scholarly journals Research Funding Bodies Need to Follow Scientific Evidence: Preprints Are Here to Stay

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lanati ◽  
Olivier Pourret ◽  
Christopher Jackson ◽  
Lonni Besançon
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
New Knowledge

We, the undersigned, write on behalf of a growing number of concerned academics who are dismayed at the recent decision by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to rule a number of grant applications across two hallmark schemes ineligible due to references to preprints. Since preprints play a crucial role in the making and dissemination of new knowledge, we are writing to ask the ARC to reconsider their decision. In short, we call on the ARC to ensure the long-term integrity of the grant system through a range of measures.

scholarly journals Competing in Architecture. Crowdsourcing as a Research Tool

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Newton ◽  
Sarah Backhouse
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Funding Body ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
Architectural Competitions

Architectural competitions are powerful strategies for generating visual ideas for new futures. Academic research generates new knowledge based on rigorous investigations of informed propositions. This paper describes an unusual merging of a research process with a competition process using crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the pre-eminent funding body of academic research for universities across Australia. In 2010 a multidisciplinary academic team, with twelve industry partners including six education departments, successfully sought ARC research funding.  The application proposed an unprecedented strategy to include an open Ideas Competition in the middle year of a three-year research program as a form of crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge between academia and industry. The research project, entitled Future Proofing Schools, was focused on Australia’s relocatable school buildings.

Drumming in excess and chaos: Music, literacy and sustainability in early years learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 839-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Powell ◽  
Margaret Somerville
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Music Literacy ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Percussion Instruments

For children born in the 21st century, the enmeshing of natural and human forces in the survival of the planet requires conceptual and practical innovation. This paper comes from a project funded by the Australian Research Council investigating the integration of literacy and sustainability in early years learning. The methodology employed was ‘deep hanging out’, the purpose of which is to observe without bias or assumption. This paper focuses on a video from a preschool depicting children playing drums and percussion instruments outside, in the playground. We consider the nature of literacy differently, conceptualizing literacy+sustainability within the context of the more-than-human, intra-active world. In our example, the drumming ebbs and flows in intensity, children come and go, rhythms merge then diverge; a chaos of sound and vibration, a refrain of rhythm, movement and bodies, driven by the excess of the earth’s energy and musical force. We see children communicate a sense of the world – with drums, each other, earth – sustained by the vitality of place, the materiality of drums and sound, the energy of earth and the movement of bodies. In this example, we extend the conversation around what literacy and sustainability might look like, offering possibilities for producing new knowledge about literacy and new understandings of sustainability.

scholarly journals Transforming Research Tasks to Avoid Plagiarism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzette Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Information Use ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Teacher Librarians

In 2006-2007, Scotch College, along with 3 other schools was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to undertake research into how students use information – “Generating knowledge and avoiding plagiarism: Smart information use by secondary students”The research involved collaboration between teachers and teacher librarians to develop models of teaching in various subject areas which encourage students to generate new knowledge and avoid plagiarism.This paper will outline steps towards building a culture of collaboration and team work; strategies employed by teacher librarians to reduce plagiarism; and reflections from teachers, teacher librarians and students.

Apophysites – Revue de la littérature et ­nouvelles directions

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Ossification Center ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Optimal Management ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Youth Athlete ◽  
Pathology Education ◽  
Main Factor

Apophysitis are part of the growth-related diseases within youth athlete population. Despite their high incidence within this growing cohort, many doubts remain. The physiopathology is still debated. Initially, the fragmentation of the ossification center was seen as the main factor of the disease. For few years, this theory has been questioned due to consistent signs of tendon suffering. Apophysitis may have some negative long-term effect on a sporting career. There is currently poor scientific evidence on the optimal management and no treatment has been widely accepted. Prevention remains the most powerful intervention in this particular pathology. Education of the athlete’s sporting entourage (family, coaches and health staff) and the athlete himself is necessary to act quickly and adapt the training load to decrease mechanical stress on the suffering apophysis.

scholarly journals Symposium report: breast cancer in India—trends, environmental exposures and clinical implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 567-575
Author(s):  
Jasmine A. McDonald ◽  
Roshni Rao ◽  
Marley Gibbons ◽  
Rajiv Janardhanan ◽  
Surinder Jaswal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Environmental Exposures ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Case Control Studies ◽  
Short Term

Abstract Purpose Incidence of breast cancer (BC), particularly in young women, are rising in India. Without population-based mammography screening, rising rates cannot be attributed to screening. Investigations are needed to understand the potential drivers of this trend. Methods An international team of experts convened to discuss the trends, environmental exposures, and clinical implications associated with BC in India and outlined recommendations for its management. Results Panels were structured across three major BC themes (n = 10 presentations). The symposium concluded with a semi-structured Think Tank designed to elicit short-term and long-term goals that could address the challenges of BC in India. Conclusion There was consensus that the prevalence of late-stage BC and the high BC mortality rates are associated with the practice of detection, which is primarily through clinical and self-breast exams, as opposed to mammography. Triple-Negative BC (TNBC) was extensively discussed, including TNBC etiology and potential risk factors, the limited treatment options, and if reported TNBC rates are supported by rigorous scientific evidence. The Think Tank session yielded long-term and short-term goals to further BC reduction in India and included more regional etiological studies on environmental exposures using existing India-based cohorts and case–control studies, standardization for molecular subtyping of BC cases, and improving the public’s awareness of breast health.

Lead Poisoning: Twenty Years After

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-505
Author(s):  
HENRIETTA SACHS ◽  
DONALD I. MOEL
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
Blood Lead Level ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Lead Level ◽  
Blood Lead ◽  
Neurobehavioral Development ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

To the Editor.— In October 1991, the Centers for Disease Control decreased the blood lead level PbB) from 25 to 10 µg/dL and designated it as abnormal because of "overwhelming and compelling scientific evidence"1 that 10 µg/dL is associated with adverse neurobehavioral development. We have evidence to the contrary, obtained in a long-term follow-up of severely lead-poisoned children whom we treated before 1972 for PbBs between 80 and 470 µg/dL (mean, 150.3 ± 77.1 µg/dL); their mean age was 28 months.

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