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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Scientific communication"”.
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Exploring Urban Latina Third-Graders’ Scientific Communication and Identity Development
… they must recognize the diversity within scientific fields and how their interests and skills align with them. Stereotypical images of science and scientists often lead young girls who view themselves as “outsiders” to believe that science is an exclusive domain. Research in classroom …
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Scientific communication, information flows in industry - exemplified by pharmaceutical information in China & the UK
… of science and industry in a country. In China scientific information has long dominated information flows while in the UK scientific information in dominance has gradually been changed to industrial information flow in dominance (i.e. information work by, for and associated with industry). …
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Relationship Between Political Alignment and Scientific Communication: A Bibliometric Study of Egyptian Science Publications
This thesis reports the results of a bibliometric study of Egyptian science publications. Data for the study were collected through citation analysis. A total of 1182 Egyptian science papers were randomly selected from a variety of Egyptian and non-Egyptian sources. These papers contained 15,222 …
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Translation and the lingua franca in scientific communication: The case of the scientific community from Mexico
This thesis presents a study of the hybrid scientific discourse developed by a group of Mexican researchers in the area of materials science. The study focuses on the discursive characteristics (i.e. those derived from the interaction between Spanish and English in scientific academic discourse), …
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Integrating institutional repositories into the Semantic Web
The Web has changed the face of scientific communication; and the Semantic Web promises new ways of adding value to research material by making it more accessible to automatic discovery, linking, and analysis. Institutional repositories contain a wealth of information which could benefit from the …
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Da comunicação informal à comunicação formal: identificação da frente de pesquisa através de filtros de qualidade
Informal communication, as represented by conference papers in an important subset of the scientific communication system. Part of this ser filters through the system and reaches the super-formal literature, i.e., reviews. This filtered part contains the research front. These statements can be …
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O modelo brasileiro de governança acadêmica e seus efeitos na produtividade científica
… that promote institutional relations in scientific activity in some extent exacerbated by a disjunction between the mission of research, the role of faculty and overevaluation of the publication of articles in scientific journals well classified as premise for obtaining positions and …
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The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa
… access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.
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Three essays in economics
… cognitive limitations in understanding biases in communication and learning. The second essay, joint with Masao Fukui, highlights the role of distributional assumptions of infection rates for epidemiological predictions, responding to the recent COVID-19 outbreak. The first chapter considers the …
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The study of the communication patterns of Boston-Cambridge regional biotech firms to universities
… which focused on understanding the informal scientific communication network among Biotechnology firms in the Boston-Cambridge Biotech area. A previous study (Allen, et. al., 2009) provided an overview of the network, how the firms were connected to one another and the frequency of the …
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Toward a Typology of the Aggressive Personality
… of an organizing framework facilitating scientific communication in research on the aggressive personality as well as a classification system for organizations to identify those applicants and incumbents that might be potentially detrimental to the well-being of their coworkers.
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Estudos de usuários em periódicos de Ciência da Informação: análise referente ao período 2009-2013
Scientific communication is made of scientific knowledge, which may only be produced by the evolution and consolidation of science itself. The journals are the most preferred way that researchers disseminate the results of their study to the scientific community. This research has a descriptive …
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Improving peer review with ACORN : Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for Reviewer's Network
… has limitations that impair the quality of scientific communication. Under the current system, reviewers have only a limited amount of time to devote to evaluating papers and each paper receives an equal amount of attention regardless of how good the paper is. We propose to implement a new …
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Unmasking The Language Of Science Through Textual Analyses On Biomedical Preprints And Published Papers
Scientific communication is essential for science as it enables the field to grow. This task is often accomplished through a written form such as preprints and published papers. We can obtain a high-level understanding of science and how scientific trends adapt over time by analyzing these …
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Análise de citações dos trabalhos de conclusão de curso dos discentes de Arquivologia e Biblioteconomia da UFPB publicados no Google Books:no período de 2008 a 2012
… grey literature and one of the challenges of scientific communication is to propitiate access as well as to measure the use of such contents. The methodology used a descriptive, quantitative approach, and the data collection was done by means of reports of Google Books and Google Citations. …
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A adoção de e-books científicos na área de Administração: estudo de caso da biblioteca Prof. Emérito Agrícola Bethlem – instituto COPPEAD/UFRJ
… deals with the insertion of a collection of scientific e-books, in the Administration Area, in an academic library, having as empirical field the Biblioteca Prof. Emérito Agrícola Bethlem (Library Professor Emeritus Agrícola Bethlem), of the Instituto COPPEAD de Administração (Institute …
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How the internet is shaping the Chilean scientific community: globalization and dependency
… brings immediate visibility and relevance to scientific communities in the periphery. Yet, Internet diffusion is often framed by past technology failures that further widen global divides. This characterizes an "affliction" argument. The "teething argument" suggests that adoption within the …
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Electronic Preprint Distribution: a Case Study of Physicists and Chemists at the University of Maryland
As use of the Internet for scholarly communication increases, many scientists from several disciplines including Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics are using electronic networks to distribute preprints. The innovation of electronic preprint archives on the web, specifically those set up by Paul …
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Science Research Literacy Through Immersive Professional Development in Biomedical Research
… & Wongwanich, 2014). For teachers to promote a scientific atmosphere, literature points to training that fosters authentic spaces in the school setting. Working in collaboration with scientists offers teachers ways to scaffold laboratory experiences that address the needs of their students and …
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Information Extraction from Scientific Literature
The exponential growth of scientific literature, with millions of new articles published annually, has created an unsustainable discovery bottleneck across research communities. Manual extraction of critical information---including methodologies, datasets, and domain-specific terminologies---now …
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