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Scientific writing is an essential part of a student’s and researcher’s everyday life. In this paper we investigate the particularities of scientific writing and explore the features and limitations of existing tools for scientific writing. Deriving from this analysis and an online survey of the scientific writing processes of students and researchers at the University of Paderborn, we identify...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 107, NO. 9, 10 NOVEMBER 2014 1386 Robert H. Glew is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; Anil K. Challa is in the Department of Genetics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA and Venkat Gopalan is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemist...

Objectives To evaluate barriers for production of scientific dental articles by Iranian dental faculty members. Methods An anonymous self-administered questionnaire distributed among faculty members of all dental schools in Iran during June-December 2010. The respondents rated their level of agreement with eleven sentences regarding what they perceive as barriers on scientific dental article p...

However, the scientific article has remained stubbornly resistant to renewal. Text mining and information extraction are methods specifically developed to find relevant information in unstructured texts and encode the information in a structured form, like a database record (Couto, 2003). In theory, text mining is the perfect solution to transforming factual knowledge from publications into dat...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway, 1898--1961, said the following about the art of writing: ‘‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master’’. This phrase also applies to writers of scientific texts. We are apprentices and self-taught writers in this difficult task of producing quality scientific writing. Creating a good text is the result of the hard work of writing. ...

SIR JOHN FLOYER (1649-1734) may justifiably be credited with the invention of the first efficient instrument of precision to merit application in clinical practice. His own account of the development of a pulse watch for the accurate measurement of pulse rates in his patients has often been quoted,'7 and the instrument is known to have been commercially available in 1707.8 But Gunn,3 writing in...

Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial (KEM) Hospital were established in the year 1926 and in a short span of two decades the twin institutions had created a reputation not only for offering selfless and quality medical service but also for excellence in teaching, research and medical writing. The staff and faculty of the institutions met regularly to discuss th...