edge and experience and Peter Hope and Pat Townshend for comments on an earlier draft of the paper. Contributors: PA initiated the study, was involved in all its aspects, and is the guarantor; ER contributed to study design, interpretation of data, and writing of the paper; NTF and MJR contributed to many discussions on vitamin K and to writing the paper. Funding: Data collection was funded by ...

Synopsis Scientific writing is a skill that needs to be developed through concentration and practice. By the final draft of a paper, each sentence should have been crafted to convey information clearly, succinctly, and accurately. The standard of writing in current scientific journals has reached an all-time low, in terms of both poor grammar and imprecise communication. This situation has been...

In an attempt to promote the development of understanding over rote memorization, writing in mathematics has received increased attention in recent years. In Calculus, the Rule of Three (based on communicating ideas through algebraic, graphical and numerical means) has been replaced by the Rule of Four in which writing plays a central role. Educators agree that the benefits of writing include t...

Translators, like all people who draft a lot of texts, will commonly run a spelling or style checker on their translations before delivering them, in the hope of detecting simple kinds of errors they may have overlooked. Because these writing aids are monolingual, however, they are entirely useless in detecting even the most flagrant kinds of translation errors, since these are bilingual in nat...

Writing for scientific journals is not an inherently simple task for most people. It requires purposeful effort and multiple revisions of the initial manuscript draft. While each author and article has its own individuality, writing well to address the core elements of a scientific report is necessary. As editors of the IJTMB, we often see weaknesses in the core elements of the manuscripts we r...

1 Tenodera aridifolia 2 3 Keiichiro Sato and Yoshifumi Yamawaki* 4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan 5 6 Running head: Looming sensitive neuron and defense behavior 7 8 *Corresponding author 9 Tel/Fax: +81-92-642-2315 10 E-mail: [email protected] 11 12 Contribution to the study 13 Keiichiro Sato: Performing experiments, data analysis, and w...

Recent literature has shown the low levels of reflexivity student teachers exhibit when doing reflective writing and lack a training program in their initial to help them. A that was developed support future teachers’ implemented program’s results were evaluated. The based on combination theories from fields teacher instruction. offered class 16 primary school French-speaking Belgium (three mal...

Employing an explanatory sequential design, this study investigated the effects of a blog-mediated writing course on L2 students’ writing motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation. A number of 46 Iranian EFL learners from 2 intact university classes were recruited as the participants and were randomly assigned into the control group (n = 21) and the experimental group (n ...

Semantic query optimization (SQO) is a promising approach to the optimization of increasingly complex query plans in global information systems. The idea of SQO is to use semantic rules about data to reformulate a query into an equivalent but less expensive one. Since it is difficult to encode required semantic rules, a complete SQO system also includes a rule induction system and a rule mainta...