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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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university

    The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This...
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    Would you like to leave Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen? An empirical analysis...

    : This study aims to estimate the migration effect of the overall samples and different flowing scales for the floating population from the perspective of personal wages....
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    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...
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    Ten simple rules for researchers while in isolation from a pandemic

    The scale and intensity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic is unprecedented in all our lifetimes This is written for all of us involved in scientific...
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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...
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    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...
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    Data management plans (DMPs) are documents accompanying research proposals and project outputs. DMPs are created as free-form text and describe the data and tools employed in...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    Wrangling distributed computing for high-throughput environmental science: An...

    Biologists and environmental scientists now routinely solve computational problems that were unimaginable a generation ago. Examples include processing geospatial data,...
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    A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented exampl...

    Background Despite broad consensus on the importance of community and stakeholder engagement (CSE) for guiding the development, regulation, field testing, and deployment of...
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    Metacognition for spelling in higher etudents with dyslexia: is there evidenc...

    We examined whether academic and professional bachelor students with dyslexia are able to compensate for their spelling deficits with metacognitive experience. Previous research...
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    Ten quick tips for using a Raspberry Pi

    Much of biology (and, indeed, all of science) is becoming increasingly computational. We tend to think of this in regards to algorithmic approaches and software tools, as well...
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    Viewing the Invisible: Exploring common methodology across disciplines

    Viewing the Invisible is a multimedia collaboration that explores common methodology between arts and sciences. Portraits of science influencers were painted while dialogue...