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Journal articles on the topic "Natural science journals"
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Jordan, Sara R., and Kim Quaile Hill. "Editors' Perceptions of Ethical and Managerial Problems in Political Science Journals." PS: Political Science & Politics 45, no. 04 (September 27, 2012): 724–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096512000789.
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AbstractWithin the medical and physical sciences journals evidence suggests that problems of authorship ethics and journal management bedevil the editors of these journals. Although anecdotal evidence suggests that similar problems persist in political science, the extent of these problems within political science is not well established. Here we report the results of a survey of political science journal editors' perceptions of ethical and managerial issues associated with their journals. We find that unlike ethical publication concerns in the clinical and natural sciences fields, these issues are not of significant concern among our sample. Ethical problems are of low concern and editors report high levels of confidence to address these problems. Managerial problems, such as the adequacy of reviewer pools, are of higher concern to our sample.
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Moskaleva, O. V., and M. A. Akoev. "FORECAST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: INDEXING IN INTERNATIONAL CITATION INDEXES (WEB OF SCIENCE PLATFORM)." Scholarly Research and Information 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 30–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24108/2658-3143-2020-3-1-30-63.
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This article is the first in a series of articles representing the development forecast of Russian scientific journals. Based on the analysis of the dynamics of many bibliometric indicators of Russian journals presented in various databases on the Web of Science platform, a forecast is made for the development of journals by field of science using the OECD classifier. Proposals are made on the necessary measures to increase the bibliometric indicators of Russian journals in the natural sciences, forecast of increasing the number of Russian journals in Social Sciences and Humanities in the Web of Science Core Collection is presented.
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Gingras, Yves, and Sébastien Mosbah-Natanson. "Les sciences sociales françaises entre ancrage local et visibilité internationale." European Journal of Sociology 51, no. 2 (August 2010): 305–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003975610000147.
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AbstractIn the current context of a growing internationalization of scientific exchanges, the issue of the language of scientific publications – settled in the natural sciences since the 1980s – has now become a central issue for the Social Sciences. Our paper discusses this topical issue through a detailed analysis of the linguistic strategies adopted by two major French social science journals, Population and Revue française de sociologie (RFS), which have chosen to translate into English a selection (RFS) or all (Population) of their articles. In view of the measured effects in terms of visibility in the international scientific field – increasing visibility for the journal Population at the expense of its French edition and a marginal effect for the RFS – we raise questions about the role of national social sciences journals and recall that the specific intellectual mission of these journals lies beyond the pursuit of internationalization.
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Wang, Li Xin, Jian Wei Li, Hua Min Liu, Wei Wang, Cun Zhu Liang, and Jie Yang. "Bibliometric Analysis of Status Quo of Wetland Science in China." Advanced Materials Research 518-523 (May 2012): 5984–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.518-523.5984.
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Currently, research on wetlands is a rapidly developing field. To understand the state of wetland science in China, we used the term “wetland” ,“marsh”, “swamp”, “bog” and “mire” as the keywords to search in the ISI Web of Knowledge and the Chinese Journals Full-Text Database and collect Chinese and English literature on wetland written by Chinese researchers. These publications were analyzed with bibliometric methods by the distribution of the publication year, the author and organization distribution, the journal distribution, the research funds, the research regions and the subjects. The results indicate that core research groups working in the field of wetland science in China have already been formed, although the distribution of research groups was scattered across many institutions and universities. Dispersion and concentration coexisted in the journal distribution of Chinese and English publications—the majority of publications were clumped in a small number of journals, while a minority was scattered in a large number of journals. In China, there are two professional journals publishing papers on wetlands, Wetland Science and Wetland Science & Management. However, it is reasonable to launch an English language wetland journal in the country to enhance communication and cooperation. Research funds for wetland science have a wide array of sources. An important portion of the papers in Chinese was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and provincial foundations, while those in English were supported either by National Natural Science Foundation of China or international funds. Field studies in wetland science were mainly conducted in the regions with great valleys. Wetland hydrology, Wetland Biogeochemical process and Wetland protection and management are the main objects of those studies. With the development of economy, many environmental and resource issues have emerged due to the excessive use and subsequent destruction of wetland areas. Thus, enforcing the protection of wetlands is becoming increasingly popular.
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Paasi, Anssi. "Globalisation, Academic Capitalism, and the Uneven Geographies of International Journal Publishing Spaces." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 5 (May 2005): 769–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3769.
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Geographers have been arguing recently that the idea of what is ‘international’ in this field has been occupied by the hegemonic discourses of Anglo-American geography and journals. This paper takes this lively debate as an indicator of the global challenges facing higher education and research and provides an analysis of the changing conditions of knowledge production, characterised by internationalisation and competition. Knowledge production is governed to an increasing degree through practices based on market-like operations. The author argues that this may lead to the homogenisation of social science publication practices, which are known to be heterogeneous and context dependent. One indicator of this homogenisation is the demand for publishing in international journals that is arising in social sciences and humanities round the world. Both ‘international’ and ‘quality’ are increasingly being connected with the journals noted in the Institute of Scientific Information's (ISI) databases. Starting with an analysis of the changing conditions of knowledge production in general and in human geography in particular, the author scrutinises the spatial patterns of the international journal publishing spaces constituted by the ISI. The results show specific geographies: not only the manner in which the Anglo-American journals dominate the publishing space in science but also how the publishing spaces of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities are very different. The publication space of social science journals is particularly limited to the English-speaking countries, and this is especially the case with human geography.
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Chew, Katherine, Mary Schoenborn, James Stemper, and Caroline Lilyard. "E-Journal Metrics for Collection Management: Exploring Disciplinary Usage Differences in Scopus and Web of Science." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 11, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b85p87.
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Objective – The purpose was to determine whether a relationship exists between journal downloads and either faculty authoring venue or citations to these faculty, or whether a relationship exists between journal rankings and local authoring venues or citations. A related purpose was to determine if any such relationship varied between or within disciplines. A final purpose was to determine if specific tools for ranking journals or indexing authorship and citation were demonstrably better than alternatives.
Methods – Multiple years of journal usage, ranking, and citation data for twelve disciplines were combined in Excel, and the strength of relationships were determined using rank correlation coefficients.
Results – The results illustrated marked disciplinary variation as to the degree that faculty decisions to download a journal article can be used as a proxy to predict which journals they will publish in or which journals will cite faculty’s work. While journal access requests show moderate to strong relationships with the journals in which faculty publish, as well as journals whose articles cite local faculty, the data suggest that Scopus may be the better resource to find such information for these journals in the health sciences and Web of Science may be the better resource for all other disciplines analyzed. The same can be said for the ability of external ranking mechanisms to predict faculty publishing behaviours. Eigenfactor is more predictive for both authoring and citing-by-others across most of the representative disciplines in the social sciences as well as the physical and natural sciences. With the health sciences, no clear pattern emerges.
Conclusion – Collecting and correlating authorship and citation data allows patterns of use to emerge, resulting in a more accurate picture of use activity than the commonly used cost-per-use method. To find the best information on authoring activity by local faculty for subscribed journals, use Scopus. To find the best information on citing activity by faculty peers for subscribed titles use Thomson Reuters’ customized Local Journal Use Reports (LJUR), or limit a Web of Science search to local institution. The Eigenfactor and SNIP journal quality metrics results can better inform selection decisions, and are publicly available. Given the trend toward more centralized collection development, it is still critical to obtain liaison input no matter what datasets are used for decision making. This evidence of value can be used to defend any local library “tax” that academic departments pay as well as promote services to help faculty demonstrate their research impact.
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Dašić, Predrag. "State and Analysis of Scientific Journals in the Field of “Economic Sciences” for the Period 1995-2014." Economic Themes 53, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 547–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2015-0032.
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Abstract SCI-E and SSCI are one of the main citation databases (CDB) in the world in the field of natural and applied (SCI-E) and social (SSCI) scientific disciplines. In 2014, within the SCIE all scientific fields of natural and applied science disciplines are classified into 176 categories, and within SSCI all scientific fields of social science disciplines are classified into 56 categories. Scientific journals in the field of “Economic Sciences” are sorted within the SSCI in 8 (eight) categories, plus one category within the SCI-E. The aim of the paper is to show the state and analysis of scientific journals indexed in SSCI and SCI-E citation databases (CDB) for 9 (nine) listed categories in the field of “Economic Sciences” for the period 1995-2014. The number of different scientific journals for 9 (nine) listed categories in the field of “Economic Sciences” for a period of 1997-2014, increased for 455 journals (from 415 journals in 1995 to 860 journals in 2014) with cumulative growth index (CGI) of 207,23% compared to 1997. Best ranked category among the nine listed categories in the field of “Economic Sciences” was the category “Economics” (Econ), which according to the number of journals for the entire period 1995-2014 was always ranked first (top-one) within SSCI. The largest increase in the number of scientific journals for the period 1995-2014 for all nine listed categories in the field of “Economic Sciences” had the category “Management” (Manag).
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Ghane, Mohammad Reza, Mohammad Reza Niazmand, and Ameneh Sabet Sarvestani. "The citation advantage for open access science journals with and without article processing charges." Journal of Information Science 46, no. 1 (March 18, 2019): 118–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551519837183.
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In this study of access models, we compared citation performance in journals that do and do not levy article processing charges (APCs) as part of their business model. We used a sample of journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) science class and its 13 subclasses and recorded four citation metrics: JIF, H-index, citations per publication (CPP) and quartile rank. We examined 1881 science journals indexed in DOAJ. Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports and Web of Science were used to extract JIF, H-index, CPP and quartile category. Overall, the JIF, H-index and CPP indicated that APC and non-APC open access (OA) journals had equal impact. Quartile category ranking indicated a difference in favour of APC journals. In each science subclass, we found significant differences between APC and non-APC journals in all citation metrics except for quartile rank. Discipline-related variations were observed in non-APC journals. Differences in the rank positions of scores in different groups identified citation advantages for non-APC journals in physiology, zoology, microbiology and geology, followed by botany, astronomy and general biology. Impact ranged from moderate to low in physics, chemistry, human anatomy, mathematics, general science and natural history. The results suggest that authors should consider field- and discipline-related differences in the OA citation advantage, especially when they are considering non-APC OA journals categorised in two or more subjects. This may encourage OA publishing at least in the science class.
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Kassian, Alexei, and Larisa Melikhova. "Russian Science Citation Index on the WoS platform: a critical assessment." Journal of Documentation 75, no. 5 (September 9, 2019): 1162–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-02-2019-0033.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the journals of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) (Web of Science platform) in respect to publication misconduct and predatory practices. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs formal criteria developed by the Disseropedia of Russian Journals (a.k.a. the Journal Project of the Russian Dissernet). Findings A substantial number of the RSCI journals violate publishing ethics and/or are involved in predatory practices (fake peer-review, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, publication of pseudoscientific papers and so on). The general trend is negative: the number of such journals was higher in July 2018 than in 2015 when the RSCI was launched. The authors propose that this situation is due to the non-transparent and partly defective process of journal selection involved; primarily it can be attributed to problems with the RSCI expert pool. Research limitations/implications Many cases of publication misconduct are inevitably overlooked due to natural limitations of the tools. Originality/value The approach and methods were developed by the Disseropedia of Russian Journals and the Dissernet for the specific local Russian situation, where the scientific and editorial community is corrupt and the institution of reputation does not work properly. The authors believe that the experience may also be helpful for scientists and academic officials from other countries.
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Zulfah, Hadaina, and Nurfina Aznam. "Development of Natural Sciences Module with Reflective Learning Journal to Enhance Student’s Reporting-Interpretative Skills." Biosaintifika: Journal of Biology & Biology Education 10, no. 2 (August 29, 2018): 362–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/biosaintifika.v10i2.14319.
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One of the successful factors of the curriculum 2013 implementation is the availability of appropriate and relevant teaching materials. Teaching materials can be textbooks, interactive videos , virtual labs, maket and so on. Unfortunately, there are still found many materials that are less in accordance with the curriculum of 2013. Therefore it should be developed a more appropriate teaching materials, one of them is a natural sciences module with reflective learning journal. The development of natural sciences modulewas done with research that aims to develop and analyze the effectiveness of natural sciences modulewith reflective learning journals. This research was an R&D research using development research procedure according to Thiagarajanthat known as 4D (define, design, develop and dessiminate). The data collection was done by test and non-test technique. Instrument that used in non test technique are interview guides, product validation sheet, students’ response sheet to the readability of science nature modul with reflective learning journal., meanwhile the instrumen that used in test technique is essay question with reporting-interpretative skills’s indicators. The results showed that the leligibility of the natural sciences module with reflective learning journal was categorized as approriate and effective to improve student’s reporting-interpretative skills.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Natural science journals"
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Oligney, Ronald Eugene. "Making of The Color of Oil: a contemporary pattern for unleashing the potential of science and technology journalism." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3209.
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Ideologies, intellectually and religiously driven, color both politics and
economics. The relationship between government and the governed, human rights and
the rule of law all are affected by such ideologies. However, unless humans are willing
to change dramatically lifestyles honed in hundreds of years of historic developments,
energy and energy abundance are arguably the most critical needs of modern society. In
many ways energy has transcended ideology although there are still unrepentant
ideologues advocating otherwise. It was this realization, augmented by a few events,
that brought about the writing of The Color of Oil. The authors felt a need to combat
popular errors being promulgated by the media in an area of such great importance to the
entire human enterprise: Energy. A nonsensical 1999 cover story by the usually reliable
Economist magazine provided the last straw. Someone had to set the record straight.
But the dour-to-hostile climate that surrounded oil and energy at the turn of the
century presented certain challenges to getting the work published. As it turned out, the
unique qualifications of a science and technology journalist, the author of this thesis,
played a key role in making the publication a reality, and then a phenomenon of sorts. In
some ways, The Color of Oil suggests a meaningful new role for science and technology journalism and journalists in a media environment driven by movie stars and media
profits. The book was produced on a short timeline and with limited resources. The
book's message has played a role in key political decisions in the United States and
around the world; as a direct result of the book, the authors were invited and participated
extensively in development of energy policy in Texas and at the national level. It has
effected billions of dollars of commercial enterprise, providing as it did the blueprint for
development of Cheniere Energy, Inc., a $2 billion Houston company that today is one
of North America's premier LNG receiving companies. And testimonies from readers
of The Color of Oil suggest that the book has produced meaningful personal wealth
for many of its 30,000-plus readers.
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Frost, Jennifer. "Is natural good for you? Myths, perceptions and science in advertising, marketing and the media." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21623.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This assignment explores the assumptions and perceptions – both real, and created by the media, marketers and advertisers – surrounding the word “natural” when applied to health foods, vitamins, home remedies and medication. It also examines the anti-science stance taken by many promoters of such products and the appeal that stance holds for targeted consumers. In it an attempt is made to answer the following questions: What is the source of this apparently “antiscience” point of view? How have the media contributed to this type of sentiment? Why do socalled “natural” products hold more appeal to consumers than their synthetic equivalents? Is there a difference between such products? Is the difference real or perceived? Or, is it merely a media construct? Does the popularity of these ideas indicate a growing distrust of science and governments? What effect has the media’s portrayal of science had on peoples’ attitudes to it? And, above all, what have the media done to advance the idea that “natural” is good for you?
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie werkstuk ondersoek die veronderstellings en persepsies – die werklike sowel as dié wat deur die media, bemarkers en adverteerders geskep word – met betrekking tot die woord “natuurlik” wanneer dit toegepas word op gesondheidsvoedsel, vitamiene, boererate en medikasie. Dit bekyk ook die antiwetenskaplike houding wat baie voorstanders van sodanige produkte inneem en die trefkrag wat dié houding op die teikenmark uitoefen. In dié studie is ’n poging aangewend om die volgende vrae te beantwoord: Wat is die oorsprong van hierdie klaarblyklik “antiwetenskaplike” oogpunt? Hoe het die media bygedra tot dié idee? Hoekom is die sogenaamd “natuurlike” produkte soveel aantrekliker vir die gebruiker as hulle sintetiese ekwivalente? Is daar ’n verskil tussen sodanige produkte? Is daar ’n werklike verskil of is dit slegs ‘n persepsie? Of is dit bloot ’n maaksel van die media? Dui die gewildheid van hierdie idees op ’n toenemende gebrek aan vertroue in die wetenskap en die owerhede? Watter uitwerking het die media se voorstelling van die wetenskap op mense se houding ten opsigte daarvan? En, veral, wat het die media gedoen ter bevordering van die idee dat “natuurlik” goed is vir jou?
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Barnard, Margaretha Magdalena. "Science and communication : a critical analysis of the coverage by the Namibian press of the introduction of communal conservancies as a form of community based natural resource management (CBNRM)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50088.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Science forms an integral part of our lives. It is tied to social practices, public policies and political affairs. Yet, very little is reported on it unless it is making hard news. This thesis was written from the premise that the public requires as much accurate information as possible to make choices and decisions. In many instances, they solely depend on the news media to supply that information. Journalists have a responsibility to reflect and explain the complexity of a world that is increasingly influenced by science. In Namibia the establishment of conservancies under the CBNRM programme of government, have an influence on many rural people's lives who would previously not have been too concerned about science news. Through the Media and Publicity Strategy of the CBNRM programme, communication of the environmental message of conservancies has been successful to a large extent, especially in terms of reportage in the local press. The messages conveyed in the press have been overwhelmingly positive and supportive of the system. From the perspective of the level of journalism practised in this regard, the effort has not been that great. Publications in Namibia operate on very limited budgets and have to manage with a minimum number of reporters. This means journalists are expected to cover a range of different beats, and are seldom offered the opportunity to develop as specialist writers in specific fields. The field of science and environment is generally not regarded as an area that produces hard news on a regular basis. This was evident in the articles reviewed for the purposes of this thesis. The majority of stories were written from press releases or field trips organised by the CBNRM programme organisers. Stories that were self-generated were not very well researched, or did not follow through on potential hard news angles or ideas. In a world of war, hunger, poverty, diseases and many other tragedies, the story of the development of communal conservancies is a wonderfully positive story that highlights the success of sustainable development, the upliftment of the rural poor and achievements in terms of conservation. It is a welcome change for journalists to tell a positive story to the world. However, as journalists should know, every story has two sides. The purpose is not necessarily to find fault with the conservancy philosophy or to shoot it down or find sensationalism where it is not due. Their role is to present a full, unbiased account of the facts so that their readers can make up their own minds on whether they support the concept, or not. If journalists failed to inform their readers about the problems experienced by the implementation of conservancies, then they have failed to give their readers the full picture. The conclusions drawn in this thesis on the level of science or environmental reporting in Namibia, serve to emphasise the urgent need for specialist writers in the profession. A handful of dedicated and committed science writers that increasingly raises the level of reporting will make a vast difference in the fields of science and environment in Namibia.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Wetenskap vorm 'n integrale deel van ons lewens. Dit is gebind aan sosiale gebruike, openbare beleidsrigtings en politieke sake. Tog word daar baie min daaroor geskryf, behalwe wanneer dit harde nuus is. Hierdie tesis is geskryf vanuit die oogpunt dat die publiek soveel as moontlik akkurate inligting nodig het om keuses te maak. In baie gevalle vertrou hulle uitsluitlik op die nuus media om daardie inligting te verskaf. Joernaliste het 'n verantwoordelikheid om 'n wêreld wat al hoe meer beïnvloed word deur wetenskap te verduidelik. In Namibië het die daarstelling van bewareas deur die CBNRM-program van die regering, 'n groot invloed op die lewens van baie plattelandse mense se lewens gehad wat voorheen nie veel sou omgegee het oor wetenskapnuus nie. Die daarstelling van bewareas het 'n hele nuwe wêreld met baie nuwe uitdagings tot by hulle voordeur gebring. Dit was belangrik om hulle genoegsaam in te lig oor die voor- en nadele van die stelsel om hulle in staat te stelom te besluit of hulle wou betrokke raak of nie. Die boodskap wat die pers oorgedra het, was oorweldigend positief met baie steun vir die stelsel. Vanuit 'n joernalistieke perspektief gesien, was die beriggewing rue so noemenswaardig nie. Publikasies in Namibië werk met baie beperkte begrotings en moet klaarkom met 'n minimum aantal verslaggewers. Dit beteken daar word van joernaliste verwag om oor 'n wye verskeidenheid onderwerpe te skryf. Wetenskap- en omgewingsberiggewing word oor die algemeen gesien as 'n gebied wat nie werklik harde nuus op 'n gereelde basis produseer nie. Dit het duidelik gebleik uit die artikels wat ontleed is vir die doel van die tesis. Die meerderheid van die stories is geskryf van persverklarings en uitstappies georganiseer deur die CBNRM. Die stories wat wel self gegenereer is, was nie baie goed nagevors rue. In 'n wêreld van oorlog, hongersnood, armoede en siektes, is die ontwikkeling van . bewareas 'n wonderlike positiewe storie wat dien as bewys van die sukses van volhoubare ontwikkel, die opheffmg van plattelandse arm mense en wat bereik kan word met bewaring. Dit is 'n welkome verandering vir joernaliste om vir 'n slag 'n positiewe storie aan die wêreld te vertel. Maar, soos joernaliste behoort te weet, het elke storie twee kante. Die doel van 'n joernalis is nie noodwendig om fout te vind met die filosofie van bewareas nie, of om dit af te skiet of sensasie te soek waar dit nie nodig is nie. Hulle rol is om 'n volledige, onsydige verslag van die feite weer te gee sodat hulle lesers self kan besluit of hulle die konsep ondersteun of nie. As joernaliste daarin gefaal het om hulle lesers in te lig oor die probleme wat ondervind is met die implementering van bewareas, dan het hulle daarin gefaal om die volledige prentjie aan hulle lesers te skets. Die slotsom van die tesis oor die vlak van wetenskap- en omgewingsjoernalistiek in Namibië is dat daar 'n dringende tekort aan spesialis skrywers in die professie is. Selfs net 'n handvol toegewyde wetenskapskrywers sal al klaar 'n groot verbetering bring in die kwaliteit van verslaggewing in die wetenskap- en omgewingsvakgebied in Namibië.
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Denia, Navarro Elena. "Percepción social de la ciencia y participación digital: impacto de la comunicación científica en Twitter." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/153797.
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[ES] La percepción pública de la ciencia es un aspecto social ampliamente estudiado mediante encuestas a la población para evaluar la comprensión de la ciencia y las actitudes hacia la misma. Sin embargo, existen críticas robustas hacia los supuestos teóricos que sustentan el diseño de estos sondeos y hacia la metodología empleada. La presente tesis pretende aportar vías de análisis más innovadoras a la discusión. En primer lugar, se proporciona un marco introductorio que esboza las relaciones más destacables entre ciencia y sociedad en el mundo moderno, incluyendo los enfoques de participación, considerados más democráticos. En segundo lugar, se profundiza en el marco del nuevo escenario de la vida digital, en particular con la finalidad de complementar los estudios clásicos de percepción social de la ciencia con la propuesta de una herramienta metodológica adaptada a la sociedad digital que abra nuevas direcciones de investigación orientadas hacia los espacios de participación ciudadana que constituyen las redes sociales digitales. Para ello, se diseña un algoritmo capaz de analizar tendencias en el impacto de la comunicación de la ciencia en Twitter a partir de conjuntos representativos de tuits utilizando técnicas computacionales de minería de datos, combinadas con una valoración cualitativa de los tipos de contenido ¿categorizado como: «ciencia», «cultura», «político-social», «creencias», «medios» y «emocional»¿. Para probar la herramienta, se examina una variedad de discursos en abierto sobre temas científicos presentes en la plataforma, aplicando el algoritmo sobre perfiles de distinta naturaleza ¿científicos famosos, instituciones y otros¿ y sobre conversaciones no centralizadas en usuarios específicos, sino recabando la información relativa a cuestiones científicas de las que los medios se han hecho eco. El resultado es una herramienta de bajo coste fácilmente reproducible por otros investigadores que revela aspectos sobre las estrategias de comunicación científica que generan mayor impacto. Se requerirán estudios más profundos, a gran escala, para corroborar si las tendencias preliminares identificadas con el método de análisis propuesto pueden extrapolarse a un marco más general.[EN] Public perception of science is a widely studied social aspect through population surveys to assess understanding of science and attitudes towards it. However, there are strong criticisms of the theoretical assumptions behind the design of these surveys and the methodology used. This thesis aims to provide more innovative ways of analysis to the discussion. Firstly, it provides an introductory framework outlining the most remarkable relationships between science and society in the modern world, including approaches to 'engagement' in science, which are considered to be more democratic. Secondly, it delves into the framework of the new scenario of digital life, in particular with the aim of complementing the classic studies of the social perception of science with the proposal of a methodological tool adapted to the digital society that opens up new directions of research oriented towards the spaces of citizen participation that constitute social networks. To this end, an algorithm is designed that is capable of analyzing the impact of science communication on Twitter from representative sets of tweets using computational data mining techniques, combined with a qualitative assessment of the types of content; categorized as «science», «culture», «political-social», «beliefs», «media» and «emotional». To test the tool, a variety of open discourses on scientific topics present in the platform are examined, applying the algorithm on profiles of different nature (famous scientists, institutions and others) and on conversations not centralized on specific users, but gathering information on scientific issues that have been echoed by the media. The result is a low-cost tool that can be easily reproduced by other researchers and that reveals aspects about the science communication strategies that generate the greatest impact. As a next step, more in-depth, large-scale studies are required to corroborate whether the preliminary trends identified with the proposed method of analysis can be extrapolated to a more general framework.
[CA] La percepció pública de la ciència és un aspecte social àmpliament estudiat mitjançant enquestes a la població per avaluar la comprensió de la ciència i les actituds de la ciutadania. No obstant això, hi ha crítiques robustes cap als supòsits teòrics que sustenten el disseny d'aquests sondejos i cap a la metodologia utilitzada. La present tesi pretén aportar vies d'anàlisi més innovadores a la discussió. En primer lloc, es proporciona un marc introductori que esbossa les relacions més destacables entre ciència i societat en el món modern, incloent els enfocaments de participació ¿o engagement¿, considerats més democràtics. En segon lloc, s'aprofundeix en el marc de el nou escenari de la vida digital, en particular amb la finalitat de complementar els estudis clàssics de percepció social de la ciència amb la proposta d'una eina metodològica adaptada a la societat digital que obri noves direccions de investigació orientades cap als espais de participació ciutadana que constitueixen les xarxes socials. Per a això, es dissenya un algoritme capaç d'analitzar l'impacte de la comunicació de la ciència a Twitter a partir de conjunts representatius de tuits utilitzant tècniques computacionals de mineria de dades, combinades amb una valoració qualitativa dels tipus de contingut ¿categoritzat com: «ciència», «cultura», «politicosocial», «creences», «mitjans» i «emocional»¿. Per provar l'eina, s'examina una varietat de discursos en obert sobre temes científics presents a la plataforma, aplicant l'algoritme sobre perfils de diferent naturalesa ¿científics famosos, institucions i altres¿ i sobre converses no centralitzades en usuaris específics, sinó recaptant la informació relativa a qüestions científiques de les que els mitjans de comunicació s'han fet ressò. El resultat és una eina de baix cost fàcilment reproduïble per altres investigadors que revela aspectes sobre les estratègies de comunicació científica que generen major impacte. Com següent pas, es requereixen estudis més profunds, a gran escala, per corroborar si les tendències preliminars identificades amb el mètode d'anàlisi proposat poden extrapolar-se a un marc més general.
Denia Navarro, E. (2020). Percepción social de la ciencia y participación digital: impacto de la comunicación científica en Twitter [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/153797
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Brito, Cristina Maria Ribeiro da Silva. "Os Mamíferos Marinhos Nas Viagens Marítimas pelo Atlântico Entre os Sécs. XV e XVIII: a Evolução da Ciência e do Conhecimento." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/116184.
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Os mamíferos marinhos constituem um grupo animal que pode ser usado como um paradigma para a história da ciência e para a história da história natural, tanto em Portugal como no Altântico. Apesar de serem animais marinhos que vivem num meio que nos é inóspito, neste grupo de mamíferos incluem-se animais grandes, que dependem da superfície para respirar e que desde sempre suscitaram interesses, interrogações e motivações nas diversas culturas e populações humanas que com eles contactaram. Para Portugal Continental encontram-se as primeiras referências a mamíferos marinhos desde o século XII, seja através de registos de arrojamentos como de actividades associadas à baleação em diversas zonas do país. Em Portugal e paralelamente ao País Basco, reconhecido berço da baleação ocidental, desenvolveu-se uma importante cultura baleeira. Esta avançou para o Atlântico apoiada no desenrolar das navegações portuguesas oceânicas, ultramarinas e transatlânticas a partir dos séculos XV e XVI e também aí se estabeleceu. É igualmente na exploração do grande e desconhecido Mar Oceano, primeiro ao largo da costa ocidental africana e das ilhas atlânticas e posteriormente atingindo o seu expoente máximo na costa brasileira durante o século XVII, que se observaram os animais marinhos, se fizeram relatos e perpetuaram descrições, se transmitiram informações recém-descobertas e se criaram as bases para as ciências naturais. Este facto particulariza-se para as descrições zoológicas e classificações animais que apenas são reconhecidas enquanto disciplinas a partir do século XVIII. Existe um Naturalismo Atlântico, formalizado neste trabalho, que decorreu num período de abertura e criação de novas concepções mentais sobre o mundo e que se desenvolveu simultaneamente ao Naturalismo Enciclopédico Europeu, este último resultante dos movimentos científicos e culturais do Renascimento. No entanto observou-se que poucas interligações ou influências existiram entre estas duas linhas das ciências naturais. Este facto é indicativo da pouca expressão da ciência natural Atlântica à época provavelmente como resultado da inexistência de edições impressas, do uso comum da língua portuguesa em detrimento do latim ou de uma deficiente divulgação e propagação do conhecimento. No entanto, ao estudar as fontes históricas e analisando especificamente as referências a baleias, golfinhos, focas, manatins e outros grandes animais marinhos, concluiu-se que a partir do Além-Mar Português surgiram contribuições relevantes para a formação e a evolução da história natural num contexto de revolução
científica e de globalização de conceitos e ideias.Marine mammals are an animal group that can be used as a paradigmatic example for the history of science and for the history of natural history, both in Portugal and the Atlantic. Although being aquatic mammals living in an intimidating environment, they are big animals that need to come to the surface to breathe and have always motivated interests and raised questions throughout different human cultures around the world. In Mainland Portugal first references to marine mammals were found since the 12th century, through stranding records or whaling related activities registers in several coastal regions. In Portugal together with the Basque Country, the renowned place of birth of occidental whaling, an important whaling culture developed. These whaling activities and its techniques moved towards the Atlantic along with the oceanic Portuguese journeys since the 15th and 16th centuries. Also, other Atlantic records were made and descriptions were perpetuated through the exploration of the big and unknown Sea Ocean, first along the occidental African coast and the Atlantic islands and then across the ocean reaching the coast of Brazil during the 17th century. These narratives are particularly rich in terms of zoological descriptions and marine animal classifications, disciplines which were only recognized as so since the 18th century. The formal concept of Atlantic Naturalism, considered in this work, arose in a time of minds opening and new mental conceptions in parallel with the Encyclopedic Naturalism that resulted from the Renascence scientific and cultural movements. Nevertheless, there were few influences or connections between these two lines of natural science and they only cross each other very briefly. This may indicate that the Atlantic natural science had none or little expression in that period, probably as a result of few printed editions, the use of Portuguese instead of Latin or a poor dissemination of the knowledge. However, studying the historical sources and analyzing specifically the occurrence of whales, dolphins, seals, manatees and other big marine animals, we conclude that from the Portuguese Overseas relevant contributions to the formation and evolution of marine natural history came to light, in a context of scientific revolution and globalization of ideas and concepts.
Books on the topic "Natural science journals"
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F, Kohl Michael, and McIntosh John Stanton 1923-, eds. Discovering dinosaurs in the Old West: The field journals of Arthur Lakes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
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F, Kohl Michael, and McIntosh John Stanton 1923-, eds. Discovering dinosaurs in the Old West: The field journals of Arthur Lakes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
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A nature journal. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Perthshire Society of Natural Science. Journal of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. Perth: PSNS, 2003.
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Edward Abbey: Matter journal 13. Fort Collins, CO: Wolverine Farm Publishing, 2010.
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Science, Kentucky Academy of. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Lexington, KY: The Academy, 1998.
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1959-, Islam Rafiqul, ed. Nature science and sustainable technology compendium. New York: Nova Science, 2008.
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Peyto, Walter H. Banff town warden 3: The journals of Walter H. Peyto, Banff National Park, Banff, 1929 to 1934. Calgary: Peyto Lake Books, 2008.
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W, Peyto David, ed. Banff town warden 3: The journals of Walter H. Peyto, Banff National Park, Banff, 1929 to 1934. Calgary: Peyto Lake Books, 2008.
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W, Peyto David, ed. Banff town warden 4: The journals of Walter H. Peyto, Banff National Park, Banff, 1935 to 1941. Calgary: Peyto Lake Books, 2009.
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Ette, Ottmar. "The Lists of Alexander von Humboldt: On the Epistemology of Scientific Practice." In Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration, 101–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76970-3_5.
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AbstractFocusing on Alexander von Humboldt’s American Travel Journals, this chapter discusses how the scientific list took on new functions in the wake of a paradigm shift in the history of knowledge. Humboldt’s list-making shaped and was shaped by his novel trans-areal as well as trans-disciplinary conception of science. Rather than composing static taxonomies, his lists make reference to geographies of natural entities, showing their migration or evolution. By thus moving across territorial boundaries, Humboldt practices mobility of thought and bridges the split between the “old” and the “new” world. His enumerations showcase scientific study as a quintessentially nomadic process that is never completed or flawless. Often combined into tables to represent the multi-relationality of natural life, Humboldt’s lists are thus intentionally inconsistent.
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Kloetzer, Laure, Julia Lorke, Joseph Roche, Yaela Golumbic, Silvia Winter, and Aiki Jõgeva. "Learning in Citizen Science." In The Science of Citizen Science, 283–308. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_15.
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AbstractCitizen science is a promising field for educational practices and research. However, it is also highly heterogeneous, and learning happens in diverse ways, according to project tasks and participants’ activities. Therefore, we adopt a sociocultural view of learning, in which understanding learning requires a close analysis of the situation created both by the project tasks and the dynamics of engagement of the participants (volunteers, scientists, and others). To tackle the complexity of the field, this chapter maps learning in citizen science into six territories, according to where learning might take place: formal education (schools and universities); out-of-school education (science and nature clubs, summer camps, outdoor education, etc.); local and global communities (neighbourhood associations, activist associations, online communities, etc.); families; museums (science museums, art museums, zoos, and botanic gardens); and online citizen science. For each territory, we present key findings from the literature. The chapter also introduces our six personal journeys into the field of learning and citizen science, displaying their variety and the common lessons, challenges, and opportunities. Finally, we present four key tensions arising from citizen science projects in educational settings and look at training different stakeholders as a strategy to overcome some of these tensions.
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Niaz, Mansoor. "Understanding Objectivity in Research Reported in the Journal Science & Education (Springer)." In Evolving Nature of Objectivity in the History of Science and its Implications for Science Education, 37–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67726-2_3.
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Jenkins, Bill. "Natural History in Edinburgh, 1779–1832." In Evolution Before Darwin, 37–74. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445788.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses in on Edinburgh’s natural history circles in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. First it examines the chair of natural history at the University and the work of its two incumbents during this period, John Walker and Robert Jameson, before turning to natural history in the extra-mural anatomy schools. These were the site of some of the boldest thinkers on evolutionary themes in early nineteenth-century Britain. Edinburgh was also the home of a number of important natural history societies in this period, for example, the Plinian and Wernerian Natural History Societies. These served as lively forums for the discussion of the latest developments and theories. This chapter will explore the nature and role of these societies, before finally turning the spotlight on the scientific and natural history journals published in the city, such as the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and the Edinburgh Journal of Science.
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Siegfried, Tom. "Reporting From Science Journals." In A Field Guide for Science Writers. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174991.003.0006.
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For police reporters, there are crimes. For political writers, elections. Sports-writers have games. And science writers have journals. In fact, there are more journal articles published every year than there are games, elections, and murders in all U.S. cities combined. So science writers must be selective. To select wisely, you'll need to know, first of all, what the major news-providing journals are, and what sorts of science they publish. You'll need to understand the different kinds of journals and different kinds of papers within them. And you'll need to comprehend how to navigate the elaborate web of censorship rules that most journals impose on reporters—a pernicious convenience known as the embargo system. Once you know all that, you can concentrate on reporting and writing. For science writers, the only journals of interest are those that are peer-reviewed, meaning that experts in the field have read the papers, and possibly suggested corrections and revisions, before the journal agreed to publish them. Traditionally, many science writers have focused on reporting from the “Big Four” peer-reviewed journals: Science, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Science and Nature are major sources of science news, and they should be. They are the premier interdisciplinary journals of the English-speaking world, and therefore ought to be publishing the most important research of the broadest interest to the scientific community. Naturally, such research is most likely to be of interest to the general public as well. In recent years, the Big Four have been joined by several others as regular sources of science news—particularly the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the biology journal Cell, and the neuroscience journal Neuron. And the Nature publishing group has flooded the media journal market with a whole roster of specialty journals on such topics as neuroscience, biotechnology, genetics, and materials science. Other important journals for medicine include Annals of Internal Medicine and several published by the American Heart Association, such as Circulation and Stroke. An intriguing newcomer in late 2003 from the Public Library of Science is PLoS Biology, an “open-access” journal available free online.
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Chaney, Anthony. "The Hurly-Burly of Natural History." In Runaway. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631738.003.0004.
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This chapter investigates how double-bind theory was received by the psychiatric community with respect to contested views of the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. A moral model of schizophrenia is contrasted with a medical model of an earlier, more rigorously defined dementia praecox. The treatment of schizophrenics in the United States, especially during and after the world wars, is described as pragmatic and eclectic. The double-bind theory's environmental, biological, interactive model of the disease was met with hope among clinicians and helped shape new treatments such as group therapy and family therapy. As the double-bind group continued its work, Gregory Bateson was conflicted with his research team over fundamental matters of science: he recommended an approach that focused on pattern and relationship; they, more conventionally, focused on substance and measurement. His collaboration with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann lead to the Natural History of an Interview research project. It also took Bateson further from clinical work and toward research with octopi and the editing of the journals of an early 19th-century schizophrenic, later published as Perceval's Narrative.
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Dasgupta, Subrata. "Abstractions All The Way." In The Second Age of Computer Science. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190843861.003.0006.
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Creative people are driven by certain inner forces, inner needs that are part cognitive, part affective. One such force is intellectual curiosity: the need to know or understand. Another compelling drive is dissatisfaction with the status quo. We saw this as the force that impelled Nicklaus Wirth into creating Pascal (Chapter 1, Section 1.7). But few in the emerging computer science community of the first age of computer science epitomized this characteristic more fiercely than Edsger W. Dijkstra. In his case his discontent was with the direction programming had taken in the 1960s. And the strength of his dissatisfaction was never more evident than in a letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM in 1968. The practice of communicating new scientific results by their discoverers in the form of compact letters to the editors of scientific journals was, of course, well established in the natural sciences. The British journal Nature (London) had established this tradition right from its inaugural issue in 1869. But in an upstart discipline, as computer science still was, this practice as a means of scientific communication was quite unusual. (In one of his celebrated handwritten “EWD notes,” Dijkstra, reflecting retrospectively, explained that his short paper was published as a letter to bypass the usual publication pipeline and that the editor who made this decision was Nicklaus Wirth.) Dijkstra had long been concerned with the question of program quality and how one may acquire confidence in the reliability or correctness of a program. But, as the title of the letter— “Goto Statement Considered Harmful”— tells us, the object of his discontent lay in the use of the goto statement— the unconditional branch available in one notation or another in most programming languages, including Algol-like ones. Dijkstra claimed that the quality of the programmers decreased as a function of the frequency of the goto statements in their programs. And so he proposed that the goto should be banished from all high- level programming languages.
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Worster, Donald. "History as Natural History." In Wealth of Nature. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195092646.003.0006.
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Charles Darwin has been moldering in his grave now for a full century. But it is not death with which we associate his name; it is life, in all its abundance and variety. In particular, the argument he made for the natural origin of life, including humans, has been one of the most influential ideas in the world over that century’s span. It was accepted a long while back by almost everyone within the reach of modern science, despite the persistent opposition of a raggle-taggle band of creationists. But for all that general acceptance, Darwin’s ideas have not yet become working principles among several large groups of scholars. Take history, for example: reading the journals and dissertations in this field reveals the profound, continuing influence of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud, but still there is no Darwin in our history, at least not as a tradition of historical theory. Evolution and history remain, after a hundred years, separate realms of discourse. There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian’s enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last. It will require us to step back now and then from parliamentary debates, social mobility data, and the biographies of illustrious figures in order to examine more elemental questions that concern the long-running human dialogue with the earth. The contemporary disjunction between the study of history and of nature has a fairly obvious explanation. In the eighteenth-century world of the English parson-naturalist, there was no such split; antiquities and natural curiosities lay jumbled together in the same country cupboard. As we moved away from that small rural community, the old broad-gauged, integrative “natural history” began to fragment into specializations. History increasingly became an archival pursuit, carried on by urban scholars; there was less and less dirt on it. Recently, however, that drift toward an unnatural history has run up against a few hard facts: dwindling energy supplies, population pressures on available food, the limits and costs of technology.
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Stray, Christopher. "Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon (eds), Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines. (New York and London: Routledge, 2020), xiii+320pp. ISBN: 978036228422." In History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/2, 199–201. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857545.003.0015.
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This chapter analyzes the twelve essays arranged in Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon's Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines. The book covers a wide range of academic subjects: mathematics, zoology, child psychology, history, anthropology, archaeology, classics, art history, dance history and musicology. The first section is on professional validation, in which Lightman investigates the connection, and tension, between the emergence of new specialized disciplines and the continuing concern to see science as a unity, while the second section deals with university education. The third section is concerned with society journals, such as David Lowther's piece that explores the ferocious struggles between rival British natural history journals in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The remaining three chapters discusses literary genres, disciplinary boundaries, and interdisciplinarity.
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Gross, Alan G., and Joseph E. Harmon. "The Internet Scientific Article." In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465926.003.0007.
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Do the changes in the scientific article incident on Internet publication constitute a revolution in representation and communication? John Stewart MacKenzie Owen insists that they do not. In The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization, he argues that contrary to claims about the impact of digitization on scientific communication, “the journal article as a communicative form for reporting on research and disseminating scientific knowledge does not seem to have been transformed by … [the Internet]: it remains a digital copy of the printed form.” Owen views the current situation as preserving and extending “existing functions and values rather than as an innovation that radically transforms a communicative practice that has evolved over the centuries.” The conclusion Owen draws cannot be faulted. We do not doubt that the articles and journals in his sample are, on average, to quote Stevan Harnad, “mere clones of paper journals, ghosts in another medium.” We do, however, question Owen’s sample of online scientific journals. While he includes such journals as the Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, Internet Journal of Chemistry, and Journal of Cotton Science (all three now defunct), he excludes the most highly cited scientific journals producing printed and electronic issues, like Nature, Physical Review, Journal of the American Chemical Society, or such highly successful open-access journals as those of the Public Library of Science. It is the latter set that contains the journals we need to scrutinize if we are to discover what innovations, if any, have surfaced and are likely to be widely adopted in the future. These journals have the robust readership, the prestige, the financial resources, and the technical capacity necessary to introduce web-based innovations on a large scale. It is in these that the Internet revolution is now most visible. Still, among all scientific journals today, whether print or electronic, there remains a conservative core at this revolution’s center, a still point in the turning world of knowledge generation and communication.
Conference papers on the topic "Natural science journals"
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Yue Nan, Wang, Han Xue Dan, Liu Xin Yi, Wei Dan Mei, Han Fang, and Liu Hong Bin. "Analysis on the Development Trend of Natural Science Journals Collected by EI in Domestic "Double First-Class" Universities." In ICEDS'22: 2022 3rd International Conference on Education Development and Studies. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3528137.3528141.
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Vadapalli, Raghuram, Bakhtiyar Syed, Nishant Prabhu, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, and Vasudeva Varma. "When science journalism meets artificial intelligence : An interactive demonstration." In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-2028.
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LI, YINGYA, Jieke Zhang, and Bei Yu. "An NLP Analysis of Exaggerated Claims in Science News." In Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-4219.
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Bakke, Christine, and Rena Sakai. "Using Design-Based Research to Layer Career-Like Experiences onto Software Development Courses." In InSITE 2022: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4998.
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Aim/Purpose: This research aims to describe layering of career-like experiences over existing curriculum to improve perceived educational value. Background: Feedback from students and regional businesses showed a clear need to in-crease student’s exposure to career-like software development projects. The initial goal was to develop an instructor-optional project that could be used in a single mid-level programming course; however, the pilot quickly morphed into a multi-year study examining the feasibility of agile projects in a variety of settings. Methodology: Over the course of four years, an agile project was honed through repeated Design Based Research (DBR) cycles of design, implementation, testing, communication, and reflective analysis. As is common with DBR, this study did not follow single methodology design; instead, analysis of data coupled with review of literature led to exploration and testing of a variety of methodologies. The review phase of each cycle included examination of best practices and methodologies as determined by analysis of oral and written comments, weekly journals, instructor feedback, and surveys. As a result of participant feedback, the original project was expanded to a second project, which was tested in another Software Engineering (SE) course. The project included review and testing of many academic and professional methodologies, such as Student Ownership of Learning, Flipped Classroom, active learning, waterfall, agile, Scrum, and Kanban. The study was homogenous and quasi-experimental as the population consisted solely of software engineering majors taking required courses; as based on validity of homogenous studies, class sizes were small, ranging from 8 to 20 students. Close interactions between respondents and the instructor pro-vided interview-like settings and immersive data capture in a natural environment. Further, the iterative development practices of DBR cycles, along with the inclusion of participants as active and valued stakeholders, was seen to align well with software development practitioner practices broadly known as agile. Contribution: This study is among the first to examine layering a career-like software development project on top of a course through alteration of traditional delivery, agile development, and without supplanting existing material. Findings: In response to industry recommendations for additional career-like experiences, a standalone agile capstone-like project was designed that could be layered over an existing course. Pilot data reflected positive perceptions of the project, although students did not have enough time to develop a working prototype in addition to completing existing course materials. Participant feedback led to simultaneous development of a second, similar project. DBR examination of both projects resulted in a simplified design and the ability to develop a working prototype, if and only if the instructor was willing to make adjustments to delivery. After four years, a solution was developed that is both stable and flexible. The solution met the original charge in that it required course delivery, not course material, to be adjusted. It is critical to note that when a working prototype is desired, a portion of the lecture should be flipped allowing more time for guided instruction through project-focused active learning and study group requirements. The results support agile for standalone software development projects, as long as passive delivery methods are correspondingly reduced. Recommendations for Practitioners: Based on the findings, implementation of a career-like software development project can be well received as long as active learning components are also developed. Multiple cycles of DBR are recommended if future researchers wish to customize instructional delivery and develop complex software development projects. Programming instructors are recommended to explore hybrid delivery to support development of agile career-like experiences. Small class sizes allowed the researchers to maintain an interview-like setting throughout the study and future studies with larger classes are recommended to include additional subject matter experts such as graduate students as inter-action with a subject matter expert was highly valued by students. Recommendations for Researchers: Researchers are recommended to further examine career-like software development experiences that combine active learning with agile methods; more studies following agile and active learning are needed to address the challenges faced when complex software development is taught in academic settings. Further testing of standalone agile project development has now occurred in medium sized in person classes, online classes, independent studies, and creative works research settings; however, further research is needed. Future re-search should also examine the implementation of agile projects in larger class sizes. Increasing class size should be coupled with additional subject matter experts such as graduate students. Impact on Society: This study addresses professional recommendations for development of agile career-like experiences at the undergraduate level. This study provides empirical evidence of programming projects that can be layered over existing curriculum, with no additional cost to the students. Initial feedback from local businesses and graduates, regarding agile projects with active learning, has been positive. The area business that refused to hire our underprepared SE graduates has now hired several. Future Research: Future research should explore layering agile projects over a broader range of software development courses. Feedback from hiring professionals and former students has been positive. It is also recommended that DBR be used to develop career-like experiences for online programming courses.
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Mao, Jin, Xun Xu, Lihui Wang, and Stephen Newman. "A Statistic Review of Computer-Aided Process Planning Research." In ASME 2010 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2010-34022.
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Since the late 1970’s, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has attracted a large amount of research interest, which has led to a huge volume of literature published on this subject. The literature encompasses both reviews and research articles. The review articles are mostly technologically oriented. This paper takes a different angle to look back the CAPP research, that is, a statistic approach. The paper analyses the journals that have been publishing CAPP research works. The concept of “Subject Strength” of a journal is introduced and used to gauge the level of focus of a journal on a particular research subject/domain, i.e. CAPP. Discussions about the recent CAPP research works are presented in different categories as they fall in. The term “Technology Impact Factor (TIF)” is introduced to assess the level of impact of a particular technology, in terms of citation counts. All discussions and analyses are carried out based on the data gathered from the Elsevier’s Scopus abstract and citation database. Finally, a discussion on the future development is presented. The literature suggests that this is the only review article of the similar nature in the first decade of the century.
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Mustika, Sri, and Wininda Qusnul Khotimah. "The Strategy of Journalism Education Institutions in Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic Era." In 1st Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education (ICNSSE 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210430.024.
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PONSOLLE, Géraldine. "Goethe et l’interdisciplinarité active : l’os intermaxillaire." In Les journées de l'interdisciplinarité 2022. Limoges: Université de Limoges, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.25965/lji.454.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poète, scientifique et homme politique allemand (1749-1832) traversa le tournant des siècles avec un soucis constant d’harmonie et d’action. La nature profondément interdisciplinaire de son écriture dramatique comme de ses études scientifiques peut aider les chercheurs d’aujourd’hui à acquérir une vision différente de leurs pratiques interdisciplinaires. Quel est ce Goethe qui se passionne d’anatomie et recherche l’os intermaxillaire chez l’homme ? Quelles œuvres dramatiques reflètent ses analyses scientifiques ? Quelle méthode de recherche le mène à renverser un mythe des sciences du XVIIIème siècle et préfigure les avancées cruciales du XIXème siècle ? Entre personnages hybrides, morphogénèse et unité du vivant, Goethe semble bien proche des préoccupations de notre temps.
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Marir, Farhi, Hussein Fakhry, and Aida J. Azar. "Mining Biomedical Literature to Discover Natural Cure for Recurrent Disease." In 4th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2022). Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2022.121104.
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The advances in digital data collection and storage technology allows the storage of a huge amount of medical publications in MEDLINE. This database contains more than 25 million references to journal articles and abstracts in life sciences and biomedicine. This research work builds on Swanson use of mathematical association between A and C concepts/terms through a list of B concept/terms retrieved from large medical literature databases that contain either A&B or B&C terms links A to C. Swanson discovered evidence that fish oil (A) may cure vessel blood disorder (C) and that magnesium (A) may be effective against migraine headache (C), which were clinically proven two years later. We present a cooccurrence mining algorithm and an A&C pre-defined domain Knowledge Base (containing for instance Garlic Composition and Blood pressure causes) to filter and reduce the exponential number of shared B terms retrieved from MEDLINE articles using Swanson’s Arrowsmith machine. The reduced number of relevant B terms makes it easier to build scientific evidence to validate publicly known remedies for recurrent diseases for instance establishing whether an important association exists between garlic and its impact on blood pressure.
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Schmitt, Ulrich. "Design Science Research Championing Personal Knowledge Management System Development." In InSITE 2016: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Lithuania. Informing Science Institute, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3410.
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Knowledge Management (KM) is governed by an ill-structured mishmash of complementing as well as conflicting interdisciplinary methodologies and based on physical and social technologies, which too often struggle to achieve their stakeholders’ objectives due to diverse scholarly contributions, repetitive polemic discourses, and misguided organizational KM system generations. A novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Concept and Prototype System currently under development take a fresh look and aim to support individuals’ academic and professional growth as well as their roles as contributors and beneficiaries of institutional and societal performance. A PKM System (PKMS), hence, is meant to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of knowledge workers. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeholders in the educational, professional, and developmental context. A recent article employed the systems thinking techniques of the transdiscipline of Informing Science (IS) to align and validate the more specific models and methodologies central to the PKMS concept. In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the concept, further conference papers and journal articles have been disseminated and received feedback from a wide range of disciplines. This follow-up article turns to the creative process at the heart of the concept and application introduced in the prior publications. Similar to the IS-benchmarking approach, the design thinking is validated against accepted general design science research guidelines. These guidelines are meant to supplement the reactive behavioral (natural) science paradigm with the proactive design science paradigm in order to support information technology (IT) researchers in creating innovative IT artefacts that extend human and social capabilities and meet desired outcomes. Rather than to justify the research paradigm of the PKMS project in an ad hoc and fragmented manner with each new paper, the objective is a dedicated article which presents the design science research perspectives comprehensively as evidence of their relevance, utility, rigor, and publishability in Information Systems research outlets. The URL links to all prior publications facilitate a kind of ‘Long Discussion Case’ to potentially assist IT researchers and entrepreneurs engaged in similar projects.
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Liu, Feiyang, Jingxue Lai, Hong Shui, Li Zhang, and Li Zhang. "The Development Mode of the World-class Scientific and Technical Journals—A Case Study of Nature and Science." In 4th International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220107.003.
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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.
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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Kud, A. A. Figures and Tables. Reprinted from “Comprehensive сlassification of virtual assets”, A. A. Kud, 2021, International Journal of Education and Science, 4(1), 52–75. KRPOCH, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26697/reprint.ijes.2021.1.6.a.kud.
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Figure. Distributed Ledger Token Accounting System. Figure. Subjects of Social Relations Based on the Decentralized Information Platform. Figure. Derivativeness of a Digital Asset. Figure. Semantic Features of the Concept of a “Digital Asset” in Economic and Legal Aspects. Figure. Derivativeness of Polyassets and Monoassets. Figure. Types of Tokenized Assets Derived from Property. Figure. Visual Representation of the Methods of Financial and Management Accounting of Property Using Various Types of Tokenized Assets. Figure. Visual Representation of the Classification of Virtual Assets Based on the Complexity of Their Nature. Table. Comparison of Properties of Various Types of Virtual Assets of the Distributed Ledger Derivative of the Original Asset. Table. Main Properties and Parameters of Types of Tokenized Assets. Table. Classification of Virtual Assets as Tools for Implementing the Methods of Financial and Management Accounting of Property.