This paper selectively reviews scientific research on the positive effects on building occupant’s health, well-being and productivity that result from the presence of indoor plants in the workplace. Case studies show improvement in indoor air quality, (with a reduction in the levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), improved productivity by up to 12%, and reduced absenteeism and staff turno...

Evaluation of scientific work underlies the process of career advancement in academic science, with publications being a fundamental metric. Many aspects of the evaluation process for grants and promotions are deeply ingrained in institutions and funding agencies and have been altered very little in the past several decades, despite substantial changes that have taken place in the scientific wo...

This chapter advocates a cognitively realistic approach to social simulation. based on a model for capturing the growth of academic science. Gilbert’s (1997) model, which was equation based, is replaced in this work by an agent-based model, with the cognitive architecture CLARION providing greater cognitive realism. Using this agent model, results comparable to human data are obtained. It is fo...

It is intuitively easy to understand what is meant by inequality measures. That is because applications occur in very sensitive situations : rich vs. poor persons or countries, high productivity vs. low productivity (in various aspects : economic, scientific, biological, ...). Inequality applies to virtually every aspect of human and non human life. It is, therefore, not surprising that one wis...

We developed the Biomedical Informatics Researchers ranking website (rank.informatics-review.com) to overcome many of the limitations of previous scientific productivity ranking strategies. The website is composed of four key components that work together to create an automatically updating ranking website: (1) list of biomedical informatics researchers, (2) Google Scholar scraper, (3) display ...

NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, is a leading scientific computing facility for unclassified research, and has had a significant impact on computational physics in the U.S. Here we will summarize the recent experience at NERSC, and present the four key elements of our strategic plan for the next five years. Significant changes are expected to happen in computatio...

introduction: the articles indexed in accredited citation databases essentially indicate how scientists share knowledge and promote sustainable development in each country. therefore, according to citations to the papers of individuals, it could be possible to assess the rate of their acceptability in the scientific community. the main objective of this study was to review lotka's law of scient...

the paper explores the research productivity of the journal vikalpa for the    period of 2003-2012, which is indexed in the ebsco on-line database. various quality aspects of the 437 research articles published in the period were studied. the study elaborates on various aspects of the journal such as year wise distribution of the articles, growth rate of articles, authorship pattern, and degree...