According to the American Chemical Society’s “Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research": An author’s central obligation is to present an accurate and complete account of the research performed, absolutely avoiding deception, including the data collected or used, as well as an objective discussion of the significance of the research. Data are defined as information collected or use...

Epistemic uncertainty is a huge area of scholarship. It has captured the minds of scholars in psychology and many domain-specific studies of reasoning and problem solving. What does it mean to resolve uncertainty? This chapter explores the idea that resolution of uncertainty in complex science and engineering fields frequently ends with approximations rather than precise answers. The chapter be...

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In an interesting article Wieteke van Dijk and colleagues argue that societal developments and values influence the practice of medicine, and thus can result in both medicalisation and overdiagnosis. They provide a convincing argument that overdiagnosis emerges in a social context and that it has socially constructed implications. However, they fail to show that overdiagnosis per se is socially...

Can we characterize the wavelets through linear transformation? the answer for this question is certainly YES. In this paper we have characterized the Haar wavelet matrix by their linear transformation and proved some theorems on properties of Haar wavelet matrix such as Trace, eigenvalue and eigenvector and diagonalization of a matrix.