Physics Abstracts

H. Walther (ed.). EPS 10, Trends in Physics, Abstracts of Contributed Papers of 10th General Conference of the European Physical Society, Sevilla, September 9-13, 1996. 

It is important to realize that there is a delay of about six months between the time a journal article appears and the time its abstract is printed in Chemical Abstracts or Physics Abstracts. This is not surprising when you consider that CA presents abstracts from 14,000 journals published in 150 countries. In addition, there is a delay after an abstract volume is complete before the subject and substance indexes become available. Thus it is wise to check the most recent literature by scanning the title pages of likely journals. A convenient method for doing this is to scan through Current Contents Physical, Chemical, and Earth Sciences, a weekly compilation of the latest tables of contents for many journals. A list of specific journals of greatest interest to physical chemists is given in Appendix E. 

The statement that the title should be descriptive of the matter of a communication seems to be a truism, but insufficient attention appears to be paid to the titles of papers submitted to learned journals. This is particularly true when papers are part of a series—for example, one of a series of papers may be entitled Studies in the Chemistry of X and Y, Part 47. Attempted Synthesis of Y. Suppose X and Y are complex alkaloids often such a paper deals only with the preparation of some complex ring structures—oxaazulenes, perhaps—from which the investigators hope ultimately to synthesize the subject of their main interest. Hence the paper is really about oxaazulenes and not alkaloids X and Y. The repercussions of this on indexing are serious. However, the new keyword in context indexes Chemical Titles) which are compiled by computer from titles of papers and used for awareness in the period between original publications and effective use of chemical and physical abstracts, may alter this. As special keyword indexes are compiled from titles, authors may give more thought to the relation of a title to its paper. 

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Physics Abstracts, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Savoy Place, London W. C. 2, England. 

Physics Abstracts being Sciertce Abstracts, Section A. Institution of Electrical Engi-... 

D. Bassi, M. G. Dondi, R. Penco, F. Tommasini, F. Torello and U. Valbusa (1974). Fourth International Conference on Atomic Physics, Abstract of Papers, p. 524. 

It is worth mentioning that the atomic radius in quantum physics is a physical abstraction and does not correspond to any physical observable value. Also the electronic atomic shells have no well-distinguishable boundaries and are not necessarily spherical. 

Inspec http //www.theiet.org/ (accessed July 26, 2010) (1898-). London lET. Inspec is the combined electronic version of Physics Abstracts, Computer and Control Abstracts and Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. This has been the standard database in the field of EE and, with the extension of the back file to 1898, it encompasses the very earliest EE literature. No literature search in the field would be complete without consulting this resource and, in most cases, this database would be the first choice for a literature search. However, Inspec does not provide blanket coverage of all EE resources and, in order to conduct a comprehensive search, it is necessary to use it in conjunction with Compendex. Several vendors offer subscription and/or pay-as-you-go access to the database. 

For the mathematical description of the observed reality in layers (physical, abstract and symbolic) in the S, it is proposed to use the relationship (Cempel 2012, Berge 1961) ... 

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