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...dedicated to publishing the results that could save scientists from doing years of work just to get the same negative result that others have already found. In an introductory editorial, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology Bjorn R. Olsen, who edits the journal, and Visiting Research Fellow in Pediatrics Christian Pfeffer wrote that “it is useful and important to publish well documented failures, such as with drugs that show no benefit for which the shortcomings have not been publicized.” Publishing such failures, the Olsen and Pfeffer argue, can make significant contributions to the advancement...
Likewise, Olsen’s JNRBM itself has had only a handful of submissions since it was launched last fall. In their introductory editorial, Olsen and Pfeffer address some of the most important reasons why scientists may be wary of publishing negative results. The first reason is that it could give crucial information to competitors who may be able to use those negative results to beat everyone else to an important positive result. This problem is magnified for scientists who are the first to publish negative results. Those researchers benefit very little from the sparse numbers of negative results published...
...fellowship recipients are Assistant Professors of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94 and Hongkun Park, Assistant Professors of Computer Science Avrom J. Pfeffer and Salil P. Vadhan, and Assistant Professors of Physics Eugene A. Demler, Andrew D. Foland, Shiraz Minwalla, and Masahiro Morii...
DIED. ARNOLD PFEFFER, 86, leader in the emerging field of neuropsychoanalysis--the study of links between psychotherapy and brain changes--who in his 70s founded the country's first center for its research at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; in New York City...
...company that just clones its U.S. model abroad will fail, Pfeffer says. For example, he adds, most European salespeople do not respond as well as Americans to commission-driven incentive schemes. As a result, many of Cendant's European franchisers pay their salespeople fixed salaries...