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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Vanilla, chocolate, peach roll cake
Let's start 2009 out right, with a delicious roll cake. I love roll cakes because they look so labor intensive, but they aren't! Spread them with whatever you want, plop some ganache on top, and ooooooh, fancy! This one is a vanilla cake, spread with peach marmalade, spread with a vanilla whipped filling (a la Kate's faux Ho-Hos), drizzled with a chocolate vanilla ganache. Sounds good? I want to start this year off on a good, sweet note!
Vanilla Roll Cake
4 eggs, separated
3/4 c sugar (if you have it, use vanilla sugar - sugar that you've stuck a vanilla bean or two in)
1 T vanilla
3/4 c flour mix
1/4 t xanthan gum
1 t baking powder
big pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a jellyroll pan (I just used a cookie sheet) with parchment paper or a silpat. Beat the egg whites until stiff. In another bowl, beat the yolks until light and fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla and stir to combine. Whisk together flour mix, xanthan gum, baking powder, and salt, then mix into the yolks. Fold 1/4 of the egg whites into the yolk mixture to lighten, then fold everything into the egg whites just until combined. Spread evenly in your pan, bake 8-10 minutes.
When cake is cool enough to handle, turn out onto a clean dish towel (or, a wax paper lined dish towel if you have pets) and roll up tightly. Let cool seam side down. When cool, and your fillings are ready, unroll and remove top layer of wax paper or parchment paper, spread filling(s) evenly over cake, and roll up, using the outer layer of wax paper as a guide.
Vanilla Whipped Filling
1/2 c sugar (again, use vanilla sugar if you have it)
2/3 c shortening
1 T vanilla
1/3 c milk (or vanilla soymilk)
1 c powdered sugar
Combine the sugar, shortening, vanilla and milk in the bowl of your stand mixer. Turn to medium and let it run for 6-7 minutes, until it starts to come together. Trust me, it will. Add in the powdered sugar, and let the mixer run on medium another 5 minutes or so.
Unroll cake from towel, remove top layer of paper, and spread evenly with about 1 c of jam of your choice. I used homemade peach marmalade, you can heat it up a bit if your is too thick. Spread with vanilla whipped filling, and roll cake up again using bottom paper as an aid. Roll cake onto a piece of wax paper, seam side down, and pour ganache over. Let the cake sit a few hours in the fridge until set.
Chocolate Vanilla Ganache
1/2 c white chocolate chips
1/2 c milk chocolate chips
1 T butter
1 T cream
2 t vanilla
Combine everything in a microwavable bowl, heat, stirring every 30 seconds, until everything is melted and smooth. Pour immediately over cake, smoothing with a knife or spatula to even out spots.
4 comments:
Kalinda - It's that time of year! Most American Yule Logs are roll cakes, and while this one isn't, it could be!ReplyDelete
PG - I rarely use a store bought flour mix, I make my own. The flour mix that I use is on the right side of the page. I use it pretty much cup for cup replacing wheat flour in recipes, except for bread.
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SAP Empowers Businesses to Deliver Personalized Customer Experiences
SAP Re-Imagines the Customer-Centric Enterprise With New Capabilities from SAP® Customer OnDemand
HANOVER, Germany — March 5, 2013 — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced new capabilities for the SAP® Customer OnDemand solution that empower businesses to know their customers like never before, guide them through each step of the buyer's journey and groom customers to become loyal brand advocates. Combining the advantages of consumer-grade design, social, mobile and cloud technology with deep customer insight and awareness-to-cash process automation, the solution re-imagines what customer-centricity means for today's enterprises. Designed for marketing, sales and service organizations, SAP Customer OnDemand is comprised of the SAP® Sales OnDemand, SAP® Service OnDemand and SAP® Social OnDemand solutions and the SAP® Social Media Analytics application by NetBase. The announcement was made at CeBIT 2013, being held March 5-9 in Hanover, Germany.
The inability to gather insight about each stage of the buyer's journey across multiple platforms is a major limitation with most CRM applications today. In addition, it is costly, inflexible and time-consuming to tap into back-office systems to expose customer-specific processes such as pricing, quotes and sales orders. Whether companies leverage on-premise, cloud or hybrid solutions, SAP is the only company that can easily integrate with any environment to surface the insight and execute the processes that deliver a new level of customer-centricity.
With SAP Customer OnDemand, SAP empowers people through a consumer-grade user experience, purposeful collaboration and insightful analytics for sales, service and marketing professionals across businesses of all sizes. The latest innovations from SAP Customer OnDemand are geared toward delivering a personalized customer experience.
Prepare Sales Professionals for Meaningful Customer Conversations Anytime, Anywhere
Sales representatives today expect beautiful applications they can easily personalize based on their selling motion, helping them work effectively to deliver a best-in-class customer experience. The new home page for SAP Customer OnDemand brings consumer-grade user experience to sales professionals. The dashboard equips sales professionals with everything they need to know about the customer to orchestrate the sale from lead-to-cash. Based on what they deem relevant, insightful and productive, sales professionals can personalize the home page through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Having customer information at hand is essential to ensuring each customer engagement is relevant and differentiated. New offline capabilities for the iPad application for SAP Customer OnDemand means sales people have complete customer insight wherever they are. With this new must-have sales feature, meaningful customer engagements no longer halt when cell signal does. In addition, the new "sales assistant" provides guided selling that helps ensure representatives are leveraging best practices, delivering the right message and making each customer engagement personalized at every stage of the sale.
"Mobile is a must-have capability for our sales teams," said Jaap Stoppels, manager, Managed Training Services, Schouten Global. "SAP Sales OnDemand delivers full-feature mobile apps — at no extra cost — that helps our mobile sales team in China to collaborate on the road, all with a complete customer view. With the SAP Sales OnDemand mobile app, they're prepared to make every customer engagement relevant and meaningful."
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Customers want to choose how they interact with customer service, whether by email, phone or social media channels. At the same time, customer service agents need cross-channel visibility into every step of the interaction to deliver a delightful customer experience. Additional communication channels in SAP Service OnDemand and SAP Social OnDemand now include a powerful self-service Web portal and an interface for computer-telephony integration (CTI). These channels allow customers to truly do business on their own terms. Customer service agents can now leverage an even greater number of sources for proactive customer interactions, such as branded online communities, websites for product ratings and customer reviews with pre-built integration into Bazaarvoice, a social commerce company that enables customer-powered marketing.
Customer service leaders can now access relevant service information such as ticket status, escalations and key service metrics while on-the-go with the new iPad application for SAP Customer Insight. Turning customer service from a cost center into a revenue-generating team has never been more important. To foster this, product registration and warranty information have been added to help service agents identify targeted upsell and cross-sell opportunities with their clients, and to serve their customers in a more targeted way.
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SAP is devoted to giving companies the power to harness the right solution for their diverse marketing, sales and customer service needs across their global enterprise. Continued investment and quarterly updates across the SAP Customer OnDemand suite enable sales, service and marketing organizations to understand, engage and delight customers like never before at every stage of the customer journey.
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Golden Beach Travel Guide
Golden Beach © Ronald Saunders
Golden Beach is a holiday destination on the east coast of Thassos island, where hotels and apartment complexes have sprung up in recent years to cater for the ever-increasing number of holidaymakers who are discovering this so far unexploited Greek island.
The Golden Beach holiday resort has a magnificent white sand beach and easy access to two quaint villages, Potomia and Panagia, which provide everything one expects from a Greek island holiday. Compared to most other Greek resorts, though, the pace is slow and relaxed and the nightlife is subdued. This is gradually changing as development proceeds and the number of visitors increases, but there are as yet not many bright lights and burger huts.
Most visitors hire a car to explore the island while on holiday and otherwise spend their time soaking up the sunshine on the beach, trying out the many seafront tavernas or taking long, leisurely walks. Golden Beach is a pretty, peaceful and charming resort well-suited to those who want to enjoy a quiet beach holiday and the odd jaunt to explore archaeological sites of interest.
Shopping opportunities in Golden Beach itself are limited to a few small supermarkets and kiosks; these stores are enough to keep self-caterers happy while on holiday but will fall short of the expectations of seasoned shoppers. Waterfront kiosks sell beach accessories like airbeds, along with ice cream, magazines and cigarettes. For serious souvenir shopping, though, visitors can take a trip to nearby Thassos town (Limenas), the island capital, just a short taxi drive away. Here there are little shops aplenty selling everything from lighters engraved with an island scene to magnificent marble sculptures. Island specialities to look out for include fragrant honey, locally made olive oil, and marble.
One would have to stay at Golden Beach for a very long holiday to try out all the tavernas in the vicinity. Quality and menus vary, of course, but most offer authentic Greek food, with the emphasis on seafood and ambience. Prices range from inexpensive to downright cheap making eating out in Golden Beach all the more pleasant.
Thassos is not a holiday destination for all-night party animals. Nightlife, particularly in Golden Beach, is limited to a few cocktail bars or spinning out dinner at a local taverna, perhaps spiced up with some Greek dancing or a guitar player. Nearby Thassos town has some piano bars and discotheques for those who want a taste of the local nightlife, but generally party-animals should choose one of the more fashionable and crowded resorts many of which have serious party potential.
Golden Beach and the other main tourist beaches on Thassos offer a variety of watersports equipment for hire, including sailing boats. Most visitors spend a day or two sightseeing on the island, which has several archaeological sites of interest. Motorbikes or cars can be hired for this purpose. Guided or unguided horse riding trails can be undertaken from the village of Rachoni. More energetic holidaymakers enjoy exploring the extremely scenic island on foot. Walking trails have been mapped and guidebooks are available at most kiosks in the towns and villages.
During late summer wasps can be a problem and a nuisance to visitors in Golden Beach. Some shops and tavernas do not accept credit cards.


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Friday, May 25, 2007
Packaging Up The Week
We're not going on an official "hiatus" over the holiday weekend, and will update anything major (format changes, major personnel changes at local TV and radio outlets and the like). But since it will be a holiday weekend, we don't expect much...
WJW MOVES COMING: We have no idea why, but we get at least a handful of E-Mails out of nowhere every single week asking us when FOX O&O WJW/8 "FOX 8" Cleveland will adopt the company's "FOX Look" on its local newscasts.
In fact, just hours after the latest request for a status report out of nowhere, we got an answer, again, unsolicited.
A reliable OMW source says the "FOX-ification" of "FOX 8 News" in Cleveland is nearly at hand.
And by "nearly", we mean sometime in the next few weeks. We hear that the local station is about to build a new set, which will require a pause in live shows for "That's Life with Robin Swoboda". They'll put in pre-taped shows to fill the gap.
(And before some of you go running to the comments section at the mere mention of Robin's name...we already know what you're going to type.)
Anyway, "That's Life" has to go on hiatus, because WJW will move the existing news set into that studio, and air "FOX 8 News" from there while the new set is being built.
A few weeks later, you'll see what's long been anticipated by OMW readers - a new set, and an update of graphics to the new FOX O&O style, which is basically patterned after the network's FOX News Channel.
The graphics will also be HD-style, as opposed to the current upconversion...
TO THE SPORTS DEPARTMENT: ...where we find The Overworked Sue Ann Robak at WEWS "NewsChannel 5" now being helped by the capable Andy Baskin. He's the former WKYC/3 sports reporter/anchor who left to start his own production company, and has done fill-in for The Only Large Market Station In America With One Solo Full-Time Sports Anchor.
Well, not quite.
We hear the situation at CBS affiliate WKMG in Orlando is even worse as they await the Cleveland Cavaliers to release WOIO/19 "19 Action News" weekend sports anchor David Pingalore, who isn't leaving town or the CBS affiliate here until the Cavaliers get knocked out of the playoffs, or, as is about as likely as the Space Shuttle landing on I-77, until they win it all.
We understand that a news anchor at WKMG has even taken to reading a brief sports summary, while they continue to watch the NBA basketball bounce in Detroit and Cleveland and wait for "Ping" to head south.
Anyway, back to 3001 Euclid and Andy Baskin.
OMW hears that he continues to impress the management at WEWS, and with good timing, too... the station may finally name a new sports director soon.
We are NOT hearing that Baskin has the job in hand, but that he's being "strongly considered" for it.
But, we're putting all these rumblings together in our head, and we'd be surprised if he didn't land the gig. But that's just a gut feeling on our part.
And a tip of the hat to Ms. Robak, who's been an ironwoman, as it were, after both of her co-workers left for other jobs...she's certainly improved her own standing, if not at WEWS, than somewhere else...
AND WHILE WE'RE TALKING TV (AND ADDING RADIO): We don't dive into ratings much, but OMW hears that your May TV sweeps "winners" are WJW/8 and WKYC/3, with WEWS/5 and WOIO/19 on the down side.
And over in radioland, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Julie Washington has an excellent rundown of the Cleveland ratings in Saturday's PD.
We won't delve into it piece by piece, but the top 12-plus all-day finisher in the Winter book was Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100.
Top finishing shows in their appropriate demos include Clear Channel oldies WMJI/105.7 mainstays John Lanigan and Jimmy Malone and CBS Radio alt-rock/talk WXRK/92.3's once-again-hometown show "Rover's Morning Glory" with Shane "Rover" French in morning drive.
In afternoons, it's WTAM's Mike "I Have Never Found Free Food I Wouldn't Eat On The Air" Trivisonno and Radio One urban AC WZAK/93.1 syndicated host Michael Baisden's relatively new show.
Notice, if you will, that all four shows are basically talk shows, even on the FM side.
And Julie points out that the home of Rock and Roll isn't treating its rock stations well, with the highest-rated traditional rocker in ninth-place 12-plus. (By "traditional", we mean that Ms. Washington apparently isn't including alt-rock WXRK, which airs eight hours a day of talk, in that list.)
We won't go much beyond this, because the PD has the ability to publish more ratings than we do (and they have much more expensive lawyers).
Julie has much more at the link above...
YEP, IT'S WKRI: As reported in Radio & Records Online on Thursday, and speculated here earlier, WXRK/92.3 Cleveland Heights will sport new call letters soon... after sister station WFNY in New York City reclaimed their historic calls in a format flip from talk back to rock.
"92.3 K-Rock", the Cleveland version, will legally become WKRI(FM) as soon as all the paperwork shuffling (or bit twiddling) is completed at the FCC...and WXRK(FM) ends up in the Big Apple, that station also returning to the "92.3 K-Rock" on-air handle.
OMW hears that there are no programming changes expected for the local 92.3.
A tip of the hat to RadioInsight's Lance Venta, who makes a habit of call letter searches and surfing through new domain information...he let us know about this as well.
THE WOLF RETURNS?: It's Lance who also provides us the launching pad for this one.
He tells us Clear Channel just registered 933wolfrocks.com, which redirects to the website to the company's rocker WNCD/93.3 Youngstown.
And sure enough, there it is, a new "93.3 The Wolf" logo staring us right in the face.
Since we haven't heard the station since, well, forever, we can't tell yet if they're positioning like that on the air. (We tried picking up their online feed tonight, but haven't been successful due to local computer issues.)
But long-time listeners in the Mahoning Valley know the station is actually returning to its roots.
WNCD launched under its original ownership (Dominic Baragona et al.) at 106.1 Niles, as "CD 106, The Wolf". The animal is a long-time original brand for the station, which Clear Channel eventually bought and swapped its frequency with that of oldies WBBG - the latter now camping out at the aforementioned 106.1.
WNCD has been known recently as "93-3 NCD". We don't know when it was "de-wolf-ified".
And if you want further confusion, WNCD at 106.1 was once the sister station of WNIO. No, not today's Clear Channel-owned standards outlet at 1390, but the original WNIO, at 1540 Niles.
To close up the chain, 1540 is now WRTK - sporting calls moved from 1390 once intended for a short lived talk format.
And today's WRTK/1540 is a satellite-driven gospel outlet owned by the king of single-owner radio in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys, Harold Glunt's Beacon Broadcasting (WANR/1570 Warren, WLOA/1470 Farrell PA, and WGRP/940-WEXC/107.1 Greenville PA).
There'll be a quiz, later, especially for Glunt Watchers...
AND 85TH REDUX: And OMW hears that if you missed Salem talk WHK/1420 Cleveland's 85th Anniversary Special, you'll get to hear it again this weekend.
We're told that the special, hosted by former WHK disk jockey Johnny Holliday, will re-air on "NewsTalk 1420" this Saturday - later today, by the time you read this - at 7 PM...
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I think that WNCD "93.3 NCD" was trying to brand themselves like CC sister station WDVE "102.5 DVE." "The Wolf" branding has become very popular with the younger leaning country music format. Erie has it with WTWF "93.9 The Wolf." I recall listening to WNCD when they were @ 106.1 and simulcasted with 96.7 in Mercer, Pa. Their calls were & still are "WLLF", now an AC station called "The River."
WOW, never knew CD 106 and 96.7 WLLF were simulcasters!
106.1 doesnt really make it over the border too well, so that makes sense.
WNCD and WBBG swapped dial positions in September 2000.
They sort of dropped 'The Wolf' for a bit and were simply CD 93-3, I believe it was in 2004 that they re-branded as "93-3 NCD"
Think they'll be any changes with Spatz at the helm? He was at Rock 104 when Cumulus actually cared about that station (ie: it actually had more than 1 full-time and 1 part-time jock! They continue to run the same imaging they ran 4 years ago when they launched) and they pulled down a decent book or two (for as scrappy as that 103.9 signal is, that was a good book!).
Y103 pretty much has the dinosaur rock locked up. I believe they were first in 12+ last time around. Whodathunk they'd actually beat K105!
WNCD leans kind of heavily on the classic stuff. Think they may scew more active??
When I used to live about 10 miles south of Erie in the late 80's, I used to listen to "The Wolf" on 95.1. I had to use an outdoor antenna to pull the signal in, but at the time, it was worth it. I really enjoyed that station back in the day. I remeber them changing to 95.9 and we could no longer get them due to FM-96 in London.
I think its time to put Fast Freddie out to pasture. His jokes are stale and he is boring. I hope Matt Spatz takes over Afternoons
Afternoons 18-34 aren't dominated by talk.
Y 103 wasn't number 1 WKBN AM was.
WKBN and K105 have been flip flopping 1st place for many many books now.
Spatz influence has been felt somewhat already.....(the flip back to wolf).
he will win...
WJW set Changes. I noticed all this week they have anchoring the 5 and 8am show on 6 and 10pm news set. Also yesterday morning when they did the alarm clock thing at the end of the 8am show. I noticed a part of the set by the garage door. I noticed one week-end Big Chuck was wearing a Jean Shirt with new FOX 8 Logo. I wonder how this will effect the rating on FOX 8 after the FOX look is done. I wonder if they will keep the branding "Cleveland's Own".
Yeah, I was surprised that I could pull in 96.7 when I lived in Waterford, Pa. I also listened The Wolf @ 95.1 and "95 K Rock" before that. It was a great station with a killer signal. I recall an evening jock by the name of "Joe Piano." He had sort of a British accent & had a great show. Y-103 is a top notch station with Classic Rock, "The Wolf" should lean more active since "Real Rock" has a limited signal.
ultimately...active rock makes no real money..except in very few instances
and definitely not in an older market such as Youngstown.
Just FYI, more than 90% of WJW's graphics are in true HD, the only thing being upconverted are the main opens, which were made in SD.
I first heard 93.3 call themselves "The Wolf" again sometime last week, but am not sure of when they started (probably around the same time that I first heard it).
On a related Youngstown topic, any news on the 27/33 merger? I've been checking here everyday for some news, but no luck.
Interesting that the focal point of the PD article is how "music is getting beat by talk" - but while kudos are thrown to Z1079 and KISS on their numbers in afternoons, there's no mention of how they are destroying the talk on K ROCK and MMS in PM Drive 18-34.
Remember back in '02 when O & A had double digits in PM Drive 18-34?
Yeah J, i was wondering if there was anymore news too on the 27/33 merger. I was on the FCC website and seen in the "view legal actions" section that 2 complaints were filed. I couldn't figure out a way to view them on there so If OMW knows a way and can provide a link there that would be great! As far as i could tell the FCC has NOT approved the sale of WYTV yet. According to news paper articles,Parkin was hoping to have the sale done by the end of June maybe that won't happen?
Who's the station VO for 93-3 The Wolf? Chris Corley? BC?
Sounds like Brian Christopher- not a fan.
Fast Freddie is on the wolf still? He was unlistenable back in the early 90s
"Fox-ification" of WJW??? Usually that means a very young looking staff... catchy graphics... tabloid style journalim, etc. That would mean jetissoning staffers loke Wilma Smith, Dick Goddard, Dan Coughlin, etc. But... why mess with success. Channel 19 already has the tabloid position. Might make more sense for Channel 8 to stay the course.
Terrible idea. If WJW wants to change graphics, they should use an old logo like WEWS did this year. (WJW should bring back the TV8 logo) Ratings will go down whith this new FOX News look and ''Cleveland's Own'' will probably be replaced with ''The most powerful name in local news'' or ''FOX8-News fair and balanced'' Also, how long before Wilma, Andre, Dick and other older personalities are pushed out like Big Chuck and Lil John? 19 Action News might come out of last place after this.


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MIAMI -- At his first public appearance since aggressively defending himself as "pro-immigration" at last night's final Florida debate, Mitt Romney took to the podium again today to argue that he and the Republican party are firmly in favor of legal immigration.
"First of all, with regards to immigration. I like immigration. I like legal immigration. I think its important for America to recognize that immigration is an extraordinary source of vitality of our nation. That bringing people of different cultures here creates opportunity and growth for the entire economy," Romney said. "We are not anti-immigrant. We are not anti-immigration. We are the pro-immigration, pro-legality, pro-citizenship party."
Romney's speech today, at which he was introduce by in Spanish by his youngest son, touched on a wide variety of other issues important to the Hispanic community, including economic growth in Latin America, US Policy toward Cuba and whether or not Puerto Rico should become the 51st state.
"What's happening in Latin America, whether its Mexico or the Carribbean, through Central America, through South America is such extraordinary growth economically, not to mention demographically, that there is a huge economic, political and military opportunity and series of challenges and obligations here in this hemisphere," Romney said, promising to maintain closer ties to the region, often largely ignored in U.S. foreign policy.
Romney also continued his appeal to South Florida's Cuban-American community, saying that a Romney administration would support Cubans seeking freedom upon the death of Fidel Castro -- a remark which earned him a standing ovation.
"There is a time coming soon, where Cuba will be free. That's going to happen. We're going to have to get organized for it. We're going to have to recognize that people there want freedom, as people do all over the world, and America can't sit back," Romney said. "I will not only say something when Fidel Castro finally leaves this earth, I will do something. I will be behind the voices of freedom here an the voices of freedom there. We will help Cuba become free."
Romney also touched on the controversial question of whether or not Puerto Rico should become the 51st state. Two days ago at a Univision forum, Romney said he "would not argue one side or the other" of the issue, and that his choice "is to let [the people of Puerto Rico] make their own choice."
Today, he said he would support a Puerto Rican effort at earning statehood, if the people of Puerto Rico supported such a move in a referendum, scheduled for November.
""I'm looking forward to the time when the people of Puerto Rico make their decision about becoming a state," Romney said."I expect the people of Puerto Rico will decide like [Governor Luis Fortuno] feels, to become a state, and I can tell you that I will work with him that if that vote comes out in favor of statehood we will go through the process in Washington to provide statehood to Puerto Rico. "


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The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) and its sister journals are innovative, international, peer-reviewed medical journals that aim to publish articles relevant for medical professionals, system developers, and system users alike.
These instructions for authors are valid for all JMIR journals. Instructions for authors are subject to frequent revision. Please look them over carefully before submitting your manuscript.
Manuscripts are considered with the understanding that they have not been published previously in print or electronic format and are not under consideration by another print or electronic publication. A complete report following a presentation at a meeting or the publication of preliminary findings elsewhere (eg, in an abstract) will be considered. Material that has been published on the Internet can also be considered, but any previous or simultaneous publication on the Internet must be disclosed in the cover letter. Include copies of potentially duplicative material that has been previously published or is currently being considered elsewhere, and provide links to duplicative material on the Internet. Point out possible overlaps with previously published or simultaneously submitted articles in your cover letter. Note that "duplicate publication or the submission of duplicate material is not necessarily unethical, but failure to disclose the existence of duplicate articles, manuscripts, or other material is unethical and may represent a violation of copyright material." (AMA Manual of Style, 9th ed, p. 98). A content overlap of just 10% may be considered duplicative.
JMIR reserves the right to bill authors for the peer-reviewing, copyediting, layout, and publishing costs of articles which need to be retracted during the production process or after publication on grounds of redundant publication, copyright infringements, or other forms of scientific misconduct.
Please indicate the intended type of paper on the first page, just before the article title. For details, see What are the article types for JMIR journals?
A typical paper contains between 3000 and 5000 words. For details, see What is the maximum word count?
In addition, all papers must contain the following sections: Abstract (see abstract format below), Keywords, Main article body (see below for original articles), Acknowledgements, Conflicts of Interest, References.
A description of sources of funding, financial disclosure, and the role of sponsors must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript. This description should include the involvement, if any, in review and approval of the manuscript for publication and the role of sponsors.
In addition, authors must disclose in a Conflicts of Interest section if they have personal financial interests related to the subject matters discussed in the manuscript. It is not unusual for JMIR authors to be, for example, owners or employees of Internet companies that market the services described in their manuscript. There is nothing wrong with this, but editors, reviewers, and readers should be made aware of such conflicts of interests; thus, these facts must be disclosed.
Papers should be written in accordance with the American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 9th ed. Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins; 1998.
| American Medical Association Manual of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors (AMA)
Cheryl Iverson; Hardcover; $39.95
The following format ("IMRAD Format") must be used for the paper:
Please use subheadings within the main "Introduction," "Methods," "Results," and "Discussion" sections. For example, if you describe three different methods, use three subheadings within the "Methods" section. Also, use matching subheadings in the "Results" section if you report the results from each of the described methods.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are highly welcome and should be reported in accordance with the CONSORT statement. A diagram illustrating the flow of participants through the trial is required.
JMIR is now pilot-testing a CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist - please download the checklist from https://asset.jmir.pub/assets/public/CONSORT-EHEALTH-v1-6.pdf . Although this is primarily intended for randomized trials, the section of the checklist describing how an intervention should be reported is also relevant for manuscripts with other evaluation designs.
Before submission, authors of RCTs must fill in the electronic CONSORT-EHEALTH questionnaire at http://tinyurl.com/consort-ehealth-v1-6 with quotes from their manuscript (if you wish to comment on the importance of the items from the checklist for reporting, please also rate each item on a scale between 1-5). BEFORE you press submit, please generate a pdf of the form with your responses and upload this file as supplementary file entitled CONSORT-EHEALTH V1.6.
A CONSORT-flowdiagram and a attrition diagram are also strongly recommended (as figures).
In accordance with ICMJE recommendations, RCTs must have been registered in a WHO accredited trial registry. See also JMIR Help Center: Registration of RCTs
Meta-analyses and systematic reviews are also highly welcome and should be reported in accordance with the PRISMA statement.
See also: JMIR Help Center: Reporting Guidelines
A Word-template of an article compatible with journals from JMIR Publications can be downloaded from https://asset.jmir.pub/assets/public/InstructionsForAuthorsOfJMIR.docx. Note that the references can be in any format, as long as the in-text citations are sequentially numbered in the manuscript with square brackets and as long as the reference at the end has a PMID in the format PMID:123456.
The abstract for an original paper, systematic review, or consensus paper must not exceed 450 words and must be structured, using the following sections:
Proposals, comments, tutorials, reviews, and other types of papers may contain an unstructured abstract (max. 500 words). For details see What are the article types for JMIR journals?
Below the abstract, authors should provide 3 to 10 keywords or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article and that may be published with the abstract. Terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used
(see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html). As well, keywords from ACM's Computing Classification System may be used if suitable MeSH terms are not available.
Journal Articles:
Preferred format since 12/2010 (including the PMID leads to better results as during production our RefCheck script will clean up and autocorrect the references):
Westberg EE, Miller RA. The basis for using the Internet to support the information needs of primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999 Jan-Feb;6(1):6-25. PMID:9925225
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. JAMA 1997;277:927-934. PMID:9062335
(old format with link to Pubmed handing over the PMID, now discouraged)
Westberg EE, Miller RA. The basis for using the Internet to support the information needs of primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999 Jan-Feb;6(1):6-25. [Medline]
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. JAMA 1997;277:927-934. [Medline]
Iverson CL, Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB, et al. American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 9th edition. Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins; 1998. ISBN:0195176332
Conference proceedings:
Kimura J, Shibasaki H, editors. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.
Note: If conference proceedings are available through Medline, please use the Medline citation rather than the style above - for example in case of AMIA proceedings or IMIA proceedings (=Medinfo) the citation is as follows:
Mandl KD, Kohane IS. Healthconnect: clinical grade patient-physician communication. Proc AMIA Symp 1999;(1-2):849-53. PMID: 10566480
Hachem F, Bellet J, Flory A, Leverve X. A generic model for Internet-accessed databases in epidemiology: a nutritional application. Medinfo 1998;9 Pt 2:1310-3.
Chapter in a Book:
Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. p. 465-78.
Web references (webpages, grey/government reports available on the web as PDFs, etc.)
See below: all webreferences (webpages, PDF reports) must be archived with WebCite. And both the original URL and the WebCite URL must be provided. If you cite reports (such as Pew Internet reports, government reports, etc.), try to locate a free PDF on the web and cite/webcite the PDF version.
Journal article in electronic format:
Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis 1995 Jan-Mar; 1(1):[24 screens]. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm
[do NOT add WebCite links to journal articles]
As cited URLs tend to disappear months or years after citing online material, JMIR now requires that (instead of citing "live" webpages and websites in the article) authors use the WebCite ® technology (www.webcitation.org) to archive cited web references first before they cite them. Please go to www.webcitation.org and enter the URL you want to cite. The system will take a "snapshot" of the webpage or online document (e.g. pdf) so that it will remain available for future readers. WebCite will also give you detailed instructions on how to cite the web reference. Electronic journal articles SHOULD NOT be archived with WebCite if they can be expected to be "stable" e.g. available in libraries and/or carry a DOI, but all other material which might disappear in the future should be archived first by the citing author. For further information on WebCite see also the article Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages, J Med Internet Res 2005, 12, 30; 7(5):e60.
Example for Citing a Web Reference
Preferred format for submissions to JMIR (note that the access/archiving date does not need to be provided because it can be retrieved by the reader when clicking on the WebCite link:
Fox S, Fallows D. 2003. Internet Health Resources. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Health_Report_July_2003.pdf . Archived at: http://www.webcitation.org/5I2STSU61
The access date will be automatically added during copyediting.
All acronyms/abbreviations (including common ones such as WWW and HTML) must be explained in parenthesis after their first occurrence. If many unfamiliar acronyms/abbreviations are used, please compile them in an "Abbreviations" section at the end of the paper.
We strongly encourage to append multimedia appendices, for example research instruments (questionnaires), movie files including screencasts, a Powerpoint file containing additional screenshots or slides from a talk about the study, a Word, RTF, or PDF document showing the original instrument(s) used, a video, or the original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access Db files etc.). Do not include copyrighted material unless you obtained writte permission from the copyright holder, which should be faxed to the editorial office in case of acceptance together with your Publication Agreement form.
Multimedia Appendices intended for publication must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript. Provide in-text citations (for example "see Multimedia Appendix 1") as well as a section with the heading "Multimedia Appendix" before the "References" section. Here, list all Multimedia Appendices and include a brief caption line for each Mutlimedia Appendix describing its contents.
Multimedia Appendices must be uploaded as "supplementary files" during the submission process. In the submission form, carefully enter the caption of the Appendix in a publishable format (using the correct case and avoiding typos and abbreviations), as this will be used in the final publication.
Supplementary files for editor/reviewer eyes only (e.g. related publications) can also be uploaded as "other supplementary file") - these are NOT referred to as "Mutlimedia Appendix".
Include all figures and tables in the manuscript at the location where they should appear in the final manuscript.
Screenshots of the intervention/website as a figure or a movie file of the intervention (as Multimedia Appendix, see above) are highly encouraged.
Figures and captions remain in the manuscript during peer-review, but will be removed during production, using the files and captions uploaded separately from the manuscript. Please also upload each of your final figure (and multimedia appendix) as supplementary file (hi-resolution png files with minimal compression). DO NOT upload .doc files with lineart or other file formats as figure. Movie files (.m4v, .avi etc.), powerpoint files (.ppt), or documents (pdf/.doc) should be uploaded and referred to as Multimedia Appendix (see above), not figures. Please name your files so that it becomes clear what version/revision the figure refers to, e.g. fig1_rev20090130.png. Enter the caption (which will appear underneath the figure) online, omitting the figure label ("Figure 1"), as this will be added automatically. Remove figure label and captions from the image file, if present. Note that for the final publication, the caption will be pulled from the metadata, NOT the caption provided in the manuscript.
IMPORTANT (and new since Aug 2011): During production, FIGURE AND MULTIMEDIA APPENDIX CAPTIONS FOR THE FINAL PUBLICATION ARE NO LONGER PULLED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT, INSTEAD, THEY ARE GENERATED FROM OUR DATABASE (what you enter in the field "caption" when you upload a figure or appendix).
When preparing tables, please make sure that for each row you create a new table row, rather than writing multiple rows into one cell.
Irrespective of the cell alignment in the tables in your submitted word document, text in all table cells cells will be aligned top left in the final published article. No cells can have centered text, including cells that span multiple columns.
n (%)
23 (43%)
27 (23%)
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120 (60%)
n (%)
23 (43%)
27 (23%)
80 (40%)
120 (60%)
It is technically not possible to generate different table headers for the same column in the course of the same table (e.g. switching from "%" to "mean") - the original table header will be automatically repeated on new pages. If the meaning of the column changes, then this constitutes a new table with a separate label and caption. If you report different metrics for different kinds of data (e.g. % for dichotomous outcomes, means and SD for continuous outcomes), write "(mean, SD)" or "(%)" after the category headings, or find alternative ways to present the information (e.g. footnotes).
Use portrait format and 10-12 pt fonts for tables. Do not use landscape paper formats for tables or smaller fonts to squeeze more information (more columns) into a table. If you have too many columns and the table becomes too wide so that you would have to use a smaller font, consider breaking the table into multiple tables. We will always typeset tables in normal font and in portrait orientation. Tables with too many columns will have very narrow columns and look squeezed.
Footnotes for tables must always be a-z (superscript). Do not use symbols such as * or ** (AMA styleguide has recently been revised to that effect - older JMIR articles still use symbols).
Also, please do not submit tables as separate (supplementary) files - always include them in the manuscript file.
Table of Contents Image
Please upload an "illustrative" figure or photo to be used for our homepage and the table-of-contents (we call this a "TOC image"). The TOC image should be at least 800px by 600px (4:3 ratio), with no excessive white space and no border.
TOC Image Guidelines
The actual P value should be expressed (P = .04) rather than expressing a statement of inequality (P < .05), unless P < .001. The P value should be expressed to 2 digits whether or not it is significant. When rounding, 3 digits is acceptable if rounding would change the significance of a value (eg, P = .049 rounded to .05). If P < .01, it should be expressed to 3 digits.
P values less than .001 should be reported as P < .001. Expressing P to more than 3 significant digits does not add useful information since precise P values with extreme results are sensitive to biases or departures from the statistical model.
The traditional reporting of P values (indicating only that P < 0.05) simply indicated whether the results were "statistically significant" or not. But P values of 0.051 and 0.049 should be interpreted similarly despite the fact that the 0.051 is greater than 0.05 and is therefore not "significant" and that the 0.049 is less than 0.05 and thus is "significant." Reporting actual P values avoids this problem of interpretation. P values should not be listed as not significant (NS) since, for meta-analysis, the actual values are important and not providing exact P values is a form of incomplete reporting.
Do not use 0 before the decimal point for statistical values P, alpha, and beta because they cannot equal 1. For some statistical values (eg, kappa) even if they cannot ever equal 1, use 0 if they are used infrequently.
P is always italicized and capitalized.
Authors who are not sure how to report their quantitative results should consult the following book:
| How to Report Statistics in Medicine: Annotated Guidelines for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers (Medical Writing and Communication)
Thomas A. Lang; Paperback; $39.95
As a journal covering innovative methods to disseminate knowledge on the Internet, we want to be innovative in our style and format and take advantage of the possibilites available by publishing online. We do not want, as many online journals do, to reproduce an exact version of a traditional printed journal.
We therefore encourage you to experiment with novel methods of presentation whenever you feel it is appropriate and helps the reader, for example,
The first page of your manuscript should be a title page containing the type of paper; the title; all authors' names, degrees, and affiliations; and the corresponding author's contact address (including phone and fax numbers) and email address.
Except for supplements covering special topics of regional interest or containing papers having been presented at non-English speaking meetings, manuscripts must be English.
Non-native speakers are advised to seek help from a native speaker or a professional copyeditor before submission. Although accepted JMIR manuscripts are also edited for language, a poorly written manuscript has lower chances to be accepted, and multiple typos and grammatical errors often reflect poorly on the author.
Before you submit your manuscript to JMIR, make sure that you avoid the following common formatting / editorial problems:
A. ( ) all in-text references must be numbers in square brackets like this [1]. Do not use the author-year system. Do not use round brackets. Do not use superscript.
B. ( ) JMIR does not use footnotes or endnotes. If you have footnotes, please delete them or incorporate them into the text
C. ( ) URLs must be cited as references and should be archived using WebCite (www.webcitation.org)
D. ( ) in addition to the WebCite URL, please also mention the original URL in the references
E. ( ) please list only one corresponding author with full address, including phone, fax, and email address
F. ( ) Major headings for ALL original papers must be Introduction - Methods - Results - Discussion
G. ( ) Please add subheadings under Introduction/Methods/Results/Discussion (if you use WinWord, apply the style "Heading 2" to IMRD headings, and the styles "Heading 3" to subsequent subheadings). DO NOT USE italics or bold keywords or sentences in paragraphs in lieu of subheadings / sub-subheadings.
H. ( ) You must have more than one subheadings in each section, otherwise please remove the subheading
I. ( ) Your subheadings in the methods section should usually mirror the subeadings in the results section (i.e. for each result type there must be an explanation in the methods on how these results were obtained)
J. ( ) please check our Instructions for Authors on how P-values should be reported
K. ( ) If you want to include a multimedia appendix, please insert a reference ("Multimedia Appendix 1: [caption]") with a caption in the manuscript (before "References"), but make sure to also upload the Appendix as supplementary file. Each appendix must be uploaded as separate file.
L. ( ) End your introduction with a clear statement of what the aim of this paper or study is, or what the hypotheses are.
M. ( ) Start your discussion with a short summary of what the main finding(s) of this study was/were
N. ( ) Shorten the paper, in particular the section: ...
O. ( ) Abstract must be structured (Background-Objectives-Methods-Results-Conclusions)
P. ( ) Please include more quantitative results in the abstract (sample size, P-values, odds ratios with confidence-intervals etc.)
Q. ( ) Please clean up your references, following our instructions for authors. Do not use et al. to abbreviate authors. Do not use "and" between author names. For each author, provide lastname and initial - in that order - without punctuation (e.g. Eysenbach G). Do not use quotation marks for the titles. If you can, provide Medline-links or PMIDs in the format PMID:1234567
R. ( ) For all results for which you provide a relative result (percentage), you should also provide the absolute number, e.g. "132 out of 264 participants (50%) said that...". If n < 100, there is no decimal point in your percentages. If n is 100 to 999, 1 decimal point is reported. If n ≥ 1000, 2 decimal points are reported.
S. ( ) Do not number your headings
T. ( ) Tables should appear in the main manuscript file where they should appear in the final manuscript (rather than being at the end of the manuscript or in a separate file). Figures should remain (during the review process) in the main file but must also be uploaded under "supplementary files". Note that after acceptance, figures should be removed from the main manuscript and the figure/caption entered online (as metadata for the supplementary file) will be used, thus please fill in this section carefully.
U. ( ) Cite a reasonable and appropriate number of scholarly references. Make sure to include the most recent pertinent/related articles - a reference list where the last published reference is over 1-2 years old raises some red flags. Do a Pubmed search to cite previously published papers on the same topic immediately before submission to make sure the most recent related research is cited.
V. ( ) remove ALL field codes before submitting an electronic manuscript. Field codes are used in Microsoft Word if you use bibliographic software to create your references. Before re-submitting your revised manuscript, open your document in Word, select Tools -- Endnote (or Reference Manager) -- Remove Field Codes, and save the manuscript under a new name. Then resubmit that version.
W. ( ) avoid author-invented abbreviations and acronyms
X. ( ) For RCTs only: Starting in 2008, JMIR will routinely publish trial identifiers in the abstract. Please add the trial registration number to the ABSTRACT, after the section "Conclusions: ..." (e.g. "Registration: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT00102401, http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00102401)
If for any reason the trial was not registered, please provide an explanation (e.g. in the methods section and/or a cover letter to the editor).
Y. ( ) Please report the trial in accordance with the CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist - for details see CONSORT-EHEALTH: Improving and Standardizing Evaluation Reports of Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions, J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e126. Please download the checklist from https://asset.jmir.pub/assets/public/CONSORT-EHEALTH-v1-6.pdf . We then need you to fill in the electronic version at http://tinyurl.com/consort-ehealth-v1-6 with quotes from your (revised) paper (if you wish to comment on the importance of the items from the checklist for reporting, please also rate each item on a scale between 1-5). BEFORE you press submit, please generate a pdf of the form with your responses and upload this file as supplementary file entitled CONSORT-EHEALTH V1.6. Mention in your article and/or cover letter that the trial is reported in accordance with CONSORT-EHEALTH.
A CONSORT-flowdiagram and a attrition diagram are also strongly recommended (as figures).
Z. ( ) For online surveys only: Please report the online survey in accordance with the CHERRIES checklist
AA. ( ) Tables must be designed in line with Instructions for Authors (http://www.jmir.org/cms/view/Instructions_for_Authors:Instructions_for_Authors_of_JMIR#figures) - do NOT use a soft line break within a table cell to separate different categories/subcategories. For each category, create a new table row.
FOOTNOTES FOR TABLES must always be a-z (superscript). Do not use symbols such as * or **
AB. ( ) Please also upload each of your final figure (e.g. 1-2 screenshots of the intervention) as supplementary file (hi-resolution png files with minimal compression). DO NOT upload .doc files with lineart or other fileformats. Please name your files so that it becomes clear what revision the figure refers to, e.g. fig1_rev20090130.png. Enter the caption (which will appear underneath the figure) online, omitting the figure label ("Figure 1"), as this will be added automatically. Remove figure label and captions from the image file, if present. Note that for the final publication, the caption will be pulled from the metadata, NOT the caption provided in the manuscript.
The online submission process allows you to enter a comment for the editor into a "comments field." Here you may briefly explain why you think your article is innovative and important. We ask that you mention that you either agree to pay the APF (Article Processing Fee, see below) in case of acceptance, or if you think that the APF should be waived due to institutional membership of the corresponding author.
During the submission process, authors are asked to nominate 2 to 4 external referees to review their manuscript (please provide at least their name and email address). The best reviewers are authors of publications on which your research builds and which you cite. Peer reviewers must have a publishing track in the area the manuscript deals with, however, avoid nominating overly senior (and busy) individuals.
When suggesting peer reviewers, conflicts of interests should be avoided, that is, suggested referees should not
We ask applicants not to contact suggested referees in advance. The editor reserves the right to send the manuscript to other referees.
You may request, in the cover letter, that some researchers not be involved in the review of your paper.
|Important: Please note that JMIR is a open access journal by scientists for scientists supported solely by the grants of the contributing authors. Authors typically hold research grants which allow them to pay the JMIR submission and article procession charges (see Fee Schedule below).
In return, the author(s) retain(s) the copyright.
Authors not having any grants or financial support should encourage their department or university to become an JMIR institutional member.
Authors sometimes have to meet publication deadlines, e.g. for promotion & tenure or thesis defense, grant proposals, spending of research funds before a certain deadline, publication of follow-up papers, or because the findings are deemed important.
To facilitate a speedy turn-around when a rapid decision is required, JMIR offers a review model in which an initial editorial decision is guaranteed within 15 business days (3 weeks, plus bank holidays in Europe/UK/US). This is entirely optional - if you do not wish to pay for a fast-track peer review and premium publishing process, just submit your paper normally as described above.
If you opt for fast-track review and premium publishing, you are guaranteed
In order to take advantage of this, authors must pay a non-refundable fast-track fee (FTF). This should be done within 24 hours after submission. The FTF can be paid immediately after submission using the manuscript submission system, but we now also allow authors to expedite the submission at any time during the peer-review process.
We reserve the right to refund the fast-track fee and process the manuscript in the regular submission track if we are unable to meet the deadline due to a delayed peer-review report or other issues beyond our control.
The fast-track fee is not refundable if we reject the paper (with or without peer-reviews) in the time period stipulated above.
* Canadian, US and European bank holidays, and excluding the days in the period between Dec 23rd - Jan 1st (of each year).
** not including the period between Dec 23rd-Jan 1st. Days where we wait for a response of the author(s) to copyediting or proofreading requests are also not counted
When JMIR receives a manuscript, the Editor and/or Assistant Editor will first decide whether the manuscript meets the formal criteria specified in the Instructions for Authors and whether it fits within the scope of the journal. When in doubt and before rejecting a manuscript on the basis of initial review, the editor will consult other members of the Editorial Board. The editor may assign a section editor to the manuscript, who will guide the manuscript through the peer-review process.
Manuscripts are then sent to an external expert for peer review. The number of peer-reviewers depends on the complexity of the manuscript, but we typically approach 4 peer-reviewers, expecting 1-2 peer-reviews back before we make a decision. Authors are required to suggest 2 peer reviewers during the submission process, but it is at the discretion of the editor whether or not these reviewers will be approached.
JMIR reviewers will not be anonymous (unless they explicitely request this). Names of reviewers will be stated below the article when it is published. Authors and reviewers should not directly contact each other to enter into disputes on manuscripts or reviews.
After peer review, the editor will contact the author. If the author is invited to submit a revised version, the revised version has to be submitted by the author within 3 months. Otherwise, the manuscript will be removed from the manuscript submission queue and will be considered rejected.
Internet research is a fast-moving field, and we acknowledge the need of our authors to communicate their findings rapidly. We therefore aim to be extremely fast (but still thorough and rigorous) in our peer-review process. For example, the paper "Factors Associated with Intended Use of a Web Site Among Family Practice Patients" (J Med Internet Res 2001;3(2):e17) was reviewed, edited, typeset, and published within only 16 days. Including the two weeks' time authors needed for revision, less than 1 month passed from first submission to final publication. (Please note that actual times to review and edit papers vary and primarily depend on the quality of the paper upon first submission.)
We can not provide any guarantees on the speed of peer review or publication - except if a paper has been submitted under the fast-track option, in which case, we guarantee an initial editorial decision within a certain number of days and publication of the article within a certain number of weeks after acceptance.
Manuscripts should meet the following criteria: the study conducted is ethical (see below); the material is original; the writing is clear; the study methods are appropriate; the data are valid; the conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data; the information is important; and the topic is interesting to our readership.
It is recognized that many submissions will describe websites and other Internet-based services. The Editorial Board strongly recommends that authors of such submissions make efforts to evaluate and, if possible, quantify the impact of these services. Submissions containing evaluations are more likely to be accepted than those containing descriptions of services alone, unless the service includes significant innovation.
Internet-based research raises novel questions of ethics and human dignity. If human subjects are involved, informed consent, protection of privacy, and other human rights are further criteria against which the manuscript will be judged. Papers describing investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the study was approved by the institutional review board, in accordance with all applicable regulations, and that informed consent was obtained after the nature and possible consequences of the study were explained.
JMIR also encourages articles devoted to the ethics of Internet-based research. In addition, as mentioned above, we will ask authors to disclose any competing interests in relation to their work.
Recommended Reading:
JMIR is dedicated to the fight against plagiarism and "cyberplagiarism," the stealing of paragraphs and ideas from articles and websites without appropriate references. We are the first scholarly journal which checks submitted manuscripts against the Web, using turnitin.com, to see whether significant portions of submissions have been taken from websites without appropriate credit.
It is perfectly acceptable to take direct quotes from websites, but the reference (URL) must be given and the citation must be included in quotation marks. If portions of the manuscript have already been published by the author on other websites, this does not necessarily exclude the material from publication in JMIR; however, the JMIR Editorial Board does need to know which portions of the manuscript have been previously published and where. The author should include a note in the cover letter indicating which portions have been published elsewhere.
Should possible scientific misconduct or dishonesty in research submitted for review be suspected or alleged, this journal reserves the right to forward any submitted manuscript to the sponsoring or funding institution or other appropriate authority for investigation. This journal recognizes the responsibility to ensure that the issue is appropriately pursued but does not undertake the actual investigation or make determinations of misconduct.
"Open access" means that the content of JMIR is freely available. The definition, according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, is as follows:
"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited." (Budapest Open Access Initiative - Definition of Open Access)
JMIR is among the pioneers of a new generation of open access medical journals, supporting free and unrestricted access to research information on the Web. This publishing model is becoming increasingly popular among researchers, who have learned that open access articles are more visible and more frequently cited (see Eysenbach G. Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles, PLoS Biol 2006; 4(5): e157).
JMIR operates in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The following excerpts from the Budapest Open Access Initiative explain the philosophy and business model behind this approach:
The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge....
While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce.... Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms.... Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves.
The publication of a high quality online journal service such as JMIR is an expensive business. In addition to all the fixed costs usually associated with print journal publishing (reviewing, editing, data processing, printing, and distribution), there are costs associated with online publication (including software development costs, hosting, and user support). The scientific research community considers author charges as a viable way of covering publication costs.
Authors should understand that JMIR is employing professional staff (technical, copyediting) and we have to pay our bills too. Our authors usually budget for JMIR membership or knowledge dissemination activities in their research grant proposals, and cover JMIR publication fees or membership fees through their research grants, CME funds, or other sources. Authors not holding such grants should contact their department or library, encouraging them to become an institutional member.
Fee Schedule
Some (but not all) of the journals published by JMIR Publications have publication charges.
Some of the possible chargers are explained below. Newer journals typically have none of these charges (except the optional fast-track fee), while more established journals may have a submission fee and/or a
Please refer to the detailed fee schedule for a list of all JMIR journals and their fees.
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1) Submission Fee (JSF)
*The submission fee is non-refundable, even if the paper is rejected, with or without external peer-review.
Letters to the editor, invited articles................................. FREE
Regular papers (original work, viewpoints, reviews etc.), currently for J Med Internet Res only........ US$ 90
Article reinstatement fee (previously withdrawn by author or no response within 3 months after peer-review), currently for J Med Internet Res only........ US$ 90
All other journals/article types...............see fee schedule
2) Fast-track Fee (optional) (FTF)
Payment of the Fast Track Fee guarantees a speedy turnaround (initial decision within 15 working days, publication within 1 month after acceptance + APF payment). The fast-track fee is non-refundable, even if the paper is rejected, with or without peer-review.
Fast-Track Fee.................................................................... US$ 450
3) Article Processing Fee (APF)
Only payable in case of acceptance of a manuscript.
Letters to the editor**................................. FREE
Newer journals (see fee schedule).............. FREE
Corresponding author from institutional member organization....................... FREE
Grant proposals and research protocols (now published in our new spin-off journal JMIR Research Protocols) which are already peer-reviewed (review reports must be submitted)................ US$ 950
Short surveillance reports (short reports for JMIR Public Health and Surveillance with mainly data (as table and/or data appendix), less than 5 pages narrative and a maximum of 5 references), where the main paper about the surveillance system is already published........ US$ 350 (introductory offer: Free for submissions before 15 Jun 2015)
All other journals/article types...............see fee schedule
Corrections/Addenda fee (for publication of an corrigendum and making corrections to the original article, including resubmission to various databases, only charged if the error was an oversight by the author not corrected in the proofs and is a discretionary corrigendum not affecting the validity of the article, such as omissions of authors)..........US$ 90
** Letters to the editor must be a response or comment on a recently published paper in a JMIR journal. 5 references or less. Original research is not accepted as letter.
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Why do we charge fees? The fee will be paid to a research account at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto, and will be used to pay the costs for administrative support for the peer-review process, copyediting, hosting of the journal, production of the XML/HTML versions of articles, membership in CrossRef, and for further development of the journal and website. In open access journals, authors retain the copyright for their work, and access to the published paper is provided free of charge for readers. Because of this, open access journals have limited possibilities to generate revenue and offset costs by licensing content. Therefore, processing and publication costs need to be carried by the authors' institution or research grants. The article processing fee, payable upon acceptance, is waived if the corresponding author is from a department or university that is a JMIR institutional member at the time of submission and acceptance. Authors should encourage their department or university to become an institutional JMIR member prior to submitting an article, as this actually costs less than the fee for a single article.
For authors not affiliated with institutional members at the time of the submission (login into your userhomepage and click on membership to see a list - in addition, there is a drop-down list in the submission form), articles accepted by JMIR are subject to the article processing fee, payable in the period between article acceptance and copyediting. This fee is usually paid by a grant of one of the authors (most if not all funding agencies allow payment of APFs from their grants) or by the academic department of the author (much as they already pay for reprints, page charges, or color plates in subscription-based journals). Authors who have no sources of support to pay for the processing fee should lobby their department to become an institutional member prior to submission.
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State Sen. Mark Grisanti, in partnership with City of Tonawanda Mayor Ron Pilozzi, Time Warner Cable and SunnKing, hosted a free electronics recycling event Saturday in the Town of Tonawanda.
The second annual Northtowns E-Waste Recycling Event took place at St. Andrew's Country Day School and was deemed a success by the senator, who also serves as the chairman of the Senate's environmental conservation committee.
"We must dispose of electronic waste safely and responsibly, and this event gave residents of the Southtowns an opportunity to do that at no charge to taxpayers," Grisanti said. "We collected close to 75,000 pounds today and received many kind words from people who arrived in nearly 1,000 vehicles who came from Tonawanda, Kenmore, Buffalo and various other cities, towns and villages in the region. I was pleased that they were able to take advantage of this free opportunity to clean out their homes and offices and dispose of their old electronic materials safely."
Time Warner Cable and Pilozzi also expressed their satisfaction with the turnout.
"Time Warner Cable was happy to partner with Sen. Grisanti to host this event in Western New York, which provided a safe option for the disposal of unwanted electronics," said Terence Rafferty, regional vice president of operations at Time Warner Cable.
"It's great to see everyone properly disposing of their unwanted electronics," Pilozzi said. "Safely getting rid of this waste makes Tonawanda a cleaner, and more environmentally friendly community. I'd like to thank all those that helped this cause by coming out today."
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The Importance of Aroma
Aroma is the first cousin of taste. In fact, much of what we call taste is an intricately entwined matrix of flavor, aroma chemicals and texture or mouthfeel.
In the 2005 review "Odor/taste integration and the perception of flavor," in Experimental Brain Research, Dana Small and John Prescott presented psychophysical, neuro-imaging and neurophysiological studies showing how odor and taste are "functionally united [while] anatomically separated." It's no wonder food manufacturers are very picky about how their products smell.
"Formulating any type of food or beverage involves more than just one's sense of taste," says Stephen Manheimer, marketing director for Mastertaste (www.mastertaste.com), Teterboro, N.J. "You have to consider aroma, texture (mouthfeel) and, in many cases, even appearance. All of these factors contribute to the overall sensory experience that the consumer has when he sits down to eat. Aroma in particular is strongly linked to taste.
"The taste buds can only perceive five stimuli: salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami that is, 'savory' or 'meaty'," Manheimer continues. "Because of this, a lot of what consumers experience when eating actually occurs through their sense of smell, not taste. The natural question that comes to mind is, how do we perceive odors or aromas?"
In 2004, neuroscientists Richard Axel of Columbia University, New York, and Linda Buck of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their contribution to our understanding of how we detect odors. Before they published their work, olfactory scientists knew the cells lining the nose bound a variety of molecules responsible for aroma.
These cells relay electrical signals to a specialized area of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which in turn shuttles messages to the brain's smell recognition center. However, which receptors on the cell's surface are doing the work and how exactly these signals are relayed had remained a mystery.
Axel and Buck showed the detection of aromas is highly specific: Each aroma molecule activates a specific receptor on a particular membrane cell of the nasal mucosa. When an aroma molecule binds to a receptor, it sets off a sequence of events involving special signal proteins, called G proteins, which control the opening or closing of channels in the cell membrane.
The surprising discovery was that each cell lining the nasal cavity displays only one type of receptor on its surface, which in turn can be activated by only a handful of related aroma molecules. Since most odors consist of many molecules that activate different receptor-bearing cells with different intensities, we can recognize about 10,000 different aromas.
Axel and Buck further showed the receptor-bearing cells send projections directly to the olfactory bulb. This helps to explain why we are so immediately sensitive to odors, and why separating taste from odor in food is next to impossible.
Most odor molecules are volatized organic compounds. Odor compounds form naturally during the ripening of plants, the development of oils or during natural processes such as fermentation. The list of known natural odorant chemical bases is extensive, ranging from alcohols, aldehydes, amines, esters, ethers and essential oils - anything that can evaporate and reach concentrations high enough for detection. Once identified, the chemicals responsible for aroma can be captured and utilized to enhance the food experience.
Trust your senses
The intricate association between aroma and flavor demands rigorous sensory analysis in order to determine what products will be acceptable to the consumer. "Sensory analysis is a critical step in innovation to give consumers the products they want, where, when and how they want them," says Jeffrey Kondo, vice president of product innovation for Dairy Management Inc./DMI (www.dairyinfo.com), Rosemont, Ill.
DMI supports a pilot sensory lab at North Carolina State University's Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center, Raleigh, N.C. It is part of DMI's National Dairy Foods Research Center Program, a unified coordinated research effort designed to support and accelerate dairy innovation.
"Very important to industry are the sensory lexicons developed by MaryAnne Drake and her team," says Kondo. Drake is associate professor of sensory and flavor chemistry in the university's Department of Food Science. "These lexicons not only provide a standardized way of describing flavors but also link these flavors to chemical compounds. When you describe something as having a 'dairy flavor,' she's able to link that to at least some of the compounds that are actually causing that flavor. The descriptions and classifications can help a dairy processor keep going down the right road on a new product," explains Kondo.
Drake's approach to sensory analysis begins with her knowledge of the physiological ability to detect and distinguish aromas and flavors. "There are many modern instruments designed for sensory analysis, but nothing matches the human instrument for its complexity, intensity and sophistication of detection," says Drake. "Sensory testing is critical. Knowledge of consumer desires and perceptions and the sensory properties of existing competitor products can influence the breadth, depth and success of a product line. The dairy industry is in a desirable position in that its flavor and odor profiles are already pleasing to most consumers."
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District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront declared a mistrial yesterday in a Nebraska rape case in which the alleged victim would have been unable to say certain words, including "rape" and "assault". Tory Bowen has accused Pamir Safi with raping her in 2004 when he allegedly knew that she was too intoxicated to give consent. Her trial, which was slated to begin next week, drew national attention after Judge Cheuvront banned several terms, supposedly because they would prejudice the jury. Bowen pledged to do her best to follow the language ban, but refused to sign a statement that she would comply. Both Cheuvront and the Nebraska Supreme Court refused to hear motions challenging the language ban. funny pictures funny images funny photos funny animal pictures funny dog pictures funny cat pictures funny gifs
The trial would have been the second against Bowen's alleged attacker. The first, which also included the language ban, was in 2006 and ended in a hung jury. Lawyers for the accused maintain that Cheuvront's language ban was essential to ensuring Safi's rights. Cheuvront made his ruling based on a 35-year-old state law that allows judges to bar terms that risk misleading the jury.
If Bowen fails to obey the language restriction in a courtroom, she could face jail time. She still would not sign the formal statement, saying, "I want the freedom to be able to point to [Safi] in court and say, 'That man raped me,'" according to the Associated Press. Advocates for sexual violence victims are outraged by the judge's decision, saying that it discourages rape victims from bringing their cases to court. It is now up to the county prosecutor whether or not to pursue another trial, reports the Beatrice Daily Sun, a Nebraska local newspaper.
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After a prelim card dominated by normal-sized men, we've arrived at tonight's central theme: Big sons-of-bitches. Come in for round-by-round updates, starting at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.
So yeah, the event was a success, yet it only managed to pull in 70,000 more buys that Jones' UFC 140 title defense against Lyoto Machida.
You know, kind of like how Miesha Tate didn't actually get her arm snapped in half by Ronda Rousey, despite all visual evidence to the contrary.
A profile removal can only mean one thing in today's UFC economy: BANISHMENT.
No word yet on a timetable for Belcher's return to competition; let's just hope this isn't a career-ender.
For a card that featured a nearly-severed toe and two technical decisions due to eye-pokes, hearing the voice of Satan during the UFC 159 broadcast fit in perfectly with the "Cursed" theme of the night.
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Executive Editor Christopher Mele recalls growing up with Ed Koch as his boyhood mayor.
As a kid growing up in the Bronx, Ed Koch was my childhood mayor.
Sure, I vaguely remember Abe Beame and the city's turbulent financial crisis, but where Beame was sort of stodgy and looked to me like an undertaker, Koch was like the fun-loving uncle you'd want at holiday dinners.
So it was with a heaviness that I heard the news Friday morning that Koch had died.
I had read recently how he had been hospitalized for this condition or that illness, but to me, Koch was larger than life and no sickness could ever hold him down.
Koch was the people's mayor and embodied all that was right and wrong with New York City: He was colorful, obnoxious, abrasive and zany.
I have this image seared in my head of Koch during the mass transit strike of 1980, leading commuters and pedestrians across the Brooklyn Bridge, encouraging them on.
Or him at appearances with his arms outstretched, his thumbs up.
This story may be apocryphal but even if it is, it captured Koch's spirit and personality:
When, after serving three terms, he lost a Democratic primary to David Dinkins, who would go on to succeed Koch as mayor, a reporter asked Koch if we would consider running for office again.
Koch replied matter-of-factly: "Well, the people have spoken, and now the people must suffer."
I recall as a kid (I might have been around 13 or so at the time), Koch and the late Gov. Hugh Carey coming to my Bronx neighborhood in Parkchester for a joint campaign appearance.
I remember being struck by what a tall drink of water Koch was.
Getting out of this town car was like watching a stork with its legs unfolding and snapping into place. (I just look up his height on the Web and was surprised to learn he was only 6 foot 2 inches tall but I suppose when you're a kid, everything seems bigger.)
I boldly went up to him with a pen and pad (ever the reporter even then I guess) and got his autograph.
From that appearance I also have some Kodak photos of him, his bald head bowed, signing other autographs.
One of my all-time favorite movies "The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three," which was released four years before Koch took office, presciently featured actor Lee Wallace, who could have played Koch in a movie biography.
Wallace went on to play Gotham's mayor in 1989's "Batman" in what likely was a nod and a wink to the New York City mayor.
But at the end of the day, any actor could only merely imitate Koch, who was one of a kind.
Koch will long be remembered for his signature question: "How'm I doin'?"
Well, Mr. Mayor, I'm sure that wherever you are, you are doing just terrific.