Research Misconduct—Definitions, Manifestations and Extent

Research misconduct: definitions, manifestations and extent

In recent years, the international scientific community has been rocked by a number of serious cases of research misconduct. In one of these, Woo Suk Hwang, a Korean stem cell researcher published two articles on research with ground-breaking results in Science in 2004 and 2005. Both articles were later revealed to be fakes. This paper provides an overview of what research misconduct is general...

Temporal Extent for Global Change Research Databases

We propose temporal extent, a concept that can be used to produce summary or abstracted information about the values of temporal attributes in a database relation or class of objects. In its simplest form, the temporal extent is a one-dimensional interval representing the minimum and maximum time points of the instances in a class. More generally, a set of temporal intervals are used to capture...

Manifestations and complications of leptospirosis

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Ophthalmic and dermatological manifestations of Rosacea

Rosacea is a chronic disorder of unknown etiology with facial and ocular manifestations. It frequently affects women in the fourth to seventh decades, and patients often present to ophthalmologists with complaints relating to blepharitis, meibomianitis, or tear disturbances. Characteristic skin change of flushing, erythema, telangiectasis, papules, and pustules should be sought, as patients fre...