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Medicine, Research & Experimental
Keith Comito
Summary: Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding have been used to advance scientific progress for centuries, with the internet and related technologies greatly accelerating their use in the 21st century. The field of aging research has particularly benefited from this trend, with the emergence of communities and platforms that coordinate funding and collaboration. Additionally, blockchain technology has created new opportunities for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing specifically in aging research.
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(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Antonello Cammarano, Vincenzo Varriale, Francesca Michelino, Mauro Caputo
Summary: The aim of this research is to present the latest state of the art on the use of open and crowd-based platforms and the associated advantages in terms of business performance. The analysis is based on information extracted from the Business Process Framework for Emerging Technologies repository developed by the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy. Contingency tables were used to analyze the association of these practices with various factors such as industry, business function, business process, and impact on performance. The results highlight numerous implementation opportunities, particularly in manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation industries, offering benefits in terms of efficiency, cost reduction, and product/service differentiation. The research provides an overview of potential opportunities for organizations utilizing open and crowd-based platforms to enhance market and organizational performance, as well as insights into specific business contexts where these technologies can be particularly useful.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maria Rosienkiewicz, Joanna Helman, Mariusz Cholewa, Mateusz Molasy
Summary: The paper explores the readiness of Polish students for open innovation (OI) and finds that they often passively use OI platforms, facing barriers such as a lack of knowledge and trust issues. Changes in mindset, adjustments to university curricula, and fostering an open innovation culture are identified as critical steps for improvement.
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Biology
Bradley C. Allf, Caren B. Cooper, Lincoln R. Larson, Robert R. Dunn, Sara E. Futch, Maria Sharova, Darlene Cavalier
Summary: The research shows that citizen science participants tend to engage in multiple projects rather than just one project. The participants can be categorized into discipline specialists and discipline spanners, as well as mode specialists and mode spanners. However, public engagement in citizen science is limited, with a higher proportion of white individuals and individuals with advanced degrees among the multiproject participants.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
P. Riccardi, V Romano, F. Pellegrino
Summary: The importance of communicating with the public is recognized in the scientific community, with education and public outreach becoming crucial aspects of a research scientist's work. Vacuum equipment is widely used in research laboratories globally, making it an excellent topic for engaging with schools and promoting interaction between researchers, students, and teachers. Activities focusing on vacuum technologies can connect scientific history to current research topics and school curricula.
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Jacqueline Monaghan, Kathryn Backholer, Amy-Louise McKelvey, Rebecca Christidis, Ann Borda, Cobi Calyx, Alessandro Crocetti, Christine Driessen, Christina Zorbas
Summary: Globally, there is inadequate adoption and implementation of policies to improve food environments and prevent weight gain. Monitoring dynamic food environments is complex, but crowdsourcing can increase data collection by engaging citizens. A scoping review identified 42 articles, which showed that photovoice techniques were commonly used to understand access to healthy food, while some studies developed apps for price and nutritional data collection. Crowdsourced data from engaging priority populations have potential to improve public and policy engagement with equitable food policy actions.
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Information Science & Library Science
Francesco Cappa
Summary: The rapid growth in data generation and collection has led to the spread of big data phenomenon. While organizations have mainly focused on collecting data from customers, this study examines the potential of collecting data from non-customers through crowd-based phenomena. The study aims to demonstrate the importance of jointly considering these phenomena and provides a framework for organizations to improve their performance by leveraging big data and crowd-based phenomena.
JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Lungwen Kuo, Tsuiyueh Chang, Chih-Chun Lai
Summary: The study identified the most suitable type of dynamic web page design through experiments and analyses, providing guidance for web designers to configure dynamic web page designs. Experimental results revealed that the design completely covered with carousel images when the home page remained static had the best visual effect.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Lungwen Kuo, Tsuiyueh Chang, Chih-Chun Lai
Summary: Colors and visual design play a crucial role in expressing emotions and content on a webpage. Two experiments were conducted to focus on color combinations and optimal visual effect designs for multimedia webpages, with psychological tests conducted to measure user reactions. The results indicated popular color combinations and suitable graphic shapes for multimedia visual designs, which can serve as a reference for webpage designers.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2022)
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Communication
Benjamin W. Mann, Madison A. Krall, Melissa M. Parks, Emily Krebs, Kourtney Maison, Robin E. Jensen
Summary: This article explores the significance of place-making in establishing communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics, using the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program as a case study to demonstrate how different types of relationships with nonexperts are built through the utilization of place. The findings reveal that specific strategic place-making gestures can either encourage or limit public engagement in scientific work and outreach processes.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
(2021)
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Information Science & Library Science
Zhijiang Liu, Tatyana Sakulyeva, Alexey Mikheev, Diana Stepanova
Summary: The study aimed to develop recommendations for optimizing crowdsourcing projects, and found that crowdfunding projects are hybrid in nature and include various elements, with security guarantees playing a predominant role. The study also identified several challenges, such as the lack of financial guarantees and the potential for information leakage. Therefore, managing the exchange of money and information becomes a top priority.
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Engineering, Civil
Jacqueline Arriagada, Claudio Mena, Marcela Munizaga, Daniel Schwartz
Summary: Transport data is crucial for planning and operations. Crowdsourcing applications offer a non-traditional method for data collection, but depend on user participation. Economic incentives and cooperation messages have a positive effect on increasing user participation, but the effect of economic incentives decreases over time.
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Patricia Silva-Flores, Andres Arguelles-Moyao, Ana Aguilar-Paredes, Francisco Junior Simoes Calaca, Jessica Duchicela, Natalia Fernandez, Ariadne N. M. Furtado, Beatriz Guerra-Sierra, Milagros Lovera, Cesar Marin, Maria Alice Neves, Fabiana Pezzani, Andrea C. Rinaldi, Krystel Rojas, Aida Marcela Vasco-Palacios
Summary: Mycorrhizal fungi and symbiosis play crucial roles in global ecosystems, but are often underappreciated by the general public. Science outreach activities are necessary to raise awareness and promote conservation efforts in the face of global change.
PLANTS PEOPLE PLANET
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Sarah Cavanah, Seth Owens, Kaylan Kemink, Collin Riley, Soojung Kim, Joonghwa Lee, Susan Ellis-Felege
Summary: Social media platforms are increasingly utilized by scientists to reach the public and fulfill outreach requirements. However, they still struggle to expand their audience to newcomers. A study on a conservation-oriented social media effort revealed minor changes in audience attitudes, knowledge, and demographics over a three-year period. Therefore, future social media campaigns should consider goals, timelines, and longer-term audience shifts.
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(2023)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Paige Prizlow, Madelyn Quirk, Kylie J. Schache, Sonia Bhakkad, Emily C. Laub, Emily L. Xu, Sophie Hill
Summary: Gender disparities in STEM fields begin in the fourth grade, with girls showing less interest than boys. Outreach events targeted at girls during this period can help foster their sense of belonging in STEM.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Simon Hickinbotham
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Simon Hickinbotham
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Norman Packard, Mark A. Bedau, Alastair Channon, Takashi Ikegami, Steen Rasmussen, Kenneth Stanley, Tim Taylor
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Tim Taylor
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Anthropology
Kristine Korzow Richter, Krista McGrath, Edouard Masson-MacLean, Simon Hickinbotham, Andrew Tedder, Kate Britton, Zoe Bottomley, Keith Dobney, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Margherita Zona, Roman Fischer, Matthew J. Collins, Camilla F. Speller
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2020)
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Ecology
Alan Dorin, Tim Taylor, Martin Burd, Julian Garcia, Mani Shrestha, Adrian G. Dyer
Summary: Heterospecific pollen transfer by insect pollinators has the potential to drive inter-species competition between flowering plants. The simulation presented in the study demonstrates that this pollen transfer can lead to varying degrees of suppression on plant reproduction, potentially resulting in one species being excluded from shared areas or refugia.
THEORETICAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Simon J. Hickinbotham, Susan Stepney, Paulien Hogeweg
Summary: Parasitism emerges readily in models and laboratory experiments of RNA world and would lead to extinction unless prevented by compartmentalization or spatial patterning. Modeling replication as an active computational process opens up many degrees of freedom that are exploited to meet environmental challenges, and to modify the evolutionary process itself.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2021)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Simon Hickinbotham, Roisin McConnell, Imelda Friel, Mark Price, Wei Zhang, Andy Tyrrell
2020 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (CEC)
(2020)
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Sam Greydanus, Misko Dzamba, Jason Yosinski
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(2019)
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2018 CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE (ALIFE 2018)
(2018)
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Tim Taylor, Alan Dorin
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(2018)
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Alan Dorin, Adrian Dyer, Tim Taylor, Zoe Bukovac
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(2018)
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Junxiu Liu, Jim Harkin, Liam McDaid, Shvan Karim, Alan G. Millard, James Hilder, Simon Hickinbotham, Anju P. Johnson, Jon Timmis, David M. Halliday, Andy M. Tyrrell
2018 IEEE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOTECHNOLOGY (IEEE-NANO)
(2018)
