The strength of a chemical bond can be defined as the change in enthalpy when a bond is homolytically broken into two radicals. Bond dissociation energy is thus the measure of the strength of a bond and, while it is temperature dependent, it can be calculated by DFT or ab initio methods.
Sponsoring BOSC Sponsorships from companies and non-profit organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer free registration for some conference participants. In 2024, thanks to our sponsors’ generous support, we were able to grant free registration to 15 participants, offer honoraria to keynote speakers, and cover other expenses. Interested in sponsoring BOSC? Please contact us at bosc@open-bio.org!
Cet article est l’opportunité de partager la présentation réalisée lors du congrès de l’Association des Chercheurs en Activités Physiques et Sportives à Poitiers. Après une brève présentation de l’état des lieux sur les enjeux climatiques en France, j’y aborde l’état des connaissances au sujet de l’activité physique, du sport et du changement climatique.
By Matt Boyd, Michael Baker, Amanda Kvalsvig & Nick Wilson (cross-posted from the PHCC Blog) Summary/TLDR The strategic divide in pandemic response Five years into the Covid-19 pandemic, with an estimated 27.3 million excess deaths globally,1 we now can look back and try to understand which control strategies worked best.
John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our short case study series.
Will Landau presentó recientemente el R-multiverse, una nueva forma de publicar paquetes de R durante una “conversación con la comunidad” de rOpenSci 1 .Después de ese evento, una sesión de cotrabajo permitió una conversación aún más intensa entre Will y el equipo de administración de R-multiverse, Jeroen Ooms y Maëlle Salmon, y personas interesadas de la comunidad.
Will Landau recently introduced the R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages, during an rOpenSci community call. 1 After that event, a coworking session allowed even more discussion between Will, his R-multiverse fellow administrators Jeroen Ooms and Maëlle Salmon, and community members.
Will Landau a récemment présenté le R-multiverse, une nouvelle façon de publier des paquets R lors d’une réunion de la communauté de rOpenSci 1 .Après cet événement, une session coworking a permis à Will, à ses collègues administrateurs du R-multiverse Jeroen Ooms et Maëlle Salmon, ainsi qu’aux membres de la communauté, de discuter encore davantage.
Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2025 Progress Conference, which brought together a diverse cadre of people working on progress, metascience, artificial intelligence, and related fields. I was surprised by how optimistic the median attendee was about AI for science.
Two parts of the Library of Identification Resources have gotten major updates in the last year. First, the taxon coverage field (also labeled “For identifying …” in some places) is now linked to external databases, namely Wikidata and GBIF. Second, the scoring and sorting of search results in the Find resources tool was made more transparent and visible.
Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge.