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I HAVE no wish whatsoever for Scotland to become independent, however I have no doubt in my mind that a fair proportion of the Scottish population wishes it to be so. The last referendum was held using poorly-defined wording on the actual vote, and no clear timetable as to the lifetime on the decision of that vote; one generation is far too loose a definition. All sides in Scotland must sit down and agree on the voting procedures, in particular deciding the percentage of the vote, not just a straight first-past-the-post vote, required to decide the final outcome, and how long should pass ...

Covid-19 has changed science and our relationship with it forever Covid-19 has changed science and our relationship with it forever 2021 With millions of lives at stake, scientists have accelerated research and its dissemination to tackle Covid-19. When we emerge from the pandemic, science, and our relationship with it, may never be the same again  This article originally featured in the April print edition of Geographical. Subscribe today for the best features and stories, delivered to your doorstep each month.  'Unprecedented' appropriately described 2020. The publi...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Usually when an alleged surname is combined with a design, the Office will approve the mark for publication. Not this time. The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(4) refusal of the word-and-design mark shown below, for firearms and related goods. The panel majority found that "the additional geographically descriptive term US and the plain diamond background do not remove the primary surname significance." Judge Bergsman dissented, opining that "[t]he Board should restrict the application of wha...

◆ A former post-doctoral fellow at the McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, admitted to committing research misconduct by “knowingly and intentionally falsifying, fabricating, and plagiarizing data and text” in six papers and eight manuscripts, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In its Feb. 4 Federal Register notice, ORI said Yibin Lin “falsely created fictitious author names and affiliations without listing himself as an author to disguise himself from being the offender, and submitted them for publication in bi...

May 15, 2020Communication about the unreviewed and preliminary nature of Covid-19–related preprint studies remains widely inconsistent among online media outlets, according to a new study published in the journal Health Communication. Researchers looked for specific keywords in their analysis among news outlets including The New York Times, Medscape, and Business Insider and found that while a little over half used at least one phrase to indicate the study was a preprint or that the findings were unreviewed or preliminary, the rest didn’t make that distinction. “[The pandemic] has show...