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 $N \in \N$, which are mapped to each other under this isomorphism (with the previously known being the one for $N=0$). 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 “injury management” 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