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[Helen Caines <helen.caines AT yale.edu>]

Hi Peter, and Pietro

  A note to say I have looked at all the institutions assigned me, the majority are incomplete and I have sent reminders to each individually.

Three notes on the responses sofar:

  -   Some have not completed the projections, I am letting people leave this blank as per my understanding of this point at the meeting. Please let me know if this is not OK

 - I found one group that has withdrawn.  This was Sonny from North Georgia. He said he had already let you, Thomas and Bernd know. I made a note in the spreadsheet too

-  I contacted UNH, Karl Slifer said that a Nathaly Santiesteban filled the form for them and that they had responded to this request several times. However the sheet is currently blank. Is it possible they filled out the old form? Do you still have copies so I can copy the information across for them. 

Helen

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On Jan 18, 2025, at 11:13 AM, Silvia Niccolai <silvia.niccolai AT ijclab.in2p3.fr> wrote:

Dear all,

I started looking at the statements, and I realized a possible interpretative issue that some of the institutions seem to have. 

I saw that in some cases the people that have less than 0.15 FTEs have been systematically labeled by the representative as "not authors". I believe that in most cases (I checked one, so far, and indeed was the case) this is a misinterpretation of our rule. They don't get the "average" concept (maybe we should have indicated "average FTEs over all authors of the institution" or something like that), and assume each person must pass the 0.15 FTEs threshold, otherwise he/she can't be an author. 

I exchanged with Pietro about this and he agreed that when we see similar cases we should inform the reps of the possible misinterpretation, and give them a chance to recover the authors they had removed. So I think all of us should be on the lookout for these kind of situations. 

I hope it is clear and helpful.

Best regards,

Silvia