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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter?

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
Using the National Science Foundation's SESTAT data, we examine the gender wage gap by race among those working in computer science, life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.
Katherine Michelmore, Sharon Sassler
doaj   +1 more source

Airglow Emissions and Oxygen Mixing Ratios from the Photometer Experiment on the Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment (TOMEX) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment (TOMEX) combined Na lidar measurements from Starfire Optical Range in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a launch of a payload from White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), located a little over 100 km from Starfire.
Clemmons, J. H.   +5 more
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Speculative Physics: the Ontology of Theory and Experiment in High Energy Particle Physics and Science Fiction [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2014
The dissertation brings together approaches across the fields of physics, critical theory, literary studies, philosophy of physics, sociology of science, and history of science to synthesize a hybrid approach for instigating more rigorous and intense cross-disciplinary interrogations between the sciences and the humanities.
arxiv  

Estimation of Gravity Wave Momentum Flux with Spectroscopic Imaging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Atmospheric gravity waves play a significant role in the dynamics and thermal balance of the upper atmosphere. In this paper, we present a novel technique for automated and robust calculation of momentum flux of high-frequency quasi-monochromatic wave ...
Franke, Steven J.   +4 more
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The Science of Murray Gell-Mann [PDF]

open access: yesCURRENT SCIENCE, Vol.117, No. 7, 10 October 2019, pp. 1224 - 1231, 2019
This article summarizes some of the most important scientific contributions of Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019). (Invited article for Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences.)
arxiv  

Data visualization heuristics for the physical sciences

open access: yesMaterials & Design, 2019
Data visualization – that is, the graphical representation of numerical information – is foundational to the scientific enterprise. A broad literature base is available providing rules, guidelines, and heuristics for authors of scientific literature to ...
Chad M. Parish, Philip D. Edmondson
doaj  

Characteristics of Instabilities in the Mesopause Region over Maui, Hawaii [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Characteristics of convective and dynamical instabilities in the mesopause region (between 85 and 100 km) over Maui, Hawaii (20.7ºN, 156.3ºW) are investigated using 19 nights, ~133 hours of high-resolution wind and temperature data obtained by the ...
Li, Feng, Liu, Alan Z., Swenson, Gary R.
core   +1 more source

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Science, 107 (10 Jul 2014), 113-120 (2014), 2014
An essay on Jyant Narlikar in the Living Legends of Indian Science series of the journal Current Science.
arxiv  

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