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However, Reviewer #2 accepted the manuscript and gave a major revision. Now I have a few questions about this event. Is it necessary to reply to comments of Reviewer #1? What is your prediction about the risk of acceptation/rejection of my manuscript in such circumstances? How can I reply...
At this stage, it is every author's hope that the manuscript is accepted with no changes, yet such an experience is incredibly rare–it has happened to me only twice, and these were both Rule 1: Answer completely It important that all of the referees' comments are responded to in ...
Although reviewers sometimes correctly identify problems with technical language or first-language interference, they often claim that a manuscript requires "substantial review and editing by a native English speaker" when in fact they may be reacting to usage or argumentation that is appropriate but ...
Pretrained neural network models for biological segmentation can provide good out-of-the-box results for many image types. However, such models do not allow users to adapt the segmentation style to their specific needs and can perform suboptimally for te
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