Recently, I've received an acceptance for publishing my paper in an ISI enlisted Journal called Indian Journal of Science and Technology. Definitely, it's great.  How can I check the robustness of this journal? How much value will carry on it in academic world?   Can anyone help me, please?
A colleague and I recently submitted a paper to a journal with an impressive-sounding name, the "International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research". According to ,      IJAICR is a referred [sic] journal in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence and soft computing methods.   It was accepted two days after we submitted it. That's too fast. We were suspicious. Although the journal said that all papers are peer-reviewed, we could not see how that was done in two days. Plus, we received no comments from the reviewers. Also, the submission guidelines didn't ask for a "blind" copy (without our names or any references to who we were).   But wait, there's more.  The acceptance letter asked us to send them US$300 to publish it. We did not. We've withdrawn our submission and will submit a new version of the paper to a more reputable journal in the coming months.  How might we make a better choice of respectable journals before we submit next time?
How to address a professor in letter? Find the last two digits of $9^{{9}^{9}}$ I have to find the last two decimal digits of the number $9^{{9}^{9}}$.  That's what I did:  $$m=100 , \phi(m)=40, a=9$$ $$(100,9)=1, \text{ so from Euler's theorem,we have :} 9^{40} \equiv 1 \pmod{100}$$  $$9^{{9}^{9}} \equiv 9^{9^{2+2+2+2+1}} \equiv 9^{9^2 \cdot 9^2 \cdot 9^2 \cdot 9^2 \cdot 9} \equiv 9^{81 \cdot 81 \cdot 81 \cdot 81 \cdot 9} \equiv 9^{(40+40+1) \cdot (40+40+1) \cdot (40+40+1) \cdot (40+40+1) \cdot 9} \equiv (9^{(40+40+1)})^{(40+40+1) \cdot (40+40+1) \cdot (40+40+1) \cdot 9} \equiv 9^9 \equiv 9^4 \cdot 9^4 \cdot 9 \equiv 6561 \cdot 6561 \cdot 9 \equiv 3721 \cdot 9 \\ \equiv 21 \cdot 9 \equiv 89 \pmod{100}$$  So,the last two digits are $8 \text{ and } 9$. $$$$But,is there also an other way two calculate the last two digits of $9^{{9}^{9}}$ or is the above the only one? Reprojecting LiDAR data with libLAS, error: "latitude or longitude exceeded limits"? Timeline vote summary shows votes for the 24 hours following the timestamp, which is confusing The new timeline is pretty snazzy. But there's one thing I've noticed that's a bit jarring; the timestamp for vote summaries is always 0:00:00 on a particular day, and the summary covers the rest of that day. So you end up with a summary that always shows up earlier than the events that presumably triggered the votes that show up in it.  A simple solution is to have it display 23:59:59 instead, and sort accordingly. This way the summary comes in after the events it summarizes. How can I make my browser lie about my operating system? I'm using Chromium (Version 30.0.1599.114 Ubuntu 12.10) under Linux. I'm trying to access  that claims that it doesn't work under Linux. Of course, this is most likely crazy since the web is platform-independent (unless they're using some kind of evil plug-in).  I've used a user agent switcher to supply a Windows user agent, but to no avail. Upon viewing the source, it appears that the site is using Javascript to determine the operating system. I'm looking for a way to get my browser to report in Javascript that it is Windows or MacOS.  Do you know how to do it? Running own executable on Android shell I need a specific command line tool and I have made a C program in my Linux shell. I have compiled the program with an ARM cross-compiler. I have then moved the program into the Android file system and tried to run it.  The output is permission denied.  What do I have to do, in order to run my own compiled programs in Android file system? How to delete files from a folder using a list of file names in windows? i have a folder with 2K+ files in it, i need to delete around 200, i have a txt file with all the file names i need removed ordered in a list, how do i remove the specific files from the folder using the list? (OS is windows 7) The set of homotopy classes What does a leading zero do for a php int? How to convert SSH public key from PEM to DER format? Discovering transformations and interactions I am teaching myself regression using Regression Modeling Strategies by Harell and the author goes at quite the length to showcase the importance of modeling interactions and transformations of the initial variables. I can't help but wonder how to approach this in a more structured/automated way when dealing with a lot of potential variables.  Can we use recursive partitioning, for example, to somehow to do the work for us and then use the output as variables, shrink the estimates with LASSO to deal with colinearity and do a final step where we use some sort of filtering for feature importance.  In my mind this will leave us with a well specified model which can be manually inspected and improved if need be, but is this reasonable? Are there other ways to approach this? Are there some resources that deal with problems like this? Suppose that $A, B, C$, and $D$ are sets with the cardinalities related as  $|A|=|C|$ and $|B|=|D|$. Prove that the cardinality of $A\times B$ is equal to the cardinality of $D\times C$.  I know that I must prove the bijection of the function $f: A \times B \to C \times D$, but I am not sure how to say this? Can anyone help me? Schengen visa category required for job interview Installing grub2 in efi-mode in usb flash drive I've two different OS, which one is ubuntu. I'm using a PC, NOT a Mac. I use Chimera bootloader that don't find Ubuntu. So, i'd like to install grub 2 in EFI-mode on flash-drive USB. In this way, i can load Ubuntu only if the usb flash-drive is connected.  I followed this guide  replacing "/dev/sda" in  sudo efibootmgr --create --gpt --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --write-signature --label "GRUB2" --loader "\\EFI\\grub\\grub.efi"   with the usb-pen directory. Then, i've copied the grub.cfg file that exists in Ubuntu partition.Result? Grub2 loads, but when i select the menu entries, grub2 doesn't find any command, or disks. How can i fix this problem?  P.S. Here, there are the photo of the error(when i select ubuntu entry in grub2), the usb-drive's contents and the grub.cfg file I have a card that is 50% used with 7% interest. The max credit limit on the card is $10,000, and I used $5000. I have another card that is $14,000 and I have $2900 used, but the interest is 14.9%. I want to move the $2900 card to the other card that has a lower interest rate (7%). This will bring the balance close to the max, but the idea is to focus on this one card and bring the balance down as quickly as possible. is this a wise choice? I am looking to purchase a house in 6 months so I thought that this might be enough time to pay it off and keep my score up. My scores are currently in the low 700s. Hot and Week tabs not shown to non-logged in users (except on SO) Visiting a SE site without logging in, one can no longer access the tabs Hot and Week (except on StackOverflow). I believe this change hides the feature from those most likely to use it: casual, but repeated, visitors. A number of people visit SE sites such as Travel or Mathematics just to read the content. They have no intention to post, and consequently, no reason to register. It makes little sense to hide the Hot and Week lists from them.   I propose that the tabs  ... Hot | Week | Month should again be made visible to anonymous visitors on SE sites, as they are on StackOverflow. For all square matrices $A$ and $B$ of the same size, it is true that $(A+B)^2 = A^2 + 2AB + B^2$? The below statement is a true/false exercise.  Statement: For all square matrices A and B of the same size, it is true that $(A + B)2 = A^2 + 2AB + B^2$.  My thought process: Since it is not a proof, I figure I can show by example and come to a valid conclusion based on such example.  My work:  Come up with a square matrix A and B let both be a 2 by 2 matrix(rows and cols must be same).  Matrix $A$:  $A = \begin{array}{ccc} 3 &amp; 5 \\ 4 &amp; 6 \\ \end{array} $  Matrix $B$:  $B =  \begin{array}{ccc} 5 &amp; 8 \\ 9 &amp; 4 \\ \end{array} $  $A + B =  \begin{array}{ccc} 8 &amp; 13 \\ 13 &amp; 10 \\ \end{array}$  $(A + B)^2 =  \begin{array}{ccc} 233 &amp; 234 \\ 234 &amp; 264 \\ \end{array}$  $A^2 =  \begin{array}{ccc} 29 &amp; 45 \\ 36 &amp; 56 \\ \end{array}$  $(AB) =  \begin{array}{ccc} 60 &amp; 44 \\ 74 &amp; 56 \\ \end{array}$  $2(AB) =  \begin{array}{ccc} 120 &amp; 88 \\ 234 &amp; 112 \\ \end{array}$  $B^2 =  \begin{array}{ccc} 97 &amp; 72 \\ 81 &amp; 88 \\ \end{array}$  $A^2 + 2AB + B^2 =  \begin{array}{ccc} 246 &amp; 205 \\ 265 &amp; 256 \\ \end{array}$  Based my above work, the answer is false.   Is there another way to approach the problem? It seems like a lot of work needed to be done for a true/false question which raised my suspicion about whether there is a better way to look at the problem. $$\lim _{x\rightarrow 5}\frac{x^2-25}{x-5}  = \lim_{x\rightarrow 5} (x+5)$$  I understand that to evaluate a limit that has a zero ("hole") in the denominator we have to factor and cancel terms, and that the original limit is equal to the new and simplified limit. I understand how to do this procedurally, but I'd like to know why this works. I've only been told the methodology of expanding the $x^2-25$ into $(x-5)(x+5)$, but I don't just want to understand the methodology which my teacher tells me to "just memorize", I really want to know what's going on. I've read about factoring in abstract algebra, and about irreducible polynomials (just an example...), and I'd like to get a bigger picture of the abstract algebra in order to see why we factor the limit and why the simplified is equal to the original if it's missing the $(x-5)$, which has been cancelled. I don't want to just memorize things, I would really like to understand, but I've been told that this is "just how we do it" and that I should "practice to just memorize the procedure." I really want to understand this in abstract algebra terms, please elaborate. Thank you very much. How do I instantiate a string array object into a Spring.Net container? Is there a way to transfer more than one Pokemon at a time? Is there a way to transfer more than one Pokemon at a time to the professor?  Or possibly an addon that gives me this ability?  Vendoring all the trash Pokemon for candies individually is really annoying and time consuming.