I review quite a bit of manuscripts for various journals. So far I have encountered several cases of plagiasism and misconduct:

• A clear case of a plagiarised paper which references the original, but copies a large part of the material without citation. The plagiarised paper is in indexed in IEEE Xplore. I contacted the author of the original paper who said to confront the conference chair where the plagiarism was accepted.
• A double submission as a manuscript presenting the same results to two journals (I happened to act as reviewer for both).
• Journal hopping: manuscripts get rejected and (often unaltered) resubmitted to not-so-prestigious journals. The longest submission run I have observed spanned three journals (being asked to review for each journal the same manuscript). This happened several times, I now reject to review unaltered resubmissions.
• There seem to exist shadow journals (in non-English language) which republish translations of seminal works with new authors. No link at the moment unfortunately.

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The classic graphics adventure game is playable under Linux with wine. AGD Interactive has Windows executables of a remake version.

320x200 in-game screenshot

960x600 up-scaled and filtered capture (click to enlarge)

King's Quest I to III and Quest for Glory II are available. I like it!

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There is a github repository with a Python script for controlling the Samsung SPF-107H and SPF-87H photo frames.

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