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Scientific Abstract to Full Paper: Publication Rate over a 3-Year Period in a Malaysian Clinical Research Conference

Background: The publication rates of abstracts after they were presented at the National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR), a scientific conference held in Malaysia, was determined to gauge the scientific value of the conference, whilst providing comparative information with other scientific conferences. Methods: All the abstracts that were presented at the NCCR from 2014 to 2016 were analysed. Keywords from the abstract title, along with the first, second, and last author’s name, were searched via PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus to determine publication status. Results: A total of 320 abstracts were analysed. Of those, 57 abstracts (17.8%) were published. Almost 70% of published abstracts appeared in open access journals that charge article processing fees. Early publications (≤18 months from the conference date) had higher median journal impact factors compared to later publications. Approximately 42% of the published abstracts had collaborations with the Institute for Clinical Research (ICR) or Clinical Research Centres (CRCs). An increasing number of authors in an abstract and having the first author from a research centre, reduced and increased the odds of publication, respectively. Conclusions: The NCCR publication rate is lower compared to the reported average in other scientific conferences abroad. More encouragement and support to publish should be provided to the presenting authors. Clinicians should also be encouraged to collaborate with research centres such as those from the ICR or CRCs to boost publication likelihoods.

Evolutionary game analysis of WEEE recycling tripartite stakeholders under variable subsidies and processing fees.

The standardization of formal recycling and rational subsidy plays an important role in waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling. In order to explore the tripartite decision and evolution path of waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling in different time periods, a tripartite evolutionary game model consisting of recyclers, manufacturers, and government are presented. Moreover, the evolution stability strategies and conditions in each period are calculated by replicating the dynamic equation and Jacobian matrix. Numerical simulations on tripartite evolution stability strategies corresponding to different stages of industry development are used to verify the rationality of the model. The results indicate that there is existed an indirect effect between tripartite decisions, and the indirect effect can expand the slack of tripartite decisions' thresholds of waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling. The variable subsidy in waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling proposed in this paper is useful to incentive recyclers to choose a formal recycling strategy, and manufacturers also choose production with recycled materials as subsidy varies. Besides, the appropriate waste electrical and electronic equipment processing fee is a conducive indirect effect for the tripartite decision to the optimal evolutionary stability strategy in waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling and can promote manufacturers to produce with the recycled materials. The research can assist in benefit coordination and behavior adjustment of waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling members and provide a theoretical basis for the government to formulate appropriate recycling subsidies to promote the formal recycling of electronic waste recycling.

Join us on an amazing journey towards next-generation treatments for CNS disorders: Launch of Neuroprotection, a new high-quality journal in translational neuroscience.

Join us on an amazing journey towards next-generation treatments for CNS disorders: Launch of Neuroprotection, a new high-quality journal in translational neuroscience.

The Sensitivity of Research on COVID-19

Beall’s list heavily used as a base for selection of predatory journals by large no. of research studies was ceased from internet in 2017. Thus, status of journal declared as predatory in list is debatable. To verify quality of journals in terms of accuracy and standard of peer review, a sample of Medical Science journals from Beall list and indexed in reputed indexing/abstracting databases was taken. sample of journals was put to quality and credibility check by submitting a deliberately flawed research article. deliberate errors exceed an acceptable norm in submitted research paper. It is astonishing to see that majority of journals (61.96%) accept flawed article on such a sensitive issue, i.e., COVID-19 without peer review and desired revisions. Instant mails reporting paper's acceptance, preceded by multiple emails requesting for submission for Article processing fee, were received frequently. It is found that such publishing ventures are a scare story that only wants to generate as much revenue as possible.

Redefining the role of routine postoperative bloodwork following uncomplicated bariatric surgery.

A quality improvement opportunity was identified to de-adopt the low-value care practice of routinely performing bloodwork for all patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery. While these patients are typically discharged on postoperative day 1 (POD1) after bloodwork is performed, it is uncommon for the discharge plan to change due to unexpected laboratory abnormalities alone. Patients undergoing bariatric surgery between September 2020 and April 2021 only had POD1 bloodwork if there were perioperative clinical concerns, they had insulin-dependent diabetes, or they were therapeutically anticoagulated. Thirty-day Emergency Department (ED) visits and readmissions were monitored as balancing measures. Outcomes were compared to a control group that underwent bariatric surgery prior to September 2020 when POD1 laboratory testing was routinely performed. Financial and environmental costs were estimated based our institutional standards. The intervention group consisted of 303 patients: 248 (82%) Roux-en-Y gastric bypasses and 55 (18%) sleeve gastrectomies. Most patients (n = 256, 84.5%) did not have POD1 bloodwork. Twelve (3.9%) had bloodwork performed in violation of our protocol, of which none had a change in management based on the results. Of the 35 (12%) who had appropriately ordered bloodwork, 6 (2%) required a transfusion and 2 (0.7%) required a second surgery on the same admission for hemorrhage. Forty-four (14.5%) had 30-day ED visits of which 17 (5.6%) were within 7days. Sixteen (5.3%) were readmitted. There were no significant differences between intervention and control groups in the rate of transfusion, second surgery, or 30-day ED visits. The avoidance of POD1 bloodwork saved approximately $6602.24 in lab processing fees alone and 512 test tubes. POD1 bloodwork can be safely avoided in the absence of clinical concerns. In addition to not significantly increasing postoperative complications, there were benefits from a financial cost, environmental impact, and patient discomfort perspective.

How does self-service technologies involuntary use affect customers’ intention to reuse?

In response to rising labor costs and the rapid growth of technological innovation, many companies are adopting new technologies in their service processes. The adoption of Self-Service Technologies (SST) has brought many benefits, such as faster transaction speed and lower processing fees. Although previous studies show a positive relationship between the level of perceived benefits and involuntary use of SSTs and customer convenience, it is uncertain whether the level of innovation and benefits can influence the relationship between involuntary use of SSTs and customer convenience. In this study, we set up a noble research model and investigated the relationship between customer convenience and involuntary use, which was influenced by two moderators based on a sample of 345 customers in Korea. The results suggest that involuntary use is negatively related to customers’ comfort in using SSTs. Moreover, the perceived usefulness and innovativeness of SSTs may moderate the effect of involuntary use on customers’ comfort. Furthermore, managerial recommendations are proposed for managers to develop strategies for applying SSTs in their services.

Taking theory seriously ...

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special references to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English. Acta Academica charges no submission and article processing fees.

Keywords: an invitation

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special references to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English. Acta Academica charges no submission and article processing fees.

Editorial

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special references to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English. Acta Academica charges no submission and article processing fees.

Remembering Peter Hudson

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special references to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English. Acta Academica charges no submission and article processing fees.

Theory as keyword / keyword as theory

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The journal publishes independently refereed research articles in the humanities. It promotes the perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial and post-developmental debates with special references to (Southern) Africa. The journal is thereby in support of scholarly work that examines how the humanities in the twenty-first century respond to the double imperative of theorising the world and changing it. The journal appears twice a year and is published in English. Acta Academica charges no submission and article processing fees.

Teknoekonomi Penyingkiran Senyawa Sulfur dari Kondensat Gas Alam dengan Metode Desulfurisasi Oksidatif-Ekstraktif

In the oil and gas production process, apart from hydrocarbons, a number of impurities are produced, including CO2 and sulfur in various concentrations, depending on the conditions and characteristics of the reservoir and the location where the oil and gas is located. To process sulfur removal from condensate, the common technology is HDS (Hydrodesulfurization). However, with process requirements such as high temperature, pressure, and intensive hydrogen consumption, an alternative technology is needed for this desulfurization. One of them is oxidative-extractive desulfurization. Technical and economic evaluations to determine the feasibility of applying on an industrial scale need to be studied further. The study of oxidative-extractive desulfurization process of sulfur compounds (represented as dibenzothiophene, DBT) was carried out using H2O2/formic acid as oxidizing agent and catalyst, as well as extraction with DMF. For a capacity of 1000 bpd of condensate with 1%-wt sulfur, desulfurization was successfully carried out with sulfur removal of 96.55% and condensate recovery of 99.41%. A processing fee of 9.14 USD/barrel is required, of which 84% is required for chemicals. The alternative process configuration for DMF recovery succeeded in reducing chemical costs by 35.5% and reducing total processing costs by 27.0% to 6.67 USD/barrel. In this alternative process configuration, 95.80% sulfur removal was achieved with condensate recovery of 99.21%.

Enhance Transparency Accounting Information As a Sipp Application And Case Financial Application In Presenting The Financial Statements of Case in The Environment of Religious Jurisdictions

Today, along with the times, we are required to be able to adapt to the rapid development of information technology, where every activity or job is made easier by the emergence of various digital-based systems or applications that uphold the principles of effectiveness, and efficiency and modernity. So that now various agencies both from government, private sector, and others continue to innovate in the use of technology to facilitate work while still paying attention to the accuracy of results and ease of work supervision, this aims to improve the quality of employee performance and achieve the agency's goals. Initially, the implementation of case financial administration activities within the Religious Courts was still carried out manually. By the cashier as a duty supervisor, each financial transaction is recorded in the Root Financial Master Book according to the registered case number. The recording of each transaction is carried out on a cash basis. The cashier will record the income from the down-payment of incoming cases and incur costs related to the case process such as processing fees, non-tax state income (PNBP), notification of summons to the Plaintiff/Applicant/Defendant/Respondent, notification of notification, local inspection (decent), editorial staff stamp duty and others, or make a return of the remaining down payment to the parties whose case has been decided in the trial. Considering that the recording activities are related to the registration of incoming cases, trial activities, the existence of cases that have been dropped as well as daily transactions that are handed over to each Treasurer and Bailiff. Likewise, when presenting case financial reports, journaling is done manually which is of course quite time-consuming and prone to recording errors. As the Case, Tracking Information System (SIPP) application, which is further complemented by the Badilag Case Financial Application, enables the management of case financial administration and reporting to be carried out effectively, efficiently, and transparently. The way it works is by inputting every case financial transaction into the SIPP, the data is directly integrated with the e-Financial application

A Decentralised Research Article Publishing and Archiving System

Background/Purpose: Research papers provide the path for the expansion of knowledge, allowing for the emergence of new information and the avoidance of duplication of previous research effort. Researchers use their paper to convey their findings to the rest of the world. However, owing to problems such as processing fees from journals, an inefficient review procedure, a lengthy processing time, and the closure of journals, the research community has encountered a major hurdle. In order to overcome this issue, we propose in this study a system known as the Open Platform for Research Article Sharing (OPRAS), which would allow the author to publish his or her paper utilizing a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture. Objective: To get an understanding of the research article publication process and the issues it faces, in order to propose OPRAS, a new system that will employ a peer-to-peer architecture to share research articles. Design/Methodology/Approach: Data from websites, research papers, and other sources are collected, analysed and presented using ABCD analysis. Findings/Results: With the help of research articles that are published in journals, researchers can tell the world about their work. But authors can't publish their findings because of different problems, which makes it hard for society to learn new things. In this paper, a method for a new system called Open Platform for Research Article Sharing (OPRAS) utilizing the P2P architecture was put forward after looking at the different steps and problems that come up when publishing an article. Originality/Value: A new system has been presented based on the relevance of research articles and an understanding of the problems in publishing research papers, which will attract the attention of the research community and lead to additional improvements in the proposed technique. Paper Type: Research Paper.

Decentralized Web Application for Real Estate Property Transaction using Blockchain and Smart Contract Technology

Real Estate is a wide area consisting of a physical piece of land and the developments on it such as buildings, roads, and other infrastructures. Real Estate can be classified based on the purpose of usage of the property i.e. Residential, Commercial, or Industrial. Since longtime real estate is considered the most secure investment for good returns. But several issues arise in the field of property transactions which are based on the trust that the buyer or seller has in a third-party middleman/broker as well as frauds, inaccurate market statistics, time-consuming processes as well as high processing fees charged by the middlemen/broker. To provide a solution problem a decentralized web application for real estate transactions is proposed in the project. To attain the solution, in this project we propose to design and develop a decentralized web application using blockchain and smart contract technology that avails property buyers and sellers to interact with the help of a private Ethereum network and deploy smart contracts which create a precise and transparent digital property transaction process. This results in the advantages over traditional real estate systems by neglecting the requirement of non-trusted third-party entities, reducing transaction processes as well as transaction costs.

SLJID reviewers and proofreaders 2021 (January - December)

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Union of science and clinical virology: the way forward to face challenges

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Open Access and Publication Preferences of the Academic Community of the Instituto de Astronomía of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Scientific publishing is one of the culminating steps of most research activity. The prevailing system of scientific publishing consists of a traditional subscription-based publishing model, which in most cases implies high costs in journal subscriptions for the institutions, as well as high costs to authors through publishing processing fees.

Evaluation of Issues Affecting Time Between Study Completion, Manuscript Submission, Acceptance, and Publication in Medical Journals.

Introduction: Difficulty in finding the appropriate journal, adherence to the formatting differences between various journals, publication fees, delay in acceptance/rejection, etc., are a few reasons due to which much research is not published or when published the data in the research may become outdated. There are no studies to find out the issues which affect the time delay between study completion, submission to the journal, acceptance by the journal, and publication. With this background, we conducted this study.Methods: This study was exempted by the Ethics committee as it was based on online data. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2020 (Clarivate analytics), CiteScore, and Google Scholar were used to sort the high-, moderate-, and low-impact factor journals. Forty-five journals each from high-, medium- and low-impact factors (h-index median, Google Scholar Metrics h5-index) were selected. Similarly, 15 predatory scientific journals were chosen. Journals with medical science backgrounds were chosen by randomization. Only original research articles were included. From each journal, five articles were chosen randomly from the latest issue pre-pandemic. The search was performed from April 2021 to June 2021. Variables analyzed were indexing of the journal, publication fees, level of impact factor, specialty domain, number of editors, frequency per year, date of study completion, date of submission, date of acceptance, date of publication, and h-index median. Data were compiled in Microsoft Excel Workbook (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) and analyzed using IBM Corp. Released 2019. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 26.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp. Variables of time were represented as median and interquartile range, and the number of journals and processing fees for publication were descriptively analyzed.Results: Out of 60 journals selected, 300 original articles were analyzed. There were 26 specialty-wise journals; the commonest was multispecialty journals. The fastest time from study completion to submission, submission to acceptance, submission to publication, and acceptance to publication was 15.5, 30, 61, and 0 days, respectively, and the slowest duration was 1636, 452, 615, and 456 days, respectively. PubMed indexed journals had a higher number of editors, h5-index, and h5 median, and slower time for acceptance and publication compared to non-PubMed indexed journals (p<0.05). Predatory journals had a lower h5-index and h5 median along with faster time to acceptance and publication compared to high and moderate impact factor journals (p<0.05). Journal with faster acceptance had faster publication as well (r=0.85), but no impact of the number of editors, number of issues per year (frequency), and publication fees with time to acceptance and publication.Conclusion: Though PubMed indexed journals with a greater number of editors and high fees are slower to publish articles but they are a safe option for researchers. The impact factor does not effect the speed of publication for non-predatory journals. Paying high fees and choosing a journal with more issues per year does not ensure quick publication to the researchers.

Predatory Publications in the Era of the Internet and Technology: Open Access Publications are at Risk

This article is intended to highlight the issue of predatory journals and how they have been used to degrade the open-access journals to be perceived as predatory ones. Since many of the predatory journals are available for readers free of cost over the internet (which is among one of the many features of open-access journals/publications), the international wave of the scientific community against predatory journals stigmatized and victimized the entire open-access model of scientific publication to be perceived as substandard quality. This article critically analyzes the definitions of predatory journals and identified key characteristics of predatory journals. It is observed that lack of peer-review and charging high Article Processing Charges (APC) from authors are the two most common features of predatory journals, whereas open-access journals strictly adhere to peer-review criteria and have a clear guideline and information about the article processing fee. Knowingly or unknowingly, several authors mentioned that predatory journals are mostly open access, an overgeneralization of the author pay model upon which open access lies. Peer-review is an essential component of open access journals but not predatory journals; thus, considering predatory journals under the broad notion of open-access model of publication is unfair, stigmatizing and victimizing the open-access journals and keeping them at risk of degradation. Associating open-access journals with predatory ones is a nuisance as both have different aims, modus-operandi, and quality concerns. Therefore, there is a dire need to make policies to discourage predatory practices without victimizing the noble idea of open-access journals/publications. Keywords: open access, predatory journals, article processing charges, peer-review