Response to Manuscript Review - Essay Example

Response to Manuscript Review al Affiliation Number Response to Manuscript Review From the editor: Your manuscript has been reviewed. Please address the specific queries listed below. Query1 Introduction. The sentence starting ‘Reports obtained from FAO…’ requires an appropriate citation to these reports. Response 1 The sentence Reports obtained from FAO…’ has now been appropriately and properly cited. The sentence now reads, According to the research done by FAO, (2012), it was founded that crops yield was low compared to the previous years. Query2 Introduction. There is a citation with only a year (2015) presented. Please complete this citation. Response 2 Indeed the citation is not complete. To enhance this, the citation has now been corrected and it now reads as follows: Original citation “Just like any other previous government, the Iraqi current government has ignored the agricultural potential and agriculture’s importance role in infrastructure development and has only focused on industrial development (2015).” Modified citation “Just like any other previous government, the Iraq current government has ignored agricultural potential and agricultures important role in infrastructure development and has only focused on industrial development (Reuters, 2015).” Query 3 Introduction. The two sentences that end the second last paragraph in the introduction, beginning with ‘However, in 2007/2008, Arab…’ are examples of difficult expression and grammar. As an example of good practice please redraft these two sentences to improve clarity of expression and sentence structure. Response 3 I totally agree with this interpretation, the two sentences indeed are examples of difficult expression and grammar. I have redrafted this two sentences in order to improve the clarity of expression and sentence structure. In order to emphasize this, the two sentences have been modified and now reds as follows: Original sentences: “However, in 2007/2008, Arab countries were force to bring back agriculture development to center of national strategic consideration. In fact, Iraqi government in their 2013-2017 NDP, they have emphasized on the role of agriculture by presenting concrete goals and associated investment (Woertz, 2013).” Modified sentences “However, in 2007/2008, Arab countries were forced to revive agricultural development to center national strategic considerations. In 2013-2017 NDP, the Iraq government decided to emphasize on the role of agriculture by presenting concrete goals and associated investment (Woertz, 2013).” Query4 Methods. The first sentence beginning ‘The data collection of this study…’ is cumbersome and not clear. Please redraft this sentence to improve clarity. Response 4 This sentence is not clear and I agree with the interpretation. To improve the sentence clarity, it has been redrafted and it now reads: Original sentence: “The data collection of this study was done through sampling which is one of the most important steps in laboratory testing which is opt to give a sample of typical consignment shipment.” Modified sentence: “The data of this study was done through sampling. This is one of the most crucial steps in laboratory testing since it will give a typical consignment shipment of the sample.” Query 5 Methods. Second sentence. The reference to the international union requires a citation and explanation as to what the international union is. Is this a reference to the FAO or some other body? Response 5 I am in agreement with the interpretation. The reference is not clear about which international union it is refereeing to. To correct this, the sentence has been paraphrased and it now reads: “The process is done in accordance to the law regulating examinations of seeds developed by international union. This sentence has been modified and it now reads, “The process is done in accordance to the laws regulating examinations of seeds developed by international union of new varieties of plants (UPOV). This union help nations in the development of legislation and the implementation of an effective plant variety protection system. “ Query6 Statistical analysis. This section is missing from the methodology section. Please draft a paragraph describing which statistical tests were used, which assumptions were checked, and which software was used. Response 6 This section was missing in the methodology section and now it has been included. The statistical analysis section has now been added in the methodology section. Descriptive statistics analysis was used in comparing the data from the two farms. Various test were carried out which include the calculations of standard error, standard deviation, sample variance, kurtosis, skewness, and confidence level. This data has helped in determining the wheat germination percentages for the two farms. For instance, it is clearly evidenced that the percentage germination from the two fields is in the mid eighty’s percent. It can therefore be assumed that the wheat harvest is high. In order to do this, I used the R commander 3.2.0 software for statistical computing. This is a powerful software that can be used to analyze various forms of data, draw graphs and even making summaries. Query 7 Results. The pasting in of raw statistical output is not appropriate. Please remove the raw output from the Results section. The statements about normality should be included in the new methods paragraph, but only as a summary and not the actual output. The Results section needs to begin with a paragraph describing the main trend in the weed data, and summarizing the statistical finding as has been partially done with the statement ‘There was no statistically significant…’. Please make these changes. Response 7 For sure, the pasting of raw statistical output is inappropriate in the results section. This is so because the normality test is normally used to analyze raw data (inputs). To correct this, the raw statistical output has been removed from the results section. The statement about normality has also been included in the new methods paragraph as a summary of the results. This is an underlying assumption in parametric testing which can be done graphically or numerically. The results section has now begun with a paragraph describing the main trend in weed data. The paragraph reads, “The results of weed clearly indicates that it has a p value of 0.0004194 and 0.04885 for farm 1 and 2 respectively. However, there is no significance in the statistical difference in the distribution of weed in the two farms. Therefore, weed has a null hypothesis of equal distribution of weeds between the consignments. Reference Reuters,. (2015). Special Report: Islamic State uses grain to tighten grip in Iraq. Retrieved 24 April 2015, from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/us-mideast-crisis-wheat-idUSKCN0HP12J20140930 Read More