Clumsy, unnecessary, and apparently opposed by a majority of the writing committee, the revisions were accepted anyway, despite a valiant effort on the part of board member Roberto Martinez, who described the revisions as "an effort by people who are opposed to evolution to water down our standards" (Bhattacharjee 2008).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/12/48/prepub to Dr P Christie for his careful language revision; case 3 was accepted for publication as Images in Nephrology in Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation Plus; the publication includes the main clinical features of the case and the corresponding images (25).
On July 4, 1776, with a few revisions, Jefferson's draft proposal was accepted as the final text of the Declaration of Independence.
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Thinking back to her first paper, Frith remembered a "really extraordinary thing…: it was the only paper in my whole life that was accepted without revision.
A revision to the SE quadrant was requested, a revision was submitted, and the puzzle was accepted for publication in January 2017.
The first batch of manuscripts was accepted for publication following rigorous peer-review and revisions, and covers a variety of contemporary topics and innovative methods.
To ensure a fast procedure and achieve high quality publication, only articles which require minor revisions will be accepted for publication.
It is worth noting that the above figures understate the total level of activity; most patches go through a number of revisions before being accepted into the mainline kernel, and many are never accepted at all.
I do not foreclose the possibility that some statutory change attributable solely to the 1874 revision may be accepted at face value.
Transparency requires responsibility, but benefit and risk often are a judgment of probability, and revisions have to be accepted without prejudice as new information emerges.
