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10 Things You Can Do with ArcGIS Online and Story Maps
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Several new content pieces invite you to do hands-on work with web GIS technology:

[1] 10 Things you can do with ArcGIS Online in education. These include: (1) Use web mapping applications. (2) Make your own map. (3) Get a school, club, or university organizational account in ArcGIS Online. (4) Use and modify existing curricular resources. (5) Explore the Living Atlas of the World. (6) Modify and ask questions of maps. (7) Conduct spatial analysis on mapped data. (8) Add multimedia to maps. (9) Explore your world in 3D, and (10) Map and analyze field-collected data.

[2] Introduction and Advanced Work with Story Maps: Slides and hands-on exercises. These include how to build a story map from a web map, and how to build map tours, map journals, swipe, series, and other types of story maps.

[3] Teaching with Web Apps. Set of resources and activities. These include examining Pacific typhoons in 3D, demographics of Zip Codes, creating viewsheds and buffers, and much more.

[4] Spatial Analysis in Human Geography. These include the 1854 cholera epidemic in London (activity), a Boulder County hazards analysis (map), and an examination of the Human Development Index around the world (map).


I created this content for the Esri mapping lab for the 2017 National Conference on Geography Education, but it can also be used to support your own professional development or for your own instruction.

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Physical Geography
Physical Science
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Joseph J. Kerski
Date Added:
10/30/2017
1.MD Growing Bean Plants
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials - 2 clear plastic cups for each pair of students - 4 bean seeds for each pair - soil - unifix cubes - a plant or math journal to record data ...

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Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
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04/17/2013
1.NBT Comparing Numbers
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials A spinner with the numbers 0, 1, 2, ... 9 A spinner with the decades 00, 10, 20, ... 90 Math journal or teacher-made worksheet Pencil Actions...

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Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
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Illustrative Mathematics
Date Added:
04/19/2013
2017 Updates to the Banff Classification of Allograft Pathology
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Since 1991, the international Banff Classification has been revisited every 2 years to integrate advances in clinical research into best-treatment practices for organ transplantation. At the 2017 Banff conference, 479 delegates from 23 countries reviewed two seminal concerns in the kidney-transplant field: how T cell-mediated rejection is related to inflammation in areas of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy, and the evolution of molecular diagnostics, particularly for identifying antibody-mediated rejection. These discussions prompted significant updates to the Banff scheme. The relationship between i-IFTA severity and graft survival has been well established. Despite this, i-IFTA has previously been excluded as a diagnostic criterion of TCMR. Recent findings, however, suggest that inflammation in IFTA can be a manifestation of chronic active TCMR, particularly when other features of T cell-mediated alloimmunity, such as tubulitis, are present..."

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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09/20/2019
2019 BJN Paper of the Year: High-starch, low-sugar diet could favor longevity in Japanese men
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"It might sound like bad advice, but for Japanese men, eating a high-carb diet could actually be a good thing—only, it depends on the type of carb. Because eating too much of the wrong ones could have dire consequences. These are the findings reported by Professor Chisato Nagata and colleagues from the Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan—recipients of the inaugural British Journal of Nutrition Paper of the Year award. Their paper, published in volume 122, issue 7 of BJN, describes a subset of results from the Takayama Study. The study was launched in 1992 to link dietary and lifestyle factors to morbidity from cancer and other diseases. Participants filled out a questionnaire at baseline on how frequently they ate various foods..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

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Life Science
Nutrition
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Research Square
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10/23/2020
2019 JMR Paper of the Year: High-performance wire-shaped supercapacitor
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"The Journal of Materials Research is proud to announce the 2019 Gordon E. Pike JMR Paper of the Year Award. This award recognizes excellence in advancing materials knowledge through written scholarship. This year’s honors go to a team of researchers from China and the US for their report on a new form of flexible and rechargeable supercapacitor wire, which was published in the September 14, 2019 issue of Journal of Materials Research. With the rapid growth of portable and wearable electronics, researchers face many important challenges. They’re tasked with fabricating devices that are smaller, lighter, and more flexible than ever—all while delivering the same or higher levels of performance. Wire-shaped supercapacitors are among the most promising technologies developed to address these challenges. These flexible devices store and deliver energy in the form of tightly wound fibers of electrochemically active materials, such as carbon nanotubes..."

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Diagram/Illustration
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10/23/2020
21st Century Challenges in Higher Education: Strategic Changes and Unintended Consequences
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In part, because many planned organizational improvements fall short of their intended goals, higher education administrators have not been able to promote sustained improvements. Most university leaders have been promoted into leadership roles without experience and training to enable them to foresee and address unintended outcomes of their decision making; often, the culture in higher education institutions promotes continuation of the status quo. However, in times of crisis, such as those related to reductions in budgets, many unintended consequences develop as leaders attempt to address change. Unintended consequences have implications related to the success or failure of planned change and higher education administrators must address such outcomes appropriately. This article discusses issues related to unintended consequences of policy changes in higher education.

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IJELP | International Journal of Education Leadership Preparation
Author:
Beattie, J., Thornton, B., Laden, R., Brackett, D.
Date Added:
03/08/2013
3D-printed micro-trusses point the way toward stronger high-temperature ceramics
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"3D-printed with microscale precision, these tiny architectural marvels could be the key to making high-temperature ceramics less vulnerable to fracture. The implications could span across the numerous areas these materials are used, from aerospace to tissue engineering. The blueprint for these hardy structures is reported in the Journal of Materials Research Volume 33, Issue No. 3, earning honors as the 2018 JMR Paper of the Year. Researchers built the miniature trusses layer by layer using a technique called projection microstereolithography. In this process, a UV-light pattern is scanned across a polymer bath composed of photo-active ceramic building blocks. The silicon-based polymer solidifies at every point traced by the UV beam. Subsequent heating in a high-temperature furnace activates the polymer structures, baking off volatile organics, to produce silicon oxycarbide structures. The team then put these structures to the test..."

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Applied Science
Engineering
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09/20/2019
5 Most Important Essay Writing Points Which Will Help Your Writing Skill
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For some such understudies, each exposition carries with it the test of improving it that tad than the last one. The issue is that when you write essays frequently, it's anything but difficult to stall out stuck of rehashing a similar recipe each time – especially when you as of now get great criticism from the educators who read them. So how would you take your essays to the following level and go from extraordinary to splendid? Here are some down to earth tips and systems that will enable you to write reliably great essays.  Get Knowledge From Others Esssay Similarly as the books you read intuitively help shape your own written work style, so perusing other individuals' essays can enable you to create and expand alone article composing style. Endeavor to peruse a scope of different essays, including those of your associates and of scholastics. Read essays on a wide assortment of subjects, not really simply those that you're examining; diverse controls may apply various types of contentions or styles, so the more extensive you read, the more conceivable systems there are for you to get and use in essays of your own. Before reading more essay writing tips, if you need essay writing services only say us WriteMyEssayOnline, we will give you best services.As you read other individuals' essays, don't simply fully trust them. Be basic: what do you like about them? What don't you like about them? How enticing do you think they are? Is the contention an adjusted one, with focuses sufficiently upheld with prove? Has the writer utilized any systems you've not seen previously? Another great wellspring of essays is the broadsheet daily papers. Read the feeling pieces and analyze how the writer has upheld their focuses with confirm, and once more, be basic; note where they've forgotten things to attempt to induce you to a specific conclusion. Essays ought to be adjusted, so you can gain from the best of these writers and get a few systems to enable you to shape an adjusted piece.  Your Vocabulary Must Be Good And Use It In Your Essay Properly A decent vocabulary will enable you to express precisely what you mean, as obviously and briefly as could be expected under the circumstances. Economy with words is a normal for all great essays, in light of the fact that perusers (and exposition markers) don't care for having their chance squandered with long, meandering focuses that could have been communicated down the middle the quantity of words. One method for guaranteeing that you can convey plainly and to the fact of the matter is through precise and successful utilization of cutting edge vocabulary. A decent article writer ought to never lay on their trees with regards to vocabulary; it's something you ought to take a shot at persistently, as there are in every case new words to discover that could help pass on a point all the more viably. Additionally, sending a decent vocabulary shows knowledge and enables you to be more enticing in your article composing. Here are some manners by which you can fabricate your vocabulary: Subscribe to a 'word multi day' email, (for example, this one from Merriam-Webster). Make an organizer in your email represent new word messages, with the goal that you can record each email and have them across the board put prepared to flick through and gain from in a sit without moving minute. Read generally, and allude to a lexicon for words you don't know as you come; thusly, you'll take in the new word and additionally observing it in setting so you know how to utilize it legitimately. Read diverse types of fiction, and verifiable covering a scope of subjects, and you'll have the special reward of augmenting your general learning and also your vocabulary. Use a thesaurus – on the off chance that you end up utilizing similar words again and again, change up your dialect by looking into those words in a thesaurus and finding different words that mean a similar thing. An expression of caution: words you find in a thesaurus can't simply be utilized reciprocally; even words with comparable implications can vary quietly in a way that makes them unseemly in specific settings, so discover cases of a word utilized accurately before you utilize another word out of the blue. Learn prefixes, additions and roots – it sounds exhausting, however this alternate route will enable you to take in a large number of more words. Numerous roots originate from Latin and Greek words, for example, "bene" in Latin, signifying "great", which offers ascend to words, for example, "advocate", "considerate" and "advantage". It's regularly conceivable to conclude the significance of another word in the event that you know its root and read it in setting. Prefixes are added to the start of a word to change the importance, for example, "semi" or "bet", while additions are added to the end, for example, "- capable" or "- ance". Start a vocabulary book – you most likely have one in case you're taking in an outside dialect, so why not have one for your local dialect also? Get yourself a decent scratch pad and utilize it to gather new words and their implications. The demonstration of recording the definition will enable you to recollect it, and you could incorporate a case of how the word is utilized to expand your odds of retaining it for use in essays. It might have distinctive segments for words on specific topics; you could have a general segment, and after that further parts of the scratch pad could be committed to expressions of utilization in history essays, science essays et cetera.  Plan Your Essay Before Writing We've presumably all had it pounded into us that we ought to write a paper plan before we begin composing, however before you even do that, you have to realize what the contention you will make really is. At exactly that point would you be able to begin composing the structure for an article that develops to your general decision. To consolidate what you're endeavoring to state into a short, smart rundown for you to work from, take a stab at making an 'Elevator Pitch' style synopsis of what you expect to write and why perusers ought to be occupied with it. The Elevator Pitch is a system utilized by sales representatives when consolidating the contentions for purchasing an item into the most limited conceivable outline of why a client ought to think about a buy. The businessperson is advised to envision themselves in a lift; in the time it takes for that lift to achieve the coveted floor, they ought to have given a convincing contention for that item that would result in the client getting it, or if nothing else needing to know more. Your Elevator Pitch for your paper should pitch the possibility of it to a peruser, abandoning them needing to peruse the article being referred to. This is a significant extreme exercise, as it constrains you to be heartlessly compact in your reasoning and selection of words; however you can utilize this rundown to enable you to write your presentation, and it'll enable you to accomplish lucidity in what you're endeavoring to state.  Give Solid Information To Reader What Other People Say We've said this on a past article on exposition composing, however it appears to be germane to specify it here as well. Essays are a shot for you to flaunt how broadly read you are, so ensure you quote other individuals' assessments, and unique sources, on what you're expounding on. For instance, if you somehow managed to write a history paper on early religious practices in Britain, you could cite unique messages on that point, (for example, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People) and furthermore specify what a scope of current researchers need to say in regards to the theme. Differentiating perspectives ought to be looked for; it's far-fetched that everybody concedes to the subject, so indicate you've taken a gander at all the conceivable points. For every one of the subjects you're examining, begin a page in a journal for vital individuals in that field, with a synopsis of when they lived and what their perspectives are. That way, you'll have something to allude to when you're composing an article and need to counsel proper researchers or different writers whose assessments you may wish to incorporate. Try not to cite excessively; blend references with your own assessments so it doesn't look as if you need to take cover behind other individuals' words. It's fine to differ with a researcher you quote, if you can give proof and thinking for doing as such. This demonstrates you have contemplated it and influenced your own brain to up, as opposed to aimlessly tolerating what that researcher has said; this shows solid basic thinking aptitudes, one of the signs of splendid understudies.  Your Punctuation Must Be Good  You may not deliberately acknowledge it when you're perusing, but rather refined sentence structures have the universe of effect to how clever you sound. As we've just stated, the most vital thought when you're composing is making yourself simple for perusers to see; however you can in any case do this and use a scope of intriguing punctuation in the meantime. Utilize an assortment of sentence structures, long and short, yet don't give your sentences a chance to end up too long and meandering, or they wind up hard to peruse. Successful accentuation is fundamental in passing on your contentions influentially; the exact opposite thing an instructor or teacher needs to peruse is an article loaded with poor language structure. Also, the peruser shouldn't need to peruse a sentence more than once to comprehend it. You likely as of now have a manner of speaking you use for composing essays, however is it fascinating and locks in? Read through a portion of your old essays and ask yourself genuinely whether you discover them engrossing. In the event that they're not, it could well be on the grounds that you've not built up the correct manner of speaking. Essays constitute a formal, scholastic setting, yet that doesn't mean you need to exhaust. A sure manner of speaking will help demonstrate the peruser that you hear what you're saying and promise them that they're in safe hands. 

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Jashon Langer
Date Added:
08/25/2018
ARRIVE has not ARRIVEd: Support for the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of in vivo Experiments) guidelines does not improve the reporting quality of papers in animal welfare, analgesia or anesthesia
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Poor research reporting is a major contributing factor to low study reproducibility, financial and animal waste. The ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines were developed to improve reporting quality and many journals support these guidelines. The influence of this support is unknown. We hypothesized that papers published in journals supporting the ARRIVE guidelines would show improved reporting compared with those in non-supporting journals. In a retrospective, observational cohort study, papers from 5 ARRIVE supporting (SUPP) and 2 non-supporting (nonSUPP) journals, published before (2009) and 5 years after (2015) the ARRIVE guidelines, were selected. Adherence to the ARRIVE checklist of 20 items was independently evaluated by two reviewers and items assessed as fully, partially or not reported. Mean percentages of items reported were compared between journal types and years with an unequal variance t-test. Individual items and sub-items were compared with a chi-square test. From an initial cohort of 956, 236 papers were included: 120 from 2009 (SUPP; n = 52, nonSUPP; n = 68), 116 from 2015 (SUPP; n = 61, nonSUPP; n = 55). The percentage of fully reported items was similar between journal types in 2009 (SUPP: 55.3 ± 11.5% [SD]; nonSUPP: 51.8 ± 9.0%; p = 0.07, 95% CI of mean difference -0.3–7.3%) and 2015 (SUPP: 60.5 ± 11.2%; nonSUPP; 60.2 ± 10.0%; p = 0.89, 95%CI -3.6–4.2%). The small increase in fully reported items between years was similar for both journal types (p = 0.09, 95% CI -0.5–4.3%). No paper fully reported 100% of items on the ARRIVE checklist and measures associated with bias were poorly reported. These results suggest that journal support for the ARRIVE guidelines has not resulted in a meaningful improvement in reporting quality, contributing to ongoing waste in animal research.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Life Science
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Reading
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PLOS ONE
Author:
Daniel S. J. Pang
Frédérik Rousseau-Blass
Guy Beauchamp
Vivian Leung
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Abnormal alignment of lower extremity associated with osteochondritis dissecans
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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Osteochondritis dissecans, or OCD, is a bone disease that wears away joints and the cartilage that covers them. It occurs most often in children and adolescents. While OCD has been documented and studied for nearly 150 years, researchers still don’t know what causes it. Reporting in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, one group offers up new findings that point to at least one factor that surgeons should look out for. The team looked at radiographs of 61 knees of patients undergoing surgery for OCD. Those patients were just over 23 years old on average, and 77% of them were men. The researchers reviewed the radiographs for mechanical alignment, as previous studies have speculated that deformities due to malalignment contribute to OCD. What they found was that patients with OCD did in fact show signs of off-axis effects. Specifically, they observed that the location of OCD lesions correlated with the deviation of the mechanical axis of the leg..."

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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10/23/2020
Abrupt climate change, greenhouse gases, and the bipolar see-saw
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In this activity, students work with paleoclimate proxy data (d18O, CH4, CO2)from the Byrd and GISP2 ice cores to investigate millennial-scale climate changes during the Last Glacial/Deglacial time periods. Students must prepare a publication quality plot of the data and answer several questions about the similarities and differences between the time-series (north-south phasing, amplitude, symmetry) and use this information to assess the bipolar see-saw mechanism for abrupt climate changes. Students are encouraged to read two journal articles for more information and to synthesize their results with other information from lectures and earlier readings.

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Applied Science
Biology
Environmental Science
Life Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
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Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
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Teach the Earth
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Kathleen Johnson
Date Added:
08/28/2019
Academic Career Kit | Find and Share Research Data
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The toolkit addresses research data management, a topic that is a burden for many in the research routine. However, there is a lot in it for researchers, if they document, backup, and eventually share their research data. It can get cited and will influence their metrics. Also, many journals and third party funders require the publication of research data – for the sake of transparency, quality control and synergy effects in research. In this toolkit, researchers can find materials and information on managing their own data – but also search portals, in which they can find high quality research data themselves.

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Business and Communication
Economics
Social Science
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Interactive
Module
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ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
EconBiz
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03/31/2021
Academic Career Kit | Publish your Paper
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The aim of this toolkit is to support early career researchers in finding a journal that publishes their paper and optimally promotes the visibility of their research. How can they find a journal with a good journal ranking score that is perceived in the respective research community? How can they find a journal that perfectly matches their topic? Should they consider publishing open access? What are predatory journals and how can they detect them?

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Business and Communication
Economics
Social Science
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Interactive
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Author:
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
EconBiz
Date Added:
03/31/2021
Academic Journal of Surgery
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Academic Journal of Surgery (AJS) is the official scientific journal of Research Center for Improvement of Surgical Outcomes & Procedures (RCISOP) affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. AJS is an open access, peer-reviewed, and quarterly journal that considers for publication articles in all fields and specialties of surgery in English language. This journal has both online and print versions and no charges are levied for publication.

Currently, AJS is indexed and abstracted in: Citefactor, UlrichsWeb, Index Copernicus (IC), Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI), Google Scholar, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Open Academic Journals Index (OAJI), Advanced Science Index (ASI), Unversal Impact Factor (UIF), Directory of Abstract Indexing for Journals (DAJI), JournalTOCs, Electronic Journal Library (EZB), Scientific Indexing Services (SIS), AcademicKeys, Research Bible, InfoBase Index, Cosmoc Impacr Factor, Scholar Steer, Magiran, and IranMedex.

AJS focuses on all fields and specialties of surgery including General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, GI Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Urology, Surgical Oncology, Radiology, Anaesthesia, Trauma Services, ENT, particularly about surgical practice and research. Content includes Original Articles, Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis, Review Articles, Case Reports, Letters to the Editor, Clinical Trials and Health Policy Challenge.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Life Science
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Date Added:
01/01/2014
Acceso
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Acceso is a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish. The materials on the site are provided freely to the public and are intended as a replacement for commercial textbooks, which are generally ill-suited to the learning outcomes now considered crucial to successful language study. These materials are supplemented by an online workbook built on the MySpanishLab platform of Pearson Education, Inc., as well as detailed lesson plans, rubrics for the evaluation of student work, and reliable instruments for measuring student progress and learning outcomes. Winner of 2012 Computer Assisted Language Consortium (CALICO) Focus Award

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CALICO Journal 29.2 (Jan 2012): 398-405.
Hispania 95.2 (June 2012): 365-366

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Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
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Full Course
Textbook
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University of Kansas
Author:
Amy Rossomondo et al.
Date Added:
08/31/2012
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship
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Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past—from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America—stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story—online open access publishing by scholarly journals—and makes a case for open access as a public good.

A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. Open access, argues Willinsky, can benefit both a researcher-author working at the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school.

Willinsky describes different types of access—the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, grants open access to issues six months after initial publication, and First Monday forgoes a print edition and makes its contents immediately accessible at no cost. He discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and "epistemological vanities." The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world—and about the future of knowledge.

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Applied Science
Business and Communication
Communication
Information Science
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Reading
Author:
John Willinsky
Date Added:
10/27/2022
Acoustical Oceanography
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This course will begin with brief overview of what important current research topics are in oceanography (physical, geological, and biological) and how acoustics can be used as a tool to address them. Three typical examples are climate, bottom geology, and marine mammal behavior. Will then address the acoustic inverse problem, reviewing inverse methods (linear and nonlinear) and the combination of acoustical methods with other measurements as an integrated system. Last part of course will concentrate on specific case studies, taken from current research journals. This course is taught on campus at MIT and with simultaneous video at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Engineering
Oceanography
Physical Science
Physics
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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Lynch, James
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Advanced Semantics
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This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory. Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overview of the field and its current developments. Our aim is to help you to develop the ability for semantic analysis, and we think that exploring a few topics in detail together with hands-on practical work is more effective than offering a bird's-eye view of everything. Once you have gained some experience in doing semantic analysis, reading around in the many recent handbooks and in current issues of major journals and attending our seminars and colloquia will give you all you need to prosper. Because we want to focus, we need to make difficult choices as to which topics to cover.
This year, we will focus on topics having to do with modality, conditionals, tense, and aspect.

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Arts and Humanities
Linguistics
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
von Fintel, Kai
Date Added:
02/01/2009