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Sci, Volume 2, Issue 1

2020 March - 4 articles

Cover Story: Life began with an enhanced response of prebiotic microsystems to stress. According to the author’s “inversion” concept, the original forms of life on the early Earth could not arise from organic matter simply as a result of the continuous chemical complication of prebiotic macromolecules and microsystems. This gradual chemical evolution had to be combined with continuous high-frequency oscillations of physicochemical parameters (temperature, pressure, etc.) in the parent hydrothermal environment. Oscillations initiated the emergence of induced extremely fast chemical reactions (“stress response”) within microsystems. It was the continuous network of induced reactions that “breathed life” into the lifeless organic matrix. This happened when the reaction of microsystems to external stress became intensified and purposeful. View this paper.

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Power Laws and Elementary Particle Decays

Leonardo Chiatti

Sci2020, 2(1), 17;https://doi.org/10.3390/sci2010017

20 March 2020

This study analyzes the correlation between the lifetime and the rest energy of the unstable particle states with a lifetime greater than the zeptosecond (10⁻²¹ s), using data available from the Particle Data Group. This set of states seems to...

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Thermodynamic Jump from Prebiotic Microsystems to Primary Living Cells

Vladimir Kompanichenko

Sci2020, 2(1), 14;https://doi.org/10.3390/sci2010014

13 March 2020

It is proposed that the primary living cells (“probionts”) cannot emerge of organic substance simply by continuous chemical complication of prebiotic macromolecules and microsystems. The complication must be accompanied by the radical the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecules to Microbes)

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Editorial

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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Sci in 2019

Sci Editorial Office

Sci2020, 2(1), 4;https://doi.org/10.3390/sci2010004

20 January 2020

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]

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Assessment of Habitat Change Processes within the Oti-Keran-Mandouri Network of Protected Areas in Togo (West Africa) from 1987 to 2013 Using Decision Tree Analysis

Aniko Polo-Akpisso,
Kperkouma Wala,
Ouattara Soulemane,
Fousseni Folega,
Koffi Akpagana and
Yao Tano

Sci2020, 2(1), 1;https://doi.org/10.3390/sci2010001

1 January 2020

Biodiversity conservation planning is highly important in the current context of global change. Biodiversity conservation can be achieved by understanding changes in land use at the landscape scale. Such understanding is needed to reverse the unprece...

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