> The authors suggest that the increasing levels of fraud may come from "the incentive system of science, which is based on a winner-takes-all economics that confers disproportionate rewards to winners in the form of grants, jobs, and prizes at a time of research funding scarcity." That could certainly explain its prevalence in the US, where competition for grant money has become increasingly fierce in a way that roughly parallels the rising rates of fraud.
> Acadamia is incredibly focused on publishing as the stardard for one's professional worth. The pressure to publish something, anything, is so immense that it's gone from being a product of research, to being a significant reason to do research in the first place.
8. Elliptical uses. a. With ellipsis of a verb of motion. Now arch.
1731 Swift To Gay, ― His work is done, the minister must out. 1884 Tennyson Becket iii. ii, ― Seeing he must to Westminster and crown Young Henry there to-morrow. 1889 Macm. Mag May 77 ― This shamefacedness will be thought mere folly of course in these days when everything must to the papers.
For example:
Design a well-known architecture in a decade.
or
Implement a legal policy for helping the elderly.
Would you please help to clarify whether it is proper grammar to begin a sentence with a verb in this manner?
Yesterday I drove to work. Road construction. Took me an hour and 45 minutes. Today I took the train, which promptly broke down halfway. Hour and 40 minutes. Time saved: 5 minutes. It's 2012, people! Where are the flying cars?
@RegDwighт I don’t think so, Reg. I-10 is Jacksonville FL west to Houston TX, and out to nearly El Pasa. I-75 is St Petersburg FL north to Atlanta GA and on up to Detroit MI. They intersect perpendicularly in north Florida somewhere.
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
o. In designations of persons, as living or exercising their functions at sea, as sea-boy, -carpenter, -commander, -fellow, -friend, -robber, etc.; †also occas. quasi-adj., that is a sailor, nautical, as sea-lover, -philosopher, -reader.
1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 27 ― Canst thou (O partiall Sleepe) giue thy Repose To the wet *Sea-Boy, in an houre so rude. 1860 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. cxii. III. 38 ― A Hull sea-boy went to see his master when his time was out.
1. a. gen. One whose occupation or business is on the sea; a sailor as opposed to a landsman. Now only poet. or rhetorical. Also, with qualifying word: One skilled in navigation. b. spec. A sailor below the rank of officer. leading, able, ordinary seaman, the three grades (beginning with the highest) of seamen in the Royal Navy. merchant seaman, a seaman in the merchant service.
1854 Act. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104 §2 [Merchant Shipping Act.] ― ‘Seaman’ shall include every Person (except Masters, Pilots, and Apprentices··) employed or engaged in any Capacity on board any Ship. 1867 Smyth Sailor’s Word-bk. s.v., ― The able seaman is the seafaring man who knows all the duties of common seamanship··. His rating is A.B··. The ordinary seaman is less qualified. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 291 ― The personnel of the British navy is composed of two different bodies of men, the seamen and the marines, each of which has its appropriate officers.
For example:
Design a well-known architecture in a decade.
or
Implement a legal policy for helping the elderly.
Would you please help to clarify whether it is proper grammar to begin a sentence with a verb in this manner?
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…