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Impact of Socio-Cultural Disharmony on the Educational System
No full textThe paper focuses on the major problems of the young generation in respect of their profession, education and personal life, relationship, creativity etc. Authors mentioned that if a man or woman has been satisfied by his or his activities then they become prosperous in their life. Students at the very early stage of education should be guided by moral and ethical education. Only moral and ethical values can save the life of distressed people. Socio-cultural disaster leads to unsatisfied generation. It also produces uneven circumstances in the land we live in. It may not be possible to live a happy fruitful life in the space of socio-cultural disaster. It has been concluded that only a proper education system aiming at character building and skill development can be the measure to defend against socio-cultural disasters. Self-respect and freedom of thinking are very much essential for proper education
Assessment of Articular Cartilage by Second Harmonic Microscopy: Challenges and Opportunities
No full textSecond harmonic microscopy (SHM) has emerged as a powerful non-destructive optical imaging modality that has high potential to perform the advanced structural characterization of intact articular cartilage. This article provides the current status, opportunities, and challenges of SHM for the use in cartilage evaluation. A novel perspective on SHM is being addressed that includes the reason, need and the importance of SHM in the assessment of articular cartilage. By taking the advantage of collagen specificity and high-resolution imaging, SHM can detect the structural and morphological changes in early stage cartilage damage that would otherwise be overlooked by standard clinical imaging methods such as radiography and arthroscopy. The current status of SHM for articular cartilage analysis and the major progress reported in recent literature are briefly described herein. We summarize the status of scientific efforts and the challenges that need to overcome before moving toward clinical applications of SHM in the context of cartilage evaluation.publishedVersionCopyright © 2019 Kumar and Kumar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms
Article and Author Level Measurements
No full textArticle and author level measurements have been discussed in this Unit. Author and researcher identifiers are absolutely essential for searching databases in the WWW because a name like D Singh can harbour a number of names such as Dan Singh, Dhan Singh, Dhyan Singh, Darbara Singh, Daulat Singh, Durlabh Singh and more. The ResearcherID.com, launched by Thomson Reuters, is a web-based global registry of authors and researchers that individualises each and every name. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is also a registry that uniquely identifies an author or researcher. Both have been discussed in this Unit. Article Level Metrics (Altmetrics) has been treated in this Unit with the discussion as to how altmetrics can be measured with Altmetric.com and ImpactStory.org. Altmetrics for Online Journals has also been touched. There are a number of academic social networks of which ResearchGate.net, Academia.edu, GetCited.org, etc. have been discussed. Regional journal networks with bibliometric indicators are also in existence. Two networks of this type such as SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, and Redalyc have been dealt with. This Unit discusses in details aspects such as Unique Identifiers for Authors and Researchers; Article Level Metrics (Altmetrics); Academic Social Networks; and Regional Journal Networks with Bibliometric Indicators
An experimental and theoretical investigation on torrefaction of a large wet wood particle
No full textIntroduction to Research Evaluation Metrics and Related Indicators
No full textThis Unit encompasses and discusses citation analysis, use of citation-based indicators for research evaluation, common bibliometric indicators, classical bibliometric laws, author level indicators using authors’ public profiles, article level metrics using altmetric tools. It is to be noted that author level indicators and article level metrics are new tools for research evaluation. Author level indicators encompasses h index, citations count, i10 index, g index, articles with citation, average citations per article, Eigenfactor® score, impact points, and RG score. Article level metrics or altmetrics are based on Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley, CiteULike, and Delicious which have been discussed. All technical terms used in the Unit have been defined. This Unit discusses in details aspects such as Use of Citation-based Indicators for Research Evaluation; Transition from Citation-based Indicators to Author Level and Article Level Metrics for Research Evaluation
FuzzyPPI: Human Proteome at Fuzzy Semantic Space
No full textLarge scale protein-protein interaction (PPI) network of an organism provides key insights into the cellular and molecular functionalities, signaling pathways and underlying disease mechanisms. If we consider the complete interactome of any given organism, the total number of unexplored protein interactions significantly outnumbers the known positive and negative interactions. For Human 20,350 reviewed proteins can generate over ~207 million potential interactions. However, the combination of all known PPI datasets, contains only ~5.6 million positive and ~758k negative protein-protein interactions (NPPI), that together is ~3.1% what is more, conventional PPI prediction methods produce binary results. At the same time recent studies show that protein binding affinities may prove to be effective in detecting protein complexes, disease association analysis, signaling network reconstruction, etc. In this work we present a fuzzy semantic scoring function using the Gene Ontology (GO) graphs to assess the binding affinity between any two proteins at an organism level. We have implemented a distributed algorithm in Apache Spark that computes this function and processed the complete Human PPI network of ~182 million potential interactions resulting from 19,106 reviewed proteins for which GO annotations are available. The quality of the computed scores has been validated with respect to the available state-of-the-art methods on benchmark data sets
Research Evaluation Metrics
No full textThis module dwells on a number of methods (including old and new) available for research evaluation. The module comprises the following four units:
Unit 1. Introduction to Research Evaluation Metrics and Related Indicators.
Unit 2. Innovations in Measuring Science and Scholarship: Analytical Tools and Indicators in Evaluation Scholarship Communications.
Unit 3. Article and Author Level Measurements, and
Unit 4. Online Citation and Reference Management Tools.
Brief overviews of the units are presented below.
Unit 1 encompassed and discussed citation analysis, use of citation-based indicators for research evaluation, common bibliometric indicators, classical bibliometric laws, author level indicators using authors' public profiles, article level metrics using altmetric tools. It is to be noted that author level indicators and article level metrics are new tools for research evaluation. Author level indicators encompasses h index, citations count, i10 index, g index, articles with citation, average citations per article, Eigenfactor score, impact points, and RG score. Article level metrics or altmetrics are based on Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley, CiteULike, and Delicious which have been discussed. All technical terms used in the Unit have been defined.
Unit 2 deals with analytical tools and indicators used in evaluating scholarly communications. The tools covered are The Web of Science, Scopus, Indian Citation Index (ICI), CiteSeerX, Google Scholar and Google Scholar Citations. Among these all the tools except Indian Citation Index (ICI) are international in scope. ICI is not very much known outside India. It is a powerful tool as far Indian scholarly literature is concerned. As Indian journals publish a sizable amount of foreign literature, the tool will be useful for foreign countries as well. The analytical products with journal performance metrics Journal Citation Reports (JCR®) has also been described. In the chapter titled New Platforms for Evaluating Scholarly Communications three websites i.e. SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) [ScimagoJR.com], eigenFACTOR.org, JournalMetrics.com and one software called Publish or Perish (POP) Software have been discussed.
Article and author level measurements have been discussed in Unit 3. Author and researcher identifiers are absolutely essential for searching databases in the WWW because a name like D Singh can harbour a number of names such as Dan Singh, Dhan Singh, Dhyan Singh, Darbara Singh, Daulat Singh, Durlabh Singh and more. The ResearcherID.com, launched by Thomson Reuters, is a web-based global registry of authors and researchers that individualises each and every name. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is also a registry that uniquely identifies an author or researcher. Both have been discussed in this Unit. Article Level Metrics (Altmetrics) has been treated in this Unit with the discussion as to how altmetrics can be measured with Altmetric.com and ImpactStory.org. Altmetrics for Online Journals has also been touched. There are a number of academic social networks of which ResearchGate.net, Academia.edu, GetCited.org, etc. have been discussed. Regional journal networks with bibliometric indicators are also in existence. Two networks of this type such as SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, and Redalyc have been dealt with.
The last unit (Unit 4) is on online citation and reference management tools. The tools discussed are Mendeley, CiteULike, Zotero, Google Scholar Library, and EndNote Basic. The features of all the management tools have been discussed with figures, tables, and text boxes
Electronic Journals and Databases
No full textIn Unit 3, Electronic Journals and Databases, author discusses the emergence of electronic journals in academic and research environment due to wide proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in research communications and academic publishing. Scientific communities and scientific communications from the global South are getting substantive attentions through adaptation of electronic journals and electronic academic databases in the process of research communications. This Unit discusses in details aspects such as Emergence of e-Journals, Migration of Peer Reviewed Journals from Print to Online Platforms, and Electronic Databases. Published in the UNESCO Curriculum for Researchers > Module 1: Scholarly Communications > Unit 3: Electronic Journals and Databases
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