Sentences with phrase «author of a few other»

As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well - known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies A Times Investigation «You want a description of hell?»

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Small - business owners «are having to do a lot more digging to find the opportunities, and since the opportunities are fewer, they have more competition with other small businesses,» says Julie Weeks, an American Express research advisor and author of the report.
Although there are other solutions already on the market that also claims to allow users to create smart contracts without any coding, Superset is one of the few that can do so with «plain English» as far as the author is aware.
Also, within a few weeks of subscribing, I will send you three other eBooks by three other authors for free as well.
Very few other authors, with the exception perhaps of Schmalhausen and a few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.
It's arranged roughly in chronological order, covers a time span of 1000's of years, comprised of writings from dozens of different authors (few of whom actually knew each other) yet whose writings all contained a common thread.
The authors of this series have probed a number of them, to our great benefit; let me suggest a few others.
I wish that these unnamed authors would have checked with me and a few others that were quoted out of context to see if our views were properly presented.
The authors quote a few writings of mine as proof that I have ripped the cross out of the gospel, and all I can say is that they should have read the entire article from which they quote, and some of my other writings as well.
You said, «I wish that these unnamed authors would have checked with me and a few others that were quoted out of context to see if our views were properly presented.»
[Update: see the comment at the end of the article for more on this subject — and an important correction...] The author of the French blog Netpolitique left a trackback / comment the other day on my article from a few weeks ago on saturation coverage of the U.S. presidential candidates...
«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.
And in a few couples in which one was schizophrenic and the other bipolar, 27 % of the children were diagnosed with one or the other disease, the authors report in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.
«It is becoming increasingly clear that the average person's fiber intake in a Western country has drastically reduced over the past few decades,» says Fredrik Bäckhed, who studies the role of the normal gut microbiota in metabolic diseases at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and is a co-senior author of the other paper.
«We found that adding in a specific antibiotic to the medical treatment also resulted in fewer recurring infections, fewer infections in other places on the body and fewer people passing on the infection to other members of the household,» said Dr. David Talan, the study's lead author and a professor in the department of emergency medicine and department of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Olive View - UCLA Medical Center.
«There have been few studies on fruiting cherry trees with respect to novel irrigation strategies such as partial and deficit irrigation, which have been intensively researched worldwide for several other tree fruits,» said Gerry Neilsen, lead author of the study.
To determine that the fossilized flowers from Argentina belonged to the Rhamnaceae family, the authors noticed that the organization of the petals and stamens in the fossil is found in Rhamnaceae and a few other families.
By building a deep understanding of the chemistry of single - layer graphene and a few layer graphene, I am confident that many new applications of chemically functionalized graphenes could be possible, in electronics, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, composites, and other areas,» notes Rodney Ruoff, corresponding author of this paper, CMCM director, and UNIST Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).
«These results indicate the NTRK fusion genes might be very potent drivers of cancer development that have the ability to generate tumors with few other mutations,» said co-corresponding author Suzanne Baker, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology.
The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert.
According to Katie Singer, author of Honoring Our Cycles, «other clinical researchers have also found that sleeping in the absence of light (introducing it for a few days each cycle, or sleeping only in the absence of light) can help women in a variety of situations to strengthen their cycles».
Jonathan Bailor, author of The Calorie Myth, is fond of saying that if you make no other changes in your diet, you will see positive results just from adding a few extra servings of green leafy vegetables a day.
The quality of information reflects the author's credentials, which are none, other than briefly visiting a few doctors for symptoms of hormonal imbalance.
There are a few things that I consider crucial to a blog; some being white space, clear contact information, a picture of the author and a button that others can easily grab.
Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).
Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.
I can point to moments of good fortune in the life of the book, but then, so can other authors whose books sold either far more or far fewer copies than mine did.
From the very few pictures I've seen that ONE person was not getting what they paid for, there were really clearly massive displays from other authors crowding their space, and they had nothing but a tiny stack of books.
I must admit I have not heard of quite a few of these authors and was surprised by the omission of other writers.
While the price is a few dollars less, the small press section is usually just to the south of Outer Mongolia so nobody ever makes it there, other than other authors.
Promotional pricing (sales), even going free briefly, has less influence on total earnings than I'd have expected, though a few authors have reported that putting one book free has increased sales of their other books, especially if it's a series.
As a reader, I find I connect with more readers and authors on Twitter than on any other platform (and I've tried quite a few of them).
Well, I don't believe that is happening, and I believe if either or both of these ventures ultimately fail because of a few really loud voices who don't intend to use it anyway, and others «allowing» them to determine for them what is right for them, then I don't want to hear another indie author complain about how «hard it is.»
There are a lot of other independent authors who've hit that mark (with many selling more than 200,000 already), some with fewer total books out, but I feel like this is an encouraging start to my writing career.
After working with fellow indie authors in NIWA for a few years now, I've decided that it's stupid that I don't have print copies of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple other places that carry books published via CreateSpace / KDP).
Consider getting together with a few other authors in your genre to create lists of recommendations that include all of your group's books and others that you enjoy or that have inspired you.
I do a lot of signings and conventions with other self published authors, David Corwell, Jonathan Miller and Kirt Hickman to name a few, these gentlemen are very perofessional and respectful to everyone.
We covered a few essential author sales tools — website, blog, social media, and email — but there are tons of other ways publishers can empower their authors to boost book sales, such as:
On the other end of her complaint, until a few years ago, e-published authors weren't treated as real authors within RWA.
Well, that money will have to come from something other than marginal cost of production... probably either author advance, or by publishing fewer books by more marginal authors (those who sell less than 20,000 copies).
Once we know that, there might be other solutions available that eliminate the need for the advance criteria while meeting the objective of a viable career option for the many (the author group) as opposed to the few (individual authors).
As an indie author of nine titles, a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and as one who has shepherded more than thirty other books to publication, I've been around the block a few times.
For $ 8 to $ 15, you can get a month or two of tweets, an author page, and a few other things.
A couple weeks ago Matt Stone of Archangel Ink asked me to be part of a 99cent book promotion, with a few other authors I respect like Tom Knowles (The Kindle Publishing Bible; we did some sightseeing in Vancouver BC last month) and S.J. Scott (Habit Stacking; we had dinner with a group authors in Cleveland last night).
Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.
Smashwords also has a list of outside professional people offering publishing services like cover design, formatting, and other assistance, and quite a few authors who don't have the services of outside proof - reading families use the Smashwords list.
I've had the pleasure of working with Dave for the past few months as his assistant and proofreader, and now I've asked him for an interview to share his experiences with German translations with other authors who may be interested in translating their work.
That doesn't mean the author's or publisher's books will sit on the shelf of most (or even a few) bricks - and - mortar bookstores in the country — just that the book can look and appear like any other when viewed in an industry database.
With over 4500 new books entering the marketplace every day, it is a challenge for any author to find readers — and to find readers who will write a few sentences of honest review and post it on Amazon and Goodreads and other sites.
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