scholarly journals The World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) Space Telescope; Status Update in 2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-302
Author(s):  
Ana I. Gómez de Castro ◽  
Boris Shustov ◽  
Mikhail Sachkov
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Space Observatory ◽  
Space Telescope ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Imaging And Spectroscopy ◽  
Primary Space

This is a short primer and a brief update on the status of the World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) project dated in May 2013. WSO-UV is a 170m primary space telescope equipped for ultraviolet imaging and spectroscopy that will be operational in 2017 hosting an open science program for the world-wide scientic community.

scholarly journals HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF ENGLISH

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
Graeme Davis
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Global Language ◽  
A Minor

There has never been a language like English. Mother tongue to around 375 million people and second language to many hundreds of millions more, the first language of business and the internet, English is truly a world-wide language. English has a unique position as the essential language skill for the world, for it is in English that the world is communicating. It is the prime beneficiary of the world-wide communications revolution and the only language ever to have achieved global status. In recorded history – in a little over one-thousand five-hundred years - it has grown from the local dialect of a minor Germanic tribe of a few thousand people living in the north of continental Europe to become the most widespread language ever. Never before has any language achieved the status now enjoyed by English, nor could this dominance have been predicted. How English has become the global language is a natural area for enquiry.

scholarly journals The status of Koedoe one year after changing to an online publication mode

Koedoe ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Llewellyn C. Foxcroft
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Publication History ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Status ◽  
One Year ◽  
Dissemination System

2008 represented the start of a new online era for Koedoe, which provided us with a number of challenges and opportunities. The challenges lay in developing an entirely new publication and information dissemination system containing a number of new processes. The opportunities however, allowed us to build on Koedoes’ 50 year publication history. The main opportunity for Koedoe lies in using the open access publication route, where all our articles are freely available via the World Wide Web. Further, all back issues of the journal will be available as PDF downloads by March 2009, additional special interest sections were added (for example, essays and book reviews) and the marketing strategy was expanded to reach a wider audience.

Information literacy in an inquiry course for first-year science undergraduates: a simplified 3C approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari ◽  
Usha Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Undergraduate Science

In this article, we describe a simplified approach to teach students to assess information obtained from diverse sources. Three broad categories (credibility, content, and currency; 3C) were used to evaluate information from textbooks, monographs, popular magazines, scholarly journals, and the World Wide Web. This 3C approach used in an inquiry course for freshmen in an undergraduate science program can be readily transferred to other settings.

scholarly journals The legal status of animals: a source of their disaster vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Vol 10.47389/36 (36.3) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Best
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Disaster Planning ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Survival Outcomes ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status

The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season had a devastating impact on animals. A report sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (2020) estimates that 3 billion native wild animals were affected by the bushfires, with several species now closer to extinction. Thousands of domesticated farm animals also perished, either as an immediate result of the bushfires or as a consequence of being euthanised with fire-related injuries. In addition, there was concern about the adequacy of arrangements for the evacuation and care of companion animals during the emergency. In these diverse ways, the bushfires brought the profound and multidimensional vulnerability of animals to disaster events into stark focus. Using case studies, this paper examines the role the law plays in contributing to this vulnerability. It investigates how the status of animals as ‘property’ under law increases their exposure to hazards and affects their priority in disaster planning and response. This paper also scrutinises the extent to which statutory welfare and environmental protections are capable of optimising wellbeing and survival outcomes for animals in disasters.

scholarly journals Implementation of an Open Science Instruction Program for Undergraduates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Hanna ◽  
Jason Pither ◽  
Mathew Vis-Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Open Science ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
The World ◽  
Attitudinal Survey ◽  
The University

Submitted to Data Intelligence on August 15, 2020. The scientific, social, and economic advantages that accrue from Open Science practices—ways of doing research that emphasize reproducibility, transparency and accessibility at all stages of the research cycle—are now widely recognized in nations around the world and by international bodies such as the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. However, program wide or coordinated instruction of undergraduate students in Open Science practices remains uncommon. At the University of British Columbia in Canada, we have started to develop a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science program that can be adapted to and woven into diverse subject curricula. We report on the context and planning of the pilot module of the program, “Open Science 101”, its implementation in first-year Biology in Fall 2019, and qualitative results of an attitudinal survey of students following their course.

scholarly journals The Use of Web 2.0 Concepts to Support Deliberation in Spatial Decision-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Carsten Keßler ◽  
Stephen Andrulis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spatial Decision Making

Technologies associated with the second-generation of the World-Wide Web enable virtually anyone to share their data, documents, observations, and opinions on the Internet. In less than three years, mapping platforms such as Google Maps have sparked an exponential growth in user-generated geographically referenced content. However, the “serious” applications of Web 2.0 are sparse and this paper assesses its use in the context of collaborative spatial decision-making. We present an online map-based discussion forum that enables Internet users to submit place-based comments and respond to contributions from other participants. We further use the geographic references in a thread-based master plan debate for a university campus to simulate this debate in the map-based forum. This allows us to demonstrate how the online map provides an overview of the status and spatial foci of the debate, and how it can help us understand the spatial thought processes of the participants.

scholarly journals The Use of Web 2.0 Concepts to Support Deliberation in Spatial Decision-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Carsten Keßler ◽  
Stephen Andrulis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spatial Decision Making

Technologies associated with the second-generation of the World-Wide Web enable virtually anyone to share their data, documents, observations, and opinions on the Internet. In less than three years, mapping platforms such as Google Maps have sparked an exponential growth in user-generated geographically referenced content. However, the “serious” applications of Web 2.0 are sparse and this paper assesses its use in the context of collaborative spatial decision-making. We present an online map-based discussion forum that enables Internet users to submit place-based comments and respond to contributions from other participants. We further use the geographic references in a thread-based master plan debate for a university campus to simulate this debate in the map-based forum. This allows us to demonstrate how the online map provides an overview of the status and spatial foci of the debate, and how it can help us understand the spatial thought processes of the participants.

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