Sunday, October 14, 2012

Research manuscript submissions: Initial rejection may lead to higher impact, study shows

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) ? A large-scale survey of the process for submitting research papers to scientific journals has revealed a surprising pattern: manuscripts that were turned down by one journal and published in another received significantly more citations than those that were published by the first journal to receive them.

The study, led by researchers at McGill University and published by the journal Science, covered papers carried in 923 journals from the biological sciences between 2006 and 2008. The researchers generated an email to the corresponding authors of virtually all articles published during that period in 16 subject categories. This computerized survey retrieved the submission history of more than 80,000 articles -- 37% of the more than 215,000 articles covered by the survey.

The findings shed new light on pre-publication processes, which constitute a significant amount of the time allocated to scientific research. Roughly three-quarters of all articles were initially targeted to the journal that would eventually publish them, indicating that authors were generally efficient at targeting their research and limiting the risk of rejection. Surprisingly, however, articles that were rejected by one journal and resubmitted to another were significantly more cited than "first-intent" articles published the same year in the same journal.

"We think the most likely explanation is that inputs from editors and peer reviewers, and the greater amount of time spent working on resubmissions, makes papers better and improves the citation impact of the final product," said Vincent Calcagno, who initiated the project as a postdoctoral fellow in theoretical ecology at McGill and completed it after moving to France's Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. Calcagno co-authored the paper with Prof. Claire de Mazancourt, his former supervisor at McGill's Redpath Museum who is now working for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France, as well as Emilie Demoinet of McGill's Department of Biology; then-undergraduate student Kathleen Gollner; Prof. Derek Ruths of McGill's Department of Computer Science and Lionel Guidi of the University of Hawaii.

The findings also suggest that researchers may benefit from the strategy of publishing groups that facilitate resubmission of declined manuscripts to other journals of the group. "These results should help authors endure the frustration associated with long resubmission processes and encourage them to take the challenge," the researchers conclude.

One notable caveat: the survey found that papers resubmitted from a journal in one discipline category to a journal in a different category yielded lower impact after publication than those resubmitted to the same discipline category. While many academic experts have been calling for more interdisciplinary research, "what this suggests is that, for some reason, there may be barriers to this kind of interdisciplinary work gaining the same degree of impact as research done and published within their own (academic) communities" Prof. Ruths noted.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Daredevil's Record-Breaking Supersonic Skydive Attempt Now Set for Sunday

An Austrian daredevil aims to leap from the stratosphere Sunday (Oct. 14) in a supersonic plunge that would break the world record for the highest-ever skydive ??a benchmark that has lasted more than half a century.

Veteran skydiver Felix Baumgartner had hoped to have the nearly 23-mile-high (37 kilometers) jump under his belt by now, but strong winds thwarted attempts?on both Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 8 and 9). On Sunday, however, winds may be calm enough to allow the skydiver's towering high-altitude balloon to lift off from its staging ground in Roswell, N.M., according to officials with Baumgartner's mission, which is known as Red Bull Stratos.

?I like what I see on Sunday," Red Bull Stratos meteorologist Don Day said in a statement today (Oct. 12). "It will again be a matter of what happens with the winds on the top (700-800 feet). We may still have to wait and the window will likely be open until 11 a.m. We need to be ready for launch just after sunrise [about 6:45 a.m. local time]."

You can watch the skydive live here on SPACE.com.

Winds are a big concern for the mission because Baumgartner's 55-story balloon is extremely thin and easily damaged. The team will not launch if winds at the launch site exceed 2 mph (3.2 kph), officials have said. [Extreme Skydive from 120,000 Feet Animated (Video)]

Indeed, one of the mission's balloons was rendered unusable after being whipped about by gusts on Tuesday. The weather had looked good in the morning, so the balloon was inflated and Baumgartner climbed into his custom-built 2,900-pound (1,315-kilogram) capsule. But winds kicked up to 25 mph (40 kph) briefly shortly before noon, twisting the balloon and scuttling the launch.

The team has a backup balloon ready for the next attempt, officials said.

If things go according to plan on Sunday, Baumgartner will ascend to about 120,000 feet (36,576 meters), then step out into the frigid void. He would thus shatter the current skydiving altitude record, which stands at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). That mark was set back in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger, who now serves as a Red Bull Stratos adviser.

Baumgartner should become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier as he plummets to Earth in a 5.5-minute freefall (followed by a 15-minute parachute glide to Earth), officials say. So Sunday would be an appropriate day for his leap; it's the 65th anniversary of the first-ever supersonic airplane flight, flown by American test pilot Chuck Yeager.

Baumgartner will also likely set marks for longest-duration freefall and highest manned balloon flight. But the mission isn't all about breaking records, Red Bull Stratos officials say. It has scientific value as well, collecting data that could help enable high-altitude escapes from spacecraft.

Red Bull Stratos has called the mission a leap from the "edge of space." But space is generally considered to begin at an altitude of 62 miles (100 km; about 327,000 feet).

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall or SPACE.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook and?Google+.

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Clinton lends star power to Democratic candidates

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Twelve years after leaving the White House, Bill Clinton is campaigning as if he's in the political race of his life.

In some ways, he is. Clinton is endorsing President Barack Obama and Democrats in tight races for the House and Senate. But he's also burnishing a legacy as the party's elder statesman, rock star, global humanitarian and husband of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a once-and-perhaps-future presidential candidate herself.

In Indianapolis on Friday to boost Senate Democratic hopeful Joe Donnelly, Clinton said he hadn't expected to be so involved in the 2012 campaign. But Hillary Clinton is busy as secretary of state, and daughter Chelsea works for a broadcast network, he noted.

"So you're stuck with me," Clinton told the crowd.

Obama and other Democrats ? maybe even Clinton himself ? wouldn't have it any other way.

Bitter at the way Al Gore campaigned largely without him in 2000, Clinton has become Obama's surrogate in chief in a nationwide campaign tour, lending his oratorical skill and folksy style to increasingly personal contests in races that, four weeks out, show few signs of budging. Clinton is especially helpful in conservative states where Democratic candidates aren't eager to appear with the unpopular Obama. Clinton is a leading expert in the art of the political comeback ? a skill the struggling Obama could use now.

Also, there's this uncomfortable truth: Obama needs Clinton to generate support with white, working-class and independent voters who were drawn to Clinton and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ? but who haven't warmed to Obama.

"If there's one thing we've learned in this election season, by the way, it is that a few words from Bill Clinton can do a man a lot of good," Romney joked in his own speech at the Clinton Global Initiative last month, a nod to Clinton's convention speech.

Obama himself has cracked that he should appoint Clinton "secretary of explaining stuff."

The lighthearted tone and determined cooperation between Obama and Clinton is hard-won and may not end with the 2012 campaign.

The bruising 2008 Democratic primary between Obama and Hillary Clinton damaged relations between the families. Obama's appointment of Hillary Clinton to serve as his secretary of state ? and her successes in the job ? healed the relationship enough for Clinton to step in to help with Obama's re-election. And if Obama has Bill Clinton to thank for a second term, one way to pay back the debt could be Obama's support for a Hillary Clinton campaign of the future.

Among voters generally, Bill Clinton is more appealing than Obama. A CBS News/New York Times poll in September found 66 percent of registered voters with a favorable view of Clinton, compared with 45 percent for Obama.

"He's got a way of communicating complex ideas in plain ways that no one else has," said Greg Haas, who ran Clinton's 1992 campaign in Ohio and who is Democratic chairman in Franklin County, which includes Columbus. "No one in my lifetime. He's in a class by himself."

Clinton symbolizes good economic times for many voters, including a federal budget that was balanced under his leadership. His convention speech rebutted Romney's attacks on Obama and accused Romney of pushing an economic plan that is doomed to fail. Clinton lends Obama credibility on the issue that voters consistently name as their top concern: the economy.

Clinton rocketed out of the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C., last month energized by the massive crowd's roaring reaction to his partly ad-libbed call to arms. His star newly shined, Clinton plunged into a two-day swing in the key state of Florida and has since added stops for Obama in a string of political battlegrounds.

During one recent week, Clinton joined Obama at a meeting with about a dozen supporters at a private residence in Los Angeles; he hosted a fundraiser with about 160 people who bought tickets starting at $1,000; he spoke at a rally for four northern California Democrats in tight House races; he was in Nevada for a rally for Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Berkley; and he was at Arizona State University rally with Democratic Senate candidate Richard Carmona. Then came stops in Iowa and Indiana for more rallies with Senate and congressional candidates as well as fundraising events.

He's expected to keep up the pace until Election Day.

All told, Clinton has appeared at no fewer than 32 fundraisers and 15 rallies for Obama. One big-ticket reception at a private New York City residence with Clinton last June drew 47 people who paid $40,000 apiece. On Friday, he joined Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., for a Detroit-area fundraiser that her campaign said brought in about $350,000 for Michigan Democrats.

During a recent Las Vegas rally for Obama and other Democratic candidates, Clinton showcased his ability to poke fun at foes without demonizing them. He mocked Romney's move to the political center in the opening presidential debate.

"I had a different reaction to that first debate than a lot of people did," Clinton told the crowd. "I thought, 'Wow, here's old moderate Mitt. Where ya been, boy?'"

Clinton is also building favor with local Democrats, many of whom are longtime allies.

"He generates a huge amount of media attention when he's visiting these states," said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP state party chairman.

Cullen said Clinton's visit earlier this year to New Hampshire to endorse Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Maggie Hassan, a Clinton ally in 2008, provided a stamp of party establishment approval that helped Hassan win her competitive primary.

Yet Clinton's prominent campaign role could pose some potential downsides for Democrats. Some Democrats fret Clinton could overshadow Obama. A Pew Research Center poll last month showed 29 percent of those surveyed said Clinton's convention speech was the highlight of the party gathering, while just 16 percent called Obama's speech the highlight.

But there's no hiding the Clinton magic during an election year.

In Indianapolis on Friday, the former president noted that he had stayed the night before in Washington with Hillary, celebrating their 37th wedding anniversary. He recalled that she told him she wished she could come with him to campaign this year.

One of the event organizers had apologized to the former president for the size of the crowd, saying "that's as good as we can do for a crowd here except for a basketball game."

Clinton, famously fond of a crowd of any size, grinned.

"I'll take that," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-lends-star-power-democratic-candidates-072053974--election.html

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Facebook to ask your OK before sharing actions

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Tired of Facebook sharing every little article you read or song you?listen to, using its "Open Graph" system? So is Facebook, apparently.?Apps will soon need user permission to share "like," "follow," "listen," "read" or "watch" actions, according to product engineer Henry Zhang, who posted the new rules on?Facebook's developer blog.

"In order to provide users with experiences that meet their expectations, we will no longer approve custom actions that publish stories as people consume content," he wrote. "These apps must use the appropriate?built-in actions?or create a different sharing experience."

"Apps that help people automatically share stories about content as they consume it, such as the music you are listening to, can be good experiences when apps create clear expectations for the user of what is being shared and when," Zhang wrote. "When apps automatically publish stories on a person?s behalf in a way that is unexpected, such as when they browse an online store, it can surprise and confuse people."

The change is to take place "in the next 90 days," Zhang said.

Meanwhile, Facebook stories that lead with images and location are being made "more prominent" in Facebook's news feeds and Timeline, Zhang said.

"In early tests, the new image-led stories have shown 70 percent more clicks for apps that provide high quality, relevant imagery with low spam rates," Zhang wrote. "In certain cases, we have seen these stories generate up to 50x more Likes than equivalent story types from before. The new location stories provide double-digit gains in distribution to apps."

The Open Graph?changes may be welcome, but they're not totally altruistic: Facebook will annoy fewer of its users, but its goal is probably to be better "liked" by the Federal Trade Commission. The agency?recently settled charges with Facebook over deceiving consumers and making them share more personal info they they intended.

The settlement requires Facebook to get user consent for?some changes to privacy settings, and also subjects the site to 20 years of independent audits.

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on?Facebook,?and on?Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-ask-your-permission-sharing-your-actions-1C6412194

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Default Tricks ? Simple Methods On The Way To Get rid of Joint ...

The serious soreness that normally comes with rheumatoid arthritis often results in patients experiencing exhausted and stressed out. Learn more efficient ways to manage your arthritis with the following advice.

Dark Cohosh is an natural remedy that assists relieve arthritis pain and symptoms. This dissipates your swelling and is perfect for any neurological or central nervous system soreness generally. For those who have arthritis you must try taking some Black color Cohosh.

A yoga type can be a great way for arthritis patients to boost their overall wellness and feeling of well-becoming. Yoga and fitness features many stretches, which relaxes your mind. This can help any person working with joint inflammation. When you are not comfortable attending a yoga and fitness school, start your personal regimen at home with the help of a yoga exercise DVD. You will definately get the same rewards as you would from your type, however, you don?t even have to depart house.

Occasionally, fun truly is the best medicine it causes the body to discharge chemical compounds in your blood flow that can help to handle soreness of your joint parts. Joking is known to be an incredible cure.

If you are suffering from joint disease, you?re gonna remain quite active tinkering with new approaches to treat it. Make a note of in which your ache is placed in the level of just one to 10 prior to trying any new therapy. In this way, you may examine if your present therapy is doing work.

You should make sure that you will be slumbering properly. It?s necessary for any arthritis patient to enjoy the invigorating outcomes of a good night?s relax. Continue to keep each of the lights away inside your place when you find yourself attempting to sleep, even go as far as to cover in the time in your alarm clock. Also use some relaxation techniques to assist in better sleep.

Use help whenever you can when undertaking physically demanding action. For instance, if you must lift heavy items or stand in range on an extensive time period, you ought to get every possible precaution to make certain that your joint parts are resistant to any probably destroying anxiety or stress. When you additional problems your important joints, you can expect to encounter plenty of discomfort, and the most effective way to stop this is to avoid physically demanding activity.

You will find about three types of rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Psoriatic joint disease, and Arthritis. Each kind demands its? individual unique treatment method and helpful way of living.

Arthritic soreness may be combated through healthy posture. Proper healthy posture areas a lot less pressure about the backbone and bones. To improve your pose, stand up along with your toes about a foot far from one another as well as in a direct range. Keep your shoulder muscles again, and make sure that you are evenly distributing your unwanted weight on both of your own ft ..

Arthritis includes some emotional factors, guidance gives help when dealing with this. You could be on an emotional level exhausted when you are working with joint inflammation as well as working with soreness. Look for counseling as pros may offer the guidance that you should get over your difficulties.

Be sure you stay healthy and active to help keep your joint disease from increasing. If bodyweight-having exercising is a problem for you personally, try out a reduced-affect exercise, including swimming or normal water aerobic exercises. Besides the water lessen stress, additionally it massages your body while you move. You are sure to get participation in water therapy useful in working with rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.

People affected by rheumatoid arthritis symptoms often start off to lose excess weight. This is a result of the irritating ache of your illness working in concert with chemical modifications it triggers within your body. Be prepared for this sign of RA, and increase your diet regime to make up accordingly.

When a single takes techniques like these suggested above, it really is very possible to deal with joint inflammation but still do everything one particular wishes to do. Do your best to hold arthritis from affecting your emotional and physical wellness. There are many different ways to fight this problem and relieve the pain sensation. When you keep the mind up, it is possible to defeat this.Techniques On The Way To Effectively Deal With Rheumatoid arthritis

Many people worldwide handle the consequences of joint disease. What starts off being a handful of pains and aches here and there can abruptly develop into on-going signs. Before you realize it, you are not able to function every day, and can no longer do the things that you cherish. Constant reduction and dealing strategies are the easiest way to keep joint disease under control.

Continue to keep the healthiness of your joints under consideration when you conduct your everyday jobs. Whenever you are afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis, the tiniest stuff can cause you pain. Take into account to avoid lifting products, just ask for assist or possibly force them across the surface. Soreness from rheumatoid arthritis could be a thing of the past, should you stay away from inflammation of your bones.

Ensure you inform your good friends and loved ones about the experience you might have with joint disease. They could be remarkably being familiar with and know what you really are against each and every day. It will also help them comprehend and so they might supply advice and help. The more your family is aware of your condition, the higher they can support you, so make sure you tell them concerning your rheumatoid arthritis.

Numerous prescription drugs can be found that your particular medical professional will be able to advise for you to be able to aid in the indications of rheumatoid arthritis. You?ll receive the best comes from your medication, through taking it just as approved. Should your treatment doesn?t increase your condition, then speak to your physician about trying an additional therapy.

Make it a priority to bolster the muscles. This cuts down on the all round severity of the anguish and will help you loosen up. Get started gradual with weight training by using lighter weight weights, and never carrying it out too long at the start. Your durability will increase with time, and your soreness will probably be decreased for your muscles produce.

Make sure that you are resting properly. It?s vital for any arthritis sufferer to have the rejuvenating effects of an effective night?s relaxation. Continue to keep each of the lighting off of with your space while you are trying to rest, even go as far as to pay up the time on the alarm system clock. Also make use of some pleasure techniques to assist in better sleep at night.

People who adhere to veggie weight loss plans appear to have less problems with arthritis. There is no need to give up various meats entirely but you should still try to involve far more greens in your daily diet. Your important joints will probably be strengthened with antioxidants obtained by way of beans and beans. Make these kinds of useful vegetables component of a healthy diet plan.

In case you have arthritis, it?s more significant so that you can eat nourishing, healthful meals than it is for that typical individual. By having a diet which has beans, fresh vegetables, fruit and vital skin oils, you will notice an optimistic boost in the way the entire body functions. This raises stamina. Sensing far more dynamic can improve the resources one has to dedicate to personal-proper care skills which includes good diet and fitness, that can lessen symptoms with time.

Keep your bodyweight in check as a way to reduce joint tension if you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Becoming even a little obese might cause ache and swelling within your bones. Shedding pounds has numerous other health and fitness benefits at the same time.

If joint inflammation has you considering knee surgical treatment, it really is worthy of employing a joint brace first to determine if it will help. Most braces can help you to lessen the soreness and soreness and may help you steer clear of surgical procedures. You can put on a single whilst you rest.

Make sure you maintain good posture all the time. Anything you consume or nevertheless very long you exercise, your position could have a powerful bearing on the rheumatoid arthritis symptoms you experience. Be sure that your rear is right in case you are being seated and your feet are segregated by close to 1 feet to preserve a good groundwork. Doing these stuff can enhance your pose, which will help to maintain joint pain from increasing.

It could be helpful to keep a log to trace whenever you are afflicted by ache linked to your joint disease. You need to take note every time you feel pain and the things which you are doing as soon as the soreness takes place. Make sure you likewise incorporate any info that could be helpful to a physician, this sort of as if you experienced ignored a medication. The greater number of information and facts you can give your physician about your situation, the more effective. Your physician requires every piece of information you provide him under consideration when making or adjusting your treatment solution.

This might not be an end to arthritis, nevertheless these straightforward every day adjustments may result in preventing a number of the typical causes for your matter. Many people develop the issue as a result of each day issues, for example posture or the way they move. Using this post, start to alter these routines into an issue that can, alternatively, protect your bones from the lifetime of soreness.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Letters with Pooh for iPhone and iPad review

Letters with Pooh for iPhone and iPad review

Letters with Pooh is an educational app for the iPhone and iPad by Disney to help kids identify and write letters of the alphabet. Your kids will join Winnie Pooh on his quest for honey by tracing letters, collecting letter balloons, finding missing letters, and more. Letters with Pooh is very interactive and even lets you personalize the experience by allowing you to record all the leters of the alphabet in your voice.

Letters with Pooh begins with a quick little backstory about how Winnie the Pooh has a rumbly in his tummy and that instead of focusing on his busy day ahead, he will first let his rumbly tummy lead the way. Each chapter will progress through Pooh's story, making the whole experience more interesting for young learners.

The first chapter teaches about the basics of tracing and has you trace simple shapes like lines and circles in a way that directly helps Winnie the Pooh during the story.

In the second chapter, Pooh needs balloons to reach a beehive for honey. To help him, you must trace letters -- each letter you trace gives Pooh another balloon. Letters with Pooh does not require you to get the tracing job perfect in order to progress which is great for early learners who will probably struggle with staying in the lines. At the end of each letter tracing, a word that starts with that letter will be said and a picture associated with that word will be displayed. You then have the option to record your own voice saying the name of the letter.

As you progress through the letters, the game will periodically check in with Winnie the Pooh to see if he needs more balloons. Each time, Pooh says he needs to get a little bit higher and is floating off the ground with a growing handful of balloons that slowly brings him higher off the ground with more balloons. Once you've successfully traced all the letters, Winnie the Pooh will get high enough to reach the honey.

In the last chapter of Letters with Pooh, Winnie the Pooh must help Tigger find the letters that have fallen out of his book, Piglet with his paint-by-letters picture, and Owl with catching letters.

As you progress through the game, you'll hear the narrator congratulate you on earning more stickers that can be used in the Stickers section of Letters with Pooh. The section is all about having fun and includes stickers for characters and letters.

The good

  • Practice tracing and writing upper- and lowercase letters to help Pooh find honey
  • Record all the letters of the alphabet in your own voice
  • Play fun, character-driven activities that reinforce letter identification
  • Create your own Winnie the Pooh scenes with interactive stickers
  • Guided skill instruction for up to four players
  • Comprehensive parents' section with content leveling and progress monitoring
  • Whimsical Winnie the Pooh artwork
  • Professional narration, music and charming sound effects
  • Universal for iPhone and ipad

The bad

  • If you trace letters in the "wrong" direction, it doesn't really work right
  • Must lift your finger to start the next part of the letter tracing. For example, to trace the letter W, all four sections of the letter are different and if you don't lift your finger between each section, your tracing will not be registered
  • iPhone version doesn't support the iPhone 5's larger display, yet

The bottom line

Letters with Pooh is an excellent alphabet learning app for iPhone and iPad. Disney did a great job with its design by making it interactive, fun, and by including the voices of the characters from Winnie the Pooh. If you have a child who's learning his/her alphabet and loves Winnie the Pooh, you can't go wrong with Letters with Pooh.

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