Motivation: Scientific dataspaces aim at providing associated mechanisms for managing semantically rich relationships among scientific data sources (primary data) and its corresponding findings (derived data). The latter result from a set of activities defining concrete preprocessing and analysis methods (background data) that were applied to a source dataset. To keep track of scientific experi...

What advice would you give to someone who is considering a career in science? It is important not to shy away from addressing big questions. This will require actively seeking interdisciplinary knowledge, and developing collaborative skills. It is also important to integrate well in the scientific community, and participate in community efforts (such as reviewing manuscripts and grants). If you...

With the explosion of data coming out from the international scientific community, researchers can now locate and manipulate data of interest quickly and easily on the Internet. The scope of this review is to focus on some of the recent developments of the Internet that are specially relevant to health scientists. The review also provides the medical and scientific community with a selection of...

In this paper we address the issue of research communities in science and engineering and their effects on graduate students and women in particular. We present our observations of graduate student experiences in one particular research community. These observations are considered in the context of research done by national science institutes and feminist theorists about the under-representatio...

This paper presents an analytical approach to support organisational learning in terms of the evolution of a scientific community based on a combination of social network analysis and semantic relations. The primary and direct target of the method is to infer hidden or desirable links between subgroups in a networked community. The data source for these inferences comprises memberships in teams...

This paper describes a Virtual Community (VC) developed within the framework of the European project SCIENAR (Scientific Scenarios and Art). The SCIENAR project explores the connections between Art and Science and the use of new media and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the exploration and representation of these relationships in an innovative and productive way. The main obje...

Evidence-based approaches (those explicitly linked to the best available scientific evidence and reflecting community preferences and feasibility) are increasingly used to inform health policy decision making on the burden of a disease attributable to particular causes, interventions and policies that might work to confront those causes, and issues of community fit and feasibility. This paper i...

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...

For more than a decade, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has led a program called the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR). One of the four key components of the RCMARs is a Community Liaison Core whose objectives are to conduct research on recruiting community members for scientific studies and to facilitate working relationships with host communities. The articles in this...

There is a long history of public debate as to the acceptability of the use of animals for scientific purposes be that for research, for teaching or for product testing. The basic tenet of the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (the Code) is that there is an ethical imperative in our decisions as to if and how animals are used in these circumstan...