Everything about PDF

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PDFA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: PDF-5+: a comprehensive Powder Diffraction File™ for materials characterizationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des KapitalismusThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: PDF methods for turbulent reactive flowsCited 2,322 times
5. Go sideways: XFAA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: History of PDFA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• PDF methods for turbulent reactive flows

  S.B. Pope · 1985 · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science · 2,322 citations

• A pdf Neuropeptide Gene Mutation and Ablation of PDF Neurons Each Cause Severe Abnormalities of Behavioral Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila

  Susan C.P Renn, Jae H Park, Michael Rosbash · 1999 · Cell · 1,089 citations

• Rapid-acquisition pair distribution function (RA-PDF) analysis

  Peter J. Chupas, Xiangyun Qiu, Jonathan C. Hanson · 2003 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 543 citations

• Lagrangian PDF Methods for Turbulent Flows

  S B Pope · 1994 · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 510 citations

• Serotonin and the Neuropeptide PDF Initiate and Extend Opposing Behavioral States in C. elegans

  Steven W. Flavell, Navin Pokala, Evan Z. Macosko · 2013 · Cell · 490 citations

• A novel background field removal method for MRI using projection onto dipole fields (PDF)

  Tian Liu, Ildar Khalidov, Ludovic de Rochefort · 2011 · NMR in Biomedicine · 442 citations

• PDF Cells Are a GABA-Responsive Wake-Promoting Component of the Drosophila Sleep Circuit

  Katherine M. Parisky, Jose Agosto, Stefan R. Pulver · 2008 · Neuron · 405 citations

• Uncertainties on α S in global PDF analyses and implications for predicted hadronic cross sections

  A. D. Martin, W. J. Stirling, R. S. Thorne · 2009 · The European Physical Journal C · 390 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• PDF-5+: a comprehensive Powder Diffraction File™ for materials characterization

  Soorya N. Kabekkodu, Anja Dosen, Thomas N. Blanton · 2024 · Powder Diffraction · 309 citations

• The PDF4LHC21 combination of global PDF fits for the LHC Run III*

  Richard D Ball, Jon Butterworth, Amanda M Cooper-Sarkar · 2022 · Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics · 189 citations

• https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/915/30978/C_22_%282022%29_28.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España), Gemma Sanz Espinar · 2022 · Çédille · 174 citations

• PDF-UNet: A semi-supervised method for segmentation of breast tumor images using a U-shaped pyramid-dilated network

  Ahmed Iqbal, Muhammad Sharif · 2023 · Expert Systems with Applications · 86 citations

• Detection of trapped molecular O 2 in a charged Li-rich cathode by Neutron PDF

  Robert A. House, Helen Y. Playford, Ronald I. Smith · 2022 · Energy & Environmental Science · 80 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des KapitalismusMax Weber · 1700
• By way of deceptionClaire Hoy, Victor Ostrovsky · 1990
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman · 1985
• On violenceHannah Arendt · 1969
• The nurture assumptionJudith Rich Harris · 1998
• The AWK programming languageAlfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan · 1988
• The Invention of the PassportJohn Torpey · 1999
• The China StudyT. Colin Campbell, PhD, T. Colin Campbell · 2004

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