<style></style><div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><font size="5">Nota a colegas extranjeros</font><br>
<br>
Ante la falta de eco de mis colegas de la FCEN a mis criticas sobre la
coercion del sistema a hacer papers sin valor, he comenzado a
comunicarme con colegas extranjeros para que me hagan saber si en sus
universidades estan tambien sujetos a la misma condicion. A continuacion describo para los gringos el procedimiento que se usa en
la FCEN. Para ello uso un caso tipico.<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">--------------------------------------------<br><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Buenos
Aires</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">, March 27 ,
2011</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000">To Operations Research colleagues </font></span></font><span style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US"></span><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></span><span style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
</span></font><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Dear Sir:</font></font></span>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">A) Operations research practice in my home country
is non-existent. Actually it is part
of the academic curricula, i.e., they teach, write papers, attend to OR
meetings, they have plenty of social academic activities, but the OR academic never works out a real world problem. I did not stay in the Academy after graduation, instead I was employed in 1961
by du Pont de Nemours as an OR practitioner.
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">In</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"> the nineties Argentina's economy was conducted by the IMF, and hundred of thousands found themselves out of
work. This forced me into reentering my alma mater as a teacher were I found
myself among academics. Now, these people write papers and so I
found myself under the pressure of writing papers too. So
I sent the best problem I had faced in the past 30 years to the JORS journal , but they rejected my paper because it had no theorems in
it. Feeling dejected I asked for advise to Rupert Alfeñique a<span style=""> </span>successful paper-producer in the school of sciences (Buenos Aires U.)</font></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">B) Now, Rupert did a successful career in the School of Sciences. Indeed, his thesis advisor was the
distinguished savant Kevin Klein, and in just 14 years he had reached the full
professor level in the Inorganic Chemistry department, and had written 29
papers. The format of his papers follows:</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">[1] R. Alfeñique, K. Klein, C. Chaplin. <i>On the
transmutation of gold into lead,, Part I</i>. Journal of Alchemy of the
Samoan
Islands.
1995</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">…</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">[29] R. Alfeñique, K. Klein, J. Aliaga. <i>On the
transmutation of gold into lead, Part XXIX</i>. Journal of Physics<b> </b>of the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo. 2008</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">I note that,</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">1) Rupert's papers have 3 authors on the average , Rupert
never wrote a paper by himself. He belongs to a researching club the members of
which subscribe to the motto "One for all, and all for one." The number of
authors in his papers has the following
distribution:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">2) Abstracts seem different, but they are the same
horse with different colors. It is an example of making mileage out of the same
idea.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">3) The journals are actually different as a consequence
of the following procedure. The club sends the paper to Journal #1. If it
rejects the paper then they send it to Journal #2 and so on. Since 1,2,3,…is a
denumerable sequence the paper is finally accepted.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">4) The papers concocted by the gang are apportioned among
its pals in such a way that each member must reach 2 papers per solar year, the
standard value dictated by the World Bank to the Latin American backyard.
Alfeñique present figure is 2.1</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Sincerely,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Fabio Vicentini, PhD</font></span></p>
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