For a long time, small businesses have been a major concern for the authors involved in this field (Hall (1992) or, more recently, Back (2005) is representative of this large set).
A major concern for the authors to address is how a low affinity interaction can effectively suppress chitin-induced alkalinization.
It's a concern, not only for authors and readers but also for reviewers, who practice an art whose cultural status seems to be going the way of the German mark during the Weimar Period.
As the questionnaire was revised, one of the most important concerns for the authors was to try to construct a questionnaire that was 'user-friendly'; that is, easily understood by everyone in the target population.
Granted, plagiarism is usually only a concern for journalists and authors.
There is no real mystery about Hollywood's shyness where Highsmith is concerned, for the author - though an American - was positively opposed to the key film industry tenet that the good should be rewarded and the wicked punished.
Although the study, published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics, suggests some cause for concern, the authors emphasize that it is just a correlational study with no clear mechanism for harm and is too preliminary to guide recommendations for pregnant women.
Since then, this inequality has been of concern for more and more authors (e.g., Chow [8] and Gan [9] for martingales, Liu et al. [10] for negatively associated random variables and Kim et al. [11] for asymptotically almost negatively associated random variables).
Considered with available human exposure data, these data suggest current PBDE exposure levels are likely to be of concern for human health, the authors write.
Establishing an appeal system or a channel for authors to express concern may be a good step forward in devising strategies to promote fairness in biomedical journal peer review.
