Opening Words: Making Writing Matter

Words matter!

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) Background What have the Royal Society of Health – 350 years old this year – the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care and the Department of Health’s (DH) new campaign, ‘Sex. Worth Talking About’, got in common? The Royal Society was set up to assist and promote the accumulation of knowledge, promote clarity of expression, and d...

Writing Center – Transition Cue Words

A Few Words on Secret Writing

As we can scarcely imagine a time when there did not exist a necessity, or at least a desire, of transmitting information from one individual to another, in such manner as to elude general comprehension; so we may well suppose the practice of writing in cipher to be of great antiquity. De La Guilletiere, therefore, who, in his "Lacedaemon Ancient and Modern," maintains that the Spartans were th...

Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?

Plagiarism refers to the act of “appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit” (1). Most academic researchers reach a consensus that plagiarism is a serious breach of publication ethics (2). Plagiarism has different forms but can be categorized into two general distinct categories – plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of text (verbatim)....

Strangeness in Quark Matter: Opening Talk

We discuss several new developments in the field of strange and heavy flavor physics in high energy heavy ion collisions. As shown by many recent theoretical works, heavy flavored particles give us a unique opportunity to study the properties of systems created in these collisions. Two in particular important aspects, the production of (multi) strange hypernuclei and the properties of heavy fla...