ating sea lettuce or injecting disinfectant won't prevent you from getting COVID-19. Holding your breath for ten seconds is not a test for SARS-CoV-2. The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has been accompanied by what the World Health Organization has described as a "massive infodemic". Huge demand for information on the disease, its toll on health-care systems and lives, and the many unanswered questions about a virus that was discovered only in December, have created the perfect breeding ground for myths, fake news and conspiracy theories. Some can be dismissed as ludicrous and largely harmless, but others are life-threatening.Scientists are well placed to help to hold back
t felt like a slap in the face. It was as though the credit for half of my PhD was being handed to someone else. I burst into tears." This is how one cell biologist reacted when her former supervisor made a fellow postdoctoral researcher a co-first author of a paper based on her PhD.When she objected, he stood firm. Afraid of damaging important professional relationships at the end of her first collaboration, she swallowed her pride and relented, but wondered how it might affect her job prospects. "Research is all about teamwork, so if someone asks me in an interview why it looks as though I only have half a paper from my PhD, what am I supposed to say?" she says. "I'm glad I said something. Even if it didn't change the author list as I would have liked, it did lead to changes." SIDELINED: HOW TO TACKLE AUTHORSHIP DISPUTESTeam science suffers when junior researchers see their career-defining contributions to a paper downplayed. By Nic Fleming Most in the scientific community have heard similar stories, often involving junior researchers who have given their all in collaborations only to then feel unfairly relegated down the author lists of resulting publications. Sometimes they do not make the list at all, becoming no more than 'ghost authors'.Internet forum posts reveal how upsetting it can be for those who think that their professional prospects will suffer as a result of their being cheated out of the credit they deserve.Nature spoke to researchers about formative
This paper describes the development of a vehicle suspension analysis tool that is fast enough to be used at the suspension concept design stage. Standard suspension types can be analysed using pre-filled templates that provide easy creation of a kinematic model, in either 2D or 3D modes. The effects of bushes are included and the user can easily modify the rate, position and orientation of any bush. The available prebuilt template types include double wishbones, Macpherson struts, trailing arm, semi-trailing arm, pullrod and push-rod damper actuation, 'A' frames and 'H' frames. Unique suspension configurations can be constructed for analysis using the user definable template feature. The elasto-kinematic analysis calculates camber angle, castor angle, toe, kingpin angle, roll centre position, damper ratio, spring ratio, track change, wheel-base change, brake steer, lateral force compliance/steer and other quantities used by the designer in optimising a suspension layout. Results can be displayed either graphically or numerically over specified bump, rebound, roll and steer articulations. The suspension hard points can be picked on screen and simply edited, or dragged on the screen, to review changes to the suspension characteristicsthe calculation is virtually instantaneous. The effect of point tolerance on the calculated suspension derivatives can be calculated and displayed through the same interactive environment, by simply selecting the point and setting the tolerance.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.