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Royal Society Open Science

A fast, open journal publishing high-quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics
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Professor Jeremy Sanders CBE FRS
Frequency: Monthly
ISSN (Online):2054-5703

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3 March 2021
Is there evidence for cross-domain congruency sequence effect? A replication of Kan et al. (2013)
3 March 2021
Assessing intrastate shipments from interstate data and expert opinion
3 March 2021
The oldest fossil record of the extant genus Berardius (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the Middle to Late Miocene boundary of the western North Pacific
3 March 2021
Marine soundscape variation reveals insights into baleen whales and their environment: a case study in central New Zealand
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The unexpected narrowness of eccentric debris rings: a sign of eccentricity during the protoplanetary disc phase

This paper shows that the eccentric debris rings seen around the stars Fomalhaut and HD 202628 are narrower than expected in the standard eccentric planet perturbation scenario (sometimes referred to as ‘pericentre glow’). The standard scenario posits an ...Read more
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Peer-to-peer loan acceptance and default prediction with artificial intelligence

Logistic regression (LR) and support vector machine algorithms, together with linear and nonlinear deep neural networks (DNNs), are applied to lending data in order to replicate lender acceptance of loans and predict the likelihood of default of issued ...Read more
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An unethical optimization principle

If an artificial intelligence aims to maximize risk-adjusted return, then under mild conditions it is disproportionately likely to pick an unethical strategy unless the objective function allows sufficiently for this risk. Even if the proportion η of ...Read more
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Presence of mismatches between diagnostic PCR assays and coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 genome

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; initially named as 2019-nCoV) is responsible for the recent COVID-19 pandemic and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the current standard method for its diagnosis from patient samples. This ...Read more

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Royal Society Open Science

Royal Society Open Science is a new open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact.

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