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High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes
AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science... -
Strengthening capacity for natural sciences research: A qualitative assessmen...
Background: Strengthening research capacity in low-and-middle-income countries is essential to drive socioeconomic development and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.... -
Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the C...
The open access availability of publications by Catalonia's CERCA research centres was analysed to determine the extent to which authors use open access journals, repositories,... -
Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013):...
This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and... -
Participation shifts explain degree distributions in a human communications n...
Human interpersonal communications drive political, technological, and economic systems, placing importance on network link prediction as a fundamental problem of the sciences.... -
Good and Bad Research Collaborations: Researchers' Views on Science and Ethic...
There has been a dramatic rise in the scale and scope of collaborative global health research. A number of structural and scientific factors explain this growth and there has... -
Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
Orienteering Problem with Functional Profits for multi-source dynamic path co...
Orienteering problem (OP) is a routing problem, where the aim is to generate a path through set of nodes, which would maximize total score and would not exceed the budget. In... -
Relative solidarity: Conceptualising communal participation in genomic resear...
OBJECTIVE: As genomic research gathers momentum in sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly important to understand the reasons why individuals wish to participate in this... -
Challenges to implementing national comprehensive sexuality education curricu...
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is... -
Initial Coin Offerings
This paper examines the market for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs are smart contracts based on blockchain technology that are designed for entrepreneurs to raise external... -
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary... -
Faculty perceptions and knowledge of career development of trainees in biomed...
The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program is an NIH-funded effort testing the impact of career development interventions (e.g. internships, workshops,... -
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and A...
Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an... -
Tweeting about public health policy::social media response to the UK Governme...
Background Standardised tobacco packaging has been, and remains, a contentious policy globally, attracting corporate, public health, political, media and popular attention. In... -
Multi-institutional study of GRE scores as predictors of STEM PhD degree comp...
The process of selecting students likely to complete science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs has not changed greatly over the last few decades... -
High school science fair and research integrity
Research misconduct has become an important matter of concern in the scientific community. The extent to which such behavior occurs early in science education has received... -
Lie prevalence, lie characteristics and strategies of self-reported good liars
Meta-analytic findings indicate that the success of unmasking a deceptive interaction relies more on the performance of the liar than on that of the lie detector. Despite this... -
Global health research and education at medical faculties in Germany
Background Universities undertake the majority of publicly funded research in Germany and hence bear a responsibility to contribute to global health efforts. So far,... -
Scientists' Prioritization of Communication Objectives for Public Engagement.
Amid calls from scientific leaders for their colleagues to become more effective public communicators, this study examines the objectives that scientists’ report drive their...
