Dear Dr. XXX, On behalf of the editorial members and editors of the Journal of Mountain Science (JMS), I'd like to show my appreciation to your support to the JMS in the past year in paper review. Your valuable and high quality review comments have greatly helped with the improvement of the journal quality. I'd like to invite you to join in the JMS editorial board to be a scientific editor. The scientific editor will do initial review and recommend peer-reviewers or be the responsible editor to handle the assigned manuscripts in your research fields, with the responsibility of inviting peer-reviewers and communicating with the authors, and editing the accepted papers according to the JMS journal style. Scientific editor can independently or cooperatively organize special issue or special topics articles after discussing with the editor-in-chief or executive editor-in-chief about the topics selection and the author sources. We will establish a personal homepage for each scientific editor in the JMS homepage ( http://jms.imde.ac.cn/web/21915/scientific-editors ). The scientific editor will be included in the editorial board list in each issue. Scientific editors' articles will be published preferentially after the acceptance. Scientific editor will be invited or partially funded by the journal to participate in the editorial board conference or other academic symposium organized by the Journal or by our sponsored institution (Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Journal of Mountain Science was founded in 2004 and included in SpringerLink in 2006, and indexed by ISI-Web of Science in 2007. The impact factor in 2013 was 0.762. Presently, the JMS has been indexed/included in more than 20 internationally important databases. According to Springer's data, the subscribed institution in 2013 was more than 7200. I believe your joining in the editorial board will furtherly improve the journal quality and enlarge the journal's international impact. If you agree the invitation, you are kindly requested to fill in the attached form (with one of your personal image) and return within these days. Best wishes and happy new year to you! QIU Dunlian Executvie editor-in-chief, Journal of Mountain Science
A letter to thank reviewers who accepted manuscript review invitation Dear Dr.XXX Thank you for your mail. We appreciate your response and your willingness to review the Manuscript. We look forward to receiving your evaluation and comment on this manuscript early. Editorial Office, Journal of Mountain Science
题记：根据新闻今年上海参加高考的人数为5.1万，低于去年。同时又看到，参加“洋高考”SAT的越来越多，这些学生大都不再参加中国的高考。洋高考背后的个中原因令人深思。看看哈佛的奖学金计划，也许会有所启发。 early 81 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2016 have chosen to matriculate at Harvard College . The last time the yield on admitted students reached 80 percent was in 1971 for the Class of 1975. The yield for the Class of 2015 was 75.9 percent. “Three factors combined to increase the yield so significantly: the return of Early Action, the importance of our generous financial aid program in uncertain financial times, and a series of changes enacted over the past decade that greatly enrich the undergraduate experience,” said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. Harvard reinstituted Early Action this year after a four-year interval, admitting 774 students to the Class of 2016 in December. Students who apply early have a strong interest in Harvard and often do not apply elsewhere. In addition, offering preliminary financial aid awards to students admitted in December gave reassuring news about Harvard’s affordability. Harvard’s financial aid program has been significantly enhanced in recent years, providing additional aid to low- and middle-income students. “With the unwavering commitment of Michael D. Smith , dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Evelynn M. Hammonds , dean of Harvard College , and Drew Faust , president of Harvard University , Harvard has kept its doors open to talented students from all economic backgrounds,” said Sarah C. Donahue, director of financial aid. The Financial Aid Office was open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays during April, and staff talked with students and parents in person and on the telephone. Seventy percent of Harvard students receive some type of financial aid. Sixty percent of Harvard students receive need-based grants, and the average annual cost to their families is $12,000. Twenty percent of Harvard families have annual incomes under $65,000 and pay nothing. Families with incomes from $65,000 to $150,000 and with typical assets pay from zero to 10 percent of their annual incomes, and families with higher incomes can still receive need-based aid depending on individual circumstances, including having multiple children in college or unusual medical expenses. Students are not required to take out loans, and home equity is not used in determining financial aid. As always, students are asked to contribute toward the cost of their own education by working 10 to 12 hours per week during the school year and obtaining a summer job. This coming year, Harvard will spend $172 million on undergraduate financial aid. Admitted students often noted that their decision to matriculate at Harvard was influenced by the many changes at Harvard in the past decade: a new core curriculum, the program in General Education; a fourfold increase in the number of small freshman seminars; the availability of more than 40 secondary fields of study (minors); the new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; an augmented advising system that doubles the number of freshmen advisers to more than 400 (and also includes 200 peer-advising fellows and 60 resident proctors); expanded opportunities for close collaboration with faculty through research and regional centers; an arts initiative and revitalized theater opportunities, including Farkas Hall ; and many options for study abroad, supported by a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller. Admitted students were invited to Visitas , which took place from April 21 to 23 with more than 1,300 students and their parents in attendance, a record. The program, directed by Valerie Beilenson and assistant director M. Amelia Muller, enabled students to experience Harvard firsthand, meet faculty and students, and explore Cambridge and Boston. “We are extremely grateful to all the faculty, students, and staff who made Visitas such a great success,” said Marlyn E. McGrath, director of admissions. “We also want to thank our 15,000 alumni/ae who telephoned, emailed, and hosted gatherings for our admitted students in locations around the nation and the world.” Personalized outreach to admitted students began in December at Early Action time. Admissions staff sent individualized notes and (along with the Undergraduate Admissions Council, the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative) made telephone calls and sent emails informing students about opportunities in Cambridge. At this time, men make up 52.5 percent of the class. Prospective social science concentrators constitute 29.1 percent, with 24.3 percent interested in the biological sciences, 17.5 percent in the humanities, 13.6 in engineering and computer science, 8.5 percent in the physical sciences, 6.4 percent in mathematics, and 0.6 percent undecided. African Americans make up 9.4 percent of the class, Asian Americans 22.6 percent, Latinos 9.3 percent, and Native Americans and Native Hawaiians 1.7 percent. International students constitute 11.3 percent of the class. This year’s highyield means that only a small number (about 25) will be admitted from thewaitinglist.In recent years,this number has ranged from zero to 228. Harvard’s yield is particularly notable because the College does not offer athletic or other non-need-based scholarships. In addition, Harvard’s Early Action program, unlike binding Early Decision programs, allows admitted students to apply elsewhere and asks only that they reply by May 1 after comparing other offers of admission and financial aid. Such freedom and flexibility allow a student more time to choose the college that provides the best match, a contributing factor to Harvard’s nearly 98 percent graduation rate. “The Class of 2016 was chosen through the most selective admissions process in Harvard’s history,” said Fitzsimmons. “They have enormous potential in every way that is measurable. But most of all, they demonstrate the intangible strength of character that Harvard has sought since its founding in 1636. We look forward to following their progress over the next four years and beyond.”
How to write a review invitationletter? Allmanuscripts submitted toour journal JMSwill be sent out for peer-review unless they are directly rejected after the initial review. Nowadays with the large increase in manuscript amount around the world, findingan appropriate reviewer who is willing toreviewthe manuscript is not an easy thing sometimes. Anyway, we try to look for the most appropriate scholars from the editorial members, the related literature databases and the Web of Science database. A proper review invitation letter is also a very important part to the sucessful invitation. Then how to write a review invitation letter? I think a review invitation letter should include these parts: (1) a concise and clear e-mail title to let the email reciever directly know what the letter is about( for example, "Please kindly review the manuscript 11-2202 from JMS); (2)a brief introduction on our own journal(this can be attached as an email signature too); (3) Telling the reviewer the name of themanuscript title,the related requirements on the paper reviewing, the deadline to finish the review;(4) Requestingthe reviewer torecommendonesuitalbe reviewer if they wouldn't like to or can't review the manuscript (maybe unfamiliar to thecontents of themanuscript, oroverloaded with other tasks,or in otherinconvenient situations);(5) expressingour appreciationto the reviewer for their supporting to the journal andour wishes to have their early response. The follow is an example of areview invitation letter for one manuscript. Dear Prof. Marvin, Sincere greeting from Chengdu, China, the hometown of the great panda! Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) is an international peer-reviewed English journal on mountain science. We would like to invite you to review a manuscript entitled " Statement on water losses in arid and Semi-arid zone " . Enclosed are themanuscript and thereview form.If you'd like to review it, could you pls finish the review and send back the comments before August 20? When reviewing, you can directly make comments or have a revision on the manuscript, but please also fill in the review form! If you can notreview it, could you plsrecommend one suitable reviewer for this paper? We'll be greatly grateful for your supporting for JMS. I look forward to your early reply. Best regards, JMS
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