Sentences with phrase «group open science»

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As well as working with Opening Ceremony, Intel in March bought fitness bracelet maker Basis Science and it has teamed up with watch retailer Fossil Group to develop other wearable computing devices.

Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.

In Iowa, where Ernst beat Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley, a three - term congressman, in a race for the open seat of retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D), environmental groups spent freely to attack Ernst for opposing EPA regulations and questioning climate science.

As evidence, he points to his role as a cofounder of rOpenSci, a group that creates software packages to support open science and which grew out of connections he made online, including via his online notebook.

Groups - Science Careers currently features three types of groups: Public Groups - groups open to all Groups - Science Careers currently features three types of groups: Public Groups - groups open to all groups: Public Groups - groups open to all Groups - groups open to all groups open to all users.

Science Careers» sister site, ScienceInsider, reported yesterday afternoon that 150 scientists and 75 scientific groups have co-signed an open letter protesting what they claim is an overreliance on journal impact factors by funding agencies, academic institutions, journals, and organizations that provide publication metrics.

Synthetic biologists have been impressively open to collaborations with the social sciences, law, arts and humanities, and open to debates with critical groups.

Jenny Molloy, who coordinates Open Knowledge's open science working group, recounted the work of Matthew Todd's Open Source Malaria team at the University of Sydney, Australia, as anecdotal evidence of how open science can beat traditional science at solving problOpen Knowledge's open science working group, recounted the work of Matthew Todd's Open Source Malaria team at the University of Sydney, Australia, as anecdotal evidence of how open science can beat traditional science at solving problopen science working group, recounted the work of Matthew Todd's Open Source Malaria team at the University of Sydney, Australia, as anecdotal evidence of how open science can beat traditional science at solving problOpen Source Malaria team at the University of Sydney, Australia, as anecdotal evidence of how open science can beat traditional science at solving problopen science can beat traditional science at solving problems.

Carl Boettiger, a graduate student in the population biology program at UC Davis and an organizer of the UC Davis Open Science group, started an open notebook this yOpen Science group, started an open notebook this yopen notebook this year.

The meeting — hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) here, and sponsored by HHMI; ASAPbio, a group that promotes the use of life sciences preprints; and the London - based Wellcome Trust — drew more than 100 participants interested in catalyzing efforts to improve the vetting of manuscripts and exploring ways to open up what many called an excessively opaque and slow system of peer review.

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

A group of prominent European researchers today sent an open letter to the heads of all of Europe's research councils protesting against the winding up of the grant - giving activities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) so that it can be turned into a lobbying body.

The university won't officially open until the fall of 2014, but its first group of 20 students began a master's program last month at four institutions with which Skolkovo has partnered — the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Imperial College London.

The group, the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Va., outlined its new guidelines in a story published in this week's edition of the journal Science.

It all started last fall, when an advocacy group called the Public Library of Science distributed an electronic open letter urging scientific publishers to hand over all research articles from their journals to public online archives for free within six months of publication.

And so he pleaded with the group of very august scientists to remember that they had some ability to affect and influence people around them to show that, really, science is an open endeavor and that everybody is welcome to the party and to the discussion.

To overcome the rugged individualism he says often dominates research science, he houses all the teams in open lab spaces, so the problems and solutions found by one group can be quickly shared.

After correcting for this error, the Science - Metrix group concluded that open access reached a 50 % «tipping point» in 2011, meaning that one - half of the papers published that year are now freely available.

For example, in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science in November 2014, scientists led by anthropologist Robert Walker of the University of Missouri, Columbia, used satellite images to survey isolated groups in Brazil.

Since then, I'm helping to start a science advocacy group on campus in hopes of improving public trust in scientists and opening conversations between academic researchers and the local community.

When hunting a school of fish as a group, they were 2.7 times as efficient as when they attacked on their own (Royal Society Open Science, doi.org/cdmz).

«We are also working with this group of scientists to broadly share information about their developing genetic techniques — both what is working and what remains unsolved — through online forums such as protocols.io, an open - access repository of science methods.»

In addition to being nominated the Latin American & Caribbean Open Science Forum 2016 (CILAC) International Advisor, SciCom is an elected member of the Euroscience Governing Board 2015 — 2018; Vice Chair of the International Media & Marketing Committee for European City of Science 2016 Manchester (ESOF); International Adviser to the Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST); Co-creator and Adviser to the Science Forum South Africa (SFSA); International Media Partner for The World Science Forum 2015 Budapest & 2017 Jordan; Regional Contributor, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Regional Assessment for Europe; and a Planning Group Member of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA).

This program is open to high - achieving undergraduate students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds or groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.

Ruth Francis, Former Head of Press, Nature Publishing Group «Aidan is equally recognised as a prolific organiser of scientific symposia at global conferences such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Euroscience Open Forum and The World Science Forum.

The program is open to individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences at the career stages targeted by this program, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

«Techniques like this tend to have a democratizing effect,» opening up opportunities for smaller groups, Molly Maleckar, the director of mathematical modeling at the Allen Institute for Cell Science who was not involved in the study, tells Wired.

Certain groups of scientists are in there using open notebook science and open wetware and various things like that to do their jobs.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

Private philanthropies have put serious money behind groups like the Meta - Research Innovation Center at Stanford, led in part by Dr. Ioannidis, and the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Va..

We would also like you to note that many of the SCAR groups will be meeting the Sunday before the conference (21 August) and that the SCAR Delegates meeting will be held after the Open Science Conference from 28 - 30 August, and that the COMNAP XXVIII General Assembly will be held «near - by» in Goa India, from 16 - 18 August 2016.

Participation in the SCAR Open Science Conference and ancillary meetings of SCAR scientific groups provides individuals with the opportunity to contribute to international science initiScience Conference and ancillary meetings of SCAR scientific groups provides individuals with the opportunity to contribute to international science initiscience initiatives.

His group developed the wide - search molecular replacement portal (WS - MR), a tool that uses the Open Science Grid infrastructure to perform molecular replacement searches against all protein domains in the Protein Data Bank.

The Disease Biophysics Group has three open postdoctoral positions to be filled: 1) One position in skeletal muscle tissue engineering, 2) One position in cardiac muscle tissue engineering, and 3) One position in nanofibers and materials science (no biology background required).

The Call is open to a wide range of people and organisations, including mediators and practitioners of science communication; STEM festival organisers; universities and institutes of technology, science centres, museums and other cultural attractions; artists; educators; industry professionals and academics in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM); arts agencies; production companies; schools; local authorities (libraries, city / county councils etc.); youth clubs; community groups; and research institutes.

By sharing all its results, and by developing and maintaining open - source software, the Astronomical Data group directly supports scientific reproducibility and open science.

Future Science OA is an online, open access (CC - BY), peer - reviewed title from Future Science Group.

Additionally, this group is open to implementing the latest in genetic science and systems biology to better improve treatment.

Held once again at the Science Park in Sha Tin on February 11, the event's second edition will be open to 2K runners, and includes a new age group for adults aged 60 or above.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Objectives Covered: Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors ALSO ADDED: Individual assessments for ALL science objectives for ALL year groups are available for purchase as are individual year group, KS1, KS2 or complete Primary packs.

These tasks can include anything from: group work / conflict resolution sessions; having students undertake learning style and personal learning activities so that they understand their strengths / weaknesses in a group; using ICT tools to support collaboration (e.g. Google Drive or edmodo); explicit teaching of problem solving and critical thinking (argument mapping, pro / con activities, logic and reasoning tasks), peer and self - evaluation in group work; small group dynamic activities that require students to solve small problems collaboratively (and mirror the types of open ended questions and problems encountered in other subjects e.g. maths, humanities, English, science).

San Pedro's Science Center to remain open until June as LAUSD searches for new group to run the place Daily Breeze: San Pedro's Science Center received a reprieve on Friday.

Governor Baker could ask his state board to award a portion of the Title II funds to a group linked to the MIT Open CourseWare project for the explicit purpose of creating math and science lessons for grades 11 and 12 (unlinked to any set of standards) for Massachusetts high school math and science teachers to use to improve their students» chances of getting into and succeeding at good engineering schools.

EducationCity's pre-K through 6th grade science subject includes open - ended virtual manipulatives called Topic Tools that can be used on your interactive whiteboard for whole - class or small - group instruction.

The building used to be a Christian Science church and now houses one of the largest digital archives in the world, and is staffed by a group of committed people working to keep the internet free and open.

At the opening of the group show «Punch Card» at Catharine Clark Gallery, artist Andy Diaz Hope said he and co-creator Laurel Roth wanted to make Jacquard tapestries that reflected Victorian enthusiasm for science.

Her work will also be at Richard Levy Gallery in a group show entitled Weird Science, opening October 26th.

/ exhibitions 2017 Co • — st • — l W • — ve Tr • — nsl • — tor, RAFT artist - run space, Elizabeth Quay, Perth 2016 Longli International New Media Art Festival, Longli Ancient Town, Jinping County, Guizhou Province, China 2016 Polymorphism, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney 2016 Automated Reasoning Paradigm, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2015 Didactic Tools, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth 2015 Dead Ringer, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 Pica Salon, curated by Leigh Robb and Nadia Johnson, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 sculptures: 5, The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand 2015 Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 What I See When I Look At Sound, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2014 Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre 2014 hyperthymesia, State of the Art Festival, State Library of Western Australia 2014 sculptures: 4, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 perspectives [micro], NOW now Festival Group Show, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2013 perspectives [macro], free range gallery, Perth 2013 Open Curator Studio, Artspace, curated by Alana Kushnir, Sydney / online 2012 NH7 festival, Pune, India 2011 Wonderland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 hypnogenia, Scitech Science Museum, Perth

2009 The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, ES Zeno Reminder (in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Deball), Performa 09, New York, US Exhibition at Labor Gallery, Mexico, MX Planet of Signs» — curated by Guillaume Desanges at Le Plateau, Paris, FR A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow — curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Philippe Pirrote, at CIC, Cairo, EG KAAP (the little biennale) curated by Mark Kremer, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, NL The Happy interval, Gallery Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT 2008 Nameless Science, curated by Henk Slager at Apex art, New York, US Fuga di un Piano (in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Deball), Manifesta 7, IT The Flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE Arte BA - art fair, with 713 Gallery, Buenos Aires, AR MiArt - art fair, 713 Gallery, Milan, IT 2007 Panorama de las artes visuales en Córdoba», Museo Caraffa, Cordoba, AR A for Alibi, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL Shelter 07, public space intervention, Hardewijk, NL Levity at The Drawing Center, New York, US 2006 Alguns Llibres D'Artista (a few artists books) Roma Publications at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, ES Longitude, part of the group show fumus fugiens at Smart project space, Amsterdam, NL 2005 A Poetics of Place, Utrecht's former county - court, Utrecht, NL 2004 Rendering, Mirta de Mare ruimte voor actuele kunst, Rotterdam, NL 2003 Open Studio Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 2002 Open Studio Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL