Although the literature on both academic dishonesty and scientific misconduct is extensive, research on academic dishonesty has focused on quizzes, exams, and papers, with the virtual exclusion of the classroom laboratory. This study examined the distinctions undergraduate chemistry majors made between academic dishonesty in the classroom laboratory and scientific misconduct in the research lab...

The RePEc academic documentation for Economics is the contains the largest distributed digital library in the world. It indexes over 35,000 freely accessible electronic papers is the field of academic Economics. This paper is an intermediate work report on our ongoing efforts to develop an citation linking system for this project. We discuss both technical issues of the construction of the syst...

We compare expert finding approaches that use and combine different types of expertise evidence: content-based expert finding using academic papers, and expert finding using a social citation network between the documents and authors. We evaluate our approaches on a test collection that represents the research output of a typical average-sized academic workgroup. We find that expert finding usi...

Internet has become a major channel for academic information dissemination in recent years. As a matter of fact, academic information, e.g., “call for papers”, “call for proposals”, “advances of research”, etc., is crucial for researchers, since they have to publish research outputs and capture new research trends. This study focuses on extraction of academic conference information including to...

Publishing academic work has been recognized as a key indicator for measuring scholars’ scientific productivity and having crucial impact on their future career. However, little has been known about how the majority of researchers progress in publishing papers across disciplines. In this work, using a collection consisting of over five millions academic publications across 15 disciplines, we st...

Welcome to the sixth special issue on Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST) of Elsevier’s Science of Computer Programming journal. The EST series aims at allowing academic software developers to publish the software systems they developed with similar rigor as academic papers. Peer reviewers evaluated not only a scientific paper about the developed system but also the system itself. The goal...

Copyright c © 2014 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. Abstract: This problem statement describes the lack of effective methodologies and tool support for documenting decision knowledge during software evolution. After a brief description and definition of decisions in sof...

The Basel II IRB approach revisited: do we use the correct model?

Using filter paper to collect blood from wildlife for antibody analysis can be a powerful technique to simplify the collection, transport, and storage of blood samples. Despite these advantages, there are limited data that detail how long these samples can be stored and how storage conditions affect antibody longevity. We used blood samples collected on filter paper from coyotes experimentally ...