Posts Tagged ‘Entertainment/Culture’
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
The topic of open citations was presented at the PIDapalooza conference and represents a third component in the increasing corpus of open scientific information.
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Tags:Academic publishing, Applied linguistics, article processing charge, British National Corpus, chemical stories, cited author, Corpus linguistics, David Shotton, Entertainment/Culture, Linguistics, Open access, Quotation, RDF, social media, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders women's basketball
Posted in Chemical IT | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
We have heard a lot about OA or Open Access (of journal articles) in the last five years, often in association with the APC (Article Processing Charge) model of funding such OA availability. Rather less discussed is how the model of the peer review of these articles might also evolve into an Open environment. Here I muse about two experiences I had recently.
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Tags:Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Company: Facebook, Company: Publons, Company: Twitter, editor, Electronic publishing, Entertainment/Culture, Hybrid open access journal, Internet giants, OA, Open access, Organic Syntheses, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, search engines, Social Media & Networking, Technology/Internet
Posted in Chemical IT, General | 5 Comments »
Friday, February 10th, 2017
The book of the title has recently appeared giving a rich and detailed view over 417 pages, four appendices and 24 pages of photographs of how a university chemistry department in the UK came into being in 1845 and its subsequent history of discoveries, Nobel prizes and much more. If you have ever wondered what goes on in an academic department, populated by and large by very bright and clever personalities and occasionally some highly eccentric ones, then go dip into this book.
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Tags:2001-2050, Alfred Nobel, Bill Griffith, Country: United Kingdom, Education, Entertainment/Culture, Hannah Gay, Nobel Prize
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
The phenomenon of bond stretch isomerism, two isomers of a compound differing predominantly in just one bond length, is one of those chemical concepts that wax and occasionally wane.[1] Here I explore such isomerism for the elements Ge, Sn and Pb.
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References
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J.A. Labinger, "Bond-stretch isomerism: a case study of a quiet controversy", Comptes Rendus. Chimie, vol. 5, pp. 235-244, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1631-0748(02)01380-2
Tags:a Jahn-Teller, Bond length, chemical concepts, Chemical substance, Company: Ge, Coordination complex, energy, energy difference, Entertainment/Culture, Hydrogen bond, Isomer, Isomerism, Length, Molecular geometry, Organic chemistry, results of a search, search both bond stretch isomers, SN
Posted in crystal_structure_mining, Historical | 1 Comment »