Turing’s Sunflowers: Public research and the role of museums

In recent years, public engagement in museums is increasingly being influenced by the paradigm of “citizen science”, that is, active participation in research teams by members of the general public with no formal training in the field of research concerned. This paper provides an overview of citizen science approaches which museums can deploy using online platforms, digital tools and apps. It also aims to highlight challenges and innovations, as well as possible opportunities for cultural organisations to include public participation in research and knowledge creation

Museum Websites of the First Wave: The rise of the virtual museum

In this paper, we analyse trends of the first wave of museum websites (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) to understand how the characteristics of the Internet (specifically the World Wide Web), of museum staff, and museum audiences shaped the adoption of technology and new forms of participation and what they can tell us about engagement for museums of the future. The early development of online museum resources parallels the development of the EVA conference, which was establishing itself at a similar time

Twenty-first century vaccinomics innovation systems: capacity building in the global South and the role of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs)

The availability of sequence information from publicly available complete genomes and data intensive sciences, together with next-generation sequencing technologies offer substantial promise for innovation in vaccinology and global public health in the beginning of the 21st century. This article presents an innovation analysis for the nascent field of vaccinomics by describing one of the major challenges in this endeavor: the need for capacities in “vaccinomics innovation systems” to support the developing countries involved in the creation and testing of new vaccines. In particular, we discuss the need for understanding how institutional frameworks can enhance capacities as intrinsic to a systems approach to health technology development. We focus our attention on the global South, meaning the technically less advanced and developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This focus is timely and appropriate because the challenge for innovation in postgenomics medicine is markedly much greater in these regions where basic infrastructures are often underresourced and new or the anticipated institutional relationships can be fragile. Importantly, we examine the role of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) as a 21st century organizational innovation that contributes to strengthening fragile institutions and capacity building. For vaccinomics innovation systems to stand the test of time in a context of global public health, local communities, knowledge, and cultures need to be collectively taken into account at all stages in programs for vaccinomics-guided vaccine development and delivery in the global South where the public health needs for rational vaccine development are urgent

Origin of the submillimeter radio emission during the time-extended phase of a solar flare

Solar flares observed in the 200-400 GHz radio domain may exhibit a slowly varying and time-extended component which follows a short (few minutes) impulsive phase and which lasts for a few tens of minutes to more than one hour. The few examples discussed in the literature indicate that such long-lasting submillimeter emission is most likely thermal bremsstrahlung. We present a detailed analysis of the time-extended phase of the 2003 October 27 (M6.7) flare, combining 1-345 GHz total-flux radio measurements with X-ray, EUV, and H{\alpha} observations. We find that the time-extended radio emission is, as expected, radiated by thermal bremsstrahlung. Up to 230 GHz, it is entirely produced in the corona by hot and cool materials at 7-16 MK and 1-3 MK, respectively. At 345 GHz, there is an additional contribution from chromospheric material at a few 10^4 K. These results, which may also apply to other millimeter-submillimeter radio events, are not consistent with the expectations from standard semi-empirical models of the chromosphere and transition region during flares, which predict observable radio emission from the chromosphere at all frequencies where the corona is transparent.Comment: 27 pages, 7 figure

Diseño de una batería de evaluación de la percepción de riesgo hacia el consumo de

19 páginasThe literature referring to the perception of risk as a determining aspect for the consumption of marijuana, but there are no instruments for its objective evaluation. Aim. To design a battery of evaluation of the perception of risk towards the consumption of marijuana, for Colombian university students. Method. Instrumental study, a table of specifications was designed, which guided the construction of the items, then the validation was carried out by 12 expert judges, five in psychometry and seven in clinical psychology, the adjustments to the items, the application of the test to 520 university students (mean = 21.31; SD = 3.59) and the exploratory, confirmatory factor analyzes, and analysis of the internal consistency of the test. Results. A battery with three subtests (severity, absolute vulnerability, and relative vulnerability) was elaborated, with high variance explained by each scale, with models that present adequate goodness-of-fit indicators, high Cronbach’s alphas (in .96, for each test) and correct correlations between item-item and between item-test. Conclusions. The battery developed for evaluating the perception of risk towards marijuana use is a valid and reliable battery for Colombian university students. © 2023 Instituto de Investigacion de Drogodependencias. All rights reserved

T-GameL3: development of an interdisciplinary lifelong e-learning experience in an international context

The T-GaME L3 project (Teaching computer Graphics and MultimEdia LifeLong Learning, http://t-gamel3.ub.edu.ar) intends to provide a learning environment for computer graphics and multimedia contents mainly focussed on computing and architecture domains. It is based on the cooperation of several higher education institutions from Europe and Latin America by means of technologies, methods and learning processes related to distance learning. The developed course contents are being used in a pilot experiment, from March to July 2006, involving a selected group of post-graduate students from all participating countries. The available courses have been customized to the different national educational environments by sharing the digital teaching resources of project members. The designed program has taken into account ECTS (philosophy and accounting) and Diploma Supplement recommendations. For now, the participating institutions have reached a multilateral agreement to support this effort. Evaluation results will be available by the end of July and we hope to: Demonstrate the feasibility of the process. Show the benefits for students/teachers (flexible methodology, extensive and coherent educational offer). Offer ways of carrying out lifelong learning to the participating institutions and the EU. Before the end of the project an external quality evaluation will be made in order to meet current European quality standards. In the long term, the partners intend to extend this cooperation to other institutions in order to reach a sustainable academic program of continuous educatio