Brands are in complete control of the photos used on the website, and can see user submissions in real time.
Anything was allowed, no controls or rules were set, and while it started out with some interesting and thoughtful submissions, in the time it took to get these questions answered via email, it seems the experiment in harvesting the creative potential of the "hive mind" has degenerated into something far darker and more abusive perhaps inevitably so and has been shut down.
They're hoping to judge submissions by March, in time for the Economist's World Ocean Summit.
More problematic was the handling of spikes in data submission (multiple groups depositing numerous submissions in a short time period), which challenged both our curators and computational resources.
However, the NIH's "Just-in-Time" submission practices will allow applicants to send in those papers after they receive their application's review score and not at the time of submission.
There has been a tangible improvement in submissions over time.
It was beyond the remit of this work to explore the actual submissions themselves or the relationship between the quality of submissions and subsequent decisions as well as changes in submissions over time.
Timely submission of isolates from clinical laboratories and continuing decrease in submission time from the public health laboratory to the genotyping laboratories also facilitated efforts to achieve real-time investigation of false-positive cultures and clusters.
We provide our authors with a rapid yet thorough peer review service despite ever-increasing numbers of submissions; in 2005 our average time from submission to first decision for research articles was 31 days.
GATK's Scala-based job submission controller, Queue, is suggested for implementing pipelines for the GATK for distributed computing resources; our implementation is in Bash because we experienced slowdowns in job submissions over time when using Queue (v3.1-1) on the Whole System Genomics Initiative cluster present at Texas A&M University.
