It is worth remembering that the measures of journal quality have to do with the use of
research by other researchers, and not the value or take - up of research by groups outside the academy, including teachers, professionals, policy - makers and the public.
Not exact matches
In a
research paper on the project, Facebook
researchers said that
by using WordNet, the company was able to group common hashtags with each
other to cut down on the noise.
That's according to a report released this week
by a team of academics and
researchers from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, artificial intelligence
research group OpenAI, and
others institutes.
In a 2010 study,
researchers at Washington State University and the Desert
Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four
other players, who were really manipulations
by the
researchers.
The new
research paper follows on a report last year co-authored
by Prof. Wolfson and two
other researchers, who concluded many of Canada's wealthiest people are funnelling a large portion of their income through CCPCs that are not reflected in standard measures of individual earnings.
Nchain is a blockchain technology - based
research and development organization led
by Jimmy Nguyen, chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright, and over sixty
researchers, engineers, and
other professionals based in Europe and Canada.
By drawing on these two sources of data, the
researchers were able to produce an analysis that is better than that of the two
other major quantitative
researchers in the field, George Barna and George Gallup; it is the standard against which
other research on teens should be tested.
We also partner with
other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government
researchers to solve challenges faced
by the Northern Australian beef industry.
Reports
by Project Ready
researchers have been published in academic journals such as Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent
Research, Journal of Family Psychology and
other peer - reviewed publications.
They and
other researchers have used game theory to study how to carry out and defend against cyberattacks, but the new
research takes a broader approach
by also factoring in the attacker's and victim's political strengths and weaknesses and how much they know about each
other.
As this
research has been funded
by the American semiconductor producer Intel, among
others, the
researchers will be presenting their results at Intel's Siggraph booth.
In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and
other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye
Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.
This is a highly limiting factor for
research, because it complicates the annotation of data obtained
by molecular techniques, and because it has been shown that gut microbiomes are to some extent specific to their host, and
researchers have been using strains of
other origin in mouse models.
These and
other questions are being studied
by Canadian
researchers with the Ethics in Military Medicine
Research Group, led
by University of Montreal bioethicist Bryn Williams - Jones with colleagues at McGill and McMaster universities.
The Trento facility will also help
other researchers in the area; scientists will be free to access the tools developed
by the centre, provided their
research is of a noncommercial nature, says Priami.
► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended
by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders,
researchers, educators, and
others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic
research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.
Logic controllers made
by other companies also have flaws, as
researchers from NSS labs, a security
research firm, have pointed out.
The team of scientists, comprising
researchers from SISSA and Philadelphia's Temple University, began their
research from an established fact: within the three - dimensional structure of protein, certain amino acids interact so closely with each
other that the mutation of one of them must be counteracted
by compensatory mutations of the
others to keep the protein functional.
While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the
researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed
by further
research may reduce these threats in California and in
other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.
In addition, the guide states,
researchers have the «obligation to keep clear, accurate, and secure records of their
research data and of corresponding primary material so that their work can be verified or replicated
by others.»
By studying healthy people,
researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Vaccine
Research Center, part of the NIH, and colleagues from King's College London have created a reference resource for
other scientists.
A big concern about gene patents is that they hinder genetic
research — once one company has patented a gene,
other researchers may fear infringing on that patent
by conduct further
research on it, the argument goes.
According to this 2009 article
by the late bioweapons
researcher Jonathan Tucker, after most smallpox stocks were shifted to the two central repositories, «[a] few scientific
research centers also reported finding and destroying vials containing the smallpox virus that had been retained inadvertently in laboratory freezers, sparking fears that
other poorly secured samples might exist that could fall into the hands of terrorists.»
Plus the
research would need to be replicated
by other researchers in
other settings.
► In another Tuesday ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «[a] n eye - popping $ 28 billion is spent in the United States each year on preclinical
research that can't be reproduced
by other researchers.»
A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led
by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several
other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.
And
researchers can further help to clear the field's fog
by expanding the field of anesthesiology to collaborations with experts in
other fields, such as sleep and coma
research.
Speaking in the second in a series of AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lectures this fall, Harris described the so - called «reproducibility crisis» in science, in which intriguing findings in pre-clinical cancer
research and
other areas often can not be replicated, even
by the
researchers who did the original studies.
The model developed
by the three
researchers Prof Markus Werning, Prof Sen Cheng (both Mercator
Research Group «Structure of Memory» at RUB) and Prof Thomas Suddendorf (University of Queensland) differs from
other approaches with regard to one major aspect: it suggests a new relationship between mental time travel and episodic memory.
During the study of a number of aardvarks
by researchers of the Brain Function
Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as
other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.
For instance, a finding published
by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical
Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2009 said that longer lengths of sitting were directly proportional to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and most causes of death
other than cancer.
METRICS will work with
other researchers to identify and encourage the best
research practices, ensuring that well - established statistical principles and
other methods, endorsed
by all
researchers but too often ignored in practice, are widely adopted.
Dr Chris Lowe, lecturer in Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeterand lead
researcher on the paper, said: «This
research suggests that what we have always thought of as mutualism where species gain mutual benefit from interacting with each
other might actually be based on exploitation where one species gains
by capturing and then taking resources from another.»
There is still, however, a need for more
research on the issue, as the risk can be influenced
by the time of the treatment and
other factors, reasons Karin Leander,
researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.
So in this study, he and
other researchers at Yale used a microscope to examine tissue samples acquired from placenta saved
by various
research hospitals.
A survey
by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three
Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific co
Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring
researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and
other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic
research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific co
research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.
Nevertheless, it is still early days for this
research: Although the
researchers were able to determine,
by the concentration of copper and
other elements, that the feathers of fossil birds such as Confuciusornis had darker and lighter areas, they are not yet able to tell what colors these represent.
Published in the journal Nature, the revised estimates of China's carbon emissions were produced
by an international team of
researchers, led
by Harvard University, UEA, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University, in collaboration with 15
other international
research institutions.
The
research techniques allowed
researchers to zoom into the skin and hoof and measure the motion of the horse's foot skeleton, which is not possible
by other methods.
The new
research, involving 73 researchers working in 35 nations and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), explored how people of different cultures see themselves and their relationships with
research, involving 73
researchers working in 35 nations and funded
by the Economic and Social
Research Council (UK), explored how people of different cultures see themselves and their relationships with
Research Council (UK), explored how people of different cultures see themselves and their relationships with
others.
The vibrations may rattle up to half the country,
researchers report online this week in Geophysical
Research Letters, so seismologists must take them into account when they analyze
other low - level seismic signals — yet another example of earthly noise caused
by humans.
Researchers plan to assess the new modified antigen against
other candidates in advanced strep throat vaccine tests in nonhuman primates beginning later this year in Atlanta, Georgia, funded
by the National Health and Medical
Research Council of Australia.
University of Adelaide
researchers in Australia, supported
by the Invasive Animals Co-operative
Research Centre, have developed a model of the likelihood of establishment of alien species of snakes and
other reptiles if they are introduced to the wild, accidentally or on purpose.
This investigator - initiated phase II trial, called TOPARP - A, was led
by researchers at The Institute of Cancer
Research, London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and also involved several
other institutions in the UK.
The article is signed
by Raúl Estévez, Sònia Sirisi and Alejandro Barrallo, from the Department of Physiological Sciences II on the Bellvitge Health Sciences Campus at the University of Barcelona (UB) and members of the Centre for Biomedical Network
Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER); and Virginia Nunes, lecturer of Genetics at UB,
researcher at the Bellvitge Biomedical
Research Centre (IDIBELL) and member of CIBERER, among
other experts.
The result, led
by researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of
research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society
by making electrical transmission, computing and
other areas much more energy efficient.
The interdisciplinary project, which is funded
by the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC), will be led
by Dr Mashanovich and his colleagues from ORC (Dr Frederic Gardes and Dr Anna Peacock) and Electronics and Computer Science (Dr Harold Chong) and will also involve
other Southampton
researchers from Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics.
Sandia
researchers have proposed
research into new problems illuminated
by PANTHER, while
other agencies are solidifying the foundation PANTHER has developed.
Previous
research published
by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and three
other institutions showed that when children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and serious physical aggression were prescribed both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug, along with teaching parents behavior management techniques, they had a reduction of aggressive and serious disruptive behavior.
Dr. Fourney, Ulrich Leiste, PhD, assistant
research engineer in the Clark School's Department of Aerospace Engineering, and doctoral
researcher Jarrod Bonsmann, PhD, developed highly advanced shock absorber designs that incorporate polyurea - coated tubes and
other structures to reduce reducing the blast acceleration experienced
by vehicle occupants
by up to 80 percent.