Share of open access journal articles published by Berlin authors from 2018: data

The publication output from nine research institutions from Berlin (Germany) was analysed and the share of open access for journal articles published in 2018 was determined. Journal articles whose authors are affiliated with at least one of the nine institutions were analysed. The data description includes: description of provided files and respective sheets, list of data fields and their source, data re-use cases. The data described here were retrieved from multiple bibliographic databases. Due to license terms raw data from individual databases cannot be provided for download. Data was aggregated, normalised and analysed with a Python script which is available at https://github.com/tuub/oa-eval (code documentation in English). For a detailed description of the retrieval process and the analysis steps see the report (https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9606). Search queries and the respective download settings for these databases are included in the data file

Alfadda v. Fenn: Shifting the Standard for Applying U.S. Statutes to Predominantly Non-U.S. Transactions

This Comment argues that the Second Circuit, in Alfadda v. Fenn, properly held that the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over a controversy involving few U.S. activities and actors because the actors engaged in significant conduct in the United States. Part I examines the principles and pertinent case law governing the extraterritorial application of the civil RICO statute. Part II describes the facts and procedural his- tory of Alfadda v. Fenn, detailing the district court\u27s denial of subject matter jurisdiction and the Second Circuit\u27s subse- quent reversal. Part III argues that the Second Circuit cor- rectly applied the existing legal precedents by granting federal subject matter jurisdiction over this case and examines the im- plications of the decision. It also argues that, given the com- peting interests at stake, U.S. courts should grant jurisdiction over predominantly non-U.S. transactions only where, as here, the evidence demonstrates substantial conduct or a substantial effect within the United States. This Comment concludes that Congress should amend RICO and clearly delineate its extra- territorial application so that courts need no longer speculate about congressional intent. This Comment argues that the Second Circuit, in Alfadda v. Fenn, properly held that the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over a controversy involving few U.S. activities and actors because the actors engaged in significant conduct in the United States. Part I examines the principles and pertinent case law governing the extraterritorial application of the civil RICO statute. Part II describes the facts and procedural his- tory of Alfadda v. Fenn, detailing the district court\u27s denial of subject matter jurisdiction and the Second Circuit\u27s subse- quent reversal. Part III argues that the Second Circuit cor- rectly applied the existing legal precedents by granting federal subject matter jurisdiction over this case and examines the im- plications of the decision. It also argues that, given the com- peting interests at stake, U.S. courts should grant jurisdiction over predominantly non-U.S. transactions only where, as here, the evidence demonstrates substantial conduct or a substantial effect within the United States. This Comment concludes that Congress should amend RICO and clearly delineate its extra- territorial application so that courts need no longer speculate about congressional intent

Monitoring morphological changes in 2D monolayer semiconductors using atom-thick plasmonic nanocavities

This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License.-- et al.Nanometer-sized gaps between plasmonically coupled adjacent metal nanoparticles enclose extremely localized optical fields, which are strongly enhanced. This enables the dynamic investigation of nanoscopic amounts of material in the gap using optical interrogation. Here we use impinging light to directly tune the optical resonances inside the plasmonic nanocavity formed between single gold nanoparticles and a gold surface, filled with only yoctograms of semiconductor. The gold faces are separated by either monolayers of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) or two-unit-cell thick cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanoplatelets. This extreme confinement produces modes with 100-fold compressed wavelength, which are exquisitely sensitive to morphology. Infrared scattering spectroscopy reveals how such nanoparticle-on-mirror modes directly trace atomic-scale changes in real time. Instabilities observed in the facets are crucial for applications such as heat-assisted magnetic recording that demand long-lifetime nanoscale plasmonic structures, but the spectral sensitivity also allows directly tracking photochemical reactions in these 2-dimensional solids.This work was supported by the UK EPSRC grants EP/G060649/1, EP/L027151/1, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), and ERC grant 320503 LINASS. C.T. and J.A. acknowledge financial support from Project FIS2013-41184-P from MINECO, ETORTEK 2014-15 of the Basque Department of Industry and IT756-13 from the Basque consolidated groups.Peer Reviewe

Joint Learning of Correlated Sequence Labelling Tasks Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks

The stream of words produced by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems is typically devoid of punctuations and formatting. Most natural language processing applications expect segmented and well-formatted texts as input, which is not available in ASR output. This paper proposes a novel technique of jointly modeling multiple correlated tasks such as punctuation and capitalization using bidirectional recurrent neural networks, which leads to improved performance for each of these tasks. This method could be extended for joint modeling of any other correlated sequence labeling tasks.Comment: Accepted in Interspeech 201

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Anthropology & Open Access: An Interview with Jason Baird Jackson

During the last few weeks I had the chance to conduct an email based interview with Jason Baird Jackson about Open Access (OA), academic publishing, and anthropology..