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Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
Open access self-archiving: An Introduction
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words, researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate.
In a separate exercise we asked the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd (IOPP) what their experiences have been over the 14 years that arXiv has been in existence. How many subscriptions have been lost as a result of arXiv? Both societies said they could not identify any losses of subscriptions for this reason and that they do not view arXiv as a threat to their business (rather the opposite -- this in fact the APS helped establish an arXiv mirror site at the Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Staging Emotions: a Transdisciplinary Consideration of Human-Robot Interaction
No full textThis paper presents the contributions of the scholars who took part in the panel Dire e agire l’emozione: sulle scene dell’interazione uomo-robot held at the international conference Dire et chanter les passions: les voix de l’émotion (Angers, 18th-19th October 2019). The panel aimed at investigating the forms and voices of the interaction – physical, emotional, affective – between man and robot by measuring the empathic components that result from it and verifying the possibility of understanding human behaviour starting from the reactions arising from contact with its artificial cohabitants. In the opening, the contribution of Salvatore Anzalone, Social robots as tools to understand humans’ social mind, following the most advanced studies in the field of human-machine interaction, allows us to have an overview of the various types of robots and the different areas in which robotics is used today. The two following sections are instead a deepening in the multidisciplinary research project born within the University of Bologna Performing Robots. The paragraph Motions of wonder and emotion for the artifice on stage: first notes from the Performing robots project, with a look at Japan by Matteo Casari, starts from the first public working session of the research group staged in April 2019: A dance for Lucy. Starting from this topic will be presented a short excursus on traditional Japanese theatre and the influence of automata (karakuri ningyō) and puppet theatre on human actors. About how the audience reacted to the dance performed by Lucy focuses on Cristiana Natali's intervention Between relief and empathy: the emotions of the audience at the presentation of a performing robot. The audience's perception of the performance was investigated through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The final paragraph, The voice of human emotions in the robot theatre of Hirata Oriza and Ishiguro Hiroshi by Cinzia Toscano, focuses on the performance Sayonara in which the voice is an essential element in the performative construction of the identity of the robot android Geminoid F
Staging Emotions: a Transdisciplinary Consideration of Human-Robot Interaction
No full textThis paper presents the contributions of the scholars who took part in the panel Dire e agire l’emozione: sulle scene dell’interazione uomo-robot held at the international conference Dire et chanter les passions: les voix de l’émotion (Angers, 18th-19th October 2019). The panel aimed at investigating the forms and voices of the interaction – physical, emotional, affective – between man and robot by measuring the empathic components that result from it and verifying the possibility of understanding human behaviour starting from the reactions arising from contact with its artificial cohabitants.
In the opening, the contribution of Salvatore Anzalone, Social robots as tools to understand humans’ social mind, following the most advanced studies in the field of human-machine interaction, allows us to have an overview of the various types of robots and the different areas in which robotics is used today.
The two following sections are instead a deepening in the multidisciplinary research project born within the University of Bologna Performing Robots. The paragraph Motions of wonder and emotion for the artifice on stage: first notes from the Performing robots project, with a look at Japan by Matteo Casari,
starts from the first public working session of the research group staged in April 2019: A dance for Lucy. Starting from this topic will be presented a short excursus on traditional Japanese theatre and the influence of automata (karakuri ningyō) and puppet theatre on human actors.
About how the audience reacted to the dance performed by Lucy focuses on Cristiana Natali's intervention Between relief and empathy: the emotions of the audience at the presentation of a performing robot. The audience's perception of the performance was investigated through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.
The final paragraph, The voice of human emotions in the robot theatre of Hirata Oriza and Ishiguro Hiroshi by Cinzia Toscano, focuses on the performance Sayonara in which the voice is an essential element in the performative construction of the identity of the robot android Geminoid F
Do you know any Jews?
No full textTekstom pod naslovom “Poznajete li vi ijednog Jevreja?” autorka Alma Čirkić iz Prijedora (BiH) "obraća se" javnosti i lokalnim vlastima sa pozivom za uređenje napuštenog i zapuštenog jevrejskog groblja u Prijedoru. Ovo obraćanje je dato kroz apel, koji autorka ponavlja dva puta u dve godine. U tom pismu ona daje i kratke, ali informativne podatke o više pojedinaca, Jevreja iz njenog grada - Prijedora, uz kratko navođenje njihovih profesija i poslova kojima su se oni bavili. Iako mala, ovo je jedna vredna i zanimljiva skica o Jevrejima u Prijedoru pre Drugog svetskog rata.In the text “Do you know any Jews?” author Alma Čirkić from Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina) "addresses" the public and local authorities an invitation to arrange the abandoned and neglected Jewish cemetery in Prijedor. This address was given through an appeal, which the author repeated twice in two years. In that letter, she also provides brief but informative data about several individuals, Jews from her town - Prijedor, along with a brief description of their professions and the jobs they were engaged in. Although small, this is a valuable and interesting draft of the Jews in Prijedor before World War II.Tekst pod naslovom “Poznajete li vi ijednog Jevreja?” autorke Alme Čirkić iz Prijedora (BiH), objavljen je prvi put 3.11.2019. na Facebook strani "Črčkarije". Isti tekst koji je u uvodu dopunila sama autorka ponovljen je 16.08.2020. godine na prijedor24h.net: [http://prijedor24h.net/2020/08/16/]
Reinforce-lib: A Reinforcement Learning Library for Scientific Research
No full textReinforcement Learning (RL) has already achieved several breakthroughs on complex, high-dimensional, and even multi-agent tasks, gaining increasingly interest from not only the research
community. Although very powerful in principle, its applicability is still limited to solving games and control problems, leaving plenty opportunities to apply and develop RL algorithms for (but
not limited to) scientific domains like physics, and biology. Apart from the domain of interest, the applicability of RL is also limited by numerous difficulties encountered while training agents, like training instabilities and sensitivity to hyperparameters. For such reasons, we propose a modern,
modular, simple and understandable Python RL library called reinforce-lib. Our main aim is to enable newcomers, practitioners, and researchers to easily employ RL to solve new scientific problems. Our library is available at https://github.com/Luca96/reinforce-lib
ISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report
No full textOn behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Open Society Institute (OSI) a survey of journal authors has been carried out by Key Perspectives Ltd. The terms of reference were to poll a cohort of authors who had published on an open access basis and another cohort of authors who had published their work in conventional journals without making the article available on open access. The survey’s aims were to investigate the authors’ awareness of new open access possibilities, the ease of identification of and submission to open access outlets, their experiences of publishing their work in this way, their concerns about any implications open access publishing may have upon their careers, and the reasons why (or not) they chose to publish through an open access outlet
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