Open access publishing: What is world’s best practice?

Open access publishing delivers on the dream of centuries - the free and unfettered access to the written word. However there are shades of openness and the question raised is 'what is world's best practice for open access publishing?' Four criteria are proposed to generate a star rating for an open access journal - for ‘openness’ - with a star available for meeting each criterion, to a maximum of four. The open access criteria for scoring star ratings are: (1) There is no barrier to access for the reader; (2) It is free to the author/s; (3) Copyright is retained by the author/s; and (4) The paper can be freely distributed under licence. The Journal of Organic Systems 'ticks all the boxes' to rate as a four-star open access journal

Nonequilibrium Quantum Evolution of Open Systems

We apply the Liouville-von Neumann (LvN) approach to open systems to describe the nonequilibrium quantum evolution. The Liouville-von Neumann approach is a unified method that can be applied to both time-independent (closed) and time-dependent (open) systems and to both equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems. We study the nonequilibrium quantum evolution of oscillator models for open boson and fermion systemsComment: RevTex 13 pages, Contributed to the journal "Condensed Matter Physics

Editorial for modelling, monitoring and fault-tolerant control for complex systems

This is the editorial for the special issue entitled ``Modelling, Monitoring and Fault-Tolerant Control for Complex Systems'' published in the Open Automation and Control Systems Journal

The user experience of the open journal systems platform as means to familiarize the master course students with the principles of working with electronic editions

The importance of the introduction of information and communication technologies in education is recognized by virtually all foreign countries. This paper presents brief analysis of the publishing platform Open Journal Systems as a teaching tool for future scientists training, the detailed overview of the system and the expediency of its use among other products of that class. Presents the experience of open journal systems implementing in the educational process of the university, as well as the peculiarities of different forms of working of graduate students in the interface of Open Journal Systems. It is presented the structure of the university electronic edition site, and described a technical solution for its implementation by means of Open Journal SystemsВажность внедрения информационно-коммуникационных технологий в системах образования признается практически всеми зарубежными странами. В статье представлен краткий анализ издательской платформы Open Journal Systems как учебного инструмента при подготовке будущих ученых. Осуществлен детальный обзор свойств данной системы и обоснована целесообразность ее использования среди других продуктов соответствующего класса. Изложен опыт внедрения открытых журнальных систем в учебный процесс высшего учебного заведения, а также рассмотрены особенности различных форм работы студентов-магистрантов в интерфейсе Open Journal Systems. Приведена структура сайта университетского электронного издания и описано техническое решение её реализации средствами Open Journal SystemsВажливість упровадження інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій у системах освіти визнається практично всіма зарубіжними країнами. У статті представлено стислий аналіз видавничої платформи Open Journal Systems як навчального інструменту у процесі підготовці майбутніх учених. Здійснено детальний огляд властивостей даної системи й обґрунтовано доцільність її використання з-поміж інших продуктів відповідного класу. Викладено досвід впровадження відкритих журнальних систем у навчальний процес вищого навчального закладу, а також розглянуто особливості різних форм роботи студентів- магістрантів у інтерфейсі Open Journal Systems. Наведено структуру сайту університетського електронного видання й описано технічне рішення її реалізації засобами Open Journal System

Open source electronic journal systems to support the presentation of the results of pedagogical research

Розглянуто вільнопоширювані електронні журнальні системи для підтримки представлення результатів педагогічних досліджень. Рекомендовано програмні платформи Ambra та Open Journal Systems (OJS).The open source electronic journal systems are considered in order to support the presentation of the results of pedagogical research. Software platforms Ambra and Open Journal Systems (OJS) are recommended

Adiabatic Approximation for weakly open systems

We generalize the adiabatic approximation to the case of open quantum systems, in the joint limit of slow change and weak open system disturbances. We show that the approximation is ``physically reasonable'' as under wide conditions it leads to a completely positive evolution, if the original master equation can be written on a time-dependent Lindblad form. We demonstrate the approximation for a non-Abelian holonomic implementation of the Hadamard gate, disturbed by a decoherence process. We compare the resulting approximate evolution with numerical simulations of the exact equation.Comment: New material added, references added and updated, journal reference adde

Open source repositories: Implications for libraries

Software that is accepted as “Open source” should comply with 10 conditions which are itinerated in the paper. The paper subsequently describes the application of open source initiatives in the digital library context. Three open source digital library initiatives developed by the Digital Library Research Group at the Faculty of Computer Science and information Technology, University of Malaya are highlighted. These are; (a) MyManuskrip: digital library of Malay manuscripts; (b) MyAIS : Digital library of Malaysian scholarly journals and conference proceedings; and (d) DSpace@Um: a digital library of dissertations, theses and final year project reports. Other “free” systems such as EJUM: electronic journal of university of Malaya is also described to highlight the slight difference between open source and being free. The paper also describes the libraries involved in the initiatives and the changing eco-system which libraries must accept to embrace the open source culture

A simple model of quantum trajectories

Quantum trajectory theory, developed largely in the quantum optics community to describe open quantum systems subjected to continuous monitoring, has applications in many areas of quantum physics. In this paper I present a simple model, using two-level quantum systems (q-bits), to illustrate the essential physics of quantum trajectories and how different monitoring schemes correspond to different ``unravelings'' of a mixed state master equation. I also comment briefly on the relationship of the theory to the Consistent Histories formalism and to spontaneous collapse models.Comment: 42 pages RevTeX including four figures in encapsulated postscript. Submitted to special issue of American Journal of Physic

Information and analytical support of scientific and pedagogical researches on the basis of electronic open journal systems

В тезах виокремлено три основні групи засобів інформаційно-аналітичної підтримки наукових досліджень на основі електронних відкритих журнальних систем, а саме власні плагіни Open Journal Systems, плагіни, розроблені спільнотою користувачів OJS, та статистичні модулі, що постачаються сторонніми ресурсами. Подано коротку характеристику кожного статистичного модуля.The theses identify three main groups of information and analytical support for scientific research on the basis of electronic open journal systems: Open Journal Systems own plugins, plugins developed by the community of OJS users, and statistical modules provided by third-party resources. A brief description of each statistical module was given.В тезисах выделены три основные группы средств информационно-аналитической поддержки научных исследований на основе электронных открытых журнальных систем, а именно собственные плагины Open Journal Systems, плагины, разработанные сообществом пользователей OJS, и статистические модули, поставляемые сторонними ресурсами. Дана краткая характеристика каждого статистического модуля