• PREDATORY JOURNALS:
    HOW TO DEFINE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

    By: Yan Mardian Recently, scientists and academia in Indonesia were made concerned by the release of snippets of presentation slides issued by several internal researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Although no official letter has been released yet to date, the widely spread snippets slides informed that “in 2023, starting in January,

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  • OPENAI: GRAMMAR CORRECTION AND PARAPHRASING MONSTER

    By: Aly Diana Some of us may or may not have heard about OpenAI, a “thing” that was quite shocking in my opinion. As a disclaimer, I am not tech-savvy, and conversations about machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), or hardcore coding/modeling hurt my head. The first time I heard about OpenAI, it was introduced as

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  • “WHY WAS MY PAPER REJECTED?” NOTES FROM A FORMER SCIENTIFIC EDITOR

    By: Caeul Lim Introduction to the NIAID/DCR/CCRB laboratory team The Collaborative Clinical Research Branch (CCRB) laboratory team within the Division of Clinical Research (DCR) at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infection Diseases (NIAID) is led by Dr. Katy Shaw-Saliba (Laboratory Research Scientist). The team includes Bonnie Dighero-Kemp (Scientific Program Manager), Mike Belson (Microbiologist), Dr.

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  • PRE-ANALYTICAL PRACTICE IN MOLECULAR ASSAY IN CLINICAL AND RESEARCH SETTINGS

    By: Yan Mardian Pre-analysis refers to all the complex steps that must take place before a sample can be analyzed. Over the years, a series of studies identified that 32% to 75% of all testing errors occur in the preanalytical phase, and technological advances and quality assurance procedures have significantly reduced the number of analytic-based

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