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Latest self-journals

Principles of the Self-Journal of Science: bringing ethics and freedom to scientific publishing
Michaël BonI present the core principles of the “Self-Journal of Science” (SJS), an open repository as well as a new paradigm of scientific publication. Rooted in Science ethics, a full and consistent solution is proposed to address the many flaws...

Stress in crisis managers: evidence from self-report and psychophysiological assessments
Amelie Janka — Christine Adler — Pandelis Perakakis — Pedro Guerra — Stefan DuschekDirecting disaster operations represents a major professional challenge. Despite its importance to health and professional performance, research on stress in crisis management remains scarce. The present study aimed to investigate...

Novel processes and metrics for a scientific evaluation rooted in the principles of science
Michaël Bon — Michael Taylor — Gary S McDowellScientific evaluation is a determinant of how scientists, institutions and funders behave, and as such is a key element in the making of science. In this article, we propose an alternative to the current norm of evaluating research with...

A new graph density
Sergey KirgizovFor a given graph $G$ we propose the non-classical definition of its true density: $\rho(G) = \mathcal{M}ass (G) / \mathcal{V}ol (G)$, where the $\mathcal{M}ass$ of the graph $G$ is a total mass of its links and nodes, and...

Generating Transition Paths by Langevin Bridges
Henri OrlandWe propose a novel stochastic method to generate paths conditioned to start in an initial state and end in a given final state during a certain time $t_{f}$. These paths are weighted with a probability given by the overdamped...

Critical Casimir Force between Inhomogeneous Boundaries
Jerome Dubail — Raoul Santachiara — Thorsten EmigTo study the critical Casimir force between chemically structured boundaries immersed in a binary mixture at its demixing transition, we consider a strip of Ising spins subject to alternating fixed spin boundary conditions. The system...

Novel processes and metrics for a scientific evaluation rooted in the principles of science
Michaël Bon — Michael Taylor — Gary S McDowellScientific evaluation is a determinant of how scientists, institutions and funders behave, and as such is a key element in the making of science. In this article, we propose an alternative to the current norm of evaluating research with...

Neural Responses to Heartbeats of Physically Trained and Sedentary Young Adults
Regular physical exercise has a positive impact on brain function and cognitive performance. However, it is not yet clear whether the physiological and behavioral benefits associated to physical exercise are caused exclusively by...

Principles of the Self-Journal of Science: bringing ethics and freedom to scientific publishing
Michaël BonI present the core principles of the “Self-Journal of Science” (SJS), an open repository as well as a new paradigm of scientific publication. Rooted in Science ethics, a full and consistent solution is proposed to address the many flaws...

Peer Evaluation of Science
Thomas ArildsenThis is a proposal for a system for evaluation of the quality of scientific papers by open review of the papers through a platform inspired by StackExchange. I have chosen to publish this proposal on SJS since this is a platform that...

Generating Transition Paths by Langevin Bridges
Henri OrlandWe propose a novel stochastic method to generate paths conditioned to start in an initial state and end in a given final state during a certain time $t_{f}$. These paths are weighted with a probability given by the overdamped...

A new graph density
Sergey KirgizovFor a given graph $G$ we propose the non-classical definition of its true density: $\rho(G) = \mathcal{M}ass (G) / \mathcal{V}ol (G)$, where the $\mathcal{M}ass$ of the graph $G$ is a total mass of its links and nodes, and...

An in-depth benchmark study of the CATE estimation problem: experimental framework, metrics and models
Michaël Bon — Clément Feutry — Sara MeftahIn the context of the Neyman-Rubin framework with binary treatment and outcome, we devise and conduct a rich benchmark study whose general ambition is to find the best practices to achieve good predictions of the CATE with machine...

Master Adjoint Systems in Mean-Field-Type Games
Doumbodo H TembineThis article presents mean-field-type games with both atomic and non-atomic decision-makers. We establish sufficiency conditions for equilibria in state-and-mean-field-type feedback strategies using Bellman systems. We then derive...

Translating between Buddhism and neuroscience: Conceptual differences and similarities in epistemic cultures. Neuroscientific research on Vipassana meditation – a case study
Neuroscientists have been attracted to the study of meditation since the late 1960s, when the Dalai Lama was invited to Harvard University for the first time. Buddhism and neuroscience engage in a dialogue of sorts when neuroscientists...

Predicting global community properties from uncertain estimates of interaction strengths
György Barabás — Stefano AllesinaThe community matrix measures the direct effect of species on each other in an ecological community. It can be used to determine whether a system is stable (returns to equilibrium after small perturbations of the population abundances),...

Cosmological Black Holes
Clément Stahl — Rahim, Moradi — Javad, FirouzjaeeWe present in this essay the cosmological black holes where unlike standard black holes seeing asymptotically Minkowski flat spacetime, the black hole is embedded into a cosmological spacetime. We put into historical context the birth...

Neural Responses to Heartbeats of Physically Trained and Sedentary Young Adults
Regular physical exercise has a positive impact on brain function and cognitive performance. However, it is not yet clear whether the physiological and behavioral benefits associated to physical exercise are caused exclusively by...
Stéphane Vautier's editorial
The present issue attempts to contribute to rational criticism in psychology, focusing on the belief that psychological measurement has been achieved. If we adopted the modest hypothesis that responses to assessment tests are not measurements (brute facts)--but mere assessments (social facts)--, the challenge would consists in falsifying this hypothesis against empirical evidence, in which case something like an empirical law would have been discovered...