Dealing with Irreproducibility Researchers discuss the growing pressures that are driving increases in retraction rates at AACR. FLICKR, UNIVERSITY OF EXETERRecent years have seen increasing numbers of retractions, higher rates of misconduct and fraud, and general problems of data irreproducibility, spurring the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and others to launch initiatives to improve the quality of research results. Yesterday (April 7), at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting, researchers gathered in San Diego, California, to discuss why these problems to come to a head—and how to fix them. “We really have to change our culture and that will not be easy,” said Lee Ellis from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, referring to the immense pressure researchers often feel to produce splashy results and publish in high-impact journals. C. William Sellers, global head of oncology at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, described a similar experience.
Fifty-Two Stories » 25. The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountai You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things. For where I left him. For what I did. I hate myself for that, and nothing will ease that, not even what happened that night, on the side of the mountain. I had searched for nearly ten years, although the trail was cold. But that was later. And there was a boy outside the house, picking wool from off a thornbush. He turned. The boy nodded, drew himself up to his full height, which was perhaps two fingers bigger than mine, and he said, “I am Calum MacInnes.” “Is there another of that name? The boy said nothing, just unknotted a thick clump of sheep’s wool from the clutching fingers of the thorn-bush. The boy was peering at me. “I am a small man,” I told him. “Why?” I said, “Because I have something to ask your father. “Did the boy call you?” “It was no boy,” I told him, “but me myself, it was. The boy laughed. “It was a disagreement about the ownership of cattle. “Wait here,” said young Calum MacInnes. “But da—” “No?”
Welcome to the Online World of Rick Riordan! book-brainstorming Introduction Given analysis and research done on book-examples and book-formats, this page documents various thoughts and strawman proposals for a book microformat. Many of the class names proposes are suitable for other forms of extended prose, such as articles and longer notes. Table of Contents Background HTML is a general-purpose markup language used for electronic documents, mostly for onscreen reading. It has been shown possible to use HTML as a format for book publishing. The main motivation for developing a microformat for book is to encourage reuse of content for different media types. The scope of the term "book" has no clear limits when applied to texts made public on the Internet. Parts of a book The user interface of books is fairly standarized. In boom, the section names are used as class names on the <div> element: <div class="halftitlepage"><h1>Title</h1></div> Not all books have all sections. Are there too many section types? Are there enough sections? Figures Proposals See Also
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Poets.org No Fear Shakespeare No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today. Table of Contents Characters Act 1 Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 3 Act 2 Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2 Act 2, Scene 3 Act 2, Scene 4 Act 2, Scene 5 Act 2, Scene 6 Act 2, Scene 7 Act 2, Scene 8 Act 2, Scene 9 Act 3 Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 3 Act 3, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 4 Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 5 Act 5, Scene 1 How to Cite No Fear The Merchant of Venice