Workshop on NASA workstation technology

RIACS hosted a workshop which was designed to foster communication among those people within NASA working on workstation related technology, to share technology, and to learn about new developments and futures in the larger university and industrial workstation communities. Herein, the workshop is documented along with its conclusions. It was learned that there is both a large amount of commonality of requirements and a wide variation in the modernness of in-use technology among the represented NASA centers

Focal Spot, Winter 2006/2007

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Virtual reality and program comprehension: application using spreadsheet visualisation

Program comprehension is an important function undertaken in the process of software maintenance. Compared to other research subjects, program comprehension has received little attention even though it is one of the biggest influences on a programmer's output. Research into aiding program comprehension has led to software visualisations, but these are mainly two-dimensional views and overload the viewer with information. With the advent of more powerful computers, virtual reality can be used to create three dimensional visualisations, in which the viewer is able to navigate freely. Spreadsheets were studied in this work on visualisation because programming languages are extremely complex and a model employing spreadsheets was developed. Spreadsheets offer many similarities to programming languages, for example, cell referencing and formulas in spreadsheets are similar to procedure calls, variable referencing and data manipulation in conventional programming languages. Common mistakes made in spreadsheets have been shown to be very difficult to locate, mainly because the spreadsheet user has a reduced ability to make hypotheses about the computational domain of a spreadsheet. Therefore, in order to address this shortcoming a visualisation model was developed to allow a spreadsheet user to be able to view both the problem domain (the what) and the computational domain (the how) simultaneously. A spreadsheet, a spreadsheet description language and a virtual reality system were the objects in the model, and a generator and translator were the links between those objects. Implementing the model indicated that spreadsheets could be visualised in virtual reality, and this technique was shown to improve the process of spreadsheet comprehension

Special Libraries, October 1953

Volume 44, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1953/1007/thumbnail.jp

The Open Access Journals Toolkit

Contents: Getting Started 5 • Scope, aims and focus 5 • Choosing a title for your journal 6 • Types of content accepted 7 • Kick-off and ongoing funding 11 • Disciplinary considerations 16 • Journal setup checklist and timeline 18 • Running a journal 20 • Article selection criteria 20 • Publication frequency and journal issues 23 • Attracting authors 25 • Peer review and quality assurance 27 • The costs of running an online open access journal 31 • Running a journal in a local or regional language 34 • Flipping a journal to open access 36 • Indexing 38 • Building and maintaining a profile 38 • Journal and article indexing 41 • Search engine optimisation and technical improvements 43 • Journal and article level metrics 45 • Staffing 49 • Roles and responsibilities 49 • Recruiting journal staff 51 • Building an editorial board 54 • Training and staff development 57 • Policies 59 • Developing author guidelines 59 • Publication ethics and related editorial policies 61 • Compliance with funder policies and mandates 64 • Copyright and licensing 66 • Displaying licensing information 68 • Corrections and retractions 70 • Infrastructure 72 • Software and technical infrastructure 72 • Journal appearance and web design 74 • Article and journal metadata 76 • Structured content 79 • Persistent Identifiers 81 • About the Open Access Journals Toolkit 83 • About 83 • What is an open access journal? 86 • Frequently asked questions 89 • Glossary 92 • Further reading 9

Ethics in scientific publication: historical and international perspectives

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-47).Ethical issues in scientific communication have existed in the scientific community since before the 17[th] century publication of the first scientific journal. To understand the historical development of scientific publication ethics as its own field of research, I did a comprehensive review of Internet sites and books and articles published after 1970. To help fill in gaps in the literature, I sent an electronic survey to 26 researchers with experience as editors, authors, and peer reviewers. I found that five main topics in publication ethics have received the largest amount of attention over the last 25 years: peer review, authorship, conflict of interest, publication bias, and duplicate/redundant publication. Since the 1970s, when research reports and other articles on these topics were first published with regularity, the number of studies published annually has increased substantially. Conferences, such as the International Peer Review Congresses, have focused on ethical issues, and many scientific organizations have created guidelines for ethical practices in scientific publishing. Different nations and fields have different codes and guidelines regarding ethical issues in scientific publishing. In national guidelines, it appears that there is an inverse relationship between guideline stringency and the amount of political freedom allowed under that nation's government. Of the 26 surveys sent, 13 were returned. Of those surveyed, most stated that they were only somewhat aware of guidelines, and responses indicated that few researchers surveyed were aware of many instances of misconduct. Debate over each issue has increased, but no commonly accepted ethical practices have been developed. Awareness of these issues does not appear to have increased nor does it appear that the rate of occurrence of ethical infractions has decreased. This apparent unchanging rate of occurrence may be because, as publication has increased in most fields, scientists lack time to read articles outside of their own areas of research. A more comprehensive survey, distributed on a much larger scale, would be useful to better understand the causes of continued ethical infractions and to help develop practical solutions to ethical problems

Urban pattern and architecture of traditional Omani foothill settlements: al-Ḥamrā and Birkat al-Mawz

Outside of Yemen, Oman arguably contains the most significant, active vernacular heritage within the Arabian Peninsula. While some research exists on settlement pattern and architecture of large settlements on the plains (e.g., Manah, Nizwa, Bahla World Heritage Site and Ibra), little research has taken place on the nature of Omani foothill settlements. The thesis makes an important contribution to Oman studies by addressing this gap through the study of the urban pattern and architecture of two vernacular foothill settlements – Ḥarāt al- Ḥamrā and Ḥarāt as-Saybānī in Birkat al- Mawz in the Dākhliya (Interior) region of central Oman. The two oasis towns evolved during the Yaariba Imamate (mid-17th century CE onwards) and served the purpose of harnessing the tribal support of two important groups in the process of consolidation – the Abriyīn and the Banī Riyām. This thesis argues that the two settlements – new towns by Omani standards – were unique additions to Omani settlement hierarchy, introducing a new category in between the larger settlements of the plains and the small, dispersed settlement pattern of the Oman Mountains. The settlements have been studied by analysing their morphology, or how they were established and evolved over time shaped by the key factors of topography, geology and tribal movement

Workshop proceedings: Information Systems for Space Astrophysics in the 21st Century, volume 1

The Astrophysical Information Systems Workshop was one of the three Integrated Technology Planning workshops. Its objectives were to develop an understanding of future mission requirements for information systems, the potential role of technology in meeting these requirements, and the areas in which NASA investment might have the greatest impact. Workshop participants were briefed on the astrophysical mission set with an emphasis on those missions that drive information systems technology, the existing NASA space-science operations infrastructure, and the ongoing and planned NASA information systems technology programs. Program plans and recommendations were prepared in five technical areas: Mission Planning and Operations; Space-Borne Data Processing; Space-to-Earth Communications; Science Data Systems; and Data Analysis, Integration, and Visualization

Department of Radiology-Annual Report-July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998

Department of Radiology Annual Executive Summary Report, July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 103 pages