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Understanding Scientific Appendices

The document discusses what an appendix is in a scientific paper. An appendix contains detailed explanations or materials that are too long for the main body or methods section. It should be a self-contained addition placed after the references section. Examples of what can be included in an appendix are long recipes, diagrams, mathematical formulas, computer programs, or survey forms. Appendices are lettered and may include their own references.

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Understanding Scientific Appendices

The document discusses what an appendix is in a scientific paper. An appendix contains detailed explanations or materials that are too long for the main body or methods section. It should be a self-contained addition placed after the references section. Examples of what can be included in an appendix are long recipes, diagrams, mathematical formulas, computer programs, or survey forms. Appendices are lettered and may include their own references.

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Appendix

Skeleton: A. Title B. Long Recipe C. References

An Appendix is a self-contained addition to the Materials and Methods. In a scientific paper, the Appendix is not a commentary, it is a detailed explanation that is too long for the Materials and Methods section.

An Appendix might:

contain a long recipe for a chemical preparation explain a mathematical formula detail a computer program diagram the wiring of an apparatus.

Example:

(Put the Assembly Diagram for a Complex Piece of Apparatus in an Appendix)

illustrate a surgical operation used in your experiments. reproduce the complete survey form used in collecting data

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Appendixes are lettered they appear after the References section of your paper. An Appendix has a title and is a stand-alone entity.

If it includes bibliographic citations, those citations are listed at the end of the Appendix, not in the References section of the main paper.

Example:

APPENDIX A
In terms of fractals, a straight line has a dimension of 1, an irregular line has a dimension of between 1 and 2, and a line that is so convoluted as to completely fill a plane has a dimension approaching the dimension of the plane, namely a dimension of 2.

Calculating the Fractal Dimension of the Growth Path of an Axon


Topologically, a curve in a plane always has a dimension of 1. Nevertheless, as it becomes more and more convoluted, a curve fills more and more of the plane.From this perspective, a convoluted curve might be considered to have a fractional geometric or non-topological dimension-a fractal dimension-of greater than 1 (Mandelbrot 1977 1983).

In this way, fractal dimensions assign numbers to the degree of convolution of planar curves. The general form of a fractal dimension D of a planar curve is: (length)1/D = K(area)^1/2

where length signifies the total geometric length of the curve, area is the maximum potential geometric area that the curve could fill, and K is a constant (Mandelbrot 1977 1983). For planar curves that are constructed of connected line segments, a practical form of this equation is: D = log(n)/ log(nd/L) = log(n)/(log(n)+ log(d/L))

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where d is the planar diameter of the curve (here estimated as the greatest distance between any two line segment endpoints along the curve), and L is the total geometric length of the curve (the sum of the lengths of all the line segments). This formula has the following limiting values:

a. When the curve is a straight line, L is equal to the planar diameter of the curve, and the fractal dimension is D = 1. b. When the curve is a long random walk, L will be approximately equal to (n1/2)L, and the fractal dimension will have D approaching 2. (Further details can be found in Katz and George 1985.)

Katz MJ, George EB. 1985. Fractals and the analysis of growth paths. Bull Math Biol 47: 273286. Mandelbrot BB. 1977. Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension. WHFreeman,NY. Mandelbrot BB. 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. WH Freeman, NY.

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