"My first novel was dead in the water for three years, three years of submission and rejection, and I had exactly one story published during that time.
He had corrected a false statement about the dates of his service on the military court in Strasbourg, errors as to the ranks of officers involved, an inaccurate account of the submission and rejection of an appeal for clemency, and a wrong date given for the execution of the officer he had sentenced to death.
On her blog in October, she wrote about her struggle to become a published author: My first novel was dead in the water for 3 years, three years of submission and rejection, and I had exactly one story published during that time.
Although deviations from policy are sometimes unavoidable, PIs are cautioned that when SPO does not have adequate time to review a complete proposal, the proposal is at much greater risk for submission failure, rejection without review, and low funding priority scores.
This would minimize the required effort/expense for the selection process, to which belong, for example, correspondence with the author (such as acknowledgement of receipt of a submission or rejection notice after review) and peer reviews that turn out to be 'superfluous.' This self-selection should be the first step of a manuscript selection process.
Thus, the bias from missing outcome data that may affect a meta-analysis is on two levels: non-publication due to lack of submission or rejection of study reports (a study level problem) and the selective non-reporting of outcomes within published studies on the basis of the results (an outcome level problem).
Her dogged ambition (and list of 70 potential publishers) calls to mind a young Sylvia Plath with her meticulous ledgers of submissions and rejections; in 1905, the year Montgomery wrote "Anne of Green Gables," she noted in her journal that she had earned $500 from her other writing, the equivalent of a male stenographer's annual income in New York.
One way to avoid or get off the submission-and-rejection merry-go-round is to publish your poetry yourself.
2. When a supervisor makes a personnel decision based on an employee's submission to or rejection of sexual advances.
Its elderly publisher, Princess Caetani, responded to his first submission with a rejection written in her own florid hand: His work was "delightful," she noted, but alas didn't suit her present needs; nevertheless she asked to meet the author the next time she came to Paris from Rome.
