Sir Dudley Stamp—1898–1966

Dudley Knox Library

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OBJECTIVE To assess whether making the sender's knighthood explicit in a series of letters would have any detectable effect on the response. DESIGN A random sequence was generated by flipping a coin to determine whether a letter would have 'Sir Iain Chalmers' or 'Iain Chalmers' typed under the signature. This sequence was prepared independently of the preparation of an alphabetic list of the ...

Review of Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012 Dudley

There were 90 articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) in 2012, which is an 8% increase in the number of articles since 2011. The quality of the submissions continues to increase. The editors are delighted to report that the 2011 JCMR Impact Factor (which is published in June 2012) has risen to 4.44, up from 3.72 for 2010 (as published in June 2011), a 20% i...

meditations of sir scholar

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Dr. David Mermin's review of Alan Sokal's "Beyond the hoax" (Science wars revisited, N. David Mermin, Nature 454, 276-277, 17 July 2008) makes some good points, but the overall thrust is unnecessarily and unfairly negative. Anyone who has not read Dr. Sokal's book may come away with the impression that he has spent the whole book rehashing stale debates and attacking articulate and scientifical...