Intentional misrepresentation of research results by making up data, such as that reported in a journal article.
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Examples for "fabrication"
Examples for "fabrication"
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This approach is compatible with the standard fabrication process in semiconductor industry.
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The fabrication of the story was the chief amusement of the term.
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Because it is a clumsy fabrication which simply could not be true.
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The following is the order of the fabrication of a common gun:-
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For the most commonly used nanoparticle carriers, fabrication methods are also reviewed.
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Others are fudging their personal finances to apply for the hardship program.
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There can be no fudging or prevaricating on this central question any longer.
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Local authorities tend to exceed the goal with wasteful investment and all-out number-fudging.
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This required some fudging on Newlands' part and ultimately resulted in some inaccuracies.
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It's not an issue of fudging or dodging or trying to hide numbers.
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And again, this self-interested motivation of individual scientists-topunish and deter fabrication of data-simultaneouslyserves to increase the overall accuracy of scientific knowledge.
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Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan is to tell TDs she fears the falsification of data goes beyond traffic.
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We know falsification of data is wrong.
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The less scrupulous will push the envelope even further by cherry picking results, massaging analyses, or even baldly fabricating data.
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Imagine the following Irish Times headline: UCC professor sentenced to six months in prison for fabricating data behind recent Nature paper on can(...)
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UACJ has found no data fabrication issues from its own recent internal inspection, Okada also said.
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The move was Yao's own decision and not to take responsibility for the data fabrication, a company spokesman said.
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We discuss data fabrication and falsification, plagiarism, redundant and duplicate publication, conflict of interest, authorship, animal and human welfare, and reviewer responsibility.
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Several large Indian drugmakers have over the past two years faced U.S. and UK sanctions over issues ranging from data fabrication and manipulation, to sanitation.
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Inflation remains in check regardless, prompting some charges that Beijing's number-crunchers might be massaging the data.
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In 2009 the U.S. government accused Ranbaxy of falsifying data used in drug applications.
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If someone is falsifying data they usually get found out.
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The greatest of my sins was falsifying data from a seven-year dig on Armaghast.
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Around the same time, a Norwegian researcher, Jon Sudbø, admitted to fabricating and falsifying data.
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It wasn't like he was falsifying data, or anything.
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Psychology was rocked recently by stories of academics making up data, sometimes overshadowing whole careers.