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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... -
How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,... -
Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...
Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across... -
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.... -
Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel
When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception? In this study, we investigated the linguistic patterns of fraudulent (N = 24; 170,008... -
Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest...
Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper... -
Social scientists' testimony before Congress in the United States between 194...
Congressional hearings are a venue in which social scientists present their views and analyses before lawmakers in the United States, however quantitative data on their... -
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,... -
What are fair study benefits in international health research? Consulting com...
Background Planning study benefits and payments for participants in international health research in low- income settings can be a difficult and controversial process, with... -
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... -
The Coral Triangle Atlas: An Integrated Online Spatial Database System for Im...
In this paper we describe the construction of an online GIS database system, hosted by WorldFish, which stores bio-physical, ecological and socio-economic data for the 'Coral... -
Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies
Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals.... -
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... -
Outcome Reporting Bias in Government-Sponsored Policy Evaluations: A Qualitat...
The reporting of evaluation outcomes can be a point of contention between evaluators and policy-makers when a given reform fails to fulfil its promises. Whereas evaluators are... -
Beyond Academia – Interrogating Research Impact in the Research Excellence Fr...
Big changes to the way in which research funding is allocated to UK universities were brought about in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), overseen by the Higher Education... -
Alcohol Misuse among University Staff: A Cross-Sectional Study
OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of hazardous drinking among staff in a UK university and its association with key socio-demographic features. DESIGN: A cross-sectional... -
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...
