Open access: beyond the numbers

Much of the discussion about the merits of Open Access (OA) publishing has centred on the numbers; on whether, when all costs have been taken into account, it is cheaper to publish on an OA basis than in commercially run, subscription journals

Labor’s Weight Beyond Its Numbers

[Excerpt] Beyond numbers, what unions are doing on the ground reflects their vitality. Unions are allying with new grass-roots support groups in creative public advocacy for workers\u27 rights generally, not just for their own members. Unions are also experimenting with new forms of social bargaining, using leverage such as pension fund investments and shareholder resolutions. They do this for their own organizational goals, but also for public goals such as transparent corporate governance and honest corporate accounting

Beyond the Numbers: Measuring Academic Success Perceptions for OER and Affordable Textbook Initiatives

Dataset includes: Table 1: Courses Included in the Study Table 2: Survey Respondents by Course Table 3: Survey Respondents by Number of Semesters of College Completed Table 4: Unable or Unwilling to Purchase a Textbook Due to Cost Table 5: Textbook Spend in a Typical Semester Table 6: Perceived Impact of Lack of a Textbook on Ability to Succeed Table 7: Comparison of Students’ Ease with Accessing Course Materials Table 8: Comparison of Students’ Ease with Reading Course Materials Table 9: Comparison of Students’ Ease with Taking Notes Table 10: Comparison of Students’ Ease Working with Other Students Table 11: Comparison of Overall Learning Table 12: Importance of the University Making Textbooks Affordable Table 13: Comment Distributio

Beyond sum-free sets in the natural numbers

For an interval [1,N]⊆N, sets S⊆[1,N] with the property that |{(x,y)∈S2:x+y∈S}|=0, known as sum-free sets, have attracted considerable attention. In this paper, we generalize this notion by considering r(S)=|{(x,y)∈S2:x+y∈S}|, and analyze its behaviour as S ranges over the subsets of [1,N]. We obtain a comprehensive description of the spectrum of attainable r-values, constructive existence results and structural characterizations for sets attaining extremal and near-extremal values.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Discrete instability in nonlinear lattices

The discrete multiscale analysis for boundary value problems in nonlinear discrete systems leads to a first order discrete modulational instability above a threshold amplitude for wave numbers beyond the zero of group velocity dispersion. Applied to the electrical lattice [Phys. Rev. E, 51 (1995) 6127 ], this acurately explains the experimental instability at wave numbers beyond 1.25 . The theory is also briefly discussed for sine-Gordon and Toda lattices.Comment: 1 figure, revtex, published: Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 232

Beyond computable numbers revisited

This paper reviews the crucial influence that Alan Turing has had on art and, in particular on the development of the Generative Arts and the employment of automata in the making of art. The paper briefly reviews the concept of using automata in art and the extension of the basic idea to include interaction. The paper revisits an earlier argument and homage to Turing and brings it up to date

Beyond words, yes, but also beyond numbers

Safina’s fascinating series of fifty separate feuilletons tries to bridge a painful Methodenstreit in contemporary ethology mainly by an accumulation of anecdotes. Some deal with his own dogs, but most derive from reading or conversing with observers of a wider range of social mammals including elephants, wolves, apes, and whales. In spite of the many interruptions by travesties of the academic lifestyle and its literature, there is a point to be made, concerning the centrality of evidence about cooperative behavior styles, especially aspects of child-rearing, for the understanding of “what animals think and feel.” But Safina’s argument would be a lot more persuasive, at least to this outsider, if he were more aware of his own methodological preferences and the restraints they impose on the rhetoric of scientific persuasion. In spite of my skepticism, I sketch a possible application of his ideas to human neuroteratology