The advent of open access to peer reviewed scholarly literature in the biomedical sciences creates the opening to examine scholarship in general, and chemistry in particular, to see where and how novel forms of network technology can accelerate the scientific method. This paper examines broad trends in information access and openness with an eye towards their applications in chemistry.

For continua X and Y it is shown that if the projection f : X × Y → X has its induced mapping C(f) open, then X is C∗-smooth. As a corollary, a characterization of dendrites in these terms is obtained. All spaces considered in this paper are assumed to be metric. A mapping means a continuous function. To exclude some trivial statements we assume that all considered mappings are not constant. A ...

The paper examined the relationship between openness and agricultural performance using data covering the period 1995 to 2009. Representing openness as foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade openness, the results showed that there is no long run relationship between FDI and trade openness on one hand and agricultural performance on the other. In the short run, vtrade openness and FDI exerted...

Genetic and environmental sources of covariation among cognitive measures of verbal IQ, performance IQ (PIQ), academic achievement, 2-choice reaction time (CRT), inspection time (IT) and the 6 Openness facets of the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R) were examined. The number of twin and twin-sibling pairs ranged from 432 (182 MZ, 350 DZ/sibling) to 1023 (273 MZ, 750 DZ/sibling) for c...

The purpose of this study was to report on the construction an instrument measure receptivity instructional feedback (RIF) and provide initial validity evidence for its use. We also explored degree which students' associated with their Big Five personality traits Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion. Confirmatory Factor Analysis suggested that 4-factor initially...

This paper tests the implication of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem that capital-poor individuals prefer more trade openness in poor (capital-scarce) countries and less trade in rich (labor-scarce) countries, by using a broad panel of countries and new exogenous determinants of trade openness. According to the seminal work in Mayer (1984), capital-poor individuals prefer more trade openness in po...

Open government is a culture of governance that aims to transform how the public administration works and interacts with its citizens. A key element open capacity engage citizens stakeholders include their perspectives insights promote co-operation in policy design implementation. Stakeholder participation increases accountability; broadens citizens’ empowerment political influence; builds civi...