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Many journals encourage authors to use their special latex packages (e.g., revtex4-1 for physical review a,b etc) while sending an article for peer-review process. I am not sure if this is compulsory or optional. Will an article be rejected if it is written not using the special latex packages...

I'm beginning to build a large collection of papers for my research and it is getting bewildering trying to navigate them and collect their citation information. Right now I keep making a text file in each directory with the citation information of each paper and their file name. Is their a...

I'm studying a perturbation theory (behaviour of its series) and have found two articles which might be of particular interest. Unfortunately, all my three institutions do not have subscription to these journals (articles are too old). I'm kindly asking for your help. These are the articles I'm...

I see a lot of different ways to write physics articles and I'm wondering if there is a preferred, or even a required voice for writing articles (Say something submitted to PRL). If I'm alone as an author, or with someone else, etc can I use: Using the values found in [3] I calculate the...

Hi Can anyone direct me to a recent review article of tests of Bell's inequalities. As recent as possible Thank you

Hi, I'm starting my thesis next year and I'll be reading a lot of articles and theses and doctorates and stuff. Do any of you use an e-reader for this kind of reading? How good is it? What are the drawbacks? Thanks

First, in regard to this article: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45535 (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7339/full/nature09778.html) Does the Heisenberg limit apply to single particle systems, rather than N amount of particles? I draw that conclusion from The second...

Say, if I publish in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, then does it make it harder for me to get the paper into the Astrophysical Journal or Icarus later on? What about a paper that hits both Astrophysical Journal and Nature/Science/PNAS?

I am interested in membrane recently.Can someone show the abc knowledge about membrane. I major in mechanics and I concern about the maths, physics and mechanics of membrane. Can somebody recommend some classic books and articles about this subject. Thanks.:smile:

Guys, I need to write journal articles for a Bio course. But I need Bio science articles to write the journals on. Do you know any sites with good recent (2011) articles?

I really do not know which form this fits in. Recently I have been looking into getting an Ebook reader like the kindle to avoid things like printing massive amounts of material or reading on a laptop screen. So I was wondering what is the best ebook reader for reading things like Journal...

Do anyone know why in some article or books, they write the neutrino without distinguish the type among them. e.g. \mu\rightarrow e+\nu+\bar{\nu} does it have speacial meaning to write like this?

Howdy Ppl, If you have seen the General relativity primer by Richard H. Price, published in American Journal of Physics, Vol. 50, p.300, at the top you will see it says: Editor's Note: This review article, the second in the series, is made possible by a grant from the National Science...

Hi everyone, I'd like to prepare a presentation about solar cells. I need a few articles about multijunction solar cells from popular magazines. If you can help me, please, post there links for these articles. Thank you, Anna

im currently trying to acquaint myself with the current state of knowledge in physics, problem is i can't understand the physics published in journals, now i wanted to know , is it against the rules to ask stuff about the published materials? where do the questions go to, here or homework help?

France's national library has digitized all the old volumes of Comptes Rendus, so now anyone can get all the historic math, science, etc articles: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb343481087/date.r=Comptes+rendus+hebdomadaires+des+s%C3%A9ances+de+l%27Acad%C3%A9mie+des+Sciences.langEN later...

any papers/ articles on carbon fibre?? hey I'm looking to do a study into the acoustic properties of carbon fibre but haven't been able to come across any current papers dealing specifically with this topic. does anyone know of any journals that have had published articles or better still...

How reliable are peer reviewed scientific articles? I'm asking this question because someone on http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=25802864&postcount=913" claims that you can pick who reviews your article so you're not really getting an objective point of view. This was in a global...

Highly informative discussion It's in a foreign language but that's OK because there are excellent subtitles. I decided to remove URL because may be too controversial, but will try to give googlesearch keywords

Homework Statement I am writing my lab report. It required me cite three articles. My experiment name is effect of temperature on enzyme(catechol oxidase) activity. I just wanted to write on my own because i know some of it. And three articles are too much. And I tried my university's...

Is there a compendium of peer-reviewed journals that have been shown to be wrong? I've heard of scientific journals that only have required two reviewers. How often does rubbish get by; not just typos and simple mistakes, but fundamentally unsound rubbish? Is there a remedy process for...

I need these articles to do some research.Who could help me? Author:Milan Wayne Garrett 1.Thick Cylindrical Coil Systems for Strong Magnetic Fields with Field or Gradient Homogeneities of the 6th to 20th Order J. Appl. Phys. 38 2563 (1967) 2.Calculation of Fields...

Need two articles very urgently hi, I need "Miller AJ. The effect of microstructural parameters on the mechanical properties of non-crimp fabric composites. M. Phil thesis, Cranfield University, School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, August 1996" and "developing multiaxial non-crimp...

Anyone know where I can find some good biotechnology related articles for free on the net, got a journal review that I need to do. Thanks

does anybody besides me find the following wikipedia articles confusing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-acceleration a=du/dτ γu is the Lorentz factor for the speed (coordinate velocity) u In an instantaneously co-moving inertial reference frame u = 0, γu = 1 and dγu/dτ = 0, i.e. in such a...

Hello! :D I need help finding articles from print media sources that deal with types of surgery, not limited but including the surgical sciences and arts, as well as articles dealing with topics like diabetes and cancer. I need these articles ASAP. Thanks!

Hi everyone In my attempt to understand the details of Stern Gerlach experiments and measurment issues in quantum mechanics, I have come to believe that there is a lot to be learned from some of the basic thought experiments like interference and Stern Gerlach described in books...

please suggest good articles on Loop Quantum Cosmology If you have links of good articles and review papers of Loop Quantum Cosmology please post here

Hello,I want these articles "B.C.Lee,K.W.Kim,M.Dutta and M.A.Stroscio,Electron-optical-phonon scattering in wurtzite crystals[J],Phys.Rev.B,1997,56(3),997-1000. and B.C.Lee,K.W.Kim,M.A.Stroscio and M.Dutta,Optical-phonon confinement and scattering in wurtzite...

Many wiki articles contained horrible mistakes for many years until just a few days ago when I started to edit them. :smile: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helmholtz_free_energy&oldid=212028025" This had been the wiki article since many years...

Hello, Someone at my school whom I want to impress is going to speak about Witten's recent articles about CFT: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=ea+Witten,+Edward Can someone give me some intelligent-sounding questions about these articles?

Would anyone happen to know of any research/technical papers that are well written and ideal to look over to prepare for ones thesis?

Hey... Can someone recommend good software for creating 2D illustrations for articles and reports? I've been using SmartSketch for a while, but I don't really like it. Thanks

Bojowald's What happened before the Big Bang? article in the August 2007 issue of NATURE PHYSICS is available to non-subscribers To get the article directly in HTML http://npg.nature.com/nphys/journal/v3/n8/full/nphys654.html Or you can go thru the Table of Contents and see the other...

Hard to decide which forum this should be in, sorry if it's not appropriate here. I am writing a science article as a university project. We have been told to reference any pictures, but my only picture if the opening / title picture, with the title embedded in it. But I am not sure how I...

I'm looking for information on the different kinds of neurons and their possible interactions. I wish to program a model of sizable amount of neurons connected to each other in the various possible ways. so, can anyone direct me to a good reading material?

Hey Everyone, My research project this summer involves the study of Quantum Dots. I want to find some published papers covering aspects of quantum dots, fundamentals of the dots, etc. Does anyone have any suggested journal articles that you think would be a good start? Thanks a lot for the...

As I mentioned a while back I was starting a new project so I wouldn't be posting much until I was finished. The project was for me to take all my files (all physics articles) from the two draws in my cabinet and scan them and place them in PDF files. That work is now complete. The list of...

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kucinich_set_to_announce_Articles_of_0424.html I can only hope that his motives are sincere and that this is not intended solely as a means to political gain.

Where can you find articles that great physicists published their ideas and displayed math proofs and definitions? thanks

Hey guys, Do any of you know a free database with a wide variety of journal articles that I can search? I want the full text articles, but most databases search abstracts and then give you a link to a site where you have to pay for the full text version. I mean I am told of these...

Since January 2007 with Nobel prize laureate Gerardus ‘t Hooft appointed as editor-in-chief. His first editorial is here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/867288v5118851k7/fulltext.pdf The magazine is here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9516/ The January and February...

Really funny and stupid articles, good humor though: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_prepared_to_do_anything_to" http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53191"

I have searched the web top to bottem for any articles on Pyrolytic Diamond, I am starting to believe that nobody has thought of doing such a material Experiment. There are tons of articles on Pyrolytic Graphite but none of Pyrolytic Diamond. I am aware that Pyrolytic Graphite Levitates on...

can you please help me find a good article on all that weird stuff in modern physics? the article can be specific or general ... it doesn't really matter as long as it pertains to modern physics

I am looking for any articles with references talking about WESTERN BLOTTING, but i hardly find any in pubmed. Could it be that WESTERN BLOTTING is an old technique that is why old articles are deleted or not in use? Do you have any good ones that i can read? I am not interested in some of...

Does anyone have access to International Journal of Modern Physics B? If so could you send me two articles? PM me for the articles. I could use interlibrary loan but that takes around three weeks to get the articles. Thanks

For many years our next door neighbor was a sociologist, whose specialty was the Sociology of Religion. She studied several of the major religions, how they work, how they recruit participants, by what mechanisms do they change with time... She would have been amused by the recent appearance...

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/ Although some articles may be Gentoo specific, they are nonetheless a good read.

I have placed several journal articles on the concept of mass online for anyone to read. Its probably not kosher to do so so shhhh. :-) See bottom of http://www.geocities.com/physics_world/sr/sr.htm where it reads References to Journal Articles on the Concept of Mass in Relativity Pete