The 100th Anniversary of X-Ray Crystallography by Kojić-Prodić, B., Molčanov, K.

“…Max von Laue designed the theoretical background of the experiment, which was performed by German physicists W. Friedrich and P. Knipping in 1912. At that time, the mathematical formulation of the phenomenon and the fundamental concepts of crystallography were subjects of mineralogy. …”
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Aesthetic experiences and flourishing in science: A four-country study by Christopher J. Jacobi, Peter J. Varga, Brandon Vaidyanathan

“…Based on a large-scale (N = 3,061) and representative international survey of scientists (biologists and physicists) in four countries (India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States), this study employs sets of nested regressions to model the associations of aesthetic experiences with flourishing while controlling for demographic factors and negative workplace and life circumstances such as burnout, job/publication pressure, mistreatment, COVID-19 impacts, other stressful life events, serious psychological distress, and chronic health conditions. …”
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The Artificial Intelligence in Digital Radiology: <i>Part 2</i>: Towards an Investigation of <i>acceptance</i> and <i>consensus</i> on the Insiders by Francesco Di Basilio, Gianluca Esposisto, Lisa Monoscalco, Daniele Giansanti

“…</i> The goal of the study is to perform a contemporary investigation on the <i>acceptance</i> and the <i>consensus</i> of the three key professional figures approaching in this field of application: (1) Medical specialists in image diagnostics: the medical specialists (MS)s; (2) experts in physical imaging processes: the medical physicists (MP)s; (3) AI designers: specialists of applied sciences (SAS)s. …”
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Crucial Events and Biology by Paolo Grigolini

“…In the last years of the 20th century, the attention of physicists working in statistical physics moved from equilibrium processes characterized by stationary correlation functions and Poisson dynamics to biological processes exhibiting ergodicity breaking. …”
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Longitudinal predictions using regression-corrected grouping to reduce regression to the mean by S. Stephens, M. Marder

“…[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Quantitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] The education of physicists requires annual progress in mathematics through grades K–12, continuing on to high school physics, undergraduate instruction, and often many years of postgraduate study. …”
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How the latent geometry of a biological network provides information on its dynamics: the case of the gene network of chronic myeloid leukaemia by Paola Lecca, Giulia Lombardi, Roberta Valeria Latorre, Claudio Sorio

“…Background: The concept of the latent geometry of a network that can be represented as a graph has emerged from the classrooms of mathematicians and theoretical physicists to become an indispensable tool for determining the structural and dynamic properties of the network in many application areas, including contact networks, social networks, and especially biological networks. …”
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Clinical implementation of an electron monitor unit dosimetry system based on task group 71 report and a commercial calculation program by Huijun Xu, Mariana Guerrero, Shifeng Chen, Xiaocheng Yang, Karl Prado, Colleen Schinkel

“…This work (1) investigates the clinical implementation of a dosimetry system including a modified American Association of Physicists in Medicine-task group-71 (TG-71)-based electron MU calculation protocol (modified TG-71 electron [mTG-71E] and an independent commercial calculation program and (2) provides the practice recommendations for clinical usage. …”
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High energy photon reference for radiation protection: technical design of the LINAC beam and ionization chambers; and calculation of monoenergetic conversion coefficients by Dusciac D., Bordy J.-M., Daures J., Blideanu V.

“…In this work, we present the results of the first part of a research project aimed at offering a complete response to dosimeters providers and nuclear physicists’ demands for high-energy (6 – 9 MeV) photon beams for radiation protection purposes. …”
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Proton Electric Charge Radius from Lepton Scattering by Weizhi Xiong, Chao Peng

“…It is an important input for bound-state Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) calculations of the hydrogen atomic energy levels. However, physicists have been puzzled by the large discrepancy between <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msubsup><mi>r</mi><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mi>p</mi></msubsup></semantics></math></inline-formula> measurements from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy and those from <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>e</mi><mi>p</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> elastic scattering and ordinary hydrogen spectroscopy for over a decade. …”
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Kiểm soát chất lượng cho máy đo hoạt độ phóng xạ (dose calibrator) tại Phòng thí nghiệm Vật lý Y khoa - Trường Đại học Nguyễn Tất Thành by Nguyễn Tấn Được, Lê Thị Mỹ Huyền

“…Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc tế (The International Atomic Energy Agency), và Hiệp hội Vật lý Y khoa Hoa Kỳ (The American Association of Physicists in Medicine) đã đưa ra các hướng dẫn cho QC dose calibrator. …”
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Developing a Declarative Analysis Language: LINQToROOT by Watts Gordon

“…Recently, interest has focused on declarative analysis languages: a way of specifying a physicists’ intent and leaving everything else to the underlying system. …”
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Roberto Mantovani (1854-1933) and his ideas on the expanding Earth, as revealed by his correspondence and manuscripts by Giancarlo Scalera

“…A final pamphlet, of 1930, was printed with this dedication: «to the mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, geologists, and anyone interested in the great enigmas of the Universe». is biography has been reconstructed thanks to the correspondences carefully conserved in the archives of the &lt;em&gt;Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Ethnographic Museum Luigi Pigorini&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Società Geografica Italiana&lt;/em&gt;, and in the private files of his direct descendants.…”
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On Applicability of Quantum Formalism to Model Decision Making: Can Cognitive Signaling Be Compatible with Quantum Theory? by Andrei Khrennikov

“…This paper can be useful both for physicists interested in quantum foundations and for researchers working in quantum-like studies, e.g., applying the quantum theory to model decision making or psychological effects. …”
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New directions in four-dimensional mathematical visualization by Yan, Xiaoqi

“…Four-dimensional visualization is an important topic since mathematicians have long been wondering how to visualize beautiful geometries such as knotted spheres, quaternions, and Calabi-Yau space cross-sections, while physicists have been wanting to visualize the hypersphere, which is Einstein’s universe. …”
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Clinical radiobiology of proton therapy: modeling of RBE by Jones, B

“…Late reacting normal tissues (with low a/b values), might be overdosed if RBE &gt;1.1; very radiosensitive tumors (with high a/b), might be under-dosed if RBE&lt;1.1. Some physicists recommend ignoring RBE in favor of a LET x dose product to predict effects. …”

Technical note: Defining cyclotron based clinical scanning proton machines in a FLUKA Monte Carlo system by Fiorini, F, Schreuder, N, Van den Heuvel, F

A silicon strip detector dose magnifying glass for IMRT dosimetry by Wong, J.H.D., Carolan, M., Lerch, M.L.F., Petasecca, M., Khanna, S., Perevertaylo, V.L., Metcalfe, P., Rosenfeld, A.B.

The effect of geological formations on natural radioactivity and radiological hazards in the Northern Zamfara State, Nigeria by Odoh, Christopher Mmaduabuchi, Garba, Nurudeen Nasiru, Nasiru, Rabiu, Mohammed Saleh, Muneer Aziz, Ezekiel, Yangde Andekwe

“…Measurement of activity concentration of natural radionuclides and the associated health hazards are very important to health physicists in setting national average permissible dose for public. …”

Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Cancer Biomarker: Consensus and Recommendations by Anwar R. Padhani, Guoying Liu, Dow Mu-Koh, Thomas L. Chenevert, Harriet C. Thoeny, Taro Takahara, Andrew Dzik-Jurasz, Brian D. Ross, Marc Van Cauteren, David Collins, Dima A. Hammoud, Gordon J.S. Rustin, Bachir Taouli, Peter L. Choyke

“…The NCI should establish a task force of experts (physicists, radiologists, and oncologists) to plan, organize technical aspects, and conduct pilot trials. …”
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From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals by Christina Schütz, Johanna R. Bruckner, Camila Honorato-Rios, Zornitza Tosheva, Manos Anyfantakis, Jan P. F. Lagerwall

“…Addressing a broad audience of physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers, this Review focuses primarily on the physics and physical chemistry of CNC suspensions and the process of drying them. …”
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