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Does a scientist who has had three patents in the past five years, but only three papers, each cited just three times, deserve m

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Nature 453, x (2008). doi:10.1038/7196xc

Does a scientist who has had three patents in the past five years,
but only three papers, each cited just three times, deserve more
recognition than one with five Nature papers and 1,000 citations? 

 

Can anyone download the full paper I have no access to Nature!!!! 

Leonardo da Vinci the precursor of Publish AND Perish ---- not Publish OR Perish -- the present model is dead!

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
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old publication model
leonardo da vinci
return to nature
Dear Imechanica friends
  I recently pointed to a very interesting paper by Fabio Casati and collegues from Trento University in Italy.
They say PUBLISH AND PERISH: WHY THE CURRENT PUBLICATIONAND REVIEW MODEL IS
KILLING RESEARCH AND WASTING YOUR MONEY
as opposed to the current mania to PUBLISH and killing yourself with writing papers.

Graduate Student or Graduate Employee?

Submitted by Amit.Ranade on
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schooling

Lately I have been thinking that "Graduate Student" is a misnomer. The correct title should be "Graduate Research Assistant" or "Graduate Engineer".  After more than a year spent in industry, I think that there really is no difference in the work done. Except that the work environment is more flexible in academia. 

The story behind the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Submitted by Joseph X. Zhou on
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Steve Jobs’

When I came to the institute, my collaborator Kay invited me for a dinner in the new town together with his friend Thilo and other guys. The city is wisely divided into two functioning areas, old town and new town. All the ancient buildings like King’s summer palace, women’s church and opera house are in the old town; while the restaurants, bars and other modern buildings are in the new town. Each is in harmony with its environment and cultural atmosphere.

Does a radially expanding cylinder bend?

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shell theory

 The Koiter-Sanders-Budiansky bending strain measure and a nonlinear generalization

 We know from strength of materials that non-uniform stretching of fibers along the cross section of a beam produces bending moments. But does this situation necessarily correspond to a 'bending' deformation? For that matter, what do we exactly mean kinematically when we talk about a bending deformation?

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