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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"open science"”.
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Converting a Neuron-Morphology Reconstruction System: Open-Science Design and Implementation
… is to provide a tool that can be used by neuroscience researchers to analyze their own neuron data and compare the output against both manual and automated tracings. This is in line with the goals of open science: a movement that seeks to make the findings and processes of research more widely …
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High Throughput Detection of Pseudouridine: Caveats, Conundrums, and a Case for Open Science
… in this thesis highlights a need within the sciences to foster increased transparency and reproducibility.</p>
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A Crisis Without Replication: Replication, the Current Crisis in Psychology, and Open Science Investigated Using Insights From Metascience
… to this problem, a new field of empirical metascience has emerged, focusing on finding causes and solutions. This development opens a mutually beneficial pathway: philosophy of science can be informed by metascientific results, and metascience can take rigorous insights from philosophy of …
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Evaluation of spatial fragmentation of protected areas using the Spatial Assessment for Coastal Protected Areas in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
… research gap through a theoretical supported, open science approach that determines the extent of loss of natural habitat in coastal protected areas and reports on the context specific conditions that foster this trend. As a new contribution to research, the SACPA provides this necessary …
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Open access research publications and South African institutional repositories (IRS) in the context of Private Law and practices : an interdisciplinary study
… access to research-related information through open access practices such as institutional (research) repositories. This study employs an interdisciplinary approach combining library and information science with Private Law. By making use of a social-legal approach the focus is on the legal …
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European and German low-carbon energy transition
… the European and German energy transition. The open source Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD) is applied, a multisectoral long-term energy system model, to apply different methodologies accounting for uncertainty in the future energy system. With the goal of outlining challenges and …
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Towards stable principles of collective intelligence under an environment-dependent framework
… in this thesis, in combination with emerging "open science" practices such as pre-registration, data availability, open code, and "many-labs" collaborations, offer a promising route forward.
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Knowledge Components and Methods for Policy Propagation in Data Flows
… of the Semantic Web, workflow reuse in Open Science, and the exploitation of urban data in City Data Hubs. Starting from the analysis of Semantic Web applications, we propose a data-centric approach to semantically describe processes as data flows: the Datanode ontology, which comprises …
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SIGN HERE : informed consent in personalized medicine
… for you when you fall ill. This is the future science has slowly been approaching. However, the human genome is not enough, not unless we can decipher its language. One ambitious study to this effect is the Personal Genome Project, led by Dr. George Church at Harvard Medical School. This …
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Application of machine learning to the detection and prediction of Parkinson’s disease subtypes
… in complicated, multi-dimensional datasets has opened up unprecedented possibilities for meeting this crucial demand. Methods and Findings: We used unsupervised and supervised machine learning methods on comprehensive, longitudinal clinical data from the Parkinson’s Disease Progression Marker …
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An umbrella review of the available evidence syntheses to inform vaccination practices and policies for the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
… was performed in PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Scopus (EMBASE), Epistemonikos and The Cochrane Library. Search outputs were exported to Rayyan software for screening. From the included studies, predefined outcomes were extracted and recorded on a data extraction form. Study …
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Investigating Gentrification and the Role of Green Infrastructure
… datasets for this study were uploaded to the Open Science Framework (OSF) (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/G3HCV) to help foster those next steps for not just other researchers in this space, but also localities. Localities, which currently utilize LEED and related programs in their development policies, …
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Reproducibility crisis in science: causes and possible solutions
… I. Claims to knowledge require justification. In science, such justification is made possible by the ability to reproduce or replicate experiments, thereby confirming their validity. Additionally, reproducibility serves as a self-correcting tool in science as it weeds out faulty experiments. It is …
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Applying Time-Valued Knowledge for Public Health Outbreak Response
… data-hungry collect stage, iteration between open-science-centric connect stages and machine-learning centric calibrate stages, and a final visualization-centric convey stage. Secondly we analyze the trends in knowledge-building across the stages of epidemics with regard to open and closed …
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Responding to an Evolving Pandemic: Characterisation of Emerging Evolving Viruses and Population Immunity by the Example of SARS-CoV-2
… response to SARS-CoV-2 was global collaboration, open science and cooperation of scientists and policy makers. SARS-CoV-2 was not stopped by political borders, and neither will the next pandemic.
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Much Ado About Immersion: Power, Reported Results, and the Validity of Research on the Psychology of Virtual Reality and Immersive Simulations
… in fields as varied as engineering, computer science, communication, and psychology. The present study evaluates methodological trends in behavioral research on VR in terms of best practices regarding data collection, reporting, and availability. A meta-scientific content analysis of 61 …
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Developing a holistic framework for assessing research impact in South African higher education institutions, using a research-intensive university as a case study
… using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) while qualitative data were analysed thematically with NVivo. The study found that bibliometrics were the most used metric indicator for the 'Advancing knowledge' benefit category and academics and researchers surveyed seem satisfied …
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Beyond “Data Thrifting”: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse In the Social Sciences
… has enabled data to be shared and accessed more openly. Policy mandates for data sharing have contributed to the increasing availability of research data through data repositories, which create favorable conditions for the reuse of data for purposes not always anticipated by original collectors. …
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