Hanoi). Each submission is now assigned to an associate editor who then coordinates the review process and makes editorial decision.For improved paper quality in terms of organization and presentation, authors are guided to good practice of technical paper writing. In addition, accepted submissions are now copy-edited, by the corresponding associate editors, and laid out using LATEX.Apart from already being an open-access journal, RD-ICT is also looking into other measures to increase its visibility, such as all-English publishing, digital object identification, Google Scholar citation, and SCOPUS indexing.Taking the opportunity of informing the above changes, we would like to, again, express our sincere gratitude and appreciation to the readers, authors, reviewers and editors of RD-ICT, and to the leadership of the Ministry of Information and Communications and its predecessors – the Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications – for their continued support and contribution to RD-ICT.We look forward to your comments and feedback for better developing the RD-ICT journal for Vietnam.Sincerely,Vũ Chí Kiên, Editor-in-ChiefĐỗ Ngọc Minh, Nguyễn Hoàng Hà, Nguyễn Linh Trung, Technical Editors-in-Chief

Evaluation of strength of concrete on different initial exposure condition

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Ram Krishna Mishra ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Ghosh ◽  
Manoj Kulshreshtha
Keyword(s):  
Portland Cement ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Cementitious Materials ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Supplementary Cementitious Materials ◽  
Exposure Condition ◽  
Portland Cement Concrete ◽  
Initial Exposure ◽  
Skilled Manpower ◽  
Standard Practices

Background: The previous studies have focused curing effect of mainly on high strength concrete, where strict supervision is maintained. This study is based upon general purpose concreting work for commercial and residential construction in absence of skilled manpower and supervision. Objective: The objective of this study is to establish a thumb rule to provide 7 days initial curing for maintaining quality for unsupervised concreting irrelevant to type of cement and grading. Methods: In this study concrete samples made with locally available commercial cements were cured for various initial exposure. Results: The results shows that concrete cured after a gap of 4 days from the time of de-moulding have given lowest strength as compared to concrete cured in standard practices i.e. where proper curing protocol had been followed. Conclusion: Initial curing is most important aspect of gaining desired strength. The findings after this study shows that curing affects the strength of concrete in variable grading. Initial curing has great importance for concrete with all types of Portland cement. Concrete with supplementary cementitious materials gives lowest strength initially but results higher strength after 28 days as compared to Portland cement.

Sweet Mystery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Peck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Professional Theater ◽  
Standard Practices

Rida Johnson Young (ca. 1869–1926) was one of the most prolific female playwrights of her time, as well as a lyricist and librettist in the musical theater. She wrote more than thirty full-length plays, operettas, and musical comedies, five hundred songs, and four novels. Despite her extensive output, no significant study of her work has been produced. This book examines her musical theater works with in-depth analyses of her librettos and lyrics, as well as her working relationships with other writers, performers, and producers, particularly Lee and J. J. Shubert. Using archival materials such as original typescripts, correspondence, and reviews, the book contextualizes Young’s work within the milieu of the early-twentieth-century professional theater and provides a window into the standard practices of writing and production of the era. The works examined are Naughty Marietta, Lady Luxury, The Red Petticoat, When Love Is Young, His Little Widows, Her Soldier Boy, Maytime, Sometime, Little Simplicity, and The Dream Girl.

Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
DENISE HARDESTY SUTTON
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Direct Mail ◽  
Popular Romance ◽  
British Publisher ◽  
Product Standardization ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
Book Publishers

When Harlequin Enterprises acquired British publisher Mills & Boon in 1972, the merged firm became the world’s dominant publisher of popular romance novels. Little is known, however, about the role that innovative marketing strategies played in the growth of these two romance publishing companies, especially their use of product sampling, direct mail, product standardization, and what was known at Mills & Boon as the “personal touch.” Through research in the Mills & Boon company archive at the University of Reading, the Grescoe Archive at the University of Calgary, as well as an analysis of company histories, trade publications, interviews, and marketing techniques, this study reveals how Harlequin and Mills & Boon took a different approach to product promotion than traditional publishers. Their innovation was to incorporate consumer goods marketing strategies, familiar to other industries, that disrupted and redefined standard practices of book publishers.

scholarly journals Adult Protective Services and Law Enforcement: Does It Add or Subtract to the Precarity of Living Alone With Dementia?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 601-601
Author(s):  
Michael Splaine
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Adult Protective Services ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Loss Of Autonomy ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
The U.S

Abstract In 2014, more than 12.5 million people age 65+ lived alone in the U.S. Of these, approximately one third had a cognitive impairment. Although protective services may identify risks to such individuals, they may not have a full understanding of the notion of precarity, or the looming uncertainty regarding space and place, that solo dwellers experience. This presentation explores the tension between the intentions of protective services and the experience of precarity for persons living alone. More specifically, persons living alone with dementia participating in online groups and community events report feelings of risk of loss of autonomy and rights if their status becomes known. The presenter will review these impressions against current police and adult protective services policies and standard practices.

Developmental immunotoxicology and risk assessment: a workshop summary

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 473-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
M P Holsapple
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Standard Procedure ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Chemical Exposure ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
Developmental Immunotoxicity

A workshop entitled ‘Developmental Immunotoxicology and Risk Assessment’ was held on 12–13 June 2001, in Washington, DC. The workshop was organized jointly by the Immunotoxicology Technical Committee (ITC) of the International Life Sciences Institute's (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) with input from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Growing public concern that early exposure of the developing immune system to immunotoxic compounds may cause significant or persistent postnatal immunosuppression prompted the workshop. The main goal of the workshop was to examine scientific questions that underlie developmental immunotoxicity tests and the interpretation of the results as they relate to human risk assessment. A second goal was to provide a framework, based on current scientific knowledge, for the development of meaningful testing guidelines. The workshop focused on a series of questions that included how to address critical windows of exposure, how to develop and apply more predictive endpoints, does early chemical exposure cause transient or permanent effects on the immune system, as well as other related questions. On the first day, experts were invited to give scientific presentations relating to comparative developmental immunology, models of immunosuppression, and the regulatory aspects of developmental immunotoxicology. The second day was devoted to a panel discussion that included all the speakers as well as meeting participants, which attempted to answer each of the specific questions raised at the workshop. In general, it was acknowledged that there are a variety of techniques available for assessing immunosuppression in adult animal models, but there is uncertainty about how to apply these to a developing animal, especially if the goal is to have some standard procedure that can be applied for regulatory risk assessment. It was pointed out that although we know a lot about the developing immune system of individual species, we do not know how to relate the significance of drug or chemical effects on these systems in terms of human hazard. Overall, the panel deemed the area of developmental immunotoxicity to be still in its infancy and outlined strategies that could lead to the development of standard practices.

Processing of Adenoid and Tonsil Specimens in Children: A National Survey of Standard Practices and a Five-Year Review of the Experience at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

1996 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Dohar ◽  
Jose A. Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Analysis ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Glycogen Storage ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
American Society ◽  
Standard Practices ◽  
Glycogen Storage Disorder ◽  
The Cost

The best means of pathologically examining routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy specimens in children remains controversial. Otolaryngologists fear missing an unsuspected diagnosis. However, the cost-effectiveness of microscopic analysis, given the rare incidence of unsuspected diagnosis, is questionable. If a significant pathologic diagnosis is missed, the medicolegal implications could be significant. A questionnaire was sent to 111 members of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Additionally, we reviewed our experience at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for the 5-year span from 1989 to 1994 to determine our incidence of unsuspected pathologic diagnoses. Sixty-five questionnaires were returned (59% response rate). More than half (56%) of the respondents stated that microscopic analysis was routinely performed on all specimens, and 42% replied that only gross examination was performed, reserving microscopic examination for selected cases. Three respondents said that they discarded their specimens in the operating room. From March 1989 to October 1994, in 1985 children undergoing bilateral tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, no significant pathologic diagnoses were found. Twenty-seven additional children who underwent only tonsillectomy between January 1991 and October 1994 were also reviewed. One lymphoma, suspected before surgery, and a glycogen storage disorder, not suspected before surgery, were diagnosed. Therefore, in a total of 2012 children, we found only one clinically significant unsuspected diagnosis. In conclusion, we found no national consensus governing the best way to examine routine adenotonsillectomy specimens in children. Given that unsuspected diagnoses are rare, reserving microscopic analysis for specific clinical indications may be both more cost-effective and medically feasible.

scholarly journals P2552Cardiac rehabilitation revisited: time to change standard practices?

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S De La Porte ◽  
M Demeulenaere ◽  
B Ectors ◽  
T Stoop ◽  
N Possemiers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Practices
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