After a quick investigation, officials at a medical school in New York State say they have found «no evidence» that a faculty member violated the school's prohibition
against authoring a paper ghostwritten by others.
Not exact matches
Many and sometimes most of the weekly
papers are by
authors who actually wanted to remember that they learned something crucial, and that experience rarely keeps them from being critical and even playing the texts off
against each other.
In the
paper, the
authors acknowledge that offshore groundwater «is not the answer to global water crises, but it has a strategic value that should be acknowledged so that it can be weighed
against other options in long - term strategies.»
According to the
paper's first
author, Si Ming Man, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in St. Jude Immunology, the findings could lead to new protective treatments
against tularemia, including drugs that can enhance the ability of IRF1, GBP or AIM2 to cure infections more quickly and effectively.
«We uncovered the factors that are both involved in protection
against the cold and underpin brown fat identity,» says Michael Downes, a Salk senior scientist and co-senior
author of the
paper.
Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, one of the lead
authors of the
paper, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, said: «We can now say, unequivocally, that genetic variations in this region of the human genome provide strong protection
against severe malaria in real - world settings, making a difference to whether a child lives or dies.
«What is new about this is we have developed a vaccine
against dust - mite allergens that hasn't been used before,» says Aliasger Salem, professor in pharmaceutical sciences at the UI and a corresponding
author on the
paper.
«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the malaria parasite, offer protection
against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery Research Unit at UCT, and senior
author of the
paper.
Importantly, reviewing the latest evidence, the
authors show that not enough is being done to prevent violence
against women and girls from occurring in the first place (
Paper 1).
TOKYO — RIKEN has decided
against reopening an investigation into two stem cell
papers that concluded that the lead
author, Haruko Obokata of RIKEN's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, engaged in research misconduct.
Dr Veronique Bataille, senior
author of the
paper and another dermatologist in the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology said: «Longer telomeres are likely to be one factor explaining the protection
against premature skin aging in individuals who previously suffered from acne.
«What we did in this
paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it
against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior
author of the study.
The
authors of this new research
paper analysed data and models from the USEPA's updated global non-CO2 GHG mitigation assessment to investigate the potential for GHG reductions from agricultural emissions from seven regions globally, offsetting costs
against social benefit of GHG mitigation (e.g. human health, flood risk and energy costs).
But it would be up to the
authors of the
papers, not the journal, to take any legal action
against Eisen, copyright lawyers say.
«Our research shows that combination treatment with the two compounds can promote resilience
against stress - mediated depression - like phenotypes by modulating systemic inflammatory responses and brain synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of depression,» says Jun Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology and first
author on the
paper.
The purified human antibodies had «potent neutralizing activity
against both hantaviruses,» according to the
paper's first
author, Jay W. Hooper, Ph.D, of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
«We're highly encouraged by these preclinical findings demonstrating the ability of our mRNA vaccine to provide robust prevention of maternal transmission of Zika and protection
against congenital defects,» said Giuseppe Ciaramella, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Moderna's infectious disease - focused venture, Valera, and an
author on the
paper.
In this
paper,
authors George B. Richardson, Marisa E. Castellano, James R. Stone III, and Blair K. Sanning bring an evolutionary perspective to bear on adolescent learning and argue that approaches to education that stress learning in context - for example, career and technical education (CTE)- can help schools work with student biases in attention and motivation, rather than
against them.
The academies» statement is just the latest rejection of the conclusions by the
paper's
authors, led by Gilles - Eric Séralini, a scientist at the University of Caen who has long campaigned
against genetically modified foods and attracted criticism for flawed science.
It tilted decisively
against the study when, in 1989, Ronald Bailey published a
paper in «Forbes» where he accused the
authors of having predicted that the world's economy should have already run out of some vital mineral commodities whereas that had not, obviously, occurred.
It is also evidenced in the spat between the Realclimate guys and the
authors of the Keelyside
paper which illustrates there is now a firm push back
against the current «concensus».
How did Jones, who had a pre established animus
against this
paper and its
authors, treat this
paper and its
authors?
And that is what brought Douglas et al 2007, then relentless attacks
against the
authors followed Santer 08, then the gobsmacking by MM10 (after 18 months of the Team blocking them at every turn), then several subsequent
papers not finding the «hot spot», including this latest at The Hockeyschtick http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-paper-finds-hot-spot-predicted-by.html
There are more quite a few more
papers out there
authored by SkS team members, but for a variety of reasons we decided
against listing them.
The thesis advisors would have foreseen objections as obvious as the ones raised and ensured the
author had established in the
paper a solid bulwark
against such a slam.
It goes on to say «With this step I would also like to personally protest
against how the
authors and like - minded climate sceptics have much exaggerated the
paper's conclusions in public statements,» and much more.
But if we question it too hard we would need to either strip out every error bar and uncertainty limit from every
paper without a known prior, or put large horror warnings
against each one stating that these error limits are the result of a subjective judgement of the
authors.
When the
paper's four
authors first tested the finished model's global - warming predictions
against those of the complex computer models and
against observed real - world temperature change, their simple model was closer to the measured rate of global warming than all the predictions of the complex «general - circulation» models (see the picture which heads this post).
When I read the original
paper the adjustment is based on the
authors made it clear that it was neither tested nor validated
against real data, but in fact was largely guesstimated.
For the
authors of the
paper to assess the spectral results
against theory they needed to know the atmospheric profile of temperature and humidity, as well as changes in the well - studied trace gases like CO2 and methane.