On 06/19/2014 06:57 AM, Judith S. Weis wrote:
On a slightly different topic about PNAS, I found the article very
interesting in this week's issue that showed that gender bias can be
lethal: people don't take hurricanes with female names as seriously as
those with male names, so don't take enough
On a slightly different topic about PNAS, I found the article very
interesting in this week's issue that showed that gender bias can be
lethal: people don't take hurricanes with female names as seriously as
those with male names, so don't take enough precautions and are more
likely to be killed or
I had a paper go through peer review at PNAS last fall, and although
the paper got rejected, it was certainly very well peer reviewed.
This paper compares current extinction rates of vertebrates in modern
times to that in the Cretaceous mass extinction (using fuzzy
computational approaches). One r
Problems with peer review at PNAS and trendiness at Science and Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-publishing-the-inside-track-1.15424?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20140619
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David Duffy
戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
Botany
University of Hawaii
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Honolulu Hawaii 968
