#Peer-Reviewed Computer Science Journal

[fdrpjournals]

The Indian Journal of Computer Science and Technology (INDJCST) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that delivers cutting-edge research and advancements in computer science to scientists, engineers, and technology professionals.

It highlights the latest findings across four key domains: computing (including theory, scientific, cloud, and high-performance computing), systems (such as database, real-time, and operating systems), intelligence (covering robotics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence), and applications (encompassing security, networking, software engineering, and more).

[anarcho-physicist]

After 4 years of work, I've finally published my very first peer-reviewed theory paper: Design rules for controlling active topological defects

(and it's open access! :D)

I am sooo excited to finally be able to share this! I'll probably write some more in the future about what it was like to work on this project, but for now here's what I want to say about it:

I think this work is a beautiful example of how the long, meandering paths of curiosity-driven research can bring us in completely unexpected directions, yielding new ideas and technologies that might never have been found by problem- or profit-driven research.

We started this project because we were interested in the fundamental physics of active topological defects; we wanted to understand and develop a theory to explain their effective properties, interactions, and collective behaviors when they're hosted by a material whose activity is not constant throughout space and time.

Along the way, we accidentally stumbled into a completely new technique for controlling the flow of active 2D nematic fluids, by using symmetry principles to design activity patterns that can induce self-propulsion or rotation of defect cores. This ended up being such a big deal that we made it the focus of the paper, for a few reasons:

Topological defects represent a natural way to have discrete information in a continuous medium, so if we wanted to make a soft material capable of doing logical operations like a computer, controlling active defects might be a really good way of putting that together.

There have also been a number of biological systems that have been shown to have the symmetries of active nematics, with experiments showing that topological defects might play important roles in biological processes, like morphogenesis or cell extrusion in epithelia. If we could control these defects, we'd have unprecedented control over the biological processes themselves.

Right now the technique has only been demonstrated in simulations, but there are a number of experimental groups who are working on the kinds of materials that we might be able to try this in, so hopefully I'll get to see experimental verification someday soon!

[projectadulthood]

39 Best Websites to Find Free Textbooks, Research Papers, Study Guides, and Books

Whether you’ve just received a long list of textbooks you need for a specific uni class or are looking for a particular book/research paper for a high school project, books (and journal subscriptions) can be expensive.

The good news is that there are plenty of resources online where you can find free PDF versions of most written materials, starting with Atkinson & Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology and ending with Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Note that although some of the websites below provide access to copyright-free texts only, or texts that publishers/authors have agreed to share freely, others have been accused of internet privacy.

However, many people see open access practices as morally acceptable, especially considering the unsustainable prices of academic textbooks and papers.

To quote a recent paper on the topic:

"Since shadow libraries are a product of the cooperation between scholars, who contribute texts and other resources (such as donations, volunteer work, etc.), shadow libraries represent a ‘bottom-up’, radical approach to open access: a physical approximation of the Platonic ideal of knowledge sharing that would exist if there were no legal, economic, or institutional barriers to the circulation of scholarly knowledge."

Free Textbooks

Library Genesis

Library Genesis, or Libgen for short, is a shadow online library website where college students can find academic books (including those that are hard to find/very expensive) and scholarly journal articles.

The site also hosts general-interest books, audiobooks, comics, magazines, and images.

Z-Library

Z-Library is another shadow library website that hosts college textbooks, scholarly journal articles, and general-interest books. It calls itself “the world’s largest e-book library.” It mirrors Library Genesis.

The front page also features some of the most popular books at the time. When we viewed it, these included “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and Harry Potter the Complete Collection by J. K. Rowling.

You can also use the right-hand navigation menu to see the books that have been added most recently, as well as sort through books based on category.

Use the Book Request option if you can’t find a book you’re looking for. There’s no guarantee your book will be added, but community members look at requests to see what books to upload (you can also upload books).

PDF Drive

PDF Drive is an online library with a ton of free ebooks and PDF textbooks in various categories, including academic & education (but also lifestyle, personal growth, art, linguistics, etc.)

ForCoder.su

Forcoder.su has lots of online textbooks on programming. It also provides free access to online courses, like Apache Kafka for beginners and object-oriented programming with Python. Currently, there are hundreds of free courses available.

Online Mathematics Textbooks

Online Mathematics Textbooks is your source for free digital textbooks on all things math. It’s just one page featuring 77 textbooks.

Tech Books for Free Download

Tech Books for Free Download is where you’ll find free science and engineering books on topics ranging from data mining to general relativity.

There’s no way to search for books easily. However, the site is divided into books on Linux, Java, Microsoft, C and C++, Perl/Python, Science, Networking, Database, Security, and Assembly.

Free Tech Books

Free Tech Books is an open textbook library. It provides access to free computer science books and textbooks, plus lecture notes. All the books and lecture notes listed on this site are freely available on authors’ and/or publishers’ sites.

You can browse books by category (computer science, mathematics, supporting fields, operating system, programming/scripting, miscellaneous), author, publisher, or license.

Directory of Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a website that indexes and provides access to academic, peer-reviewed open-access books. All disciplines are covered, but there’s a particular emphasis on humanities, social sciences, and law.

Ubiquity Press

Ubiquity Press has been an open-access publisher of academic, peer-reviewed books and journals since 2012. It was founded by University of College London (UCL) researchers.

Research Papers

Sci-Hub

Sci-hub has the most expansive collection of research papers. Its mission is to “remove all barriers in the way of science.”

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory of open-access, peer-reviewed research journals covering humanities, social sciences, technology, science, medicine, and art.

The directory indexes journals from different countries and languages. DOAJ is supported financially by publishers, libraries, and other organizations.

Wiley Open Access

Wiley Open Access provides peer-reviewed open-access journals across topics like biochemistry, economics, sociology, mathematics, and law.

SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen publishes open-access journals across a wide range of areas, mainly STEM.

Elsevier

Elsevier publishes open-access, peer-reviewed journals. You can search for journals by title, keyword, or subject (dentistry, nursing, decision sciences, etc.)

Springer Link

Springer Link provides access to ebooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other resources (mostly scientific).

BASE

BASE is a search engine for academic texts, including journals, digital collections, institutional repositories, etc. You can access about 60% of the indexed texts for free.

Study Guides

Bibliomania

Bibliomania has study guides to the most-read books, like “A Hero of Our Time,” “Animal Farm,” and even Irish politics. It also has over 2,000 classic texts, book summaries, author biographies, and more.

Books

Open Library

Open Library is an open library catalog of more than 3 million new and old books. The project was created by the nonprofit organization Internet Archive. It has also received partial funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation and the California State Library.

You can read old books without an account. However, for new books, you’ll need to set one up (it takes just a few minutes).

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a digital library of ebooks. It also has free movies, music, and software.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a famous site where you can find lots of free books. There are more than 60,000 books in its collection.

Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks take public domain texts and make them as nice as new books. They fix typographical errors and typos, create cool cover art, and format the text for e-readers like Kindle and iPad.

Planet eBook

Planet eBook is where you can download free PDF copies of classics like Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

What really makes Planet eBook stand out is its UX. It’s one of those rare sites that are super easy to navigate and actually look good (aesthetically speaking).

The Ultimate Book Search Engine

The Ultimate Book Search Engine is an ebook search engine that includes 350 open directory sites that relate to ebooks. It was created by the Reddit user u/NotoriousYEG.

Classic Bookshelf

The Classic Bookshelf is a site where you’ll find lots of classic novels, everything from Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy.

Literature.org

Literature.org features classic works of English literature, both fiction and non-fiction.

Bartleby

Bartleby is a site that features both fiction and nonfiction books.

Fiction.us

Fiction.us has a ton of books, including fiction, short stories, children's picture books, poetry, books on writing, and plays.

Classic Literature Library

As the name suggests, Classic Literature Library is where you’ll find classic literature works.

Ideology.us

Ideology.us is a site that has ebooks on philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, and education.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is where you’ll find all of Shakespeare’s work. The site is run by The Tech, the largest and oldest newspaper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Read Books Online

Read Books Online has around 6,000 ebooks, including novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays, and non-fiction.

Public Bookshelf

Public Bookshelf is a site dedicated to romance novels.

Categories of ebooks here include contemporary romance, romantic suspense, historical romance, regency romance, inspirational romance, vampire romance, western romance, general romance, and fantasy and paranormal romance.

The Perseus Project

The Perseus Project is a digital library created by Tufts University with books from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in original languages and English.

Chest of Books

Chest of Books has books on a ton of different subjects, including animals, finance, real estate, science, and travel.

The Literature Network

The Literature Network has books by authors like Anne Bronte, Lewis Carroll, and Lord George Gordon Byron. It also features forums, literature summaries, and quizzes.

The Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is a site by the University of Pennsylvania that houses books in categories like philosophy, history, medicine, science, agriculture, music, anthropology, and more. The site also links to the following:

Banned Books Online: A directory of books that were once banned and links to places where you can read them in full.

A Celebration of Women Writers: A directory that lists online editions of literary works by women as well as resources about women writers.

Prize Winners Online: A directory of prize-winning books.

Many Books

Many Books is “your friendly neighborhood library.” It houses over 50,000 books in genres like romance, mystery, young adult, horror, and non-fiction. You can read books online or download them to your device.

Authorama

Authorama turns public domain books on sites like Google Books and Project Gutenberg into HTML format, making it easier to read them.

Audiobooks

Librivox

Librivox has free audiobooks that you can listen to from any device.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm in TARTU, ESTONIA! AI, copyright and creative workers' labor rights (TOMORROW, May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building, Lossi 3, lobby). A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (TOMORROW, May 10, 3PM, University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037).

#20yrsago Japan jails academic for writing P2P app https://web.archive.org/web/20040512194433/http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,250207,00.html

#20yrsago Blogger redesign notes https://stopdesign.com/journal/2004/05/09/blogger.html

#20yrsago TheyRule: applying information design to corporate directorships https://theyrule.net

#20yrsago Don’t just protect the unconceived: protect the inanimate! https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_05_02_fafblog_archive.html#108411098508640046

#15yrsago Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs

#15yrsago Elsevier has an entire division dedicated to publishing fake advertorial “peer-reviewed” journals https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/09/1514235/more-fake-journals-from-elsevier

#10yrsago Against the instrumental argument for surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

#10yrsago Congressmen ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law, violate antitrust https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/pols-ad-networks-pretend-we-passed-sopa-and-never-mind-about-antitrust

#10yrsago Japanese man arrested for 3D printing and firing guns https://kotaku.com/japanese-man-arrested-for-having-guns-made-with-a-3d-pr-1573358490

#5yrsago Americans with diabetes are forming caravans to buy Canadian insulin at 90% off https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/americans-diabetes-cross-canada-border-insulin-1.5125988

#5yrsago Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/

#5yrsago Buried in Uber’s IPO, an aggressive plan to destroy all public transit https://48hills.org/2019/05/ubers-plans-include-attacking-public-transit/

#1yrago KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/09/dingo-babysitter/#maybe-the-dingos-ate-your-nan

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Aaron Sibarium

Published: Jan 30, 2024

It's not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

Through that sleight of hand, Sherri Ann Charleston effectively took credit for her husband's work. The 2014 paper, which was also coauthored with Jerlando Jackson, now the dean of Michigan State University's College of Education, and appeared in the Journal of Negro Education, has the same methods, findings, and description of survey subjects as the 2012 study, which involved interviews with black computer science students and was first published by the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

The two papers even report identical interview responses from those students. The overlap suggests that the authors did not conduct new interviews for the 2014 study but instead relied on LaVar Charleston's interviews from 2012—a severe breach of research ethics, according to experts who reviewed the allegations.

"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University, where he ran several academic integrity probes. "This is research fraud pure and simple."

Sherri Ann Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before she joined Harvard in August 2020 as its first-ever chief diversity officer. In that capacity, Charleston served on the staff advisory committee that helped guide the university's presidential search process that resulted in the selection of former Harvard president Claudine Gay in December 2022, according to the Harvard Crimson.

A historian and attorney by training, Charleston has taught courses on gender studies at the University of Wisconsin, according to her Harvard bio, which describes her as "one of the nation's leading experts in diversity." The site says that her work involves "translating diversity and inclusion research into practice for students, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and faculty of color."

Experts who reviewed the allegations against Charleston said that they ranged from minor plagiarism to possible data fraud and warrant an investigation. Some also argued that Charleston had committed a more serious scholarly sin than Gay, Harvard's former president, who resigned in January after she was accused of lifting long passages from other authors without proper attribution.

Papers that omit a few citations or quotation marks rarely receive more than a correction, experts said. But when scholars recycle large chunks of a previous study—especially its data or conclusions—without attribution, the duplicate paper is often retracted and can even violate copyright law.

That offense, known as duplicate publication, is typically a form of self-plagiarism in which authors republish old work in a bid to pad their résumés. Here, though, the duplicate paper added two new authors, Sherri Ann Charleston and Jerlando Jackson, who had no involvement in the original, letting them claim credit for the research and making them party to the con.

"Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else's research without proper attribution," said Steve McGuire, a former political theory professor at Villanova University, who reviewed both the 2012 and 2014 papers.

One-fifth of the 2014 paper, including two-thirds of its "findings" section, was published in the 2012 study, according to the complaint, and three interview responses are identical in both articles, suggesting they come from the same survey.

According to Lee Jussim, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, "it is essentially impossible for two different people in two different studies to produce the same quote." At best, he said, the authors got their wires crossed and mixed up interviews from two separate surveys, both of which just happened to involve 37 participants with the exact same demographic profile. At worst, the authors committed data fraud by framing old survey responses as new ones—a separate and more serious offense.

The Journal of Negro Education did not respond to a request for comment. Sherri Ann Charleston, LaVar Charleston, and Jerlando Jackson did not respond to requests for comment.

Monday's complaint, which was filed anonymously, comes as Harvard is facing questions about the integrity of its research affiliates and the ideology of its diversity bureaucrats, most of whom report to the sprawling office that Sherri Ann Charleston oversees.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of Harvard Medical School's three teaching hospitals, announced in January that it would retract six papers and correct dozens more after some of its top executives were accused of data manipulation. That news came on the heels of a viral essay in which Carole Hooven, a Harvard biologist, described how she had been hounded out of a teaching role by her department's diversity committee after she said in an interview that there are only two sexes.

The school is also facing an ongoing congressional probe over its handling of anti-Semitism and its response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay, which Harvard initially sought to suppress with legal saber-rattling. Half of Gay's published work contained plagiarized material, ranging from single sentences to entire paragraphs, with some of the most severe lifts coming in her dissertation. Though Gay stepped down as president on January 2, she remains a tenured faculty member drawing a $900,000 annual salary.

Some of Charleston's offenses are similar to Gay's. In her 2009 dissertation, for example, Charleston borrows a sentence from Eric Arnesen's 1991 book Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923, without quotation marks and without citing Arnesen's work in a footnote.

She also lifts full paragraphs from her thesis adviser, Rebecca Scott, while making minimal semantic tweaks.

"There's simply not enough difference to consider them original words," said Jonathan Bailey, the founder of the website Plagiarism Today. "Though the sources in those examples are cited"—Charleston includes a footnote to Scott at the end of each passage—"the text either needed to be quoted or properly paraphrased."

Bailey added that the plagiarism of Scott alone merited an investigation—ideally, he said, "by a neutral party with no ties to either the school or the school's critics."

Harvard did not respond to a request for comment. Scott and Arnesen did not respond to requests for comment.

Charleston also lifted language from Louis Pérez, an historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Alejandro de la Fuente, an historian at Harvard; and Ada Ferrer, an historian at New York University, among other scholars.

Charleston cites each source in a footnote but omits quotation marks around language copied verbatim. The omissions violate Harvard's Guide to Using Sources, a document produced for incoming students, which states that quotation marks are required when "you copy language word for word."

Pérez, de la Fuente, and Ferrer did not respond to requests for comment.

The range of examples presented in the complaint, which was also filed to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlights how plagiarism can shade into more severe forms of misconduct when it involves interviews or other data.

In fact, some experts said the term "plagiarism" didn't quite capture the dishonesty of duplicate publication, which is sometimes categorized as a separate offense and accounts for 14 percent of all paper retractions in the life sciences.

"You cannot just republish an old paper as if it is a new paper," Jussim, the Rutgers psychologist, said. "If you do, that is not exactly plagiarism; it's more like fraud."

Wood said the case was really a combination of the two offenses. "Because the second paper, on which Sherri Ann Charleston is one of the three co-authors, recycles so much of the text of the original paper by LaVar J. Charleston, this does have the earmarks of plagiarism, but the plagiarism is compounded by an even larger effort to deceive," he said. "The universities and journals need to investigate."

While scholars can reuse data across multiple papers, they must make clear when they are doing so and provide appropriate attribution to earlier studies, per guidelines from the Office of Research Integrity and the editorial policies of top academic journals, including Nature and Cell.

But the 2014 paper never indicates that it is reusing research from 2012. Instead, it claims to present new data that fill a "gap" in the literature and "corroborate" the 2012 study, among others, and on two occasions refers to survey subjects as "participants in this study."

Those participants appear to be the same people whom LaVar Charleston interviewed in 2012. Both surveys involved the same number of undergraduates, graduate students, Ph.D.s, and students at historically black colleges—all drawn from the same computer science conference—a similarity that experts said was a red flag.

"It is curious that the proportions are identical," said Debora Weber-Wulff, a German computer scientist who researches plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. "This would be grounds for the universities in question to request the data and investigate."

Jussim agreed. "This seems sufficiently improbable that, absent something saying they are re-reporting an already-published study, it would be fraud," he said.

LaVar Charleston did not respond to a request for comment about whether the two studies used the same interviews. The University of Michigan said it was "committed to fostering and upholding the highest ethical standards in research and scholarship," but declined to comment on the complaint. The University of Wisconsin-Madison told the Free Beacon it had "initiated an assessment in response to the allegations."

The main difference between the papers is a long section in the 2014 article about "culturally responsive pedagogy theory," which the authors say their findings support. Both articles are littered with the tropes of progressive scholarship, including a disclaimer about "positionality"—the authors assure readers that they reflected on their own "racial, gender, and socioeconomic status"—and a lament that computer science is a "White male-dominated field."

Both also criticize the idea that "computing sciences is for nerds, only for White people, [and] only for geniuses."

Such language is typical of the diversity initiatives Charleston oversees. Since 2020, her office has pumped out a stream of materials that bemoan the "weaponization of whiteness," discuss the ins and outs of "white fragility," and urge students to "call out" their peers for "harmful words." One message, signed by Charleston herself, was titled "A Call to Dismantle Intersecting Oppressions."

"We must continue to work against systematic oppression in all its forms—racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and more," she wrote.

Her office also curates resources for students seeking to become fluent in progressive patois, including a "glossary of diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB) terms" that provides examples of "gaslighting."

Tactics can include "shooting down the target's ideas," the entry reads—or "taking credit for them."

==

Here we go again...

If you haven't already figured it out, the DEI-related faux-"disciplines" - the "Studies": Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Media Studies, etc - are the most corrupt, the most ideological with the absolute lowest academic standards of all. All they care about is echoing back the "correct" opinions, not valid scholarship.

And yet, somehow these lunatics and fanatics end up the most powerful people in the asylum.

Harvard needs to fumigate the house, top to bottom.

[michaelgogins]

The Causal Potency of Consciousness

The other day I read The causal potency of consciousness in the physical world on the arXiv, by Danko Georgiev.

I know little about this author, other than that he has several other preprints on the arXiv on this and related subjects. His affiliation is listed as the Institute for Advanced Study in Varna, but on the Web site of that organization, he appears as the only author, so that appears to be a shell for him. Some of the papers listed there do have other authors in addition to Georgiev.

Georgiev also is the author of the textbook Quantum Information and Consciousness, published by CRC Press and available from Routledge.

And Georgiev is the chief editor of the online, open access journal Quanta (not to be confused with the online magazine Quanta!). Some of the authors published in the open access journal Quanta appear in other peer-reviewed journals of academic science (e.g. Stan Gudder).

Whatever. Georgiev is not a professor, nor is he an institutional researcher, and he appears to be near the fringe.

But he is not on the fringe, or beyond it.

Georgiev's paper presents ideas that I myself had a year or so ago, when I was regularly answering questions on Quora and used that as an excuse to do some amateur philosophizing. And these thoughts of mine go way back to my twenties, when I was trying to relate Chaitin's ideas about Kolmogorov complexity to self-consciousness.

The paper is written in a clear and accessible style and makes several arguments:

Consciousness must provide a selective advantage to conscious animals, including human beings. I had also made this argument, but I am not 100% sure the argument does not beg the question. After all, it might be objected that something physical both causes consciousness and provides a selective advantage.

Consciousness, as a quantum process, observes itself and this is a quantum measurement. I had also made this argument, but again, I am not 100% sure that the argument does not beg the question.

Consciousness has no causal potency from the standpoint of classical physics. I agree.

The quantum state of an organism is capable of indeterminate behavior, which in conscious organisms can be identified with free will, which is required for any satisfying theory of moral responsibility. I also had made this argument, and I went a bit further and pointed out that a free choice must appear random from the standpoint of classical physics, yet is rationally motivated from the standpoint of consciousness. In my view, this overcomes the objection that random behavior cannot be free.

I also have made the argument that human self-consciousness involves a fixed point that is not possible in classical physics, and may not be possible even in quantum physics.

And I have argued that quantum indeterminacy means the phenomenal world is not computable.

I am still not happy with the clarity and completeness of my arguments, and I am still working on them. But I do not doubt that they are all wound up with the points above.

Yet it is very nice to see that these ideas are circulating and may receive the attention and further research I think they deserve.

[stardustspell]

A shadow in the south

Genre: Modern / Supernatural / Mystery / Thriller / Romance Rating: Explicit Media: The Rings of Power Pairing: Halbrand / Galadriel

Chapter 4: The Moon and all her Gifts

"[Gail] hailed a cab to take her to the Little Creek public library in the next town over. It was quiet and sparsely attended on a Thursday morning—which was a relief to Gail. She dug around in her wallet and plucked the yellowing library card from the change holder and typed in a number she hadn’t used in over a decade to access the internet on one of the desktops in the computer lab. 

With her Stanford credentials, Gail was able to access magical journals featuring experimental spells and discussing magical theory, published by schools of sorcery—which were of some use. She paid for access and printed two dozen pages of lycanthropy theory which contained a single modern attempt at breaking the curse. Many of the studies mentioned in these journals were facilitated by the federal government, which worked tirelessly to ensure the supernatural was kept secret from the wider world. One of their tried and true strategies was capturing all manner of beings that could not be reasoned into silence.

Only one of the peer-reviewed studies focused on reversing the effects of lycanthropy, but most of them discussed how the transformations could be regulated through controlled substances. The most successful one was a potion comprised of a blend of herbs, crushed unicorn horn, and dried rosemary from an altar of Amonsül. It had been led by three graduate students from the University of Ohio’s Magical Sciences department. One of them—a tall woman in a long white coat with long golden brown hair looked extremely familiar somehow. 

Dr. Lénore Atkinson, Supernatural Biology PhD"

You can start reading chapter 4 here, or start at the beginning here.

[literaturepublishersjournal]

Toxicity Case Reports Journal

Toxicity Case Reports Journal publishes case reports in Toxicity journal, images in Toxicity Case Reports Journal , journal of Toxicity case reports, case reports in Toxicology journal, journal of Toxicology case reports etc. Toxicity literally means poisonous or noxious and logos refers to the underlying science that explains the adverse effects of toxicity at the organismal level. 

Toxicology is therefore a multidisciplinary field which is at the interface of Biology, Chemistry and Medicine, with a special focus on Pharmacology. The subject discusses the presence of physical, biological and chemical agents in the Biological system and the way they affect its functions. Toxicology places special emphasis on the dosage of toxic substances, the route of exposure, species, age, sex, and the environment.

Toxicology: Case Reports Journal

Journal of Toxicology Case Reports is an Open Access journal published. The Journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of toxicology. Open access publishing proposes a relatively new model for scholarly journal publishing that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of all published articles. 

Open access allows all interested readers to view, download, print, and redistribute any article without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model. The journal uses an editorial tracking system that helps in providing good quality in the review process.

Toxicity Case Reports Journal Highlights: Aflatoxins, Cardiac Toxicity, Chemical Toxicology, Developmental Toxicology, Drug Toxicity, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Heavy Metal Toxins, Industrial Hygiene Toxicology, Insecticides Toxicology, Metal Toxicology, Nano Toxicology, Pesticidal Toxicology, Renal Toxicity, Reproductive Toxicology, Skin Toxicology, Tetanus Toxin, Toxicogenomics, Toxicology Reports, Toxicology Testing.

Journal of Forensic Toxicology & Pharmacology

Journal of Forensic Toxicology & Pharmacology: Journal of Forensic Toxicology and Pharmacology is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and aims to publish articles in all areas of forensic toxicology, forensic science and pharmacology. The field of forensic science has come a long way and this is particularly true in the area of forensic toxicology, which is both fascinating and important for many applications. 

Forensic toxicology is a discipline of forensic science which aids in medical or legal death investigation including disciplines such as analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry. Journal highlights include: Analytical Chemistry, Anthropometry, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, Drug Chemistry, Drugs of abuse, Environmental Forensics Fingerprints, Forensic Criminology, Forensic Death Investigation, Forensic Dentistry, Forensic Engineering, Forensic Genetics, Forensic Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychology, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Pharmacology, Forensic Psychiatry, Forensic Science, Forensic Toxicology, Medical and Clinical Toxicology

Related Journals: Forensic Toxicology, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Forensic Science International, Forensic Science International: Genetics, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Clinical Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicological Studies

International Journal of Chemical Sciences: International Journal of Chemical Sciences is a peer reviewed Quarterly Research Journal encompassing all the branches of Chemical Sciences like Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Analytical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, Industrial, Environmental, Agro and Soil Chemistry as well as Chemical Physics and Engineering etc

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics: American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics is an open access peer reviewed and bi-monthly published research journal that publishes articles in the field of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics. It is an international journal to encourage research publication to research scholars, academicians, professionals and students engaged in their respective fields.

Our mission is to advance research by working to develop and maintain competence, ethics and integrity and the highest professional standards in the specialty for the benefit of the public. The faculty seeks, through its activities, to bring about an improvement in research of the public.

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal publishing original research, reviews focusing on all aspects of drug delivery systems.

Specific topics in the journal include: The properties and design of drugs, Excipients and drug penetration enhancers, Vaccines, Nanotechnology in therapeutics, Polymers for drug delivery, Drug delivery systems including oral, nasal, pulmonary, parenteral, topical and transdermal Controlled release systems; nanoparticles, microparticles, microcapsules, liposomes. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, Biopharmaceutics, Medical devices.

Der Chemica Sinica

Der Chemica Sinica: The primary mission of the Der chemica Sinica is to become the premier source of high quality research from the whole of the world. All authors not only receive fast and comprehensive peer-review but also the article promotion to researchers working in the same field. Der chemica Sinica is peer-reviewed and is published in electronic version. 

The language of the Der chemica Sinica is English.Der chemica Sinica is an Open Access that aims to publish a complete and reliable source of information on discoveries and current developments as original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. in all areas of the chemistry science and making them available online without any subscriptions to the researchers worldwide. The editors welcome articles in this multidisciplinary field of chemistry.

Chemical Informatics

Chemical Informatics: Chemical Informatics is a vast field that aims to disseminate information regarding the design, structures, creation, dissemination, analysis, visualisation and the use of chemical information. 

Chemical Informatics Journal aims to supply scientists of resources in order to provide the scientific knowledge through the publication of peer-reviewed, high quality, scientific papers and other material on all topics related to Chemical information, Software and databases, Molecular modelling, Computer- aided drug design, Molecular graphics, Data mining techniques, QSAR, Use of chemical structures and their representation in chemical substance and chemical reaction databases. Journal Highlights: Models of Chemistry, Chemical Databases and Maintenance, Chemical Information, QSAR, Data Mining Techniques, Database Software

Related Journals: Journal of Cheminformatics, Journal of Molecular Modeling, Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Drug Discovery Today.

Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine

Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine: Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine is a Scholarly Open Access scientific journal which deals with both toxicology and Forensic medicine. Medical Toxicology is nothing but a medical subspecialty concentrating on the analysis, supervision and prevention of harming and additional adversative health issues due to medicines, work-related and ecological contaminants, and organic causes. 

Clinical Forensic Medicine (CFM) is a health field which deals with the collaboration of clinical medicine and the law. It is also involved in the examination of healthcare doctors who are believed to be impaired or may be a possible risk to the public for other reasons. Journal Highlights includes: Forensic Analysis, Forensic Pathology, Toxicology, Forensic Technologies, Forensic Science, Clinical Forensic Analysis, DNA FingerPrinting, Crime investigation, Toxicity Analysis, Jurisdiction

Related Journals: Forensic Nursing, Autopsy, Nanotoxicology, Forensic Science, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science International, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine, Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology; Environmental Toxicology, Clinical Toxicology, Journal of Applied Toxicology, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine.

Journal of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Diseases

Journal of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Diseases: Heavy Metal Toxicity refers to an overexposure to lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium or other high density or metallic element that causes irritation or damage to the body. 

Heavy metals can be found naturally in the environment, in homes, or at the workplace. Sudden severe exposures as well as moderate exposures over time can cause toxicity. Depending on the exposure, metals can increase cancer risk, impair production of red and white blood cells, causes Nausea, Vomiting, Rice-water diarrhoea, Encephalopathy, MODS, LoQTS, Painful neuropathy, Blue vomitus, GI irritation/ Haemorrhage, Hemolysis, MODS (ingested); MFF (inhaled), Vomiting, GI Haemorrhage, Cardiac depression, Metabolic acidosis, Very high doses: Haemorrhage, Bone marrow Suppression, Pulmonary Edema, Hepatorenal necrosis.The main aim of this journal is to provide the quality of data on Heavy Metal Toxicity and related diseases due to severe exposure to Heavy Metals.

Related Journals: The New England Journal of Medicine, Blood Transfusion, Medicine and Healthcare Journal, Iron Chelation Therapy Journal, Blood Journal, Scientific World Journal, Global Journal of Medical Research, Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany, Iranian Journal of Toxicology, Journal of Heavy Metals Toxicity and the Environment, International Journal of Toxicology Heavy Metal Poisoning and Cardiovascular Disease, Heavy metal poisoning from Ayurvedic medicines.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscript by using Online Manuscript Submission Portal:https://www.literaturepublishers.org/submit.html

For more information on Literature Publishers - Toxicity Case Reports Journal visit our site:- https://www.literaturepublishers.org/event/Toxicity-Case-Reports-Journal.html

[jcmarchi]

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/can-ai-automate-computational-reproducibility/

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

Last month, Sakana AI released an “AI scientist”, which the company called “the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery”. It was touted as being able to accelerate science without suffering from human limitations. 

Unfortunately, the “AI Scientist” has many shortcomings. It has no checks for novelty, so generated papers could rehash earlier work. And Sakana did not perform any human review (let alone expert “peer” review) of the generated papers—so it is unclear if the papers are any good (apparently they are not). While these flaws are particularly flagrant in Sakana’s case, the lack of good evaluation affects most AI agents, making it hard to measure their real-world impact.

Today, we introduce a new benchmark for measuring how well AI can reproduce existing computational research. We also share how this project has changed our thinking about “general intelligence” and the potential economic impact of AI. Read the paper.

Visions of AI automating science are enticing, but aren’t within reach, and lead to flawed science. In contrast, using AI for well-scoped tasks such as verifying computational reproducibility can save a lot of time and redirect effort towards more productive scientific activity. AI could also help find relevant literature, write code to rapidly test ideas, and perform other computational tasks.

In a new paper, we introduce CORE-Bench (Computational Reproducibility Agent Benchmark), a benchmark for measuring how well AI can automate computational reproducibility, that is, reproducing a paper’s findings when the code and data are available. The authors are Zachary S. Siegel, Sayash Kapoor, Nitya Nadgir, Benedikt Stroebl, and Arvind Narayanan. CORE-Bench is a first step in a larger project to rigorously evaluate progress in automating research tasks of increasing difficulty.

Computationally reproducing a study is a far more limited task than replication, which requires re-running experiments that might involve human subjects. Even the limited reproducibility task is hard: In the 2022 Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge, over a third of the papers could not be reproduced even when experts reproducing the papers had the code and data. 

If AI could automate this mundane yet important task, researchers could automate the implementation of baselines, reviewers could more easily assess if a paper has flaws, and journals and conferences could more easily verify if submitted and published papers are reproducible.

We created CORE-Bench using scientific papers and their accompanying code and data repositories. We used Code Ocean to source papers that were likely to be reproducible. We manually reproduced 90 papers from computer science, medicine, and social science, and curated a set of questions for each paper to be able to verify the answers. 

We release CORE-Bench with three difficulty levels. Tasks in all three levels require the use of both language and vision capabilities. The hardest version closely resembles real-world reproduction attempts, and we expect that improvements on the benchmark will translate to agents that are actually useful to scientists.

To implement baselines, we tested the generalist AutoGPT agent and also implemented a task-specific modification to AutoGPT, which we call CORE-Agent. While the task-specific version improved accuracy significantly, there is still massive room for improvement: the best agent (CORE-Agent with GPT-4o) has an accuracy of 22% on CORE-Bench-Hard.

Computational reproducibility requires setting up the code environment correctly, running the code, and seeing if it produces the same results as reported in the paper. Using the shell and other tools correctly is still tricky for LLMs. When we evaluated generalist agents like AutoGPT, we weren’t surprised by their poor accuracy (less than 10% on CORE-Bench-Hard). 

Yet, with a few person-days of effort, we were able to build CORE-Agent by modifying AutoGPT, which more than doubled accuracy on the hardest level. We also built a task-specific agent from scratch, but modifying AutoGPT was far less time consuming while also resulting in a stronger agent. We are cautiously optimistic that this approach can be pushed to yield agents that perform well enough to be useful in practice. 

Simple task-specific modifications allow CORE-Agent to outperform AutoGPT. 

If this pattern of being able to easily adapt a generalist agent to produce a task-specific agent holds in other areas, it should make us rethink generality. Generality roughly translates to being able to use the same model or agent without modification to perform a variety of tasks. This notion of generality underpins how Artificial General Intelligence (or AGI) is usually understood and the hopes and fears that accompany it. 

But at least from the point of view of economic impacts, generality might be a red herring. For a task such as computational reproducibility on which expert humans collectively spend millions of hours every year, being able to automate it would be hugely impactful — regardless of whether the AI system did so out of the box, or after a few person days (or even a person year) of programmer effort. 

In the AI Snake Oil book, we define generality as the inverse of task-specificity, and analyze how the history of AI (and computing) can be seen as the pursuit of gradually increasing generality. Increasing generality means decreasing the human effort it takes to build an AI system to perform a given task. From this perspective, systems like AutoGPT may be more general than most people (including us) gave them credit for.

Yet, definitions of AGI typically insist that a single system be able to do everything out of the box. There is no systematic effort to track how the human effort needed to build task-specific AI is changing over time. Just as we’ve argued against flawed conceptions of generality that overestimate AI progress, we should avoid flawed conceptions of generality that underestimate it. 

Read the CORE-Bench paper here.

In our recent paper, AI Agents That Matter, we found several shortcomings with AI agent evaluations. While building CORE-Bench, these shortcomings informed the design of our benchmark.

We recently organized an online workshop on useful and reliable AI agents where leading experts shared their views on better agent design and evaluation. The workshop videos are available online.

Ben Bogin et al. released the SUPER benchmark to evaluate if AI agents can set up and execute tasks from repositories accompanying research papers. It is another interesting benchmark for measuring AI agents’ capability to automate research tasks. It differs from CORE-Bench in many ways: 

CORE-Bench consists of tasks across scientific disciplines (computer science, medicine, social science) whereas SUPER consists of tasks from AI.

CORE-Bench requires the use of both vision-language and language models, and consists of multiple languages (Python and R) as opposed to SUPER (language models, Python).

Tasks in SUPER require access to a Jupyter notebook. In contrast, tasks in CORE-Bench require shell access and allow the agent to modify the sandbox arbitrarily.

[chinascientist]

China researchers build neuron-enlarging brain device using genetic engineering

Chinese scientists have proposed that genetic engineering could one day be used to alter the brain’s neurons as a way of improving the quality of signal transmission in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.The researchers, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), implanted sensors into a mouse’s brain that carried a genetic instruction to make the neurons larger and easier to “read”.

According to the study published in peer-reviewed journal Advanced Materials, the experiments showed the implant – which suppresses the expression of genes that restrict neuron growth – improved brain cell health as well as BCI connections.The researchers said the results showed the approach could one day improve the quality of signal transmission in existing BCI technologies – such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink – in therapeutic settings and in using the mind to directly control devices.

Rapid advances in technology have made it possible for users to control mechanical arms and even computer cursors through thought alone. BCI also offers promising therapeutic benefits to paralysis patients by restoring some motor functions.But while non-invasive BCIs use wearable devices to record and interpret brain signals through the scalp, signal resolution is low and they cannot interact directly with neurons.

To overcome these limitations, researchers in the field have increasingly turned to semi-invasive and invasive BCIs, which involve surgically implanting electrodes and chips into the brain’s cortex to capture high-quality neural signals.Although this method provides clearer signals, there are safety as well as ethical concerns. Surgery can lead to complications, while conventional neural probes – made from rigid materials like silicon or metals – are a mismatch with soft brain tissues.

Neuralink responded to the latter challenge by developing a BCI chip containing 64 flexible polymer threads. Earlier this year, a patient with quadriplegia received one of the chips, in the first human trial of the technology.The device’s functionality began to decrease less than a month after surgery when some of the chip’s threads “retracted from the brain”. Neuralink said its engineers were able to refine the implant and restore functionality.

Chinese researchers claim brain-computer interface breakthrough using monkey brain signal Fang Ying, a co-author of the Chinese study, noted that most research has focused on “developing biocompatible neural electrodes by structural engineering to minimise tissue rejection and enhance the long-term stability of BCI”. “We propose using genetic engineering technologies to enhance the survival and growth of the neuronal cells/tissue surrounding the electrodes, potentially boosting BCI performance,” she said, in an interview published on the Chinese Academy of Sciences website.

Fang and her team proposed an electrode that resembles a slender comb, only 3 microns thick and made from a flexible and biocompatible polymer, in a similar approach to the one taken by Neuralink.The comb features eight teeth uniformly distributed with 120 recording and reference electrodes, each functioning like a protruding microphone to collect signals from nearby neurons.

Tian Huihui, one of the study’s corresponding authors and a research assistant at NCNST, said “years of research and testing” had shown that the polyamide electrodes “can stably transmit signals for over a year in vivo”.The team’s innovation was to coat the electrodes with a layer of a drug carrier containing a small RNA genetic sequence that is released after implantation to influence the surrounding neuronal and other cells.

“We knock down specific genes in the brain precisely. For example, we knocked down PTEN in neuronal cells around the implanted BCI device. The downregulation leads to an enlargement of neuronal cell bodies at the electrode-tissue interface, positively affecting neuronal health and potentially enhancing the interface’s performance,” Tian said.“The enhanced condition and increased number of neurons near the electrodes significantly improve the quality of the collected signals, which is highly beneficial for subsequent decoding of neural signals.”

The team implanted electrodes in both sides of the same mouse brain to exclude the many individualised factors that can affect performance, such as surgical conditions, differences in immune rejection, and neural signal strength.“With quantitative analysis, we found that the number of neurons was significantly higher and the neural activity was more frequent on the side of the brain where the gene was knocked down,” Tian said.

“Also, the soma size of neurons 12 weeks after implantation on the knockdown side was 20 per cent higher than the control side. ”Despite ethical concerns preventing its application in larger animals like macaques – let alone genetic modification of the human brain – the researchers are confident that their method expands the use of genetic engineering in enhanced BCIs.

The breakthrough shows the precise transfection of cells at the neural interface, according to the paper. “Our system holds significant promise in clinical applications, especially in the fields of highly precise genetic engineering,” Fang said. “It paves the way for the next generation of BCI.”

We are thrilled to extend a warm welcome to the China Scientist Awards!

Join us for the China Scientist Awards, a premier event in the realm of research. Whether you're joining virtually from anywhere in the world, this is your invitation to explore and innovate in the field of research. Become part of a global community of researchers, scientists, and professionals passionate about advancing research.

visit: chinascientist.net Nomination Link: https://chinascientist.net/award-nomination/?ecategory=Awards&rcategory=Awardee Registration Link:https://chinascientist.net/award-registration/ For inquiries, contact us at contact@chinascientist.net ------------------------------------- Other website:

https://www.instagram.com/cs_chenguang/

[academicstrive]

Advancing Polymer Science with EPTJ: An Overview

AcademicStrive #EPTJ #PolymerScience #PolymerEvolution #OpenAccess #ResearchPaperPublication

EPTJ - the Evolution in Polymer Technology Journal - with the ISSN 2642-0864, is a foremost open access, peer-reviewed publication with a focus on the latest developments in the polymer sciences. EPTJ is a notable medium for researchers and scholars to offer the world new ideas and research on polymer sciences. The journal seeks to raise the work of excellent scientists and students to an international level, establishing a solid communication and collaboration platform for scientific research. By bringing together scientists and entrepreneurs, EPTJ makes a vital contribution to the evolution of polymer technology through the development of its numerous applications.

EPTJ covers a wide range of topics including the evolution of polymers, the role of biopolymers in living organisms, and advancements in polypeptides and nucleic acids. In addition, the journal is also searching for the pioneering polymer technologies that use the processes of bio-structures’ synthesis and computer analysis. This holistic way of coverage provides the readers with the latest information and developments in the field. EPTJ's offerings range from research articles, review articles, case reports, and short communication. Thus, it is a handy tool for all polymer technology researchers.

Together with the Academic Strive Community, EPTJ is unwavering in its dedication to publishing timely high-quality research on important topics in the field of polymer sciences. By providing easy access to such literature, Academic Strive out of bounds researchers all over the world to exchange their findings and enrich the global knowledge era. To learn more about EPTJ and other journals offered by Academic Strive, visit Academic Strive.

[materialscience-crimson]

Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Processes of the Interaction of Elastic-Plastic Bodies with the Product of Detonation in Eiler Variables_Crimson Publishers

Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Processes of the Interaction of Elastic-Plastic Bodies with the Product of Detonation in Eiler Variables by Abuziarov MH* in Crimson Publishers: Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the processes of interaction and acceleration of deformable solid elasto-plastic bodies with the products of detonation is a complex spatial problem. Interaction with the detonation wave can cause stresses in the elastoplastic body, which considerably exceed the yield strength and substantially deform it during the contact. This process of deformation is very short and, in fact, detonation products can accelerate the body whose shape varies significantly and differs from the initial one. With the development of computer technology, it became possible to simulate these processes numerically. When solving such problems, it is necessary to take into account the processes of initiation and propagation of detonation in solid explosives with the generation of shock waves by expanding explosion products and their interaction with elastoplastic bodies, significant deformation and displacement of these bodies.

For more Open access journals in Crimson Publishers please click on below link https://crimsonpublishersresearch.com/

For more article in Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals please click on below link https://crimsonpublishers.com/rdms/

[aimlayblogs]

Scopus Indexed Journals in Engineering & Computer Science

In the field in academic publication, scholars and researchers typically rely on trusted indexing databases to locate top-quality journals to publish their research. One of the most well-known databases is Scopus which is curated by Elsevier. Scopus indexes a variety of journals from a variety of disciplines, giving researchers an extensive platform to search for research, analyze, and access the scholarly literature. This blog will delves deeper into Scopus indexes of journals with a focus on computer science and engineering disciplines.

Understanding Scopus Indexed Journals

Scopus is an interdisciplinary abstract and citation database that covers a wide range of disciplines such as engineering and computer science. Journals that are indexed on Scopus go through a strict assessment procedure to make sure they are in line with the standards of quality set by the database. This includes criteria like peer review, frequency of publication as well as international diversity and integrity of the editor.

Why Choose Scopus Indexed Journals?

Researchers appreciate Scopus indexes for a variety of reasons:

Quality Assurance: Journals indexed in Scopus are checked to ensure that the published research is in line with certain requirements of academic quality and rigor.

International Visibility listed by Scopus increases the visibility of a journal and access to research across the globe and increases the reach and impact of the published article.

Citation Metrics Scopus gives metrics on citation like the h-index or count of citations, which help researchers determine the impact and importance of their published work.

Finding Scopus Indexed Journals

1. Scopus Indexed Journals List:

Official Scopus website offers an index searchable of the journals with indexes. Researchers can search this list according to the subject matter, publisher and country, as well as other factors.

2. How to Check Scopus Indexed Journals:

Researchers can determine if the journal is listed by Scopus by searching for its journal's title through Scopus. Scopus website. Scopus provides comprehensive details about each journal indexed that includes its indexing date, scope and metrics.

3. Scopus Indexed Journals in Engineering and Computer Science:

For those who are particularly looking for information on engineering and computer technology, Scopus offers a dedicated category in which researchers can search for journals in areas like mechanical engineering, electrical engineering computers, computer networks and artificial intelligence and much more.

Navigating the Landscape of Scopus Indexed Journals

Scopus Indexed Indian Journals:

Indian researchers will find many journals from India which are listed in Scopus which cover a broad variety of disciplines, including computer science and engineering. These journals are a significant contribution to the world research community.

Scopus Indexed Pharmacy Journals:

Although our primary focus is on computer science and engineering, Scopus also indexes journals that deal with pharmacy and related areas. They publish the most cutting-edge research in the fields of pharmacology, pharmaceutical sciences, drugs delivery, as well as much more.

Looking Ahead: Scopus Indexed Journals in 2024

In the years towards 2024, we will see the scope of Scopus indexes is constantly evolving. The number of journals added is constantly increasing which reflect advancements in research and broadening knowledge-based horizons. Researchers can expect to discover new issues and novel methods by using these journals.

Paid Scopus Indexed Journals

Although most Scopus indexes have open access, or have subscription-based models, some might need payment for publication or access. It is essential that researchers examine the policies of each journal's regarding access and fees to ensure that they are in line with their goals for publishing and the requirements of their institution.

Conclusion

Exploring the vast world of Scopus indexes for computing and engineering provides researchers an array of opportunities to enrich their respective fields and be part of the global academic community. Through the tools offered by Scopus researchers can locate reliable journals, increase their research impact, and further advance knowledge across a variety of fields. If you are looking for new approaches in artificial intelligence or cutting-edge developments in mechanical engineering Scopus journal remains the foundation of collaboration and academic excellence.

In conclusion, the concept of Scopus indexed journals allows researchers to publish their work with confidence and be assured that they are part of a worldwide well-known network of scholarly excellence. Related Blog: Scopus Indexed Journals in Engineering & Computer Science

[evoldir]

Fwd: Postdoc: MichiganStateU.EvolAvianVocalization

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Postdoc: MichiganStateU.EvolAvianVocalization > Date: 14 June 2024 at 07:33:26 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > > Postdoctoral Researcher > > Michigan State University > > The lab of Dr. Grace Smith-Vidaurre at Michigan State University is > hiring a postdoctoral research associate. The postdoc will contribute to > the lab’s research on the evolutionary flexibility (and constraints) of > vocal communication systems that depend on social learning. They will lead > or contribute to several projects that include modeling experiments to > simulate social and signaling systems, as well as behavioral experiments > in parrots and songbirds. General research in the Smith-Vidaurre Lab > focuses on how socially learned vocalizations are used to communicate > identity information, and how brain regions for producing learned > vocalizations may be sensitive to the early-life environment. The lab > is part of the Department of Integrative Biology and the Department of > Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, and the Ecology, > Evolution, and Behavior program. > > This remote-friendly position has a minimum requirement of a PhD in > biology, ecology, evolution, or a related field, experience designing and > performing experiments with animals, analyzing animal behavior datasets, > and a record of productive collaborations and mentoring efforts with > publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The postdoc will be > expected to collaborate closely with other lab members at different > career stages. In addition to contributing to the lab’s research, > the postdoc will be encouraged to continue developing their independent > research program for academic or non-academic careers. > > A complete list of qualifications and other information about > this position can be found through the official job posting: > https://ift.tt/pkPNhen. > > Closing date: July 15th, 2024. > > Send questions to Dr. Grace Smith-Vidaurre (smithvid@msu.edu). > > -- > > Grace Smith-Vidaurre, PhD (she/her) > 1855 Assistant Professor > Department of Integrative Biology > Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering > Michigan State University > smith-vidaurre.com > > > "Smith Vidaurre, Grace"

[hasanali01]

Simplifying Medical Research: Online Platforms for Journal Registration

In the fast-changing field of medical research, finding an appropriate online platform is a crucial part of journal registration. Efficiency and accessibility are what researchers aim for in making their research findings available to the scientific community and beyond. The rise of digitization has seen traditional means such as paper submission and manual review replaced by simplified online systems that have changed the way research is published.

1. Simplified registration process

For researchers, the shift from paper-based submissions to online platforms offers not only efficiency but also ease of use. There’s no more need for paperwork per se or even sending manuscripts physically through mail as this can all take place via a computer screen. User experience features such as easy-to-navigate interfaces guide investigators through the registration process without any hitches. Clear instructions and self-explanatory forms expedite data entry while well-described guidelines facilitate manuscript submission and document processing. The best online platform for journal registration removes unnecessary red tape thereby allowing researchers to concentrate on doing valuable work in generating valuable scientific knowledge. This streamlined approach is not only a time and effort saver, but it also raises the bar of efficiency in the publication process thus allowing researchers to devote more energy towards advancing scientific knowledge and addressing pressing healthcare challenges.

2. Efficient peer review systems

Strong peer review systems are crucial for medical research paper publishing platforms. Once submitted, manuscripts are reviewed by experts in the respective fields ensuring accurate, verifiable, and significant findings proposed. Online platforms greatly help to streamline the peer review process hence fostering seamless communication as well as collaboration between authors, reviewers, and editors. Such secure online portals allow reviewers to access manuscripts for proper feedback or even general commentary through scholarly interaction with the authors thus facilitating transparent and rigorous evaluation processes. Timely review of manuscripts without compromising on quality allows researchers to use digital technologies that enable them to share their results faster without necessarily failing to maintain good scientific practices which could jeopardize the growth of this field.

3. Global accessibility and reach

Online publication platforms transcend the limitations of conventional ways in which the print media can reach its clients, which are usually limited by geography. This comes with a host of advantages over traditional modes where researchers had to go through tough processes such as journal registration from any point in the world and submitting papers just to be published hence allowing for an inclusive research environment in science. International collaboration is one of its benefits while enabling access to new knowledge among scholars all over the globe regardless of their location or institutional affiliation. Online platforms facilitate borderless circulation of scientific information that is disseminated at a faster pace thus expediting global scientific progress, and consequently increasing its accessibility for fruitful exchange by researchers and innovators worldwide. By doing so, scholars have an opportunity to capitalize on multiple perspectives and expertise they get from different parts of the globe which leads to better quality research output with more impact even as it promotes collective understanding and enhances solutions for global challenges.

4. Customized publication options

Journal registration online emphasizes flexibility and customization of these services since it caters for different users’ needs. In addition, the latter have the opportunity to select formats that are most suitable for their requirements and targets through a variety of publication options. Thus, researchers have the freedom to make decisions on their publication strategy such as choosing open-access journals to maximize accessibility or subscription-based models to cater for specific audiences. Furthermore, they offer extra benefits like language editing services for quality assurance of the research work and summary graphics for easier understanding of the main findings among others. Some extras offered by these platforms include language editing services that ensure clarity and accuracy, graphical abstract creation which helps summarize key findings visually as well as multimedia integration which displays interactive elements like videos or animations. This is done by providing value-added services where online platforms enable scholars to convey their works more effectively thus heightening its recognition and credibility within and beyond the scientific community.

5. Enhanced visibility and citations

However, in this digital era medical research papers need to be made highly visible to be influential and recognized by the scientific community at large. By using digital indexing services and search engine optimization tactics, online publishing platforms contribute significantly towards increasing the extent to which published manuscripts can be discovered. The purpose of optimising metadata and relevant keywords is to make sure that research works are easily searchable and available to numerous scholars, doctors, and policymakers. Some also provide a complete set of measurement tools for the researcher to monitor the performance of these publications. For example, researchers can measure how many times their articles have been seen, downloaded or cited as well as mentioned in social media among others. Through enhanced visibility and participation, researchers can increase the significance of their scientific work by improving medical science.

6. Continual innovation and adaptation

In such a fast-paced environment, staying ahead means being adaptable and having foresight. Online journal registration platforms acknowledge the fluidity of medical research and thus place great emphasis on continuous innovation to keep pace with changing circumstances. By keeping an eye on developing tendencies within the academic publishing sector, new features, and tools, as well as ensuring quality control through measures like those earlier discussed get integrated into these systems. These platforms are the first to implement artificial intelligence for manuscript screening, adopt blockchain technology for transparent peer review or enhance user experience through intuitive interfaces. In doing so, they ensure that researchers have the most up-to-date resources and tools needed to effectively navigate the complex landscape of medical research.

In conclusion, the advent of online platforms for journal registration has revolutionized the landscape of medical research paper publication. These platforms give researchers a more streamlined, efficient and global way to get their work out there. They help authors reach a wider audience by allowing them to customize their publications, while also facilitating scholarly cooperation and progress through robust peer review systems. As we move further into this digital era, online publication platforms will continue to be crucial in attaining the knowledge and innovation scientifically required.

[miteshsposts]

Explore Free Computer Science Journals

Are you passionate about computers and technology? Do you love learning about the latest developments in computer science? If so, you're in luck! There are many free computer science journals available online that you can explore without spending a penny. In this article, we'll introduce you to some of the best ones and show you where to find them.

1. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in technology. It offers free access to a wide range of articles, magazines, and conference proceedings covering topics like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and more.

2. arXiv.org: arXiv.org is a preprint repository where researchers share their latest findings before they're officially published. You can find a wealth of computer science papers here, covering everything from algorithms to computer graphics.

3. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): The Directory of Open Access Journals is a directory of freely available scholarly journals. It includes a dedicated section for computer science, where you can find high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics.

4. Google Scholar: Google Scholar is a powerful search engine for academic literature. You can use it to find free computer science journals by entering relevant keywords and exploring the search results.

5. SpringerOpen: SpringerOpen is a platform that offers open access journals published by Springer Nature. While some articles may require a subscription, many are available for free, covering topics such as data science, machine learning, and more.

6. ACM Digital Library: The ACM Digital Library is a valuable resource for computer science professionals. While some content may require a subscription, there are also free articles and resources available for anyone to access.

By exploring these free computer science journals, you can stay up-to-date with the latest research and developments in the field. Whether you're a student, researcher, or just someone who loves technology, there's something for everyone to discover. So why wait? Start exploring today!

Explore Free Computer Science Journals Now!