This document provides tips for searching PsycINFO and PsycArticles databases. It defines two main types of articles: empirical studies, which are research studies based on facts and observations; and literature reviews, which summarize previous work on a topic. While assignments often require empirical studies, literature reviews can help identify relevant empirical studies discussed within. The document advises skimming literature reviews to find empirical studies cited, and then searching directly for those articles.
This document provides tips for searching PsycINFO and PsycArticles databases. It defines two main types of articles: empirical studies, which are research studies based on facts and observations; and literature reviews, which summarize previous work on a topic. While assignments often require empirical studies, literature reviews can help identify relevant empirical studies discussed within them.
The document provides instructions for how to write an annotated bibliography. It states that each annotation should include at least two sentences summarizing the source, two sentences assessing the source, and two sentences reflecting on how the source fits into the research. Annotations should be in paragraph form and fit on no more than two annotations per page. It also provides an example annotation and discusses formatting guidelines.
How to Find Research Articles! For Nursing Students. Holly Singleton
PowerPoint presentation to use with our first year, semester 2 nursing students on the tricky subject of literature searching!
An adapted PowerPoint after attending a Presentation workshop by Ned Potter, on making your message stick.
This document provides guidance on writing a literature review for a research paper. It explains that a literature review analyzes and synthesizes other sources related to the research topic in order to justify and support how the investigation may answer the research question. It advises finding sources from academic databases and references rather than only internet searches, as academic sources are more reliable. The literature review should compare, contrast, and evaluate aspects of the topic to explain the investigation in a logical narrative.
PsycInfo and PsycArticles are two databases that index literature in psychology and related fields, but contain mostly unique articles. PsycArticles provides full text for journals published by the APA while PsycInfo indexes a broader range of publications including books and dissertations. The document recommends searching both databases simultaneously using EBSCO to conduct a more thorough search and avoid missing relevant articles that may only be in one database or the other.
The document provides guidance on writing a literature review by outlining the key components. A literature review summarizes and synthesizes published ideas on a specific topic, rather than simply annotating sources. It includes an overview of the topic and reasons for the review. Relevant sources are organized into categories and connected to show how each relates to others and contributes to understanding the research area. The conclusion discusses the most effective sources to support the project and development of knowledge in the field. The goal is to demonstrate how existing research informs the topic being studied.
This document provides tips for searching PsycINFO and PsycArticles databases. It defines two main types of articles: empirical studies, which are research studies based on facts and observations; and literature reviews, which summarize previous work on a topic. While assignments often require empirical studies, literature reviews can help identify relevant empirical studies discussed within. The document advises skimming literature reviews to find empirical studies cited, and then searching directly for those articles.
This document provides tips for searching PsycINFO and PsycArticles databases. It defines two main types of articles: empirical studies, which are research studies based on facts and observations; and literature reviews, which summarize previous work on a topic. While assignments often require empirical studies, literature reviews can help identify relevant empirical studies discussed within them.
The document provides instructions for how to write an annotated bibliography. It states that each annotation should include at least two sentences summarizing the source, two sentences assessing the source, and two sentences reflecting on how the source fits into the research. Annotations should be in paragraph form and fit on no more than two annotations per page. It also provides an example annotation and discusses formatting guidelines.
How to Find Research Articles! For Nursing Students. Holly Singleton
PowerPoint presentation to use with our first year, semester 2 nursing students on the tricky subject of literature searching!
An adapted PowerPoint after attending a Presentation workshop by Ned Potter, on making your message stick.
This document provides guidance on writing a literature review for a research paper. It explains that a literature review analyzes and synthesizes other sources related to the research topic in order to justify and support how the investigation may answer the research question. It advises finding sources from academic databases and references rather than only internet searches, as academic sources are more reliable. The literature review should compare, contrast, and evaluate aspects of the topic to explain the investigation in a logical narrative.
PsycInfo and PsycArticles are two databases that index literature in psychology and related fields, but contain mostly unique articles. PsycArticles provides full text for journals published by the APA while PsycInfo indexes a broader range of publications including books and dissertations. The document recommends searching both databases simultaneously using EBSCO to conduct a more thorough search and avoid missing relevant articles that may only be in one database or the other.
The document provides guidance on writing a literature review by outlining the key components. A literature review summarizes and synthesizes published ideas on a specific topic, rather than simply annotating sources. It includes an overview of the topic and reasons for the review. Relevant sources are organized into categories and connected to show how each relates to others and contributes to understanding the research area. The conclusion discusses the most effective sources to support the project and development of knowledge in the field. The goal is to demonstrate how existing research informs the topic being studied.
Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011 - Arts and HumanitiesDeborah Fitchett
An introduction to library resources, including database search skills, to support the UC Summer Scholarship programme in the arts and humanities fields, presented by Janette Nicoll and Cuiying Mu.
This document outlines the research continuum, beginning with an idea and keywords to search for relevant evidence. It describes searching subject databases and catalogs to find citations to articles and books, which can lead to discovering more keywords to gather additional evidence. The process involves reflecting, writing, and looking for more evidence as needed in an iterative cycle.
This document discusses refereed or peer-reviewed journals. It explains that peer-reviewed journals have articles reviewed by multiple experts before publication to ensure quality. Google Scholar indexes most peer-reviewed academic literature. Citation indexes track references between publications to establish influence. Indexed journals are considered higher quality than non-indexed journals. Popular indexing services that reflect journal quality include Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science. Peer-reviewed journals are considered better than non-peer reviewed journals because the anonymous peer review process helps verify that ideas are rigorous and important enough for publication.
This document provides instructions for an annotated bibliography assignment focusing on archival topics. Students are asked to select a topic of interest, preferably related to one of the week's subjects. They must then compile an annotated bibliography of 8 to 10 relevant sources on the topic, with each entry including a full citation and 100-150 word summary assessing the source's quality and relevance for the topic and intended audience. Guidelines are provided on acceptable source types and formatting citations. The assignment is worth 30% of the student's grade.
The document discusses peer review in academic journals. It defines peer review as involving experts in a field reviewing articles before publication to check quality and accuracy. While peer review is an indicator of reliability, scholarly articles without peer review can still be valuable sources if they demonstrate thorough research, use academic terminology, cite references, and describe methodology. The document provides tips for identifying peer-reviewed journals, such as limiting database searches, checking journal mastheads, and using Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
Many authors are not aware that even using the content from their previous published paper requires proper citation. Otherwise, it will be the case of self plagiarism. Dr. Eddy explains why and how to avoid this.
PsycInfo and PsycArticles are two databases that index literature in psychology and related fields, but contain mostly unique articles. PsycArticles provides full text for journals published by the APA while PsycInfo indexes a broader range of publications including books and dissertations. The document recommends searching both databases simultaneously using EBSCO to conduct a more thorough search and avoid missing relevant articles that may only be in one database or the other.
This document provides guidance on evaluating research sources. It recommends looking at who wrote the source, the scope and topic covered, where and when it was published, and how the information is presented. The authorship, references, bibliographies, and date of publication can help determine the quality, relevance, and potential bias of a source. Newer sources are generally preferable, as information can become outdated over time. Properly evaluating sources includes checking for clear presentation of aims, methods, results, and conclusions, as well as consistently formatted citations and references.
This document provides an overview of scholarly articles, including what they are, how to identify them, why they are important to use in academic work, and how to find and evaluate them. Key points include:
- Scholarly articles report original research, are authored by specialists, and published in academic journals. They use formal language, citations/bibliographies, and research methodologies.
- They are expected in academic work to provide credibility, as the authors undergo rigorous peer review over more than a year.
- Typical sections include abstract, introduction, methodology, results, discussion/conclusion, and bibliography. Databases like CPIQ, Proquest, and library resources can be used to access scholarly articles.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
(June 12, 2024) Webinar: Development of PET theranostics targeting the molecu...Scintica Instrumentation
Targeting Hsp90 and its pathogen Orthologs with Tethered Inhibitors as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategy for cancer and infectious diseases with Dr. Timothy Haystead.
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011 - Arts and HumanitiesDeborah Fitchett
An introduction to library resources, including database search skills, to support the UC Summer Scholarship programme in the arts and humanities fields, presented by Janette Nicoll and Cuiying Mu.
This document outlines the research continuum, beginning with an idea and keywords to search for relevant evidence. It describes searching subject databases and catalogs to find citations to articles and books, which can lead to discovering more keywords to gather additional evidence. The process involves reflecting, writing, and looking for more evidence as needed in an iterative cycle.
This document discusses refereed or peer-reviewed journals. It explains that peer-reviewed journals have articles reviewed by multiple experts before publication to ensure quality. Google Scholar indexes most peer-reviewed academic literature. Citation indexes track references between publications to establish influence. Indexed journals are considered higher quality than non-indexed journals. Popular indexing services that reflect journal quality include Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science. Peer-reviewed journals are considered better than non-peer reviewed journals because the anonymous peer review process helps verify that ideas are rigorous and important enough for publication.
This document provides instructions for an annotated bibliography assignment focusing on archival topics. Students are asked to select a topic of interest, preferably related to one of the week's subjects. They must then compile an annotated bibliography of 8 to 10 relevant sources on the topic, with each entry including a full citation and 100-150 word summary assessing the source's quality and relevance for the topic and intended audience. Guidelines are provided on acceptable source types and formatting citations. The assignment is worth 30% of the student's grade.
The document discusses peer review in academic journals. It defines peer review as involving experts in a field reviewing articles before publication to check quality and accuracy. While peer review is an indicator of reliability, scholarly articles without peer review can still be valuable sources if they demonstrate thorough research, use academic terminology, cite references, and describe methodology. The document provides tips for identifying peer-reviewed journals, such as limiting database searches, checking journal mastheads, and using Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
Many authors are not aware that even using the content from their previous published paper requires proper citation. Otherwise, it will be the case of self plagiarism. Dr. Eddy explains why and how to avoid this.
PsycInfo and PsycArticles are two databases that index literature in psychology and related fields, but contain mostly unique articles. PsycArticles provides full text for journals published by the APA while PsycInfo indexes a broader range of publications including books and dissertations. The document recommends searching both databases simultaneously using EBSCO to conduct a more thorough search and avoid missing relevant articles that may only be in one database or the other.
This document provides guidance on evaluating research sources. It recommends looking at who wrote the source, the scope and topic covered, where and when it was published, and how the information is presented. The authorship, references, bibliographies, and date of publication can help determine the quality, relevance, and potential bias of a source. Newer sources are generally preferable, as information can become outdated over time. Properly evaluating sources includes checking for clear presentation of aims, methods, results, and conclusions, as well as consistently formatted citations and references.
This document provides an overview of scholarly articles, including what they are, how to identify them, why they are important to use in academic work, and how to find and evaluate them. Key points include:
- Scholarly articles report original research, are authored by specialists, and published in academic journals. They use formal language, citations/bibliographies, and research methodologies.
- They are expected in academic work to provide credibility, as the authors undergo rigorous peer review over more than a year.
- Typical sections include abstract, introduction, methodology, results, discussion/conclusion, and bibliography. Databases like CPIQ, Proquest, and library resources can be used to access scholarly articles.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
(June 12, 2024) Webinar: Development of PET theranostics targeting the molecu...Scintica Instrumentation
Targeting Hsp90 and its pathogen Orthologs with Tethered Inhibitors as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategy for cancer and infectious diseases with Dr. Timothy Haystead.
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
1. What isa literature Review?
A Literature ReviewisaReviewof pastsourcessuchas peer-reviewedarticles,journalsandother
credible sourcesthathave alreadyconductedresearchonthe topicthatyou are researching.Youwould
use the Literature Review toprove the hypothesisof yourstudyandthenyouwouldcompare the
findingsfromothersourceswiththatof yourown.That will allow youtodraw a conclusionandto
determine if yourfindingsisthe same withotherstudiesconductedinthe past