Open Access Paper Research Articles

Brick Mule

This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal's working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valley and portering goods into the high Himalayas. Stunning cinematography and a crafted soundscape paint a moving portrait of Nepal's brick mules and the people who make their living with them. Honest, but non-judgemental, the film gives a unique insight into hardship of life for people and equines alike. Yet underlying questions about humanity and our relationship with animals underpin the film. This film formed part of a community project using Paulo Freire’s ‘critical consciousness’ (Freire, 1978) theory, involving self-reflection and transformation, leading to changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that ultimately improved equine wellbeing. The theoretical underpinnings and project outcomes can be further explored through an open access paper published in Visual Studies journal.

A Novel Quality Evaluation Using a Smart Unique Language of Interaction Data Between Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0

A newly proposed technique is presented in order to evaluate the quality content of an open access paper in international open access journals. The method was carried out with a unique smart language of interacting data between Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 online system via the insert of the following three numbers of Viewers, Likes, and Commends, respectively. Unlike h index that involved numbers of citations, this novel manner may open a new way to a wide insight in detecting the quality content of an open access paper worldwide. According to the tests of two different data extracted from Prof. Elim’s articles published in Kompasiana platform Blog, the quality analysis for each paper is reasonable and touching the core level of each investigated article. We therefore suggest that this piece of research work can be applied to study many other open access articles in different journals.

Identification of the most important external features of highly cited scholarly papers through 3 (i.e., Ridge, Lasso, and Boruta) feature selection data mining methods

Highly cited papers are influenced by external factors that are not directly related to the document's intrinsic quality. In this study, 50 characteristics for measuring the performance of 68 highly cited papers, from the Journal of The American Medical Informatics Association indexed in Web of Science (WOS), from 2009 to 2019 were investigated. In the first step, a Pearson correlation analysis is performed to eliminate variables with zero or weak correlation with the target (“dependent”) variable (number of citations in WOS). Consequently, 32 variables are selected for the next step. By applying the Ridge technique, 13 features show a positive effect on the number of citations. Using three different algorithms, i.e., Ridge, Lasso, and Boruta, 6 factors appear to be the most relevant ones. The "Number of citations by international researchers", "Journal self-citations in citing documents”, and "Authors' self-citations in citing documents”, are recognized as the most important features by all three methods here used. The "First author's scientific age”, "Open-access paper”, and "Number of first author's citations in WOS" are identified as the important features of highly cited papers by only two methods, Ridge and Lasso. Notice that we use specific machine learning algorithms as feature selection methods (Ridge, Lasso, and Boruta) to identify the most important features of highly cited papers, tools that had not previously been used for this purpose. In conclusion, we re-emphasize the performance resulting from such algorithms. Moreover, we do not advise authors to seek to increase the citations of their articles by manipulating the identified performance features. Indeed, ethical rules regarding these characteristics must be strictly obeyed.

Resource Search in HPC Systems using Levy Flights

Parallel applications represented by Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) as Parallel Task Graphs (PTGs) requiring high execution times with large amounts of storage, are executed on High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems such as clusters. For the execution of these applications, a scheduler performs the scheduling and allocation of the resources contained in the HPC System. One of the activities of the scheduler is the search for idle resources that are geographically dispersed in the clusters to schedule and allocate them to the tasks. The search for idle resources in the clusters is a process that consumes time and system resources due to the geographical distances that must be traveled and the repetitive and permanent execution within the system. A sequential search for resources causes the scheduling and allocation of resources in the HPC System to be slowed down and paused, and increases the waiting times of the tasks that remain in the queue. The techniques that shorten the location times of resource and perform more exhaustive searches in dispersed geographic spaces can reduce the times generated by sequential searches. The open access paper: Scheduling in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems Based on Internal Structure of Parallel Tasks Graphs with Meta-Heuristics presents the Array Method, a scheduler for scheduling and allocation resources in an HPC System. Array Method uses a sequential search process for the idle resources that are geographically dispersed in the clusters and save their location and characteristics in an array, which is updated every time idle resources are located in the clusters. Considering the above, this paper presents a search for idle resources using Levy random walks, a technique ´ used for searching resources in large geographical spaces; this technique avoids sequential node-by-node searches of each cluster, and promote short and long range searches over the entire geographical extent of the HPC Systems. To obtain experimental results, sequential resource search algorithm versus Levy random walks with the synthetic loads, different ´ clusters and different numbers of resources per cluster as proposed in the open access paper aforementioned, are used. Obtained results show Levy random walks ´ locates more idle resources in less time, optimizes the times of the resource searches in the clusters and update the array of available resources more frequently. With more idle resources found, the total execution times of the tasks are reduced.

Announcing 2021 TPS Best Paper Award

The winner of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (TPS) Best Paper Award has been selected (please refer to our TPS home page for details about the award at https://ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasmascience/). This year is the third year that the award is being given, and I am pleased to announce that the award is presented to the paper “A primer on pulsed power and linear transformer drivers for high energy density physics applications,” published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, vol. 46, no. 11, November 2018, pp. 3928–3967. The lead author of this 40-author paper is Prof. Ryan D. McBride of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. See Prof. McBride’s biosketch along with the full list of coauthors and abstract of this paper here. The award plaque, certificate, and check will be presented to Prof. McBride representing the team of coauthors at an upcoming virtual IEEE NPSS Pulsed Power Conference in December 2021. This is an open-access paper and is freely available to our readers. Congratulations to Prof. Ryan D. McBride and the team of coauthors on this accomplishment.

Use of compression therapy to treat lower limb wounds across Europe: a scoping review protocol.

IntroductionPoor lower wound care is an avoidable patient harm. Compression therapy is an effective way of treating non-ischaemic lower limbs wounds, but it is not always used appropriately. There are many guidelines which set out how compression therapy should be used, but there is dearth of evidence about how it is actually used at a population level across Europe.AimThe aim of this scoping review is to map the evidence published in English relating to the use of compression therapy to treat lower limb wounds across Europe.MethodsThis scoping review will be conducted in line with the Joanna Briggs Institute and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Protocols and Scoping Reviews guidance. A search for relevant publications will be conducted on variety of databases and key websites in order to identify a comprehensive range of relevant literature. Peer reviewed empirical papers, theoretical papers and other publications in English relating to the use of compression therapy across Europe will be considered for inclusion.Ethics and disseminationEthical and research governance for this scoping review is not required because we will only gather secondary data. Our results will be disseminated to the widest possible audience through an open access paper in a peer reviewed international journal, conference presentations and a plain English summary. The results of this scoping review will be used by a panel of Key Opinion Leaders from across Europe to develop a driver diagram to underpin subsequent lower limb wound care improvement efforts.

Geological Survey of South Australia: News

An open access paper by Dr Stephan Thiel, Dr Bruce Goleby, Dr Mark Pawley and Prof Graham Heinson entitled “AusLAMP 3D MT imaging of an intracontinental deformation zone, Musgrave Province, Central...

The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC

The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and its accompanying web application are outcomes of the MedAfrica project — Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC. The dataset presented here in Version 1.0 of the database includes 1587 archaeological 14C dates from 368 sites in Mediterranean Africa. The database is unusual because the majority of the dates within it have been annotated with further cultural and environmental variables, notably the presence/absence of different domestic/wild species and particular material culture traits. MedAfriCarbon also includes an publicly-accessible web application that facilitates data exploration and informal analysis. Funding statement: The Leverhulme Trust provided the core funding for the Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC (MedAfrica) Research Project (RPG-2016-261). Additional financial support for the project came from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and IPOCAN, MIUR project, via ISMEO (the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies). ISMEO financially covered the publication costs of this open-access paper.

Open access publishing and soil science – Trends and developments

About 42,000 soil papers are annually published, and the number of papers almost doubled in the past 10 years. Most growth has come from China, and about one-third of all soil papers are presently from China compared to 4% in 1999. The increase in papers has been accompanied by higher impact factors of the core soil science journals. There has been a proliferation of new publishers and journals, and some 1500 new internet publishers have been established. Scientific publishing is big and profiteable business. Open access publishing started in the early 2000s. In the top four soil science journals only 1% of the papers were published open access in 2008, but currently 5 to 20% of the papers are open access papers. Across all scientific disciplines the share of open access papers is about 28%. Some preliminary analysis suggests that open access papers in soil science tend to be more cited. The current cost of an open access paper in one of the 25 top soil science journals ranges from $750 to $4000. Funding agencies, some universities and scientific organizations are pushing towards a total open access approach of scientific publishing. Soil scientists should become involved in these discussions as it affects the way we disseminate our findings.

Opening Doors for Open Access

In February this year I had the pleasure of taking over the position of Dr. Sabrina Turba as the Publisher of ZAAC. I want to thank the Editors and the rest of the community for your warm welcome and hope to meet even more members from the ZAAC community in the months to come. I also have a background in inorganic chemistry and completed my PhD with Professor Lars Kloo at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2007. Since then I have acquired and managed book projects at Wiley-VCH and I am very pleased now to have the opportunity to work for the journals and contribute to shaping the future of ZAAC. ZAAC is a journal with long traditions, as it has been published since 1892. The life and the work of an inorganic chemist have certainly undergone tremendous changes in this time. There have been exciting scientific discoveries, developments in tools available to inorganic chemists and an increasing awareness of safety issues in the lab, just to name a few major changes. But in my opinion a key development is the amount of scientific information that is being generated and how this is shared among peers to advance the developments in a field. In this respect, groundbreaking developments in open access publishing have taken place recently – in January 2019 Wiley was the first publisher to partner with Project DEAL and sign a countrywide agreement in Germany. The present agreement has been negotiated by Project DEAL on behalf of all German publicly and privately funded academic institutions including universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutions, state and regional libraries. Project DEAL currently represents more than 700 mainly publicly funded institutions in Germany. Through signing Project DEAL, researchers from participating institutions have free access to all Wiley journal content published after 1997. When the corresponding author is from a participating institution, the article may be published with open access and free of charge to the author, as this is financed through Project DEAL. This already applies for all submissions to gold open access journals since January when the agreement was signed. For hybrid journals such as ZAAC, this means the following: Germany: The World Can Read Your Article in ZAAC for Free If the corresponding author is from a participating German institute, the article may be published with open access and free of charge to the authors, in case it is accepted after July 1, 2019. Please note that the open access is global, i.e. your open access paper in ZAAC can be read by everyone in the world for free and not only in Germany. Most German Institutions Can Read Decades of ZAAC for Free Members of more than 700 participating institutions have free access to content in ZAAC published after 1997. Similar agreements have been signed with other countries, such as Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary and Norway, and further negotiations are in progress. As ZAAC has a large percentage of German authors, the agreement with Project DEAL is highly relevant for the ZAAC community. These transformative agreements have taken place to reflect the recent developments in the scientific community regarding the wish to transition to open access publishing. ZAAC is also Plan S compliant as a part of Project DEAL. I am very honored to be a part of the ZAAC team and hope that ZAAC will continue to be the home for your best papers – soon a home that is more openly accessible for sharing your research with the world. Dr. Eva-Stina Müller Publisher

Editorial

This short editorial is to alert readers and authors of both the European Journal of Soil Science and Soil Use and Management, and members of the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) about a survey to obtain your views about our Journals. The world of publication is changing rapidly at present. We need to adapt to these changes and at the same time ensure that we offer the soil science community the specific services that they perceive are important to them. To improve the way that the Journals will operate in the future, we require your feedback on how best we can serve you. We want to know how you prefer to read the Journals—hardcopy or online, what kind of papers or other material you would like to see included and how important open access is likely to be to you. The survey has been compiled by the Editors-in-Chief of the two Journals, Council members of the BSSS and staff at Wiley. It will help us all to focus on what matters to the community of authors, readers and members. The survey is only available online and takes just a short time to complete. We intend to summarize the results at the Annual Meeting of the BSSS in London on 26 November 2015 and in a short editorial in the two Journals. We hope to reach as many people as possible through e-mail but you can go straight to the survey now—the URL is http://www.soils.org.uk/journal-survey2015. As part of the response to the increased interest in open access publications, Wiley is introducing a Pilot project, initially for 12 months, that will result in reviewers of papers for EJSS or SUM being offered a 10% discount against the publication charge for an open access paper in these journals. ‘Thank you’ letters to reviewers will include an invitation to complete an OnlineOpen order form at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/onlineopen_order.asp, when their next paper has been accepted for publication. The 10% discount must be redeemed within 12 months of receipt. At present the discount is not cumulative, nor can it be combined with any other discount. The Journal is very pleased to participate in the project and we are grateful to Wiley for the invitation.

What does the term microbiome mean? And where did it come from? A bit of a surprise ..

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES What does the term microbiome mean? And where did it come from? A bit of a surprise .. JONATHAN EISEN READ REVIEWS ✎ WRITE A REVIEW CORRESPONDENCE: jaeisen@ucdavis.edu DATE RECEIVED: “Microbiome” is such a hot term these days. And one key question many ask is “what does it mean?” A related question is – “where did the term come from?” I tried to tackle this many years ago on my blog with a post: The human microbiome – term being used in many ways – but at least it is getting some \npress. Basically my main point was that it seemed that the term “ microbiome” then should be used to refer to the collection of genomes of microbes in a system and that “microbiota” should be used to refer to the collection of organisms. Some key quotes from that post: June 10, 2015 DOI: 10.15200/winn.142971.16196 ARCHIVED: April 22, 2015 CITATION: Jonathan Eisen, What does the term microbiome mean? And where did it come from? A bit of a surprise .., The Winnower 2:e142971.16196 , 2015 , DOI: 10.15200/winn.142971.16196 © Eisen This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. Well, the human microbiome is all over the news recently thanks to a new paper on the diversity and biogeography of microbes in human saliva. My only complaint is that I and Stoneking and many others have unfortunately made a mess of the terminology. The “microbiome” was originally used to refer to the collection of the genomes of the microbes in a particular ecosystem. And the terms “microbiota” was used to refer to the actual organisms. Since Stoneking et al did not survey the genomes, they surveyed rRNA (which really at best tells you about what types of organisms are present) then they should have used microbiota riight? (And if they had I would not have been searching for the genomics component of their work). Not so fast, even the person who coined the term microbiome (Josh Lederberg) who originally seemed to use it to refer to all the genomes of the microbes also used the term ambiguously (e.g., in one paper he sad “the microbiome flora” meaning I guess the microbiota. I note, everyone seems to cite A paper by Lederberg called “Infectious History” in Science (Science 14 April 2000:) as the place he used microbiome but I cannot find the term there. I did however find the term in a paper in 2001 by Lora Hooper and Jeff Gordon (Commensal Host-Bacterial Relationships in the Gut Science 11 May 2001: Vol. 292. no. 5519, pp. 1115 – 1118). The Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg has suggested using the term “microbiome” to describe the collective genome of our indigenous microbes (microflora), the idea being that a comprehensive genetic view of Homo sapiens as a life-form should include the genes in our microbiome (4). And reference 4 is “Personal communication” Anyway, others have taken the term microbiome and run with it because it does conjure up to many “microbial biome” which could be used to refer to all the microbes in a system. I prefer the original definitions with microbiota being the organisms and microbiome being the collective genomes of all the organisms. EISEN The Winnower APRIL 22 2015

Call for data: PREDICTS: Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity in Changing Terrestrial Systems

The PREDICTS project (www.predicts.org.uk) is a three-year NERC-funded project to model and predict at a global scale how local terrestrial diversity responds to human pressures such as land use, land cover, pollution, invasive species and infrastructure. PREDICTS is a collaboration between Imperial College London, the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UCL and the University of Sussex. In order to meet its aims, the project relies on extensive data describing the diversity and composition of biological communities at a local scale. Such data are collected on a vast scale through the committed efforts of field ecologists. If you have appropriate data that you would be willing to share with us, please get in touch (enquiries@predicts.org.uk). All contributions will be acknowledged appropriately and all data contributors will be included as co-authors on an open-access paper describing the database.

Changes in Human Genomics

I would like to welcome you to the second issue of Volume 5 and also to announce several changes to the Journal including new members of our Editorial Board, the introduction of a new section 'Research Highlights' and, crucially, the introduction of open-access papers. First and foremost, I am delighted to confirm that the Journal is now accepting submissions for open-access papers. We recognise the importance of open access to experts in the field - and the necessary speed with which work needs to be published - but also that the cost to authors is of course significant. In recognition of this we are offering all authors the opportunity to publish papers on an open-access basis, with full indexing in PubMed, Medline and Chemical Abstracts, at a fee of only US$750/£500 to cover production costs. We would be delighted if you would like to submit an open-access paper and would welcome any queries you might have. This opportunity is open to individuals as well as genetics associations, research institutions and universities wishing to publish collections of research papers, review articles and proceedings of meetings in a special issue of the Journal. For further details of the Journal and how to submit open-access papers, please contact me directly at: http://Vasilis.Vasiliou@ucdenver.edu. You can also find further details at: http://www.henrystewart.com/hg.aspx. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mirella Filocamo, (G. Gaslini Institute, Italy), Tadashi Imanishi (Biomedicinal Information Research Center, Japan), Hidetoshi Inoko (Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan), Poh-San Lai (National University of Singapore, Singapore), George P. Patrinos (University of Patras, Greece) and Sumio Sugano (University of Tokyo, Japan) to our Editorial Board. We also welcome Thomas Schlitt, (King's College London, UK) who is replacing Mike Weale, (King's College London, UK) as the Software Review Editor. Mike remains on the Editorial Board of the Journal and we thank him for all the support he has given to this regular feature. Finally, this issue sees the first installment of the new regular feature for Human Genomics entitled 'Research Highlights', which collates and reviews some of the most cutting-edge research papers from the field. Robert Scheinman (University of Colorado) is the Editor of this Section. We hope you enjoy it.

Editor to quit over hoax open-access paper

Editor to quit over hoax open-access paper