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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,... -
Feature engineering with clinical expert knowledge: A case study assessment o...
Incorporating expert knowledge at the time machine learning models are trained holds promise for producing models that are easier to interpret. The main objectives of this study... -
Robust cell particle detection to dense regions and subjective training sampl...
: In recent years, finding the cause of pathogenesis is expected by observing the cell images. In this paper, we propose a cell particle detection method in cell images.... -
The emergent integrated network structure of scientific research
Scientific research is often thought of as being conducted by individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
Knowledge evolution in physics research: An analysis of bibliographic couplin...
Even as we advance the frontiers of physics knowledge, our understanding of how this knowledge evolves remains at the descriptive levels of Popper and Kuhn. Using the APS... -
Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no... -
Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the schol...
While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in... -
Chemical features mining provides new descriptive structure-odor relationships
An important goal in researching the biology of olfaction is to link the perception of smells to the chemistry of odorants. In other words, why do some odorants smell like... -
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Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field, and many computational biology research projects involve distributed teams of scientists. To accomplish their work, these... -
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... -
The Design Help Desk: A collaborative approach to design education for scient...
: Visual design, learning sciences, and nanotechnology may be strange bedfellows; yet, as this paper highlights, peer interaction between a designer and a scientist is an... -
The development and application of bioinformatics core competencies to improv...
Bioinformatics is recognized as part of the essential knowledge base of numerous career paths in biomedical research and healthcare. However, there is little agreement in the... -
Human CAP cells represent a novel source for functional, miRNA-loaded exosome...
Exosomes represent a promising delivery tool for nucleic acid-based pharmaceuticals. They are highly suitable for transporting therapeutic miRNAs to tumor cells, due to their... -
AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research.
AccessLabs are workshops with two simultaneous motivations, achieved through direct citizen-scientist pairings: (1) to decentralise research skills so that a broader range of... -
Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data.
Over the past decade, biology has undergone a data revolution in how researchers collect data and the amount of data being collected. An emerging challenge that has received... -
Interactive youth science workshops benefit student participants and graduate...
Science communication and outreach are essential for training the next generation of scientists and raising public awareness for science. Providing effective science,... -
Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading pape...
Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for all scientists and students on science degree programmes, however little is known about how researchers at...
