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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Science projects"”.
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Online citizen science projects: an exploration of motivation, contribution and participation
The number of online citizen science projects has increased significantly over the past decade, yet some aspects of participation are poorly understood as is the motivation behind the involvement of the scientists who set up these projects, and the citizen scientists who take part. This thesis …
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A Handbook for Investigative Science Projects Including an Introduction to Statistical Analysis
<p>A Handbook for Investigative Science Projects: Including an Introduction to Statistical Analysis provides a step-by-step procedure from how to select a project to displaying the finished product. The handbook fills the gap in the literature between guidance for elementary students and graduate …
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Development Of A Knowledge Management Model In Large-scale International Space Science Projects
Large-scale international science projects (LISPs) are those projects where two or more countries formally agree to cooperate toward the achievement of a scientific, research and development, or engineering goal. In general, only projects exceeding $1 billion U.S. are considered LISPs, so sheer …
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Crowdsourcing Scientific Work: A Comparative Study of Technologies, Processes, and Outcomes in Citizen Science
<p>Citizen science projects involve the public with scientists in collaborative research. Information and communication technologies for citizen science can enable massive virtual collaborations based on voluntary contributions by diverse participants. As the popularity of citizen science …
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Scaling collaborative open data science
Large-scale, collaborative, open data science projects have the potential to address important societal problems using the tools of predictive machine learning. However, no suitable framework exists to develop such projects collaboratively and openly, at scale. In this thesis, I discuss the …
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The Growing Together Project: Understanding impacts on field day attendees and Iowa Master Gardeners
<p>Citizen science has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing data collection, as well as a great benefit to those who participate in the research project. The rising costs and limited funding for conducting large-scale research projects make citizen science projects valuable assets for …
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Characterizing Novelty as a Motivator in Online Citizen Science
<p>Citizen science projects rely on the voluntary contribution of nonscientists to take part in scientific research projects. Projects taking place exclusively over the Internet face significant challenges, chief among them is the attracting and keeping the critical mass of volunteers needed to …
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Smartphone Privacy in Citizen Science
… as smartphone-based crowdsensing and citizen science. A prototype named GROUPSENSE was developed to support anonymous-yet-accountable crowdsensing with SRBE in Android devices. From this prototype, an Android crowdsensing application was implemented to support privacy in citizen science. In …
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Adaptive Evaluation for Systems in Rapid Change or Sustained Transition: Innovations and Applications Generated from a Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic
… the life cycle of public health and prevention science projects. But in complex environments or evolving situations, existing evaluation theory faces challenges in successful practical application. Process evaluation can track changes as a program runs, but when a program operates outside of its …
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From Socio-Technical Challenges to Transferable Recommended Actions in Interdisciplinary Research Environments
… across the lifecycle of interdisciplinary data science projects. Together, IRDM and MRP form a complementary perspective on how data management and research practice interact. From this basis, seven transferable recommended actions are derived for RDM practitioners, institutional …
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Geographic range dynamics of South Africa's bird species
… the First and Second Southern African Bird Atlas Projects (SABAP1 and SABAP2), which are separated in time by about two decades. In this thesis, I first describe the strengths and the weaknesses of the databases collected by these two citizen science projects, and therefore discuss the limitations …
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Community Forestry Education in the Swan Valley, MT: Contributions of Northwest Connections' Field Program
… such as fuelwood gathering and citizen science projects. Analysis of interview data was informed by key concepts and concerns from popular, place-based and process educational theories. The results suggest that the LL program contributed to students gaining a more nuanced understanding …
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Community Forestry Education in the Swan Valley, MT: Contributions of Northwest Connections' Field Program
… such as fuelwood gathering and citizen science projects. Analysis of interview data was informed by key concepts and concerns from popular, place-based and process educational theories. The results suggest that the LL program contributed to students gaining a more nuanced understanding …
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User interfaces in space science instrumentation
… instrumentation in the specific context of space science. It gathers together existing practice in machine interfaces with a look at potential future usage and recommends a new approach to space science projects with the intention of maximising their science return. It first takes a historical …
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Exploring the transformative potential of citizen science in marine governance processes
… the participatory research practice of citizen science, examining the potential that it has to transform two key challenges facing regimes of marine governance: (i) knowledge rationalisation and (ii) the marginalisation of local communities. Although participatory research is far from a new …
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An analysis of internet traffic flow in SANReN using active and passive measurements
… research institutions, and oversees science projects such as the Square Kilometre Array. In this study, we conduct active and passive measurements to assess the performance of SANReN and to identify problem areas in the network. Active measurements were done to determine network …
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The constant atlas : mapping public data for individuals and their cities
… informatics context and in computational social science, projects use data collected about our behavior in the urban environment to solve problems including traffic congestion and public safety, the creation of targeted advertising, and the development of entire neighborhoods. Some projects using …
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