Duplicate publication: a growing challenge

During several years of cooperation with scientific Cushion journals in Iran as referee, member ofeditorial boards and editor in chief, I have faced with multiple non-ethical behaviors inpublication.These days, I am witnessed to submitting articles to two or more journalsimultaneously.Due to the growing pattern of this illegal action, this editoria

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Sialic acid O-acetylation patterns and glycosidic linkage type determination by ion mobility-mass spectrometry

Abstract O-acetylation is a common modification of sialic acids that has been implicated in a multitude of biological and disease processes.A lack of analytical methods that can determine exact structures of sialic acid variants is a hurdle to determine roles of distinct O-acetylated sialosides.Here, we describe a drift tube ion mobility-mass spect

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Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias.It has been proposed that specific phobia may have Entertainment Centers an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.Noninvasive imaging studies of patients with specific phobia reported that the medial prefrontal cortex (

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