Is it weird that a journal spend two weeks to evaluate for suitability of the manuscript before assigning it to the editor?
What does the typical workflow of a journal look like?
Does Stack Exchange have an Economics section? I know that a similar question has been asked in:        although I didn't really understand the answer and couldn't really make it work.  However, I have tried something different. I decided to read the manual page for ls and it mentions different environment variables that can be set when dealing with the ls command. If one goes to the -G option it says to look at the CLICOLOR environment variables. I did and that one links you to documentation for the LSCOLORS environment variable. I went to it and it mentions:     "The value of this variable describes what color to use for which attribute when colors are enabled with CLICOLOR. This string is a concatenation of pairs of the format fb, where f is the foreground color and b is the background color. "   It also mentions that the default value of LSCOLORS is "exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad" and that each part specifies the color of some specific thing in the ls command. For example, the first pair ex in example specifies the color of directories. the second fx the color of symbolic links etc... e means blue and x means default "foreground".  1) First what does this mean: "when colors are enabled with CLICOLOR"?  2) What does "foreground" mean?  What must environment variables be for the ls command to color the output however I desire?    I also tried:  ls --color   But it threw me the following error:  ls: illegal option -- - usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]   The same error happened when I did ls --color=auto: it alone also throws an error. I have no idea why, and am not sure if it was due to iTerm2 or OS X or why that happened. It seems it works on other systems... Getting text from last marker to EOF in POSIX.2 I have a text with marker lines like:  aaa --- bbb --- ccc   I need to get a text from the last marker (not inclusive) to EOF. In this case it will be  ccc   Is there an elegant way within POSIX.2? Right now I use two runs: first with nl and grep for the last occurrence with respective line number. Then I extract the line number and use sed to extract the chunk in question.  The text segments may be quite large, so I'm afraid to use some text-adding method like we add the text to a buffer, if we encounter the marker we empty the buffer, so that at EOF we have our last chunk in the buffer. How do "and" and "or" act with non-boolean values? Extending an enum via inheritance I know this rather goes against the idea of enums, but is it possible to extend enums in C#/Java?  I mean "extend" in both the sense of adding new values to an enum, but also in the OO sense of inheriting from an existing enum.    I assume it's not possible in Java, as it only got them fairly recently (Java 5?).  C# seems more forgiving of people that want to do crazy things, though, so I thought it might be possible some way.  Presumably it could be hacked up via reflection (not that you'd every actually use that method)?  I'm not necessarily interested in implementing any given method, it just provoked my curiosity when it occurred to me :-) Single Variable Calculus Reference Recommendations I have Windows 8 (final, MSDN) on my Macbook Pro Retina.  Windows 8's ongoing, continuous tantrum of insisting that it's on a tablet device is causing it to always have a touch keyboard 'icon' on  the taskbar.  The 'icon' is actually a toolbar and I can temporarily disable it by right clicking the taskbar and DE-selecting it. However, upon rebooting the system, it always insists on coming back and activating itself.    How can I permanently disable the touch keyboard toolbar in the taskbar? Whats this white stuff on my board? Prove that, for every natural n, $\sum_{d|n} \frac{\mu(d)}{d}=\prod_{p|n}(1-\frac{1}{p})$ Low Quality Posts reviews add comments more than once on behalf of reviewer What is the difference between  and != Is it possible to mark or segregate bad blocks on HDD? Hello I want to know if is it possible to mark bad blocks on HDD for OS to not use them. I don't want to save data written on this blocks, just want to get rid of them.  I found some article where author describe how to partition disk to avoid using bad blocks of HDD.  I count how many MB from the start are OK. And also how many MB from end are OK. It looks like I will lost about 50GB of storage space but it is quite fine for me when the disk will run one year more.  First I split disk to 2 partitions:   From beginning to around 190 GB From 190GB to the end   Then I made surface scan of 2nd partition and everything was OK. I was really happy cause i though that finally I will succeed.  Than I wanted to copy all data from 1st partition to 2nd BUT in some data a problem occurs. I/O error. I'd say it is Read problem but when I open file on which copying failed it runs OK, for example some pdf files didn't copied but I opened them.  What can be problem can it be a Write problem? But why there is a problem when surface scan on whole 2nd partition was fine?  What can I do(except buying new HDD)? Can I somehow do this partitioning and use just partition with good sectors? Will it work? How are data stored on the disk? Can I determine where the data will be written? Updating the repository isn't working When I run sudo apt-get update get this output:   sudo apt-get update E: Type '&lt;!DOCTYPE' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list E: The list of sources could not be read.   Also Ubuntu software Center is not opening. Grep: The asterisk (*) doesn't always work If I grep a document that contains the following:  ThisExampleString  ...for the expression This*String or *String, nothing is returned. However, This* returns the above line as expected.  Whether the expression is enclosed in quotes makes no difference.  I thought the asterisk indicated any number of unknown characters? Why does it only work if it's at the start of the expression? If this is intended behavior, what do I use instead of the expressions This*String and *String? PyQGIS getting dictionary for each feature of layer with their attribute values What kind of distribution is this "almost" uniformly distributed data for calls/week? My supervisor asked me to find out which distribution represents a particular situation.  I have a VoIP generator that generates calls "uniformly" distributed between callers. This means that the volume per caller distribution is "almost" uniformly distributed between a minimum and maximum. So by running a test with 10000 users and a min value equal to 30 calls per week and a max value equal to 90 calls/week i obtain that not all the users respect this limits: we have some users that generate &lt;30 calls and some other users that generate >90 calls. It is clear that the obtained distribution is not uniform.  The situation is this:    He said that i have to perform a sort of numerical process in order to find some formulas that could define this distribution. Initially, as wrote before,we wanted to obtain a uniform (min,max) distribution (the green area in the figure) but this is not the case as proved with chi-square test.  Moreover the curve in figure is not symmetric, the probability of call generation below 30 call/week and greater that 90 call/week are not identical (it is high for 90calls/week). The variability of the number of generated call increases with the increasing call generation rates.   "Actually implementation of this distribution is nothing but assigning different call rates in a range for users in domain which indicates implementation of several delta functions. As the call rates increases the variability of the generated calls also increases with the average call rate and this leads to the asymmetric behavior of the curve." [cit. from the Voipgenerator documentation]  Someone can help me?I think that now i cannot use Q-Q plot because i don't know which theoretical distribution i have to use in order to compare it with my empirical data.  Sorry if I have stressed with a similar problem a few weeks ago, but initially we thought we could change the implementation, but now we cannot. Hence i have to discover the type of the distribution i obtained and i don't know how can i do this. accounting for LED resistance Fields finitely generated as $\mathbb Z$-algebras are finite? Suppose $k$ is a field that is finitely generated as a ${\mathbb Z}$-algebra.  (That is, $k$ is a quotient of ${\mathbb Z}[X_1,\dots,X_n]$ for some $n$). Does it follow that $k$ is finite? Using same modulus for RSA How can I show that $y'=\sqrt{|y|}$ has infinitely many solutions? Show that the first order differential equation $y'(x)=\sqrt{|y(x)|}$ with intial value $y(1/2)= 1/16$ has infinitely many solutions on the interval [−1, 1].  My thought were to show that this equation has two solutions (just by ansatz, or just looking at the interval $]0, 1]$ to get $y'(x) = \sqrt{|y(x)|}$) and deduce from that that there must be infinitely many solutions since the solution set forms a vector space. I've got a nagging feeling this isn't the way to go though. Can anybody give me a hint where to look?