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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... -
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... -
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.... -
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.... -
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... -
How Multidisciplinary Are the Multidisciplinary Journals Science and Nature?
Interest in cross-disciplinary research knowledge interchange runs high. Review processes at funding agencies, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, consider plans to... -
Policy mapping and scoping review of the United Kingdom, France, Poland and S...
International audience; Introduction: Autistic people may have different educational needs that need to be met to allow them to develop their full potential. Education and... -
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... -
A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers
Overfishing threatens coral reefs worldwide, yet there is no reliable estimate on the number of reef fishers globally. We address this data gap by quantifying the number of reef... -
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... -
Ecosystem services in European protected areas: Ambiguity in the views of sci...
Protected Areas are a key component of nature conservation. They can play an important role in counterbalancing the impacts of ecosystem degradation. For an optimal protection... -
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,... -
Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.
One of the hallmarks of the human species is our capacity for cumulative culture, in which beneficial knowledge and technology is accumulated over successive generations. Yet...
