My boss asked me to submit my research to a journal I've never heard of.  How do I know that journal is good for my career apart from the impact factor?  I would like to have my own criteria without just doing whatever my boss says. For example, how the journal is peer-reviewed, time of publication, specific topics, other authors, and how to measure these things just looking at a journal site.
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 We've withdrawn our submission and will submit a new version of the paper to a more reputable journal in the coming months.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?
Prove that if $\lim_{n \to \infty}z_{n}=A$ then:  $$\lim_{n \to \infty}\frac{z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots + z_{n}}{n}=A$$ I was thinking spliting it in: $$(z_{1}+z_{2}+\cdots+z_{N-1})+(z_{N}+z_{N+1}+\cdots+z_{n})$$ where $N$ is value of $n$ for which $|A-z_{n}|&lt;\epsilon$ then taking the limit of this sum devided by $n$ , and noting that the second sum is as close as you wish to $nA$ while the first is as close as you wish to $0$. Not sure if this helps.... Receiving Push Notifications while in background How to install Unity 8? I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and found out that we can install Unity 8 on it. Will Unity 8 replace Unity 7 once I install it? And if it does can I switch back to Unity 7 if I want? How would one go about it? I am new to this and not sure what to make of all the options available. I am interested in putting a machine-learning-related preprint, which will potentially be submitted to places like NIPS/ICLR/ICML in the future.   arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article (Minimal rights required by arXiv.org)  Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0)  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 4.0)  Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)  Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration (CC0 1.0) I am trying to testfor a player holding a diamond sword named Notch's Legendary Sword. How can I do that? Who ever gets the best answer will be able to get the first look at my NEW adventure map! Formally, is it correct to write:     A number of questions has been asked here.   or:     A number of questions have been asked here.   As a non-native speaker of English, I would prefer the former: the subject seems to be "number", therefore the verb ought to be singular, I'd say. However, the latter seems more common, and therefore I believe that my gut feeling is just plain wrong — but I would really like to have a definite answer.  Moreover, is it the same for "a myriad of", "a plethora of", and so on? So, I'm working on a control station that has buttons. It is a one-mesh creation, that means, I don't want to create buttons and things like that separated from the main mesh, but as you can see, I have problems. I would like to make the highlighted parts to be one with the main part around them. I've tried everything, and I have this problem on multiple creations. Any idea?  Update: I've added another example of the problem. I want them to be one face, instead of two. (2nd picture) How to add a new kernel to grub2 How can we add a kernel to grub2? i knew the stuff we could do with the former versions, but it seems to have changed. What files should we edit? In an Integral Domain is it true that $\gcd(ac,ab) = a\gcd(c,b)$? In my algebra class I was given as homework assignment to prove that:     Given an integral domain $A$ and $a,b,c,d,e \in A$. Then if $d = \gcd(b,c)$ and $e = \gcd(ac, ab)$ then $e = ad$.   It is easy to see that $ad \mid ab$ and $ad \mid ac$, so this implies that $\exists q \in A; e = q(ad)$. Now I'm having problems showing that $q = 1_A$. Working through some equalities, I proved that $\forall n\in \mathbb{N}, q^n \mid d$ so this gives me the light suspicion that I might be going the right way, but I'm pretty positive that this does not imply $q = 1_A$.  Does anyone want to give me a hint?  Thanks in advance :) How to pass multiple operator properties via UI layout? Suppose I am given a $2$x$2$ matrix $A=$ \begin{pmatrix} a &amp; b \\ c &amp; d \end{pmatrix}  And an initial vector $x_n$ = \begin{pmatrix} x_0 \\ y_0\end{pmatrix}.  Under repeated iteration $x_{n+1} = Ax_n$, we find that $x_{n+1}$ converges to a line in the direction of the $eigenvector$  of $A$ of the form $X$= $[u,mu]$ where $m$ is the slope of the line.  I know that this process somehow also involves the largest $eigenvalue, \lambda,$ of $A$, though I am unsure how it connects.  My question is: How does the largest eigenvalue connect to this repeated iteration, how do I find the slope of the line of convergence $m$, and what is meant by the "direction of the eigenvector"? Performance of Non Clustered Indexes on Heaps vs Clustered Indexes Writing string at the same position using Console.Write in C# 2.0 I have a console application project in C# 2.0 that needs to write something to the screen in a while loop. I do not want the screen to scroll because using Console.Write or Console.Writeline method will keep displaying text on console screen incremently and thus it starts scrolling.  I want to have the string written at the same position. How can i do this?  Thanks Convergence of $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\left\{ 1-n\log \frac {2n+1} {2n-1}\right\} $ When is $2^n -7$ a perfect square? This came up while solving another ENT problem. I want to ask when is: $$2^n -7 \text{ where } n\geq 3$$ a perfect square? Specifically, I also wanted to know what would be the solutions when $n$ is odd? How should I solve this?  I can check that $n=3, 4, 7$ are solutions but cannot find more. As it is of the form $4k+1$, it doesn't help as well. Run Unity on external monitor with Bumblebee How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion? What circumstances can cause a question or answer to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?    How can a post be deleted? When can't I delete my own post? Can I still see my post even after it's deleted? Can I see a list of my deleted posts? How can I undelete one of my posts? What does deletion mean for a post? How do votes to delete work? What are the criteria for deletion? What else should I know about deleted posts? If I flag my question with a request to delete it, what will happen?       For more information, see the articles about  and  in the . Update: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock I installed Ubuntu yesterday, so I'm trying to get used to it.  I'm really close to my router, but my wifi signal gets too low. Sometimes I'm in Facebook or Youtube and the signal is high, almost full, but it is usually in one or two bars, and sometimes none.  I can use Internet normally, I can watch videos and stuff, but the problem is when I try to update something or Ubuntu is downloading stuff, the downloads get stuck or get cancelled telling me that I should check my connection.  How can I fix this? I should be getting a really good signal, I'm really close to my router, my phone has full signal, and a notebook with Windows 7 has full signal here too.  Sorry my bad English and I hope you can help me.  $ lsusb Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.  Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) NetScroll+ Mini Traveler / Genius NetScroll 120 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub What is the difference between DPI (dots per inch) and PPI (pixels per inch)? There are lots of other questions on Graphic Design which partly cover this, e.g. .  However, I have become frustrated at the number of questions and answers which confuse the two terms. I think understanding the difference is important.  So here's a place to answer this question well and clear up the confusion!