scholarly journals What can be found in the spam folder? a self-study from junior researchers in psychiatry

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S250-S251
Author(s):  
Nikhil Gauri Shankar ◽  
Jashan Selvakumar ◽  
Jiann Lin Loo ◽  
Mary Honey Ohn ◽  
Sze Hung Chua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Journal Article ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Junior Researcher ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The Common ◽  
To Come ◽  
Predatory Publishers

AimsThriving on the pressure of “publish or perish” experienced by academicians, the industry of predatory publishers with dubious quality has mushroomed and gained their notoriety. The battle of uncovering predatory publishers, including Beall's list, has proven to be tough given the huge monetary gain generated by the predatory publishers. It may be difficult for an inexperienced junior researcher to identify those predatory publishers’ soliciting emails, which may disguise as a reputable journal's article-commissioning process. To date, there is a limited systematic approach to identify such emails. Hence, this research is aimed to describe the common features of soliciting emails from publishers which appeared to be predatory.MethodThis self-study involved reviewing the content of emails in the spam folder of authors, a team of junior researchers in psychiatry, for a month. Emails included in this study were soliciting emails relevant to publications and the following were reviewed: types of solicitation, sentences used, strategies used, and information available in the public domain of their webpages. Informative types of emails were excluded.ResultThe solicitation could include: 1) request for a manuscript to be published a journal article, 2) request for a thesis to be published as a book, 3) request to write for a book chapter, 4) invitation to be an editorial member or a reviewer with the offer of free publishing, 5) invitation to be a speaker for a conference, and 6) proofreading services. The publisher may cite a published article of the author from another journal, which was the source where they identified the author's email. Common strategies used for solicitation included: 1) promising a fast-tracked and guaranteed publication, 2) using compliments that appeared to be inappropriate, 3) repetitive emails, and 4) using argumentum ad passiones to induce guilt. The common features of the webpages of those publishers included: 1) open access publishing as the only option, 2) extensive list of indexing services excluding well-established indexing agencies, and 3) the publisher has a huge collection of journals in different disciplines.ConclusionIt is hoped that these findings will help junior researchers in psychiatry to stay vigilant to avoid falling into the trap of predatory publishers, which may result in financial loss and loss of work to plagiarism. Total eradication of those predatory soliciting emails is unlikely despite the advancement of spam filtering technology, which necessitates a more united effort from different stakeholders to come out with a probable solution.

Write Like a Chemist

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marin S Robinson ◽  
Fredricka L Stoller ◽  
Molly Constanza-Robinson ◽  
James K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Conference Abstract ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Scientific Poster ◽  
To Come

Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing. Written with National Science Foundation support and extensively piloted in chemistry courses nationwide, it offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important chemistry genres: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal. Chemistry students, post-docs, faculty, and other professionals interested in perfecting their disciplinary writing will find it an indispensable reference. Users of the book will learn to write through a host of exercises, ranging in difficulty from correcting single words and sentences to writing professional-quality papers, abstracts, posters, and proposals. The book's read-analyze-write approach teaches students to analyze what they read and then write, paying attention to audience, organization, writing conventions, grammar, and science content, thereby turning the complex process of writing into graduated, achievable tasks. Concise writing and organizational skills are stressed throughout, and "move structures" teach students conventional ways to present their stories of scientific discovery. This resource includes over 350 excerpts from ACS journal articles, ACS conference abstracts, and successful NSF CAREER proposals, excerpts that will serve as useful models of chemistry writing for years to come. Other special features: Usable in chemistry lab, lecture, and writing-dedicated courses Useful as a writing resource for practicing chemists Augmented by Language Tips that address troublesome areas of language and grammer in a self-study format Accompanied by a Web site: http://www.oup.com/us/writelikeachemist Supplemented with an answer key for faculty adopting the book

scholarly journals صكوك المضاربة والمرابحة المختلطة: دراسة فقهية تأصيلية تحليلية (Mudharaba and Murabaha Mixed Sukuk: A Fiqhi Structural Analysis)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
أحمد محمد المختار ◽  
عزنان حسن
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common ◽  
Business Outcome

سوق الصكوك أحد أهم مكونات سوق رأس المال الإسلامي لما تقدمه الصكوك من مزايا إدارة السيولة وتنويع المخاطر وإدارة الأصول. هذه الأغراض التي يحققها إصدار الصكوك وتداولها تؤدي في كثير من الأحيان إلى حدوث إشكالات شرعية في هيكلة الصكوك ووثائقها. أحد هذه الهياكل هيكل شاع استخدامه في العقد الأخير في أسواق الصكوك الرئيسية، لما يحققه من جواز التداول وضمان رأس المال، وهو هيكل الجمع بين المرابحة والمضاربة. تقوم هذه الدراسة على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي عبر تحرير المسائل الفقهية التي تناولت الجمع بين العقود من أمهات الكتب الفقهية المعتمدة في المذاهب الأربعة، فتذكر كل مسألة بصورها وأحكامها ومناطاتها. ثم يكون بعد ذلك تحليلٌ وصفي لأحد إصدارات الصكوك التي اعتمدت هذا الهيكل، فتدرس أهم خطوات الإصدار وأهم الشروط والأحكام في وثائقه. بعد ذلك يكون التخريج لصورة الإصدار المذكور على أصوله من المسائل الفقهية المذكورة سعيًا إلى الوصول إلى حكمه عن طريق تخريج الفروع على الأصول. خلصت الدراسة إلى أن لهذه الهيكلة صورًا متعددة بعضها يضمن رأس المال وبعضها يضمن رأس المال والربح معًا وإلى أن الصورتين ممنوعتان، لأن فيها جمعًا بين العقود يؤدي إلى إفساد عقد المضاربة وإلى الوصول إلى غرض محظور شرعاً وهو تضمين المضارب مع بعض المحاذير الشرعية الأخرى. ذكرت الدراسة بعد ذلك الضوابط الشرعية التي ينبغي الالتزام بها في هذه الحالة ثم اقترحت هيكلاً بديلاً يحقق غرض جواز التداول ويحفظ رأس المال قدر الإمكان. الكلمات المفتاحيّة: المرابحة، المضاربة، الجمع بين العقود، الصكوك. Abstract Sukuk market is one of the most important components of the Islamic capital market. Sukuk give issuers and investors certain advantages as a liquidity and asset management tool. These advantages sought after by investors and issuers may result in some Shari’ah issues in the structure and exchange of sukuk certificates. One of the structures that gained popularity in the last decade is a structure that combines Mudharaba and Murabaha because it provides certain advantages like tradability and the guarantee of capital. This study utilizes a descriptive analysis method to identify the cases of contract combination in major past juristic references to deduce the rulings adopted by past jurists. After that, the paper analyses current sukuk issuances to find the common features between these issuances and the cases mentioned by past jurists to see the applicability of the past ruling to the current situation in a form of Takhrij Alfuroo’ ‘Ala Alusool. The paper concludes that these structures come in many forms; some guarantee the capital, and some guarantee the capital and the return. Both forms are prohibited because the combination results in the vitiation of Mudaraba contract as it invariably leads to a prohibited objective of making the Mudarib liable for any financial loss regardless of the business outcome in addition to other Shari’ah issues. The study then derived some Shari’ah parameters for this structure to be permissible and suggests a structure that fulfills the intended objectives of issuers and avoids Shari’ah issues as much as possible. Keywords: Murabaha, Mudarabah, Combinaiton of contracts, Sukuk.

scholarly journals Predatory Publishing: How to Safely Navigate the Waters of Open Access

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Power
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Predatory Publishers

Open access publishing enables scholarship to be openly accessible to everyone, which has countless benefits. However, the open access movement has opened the door for “predatory publishers” to take advantage of researchers surviving in this publish or perish academic landscape. Predatory journals are becoming increasingly common. Nursing researchers, instructors, and students need to be made aware of the dangers of predatory journals, and they need to know how to identify them. While there are blacklists and whitelists that can be used to aid in decision-making, it is critical to note that these lists can never be entirely up to date. This article incorporates a literature review which provides insights into newer trends in predatory and unethical publishing, including “journal hijacking” and “bogus impact factors”. Extensive criteria for assessing emerging or unknown journals is compiled to aid researchers, students, educators, and the public in evaluating open access publications.

Aposematism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme D. Ruxton ◽  
William L. Allen ◽  
Thomas N. Sherratt ◽  
Michael P. Speed
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Warning Coloration ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Initial Evolution ◽  
The Common ◽  
Aposematic Signals

Aposematism is the pairing of two kinds of defensive phenotype: an often repellent secondary defence that typically renders prey unprofitable to predators if they attack them and some evolved signal that indicates the presence of that defence. Aposematic signals often work to modify the behaviours of predators both before and during attacks. Warning coloration, for example, may increase wariness and hence improve the chances that a chemically defended prey is released unharmed after an attack. An aposematic signal may therefore first tend to reduce the probability that a predator commences attack (a primary defence) and then (as a component of secondary defence) reduce the probability that the prey is injured or killed during any subsequent attack. In this chapter we will consider both the primary and the secondary effects of aposematic signals on prey protection. We begin first by describing the common features of aposematic signals and attempting to show the wide use to which aposematic signalling is deployed across animals (and perhaps plants too). We then review the interesting evolutionary issues aposematic signals raise, including their initial evolution and their integration with sexual and other signals. We also discuss important ecological, co-evolutionary, and macroevolutionary consequences of aposematism.

A comparison of the changes in the patterns of the usage and categorization of the classifier ‘ben 本’ in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Jeong-A Jo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Korean Chinese ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to examine the common features and differences in how the Chinese-character classifier ‘ ben 本’ is used in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, and will explore the factors that have affected the categorization processes and patterns of the classifier ‘ ben 本.’ Consideration of the differences in the patterns of usage and categorization of the same Chinese classifier in different languages enables us to look into the perception of the world and the socio cultural differences inherent in each language, the differences in the perception of Chinese characters, and the relationship between classifiers.

Addressing common errors and misconceptions in integral calculus with clickers and classroom voting

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Kelly Cline ◽  
Holly Zullo ◽  
David A Huckaby
Keyword(s):  
Correct Answer ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Small Group Discussion ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Integral Calculus ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Incorrect Answer ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean

Abstract Common student errors and misconceptions can be addressed through the method of classroom voting, in which the instructor presents a multiple-choice question to the class, and after a few minutes for consideration and small-group discussion, each student votes on the correct answer, using a clicker or a phone. If a large number of students have voted for one particular incorrect answer, the instructor can recognize and address the issue. In order to identify multiple-choice questions that are especially effective at provoking common errors and misconceptions, we recorded the percentages of students voting for each option on each question used in 25 sections of integral calculus, taught by 7 instructors, at 4 institutions, over the course of 12 years, on a collection of 172 questions. We restricted our analysis to the 115 questions which were voted on by at least 5 different classes. We present the six questions that caused the largest percentages of students to vote for a particular incorrect answer, discuss how we used these questions in the classroom, and examine the common features of these questions. Further, we look for correlations between question characteristics and the mean percentage of students voting for common errors on these questions, and we find that questions based on general cases have higher percentages of students voting for common errors.

scholarly journals Crystal structure of a new monoclinic polymorph ofN-(4-methylphenyl)-3-nitropyridin-2-amine

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Aina Mardia Akhmad Aznan ◽  
Zanariah Abdullah ◽  
Vannajan Sanghiran Lee ◽  
Edward R. T. Tiekink
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Basis Set ◽  
Dihedral Angles ◽  
Asymmetric Unit ◽  
Acta Cryst ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Compound C ◽  
B3lyp Level ◽  
The Common ◽  
Independent Molecules

The title compound, C12H11N3O2, is a second monoclinic polymorph (P21, withZ′ = 4) of the previously reported monoclinic (P21/c, withZ′ = 2) form [Akhmad Aznanet al.(2010).Acta Cryst.E66, o2400]. Four independent molecules comprise the asymmetric unit, which have the common features of asyndisposition of the pyridine N atom and the toluene ring, and an intramolecular amine–nitro N—H...O hydrogen bond. The differences between molecules relate to the dihedral angles between the rings which range from 2.92 (19) to 26.24 (19)°. The geometry-optimized structure [B3LYP level of theory and 6–311 g+(d,p) basis set] has the same features except that the entire molecule is planar. In the crystal, the three-dimensional architecture is consolidated by a combination of C—H...O, C—H...π, nitro-N—O...π and π–π interactions [inter-centroid distances = 3.649 (2)–3.916 (2) Å].

A comparison of the changes in the patterns of the usage and categorization of the classifier ‘ben 本’ in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese

2021 ◽  
pp. 251385022098177
Author(s):  
Jeong-A Jo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Korean Chinese ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to examine the common features and differences in how the Chinese-character classifier ‘ ben 本’ is used in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, and will explore the factors that have affected the categorization processes and patterns of the classifier ‘ ben 本.’ Consideration of the differences in the patterns of usage and categorization of the same Chinese classifier in different languages enables us to look into the perception of the world and the socio cultural differences inherent in each language, the differences in the perception of Chinese characters, and the relationship between classifiers.

The Latah Reaction: Its Pathodynamics and Nosological Position

1952 ◽  
Vol 98 (413) ◽  
pp. 515-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Yap
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Intrinsic Interest ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Malay Archipelago ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Unusual Symptoms

Few mental diseases have attracted the attention of medical men working in outlandish parts of the world more than Latah. This is due, not only to its intrinsic interest, showing as it regularly does the unusual symptoms of echolalia, echopraxia, and automatic obedience, but also to its remarkable geographical distribution. This illness was described by travellers to the Malay Archipelago in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but very similar reactions were later found to exist in other lands, known to the native peoples by other names. The term “Latah,” however, is the best known, and as the common features between these various reactions became apparent, it has been used as an inclusive name for them all. It is to-day employed with much the same connotation in the French, Dutch, Italian, and English literature, but the discussion of its nature betrays inadequate understanding, attempts at its nosological classification remain unsatisfactory, and speculations as to its aetology continue to be somewhat fanciful.

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