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Are surveillance and 'omics' profiling studies being overhyped, and eating up the limited funding for scientific research?
These day, there has been a considerable increase in publications reporting some sort of genomics/transcriptomics/metagenomics profiling. While these 'omics' tools are quite useful, many researchers simply adopt them as they guarantee some 'data' output, irrespective of sample type. Whatever sample you take, it will always have some microbial species, many genes, and you can easily report this 'profiling'. To make your study look 'big', you can increase the sample size. Such studies get...
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How do you balance privacy and public health in a pandemic?
Digital contact tracing involves a level of surveillance that could make a lot of people uncomfortable, especially given the involvement of large technology companies with spotty records on privacy. However, contract tracing represents one of the most potent methods for combating the pandemic and is only useful if implemented on a wide scale. How do we balance privacy and public health in these times?
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Are their any benefits, if a recent PhD graduate have too many peer-reviewed publications as first author?
fresh PhD graduates face difficulties sometimes to apply for postdoc positions and for funds as an independent researcher
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Which part of a scientific manuscript is the most important? 1. ABSTRACT 2. RESULTS 3. DISCUSSION 4. CONCLUSION
Scientific papers are written based on the results. But whatever the results, they are to be interpreted in the discussion section in the context of worldwide scientific discovery. The most important part of his paper is the discussion, which reveals the Author's scientific personality.
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Is it really necessary to add one or more foreign based authors in your manuscript even with required objectives proposed and work done?
The question is based on the manuscript submission to peer reviewed, Scientific journal and highly Indexed with societies or communities like Scopus, SCI, Web of Science and many more. We see many a times the same type of paper was accepted in the journal by ours were rejected and we may find the difference is foreign authors in the manuscript, whereas journal nowhere mentioned foreign authors are required or mandatory in your manuscript.
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Time to first bath for the new born
What is the time to first bath to the newborn in your community?
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What is the time limit for reviewing an article?
For the review of each article, there is a value to be given to the reviewer.
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Could salary be used as a surrogate for smoking when sample data are lacking?
In epidemiology cohort studies, information on smoking status is often times lacking for the study sample, which makes it challenging to characterize the effects of other risk factors on endpoints that are causally related to smoking (e.g., lung cancer mortality). Given the strong inverse reported for smoking and income, could salary be used as a surrogate for smoking when direct data are lacking? or would potential relationships between salary other risk factors (e.g., health care access)...
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