Open Communication and Discussion Facilitate Reconciliation: The Maimonides Approach to Publication of Manduca’s Letter in The Lancet

Open Communication and Discussion Facilitate Reconciliation: The Promise Fulfilled

For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the topic, I’d like to summarize the chain of events. The letter that was published accused Israel of terrible atrocities. However, there was no evidence for the accusations, and it came to light following publication that some of the authors were known anti-Semites with connections to a modern-day Nazi supporter. A storm of criticism fell on The Lancet ...

Determining the validity of the data and the accuracy of the article: reviewing the articles after publication: a letter to the editor

Oral Communication Apprehension among English Senior Majors at Al-Quds Open University in Palestine

Communication is an essential part in languages. It is the purpose of learning a second or a foreign language. Oral communication is one of the aspects that need to be developed among English learners. The study focused on investigating the factors of apprehension among English language students in Palestine. The study aimed to investigate the degree of oral communication apprehension among Eng...

Developing a Citizen-Centric Spatial Decision-Making System to Support the Process of Participatory Construction in Urban Distressed Textures

Todays, urban distressed textures are considered as a vital concern of managers, particularly in large cities. These areas, which also appear in official parts of cities, are vulnerable because of prospective problems. Lack of proper accessibility, services, facilities, and infrastructures, as well as social, economic, environmental and spatial problems, are key problems of these areas. Althoug...

Iranian Mental Health Researchers & Predatory Journals

Predatory journals exploit open access publication method; they do not carry out the peer review process and editorial assessment properly and publish unassessed articles for financial gain. According to a recent investigation published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, about 20% of authors or co-authors of articles published in predatory psychiatric journals have been Iranian. This substantial...