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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... -
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... -
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.... -
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.... -
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... -
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... -
The looks matter; aggression escalation from changes on phenotypic appearance...
Domestic fowl in small groups are assumed to establish hierarchical systems based on individual recognition. Conversely, interactions in large groups are modulated by badges of... -
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... -
Introduction and geographic availability of new antibiotics approved between ...
Background Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been... -
Development of a knowledge translation platform for ataxia: Impact on readers...
AbstractBackgroundDissemination of accurate health research information to patients and families has become increasingly important with the rise of the internet as a means of... -
Equity in aid allocation and distribution: A qualitative study of key stakeho...
The Sustainable Development Goals have spurred a growing interest in and focus on equitable development. In theory, donors can play an important role in promoting equity within... -
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... -
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...
