We are delighted to announce that Circulation is now receiving manuscripts and reviews electronically. We had attempted to avail our readers and supporters of an online system more than two years ago, but the existing systems were not sufficient to handle the large volume of manuscripts that we were receiving and reviewing at Circulation. We are pleased that with the advancement of technology, ...

Prior to clinical use, pharmacogenetic tests should be systematically evaluated for their clinical validity and utility. Here, we evaluated whether the publicly available, online Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB) could facilitate such assessments by efficiently identifying relevant peer-reviewed manuscripts. The search targets were 55 manuscripts regarding clinical validity and utility...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether, where and when manuscripts were published following rejection by the Journal of the Danish Medical Association, a general medical journal published in Danish. Similar previous studies have focused on specialty/subspecialty journals published in English. DESIGN Manuscripts rejected during a 4-year period were searched for in PubMe...

Optical character recognition refers to the process of translating segmented hand-written images or typewritten images into machine editable text. In this study, we propose a Tamil palm leaf manuscripts character recognition system using FFBNN technology. First the palm leaf manuscripts characters are segmented by exploiting the sliding window and adaptive histogram calculation. Afterwards, the...

Background & Aims: Increasing pressure for having scholarly publications in accredited English medium journals emphasizes the need to enhance academic writing ability by author-researchers in various fields, especially, in medical and hard sciences. In order to enhance the language of manuscripts, many authors seek assistance from editors prior to submission to high-status journals. Various typ...