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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
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... past
the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited
while she finished.
Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together
with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed
them ... did—no knitted brows, just the
blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For
a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes,
Foreword
For my father,
who would have been so ... blank
©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press
Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel
All rights reserved. Published 2003
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
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... education, or interest in it.
Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing
much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the
best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to ... intelligent
questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a
dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was ... one way or the
other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the
sliding desk tray between us, I learned.
I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctions
you’ll find in these pages...
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Tài liệu THE BOOK SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE BOOK CITATION INDEX IN WEB OF SCIENCE pdf
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... systematic and consistent manner.
With the inclusion of The Book Citation Index in Web of Science, Thomson Reuters has expanded
the scope of its presentation of citation coverage to include this ... Citation Index (1990 to
present). These indexes are characterized by the quality of the publications
covered in them. Their content has been developed over decades of time
employing well-defined ... .
THE BOOK SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE BOOK CITATION INDEX
INTRODUCTION:
Web of Science
SM
is well known for its coverage of top tier international and regional
journal literature in the Science...
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Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
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... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first
thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the
muon and the neutron. They should be connected to-
gether, if this theory was right, ... off by 7 percent.”
Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction
for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-
tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the
next ... going to be all of them, or al-
most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi-
demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien-
tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
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... trigger their adrenaline. So they often
thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to
mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad-
ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... and fer-
tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays
off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro-
climate of the particular garden.
Is there some subject or writing ... of us tense
up when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of
writing is not the heart of the matter, and we all once knew it.
Since you are reading this book, you were probably one of
those...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
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... off by 7 percent.”
Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction
for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-
tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the
next ... part, the best scientists agree on the current
best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an-
swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the
fewest loose ends. There’s ... “un-
sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because
their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not
to scare the public.
I well remember from the early 1980s not...
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Tài liệu THE ART OF CLOWNING pdf
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10/12/2013, 04:15
... be.
Back to the taxi. The first thing a person
might do is flag down the taxi. The driver
stops, gets out and opens the door. The riders
enter. Then the driver wants to know where
to? They point the ... wire-walkers, the clowns
ran into the Big Top and did their acts. The audience was
kept busy watching their antics, while the other work was
going on. The moment the rigging was finished, the
clowns ... through
the situation to the punch line (here’s a tip ) or the gag (a sucker on the line). Lead them
straight to the gag with funny developments (falling out of the taxi, missing the chair the waiter
pulls...
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Tài liệu The Power Of Gaps(pdf) ppt
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... date, the zone of gap #2 has halted a further decline in the
share price of MRK.
However, it is not certain as to whether or not MRK can resume its prior uptrend
at this time. This is due to the ... area of gap #1 and its support zone of gap #2. A break through either
one of these zones would suggest continuation in that direction.
Most who were observing the recent trading activity of Merck ... charting theory which was primarily
brought to prominence in the United States by Steve Nison. Nison is considered
to be the "Godfather" of Japanese candlestick analysis in the United...
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Tài liệu The Power of TPM pdf
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12/12/2013, 00:15
... interesting approach of explaining TPM to
their operators, who were mostly young women. They compared TPM to a mother caring
for her baby. The equipment, of course, is the baby. The mother, the operator, ... fever.
The mother does a lot of TPM activities, but what if she runs out of options? Then it is
time to call the doctor. The doctors are the maintenance people, the specialists. They go
in ...
Part of this new, high-tech maintenance operation is the training of the operators, which
becomes important under TPM. When maintenance workers realize the benefits of
transferring their routine...
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Tài liệu From Data to Knowledge and Back Again: Understanding the Limitations of KMS pdf
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20/12/2013, 19:15
... ultimately, themselves redundant. In
reaction to the probability of industrial unrest,
Coillte dispensed with the services of IMS—Sean
Breen, IMS’s CEO described the situation thus:
The first phase of the ... objective. The findings of this study
illustrate that: (a) the KMS developed in the organization studied did not meet the claims of
their creators, as the applications provided a poor approximation of the ... what to do. The use of the decision tree in consul-
tation mode at the distributed regional interfaces is
therefore excluded, in the [initial version of the appli-
cation]. If, in the longer term,...
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