73 research outputs found
Bibliometric analysis on the use of natural fibers in construction materials
Received: February 2nd, 2021 ; Accepted: August 3rd, 2021 ; Published: August 30th, 2021 ; Correspondence: [email protected] to the increasing interest of the population in the sustainability theme, there was
a consequent growth in publications related to the theme in the area of civil construction. Agroindustrial waste has become an environmental problem, and with that natural fibers have found
space in the reuse of waste due to its characteristics and possibilities of improving the mechanical
properties of its products. In order to achieve sustainable construction demand, along with the
need to reuse waste, studies have begun to analyze the application of natural fibers in construction
materials. The documents provided by the Web of Science (WOS) database through research
carried out with the search for the terms âNatural Fibersâ and âBuilding materialsâ restricted to
the period 2010â2020 in the main WOS collection. The institutions involved with the
publications, the countries of origin of the documents, the year of publication, the keywords used
by the authors and the number of citations for each document were analyzed using bibliometrics
in the VOSVIEWER (VOS) software. The result of the analysis shows an increase in documents
related to the theme over the years, and that the countries with the most studies in the area are
China (16), USA (14) and Brazil (11), respectively. The results presented after analysis of the
keywords show that natural fiber (61 occurrences), mechanical properties (44 occurrences) and
composites (31 occurrences) are the words with the highest occurrence among the analyzed
documents. The present study shows the growth of research related to the theme, in addition to
discriminating countries, institutions and authors, which allows monitoring the scientific
expansion of the theme and guiding future studies
Scaling anomaly in cosmic string background
We show that the classical scale symmetry of a particle moving in cosmic
string background is broken upon inequivalent quantization of the classical
system, leading to anomaly. The consequence of this anomaly is the formation of
single bound state in the coupling interval \gamma\in(-1,1). The inequivalent
quantization is characterized by a 1-parameter family of self-adjoint extension
parameter \omega. It has been conjectured that the formation of loosely bound
state in cosmic string background may lead to the so called anomalous
scattering cross section for the particles, which is usually seen in molecular
physics.Comment: 4 pages,1 figur
Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes
In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approach can be embedded into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. Specifically, a critical overview of the literature which investigates how integrating open and reproducible science may influence student outcomes is needed. In this paper, we provide the first critical review of literature surrounding the integration of open and reproducible scholarship into teaching and learning and its associated outcomes in students. Our review highlighted how embedding open and reproducible scholarship appears to be associated with (i) students' scientific literacies (i.e. studentsâ understanding of open research, consumption of science and the development of transferable skills); (ii) student engagement (i.e. motivation and engagement with learning, collaboration and engagement in open research) and (iii) students' attitudes towards science (i.e. trust in science and confidence in research findings). However, our review also identified a need for more robust and rigorous methods within pedagogical research, including more interventional and experimental evaluations of teaching practice. We discuss implications for teaching and learning scholarship.Social decision makin
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