Scholarpedia:Invitation to Cardiac Dynamics
Dear %NAME%,
As an editor, I would like to invite you to write a short entry "%TITLE%" to the Cardiac Dynamics chapter of Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, which is hosted by Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia. This project, being a synthesis of philosophies of Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, is ambitious and unique. You can read more about it at http://www.scholarpedia.org. Your article will be peer-reviewed, and upon acceptance, you will become the curator (see below) of this topic in Scholarpedia.
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I have created the following account for you in Scholarpedia: Username: %USERNAME% Password: %PASSWORD% To accept this invitation, please click %URL% %YOURNAMEWASSUGGESTED% You can write your article alone or with co-authors. If you want to change the title or have other preferences, please let me know. Your article will be peer-reviewed. The Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems will be published in a printed form, but its main purpose is to remain online so that it can evolve and be maintained by the community. The encyclopedia will be used as a seed to start Encyclopedia of Applied Mathematics, and later, Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Your article, without any modification, will be part of many focused encyclopedias. In addition, it will be automatically linked to from every other article in Scholarpedia that mentions your title anywhere in the text, resulting in potentially millions of readers during next few years.
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The 13th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica has "Space-Time" entry written by A. Einstein and "Psychoanalysis" entry written by S. Freud. If Britannica had the feature of curatorship, physicists and psychologists of today would be fighting each other for the honor to be curators of these articles. The goal of Scholarpedia is to invite today's Einsteins and Freuds to write entries on their major discoveries so that future generation of experts would be willing to maintain these articles via the process of curatorship.
Another unique feature of Scholarpedia is that its authors are either invited by the editor-in-chief (this letter) or elected by the public. Public election of authors ensures fairness in assigning articles to the corresponding experts in each field. Soon Scholarpedia will be transferred to election-only regime.
If you cannot write this article within a reasonable period of time, please let me know as soon as possible, or click %URL%&no=1 so that I can invite another expert or initiate election of authors for the article. If you follow this link, you will be asked to suggest the name of the best living expert to invite to write this article.
I hope your schedule would allow you to contribute to Scholarpedia. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely Yours, Vadim N. Biktashev, Editor of category "Cardiac Dynamics" in Scholarpedia.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
