Three weeks ago, I have submitted a paper to a journal that has a reputation for fast publication process. On their website, they mention that decision on acceptance or otherwise are taken quickly normally within a month of receipt of the paper. One week after submission the status of the paper changed from waiting assignment to in review .  The journal use OJS for submissions. in review page something like this appear:  Peer Review Round 1  Review Version    Final version.pdf  2018-11-24  Initiated    —  Last modified    —  Uploaded file    None  Does that mean still no external reviewer is assigned to the paper? Giving the circumstances is it too early to ask if any reviewer is assigned?
What steps does a manuscript typically go through from submission to publication (or rejection) in a typical journal? How are these steps referred to, in particular by editorial systems, and how long do they each typically take?  Note that this question is about the typical situation and hence not about:   Journals with an atypical workflow, e.g. those that allow for an instantaneous reviewer–author interaction. Exceptional steps or rare occurrences such as withdrawal or .   This is a canonical question on this topic as per . Due to its nature, it is rather broad and not exemplary for a regular question on this site. Please feel free to improve this question.
How can I use asymmetric encryption, such as RSA, to encrypt an arbitrary length of plaintext? RSA is not designed to be used on long blocks of plaintext like a block cipher, but I need to use it to send a large (encrypted) message.  How can I do this? I have several hundred Illustrator files that are formatted similarly, and for legal reasons I need to replace a font in all of them. Even with the 'Find font' tool, that's a hell of a lot of fonts to replace by hand.  Is there some way of automating it? For example, using Bridge? Illustrator (CS5) doesn't offer many options in Bridge, compared to the automation options offered by Photoshop. I also don't see any option for running actions on multiple Illustrator files.  Also, creating a repeatable action for replacing the font doesn't seem to work: instead of repeating my action, it brings up the dialog box an waits for me to tell it to replace them.  As a programmer I'm prepared to edit the files directly if it can be done without breaking them.    Update: The 'Batch...' menu item from Illustrator's actions panel menu allows the same action to be performed on a folder of files. It doesn't fix the Find Fonts action waiting for input though. Toggling the dialog off makes the action do nothing at all. How to interpret Mean Decrease in Accuracy and Mean Decrease GINI in Random Forest models I have a site which is only for US/Canada/UK visitors. I don't want to make it visible to other visitors.  I tried to put IP ranges in .htaccess (Deny IP) but it does not work for me. May be I have inaccurate IP lists or I am doing something wrong. Blank lines in an equation and some other similar function Why blank lines between equation makes error? there are a lot of commands in latex and almost for all of them these blank lines are not important,  but why in this case is important and is there any similar function? Combine 4 cells in a table Here is a simple table.  I want to merge 4 cells. I want to combine the three "this" cells area in this table. I thought I have to use multirow and multicolum at same time. However, I could not find how to use it.  If possible, could you post the modified LaTeX source code?     My LaTeX code:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{multirow}% http://ctan.org/pkg/multirow \usepackage{hhline}% http://ctan.org/pkg/hhline \begin{document}  \begin{table}[ph] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c} \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Raaa (k)} &amp; \multicolumn{4}{c}{C ()} \\ \hhline{~----}  &amp; 3.3 &amp; 2.5 &amp; 1 &amp; 0.5 \\ \hline \multirow{2}{*}{Raaa (k)} &amp; \multirow{2}{*}{this} &amp; this &amp; 0.5 &amp; 0.6\\ \hhline{~~~--}            &amp;                       &amp; this &amp; 0.7 &amp; 1.2 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{R, C ripple size} \label{T:peak} \end{center} \end{table} \end{document} Number of planks required to stop the bullet Variables in batch file not being set when inside IF? I have two examples of very simple batch files:  Assigning a value to a variable:  @echo off set FOO=1 echo FOO: %FOO% pause echo on   Which, as expected, results in:  FOO: 1  Press any key to continue . . .   However, if I place the same two lines inside an IF NOT DEFINED block:  @echo off IF NOT DEFINED BAR (     set FOO=1     echo FOO: %FOO% ) pause echo on   This unexpectedly results in:  FOO:  Press any key to continue . . .   This shouldn't have anything to do with the IF, clearly the block is being executed.  If I define BAR above the if, only the text from the PAUSE command is displayed, as expected.    What gives?    Follow up question: Is there any way to enable delayed expansion without setlocal?   If I were to call this simple example batch file from inside another, the example sets FOO, but only LOCALLY.   For example:   testcaller.bat   @call test.bat  @echo FOO: %FOO%  @pause    test.bat   @setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  @IF NOT DEFINED BAR (      @set FOO=1      @echo FOO: !FOO!  )    This displays:   FOO: 1  FOO:  Press any key to continue . . .    In this case, it appears that I have to enable delayed expansion in the CALLER, which may be a hassle. The outlet for my range hood was misplaced. It needs to be 4 inches to the side. I can make the junction and move the wiring to the new location but I really don't want to have the empty plate exposed.   The wire is not long enough to reach the required location, so I will make a junction in the existing box, and add a new box at the correct location.  Is there any acceptable circumstance where I could tile over the "old" in-wall junction box?  I'm guessing not, but I figured I'd ask.  EDIT: I should clarify, based on the answers below... I know for a fact that this outlet is the only line on this entire circuit, all the way back to the panel. I am asking explicitly if there is any way to acceptably splice the wiring without exposing a junction box. How do I render a Twig template and load a CSS file from a controller? Is this considered a good practice for rendering a Twig template and loading a CSS file from a controller?   DefaultController.php  namespace Drupal\acme\Controller;  use Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase; use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerInjectionInterface; use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface; use Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment;  class DefaultController extends ControllerBase implements ContainerInjectionInterface  {   /**   * @var Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment   */   protected $twig;    public function __construct(TwigEnvironment $twig)   {     $this-&gt;twig = $twig;   }    public static function create(ContainerInterface $container)   {     return new static(       $container-&gt;get('twig')     );   }    /**    * hello    * @param  string $name    * @return string    */   public function hello($name)    {      $template = $this-&gt;twig-&gt;loadTemplate(       drupal_get_path('module', 'acme') . '/templates/hello.html.twig'     );      $markup = [       '#markup' =&gt; $template-&gt;render([ 'name' =&gt; $name ]),       '#attached' =&gt; [ 'css' =&gt; [           drupal_get_path('module', 'acme') . '/assets/css/acme.css'         ]       ]     ];      return drupal_render($markup);   } }   acme.routing.yml  acme_hello:   path: '/acme/hello/{name}'   defaults:     _content: '\Drupal\acme\Controller\DefaultController::hello'     _title: 'acme Title'   requirements:     _permission: 'access content'   hello.html.twig  &lt;div class="acme-hello-text"&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;Hello {{ name }}!&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;/div&gt; What is dependency injection? Why can't I find the Karin Kuruma? How do I find diamonds? The durability of iron tools is really starting to annoy me, but in all my hours of playing I've only stumbled across one deposit of diamond ore that provided around 7 Diamonds. What's the best way to locate more in Survival mode? Where is it most commonly found? Use biblatex and utf8 For my thesis, I use biblatex for the bibliography.  As seen , biblatex is not compatible, with \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}. It was reported as close but I still have the same problem with my version of bibtex (last one on archlinux ). I want to use the € symbol inside my report but it fails without utf8.  ! Package biblatex Error: Incompatible package 'ucs'.  See the biblatex package documentation for explanation. Type  H &lt;return&gt;  for immediate help.  ...                                                l.7 \begin{document}   Any idea idea how to fix ?  \documentclass{report}  \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage{biblatex} \bibliography{includes/mybib}{}  \begin{document}  X said Y \cite{bib1}  \printbibliography  \end{document}   and the file mybib  @online { bib1,        title = {Refrence title},        author = {X},        url = {http://site.com/y}} Numerical Approximation of Differential Equations with Midpoint Method Any command that starts with $ returns  command not found   How can I fix this?  I am  using 16.10 Ubuntu. Windows allows the  of certain files or folders. I currently have a Windows folder that is set to "encrypt contents to secure data". (The Windows partition is NTFS.)  If I mount this drive under Linux, is there anyway to decrypt the contents of the directory so that I can read the files without having to reboot into Windows? Showing 2 Distributions are the Same Let $X_1, X_2, \dots$ be i.i.d. exponentially distributed RVs. For $n = 1,2,\dots$ consider: $Y_n := \max(X_1, X_2, \dots, X_n)$ $U_n := \sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{X_i}{i}$ Show that $Y_n$ and $U_n$ have the same distribution   What I've tried: $P(Y_n&lt;y)= P(X_i&lt;y)^n = (1- e^{\lambda y})^n =&gt; P(Y_n=y) = n(1- e^{\lambda y})^{n-1}$ But I get stuck with $U_n$. I tried an MGF, $U_n$ evaluates nicely but then $Y_n$ gets messy. Any thoughts? Does the Force wane as you age? @Valorum said     ...not to mention the sheer strain that comes from continually using the Force at an advanced age.   To my feeble mind, this doesn't make sense. Approaching 900 years old, Yoda is still as strong as any whippersnapper in terms of Force power and usage. Despite his old age, Obi Wan shouldn't have any problems with using his Force powers.  This got me to thinking, does the Force begin to leave you as you age? Is it a flow of Force power that goes down based on (I hate to say this) a decrease in midichlorian count as you approach your expiration date? Passing an array as a function parameter in JavaScript