Delayed publication times have resulted in part from processing the Translational Impact box that we publish with every research article.
Since we rewrite this section of the paper from a draft provided by the authors, we now ask for the Translational Impact box at submission, rather than after acceptance.
Directional hypotheses tested included positive associations between smoking behavior (i.e., current status, CPD) and each of four biomarkers of exposure (Fig. 1, Box 1), Smoking Symptoms (Box 2) and Smoking Impact (Box 3); and negative associations between smoking and generic SF-36 measures of physical and mental impact.
In the blue, David Fincher's typically stylish take on Stieg Larsson's bestseller: would the £2.16m UK gross of the 2010 Swedish-language version negatively impact box-office for the redo?
It can have a terrible impact on box office, careers and states of mind.
The second possibility is that the pirated leak of the film, downloaded by an estimated 2.2 million people, really did negatively impact the box office.
But does a great reception and positive word of mouth during the festival have a direct impact on box office performance later down the track?
Producers The Weinstein Company chose to film in English and dub into Mandarin (the original made its largely Cantonese-speaking cast deliver their lines phonetically), but it doesn't seem to have had too catastrophic an impact on box office.
Human action footprint can be bettered easily, quickly & with limited impact, black box complex algorithms & data points can only be bettered by redesigning processes & data collection as quarterly exercises.
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