Collaboration - Science topic

In order to conduct this research, I am looking for an article along with tools "Physics Achievement Test (PAT)" and "Students' Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ)" so I can take permission from authors to adapt it for my use in context of Pakistan.

If anyone has used above mentioned tools, please send me your article and tool so that I will be able to acknowledge your name in my proposal. I will be very grateful for your support.

Your co-operation will be highly appreciated.

Looking for research assistant.

My colleagues and I at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi in collaboration with the University of Tilburg are looking for potential partners for a series socio-psychological and organizational studies.

We are particularly interested in partners form Western Europe, Eastern Europe (former communist countries from the European area) and Extreme East (former soviet countries from the European and Asian continents), but anyone else is also welcomed!

We have two research propositions. One concerns the cultural differences related to the flexibility and permeability of work – family boundaries while the other focuses on cultural differences in the stereotypes and prejudice towards immigrant workers. This partnership will respect the APA research norms and principles, and the additional rules of collaboration will be commonly defined.

This project is in a rare type of lymphoid cancer. Due to this rarity, there are only 3 cell lines available for the disease, which I have in the lab. They are drug-sensitive cell lines (drug disclosed only if you are interested in collaboration) and I also have their 3 drug-resistant clones, which were developed in the lab (so total sample n=6). Unfortunately, I do not have any patient samples. I wish to conduct RNA-seq to examine changes at the mRNA level as well as SNV's in these cells. The goal is to identify changes that characterize drug-resistant cells vs. their drug-sensitive WT counterparts. Please tell me if this type of an analysis is possible with such low sample numbers? If so, please let me know if you are interested in collaborating to analyze the resultant RNA-Seq data?

During the self- regulated thermal process, the surface temperature of quenched steel parts maintains at the level of boiling point of liquid. That can be used to monitor phase transformation in steels.The duration of the self - regulated thermal process is very important. What kinds of methods, accept thermocouple measurement, can be used for its determination?

Would be nice to meet colleagues working in this field.

Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), which includes 32 research institutes around the world, is a network of research and expertise that aims to fight against infectious diseases. A scientometric approach was applied to describe research and collaboration activities of IPIN: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259344547_Research_and_collaboration_overview_of_Institut_Pasteur_International_Network_a_bibliometric_approach_toward_research_funding_decisions

A total number of 12667 publications originated from IPIN members. European Pasteur Institutes had the largest amount of publications, authored papers, and H-index values. Biochemistry and molecular biology, microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases were the most important research topics, respectively. Geographic mapping of IPIN publications showed wide international collaboration among IPIN members around the world.

Dose anybody know if there is any similar network in the world?

Dear Colleagues,

The West Midlands Research Collaborative (http://www.wmresearch.org.uk) is preparing the largest, prospective audit of Cholecystectomies - called the 'CholeS study' in response to the recently published commissioning guidelines from the Royal College [http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/providers-commissioners/docs/rcs-eng-augis-commissioning-guide-on-gallstone-disease]

A brief synopsis is provided below and can be found at www.choles-study.org. You can register your interest via this website or email directly.

We would like 1-2 StRs (surgical registrars) with 2-3 CSTs (interns or resident level surgeons) in each hospital to help plus you will need to identify a supervising consultant. Medical students are welcome to be a part of a team.The audit will be for a 2 month period with an additional month for follow up. Only 28 data points on each patient will be needed.

As ever, ALL contributors to data collection will be citable authors on any subsequent publications. Individual centres can use this data to inform their local commissioning groups.

Let me know if you are interested and I will forward on protocols, audit standards, data collection forms and spreadsheets.

With best wishes

Ravi Vohra (On behalf of the WMRC)

Ewen Griffiths, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon

ABSTRACT: Clinical Variation in Practice of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Surgical Outcomes: a multi-centre, prospective, population-based cohort study (CholeS Study)

Background: Cholecystectomy is one of the most common general surgical operations performed in the UK. Increasing proportions of patients have surgery in the acute setting for severe biliary colic, cholecystitis and following gallstone pancreatitis. Randomised clinical trials in acute cholecystitis and gallstone pancreatitis suggest early laparoscopic surgery performed in specialist units is safe. Despite this, management still differs between surgeons and centres across the UK. This has been highlighted in a recent commissioning guide produced jointly by the Royal College of Surgeons and the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. The impact of these variations on outcomes is unclear.

Aim: To investigate surgical outcomes following acute, ‘delayed’ and elective cholecystectomies in a population-based cohort

Audit standard: All-cause 30-day readmission rate should be less than 10% following cholecystectomy (primary outcome measure). Secondary outcome measures are all highlighted variable within the commissioning guide: pre-operative (demographics, admission type, diagnostic tests) peri-operative (conversion rates of laparoscopy to open surgery, complications,) and post-operative (length of stay, in-hospital morbidity) factors.

Methods: The study will be performed over a two-month period in 2014. Participation from centres in the West Midlands alone is estimated to recruit 1,300 patients. Participation from centres across the UK is estimated to recruit 10,000 patients. The study will be performed using a standardised spreadsheet at each centre. Inclusion criteria will be: All patients undergoing cholecystectomy will be categorised into one of three groups: (1) Acute Cholecystectomy (first acute admission with biliary disease through A&E or GP and cholecystectomy performed during that index admission); (2) Elective Cholecystectomy (planned elective admission for cholecystectomy who have been referred from their GP and added to the routine surgical waiting list from the outpatient department only and (3) Delayed Cholecystectomy (all other planned cholecystectomies). Variation in practice will be assessed by all-cause 30-day readmission rates, by centre. In addition, the influence of pre-operative factors and effects on peri- and post-operative measures will be investigated.

Discussion: This multi-centre, prospective, population-based study will be delivered by a trainee-led collaborative research networks to ensure high volume without compromising quality

I am interested in starting a collaboration on processing cardiac DW-MRI sequences. Our research group has experience in brain DW-MRI processing.

In nanotechnology, nano-materials and allied fields

A brief introduction for preliminary work: Based on symbolic dynamics methods, we show the primes gap pattern could be described by the chaos orbit of Logistic mapping X(k+1)=1-uX(k)^2, u=1.5437. If so, there will be arbitrarily many twin primes . This project may not deduce important results, but must be interesting.

project . https://www.researchgate.net/project/primes_gap_pattern_and_chaos_system/

Policymakers play a key role in creating an environment that fosters collaboration between higher education institutions and other areas. The development of partnerships between these institutions and K-12 schools is a key element in improving students' preparation for higher education study-and ultimately in economic development.

In the academy we are urged to conduct collaborative research and form linkages through research with other institutes. Do you also engage in collaborative research? How did you start? What are the ups and downs?

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Emphasis will be given to igneous xenoliths representing various stages of magmatic fractionation coincidental with basaltic magma underplating and interactions with the surrounding upper mantle or crust. Preference will be given to mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry of late-stage fractionation products (e.g. syenite, alkalic granite), exotic melts (e.g. iron oxide, phosphate, carbonatite), but data on mafic gabbros will also be accepted.

The motion capture data is needed to train classification models which could basically help surgical trainees to improve their body posture and manual techniques applying motion capture technology. The data would be recorded during exercises on surgery training system like CAST (see attached link) or similar systems. After classifiers have been trained using different algorithms and different sets of extracted features, their performance and reliability will be evaluated in order to find the best combination of classification algorithm and feature extraction. The final goal is a reliable classifier which tells trainees what exactly they have to improve in their movements and maybe even how to. Of course that's easier said than done though - and there are many intermediate steps to accomplish prior to that.

We contracted RNA-SEQ analysis and are happy with the gene expression data but need help with non-coding RNA analysis.

Is there anyone from outside India who wants to do Joint Project with Amity University Students and Faculties in the area of E-Commerce, Web Development, Android Applications etc.

We have already done many joint projects. Recently, our students did one project on Website Development with DREXEL UNIVERSITY. We have very good students who want to do good projects in the area of computer science.

Do not have EPMA access to analyze these opaques looking for collaborative work.

I can solve the differential equations using ANN, global search technique and local search techniques. I also want to solve them using different techniques, like PSO, Hill climbing techniques, etc. Can anybody help me to solve differential equations by using different techniques? Also, is anybody interested in collaborating and writing some research papers with me?

During my research on MOOC's I started to work on a system that is able to automatically estimate the quality of a review based on the underlying text. However testing such a system is not easy as one needs a data set of written texts, some free text reviews for them, and a quality score for the review. Does anyone know whether such a data set exist`s? Would anyone dare to put her own paper and the received reviews for the paper into such a pool.

Is anyone out there actively using the PDQ39 questionnaire who would like to add 2 simple vision tests to identify if we can identify a simple visual measurement to PD cognitive impairment

International Conference on Education:

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-Coaching and Education Through Sport.

I'm looking for a people and institutions which have the best knowledge of graphene oxide. Also places producing reduced graphene oxide are at my interest. I'm specially interested in how water molecules behave between two GO sheets.

Should it be direct intervention or other mechanisms?

It used to be that when we were writing a paper or a research proposal, when one of the co-authors went to a conference in a different country, or on vacation, we would have to wait until (s)he came back. This is no longer the case. With tools such as DROPBOX (for sharing files) and SKYPE for chatting, or audio- and video-talking, the importance of DISTANCE disappeared. Before we start a paper, I immediately create a Dropbox account, and we keep revisions of it in the Dropbox. We use SKYPE for chatting and talking long distance, or even overseas, since it is FREE, and the LOCATION of the co-authors doesn't matter anymore.

I am curios about what tools other scholars are using for long-distance collaboration ?

I would love to hear your stories.

It may be by biolistic approach or agrobacterium mediated.

All coast for research is provided by Monsanto company.

Country of collaborator - U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. and Western Europe.

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Mail me at gopaldhedhi@aribas.edu.in

Here is a description of advanced chess from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess. The idea is to link computer programs, sometimes more than one or two and pair it with a human partner in order to play other human and computer teams. I am interested in seeing if there were a methodology that has been developed in how to develop this kind of collaboration.

We want start working in this filed. We can discuss all the related problems.

This topic becomes increasingly important especially for Germany's rural areas. I would like to develop strategies based on the framework of institutional economy.

Which metrics would you use?

Is funding necessary for broad research collaboration?

I would like to look into the relationship between primary productivity and top predator occurrences. What are the possible ways to collect this information? I would also like to collect the environmental information. Looking for collaborations.

I need someone to help me with writing discussion to the questionnaire I developed. I have already all the data and validity tests performed but need someone for the interpretation of these data.

I would like to make several large portraits prints (1mx1m) for the lab of Newton, Fourier, Michelson, Rayleigh and some other famous scientists. Can you advise any web source or a hard copy book, with such images of high quality? May be you came across printed portraits already available online?

I am working on the molecular characterization of some novel species of mycobacteria recovered from clinical samples.

I am working on a research proposal on the issue of agricultural expansion, intensification and deforestation in tropical Latin America. I am particularly interested in looking not only at socio-economic and technological drivers, but also institutional ones. In particular, which aspects of governance are important in preventing further spatial expansion of agriculture in tropical Latin America? How do different land tenure systems affect the process? What is the role of indigenous communities? So far I have been thinking of looking at the dry Chaco in Northern Argentina and perhaps another case in Ecuador (in order to perform a comparative analysis). I would very much appreciate collaborations with local institutions/researchers.

Becky Briant, Fiona Brock and Danielle Schreve are looking for fossiliferous Late Pleistocene sequences with independent age control to include in a new radiocarbon dating project in 2014 which will refine the pretreatments applied to plant macrofossil material in this time period. Have you worked or are you imminently planning to work on such a sequence? Do you have or can you get hold of large quantities (ideally c. 30+ kg [3+rubble sacks] of bulk sediment) of material that you would be interested in including in this project? Can you help? Please email b.briant@bbk.ac.uk for further details.

I am looking for examples of ecosystems (terrestrial, aquatic, grassland, forest, etc.) where low resource (water, light, nutrient) availability individuals of a species are surviving extreme environmental stress (e.g. insect outbreak, drought, heat) better than high-resource individuals of the same species to test a hypothesis I have developed. If you have an example, please contact me for potential collaboration.

i'm just starting my thesis for my MSc in sustainability and environmental management. i'm aiming to understand why collaboration is important in creating the change needed within the water stewardship strategies of corporates.

Our Paper titled "Effect of Sn substitution on structural, thermal and magnetic properties of EuMn2O5" has been accepted for the presentation at the 58th International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) 2013 to be held in Denver, Colorado, USA from 4-8 Nov. 2013. We don't have the facilities to measure the dielectric properties of the material. We are looking for some collaborator near Denver, USA where I can do a lab visit for some days around my conference time to measure the dielectric properties of my materials. Please let me know if anybody can help in that.

Interested in discussion of technology and possible collaboration

I am looking for a collaboration with a research group, Post-doc or PhD student having the possibility to perform cryo-TEM analyses of colloidal aggregates, mainly liposome, niosome and polymeric micelles.

I seek international collaborators who are actively involve in superconducting research. I am experimentalist with expertise in single crystal growth and physical properties measurement

We are now set up to measure 13CO2 in exhaled breath and air samples and welcome potential research collaborators to send us samples for analyses. - No cost/fees/changes

For example: email, Skype, Google+ hangouts, Yahoo groups, websites, commercial products, others...

I'm looking for opportunities to join research projects in the field of sustainability accounting/eco-control. I'd like to contribute especially on methods and quantitative data-analyses.

Please contact me if someone is interested.

I intend to tackle a research project, which I called THEORETICAL UNIFICATION OF NEUROSCIENCE, of open participation for all researchers having at least one original work performed and / or published on the subject.

To confirm your participation, you only need to 'follow' this question and send a message, stating your mail address and the reference work. If there is an adequate number of contributions, will start a new research project in ResearchGate.

I've been interested in bringing together any science that has been done on organic cropping systems. This would hopefully result in an understanding of overall biogeochemical cycling impacts of cropping systems by classification (i.e. agroforestry, biodynamic farming, organic monoculture) in different environments.

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In my investigation I have found a couple of Swedish teacher associations (TA), active during the 1970s and 1980s, who found their incitements for collaboration in the need for managing computer hardware and software. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and National Board Of Education it seems like TA are influential concerning the development of informatics (computer science) curriculum. Somehow today things have changed and the formation of TA are constrained by other regulations (political, economical or technological). Or would you say it's not?

For instance Educational secretary Michael Gove in England has recently presented a National Curriculum framework, where computing curriculum is supposed do be shaped from the bottom-up where teachers are going to share and use services on the internet for collaboration. He holds the idea of using Master Teachers which will spread the word. In such a situation I wonder if the collaboration will be driven from the needs of the teachers, the hope from the politicians, or from the programmers ideas about user interfaces.

QUESTION: The question about whether Gove's implementation will work or not, is another thing which the future will reveal, I therefore would appreciate if you could tell me (based on your research or experience from curriculum implementation) what is important for the existence of teacher associations and collaboration? What are the important factors?

I am a PhD candidate. I am writing a dissertation: "What are the factors of failure in the implementation of new project management technology utilizing dashboards as a tool to measure key performance indicators (KPI)." I am seeking 5-10 participants for a field study in project management.

Work on Representation Learning (Bengio, Hinton), Self-taught Learning (Ng) , Transfer Learning (Yang), Lifelong Machine Learning (Silver, Thrun, Eaton), and Deep Learning Architectures (LeCun, Bengio, Ng) share a common interest in developing knowledge of the world from experience (training examples). For the most part, this knowledge has been used to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of future learning. Perhaps it is time to consider the learning of representation for use by broader AI systems that can reason and plan using learned knowledge as per some of the work in the Neural Symbolic Integration (Garcez,Lamb) community. Being able to reason with learned knowledge places an additional constraint on the representational language and search methods used by machine learning systems. This would seem to be informative in the move to create smarter robots and software agents. Have others being doing work on or have interest in this area?

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Research venue: Triassic strata, Nevada. Date: Next summer.

It's a new intervention using probiotic bacteria in rat model osteomyelitis.

I'm extremely interested in issues concerning students' heath in educational settings such as stress levels in class rooms and how standardized testing affects drug use on campuses. I would like to work with anyone who shares similar interest in an effort to improve Canadian schools.

I am in need of collaborator for identification and detailed study of cattle tick samples.

NO kinetics as function of flow rate

Especially financial market law - supervision of the bank, insurance company, stock exchange - in English or French

We are looking for a dataset (and co-authorship).

I'm interested in copper/silver/gold nanoparticles as catalysts for organic reactions. In many publications there are indications that these materials are also useful as antibiotics against resistant bacteria. I dont have the facilities to do research on this subject and I like to collaborate with other reseachers who have access to microbiological tests.

I could also imagine that these materials might have an effect on cancer cells, but again, I cannot do any research without the help of a medical researcher.

I am looking for research into this area especially around Interactive ICT Touch Tables where children work collaboratively in groups around the tables (360 degrees)