>That's damning and indefensible. without trying to raise a defense, a number of the minor changes to the copied text were distinct improvements. For example,

>That's damning and indefensible. without trying to raise a defense, a number of the minor changes to the copied text were distinct improvements. For example, "analysis was predominantly performed by looking at the details of the time domain waveform of the signal" is significantly tighter language! "time waveform" in the original is somewhat questionable, but time domain, ok, now I get it! If you are going to have somebody plagiarize you, somebody from MIT is best! Then at least you can plagiarize them back.