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Can the science of Prosocial be a part of evolution education?
We provide a brief overview of Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven Hayes. The book offers a range of promising content for evolution education, and yet also highlights core conceptual challenges in modern evolution science discourse that educators and researchers aiming to improve evolution education may find beneficial to strategically engage with as a scientific community. We discuss these challenges and opportunities with a view towards implications for evolution education research and practice
Supersymmetric Path Integrals II: The Fermionic Integral and Pfaffian Line Bundles
The Pfaffian line bundle of the covariant derivative and the transgression of
the spin lifting gerbe are two canonically given real line bundles on the loop
space of an oriented Riemannian manifold. It has been shown by Prat-Waldron
that these line bundles are naturally isomorphic as metric line bundles and
that the isomorphism maps their canonical sections to each other. In this
paper, we provide a vast generalization of his results, by showing that there
are natural sections of the corresponding line bundles for any ,
which are mapped to each other under this isomorphism (with the previously
known being the one for ). These canonical sections are important to
define the fermionic part of the supersymmetric path integral on the loop
space.Comment: The contents of this article have been integrated into
arXiv:1709.10027, which now contains a simplified presentation of the result
A Virtual Observatory Vision based on Publishing and Virtual Data
We would like to propose a vision of the Virtual Observatory where the "killer-app" is seen to be
generalizing and extending the idea of "publication" from the narrow meaning of peer-reviewed
journals. Here, publication ranges from private temporary storage, to group access, to public
access, through to data that supports peer-reviewed Journal papers in perpetuity. The publication
model is further extended by the possibility of Virtual Data -- where only the method of
computation is stored, not necessarily the data itself. Furthermore, virtual data products may
depend on other virtual data products, creating an implicit network of on-demand computation.
This computation may take huge resources, or it may be all within a laptop
Injury Management: The Development and Implementation of Innovative Software in an Elite Sporting Club
This paper explores the business processes of injury tracking and the adoption of the term âinjury managementâ in the context of elite athletes. It does this through a study of the development and implementation of innovative software which captures and manages critical knowledge concerning injuries and their management in an elite sporting club. Key findings indicate that injury management is a much broader concept than previously considered in the health and medical literature. Understanding the broader context for injury management provides an opportunity to use technology for competitive advantage, thus influencing the way elite sporting clubs and their business processes are perceived
Search and Discovery Tools for Astronomical On-line Resources and Services
A growing number of astronomical resources and data or information services
are made available through the Internet. However valuable information is
frequently hidden in a deluge of non-pertinent or non up-to-date documents. At
a first level, compilations of astronomical resources provide help for
selecting relevant sites. Combining yellow-page services and meta-databases of
active pointers may be an efficient solution to the data retrieval problem.
Responses generated by submission of queries to a set of heterogeneous
resources are difficult to merge or cross-match, because different data
providers generally use different data formats: new endeavors are under way to
tackle this problem. We review the technical challenges involved in trying to
provide general search and discovery tools, and to integrate them through upper
level interfaces.Comment: 7 pages, 2 Postscript figures; to be published in A&A
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