links for 2008-10-25

By mansoorm
  • Important Dates

    Paper* Submission Deadline: December 15, 2008

    Notifications of Acceptance: February 20, 2009

    Camera Ready Papers: March 21, 2009

    Conference Dates: Juny 9-13, 2009

  • Instead of the Thomson ISI Web of Science Publish or Perish uses Google Scholar data to calculate its various statistics. An important practical reason for this is that Google Scholar is freely available to anyone with an Internet connection and is generally praised for its speed (Bosman et al. 2006). The Web of Science is only available to those academics whose institutions are able and willing to bear the (quite substantial) subscription costs of the Web of Science and other databases in Thomson ISI’s Web of Knowledge. As Pauly & Stergiou (2005:34) indicate “free access to […] data provided by Google Scholar provides an avenue for more transparency in tenure reviews, funding and other science policy issues, as it allows citation counts, and analyses based thereon, to be performed and duplicated by anyone”. Alastair Smith (2008) compared citation counts from Google Scholar to the research output from universities under New Zealand's PBRF (Performance Based Research Funding) research a
  • The big problem with little gizmos is that their screens are titchy. In fact trying to enjoy a blockbuster on an iPod is only marginally more entertaining than trying to read the bottom line of an optician's chart. So thank goodness for the utterly astounding Pocket Cinema.
  • اگرچه تصویر تولید شده در حد تلویزیونهای پلاسما نخواهند بود اما کیفیت ان مطلوب است. سینمای جیبی یک گیگابایت حافظه داخلی دارد که قابلیت اضافه کردن کارت بیرونی را هم دارد.

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