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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!!!! 

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.

http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00001086/01/066.pdf

Arash, I am quite shocked by your reply http://imechanica.org/node/3045#comment-7151.  First you say "with all the due respect", then you say "trivial history".  But you prudently say "maybe I miss the point".  Maybe useful to clarify, also because probably iMechanica should start a discussion about history of mechanics starting a little earlier than this century. How can we judge Leonardo da Vinci? He has no published papers, no citation, no index, no Nobel prize... Not even a Timoshenko medal!  Maybe we should give him one post-mortem?    Please see the attachment.  Watch also the videos:

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. 

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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.

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 I need your help

I have to submit a research proposal and the topic is:

Foreign Trade is the key catalyst for the economic development of Pakistan

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 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?

To make the question more concrete, consider a cylinder that expands uniformly along all radial rays. Does this deformation of the cylinder correspond to bending? I think it is fair to say that most would say that this is purely a stretching deformation with no bending. But then, what is precisely a bending deformation?

Please see the attachment

I guess, it is an example of as apersonal and unspirited a paper as can at all be produced.

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