Friday, February 28, 2014

Unconventional view of type 2 diabetes causation proposed

Unconventional view of type 2 diabetes causation proposed
Source: MedicalPress

At 85, Nobel laureate James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, continues to advance intriguing scientific ideas. His latest, a hypothesis on the causation of type 2 diabetes, is to appear 7 pm Thursday US time in the online pages of The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal.
 
Watson's hypothesis suggests that diabetes, dementias, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers are linked to a failure to generate sufficient biological oxidants, called reactive oxygen species (ROS). Watson also argues the case for a better understanding of the role of exercise in helping to remedy this deficiency. ...
 

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Tips - EndNote

EndNote

Tutorial
Entering and Editing Reference
  • When entering initials instead of full names, be sure to type a period (.) or a space between initials:
    Fisher, J.O.
    O Fisher
  • When entering corporate authors, put a comma (,) after the name:
    U.S. Department of Agriculture,
    Apple Computer Inc.,

Bibliographic Styles (Output Style)
  • EndNote Reference Style Files
  • How to set Hanging Indent
    • Helps of Endnote about "Hanging indent" options is not so helpful. The options (from a dropdown) is hidden in the right-low corner after you go through the menu "Edit - > Output Styles -> Bibliography -> Layout". It can be missed easily. The options include: None, All Paragraphs, First Paragraph Only, Second Paragraph Only, and All Paragraphs but the First.
    • If you are creating a numbered bibliography, you need insert a tab after the bibliography number to have the references line up correctly. (You need use "Insert Field" of a dropdown in the up-right corner to insert a tab)
    • In the MS Word, the Tab size (even the hanging indent) can be changed by select all the bibliography and slide the ticks of ruler.
  • How to change line space of your bibliography (I hate to say that this is not a logic/intuitive way)
    • In EndNote (please don't be confused the 'Cite While You Write' in MS Word), go to Tools>Cite While You Write>Format Bibliography, then the EndNote will open a Window 'Configure Bibliography' of MS Word, click 'Layout' tab, you can change the line spacing there.
    • Or, in the MS Word document, select the 'Endnote' tab, clicking the small arrow at the corner of the 'Bibliography' block, then click 'Layout' tab. It may take minutes to active it, then you change the bibliography format there.
    • The solution provided by the EndNote website is not so clear.
  • Special Formatting Characters for Templates:
    • o Ctrl+Alt+Space (non-breaking space or from the Insert field list): linking adjacent text, e.g. Edition◊ed.
    • | (vertical bar): forcing separation, e.g. Author. ·"Title."·Journal Volume|.Issue|·(Year)|:· Pages|
    • `xxx`(on the same key as the tilde (~)):forcing EndNote to interpret a word between them as just text and not as a field name, e.g. (Editor) vs. (`Editor`)
    • ^ (caret): the lable before the pages should appear in plural or singular form depending on the number of pages, e.g. p^pp◊Pages.
  • How to Get Endnote to Abbreviate Journal Names: Journal Term List.
  • How to reset EndNote Web library
  • More FAQs of The University of Toledo
  • When convert the X9 library into 20 library, if you lost files, try: The proper process for recovering library files
When you online search PubMed in the EndNote, the record includes the URL for PubMed articles. However, quite annoying, when the PubMed.com outputs a file for citation manager, there is no URL information. You need highlight the EndNote records in your library and go to "References" menu => "Find Reference Update".