The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the originality and number of valid responses on the level of cryptomnesia (unintentional plagiarism). Participants will be asked to offer examples of real words from categories of varying size, and to create fictional words. To adjust the number of possible responses for the fictional word categories, the participants will be asked to ...

This article probes characteristics of writing relevant to assumptions genealogical practitioners make about written sources they use as evidence. Those infrequently examined include the assumption that represents past reality, truth univocally denotes correspondence between writing’s discourse and an event or act occurred in past, is transparent its reference and, therefore, not need critical ...

Most peer-review scientific journals will consider only work that has not been published elsewhere (Graf et al. 2007). Consistent with this policy, EHP's Instructions to Authors states that " Contributions submitted to EHP must be original works of the authors(s) and must not have been previously published in print or online or simultaneously submitted to another publication. " According to the...

This thesis develops the idea of probabilistic arithmetic The aim is to replace arithmetic operations on numbers with arithmetic operations on random variables Speci cally we are interested in numerical methods of calculating convolutions of probability distributions The long term goal is to be able to handle random prob lems such as the determination of the distribution of the roots of random ...

For a journal article of quality, an excellent concept and significant results are basic requirements. However, a more important factor is how to make a coherent argument. To explain the article's subject, scientific and logical discourse is necessary. In addition, appropriate quotations are needed to support the key claims because quotations situate the claims of the article within a community...