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    ​​A Scoping Review of the Roles, Competencies, and Professional Development for Librarians Engaged in Research Data Services​

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    ​​Research and data services in academic libraries is a developing field with roles that are often loosely defined. The necessary skills and training for librarians seeking to fill these new roles are not well established, making it difficult to standardize education and core competencies due to the field's diversity. Libraries aiming to offer research and data services must assess the specific needs of their institutions and ensure their staff acquire the relevant skills and provide the necessary services for their researchers.​ ​​The objective of this scoping review (ScR) is to systematically collect and map out the roles that academic librarians serve in providing research and data services (RDS). The primary focus is to explore the scope of librarians in RDS while developing a better understanding of the ways librarians lend their support (e.g., skills, knowledge, expertise) to their researchers and stakeholders. The secondary objectives will seek which competencies and skills librarians need to provide RDS to their institutions

    Interviews with working age Nepali migrants

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    Semi-structured interviews conducted face to face with Nepali migrants , 27 participant

    Motor Synchrony, Social Learning and Closeness in Group Play Settings

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    Playful activities provide critical opportunities for rhythmic interactions, which may affect social and cognitive development in early childhood. Prior research suggests that motor synchrony promotes closeness and prosocial behaviour, but few studies have examined its role in social learning and in group settings. This study investigated whether motor synchrony in a clapping game, enhances preschoolers' closeness with others, imitation, over-imitation, and sharing behaviour. In a group setting, motor synchrony and asynchrony were experimentally induced between the child and two experimenters. We hypothesized that children would feel closer, imitate more, and share more with an adult partner who moved in synchrony compared to one who moved asynchronously. Bayesian analyses revealed no credible evidence that the children affiliated, imitated, over-imitated, or shared differently with their synchronous versus asynchronous partner (BF10=0.045-0.216). Manipulation checks indicated that although the adults adhered to the stimuli, there was overall low motor synchrony. These findings highlight the challenges of inducing motor synchrony in playful group settings and raise questions about the level of synchrony necessary to impact social affiliation and learning in young children

    UMUD Data Repository

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    This is the UMUD Data Reposity containing all example and training data related to UMUD

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    Approaches to map cortical excitability beyond the primary motor cortex

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    Excitability is a neuronal property quantified as the magnitude of neural response to stimuli. It plays a crucial role in information processing and is disrupted in various neuropsychiatric conditions. In humans, non-invasive measurements of brain excitability have been mostly limited to the primary motor cortex. Here, the response to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is quantified as the magnitude of the muscular contraction. TMS mapping of brain excitability outside the motor cortex, simultaneously across brain areas, and in deep regions is challenging. Indeed, TMS has little depth penetration, and can only probe one cortical point at a time. Furthermore, the measurement of the responses to stimuli outside the motor cortex requires simultaneous neuroimaging, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Possible solutions include the application of stimulation approaches alternative to TMS, and the investigation of resting state properties of electromagnetic and hemodynamic brain activity. We show that, in combination with TMS or alone, neuroimaging will progressively allow non-invasive and accurate mapping of excitability with high spatio-temporal resolution, across the entire brain, and non-invasively. Here, we critically discuss the state of the art of whole brain excitability mapping and provide an outlook on neuroscience and clinical implications

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