Duplicate Text Research Articles

RETRACTED: Beneficial Effect of Etidronate Therapy in Chronically Hospitalized, Disabled Patients with Stroke

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to data fabrication, systematic authorship misconduct, text duplication, concerns about data integrity, and scientific misconduct. In addition, several publications reporting non-randomized research by members of this group of investigators have been retracted.

RETRACTED: Bifurcation analysis in the delayed Leslie–Gower predator–prey system

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy ). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The editor of the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications brought to our attention substantial duplication of text and content between this Applied Mathematical Modelling article and an earlier paper by the same author J MATH ANAL APPL 355 (2009), 82–100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.01.052 . One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that the authors declare explicitly that the paper has not previously been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. As the article did not refer to the earlier paper it is being withdrawn in line with journal policy.

Accurate discovery of co-derivative documents via duplicate text detection

Documents are co-derivative if they share content: for two documents to be co-derived, some portion of one must be derived from the other, or some portion of both must be derived from a third document. An existing technique for concurrently detecting all co-derivatives in a collection is document fingerprinting, which matches documents based on the hash values of selected document subsequences, or chunks. Fingerprinting is hampered by an inability to accurately isolate information that is useful in identifying co-derivatives. In this paper we present spex, a novel hash-based algorithm for extracting duplicated chunks from a document collection. We discuss how information about shared chunks can be used for efficiently and reliably identifying co-derivative clusters, and describe deco, a prototype package that combines the spex algorithm with other optimisations and compressed indexing to produce a flexible and scalable co-derivative discovery system. Our experiments with multi-gigabyte document collections demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.

Scribal Errors or Phonetic Spellings? Samuel as an Aural Text

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to establish the "phonic" nature of some of the socalled "corrupt" passages in the MT of Samuel. We are particularly interested in Samuel's "aural" characteristics which might be represented in the phonetic spellings. This aural aspect of the narrative is clearly attested in cases where the Ketib and the Qere give two variant forms of the same word or phrase. In such cases, the K. usually represent "phonic" reality by a phonetic spelling. By contrast, the Q. points to the "correct" historical spelling. Such aural features can be demonstrated in other ways in the MT of Samuel, especially when 2 Sam. xxii is compared with its duplicate text, Ps. xviii. These variant forms are caused by phonological phenomena such as assimilation, metathesis, palatalization, vowel sandhi, consonantal sandhi, and glide. These examples are not exhaustive, but they are sufficient to show that many of the often-asserted "scribal errors" are actually rather phonetic spellings and do reflect the "economy" of pronunciation. Such phonic realization in writing is attested not simply in poetic texts but also in prose sections of 1-2 Samuel. Hence, our topic is not so much a problem of literary-linguistic composition as a matter of the method of writing, i.e. graphic and graphemic representation of an aural text.

Minor Surgery.

This was written as a practical help to the dispensary student. There are chapters on bandaging, sutures, dressings, hemorrhage, inflammation and infections. The common surgical conditions usually observed in a dispensary are discussed, including the diagnosis of a number of more serious major surgical conditions. The authors take up each region of the body separately, discussing each condition clearly and briefly, but with surprising little duplication of text. One feature is the reproduction of numerous photographs which illustrate the clinical material presented unusually well.