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Initial Quality Check #13

Closed mxochicale closed 3 years ago

mxochicale commented 3 years ago

Re: Nonlinear methods to quantify Movement Variability in Human-Humanoid Interaction Activities

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• We notice that FIGURE NUMBER 1. c7 has been referenced in the main text of your manuscript file but this figure has not been included with your submission. Please either upload this figure as a separate 'Figure' file and include a corresponding legend in the main manuscript file or update the references in the main text of your manuscript accordingly.

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mxochicale commented 3 years ago

Re: third point: I will be contacting srep@nature.com with the following reasoning:

Our submitted work only adhered to the University of Birmingham regulations in which time-series data were anonymised and videos were stored only on a personal computer (i.e. not available for the public), in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Having said that the submitted work does not provide an approved protocol by the University of Birmingham as it was not relevant for our study. However, it has been added details on the follewed guidedances for experiments with humans (i.e. questionnaires and checklist as an appendix).

See https://github.com/mxochicale/srep2021/pull/14/commits/d8e5a5621f9f18c751a7653b1b869b39fb7e32b3

mxochicale commented 3 years ago

Updates:

Getting a ethics statement has been taking a while as our request on 27-April-2021 requires revisions from STEM Research Ethics Committee and approval to the Director of Research and the Head of College.

Scientific Reports helps to accommodate an extension to 31 of May 2021 which was not meet and I cannot accommodate another extension. That said, the strategy is then to withdraw the manuscript and resubmit it when this is ready ready (hopefully in the coming two weeks).

mxochicale commented 3 years ago

We appreciate your decision to withdraw your manuscript, "Nonlinear methods to quantify Movement Variability in Human-Humanoid Interaction Activities ", from further consideration. We confirm that your manuscript has now been withdrawn. Thank you very much for having considered Scientific Reports. We look forward to hearing from you again in the near future. Regarding the policies please find the link below https://www.nature.com/srep/journal-policies/editorial-policies

mxochicale commented 3 years ago

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