The African Story of Open Research - Nozuko Zukie HlwatikaRight to Research
This presentation by Nozuko Zukie Hlwatika was part of OpenCon 2017's Regional Models for Open Research and Open Education panel.
In her talk, Zukie covered Open Science, particularly Open Data in Africa. This was done from the perspective of the African Open Science Platform initiative. The status of Open Data in Africa was discussed through the lenses of policy, infrastructure, capacity building and incentives as per the initiatives focus areas. A list of countries actively involved in the advancement of Open Data was highlighted as well as those that need greater intervention. Possible Marginalised models for promoting open science in Africa were shared with the audience.
Research Data Australia - the national research data catalogueRichard Ferrers
Understanding the national research data catalogue.
A presentation to the RMIT University - Research Data Management - Information Session for Researchers and HDRs, 21 Nov 2017.
The African Story of Open Research - Nozuko Zukie HlwatikaRight to Research
This presentation by Nozuko Zukie Hlwatika was part of OpenCon 2017's Regional Models for Open Research and Open Education panel.
In her talk, Zukie covered Open Science, particularly Open Data in Africa. This was done from the perspective of the African Open Science Platform initiative. The status of Open Data in Africa was discussed through the lenses of policy, infrastructure, capacity building and incentives as per the initiatives focus areas. A list of countries actively involved in the advancement of Open Data was highlighted as well as those that need greater intervention. Possible Marginalised models for promoting open science in Africa were shared with the audience.
Research Data Australia - the national research data catalogueRichard Ferrers
Understanding the national research data catalogue.
A presentation to the RMIT University - Research Data Management - Information Session for Researchers and HDRs, 21 Nov 2017.
The adoption of national, regional and institutional policies to promote free access to scientific knowledge have contributed significantly to boosting the growth of open access. In this context, the gold route represents one of the most important paths for the universalization of open access to scientific literature and the solutions employed complement the advances of open access globally with the contribution of the commercial publishers that started to gradually adopt open access solutions, the emergence of open access megajournals and open access repositories of articles published in restricted access journals. In recent years we have also seen the easing of use licenses that contribute to the increase of the number of open access publications, mainly in line with the principles and practices of open science.
Although the increase of open access publications is noticeable, the distribution of these titles among countries is not homogeneous; two contexts stand out. On the one hand, there are countries with an important tradition in commercial publishing, especially in the USA, UK, the Netherlands and Germany, and whose advance toward open access depends on business models that ensure the financial returns to large publishers; and on the other, there are mainly the emerging economies, whose journals do not draw much commercial interest, being mostly published in open access. Between these two environments, there are also national initiatives in developed countries that publish journals outside the commercial circuit of the large publishers.
In this scenario, Latin America is known to be one of the most advanced regions of the world to use the open access publishing model as a strategy to increase the visibility of the scientific output in the countries of the region. This protagonism is largely driven by national and regional initiatives, underlining the pioneering SciELO, which, through its decentralized model, promoted and developed a network of national collections of open access journals, focusing on each countries’ conditions and priorities. In most of these countries the collections reflect the implementation of public policies supporting research infrastructure and its communication, with emphasis on nationally published journals.
Through similar solutions, other countries have also highlighted the importance of nationally published journals for their national research systems, and have been making efforts to develop national open access journals collections (France, Serbia, and Japan, among others) as one of the essential components of their strategies of active participation in the global flow of scientific output and scholarly communication.
In view of the above, this panel will analyze the main characteristics of the most relevant national solutions, advances already achieved, barriers and challenges toward…
Presentation by CLACSO, academic network of 616 social science research institutions in 47 countries, at OAI10 (CERN-UNIGE, Geneva, 21-23 June 2017), about the world landscape of repositories and regional repositories networks, its achievements and challenges, and the importance of open access being managed as a commons by the scholarly community
Role of Open Science in Addressing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Anup Kumar Das
Presented in IndiaLICS2017: The 4th IndiaLICS Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies and Practices in South Asia, 2nd-4th November, at New Delhi, India.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
CLACSO´s invited presentation, by Dr.Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO-University of Buenos Aires UBA), at UNESCO NGO´s International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations. Paris, UNESCO, 12-14 December 2016
3rd International Multidisciplinary Research Conference (IMRC 2018)ijhss
Theme
“Reaching the Brim of Global Competitiveness through Research Collaborations”
Objectives of the Conference
• Provide avenue for researchers to share and present their research;
• Promote collaborations among researchers for high quality researches;
• Encourage individuals to conduct researches internationally in their field of interest;
• Publish the research output of the researchers in an international refereed journals;
• Enhance participants’ interest in writing scholarly researches; and
• Promote the tourism industry in Ozamis City, Philippines.
Rationale
IMRC 2018 is Open to all Academic Fields. Researchers, Educators, & Practitioners from any Discipline are Welcome to:
- Present new ideas, research findings & new development strategies;
- Seek knowledge and establish networking with other participants;
- Interact scholarly with international experts & well-known lecturers.
Conference Strands
IMRC 2018 Conference Strands & Areas of Discipline includes but not limited to:
1. Agriculture;
2. Education;
3. Business;
4. Social Sciences & Humanities;
5. Science & Technology;
6. Environmental Sciences;
7. Public Administration & Public Health;
8. Engineering,
9. Mathematics; & Other Allied Fields.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Paper Submission: October 31, 2017
Acceptance Notification: November 30, 2017
Submission of Final Paper: December 10, 2017
Early registration starts on: December 11, 2017
Early Registration closes on: December 31, 2017
Late registration starts on: January 01, 2018
Late Registration closes on: February 28, 2018
For more details, visit:
http://atiee.org
http://ijhss.net/index.php/atiee_imrc2018
Contact:
taeed14.org@gmail.com
atiee.imrf2016@gmail.com
Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IMRC-2018-133044400627735/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imrc2018
Presentation delivered by Professor Martin Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), on 25 August 2021, as part of ‘Open Access and the Humanities: A dialogue on future directions for Ireland’, an online workshop hosted by Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) and the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) for researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
Presented by CLACSO at
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
OSFair2017 Workshop | Why is responsible research & innovation important?Open Science Fair
Aliki Giannakopoulou talks about responsoble research and innovation (RRI)
Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) is a way of researching that takes a long-term perspective on the type of world in which we want to live. It can strengthen research projects by emphasising openness, transparency, diversity, inclusiveness and adaptation to changes. Essentially, RRI aims to create collaborative frameworks in which citizens engage with scientists, entrepreneurs, decisions makers and other groups to work towards sustainable, ethically acceptable and socially desirable outcomes.
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2
The adoption of national, regional and institutional policies to promote free access to scientific knowledge have contributed significantly to boosting the growth of open access. In this context, the gold route represents one of the most important paths for the universalization of open access to scientific literature and the solutions employed complement the advances of open access globally with the contribution of the commercial publishers that started to gradually adopt open access solutions, the emergence of open access megajournals and open access repositories of articles published in restricted access journals. In recent years we have also seen the easing of use licenses that contribute to the increase of the number of open access publications, mainly in line with the principles and practices of open science.
Although the increase of open access publications is noticeable, the distribution of these titles among countries is not homogeneous; two contexts stand out. On the one hand, there are countries with an important tradition in commercial publishing, especially in the USA, UK, the Netherlands and Germany, and whose advance toward open access depends on business models that ensure the financial returns to large publishers; and on the other, there are mainly the emerging economies, whose journals do not draw much commercial interest, being mostly published in open access. Between these two environments, there are also national initiatives in developed countries that publish journals outside the commercial circuit of the large publishers.
In this scenario, Latin America is known to be one of the most advanced regions of the world to use the open access publishing model as a strategy to increase the visibility of the scientific output in the countries of the region. This protagonism is largely driven by national and regional initiatives, underlining the pioneering SciELO, which, through its decentralized model, promoted and developed a network of national collections of open access journals, focusing on each countries’ conditions and priorities. In most of these countries the collections reflect the implementation of public policies supporting research infrastructure and its communication, with emphasis on nationally published journals.
Through similar solutions, other countries have also highlighted the importance of nationally published journals for their national research systems, and have been making efforts to develop national open access journals collections (France, Serbia, and Japan, among others) as one of the essential components of their strategies of active participation in the global flow of scientific output and scholarly communication.
In view of the above, this panel will analyze the main characteristics of the most relevant national solutions, advances already achieved, barriers and challenges toward…
Presentation by CLACSO, academic network of 616 social science research institutions in 47 countries, at OAI10 (CERN-UNIGE, Geneva, 21-23 June 2017), about the world landscape of repositories and regional repositories networks, its achievements and challenges, and the importance of open access being managed as a commons by the scholarly community
Role of Open Science in Addressing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Anup Kumar Das
Presented in IndiaLICS2017: The 4th IndiaLICS Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies and Practices in South Asia, 2nd-4th November, at New Delhi, India.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
CLACSO´s invited presentation, by Dr.Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO-University of Buenos Aires UBA), at UNESCO NGO´s International Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations. Paris, UNESCO, 12-14 December 2016
3rd International Multidisciplinary Research Conference (IMRC 2018)ijhss
Theme
“Reaching the Brim of Global Competitiveness through Research Collaborations”
Objectives of the Conference
• Provide avenue for researchers to share and present their research;
• Promote collaborations among researchers for high quality researches;
• Encourage individuals to conduct researches internationally in their field of interest;
• Publish the research output of the researchers in an international refereed journals;
• Enhance participants’ interest in writing scholarly researches; and
• Promote the tourism industry in Ozamis City, Philippines.
Rationale
IMRC 2018 is Open to all Academic Fields. Researchers, Educators, & Practitioners from any Discipline are Welcome to:
- Present new ideas, research findings & new development strategies;
- Seek knowledge and establish networking with other participants;
- Interact scholarly with international experts & well-known lecturers.
Conference Strands
IMRC 2018 Conference Strands & Areas of Discipline includes but not limited to:
1. Agriculture;
2. Education;
3. Business;
4. Social Sciences & Humanities;
5. Science & Technology;
6. Environmental Sciences;
7. Public Administration & Public Health;
8. Engineering,
9. Mathematics; & Other Allied Fields.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Paper Submission: October 31, 2017
Acceptance Notification: November 30, 2017
Submission of Final Paper: December 10, 2017
Early registration starts on: December 11, 2017
Early Registration closes on: December 31, 2017
Late registration starts on: January 01, 2018
Late Registration closes on: February 28, 2018
For more details, visit:
http://atiee.org
http://ijhss.net/index.php/atiee_imrc2018
Contact:
taeed14.org@gmail.com
atiee.imrf2016@gmail.com
Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IMRC-2018-133044400627735/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imrc2018
Presentation delivered by Professor Martin Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), on 25 August 2021, as part of ‘Open Access and the Humanities: A dialogue on future directions for Ireland’, an online workshop hosted by Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) and the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) for researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
ROAD: the ISSN as a matching key to aggregate quality, open access resources ISSN International Centre
ROAD, the Directory of scholarly Open Access Resources, provides a free access to the ISSN bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access: journals, monographic series, conference proceedings, academic repositories and scholarly blogs. These records, created by the ISSN Network are enriched by information extracted from indexing and abstracting databases, directories (DOAJ, Latindex, The Keepers registry) and journals indicators (Scopus).
Presentation made for the seminar Discovery and Discoverability held at UCL Centre for Publishing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/publishing/events/discoverability
Presented by CLACSO at
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
OSFair2017 Workshop | Why is responsible research & innovation important?Open Science Fair
Aliki Giannakopoulou talks about responsoble research and innovation (RRI)
Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) is a way of researching that takes a long-term perspective on the type of world in which we want to live. It can strengthen research projects by emphasising openness, transparency, diversity, inclusiveness and adaptation to changes. Essentially, RRI aims to create collaborative frameworks in which citizens engage with scientists, entrepreneurs, decisions makers and other groups to work towards sustainable, ethically acceptable and socially desirable outcomes.
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2
Why Research Libraries supporting Open Access is vital to the achievement of ...ldore1
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) supports the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development, 2014 (which was a response/commitment to promote meaningful access to information as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), which states that a right to information worldwide would be transformational. Access to information supports development by empowering people, especially marginalised people and those living in poverty.
In this talk there will be a discussion of the vital importance of the availability of Open Access research publications to improve access to information and knowledge to enable the fulfilment of the SDGs to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, encourage economic growth, and tackle environmental destruction and climate change.
There will also be discussion of the role Libraries have to play in supporting Open Access at a national and local level, the options for publishing Open Access and the challenges.
Finally, the tools available to measure what proportion of your institutions papers are available as Open Access and what proportion are covering SDG topics will be demonstrated. These Tools will include Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and Altmetrics Explorer.
european open science cloud (EOSC). visions and impact on DARIAH roadmapeveline wandl-vogt
lightning talk @ open science retreat @ NIKHEF, science park campus, amsterdam (22.2.2016); european open science cloud visions from DARIAH point of view.
Talk given at the SKAO Speaker Series in June 2021, an update of the one given at Sciencedigital@UNGA75 on 29th September 2020 as part of a series of side events to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.
Policy perspectives on Open Educational Resourcesicdeslides
Policy perspectives on Open Educational Resources:
The world has got a new educational policy – a global shift. The Incheon Declaration. The Qingdao Declaration. Two major Global Challenges for Higher Education towards 2030: average education and economic growth, enrolment in higher education. Drivers for Opening up for Knowledge: Open, Technology, Costs, Demographics and Learners.
Policy for Less used Languages - a policy brief for governments.
What about Norden?
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Open Science in the Global South: A Case of IndiaAnup Kumar Das
"Open Science in the Global South: A Case of India" was presented in the Seminar on Open Science Policy and Technology Access: A Challenge for Developing Countries, on 23 March 2017, at Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
Open Principles in Science and EducationSuchith Anand
Presentation given at GeoForAll miniconference at World Commons Week 2019. By combining the potential of free and open geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications will enable the creation of a sustainable innovation ecosystem for helping solve global cross disciplinary societal challenges from climate change mitigation to zero hunger. Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity is a key fundamental principle of GeoForAll and we want to contribute and focus our efforts for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial has now made it possible for a large number of government organisations, private companies and academics in both developed and developing countries to make use of geospatial software in many application domains. This will ensure that geo education and geo digital economy opportunities are also available to economically poor countries and economically poor people worldwide. Central to “Geo for All” mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will enable broadly shared prosperity for all.
OER and Future Research Questions - Guest Lecture: Allama Iqbal Open Universi...Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This lecture was delivered to the new cohort of PhD students at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan. The focus of the lecture was to inspire them in new directions of research in the field of Open Educational Resources based on the outputs of the 2nd World OER Congress and the Ljubljana OER Action Plan.
My keynote today
KEYNOTE
2:15 PM
EBBA OSSIANILSSON� Professor, and world-known expert on education´s digital transformation. ICDE board member and chair of ICDE´s Advocacy Committee for Open Education Resources (OER) ��GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION AFTER COVID 19: PATHWAYS TO INNOVATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
at World Learning Summit 2021 AFTER CORONA: TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION
http://wls.futurelearninglab.org/final-program/
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
OER16 - Skills not Silos - Open Data as OERLeo Havemann
Open Data is produced and used at various levels in research, governance, policy making and civil society. So far though, conversation around its value and significance has tended to occur within an Open Data silo, existing in parallel with other open discussions around Open Educational Resources and Open Access. In our presentation we explore practices which make use of Open Data as OER, with a focus on the the opportunities and challenges inherent in this approach.
For the OECD, “All citizens should have equal opportunities and multiple channels to access information, be consulted and participate. Every reasonable effort should be made to engage with as wide a variety of people as possible.” A central challenge in higher education is to develop skills useful not only at subject/professional level, but which also engage students with real-word problems. The skills needed to participate in democratic discussions can be understood as transversal skills, defined by UNESCO (2015) as “Critical and innovative thinking, inter-personal skills; intra personal skills, and global citizenship”. If one of our goals as educators is to develop these transversal skills in students, towards enabling them to function as citizens, to actively participate in the discourse and debates of society, then we propose that Open Data can play a key role.
Open Data has been understood as key to research, policy and governance development, and also heralded as a force for democratic discourse and participation, but in our view, this is not achieved by opening data alone. By using Open Data in research- and scenario- based learning activities, educators can enhance the information, digital, statistical and data analysis literacies that can empower students, and ultimately citizens and communities. Such pedagogic activities allow students to learn using the same raw materials researchers and policy- makers produce and use.
Drawing from a series of case studies of the use of Open Data as OER, we suggest educators consider the following elements
Focus: define the research problem and its relation to the environment students.
Practicality: match technical applications and practices to expected solutions.
Expectations: set realistic expectations for data analysis.
Directions: support in finding data portals which contain appropriate information.
Training: provide training materials for the software students will need to analyse the data.
Location: use global, local and scientific data which is as granular as possible.
Modelling: develop model solutions to guide students on the challenges and activities.
Collaboration: support students to work collaboratively and at multidisciplinary level.
Communication: support students in communicating their findings to local or wider communities.
Open Science new strategies need new science structures to be developed. We call it: open labs, new research and innovation environments based on a synthesis of current structures (academic research groups, companies, civic organitzations, public bodies,...). These open labs are currently emerging as living labs, fablabs, citizen labs, xlabs....
Until now new technologies have connected old economic, social, political structures. Nevertheless new structures are emerging.
Digital Scholarly Communications and the journey to Open Science in IndonesiaHendro Subagyo
Hendro Subagyo
Center for Scientific Data and Documentation (PDDI LIPI)
DSC Webinar Series 3 rd
Open Access Publication and Dissemination of DSC
19 May 2021
Video of the presentation “Open Access in Latin America” (20 minutes) http://youtu.be/fNlGabHIHQE
“Open Access in Latin America” presented by Dominique Babini (CLACSO-Latin American Council of Social Sciences) in panel “Research without borders: Open Access in the Americas” organized by the Scholarly Communication Program and The Digital Humanities Center, Columbia University, April 29th., 2014
Program of the event: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/2014/04/08/research-without-borders-open-access-in-the-americas/
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Regional Models for Open Research and Education in Latin America - Guillermin...Right to Research
This presentation by Guillermina Actis was part of OpenCon 2017's Regional Models for Open Research and Open Education panel.
Guillermina's presentation introduced the regional landscape of science and technology (S&T) communication, focusing on the alternatives that have been built in the last decades to increase local knowledge production’s visibility through regional indexing systems and gold open access (SciELO and RedALyC). The high-level authorities’ efforts for promoting green open access policies and building its infrastructures will also be addressed by presenting the regional initiative established in 2012, LAReferencia, which is a federated network of nine countries that aims at establishing agreements and providing guidelines for the creation of repositories to provide open access to publicly funded research, addressing S&T production as a public good.
Kyrgyz Mountains Environmental Education and Citizen Science Project (KMEECS)...Right to Research
This presentation by Aliya Ibraimova was part of OpenCon 2017's Regional Models for Open Research and Open Education panel.
Aliya shared the successes and challenges of integrating openness in the Kyrgyz context through the implementation of Kyrgyz Mountains Environmental Education and Citizen Science project (KMEECS) and subsequent projects. KMEECS project applies a transdisciplinary approach to knowledge generation. It combines citizen science on the community level, environmental research and teacher training to foster awareness of and interaction with the local environment. At the same time it aims at generating locally relevant data on the environment in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The project pilots the introduction of low-cost environmental field courses on water monitoring in schools in mountain communities of Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn province. Based on a citizen science approach, students analyse and generate data on their water resources, which are fed into a network of open environmental data.
Assessing Current Practices in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure across ...Right to Research
This presentation by Carol Muñoz Nieves was part of OpenCon 2017's Next-Generation Initiatives Advancing Open panel.
The project “Assessing Current Practices in Review, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) Across the United States and Canada” departs from the belief that the adoption of open access and other open science principles among academics would be more widespread if ‘being open’ was explicitly rewarded in career progression of university professors. In the case of Canadian and American institutions of higher education, career progression generally takes the form of reviews of faculty’s work, promotions, and the achievement of tenure—a permanent, lifetime, position at an institution that cannot be terminated, except under crucial circumstances. The importance placed on the RPT process by all faculty suggests that changes in the policy documents and guidelines that inform these practices may provide the impetus for behavioral change, leading to broader interest and adoption of open access values. In the context of a broad and ongoing project, this presentation will focus in some of the results of the content analysis of 864 RPT guidelines and forms of 129 institutions across the US and Canada. These finding will hopefully provide baseline knowledge for thinking in actualized ways of effecting change towards a greater opening of research in North American universities.
I won't be #BulliedIntoBadScience! - Laurent Gatto - OpenCon 2017Right to Research
This presentation by Laurent Gatto was part of OpenCon 2017's Next-Generation Initiatives Advancing Open panel.
The #BulliedIntoBadScience campaign was initiated after several attempts to influence publishing practices at the University of Cambridge and in the UK. However, it seems at times impossible for academics, early stage and more senior, to change a broken system that is, sadly, just accepted by most. During this OpenCon 2017 Panel, Laurent shared some of the background of the #BulliedIntoBadScience campaign and reflected on early career researchers' challenges in fighting for a more ethical environment.
Rooting the Future of Open Research: Working for an Open Science University —...Right to Research
This presentation by Robin Champieux was part of OpenCon 2017's Next-Generation Initiatives Advancing Open panel.
How do you build a university culture of open science, one that isn't motivated by top-down policies, but shared understandings of knowledge production and communication? Robin Champieux spoke about the work she's been doing with students, early career researchers, and faculty to engage and build grassroots support for open science and the outcomes it can drive through educational opportunities, partnerships, and community events. She shared the rewards and challenges of leading an open advocacy initiate with inspiring, but often unconventional successes and how she and her collaborators are thinking about the future of their work.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Nucleophilic Addition of carbonyl compounds.pptxSSR02
Nucleophilic addition is the most important reaction of carbonyls. Not just aldehydes and ketones, but also carboxylic acid derivatives in general.
Carbonyls undergo addition reactions with a large range of nucleophiles.
Comparing the relative basicity of the nucleophile and the product is extremely helpful in determining how reversible the addition reaction is. Reactions with Grignards and hydrides are irreversible. Reactions with weak bases like halides and carboxylates generally don’t happen.
Electronic effects (inductive effects, electron donation) have a large impact on reactivity.
Large groups adjacent to the carbonyl will slow the rate of reaction.
Neutral nucleophiles can also add to carbonyls, although their additions are generally slower and more reversible. Acid catalysis is sometimes employed to increase the rate of addition.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.