The Oska Bright Film Festival team are currently selecting films for November's event and, as usual, they are overwhelmed by the range and quality of the submissions.
The increased quantity and quality of story submissions reflected another tumultuous year for the Chinese environment, which was buffetted by outbreaks of heavy metal poisoning, the Dalian oil leak, river pollution and over-exploitation of resources.
Honan says this issue has so-far only sold half as many copies as the first one, and the founders are all scratching their heads as to why especially considering the volume and quality of the submissions was up substantially.
Concomitantly the number and quality of manuscript submissions from Africa, Asia and South America has increased and are a considerable representation of our publications.
"Over the years we've gotten higher and higher quality of submissions," Pete Voss, Facebook's Security Communications Manager told TechCrunch.
The Homes and Communities Agency's (HCA) executive director of regulation Matthew Bailes told Inside Housing that only a "minority" of landlords had published clear and detailed accounts, and warned that the quality of submissions would need to improve next time around.
We are amazed each year by the quality of submissions and their ability to tell compelling stories and tap into people's emotions in 60 seconds.
But at the institute, Mr. Martins said, he was often unimpressed by the quality of submissions and sometimes accepted women despite reservations, to encouraging them.
But many researchers fear that the absence of peer review will reduce the quality of submissions and force readers to wade through electronic mounds of poor-quality results in search of tidbits of worthwhile science.
