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Acadia Lead Management Services Among Dayton Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Businesses
2014-09-09 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Dayton, Ohio – The Dayton Business Journal has named Acadia Lead Management Services among the 50 fastest-growing businesses in the Dayton region.<br /> <br /> Acadia was named the 34th fastest-growing business, the list of which includes both small businesses and large corporations.<br /> <br /> Don Baker, Editor-in-Chief of the Dayton Business Journal, said “The Dayton region is home to some great companies that are growing and helping to fuel the resurgence in the local economy. ...
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Climate contrarian backlash - a difficult lesson for scientific journals to learn
2014-04-14 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientific journals have had a bumpy road trying to learn how to deal with climate contrarians. Poor decisions by journal staff in dealing with contrarians have often led to editors resigning and a damaged reputation in the academic community. The latest such example is the journal Frontiers and its response to bullying by contrarians over a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues. The paper analyzed the conspiratorial psychology of contrarian comments made on public blogs. As I previously...
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Denver Business Journal's top 13 news stories of 2013 -- No. 9, Frontier Airlines sold
2013-12-20 00:37:49| Airlines - Topix.net
Denver-based Frontier Airlines ends 2013 with a new owner and a new business model: Flying as an ultra-low-cost carrier with passengers paying for services they want a la carte.
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Fake Cancer Study Spotlights Bogus Science Journals
2013-10-03 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A cancer drug discovered in a humble lichen, and ready for testing in patients, might sound too good to be true. That's because it is. But more than a hundred lower-tier scientific journals accepted a fake, error-ridden cancer study for publication in a spoof organized by Science magazine. The fake study points to a "Wild West" of pay-to-publish outlets feeding off lower tiers of the scientific enterprise by publishing studies without any appreciable scrutiny, say research ethics experts. (See...
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Journals of Iconic Naturalists Reveal Plants Are Blooming Much Earlier
2013-01-17 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An analysis of records kept by iconic naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold has revealed evidence that some native plants in the eastern U.S. are flowering as much as much as a month earlier in spring than they did even just six decades ago. Writing in the journal PLoS ONE, scientists from Boston and Harvard universities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that many plant species found in and around Concord, Mass. -- including serviceberry and nodding trillium -- are now blooming...
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