• These sorts of problems are known as Fermi problems, after the physicist Enrico Fermi, who was fond of them. (maa.org)
  • The most advanced experimental physicist at that point, Enrico Fermi, who'd been critical in the development of the bomb up till then, had a very different conception. (therealnews.com)
  • This type of problem is known as a Fermi Problem, named for physicist Enrico Fermi. (nails-beauty.de)
  • In 1953, scientists at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm had produced fermium 250 by bombarding uranium with oxygen nuclei.This distance is sometimes called a fermi and was so named in honour of Italian naturalized to American physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Mikhail Dyakonov, a theoretical physicist at the University of Montpellier in France, believes engineers will never be able to control all the continuous parameters that would underpin even a 1,000-qubit quantum computer. (scientificamerican.com)
  • That fact "kind of leaves a bad taste in some people's mouths, almost like the fictional planet Vulcan," said Leo Stein, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The shortage of tenure-track positions (only about 14%-23% of PhD level biologists, chemists, or physicists hold tenure-track positions after five years) leads to a fierce competition between scientists for those jobs. (phys.org)
  • Collaborations between biologists, medical doctors, computer scientists, physicists, engineers and mathematicians offer new insights in complex systems essential for understanding principal mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and for developing new tools in diagnostics and therapy. (nature.com)
  • The group is multidisciplinary and involves gynecologists, radiologists, oncologists - as well as physicists and biologists. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • In scientific applications, physicists and engineers make use of both rigid and flexible waveguide. (megaind.com)
  • lt;span>Topics cover facilities from the operations, physics and engineering perspective and participants represent people from all backgrounds including technicians, engineers, physicists, management and operators. (lu.se)
  • The prospect of a high impact factor publication has even been shown to effect neuronal response and behavior in controlled experimental settings. (phys.org)
  • By the early 1920's, the experimental work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, Ernest and George Gamow Gamow, George demanded that an artificial means be developed to generate streams of atomic and subatomic particles at energies much greater than those occurring naturally. (wikisummaries.org)
  • LHC-Concern.info: Official website of LHC-Kritik, international scientific network to discuss the risks at experimental subnuclear particle accelerators and to file a human rights complaint against the CERN member states. (lhc-concern.info)
  • A world-class specialist V. D. Kekelidze began his career as an experimental physicist in the field of elementary particle physics at JINR more than 50 years ago. (jinr.ru)
  • According to the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 11.500. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry IF is decreased by a factor of 0.7 and approximate percentage change is -4.92% when compared to preceding year 2021, which shows a falling trend. (resurchify.com)
  • From Sci-News.com, March 19, 2021: Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for the odderon, an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost five decades ago. (nails-beauty.de)
  • A Central Design Group (CDG) was organized in California at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which became the gathering place for physicists to come and support the SSC design effort. (wikipedia.org)
  • UC Berkeley physicist Norman Yao will present a broad overview of current efforts toward building a quantum computer. (wonderfest.org)
  • Led by Stanford University physicist Stanley Wojcicki, and charged with making recommendations "for a forefront United States High Energy Physics Program in the next five to ten years. (wikipedia.org)
  • That raw power could be harnessed someday to perform tasks impossible for practical computers such as cracking the strongest cryptographic ciphers used by governments and companies or simulating quantum systems relevant to scientific fields such as physics, chemistry and biology. (scientificamerican.com)
  • After consulting my family, my boss, my colleagues, and a few close friends, I concluded that while I didn't have much of a chance to win the election, this would be a fine opportunity to voice some of my priorities for APS, for physics, and for physicists. (aps.org)
  • By the end of the war, increases in the public and private funding of scientific research and a demand for even higher energy particles created a situation in which this plan looked as if it would become reality, were it not for an inherent limit in the physics of cyclotron operation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • There are a couple of reasons, though, why I think modern physics is particularly useful for teaching people about the power of scientific thinking, in the sense of yesterday's post. (scienceblogs.com)
  • This is one of the reasons particle physicists tend to look down on those stamp collecting biomedical types-- the threshold for claiming a new result in particle physics is several orders of magnitude greater, a degree of statistical certainty that you'll never match in any trial with a finite number of human subjects. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The other factor that makes modern physics well suited to demonstrating the power of scientific thinking is the very fact that it is so weird and esoteric. (scienceblogs.com)
  • And yet, we have a very good handle on how physics works at those scales, thanks to the power of scientific thinking. (scienceblogs.com)
  • So, in those respects, as strange as it may seem, modern physics is a fantastic way to demonstrate the power of scientific thinking. (scienceblogs.com)
  • That is, rather than introducing a fudge factor that really explained and predicted nothing, what was needed was new physics that both explained observations at the time and predicted new ones . (creation.com)
  • Time: 2024-03-21 17:00 - 2024-03-21 18:30 Type: Lecture/talk Place: Auditorium: Rydbergsalen, Department of Physics, Professorsgatan 1 Welcome to a public lecture with famous physicist, senior expert and distinguished speaker Sergey Ketov from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. (lu.se)
  • And now, a University of Mississippi physicist thinks soap bubbles can help scientists better understand the properties of black holes. (phdpro.info)
  • I am not the only modern physicist/cosmologist who thinks that 'dark matter' is the Vulcan of today. (creation.com)
  • John Hagelin PhD is a quantum physicist and president of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, and honorary chair of its board of trustees. (meditationlifestyle.com)
  • For example, to factor a 300 digit number on a 1-THz quantum computer would take approximately 1 second. (wonderfest.org)
  • The hope is, however, that some pieces may be reused for the next particle accelerator, says Giovanni Punzi, a University of Pisa physicist. (wttw.com)
  • In his new book , Return of the God Hypothesis: Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Mind of God Behind the Universe, Myer looks at arguments like those of the New Atheists and asks, "But does the science actually support this strictly materialistic vision of reality? (tifwe.org)
  • Meyer argues the universe was created, and quotes physicist and Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias: "The best data we have [concerning a beginning] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the first five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole. (tifwe.org)
  • The second scientific discovery Meyer discusses is what physicists call the "Goldilocks universe. (tifwe.org)
  • From the 1960s on, physicists have concluded that, against all odds, we live in a finely tuned universe. (tifwe.org)
  • But dark matter is reminiscent of the scientific proposal, popular in the late 1800s to early 1900s, about the existence of another planet, Vulcan. (creation.com)
  • In their work, AlShebli and her colleagues analyzed the data from one million scientific papers published between 2001 and 2020. (aps.org)
  • While the "publish or perish" culture in science won't break bones, it does have a negative impact - the prevalence of scientific fraud , leading to an increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers. (phys.org)
  • The strong correlation between a journal's impact factor and the number of papers it retracts, found in a study in 2011 , supports the notion that scientists are more likely to take risks and forget scientific vigor in order to publish in high impact journals. (phys.org)
  • We strive to publish the most paper cutting scientific research, protocols and news. (dnatured.com)
  • But the most critical factor in the equation plays out real-time: the weather during fire season. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • The fission of uranium and plutonium nuclei is surely a scientific achievement of the past century, but at the same time it has made possible the most horrifying weapons of destruction of all time. (edge.org)
  • One of the greatest physicist of our time. (theblythcentre.com)
  • I'm interested in the birth / death / life cycle of scientific fields over time, and looking for quantitative metrics that suggest whether a particular scientific field is in decline. (stackexchange.com)
  • I'm not the first person to look for metrics on the rise and decline of scientific fields - but all the papers I've found (e.g., this one ) focus mainly on the number of publications in a time period. (stackexchange.com)
  • The majority of my time for research, which is rather extensive, is now devoted to penetrating some more fundamental scientific issues. (lu.se)
  • The laboratory director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now Bedoor AlShebli of New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and her colleagues add to the growing evidence for publication inequities by showing that-in all countries and in all scientific fields-non-white researchers are underrepresented on journal editorial boards and have longer wait times for publishing their research, a previously undocumented finding [ 1 ]. (aps.org)
  • In 1971, after receiving honours degree at Tbilisi State University he was sent from postgraduate course of TSU to LHE JINR for scientific practice as a participant of the LIC experiment on regeneration of neutral kaons at the U-70 accelerator in Protvino. (jinr.ru)
  • Since 2002 it is mandatory for employees at Lund University to register their scientific publications in Lund University Current Research Information System (LUCRIS). (lu.se)
  • This work is supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). (sdsc.edu)
  • He did not, however, take my nomination seriously enough to factor the possibility of my election into my work assignments for the coming years. (aps.org)
  • and I said APS should work to increase the scientific literacy of the general public, so that citizens can better make decisions on issues that involve the interface between science and society. (aps.org)
  • First, it has been a marvelous experience to work with so many distinguished physicists and thoughtful people. (aps.org)
  • Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • Now, I mention that because at the very same month, we now know, Speer, the head of armaments production in Germany, and scientific work on this, was revealing to Hitler that yes, an atomic bomb was possible. (therealnews.com)
  • Please refer to the Web of Science data source to check the exact journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric. (resurchify.com)
  • SJR acts as an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (or an average number of citations received in last 2 years). (resurchify.com)
  • Although funding for scientific research on a large scale was scarce before World War II, Lawrence nevertheless conceived of a 467-centimeter cyclotron that would generate particles with energies approaching 100 million electronvolts. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Physicists model how particles interact. (independent.org)
  • Puls offers scientific observations that contradict their claims. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • His short answer is "NO." Instead, he suggests three significant scientific discoveries during the last century that contradict the New Atheists and point instead in a distinctly theistic direction. (tifwe.org)
  • Non-white scientists-in particular Black scientists-are underrepresented on editorial boards, receive proportionally fewer citations, and experience longer review times for their papers, factors that can all impact their career prospects. (aps.org)
  • My citations, although insufficiently precise for a scientific paper, match or exceed those in most books of quotations. (cdc.gov)
  • Compare the citations and impact factors of scholarly journals. (lu.se)
  • Based on scientific factors the book was written and aimed at lay people. (theblythcentre.com)
  • Yesterday's big post on why I think people should embrace scientific thinking in a more conscious way than they do already (because my claim is that most people already use scientific thinking, they're just not aware that they're doing it) is clearly a kind of explanation of the reason behind my next book, but what about the previous two? (scienceblogs.com)
  • In my book "Return of the God Hypothesis," I concur and argue that recent scientific discoveries about biological and cosmological origins have decidedly theistic implications, suggesting that popular scientific reports of the death of God may have been - to adapt Mark Twain's famous quip - greatly exaggerated. (tifwe.org)
  • Edge ( www.edge.org ) features a cross section of elite scientists, including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, parallel computing pioneer Danny Hillis, language theorist and cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker, robotics expert Rodney Brook, chaos theory expert Doyne Farmer, and physicists Paul Davies, Freeman Dyson and Lee Smolin. (edge.org)
  • A myriad of government entities, the National Academy of Science's National Research Council (NAS/NRC), lobbyists and interest groups, expert witnesses and advisors, including physicists, think-tanks, etc. offer information and diverse compelling arguments. (aps.org)
  • Puls recalls that he used to just parrot whatever the IPCC told him, but when he investigated the facts behind their claims, he discovered there was no scientific data to support that CO2 or humans were the cause of climate change. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • Puls said: "One day I started checking the facts and data - first I started with a sense of doubt but then I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported by any scientific facts and measurements. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • The crisis in reproducibility of scientific data is evident, as detailed in a previous post on the PLOS ECR Community Blog . (phys.org)
  • It is based on Scopus data and can be a little higher or different compared to the impact factor (IF) produced by Journal Citation Report. (resurchify.com)
  • Studies like this are critical for providing a comprehensive and data-driven examination of inequity so that we can address the problem as a global scientific community. (aps.org)
  • The recommendation of this entity focuses on the use of pertinent scientific data, with each case evaluated individually when considering the treatment options 3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • A study published in PLOS Biology that investigates what factors scientists reputations are judged on gave a clue as to why this problem exists. (phys.org)
  • Most scientists agree that impact factors are an imperfect measure of quality, but they are an easy metric. (phys.org)
  • The complaint includes scientific studies of various experts and special expertises of risk-scientists. (lhc-concern.info)
  • In this video published by Transcendental Meditation, Dr Hagelin gives his scientific perspective on the practice of TM. (meditationlifestyle.com)
  • In 1991, V. D. Kekelidze led a group of JINR physicists to prepare the NA48 experiment at the SPS accelerator at CERN . (jinr.ru)
  • Guesstimation does a good job of checking the answers obtained with more accurate answers looked up elsewhere, and indeed accuracy to a factor of 10 is almost always achieved. (maa.org)
  • It has good supporting material on the use of scientific notation and a list of numbers to know approximately (US population, world population, chemical reaction energy in electron-volts, etc. (maa.org)
  • Given that, then, how can I claim that these are a particularly good introduction to scientific thinking in general? (scienceblogs.com)
  • To carry out a good occupational safety and health program it is necessary to have available the services of a toxicologist, health physicist, chemist, safety engineer, physician, human factors specialist, design engineer, nurse and industrial hygienist. (cdc.gov)
  • dnatured is a satirical scientific journal with impact factor 69. (dnatured.com)
  • It runs the highest ranked journal in the specialty with an impact factor of just under 5.7. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Impact factors of journals are one popular measure in use. (phys.org)
  • SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. (resurchify.com)
  • He is currently a member of editorial boards of a number of scientific journals. (jinr.ru)
  • The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. (lu.se)
  • By tracing magnetic field lines at extremely high resolution, solar physicists calculated a 3D map of the so-called squashing factor - a scientific measure designed to indicate the presence of complex structuring in the magnetic field. (sdsc.edu)
  • In our current scientific culture, publishing high impact papers often seem to be all that counts for success. (phys.org)
  • And the main way scientific success is judged in job or grant applications is the number of high impact publications an investigator has authored. (phys.org)
  • Fire managers weigh many factors before ordering a move-up due to the high cost. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • If you look at the risk factors for heart disease, the number one is high blood pressure. (meditationlifestyle.com)
  • His high-precision measurements of the form factors of semi-leptonic decays of neutral kaons were included in the PDG tables and became the subject of his Candidate's thesis in 1977. (jinr.ru)
  • Some paper referred to her as the ' Physikerin der Macht ' (literally: the physicist of power). (surrey.ac.uk)
  • With these words of encouragement, I accepted the nomination and proceeded to prepare an upbeat, liberal platform aimed at young physicists and industrial physicists. (aps.org)
  • Given that cost can be a driving factor, rigid waveguides are used more commonly than flex in industrial microwave systems. (megaind.com)
  • The Big Bang is often described as the modern scientific theory of creation, the mathematical answer to Genesis. (godsaidmansaid.com)
  • Their unprecedented experiment, which was originated by famous Soviet physicist Anastas Korzh, entails measurement of the Universe's expansion. (pravda.ru)
  • The concept's real-life applicability is due to Goldratt's background as an entrepreneur, consultant, and physicist. (customessaymeister.com)
  • If any of the values of many independent factors were to change, life as we know it could not exist. (tifwe.org)
  • He continued the scientific study of crime begun by Cesare Lombroso, emphasizing social and economic factors. (factmonster.com)
  • Both language transitions are fraught and not quite as scientific as the modeling project suggests. (independent.org)
  • There are dozens of scientific indicators to pore over prior to the summer - weather trends (El Nino/La Nina), snowpack levels, forest fuel moisture content, et al. (naturalresourcereport.com)
  • In Satcom applications where movement is a factor, flexible waveguides give extra flexibility in space constraints. (megaind.com)
  • Generated by solar physicists at San Diego-based Predictive Science Inc. (PSI), the prediction model was aimed at detailing the structure and appearance of the solar corona. (sdsc.edu)
  • There are a great number of factors that influence sea level, e.g. tectonic processes, continental shifting, wind currents, passats, and volcanoes. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • This workshop aims to stimulate information sharing on technical issues and challenges faced, common cultural and human factors, and future opportunities. (lu.se)
  • For instance, nowadays all leading airlines of the world take into account the so-called Stary-Soldatenko factor for calculating the amount of over-expenditure of aviation fuel. (pravda.ru)
  • Today, they haven't been totally accepted in the scientific world. (pravda.ru)
  • Perhaps, it will take additional 30 years for the scientific world to repeat the experiment. (pravda.ru)
  • Because of these factors, only a few exist in the world. (wttw.com)
  • An important factor in Texas Hold'em is your position at the table. (web.app)
  • How would we identify the important causal factors? (independent.org)
  • This is one important factor in explaining her longevity as chancellor. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • important factor to the therapeutic process of Given the theme's dimension, Jung (2014) de- the case. (bvsalud.org)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Science That was many years ago, so i no longer remember much about it. (stackexchange.com)
  • Microarray-based detection of resistance and virulence factors in commensal Escherichia coli from livestock and farmers in Egypt. (cdc.gov)
  • His critique goes for the conditions in America as well, where despite the New York Times there is no widely publicized forum for the popular dissemination of knowledge about scientific progress. (edge.org)
  • The usual goal is to get within a factor of 10 of the true value. (maa.org)
  • view, as an alternative to the causality paradigm, dynamic factor in the self-organization propriety and then to present new contributions from con- of psyche. (bvsalud.org)