Editorial: new article type “perspective”

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integral process. Research article acts as a platform for the dissemination of knowledge on various research carried out in the scientific world. Further, it creates a pathway to many researchers to carry out research work. Of the many reasons of publication of a research work, some of them are particularly based on the promotion of the researcher and other academic benefits. Post-publication, ...

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Editorial Perspective

It has become a somewhat popular academic exercise to question a newly accepted standard of care by comparing it to a less complicated and more historic predecessor. This attempt by Al Humadi of performing a meta-analysis of a technical aspect of laminoplasty, namely, if screw and plate fixation improves outcomes, follows in this vein. The results presented were met with significant questions b...

Editorial: Journal article reporting standards.

In this editorial, the author notes that this issue of American Psychologist features a pair of important articles related to newly updated standards for reporting research in psychology in scientific journals, covering both quantitative (Appelbaum et al., 2018) and qualitative (Levitt et al., 2018) research. The increasing breadth and complexity of research, and the importance of communicating...

Article Type: Original Article

The goals of this paper are to assess feasibility of using total concentration (TPC) of phytoliths in modern soils and morphotypes in soil assemblages to infer paleovegetation cover and composition. We sampled from undisturbed grassland sites with different values of shrub and grass cover in the Columbia Basin, interior Pacific Northwest, USA. Phytolith concentration in soils were measured and ...