Everything about BIOS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BIOSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The BiOS mechanism: History, theory, implicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Dictionary of National BiographyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: On the impact of the Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on the biogeochemistry and biology of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas (Eastern Mediterranean)Cited 224 times
5. Go sideways: Power-on self-testA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Option ROMA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• On the impact of the Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on the biogeochemistry and biology of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas (Eastern Mediterranean)

  G. Civitarese, M. Gačić, M. Lipizer · 2010 · Biogeosciences · 224 citations

• Bios-3: Siberian Experiments in Bioregenerative Life Support

  Frank B. Salisbury, Josef I. Gitelson, Genry M. Lisovsky · 1997 · BioScience · 153 citations

• Über das Bios-Problem. Darstellung von krystallisiertem Biotin aus Eigelb. 20. Mitteilung über pflanzliche Wachstumsstoffe

  Fritz Kögl, Benno Tönnis · 1936 · Hoppe-Seyler´s Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie · 136 citations

• Psychiatric Disorders in Preschool Offspring of Parents With Bipolar Disorder: The Pittsburgh Bipolar Offspring Study (BIOS)

  Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, Benjamin Goldstein · 2010 · American Journal of Psychiatry · 129 citations

• Biologie‐orientierte Synthese (BIOS)

  Stefan Wetzel, Robin S. Bon, Kamal Kumar · 2011 · Angewandte Chemie · 126 citations

• Wildiers' Bios

  Edna V. Eastcott · 1928 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 91 citations

• Extreme winter 2012 in the Adriatic: an example of climatic effect on the BiOS rhythm

  M. Gačić, G. Civitarese, V. Kovačević · 2014 · Ocean Science · 84 citations

• Salinity in the Sicily Channel corroborates the role of the Adriatic–Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) in shaping the decadal variability of the Mediterranean overturning circulation

  M. Gačić, K. Schroeder, G. Civitarese · 2013 · Ocean Science · 74 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The BiOS mechanism: History, theory, implications

  Giuseppe Civitarese, Miroslav Gačić, Mirna Batistić · 2023 · Progress in Oceanography · 45 citations

• Long-term biodegradation of crude oil in high-arctic backshore sediments: The Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) after nearly four decades

  Lars Schreiber, Blake Hunnie, Ianina Altshuler · 2023 · Environmental Research · 28 citations

• Toward Planetary Health Ethics? Refiguring Bios in Bioethics

  Warwick Anderson · 2023 · Journal of Bioethical Inquiry · 18 citations

• Modes of the BiOS-driven Adriatic Sea thermohaline variability

  Cléa Denamiel, Iva Tojčić, Petra Pranić · 2022 · Climate Dynamics · 17 citations

• Early Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Coming Soon: Application of an Oxidative Stress Injury Biomarker (BIOS) Model

  Zhiang Niu, Xiaohui Wu, Yuncheng Zhu · 2022 · Neuroscience Bulletin · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Dictionary of National BiographyGeorge Murray Smith, Sir Sidney Lee · 1885
• The biographical dictionary of musiciansRupert Hughes, Nicolas Slonimsky · 1900
• Siècle de Louis XIVVoltaire · 1739
• Dictionary of music and musiciansSir George Grove · 1879
• The Oxford companion to musicScholes, Percy Alfred · 1938
• Me Talk Pretty One DayDavid Sedaris · 2000
• The Chemicals of LifeIsaac Asimov · 1954
• Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la république des lettres, avec un catalogue raisonné de leurs ouvragesJean-Pierre Niceron · 1728

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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