Physicists in Cracow – on the 70th anniversary of the First International Cosmic Rays Conference by Maria Pawłowska

“…The conference was organized by a group of theoretical physicists from the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Mining under the leadership of Professor Jan Weyssenhoff. …”
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Hydroxymethylfurfural in honey: a public health problem by Bruno Soares Toledo, Lévison da Costa Cipriano, Thais Regina de Castro Pereira, Sérgio Borges Mano, Adriano Gomes da Cruz, Erick Almeida Esmerino, Eliane Teixeira Mársico

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NUCLEAR EDUCATION IN MEPHI by N. S. BARBASHINA, N. I. GERASKIN, G. V. TIKHOMIROV

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Physics-guided actor-critic reinforcement learning for swimming in turbulence by Christopher Koh, Laurent Pagnier, Michael Chertkov

“…Our scheme, coined the actor-physicist, is an adaptation of the actor-critic algorithm in which the neural network parameterized critic is replaced with an analytically derived physical heuristic function, the physicist. …”
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The Ghost in the Machine: The Ethical Risks of AI by Emile Ormond

“… A group of eminent scientists, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, notoriously claimed that: “Success in creating artificial intelligence (AI) would be the biggest event in human history. …”
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Integral and Series Representations of Riemann's Zeta Function and Dirichlet's Eta Function and a Medley of Related Results by Michael S. Milgram

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‘Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness’: Soundscape in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the physiological acoustics by Lilia Miroshnychenko

“…The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to George Eliot’s early writing. …”
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50th anniversary of the discovery of Feigenbaum's patterns by Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Petrovich, Sedova, Yuliya Viktorovna

“…In 1975, while experimenting with a pocket programmable calculator, American physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum discovered the universal patterns of transition to chaos through period doubling bifurcations, which now bear his name.…”
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Reproducibility and transparency: what’s going on and how can we help

“…Professor Vitaly Podzorov is a physicist at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and current Donald H. …”
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Evaluation of 3D-CRT Radiotherapy Treatment Planning with Radiobiological Effects in Patient-Specific 3D Printed Anthropomorphic Phantom Postmastectomy Breast Cancer Axillary Metas... by Endarko Endarko, Aditya Hariyanto, Siti Aisyah, Nandia Kavilani, Ahmad Syafi'i

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Géologie, théologie et inquiétudes eschatologiques : William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et les débats suscités par la thermodynamique à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…William Thomson (1824-1907), an eminent physicist who contributed to the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, was also at the origin of a largely forgotten controversy concerning the ages of the Sun and the Earth. …”
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Jakość pracy naukowej, jej potwierdzenie a recenzja partnerska. Odbiór w środowisku naukowym i nieporozumienia. Postawy wobec recenzji partnerskiej (przekł. Tomasz Olszewski) by Adrian Mulligan

“…., Fraud shows peer-review flaw, „The Industrialist Physicist” 8(6), 2003. Mulligan Adrian (Elsevier), Quality, certification and peer review, Information Services and Use, 28 (2008). …”
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Solving Quantum Dynamics with a Lie-Algebra Decoupling Method by Sofia Qvarfort, Igor Pikovski

“…As background, we include an overview of Lie groups and Lie algebras aimed at a general-physicist audience. We then prove the Lie-algebra decoupling theorem and apply it to both closed and open dynamics. …”
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Kleist vs. Musschenbroek – a difficult way to truth by Jerzy Sawicki

“…The French promoter of the Leiden experiment was physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet. The discoverer’s fame was unjustly attributed to Musschenbroek and Leiden, although Daniel Gralath reported Nollet’s letter about Kleist’s priority. …”
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The Meaning of Time and Covariant Superderivatives in Supermechanics by Gil Salgado, José A. Vallejo-Rodríguez

“…We present a review of the basics of supermanifold theory (in the sense of Berezin-Kostant-Leites-Manin) from a physicist's point of view. By considering a detailed example of what does it mean the expression “to integrate an ordinary superdifferential equation” we show how the appearance of anticommuting parameters playing the role of time is very natural in this context. …”
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English derby in philosophy: John Locke versus Derek Parfit by A. V. Nekhaev

“…As an alternative to these views, a several of additional arguments are considered to support the physicist view of human nature…”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“…The long-standing commitment to reason, embodied in the identification of thought and being, resulted in what the physicist, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, calls faith in science which according to him is the governing religion of our time. …”
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Legacy of Dr. Saul Hertz by Marina S. Sheremeta, Maria O. Korchagina, Alexey A. Trukhin, Galina A. Mel'nichenko

“…The positive response was the beginning of Saul Hertz’s research in the field of nuclear medicine. Together with physicist Arthur Roberts, he studied the pharmacokinetics of radioactive isotopes of iodine and the possibility of using them for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease (TD). …”
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Evolution and Recent Radiation Therapy Advancement in Uganda: A Precedent on How to Increase Access to Quality Radiotherapy Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Awusi Kavuma, Solomon Kibudde, Daniel Kanyike, Joseph Kigula-Mugambe, Tianyu Zhao, Hiram Gay, Baozhou Sun, Jackson Orem

“…The early years were characterized by foundational developments, such as the installation of the first teletherapy units, low-dose-rate brachytherapy units, and conventional simulators, and the recognition of radiation oncologists and medical physicist professionals laid the groundwork for radiotherapy treatment modalities. …”
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Acronyms, Shmacronyms

“…Nature leads off this week with a story about a German proposal to build new collider for high-energy physicists named TESLA. Science leads with an article about a Soviet proposal to convert a former bioweapons lab called VECTOR into a center for virus research.…”
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