scholarly journals Using Video to Give More Effective and Engaging Science Talks

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric B. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Presentation Time ◽  
Effective Science ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Remaining Time ◽  
Live Presentation

Science presentations at conferences are an important way that scientists share exciting research discoveries. Some presentations are informative and engaging, but unfortunately many are not. This article describes a novel method (Video Let’s Talk, VLT) for more engaging and effective science presentations, where the presenter 1. makes a video that fills half of the presentation time, 2. shows the video in lieu of a live presentation, and 3. spends the remaining time engaging with the audience. The benefits and challenges of the VLT method are described along with tips on how to do the VLT well. These insights are based on the author’s experience giving numerous VLT presentations to scientists, farmers and other groups over the past seven years. The VLT method is timely considering how the COVID pandemic has forced scientists to learn new skills in do it yourself (DIY) video making in order to participate in virtual conferences.

scholarly journals Shocked Though the Heart and YouTube Is to Blame—The Rising Incidence of Accidental Trans-cardiac Electrocution From Do-It-Yourself Fractal Wood Art, and a Call to Action

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Russo ◽  
Luke Pumiglia ◽  
Amanda P Bettencourt ◽  
Jordan Roman ◽  
Gary A Vercruysse
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Injury ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rising Incidence ◽  
Wood Art ◽  
Do It Yourself

Abstract In the past year, we have become aware of a new mechanism of severe electrical injury ascribed to fractal wood art. This type of art has become increasingly popular and deadly due to exponential popularity in the use of Youtube type video teaching. This manuscript is one of the initial descriptions of the injury mode, presentation, treatment, and outcomes from four such cases treated at our institution. Additionally, we elicit a call for action in preventing further similar unnecessary injuries and deaths.

scholarly journals Searching for g modes

2018 ◽  
Vol 617 ◽  
pp. A108 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Appourchaux ◽  
P. Boumier ◽  
J. W. Leibacher ◽  
T. Corbard
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Time Shift ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Mode Amplitude ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mode Detection ◽  
Velocity Calibration ◽  
Remaining Time ◽  
Soho Spacecraft

Context. The recent claims of g-mode detection have restarted the search for these potentially extremely important modes. These claims can be reassessed in view of the different data sets available from the SoHO instruments and ground-based instruments. Aims. We produce a new calibration of the GOLF data with a more consistent p-mode amplitude and a more consistent time shift correction compared to the time series used in the past. Methods. The calibration of 22 yr of GOLF data is done with a simpler approach that uses only the predictive radial velocity of the SoHO spacecraft as a reference. Using p modes, we measure and correct the time shift between ground- and space-based instruments and the GOLF instrument. Results. The p-mode velocity calibration is now consistent to within a few percent with other instruments. The remaining time shifts are within ±5 s for 99.8% of the time series.

scholarly journals Do-it-yourself networks: a novel method of generating weighted networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 171227 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Shanafelt ◽  
K. R. Salau ◽  
J. A. Baggio
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Species Dispersal ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Do It Yourself

Network theory is finding applications in the life and social sciences for ecology, epidemiology, finance and social–ecological systems. While there are methods to generate specific types of networks, the broad literature is focused on generating unweighted networks. In this paper, we present a framework for generating weighted networks that satisfy user-defined criteria. Each criterion hierarchically defines a feature of the network and, in doing so, complements existing algorithms in the literature. We use a general example of ecological species dispersal to illustrate the method and provide open-source code for academic purposes.

scholarly journals Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino”

2015 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
O. Yu. Mushtanova
Keyword(s):  
Italian Literature ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ultimate Truth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Italian City ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
The Government

The article is devoted to interpretation of historical facts in Umberto Eco's novel " Baudolino ". The subject of interpretation in the novel is medieval history, in particular, the reign of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Eco uses the typical for the historical novel method, which is the combination of facts from chronicles and fictional elements; the events are shown by the eyes of an invented character Baudolino. Emphasizing the connection between history and modernity, Eco proposes to revise the stereotypes associated with the mentioned historical period. The portraits of historical figures are borrowed from the chronicles, however in the novel they get more emotional in the perception of the protagonist, typical cliches are replaced by individuality. The opposition of italian communes to the government of Frederick also becomes a part of Baudolino's personal history. The interpretation of many events is based on legendary sources, including local tales of the italian city Alessandria, the legends of Grail and of Prester John. The legendary material fills in the gaps in medieval history. Many events (in particular, the participation of Barbarossa in the Third Crusade) correspond to the chronicles in the descriptive part, however they acquire a fictional motivation. The mystery of the emperor's death is solved in a detective key. The novel presents various doctrines elaborated in the imperial office of Frederick, their authorship is attributed to Baudolino. In the novel «Baudolino» Umberto Eco not only interprets creatively certain facts of the past, but he also practices the postmodern concept of history, according to which the past is unknowable as objective and ultimate truth and therefore it exists only in the form of a narrative. The past and the present have no fundamental difference, the history is always interpreted from the perspective of the present.

scholarly journals Cataclysmic Variables - Concluding Remarks

1987 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 795-798
Author(s):  
Z.Deněk Kopal
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Cataclysmic Variables ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Remaining Time

Kitamura sensei, ladies and gentlemen: the remarks which follow will be the last communication by which our colloquium on cataclysmic variables is to be brought to its conclusion; and I appreciate the invitation of its organizing committee to use the remaining time we have together in the congenial atmosphere created for us at Bamberg, in an attempt at a summary of what we heard here in the past few days from several hundred colleagues who gathered here from many parts of the world - to survey the present state of our subject, and consider together where do we go from here. The time for this purpose makes it impossible to touch upon all exciting developments in the field of cataclysmic variables reported at Bamberg in the past few days; but certain general features have emerged from the programme of our colloquium which it may be appropriate to recall.

scholarly journals A Novel Method for Early Gear Pitting Fault Diagnosis Using Stacked SAE and GBRBM

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jialin Li ◽  
Xueyi Li ◽  
David He ◽  
Yongzhi Qu
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Time Domain ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Vibration Signals ◽  
Vibration Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diagnosis Accuracy ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Faults Diagnosis

Research on data-driven fault diagnosis methods has received much attention in recent years. The deep belief network (DBN) is a commonly used deep learning method for fault diagnosis. In the past, when people used DBN to diagnose gear pitting faults, it was found that the diagnosis result was not good with continuous time domain vibration signals as direct inputs into DBN. Therefore, most researchers extracted features from time domain vibration signals as inputs into DBN. However, it is desirable to use raw vibration signals as direct inputs to achieve good fault diagnosis results. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel method by stacking spare autoencoder (SAE) and Gauss-Binary restricted Boltzmann machine (GBRBM) for early gear pitting faults diagnosis with raw vibration signals as direct inputs. The SAE layer is used to compress the raw vibration data and the GBRBM layer is used to effectively process continuous time domain vibration signals. Vibration signals of seven early gear pitting faults collected from a gear test rig are used to validate the proposed method. The validation results show that the proposed method maintains a good diagnosis performance under different working conditions and gives higher diagnosis accuracy compared to other traditional methods.

scholarly journals A novel method for archiving multibeam sonar data with emphasis on efficient record size reduction and storage

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Moszynski ◽  
Andrzej Chybicki ◽  
Marcin Kulawiak ◽  
Zbigniew Lubniewski
Keyword(s):  
New Approach ◽  
Multibeam Echosounder ◽  
Fish Schools ◽  
The Past ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Efficient Reduction ◽  
Crucial Problem ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Spatial Positioning ◽  
And Storage

Abstract Over the past few years considerable advances in sonar technology, spatial positioning capabilities and computer processing power have lead to significant improvements in mapping, imaging and technologies of seafloor exploration. Recently, modern multibeam echosounder systems (MBES) capable of recording backscatter data for the whole water column, not just for the seabed, have become available thus providing data allowing for visualization and analysis of objects other than the seabed such as single fish, fish schools or pollution. Unlike bathymetric sonars, which only capture the seafloor, multibeam systems produce very large amounts of data during surveys. Because of this, storing the data collected during hydrographic or scientific cruises becomes a crucial problem. In this context, the paper proposes a new approach for efficient reduction and storage of MBES records. The results of a sample implementation of the algorithm being tested on several different sets of MBES data are also discussed.

No Yankee Doodling: Notable Trends and Traditional Recordings from Irish America

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-520
Author(s):  
EARLE HITCHNER
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Sharp Decline ◽  
The Past ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Irish America ◽  
Do It Yourself

AbstractThe emergence of the compact disc in 1979 was regarded as the likely sales salvation of recorded music, and for many years the CD reigned supreme, generating steady, often substantial, company profits. More recently, however, the music industry has painfully slipped a disc. The CD has been in sharp decline, propelled mainly by young consumer ire over price and format inflexibility and by Internet technology available to skirt or subvert both. Irish American traditional music has not been impervious to this downward trend in sales and to other challenging trends and paradigm shifts in recording and performing. Amid the tumult, Irish American traditional music has nevertheless shown a new resilience and fresh vitality through a greater do-it-yourself, do-more-with-less spirit of recording, even for established small labels. The five recent albums of Irish American traditional music reviewed here—three of which were released by the artists themselves—exemplify a trend of their own, preserving the best of the past without slavishly replicating it. If the new mantra of music making is adapt or disappear, then Irish American traditional music, in adapting to change free of any impulse to dumb down, is assured of robustly enduring.

scholarly journals Conceptual Design of an Attachment Based Reconfigurable Machine Tool Using Design Structure Matrix

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambrish Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Machine Tools ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Part Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Reconfigurable Machine Tool ◽  
Manufacturing Features ◽  
Single Part

There has been very little research in the field of Reconfigurable machine Tools (RMTs). None of the past research developed a method to design a set of RMT configurations required to machine a part-family. This thesis presents a novel method to determine the functional specifications of the RMT configurations required to machine a part-family. The method is developed by firstly designing the RMT required to machine a single part. Thereafter, this method is extrapolated to suit the problem of a part-family. To design the RMTs for a single part, firstly, the part is decomposed into manufacturing features. Next, a novel method is developed to cluster the features. Each of these feature-clusters corresponds to a single RMT configuration. Based on the machining requirements of these RMT configurations, the modules are designed. These modules are assembled to form the final RMTs. The method is demonstrated by applying it to an example part.

scholarly journals Information-optimal Abstaining for Reliable Classification of Building Functions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Gabriel Dax ◽  
Martin Werner
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Classification Schemes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Media Text ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Earth Observation Data ◽  
Reliable Classification

Abstract. In the past decade, major breakthroughs in sensor technology and algorithms have enabled the functional analysis of urban regions based on Earth observation data. It has, for example, become possible to assign functions to areas in cities on a regional scale. With this paper, we develop a novel method for extracting building functions from social media text alone. Therefore, a technique of abstaining is applied in order to overcome the fact that most tweets will not contain information related to a building function albeit they have been sent from a specific building as well as the problem that classification schemes for building functions are overlapping.

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