Based on the paper title ""Heavy use of equations impedes
communication among biologists", the authors seemed concerned about
academic communication though ironically publish behind a paywall.
Perhaps the Mesur folks at LANL/Indiana can quantify the influence of
paywalls on citation count and publi
There's potentially an interesting operations research angle here too.
If I recite the story correctly, OR started from people tasked to place armor
on WWII bombers, to meet the conflicting needs of protection and minimizing
weight so they could carry more bombs. As one would expect, they starte
We knew biologists were math averse, but now it's been quantified:
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/29/11735
"The duo recommends that researchers use equations sparingly in their main
article text to ensure that their ideas reach a wide audience."
I haven't read past the abstract since the arti
Before answering, think 'OJ Simpson'.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
> Ugh. But can you appeal the thinking of a jury?
>
> On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
> The plot thickens:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963
>
> The jury
Ugh. But can you appeal the thinking of a jury?
On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> The plot thickens:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963
>
> The jury foreman describes (in a youtubed interview) his solution to the
> "prior art" problems which con
The plot thickens:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963
The jury foreman describes (in a youtubed interview) his solution to the
"prior art" problems which consumed the first day of jury deliberations:
the prior art didn't run on the same processor as Apple's art, so it
cou
