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COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, announced today the selection of 15 Ph.D. students in the chemical sciences for the 2012 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program. Each of these students demonstrated academic excellence, a commitment to research and an appreciation of chemical information, as evidenced through their exceptional essays and impressive letters of recommendation,...
PHILADELPHIA, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Society for Vascular Surgery [http://www.vascularweb.org/Pages/default.aspx ](R) announce the launch of a new quarterly journal, Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders. The inaugural issue will appear in January, 2013. Elsevier currently publishes the Journal of Vascular...
Geckos and cockroaches share a unique locomotive behavior: both can run off a ledge at full speed and execute a pendulum-like motion to swing themselves fully around to the underside of the platform and continue running. The full report of this new behavior, and an engineered robot that can duplicate the acrobatic move, is reported in the June 6 edition of the open access journal PLoS ONE. The work, led by Jean-Michel Mongeau of University of California, Berkeley, describes the...
The factors predicting the eventual impact of scientific research (i.e. high citation rates) were successfully identified in abstracts selected for presentation at the annual ESC Congress. Interestingly, predictors of publication in peer reviewed scientific journals differed markedly from those predicting later scientific impact, finds a recent study published online today in the European Heart Journal (EHJ). The main factors predicting acceptance at the ESC Congress – in line with...
Top-down advocacy on health and climate at the UN level needs to be mirrored by bottom-up public health actions that bring health and climate co-benefits according to international experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. The authors—public health experts from institutions in Sweden, Germany and South Africa—say: "It is becoming increasingly clear that maintaining a sustainable and healthy climate is something that can only be achieved by means of a concerted global effort,...
PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released a new report affirming global submission rates for academic journals are at their highest level in six years. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120604/NY18115-INFO ) The ScholarOne Manuscripts(TM)( )report, Global Publishing: Changes in submission...
OXFORD, England, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of the new journal Economics of Transportation [http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecotra ]. As the official journal of the International Transportation Economics Association [http://www.iteaweb.org ] (ITEA), Economics of Transportation welcomes both theoretical...
PHILADELPHIA, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New collection is first online, evidence-based skills database designed for respiratory care professionals Elsevier [http://www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com ], the leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of a new skills product for respiratory care professionals - Mosby's Respiratory Care Skills...
GAINESVILLE, Mo., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On the point of open access, some archaeologists and independent scholars--including private collectors of ancient coins through the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild--have found common ground. All are calling for the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) to retract its stated position and join them in supporting Open Access. In November of 2011, the AIA sent a letter to the White House opposing free access to government-funded...
NEUCHÂTEL, Switzerland, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reaxys(R) PhD Prize awards original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry Reaxys today announced the 45 finalists for the 2012 Reaxys PhD Prize. This highly prestigious international prize is open to all students studying for (or having completed in the last 12 months) a PhD in chemistry. The prize recognizes research and publication excellence...
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Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2007 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board with editorial decisions made by a fully-functioning in-house team. The journal covers research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications, and other aspects of photonics. It publishes review articles, research papers, news and commentary, and research...
Nature Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1995 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team. Nature Medicine publishes research articles, reviews, news and commentary pieces. Topics include cancer, cardiovascular disease, gene therapy, immunology, vaccines, and neuroscience. Research...
Epilepsy Currents is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published bimonthly in collaboration with Allen Press since 2011. Prior to that time, the journal was published on behalf of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was established by AES in 2001. The journal publishes commentary articles and brief topical reviews. Commentary articles are solicited from members of the board of contributing editors. Content is available free-of-charge on the...
Earth, Moon, and Planets is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1969 and published about ten times per year by Springer Science+Business Media. This publication was originally titled The Moon until 1978, when it was renamed The Moon and the Planets; Its current title was changed in 1984. The current co-editors (as of September 2012) of the journal are Giovanni B. Valsecchi (IAS-CNR, Italy) and Murthy S. Gudipati (Caltech and JPL). This journal focuses mainly on research about...
The Journal of Applied Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley. As of July 2012, the editor-in-chief is Stefano Tonzani, PhD (University of Colorado, Boulder). The journal covers all applications of synthetic and renewably sourced polymers, including batteries and fuel cells, organic electronics, biomedical implants and drug delivery, coatings and packaging. It also covers composites, blends, elastomers, films and membranes, fibers, emulsions and latices,...
