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Strengthening the Teaching Assistant Faculty
In: Teaching sociology: TS, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 108
ISSN: 1939-862X
Researching multilingually : new theoretical and methodological directions
This paper reports findings from an AHRC-funded project into the use of more than one language in research projects. Using 35 seminar presentations and 25 researcher profiles, we investigated how researchers from differing disciplines became aware of the possibilities, complexities, and emerging practices of researching where more than one language is used: for example, in initial research design, literature reviews, consent procedures, data generation and analysis, and reporting. Our analysis also revealed some of the challenges that researchers face regarding institutional policies, language choices, interpretation and translation practices, and the language politics of representation and dissemination. Based on this analysis, we argue that researchers need to account for the research spaces and the relationships these spaces engender, and recognise developing researcher awareness when researching multilingually. يتناول هذا البحث النتائج التي أسفر عنها مشروع مجلس أبحاث العلوم الأدبية والإنسانية البريطاني، والذي يتناول موضوعه إعداد الأبحاث العلمية باستخدام لغات متعددة. فمن خلال مراجعة خمسٍ وثلاثين أطروحة قُدِّمت في ندوات عدة وخمسٍ وعشرين مسيرة علمية لباحثين من مجالات مختلفة ناقش القائمون على هذا المشروع كيفية نشوء وعي الباحثين بإمكانيات وإشكاليات إعداد أبحاث بلغات متعددة والممارسات المتعلقة بذلك. وقد بحث القائمون على هذا المشروع تلك الإمكانيات والإشكاليات والممارسات في كل مراحل البحث العلمي بداية من كونه فكرة وليدة وصولاً إلى مرحلة النشر وما بين ذلك من مراحل (كمراجعة مجال البحث وموافقة المشتركين فيه وجمع البيانات وتحليلها). وقد أبرز المشروع بعض التحديات التي يواجهها الباحثون كالسياسات الخاصة بالمؤسسات العلمية والاختيار ما بين اللغات المختلفة بالإضافة إلى إشكاليات الترجمة والقرارات اللغوية السياسية الخاصة بتقديم نتائج البحث ونشرها. وبناء على ذلك يرى القائمون على المشروع أن الباحثين بحاجة للوقوف على مستجدات البحث العلمي وآفاقه والعلاقات الناشئة عنه، إلى جانب ملاحظة مراحل نشوء وعي الباحثين فيما يخص إعداد أبحاث بلغات متعددة.
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A Longitudinal Assessment of Corrective Advertising Mandated in United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc
In: Journal of business ethics: JBE, Band 171, Heft 4, S. 757-770
ISSN: 1573-0697
Defining, Operationalizing, and Using Involvement in Advertising Research: A Review
In: Journal of current issues and research in advertising, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 21-57
ISSN: 2164-7313
Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action
In: Military Affairs, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 48
AI-enabled future crime
In: Crime Science, Band 9, Heft 1
ISSN: 2193-7680
AbstractA review was conducted to identify possible applications of artificial intelligence and related technologies in the perpetration of crime. The collected examples were used to devise an approximate taxonomy of criminal applications for the purpose of assessing their relative threat levels. The exercise culminated in a 2-day workshop on 'AI & Future Crime' with representatives from academia, police, defence, government and the private sector. The workshop remit was (i) to catalogue potential criminal and terror threats arising from increasing adoption and power of artificial intelligence, and (ii) to rank these threats in terms of expected victim harm, criminal profit, criminal achievability and difficulty of defeat. Eighteen categories of threat were identified and rated. Five of the six highest-rated had a broad societal impact, such as those involving AI-generated fake content, or could operate at scale through use of AI automation; the sixth was abuse of driverless vehicle technology for terrorist attack.
Assessing the Cross-National Applicability of Consumer Behavior Models: A Model of Attitude Toward Advertising in General
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 626
ISSN: 1537-5277
The Effects of Advertising Distinctiveness and Message Content Involvement on Cognitive and Affective Responses to Advertising
In: Journal of current issues and research in advertising, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 45-58
ISSN: 2164-7313
COBALT, TUNGSTEN, and THAW: New tools for engaging older adults as technology experts
In: Gerontechnology: international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society, Band 17, Heft s, S. 76-76
ISSN: 1569-111X
Anxiety and depression in twin and sib pairs extremely discordant and concordant for neuroticism: prodromus to a linkage study
In: Twin research, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 299-309
ISSN: 2053-6003
Familial Clustering of Major Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Australian and Dutch Twins and Siblings
In: Twin research and human genetics: the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Band 8, Heft 6, S. 609-615
ISSN: 1839-2628
Characterization of pollution transport into Texas using OMI and TES satellite, GIS and in situ data, and HYSPLIT back trajectory analyses: implications for TCEQ State Implementation Plans
In: Air quality, atmosphere and health: an international journal, Band 9, Heft 5, S. 569-588
ISSN: 1873-9326
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: An emerging era of collaboratie gene discovery
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of motor neuron disease (MND). It is currently incurable and treatment is largely limited to supportive care. Family history is associated with an increased risk of ALS, and many Mendelian causes have been discovered. However, most forms of the disease are not obviously familial. Recent advances in human genetics have enabled genome-wide analyses of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that make it possible to study complex genetic contributions to human disease. Genome-wide SNP analyses require a large sample size and thus depend upon collaborative efforts to collect and manage the biological samples and corresponding data. Public availability of biological samples (such as DNA), phenotypic and genotypic data further enhances research endeavors. Here we discuss a large collaboration among academic investigators, government, and non-government organizations which has created a public repository of human DNA, immortalized cell lines, and clinical data to further gene discovery in ALS. This resource currently maintains samples and associated phenotypic data from 2332 MND subjects and 4692 controls. This resource should facilitate genetic discoveries which we anticipate will ultimately provide a better understanding of the biological mechanisms of neurodegeneration in ALS.
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Observation of the rare B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; FINEP (Brazil) ; NSFC (China) ; CNRS/IN2P3 (France) ; BMBF (Germany) ; DFG (Germany) ; HGF (Germany) ; SFI (Ireland) ; INFN (Italy) ; NASU (Ukraine) ; STFC (UK) ; NSF (USA) ; BMWFW (Austria) ; FWF (Austria) ; FNRS (Belgium) ; FWO (Belgium) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; MES (Bulgaria) ; CAS (China) ; MoST (China) ; COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) ; MSES (Croatia) ; CSF (Croatia) ; RPF (Cyprus) ; MoER (Estonia) ; ERC IUT (Estonia) ; ERDF (Estonia) ; Academy of Finland (Finland) ; MEC (Finland) ; HIP (Finland) ; CEA (France) ; GSRT (Greece) ; OTKA (Hungary) ; NIH (Hungary) ; DAE (India) ; DST (India) ; IPM (Iran) ; NRF (Republic of Korea) ; WCU (Republic of Korea) ; LAS (Lithuania) ; MOE (Malaysia) ; UM (Malaysia) ; CINVESTAV (Mexico) ; CONACYT (Mexico) ; SEP (Mexico) ; UASLP-FAI (Mexico) ; MBIE (New Zealand) ; PAEC (Pakistan) ; MSHE (Poland) ; NSC (Poland) ; FCT (Portugal) ; JINR (Dubna) ; MON (Russia) ; RosAtom (Russia) ; RAS (Russia) ; RFBR (Russia) ; MESTD (Serbia) ; SEIDI (Spain) ; CPAN (Spain) ; MST (Taipei) ; ThEPCenter (Thailand) ; IPST (Thailand) ; STAR (Thailand) ; NSTDA (Thailand) ; TUBITAK (Turkey) ; TAEK (Turkey) ; SFFR (Ukraine) ; DOE (USA) ; MPG (Germany) ; FOM (The Netherlands) ; NWO (The Netherlands) ; MNiSW (Poland) ; NCN (Poland) ; MEN/IFA (Romania) ; MinES (Russia) ; FANO (Russia) ; MinECo (Spain) ; SNSF (Switzerland) ; SER (Switzerland) ; Marie-Curie programme ; European Research Council ; EPLANET (European Union) ; Leventis Foundation ; A. P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIABelgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union, Regional Development Fund ; Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino) ; Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste) ; MIUR (Italy) ; Thalis programme ; Aristeia programme ; EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; EPLANET ; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions ; ERC (European Union) ; Conseil general de Haute-Savoie ; Labex ENIGMASS ; OCEVU ; Region Auvergne (France) ; XuntaGal (Spain) ; GENCAT (Spain) ; Royal Society (UK) ; Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (UK) ; MIUR (Italy): 20108T4XTM ; The standard model of particle physics describes the fundamental particles and their interactions via the strong, electromagnetic and weak forces. It provides precise predictions for measurable quantities that can be tested experimentally. The probabilities, or branching fractions, of the strange B meson (B-s(0)) and the B-0 meson decaying into two oppositely charged muons (mu(+) and mu(-)) are especially interesting because of their sensitivity to theories that extend the standard model. The standard model predicts that the B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) decays are very rare, with about four of the former occurring for every billion B-s(0) mesons produced, and one of the latter occurring for every ten billion B-0 mesons(1). A difference in the observed branching fractions with respect to the predictions of the standard model would provide a direction in which the standard model should be extended. Before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN2 started operating, no evidence for either decay mode had been found. Upper limits on the branching fractions were an order of magnitude above the standard model predictions. The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and LHCb(Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaborations have performed a joint analysis of the data from proton-proton collisions that they collected in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of seven teraelectronvolts and in 2012 at eight teraelectronvolts. Here we report the first observation of the B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) decay, with a statistical significance exceeding six standard deviations, and the best measurement so far of its branching fraction. Furthermore, we obtained evidence for the B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) decay with a statistical significance of three standard deviations. Both measurements are statistically compatible with standard model predictions and allow stringent constraints to be placed on theories beyond the standard model. The LHC experiments will resume taking data in 2015, recording proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 teraelectronvolts, which will approximately double the production rates of B-s(0) and B-0 mesons and lead to further improvements in the precision of these crucial tests of the standard model.
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