Statistical Tools for Replicable and Reproducible Research Recent technology advances have changed the practice of scientific research. More studies are conducted in each research field, and large-scale data are recorded in each study, such that many hypotheses are examined. Data processing and analysis pipelines become more complex, and there are convenient tools for storing and distributing c...

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ABSTRACT The method of determining the biobased carbon content in liquid fuel samples is standardized, but different laboratories use protocols during sample preparation and perform measurements using machines. accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) combustion, preparation, graphitization methods for graphite production spectrometric measurements. As a result, intercomparison between inevitable to...

Scientific research is highly dynamic. New areas of science continually evolve; others gain or lose importance, merge, or split. Due to the steady increase in the number of scientific publications, it is hard to keep an overview of the structure and dynamic development of one's own field of science, much less all scientific domains. However, knowledge of "hot" topics, emergent research frontier...

Certain local atmospheric anomalies, such as the formation of unusually large ice conglomerations (megacryometeors), have been proposed to be a potential natural hazard for people and aviation, as well as geoindicators for fingerprinting larger-scale atmospheric environmental changes. On March 13th 2007, at approximately 10:15 am, an ice chunk weighing about 10 kg fell from the clear-sky and cr...

Workflows describe not only a collection of component functions, but also their dependencies, which predefine a constrained order of execution. Scientific workflows are used to describe not only computational and service requirements but also the location of such services or computational units. Instruments in scientific laboratories, robots in remote inaccessible areas, a satellite unit in out...

Over the past decade, I have performed several field studies with scientists developing software either on their own or together with software engineers. Based on these field study data, I identify a model of scientific software development as practiced in many scientific laboratories and communities. This model does not fit the standard software engineering models. For example, the tasks of re...

Large-scale scientific research projects commonly span widely separated computing and experimental resources. The challenge of the future will be to provide small research groups with access to virtual laboratories composed of network-accessible, highthroughput research tools. Unfortunately, even current projects are limited by the lack of comprehensive computing infrastructure for supporting d...

The ability to clearly set expectations is an important leadership characteristic. However it is very common for individuals heading up research laboratories or scientific collaborations to struggle with, or not identify the advantages of, explicitly communicating what they expect of the people working in their lab or participating on their team, not to mention what the participants can expect ...

in the september 15, 2016 issue of science, dr. richard stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in iran. there are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the iranian scientific community. iran’s scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by s...