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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218.appHeader = "<FONT SIZE=4><b>Uncovering plagiarism<br><b></FONT><br>";
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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i++] = new Array("","Introduction","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080228/080228-obama-clinton-hmed-11a.hmedium.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "Andrew Gombert", "EPA file", "273", "410", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>Introduction</b></FONT><p>Did Barack Obama commit plagiarism when he borrowed a passage from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick for a recent speech? The resulting brouhaha highlights a larger question that has plagued scientists for years: How can researchers uncover the flagrant copycat studies that have infiltrated the scientific world?<br><P ALIGN=RIGHT><i>&#8212; Bryn Nelson</i>";

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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>A look at medical research</b></FONT><p>Harold &#147;Skip&#148; Garner and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have created an online search engine that has identified thousands of potential instances of plagiarism within a vast database of medical research.  Subsequent sleuthing has led to multiple investigations.";

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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>Flagged for review</b></FONT><p>The publicly available program, called eTBLAST, allows scientists, editors, reviewers and other sleuths to enter chunks of text or even entire manuscripts and search for similarities in an online database of research (shown is a partial screen grab). Multiple databases are already searchable, including NASA&#146;s, with more on the way. Under an initiative by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers, manuscripts that receive a similarity score of more than 56 percent are automatically flagged for further review.";

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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>Suspected plagiarism</b></FONT><p>Once flagged, documents end up in a database aptly named D&#233;ja vu. Shown is a partial screen grab of a page allowing users to browse through the records of duplicate studies. More than 71,000 of them have been stored so far, including about 80 carefully reviewed cases in which plagiarism is strongly suspected and another 6,700 duplicate pairs (potentially indicating plagiarism) that await similar scrutiny.";

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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>Comparing similarities</b></FONT><p>This portion of the D&#233;ja vu database compares similarities between manuscripts under review. On the left is the summary, or abstract, for a study on survival rates after cancer surgery, published in the spring of 1996. On the right is the abstract for a suspiciously similar study published in the late summer of 1997. Although common words have been excluded in the direct comparison, the blue boxes indicating matching words and word order still predominate. Many sentences, in fact, are essentially identical.";

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Tech_Frontiers_Plagiarism_080218[i-1].body = "<FONT SIZE=3 color=#CC0000><b>Key differences</b></FONT><p>This portion of the D&#233;ja vu database compares differences between flagged manuscripts. Shown are the same two research abstracts as in the last slide, with the original on the left and the latter publication on the right. Pink blocks of text highlight key differences between the abstracts, which are few and far between.";

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