The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific community to describe and prototype a tool to improve the interpretation and identification of meaning in (online) journals and text databases relating to the life sciences. Specifically we are looking for new ways to:
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves,
Close by the street of this fair seaport town,
Silent beside the never-silent waves,
At rest in all this moving up and down!
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1328.html
http://wc3.worldcrossing.com/webx?14@@.1de35bad/13
Issue Twenty from Pieces for Small Orchestra by Norman Lock String Theory by Steven Schutzman Three Short Shorts by Patrik Linhart The Song of the Nightingale by Fernando Arrojo-Ramos Seven Pieces of Meat by David Ray The Noctis Equi by Deb R. Lew
CTI reviews the direct-to-video movie featuring one of the most charismatic and controversial figureheads of the modern Pentecostal movement. From the review: "Rossi, who wrote and directed the 2001 Motion Picture Council Best Documentary winner Saving Si
Naboj is a dynamical website that lets you review online scientific articles. Right now the only articles that are available for review are those that have been posted at Los Alamos arXiv.
Green CS, Bavelier D.
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. csgreen@umn.edu
Human beings have an amazing capacity to learn new skills and adapt to new environments. However, several obstacles remain to be overcome in designing paradigms to broadly improve quality of life. Arguably, the most notable impediment to this goal is that learning tends to be quite specific to the trained regimen and does not transfer to even qualitatively similar tasks. This severely limits the potential benefits of learning to daily life. This review discusses training regimens that lead to the acquisition of new knowledge and strategies that can be used flexibly across a range of tasks and contexts. Possible characteristics of training regimens are proposed that may be responsible for augmented learning, including the manner in which task difficulty is progressed, the motivational state of the learner, and the type of feedback the training provides. When maximally implemented in rehabilitative paradigms, these characteristics may greatly increase the efficacy of training.
D. Taraborelli (2008), Soft peer review. Social software and distributed scientific evaluation, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP 08), Carry-Le-Rouet, France, May 20-23, 2008
Preise, Stipendien, Projekte: Deutschlands Wissenschaftsförderer vergeben viele Millionen und lenken Schicksale. Die Gutachter-Arbeit leisten die netten Peers von nebenan - ist doch Ehrensache. Dafür winkt kein Geld, höchstens Ruhm und Fleißkärtchen. Wie lange geht das noch gut?
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews publishes specially commissioned review articles designed to bring together under one cover, current advances in the ever broadening field of renewable and sustainable energy. The coverage of the journal includes the following areas:
Resources
•Bioenergy
•Geothermal
•Hydrogen
•Hydropower
•Ocean
•Solar
•Wind
Applications and Services
•Buildings
•Industry and Electricity
•Transport
Policy
•Economic aspects
•Environmental impact, emissions
•Political aspects
•Energy planning
•Social aspects
•Trends: past, present, future
Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Regional Focused Coverage of Renewable Energy