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Information Dissemination - Science topic
Information Dissemination is the circulation or wide dispersal of information.
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I work as the lead data scientist at Loops - a startup that builds an analytics platform for product and growth teams. The platform scans our clients databases and generates causal insights such as "Increasing engagement with feature X can increase conversion within the first 2 weeks by 2.3%".
The problems we tackle are set in diverse problem setups such as continuous time dynamic treatments, large scale regression discontinuity designs and dynamic treatment regimes. The domains in which those problems are posed come from clients of all sizes and from a wide spectrum of industries such as education, entertainment etc.
I'm looking for collaborations with Academia to publish papers on some of those methods.
I'll note that we already have working experience with Academia (inc signing NDAs, de-identified data sharing etc).
Data sharing question: spike-wave discharges in humans, cats or dogs
Hi All,
I’m often asked to suggest academic Design Journals, but find it hard to find a 'one-stop' list so researchers/ students can review and select. I’ve started a rough list in no particular order (link below). Any Design related journal suggestions would be welcome, from Innovation to engineering, education to ergonomics, UX to Design history, etc. Discipline-specific or Interdisciplinary.
Please offer some suggestions and Il add them to the list. Looking for quality, peer-reviewed offerings.
Thanks alot!
P.J.
Dear Researchers and Academicians,
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming book on "Secure Big-Data Analytics for Emerging Healthcare in 5G and Beyond: Concepts, Paradigms, and Solutions". The book aims to explore how big data analytics (BDA) can be used securely in emerging healthcare settings leveraging advanced technologies such as 5G networks.
The following tracks will be covered:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Secure Big-Data Analytics in Emerging Healthcare
Chapter 2: Big Data Analytics (BDA) in Healthcare: Security Challenges in Healthcare Big-Data Analytics
Chapter 3: Overview of 5G and beyond Networks: Limitations of 4G-LTE
Chapter 4: Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Big-Data Analytics in Healthcare
Chapter 5: Secure Data Sharing and Collaboration in Healthcare Analytics.
Chapter 6: Trust and Governance in Healthcare Analytics with secured BDA and operational Challenges.
Chapter7 : Decentralized BDA Healthcare Infrastructures.
Chapter8 : Integration of B5G with Big Data forHealthcare:
Big Data-Driven Networking.
Chapter9 : DistributedAnalyticsforSecureandScalableHealthcareApplications,
Chapter10 : CaseStudiesandBestPracticesinSecureHealthcareAnalyticsUseCases.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline - September 10th ,2023
Full chapter acceptance notification - Oct 15,2023
Please note that all submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind review process by an international committee consisting of subject matter experts with significant research experience leading towards better research output
Please prepare the file for abstract for inclusion
Prepare a good chapter of 20-25 pages as per the IET author guidelines. Please refer the guidelines at https://www.theiet.org/publishing/publishing-with-iet-books/guides-and-resources/
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Data sharing with other researchers via a public depository became common in journal article publication. Journal editors and reviewers commonly pressure an author to share the data used for an article, although it is not necessarily mandatory. Data sharing can ensure transparency.
An author, however, makes tremendous efforts, and sometimes, it costs money to collect the data.
Do you think being pressured to share data with other researchers via a public depository for article publication is fair?
Are there international projects where you can research birds and share data, create joint articles? For example, it concerns phenology, bird nesting which is inhabited by artificial nests box or hollows?
i want to know other methodology that can be used apart from sharing with multi-party access control?
Another example of priorities in the wrong place. Considering how many major findings have not been reproducible, why are we not at the point where independent labs are required to show reproducibility before a finding is published? Of course, because of all fields, science is one of the most competitive, and sharing data is out of the question. We should be working collaboratively for the betterment of society, but that will take a shift in integrity that appears impossible in the current climate.
For instance, in urban transportation there are several participants, e.g., mobility service providers, infrastructure and traffic management centres, passengers, local-, and state governance etc. Each participant collect/generate- and store data. The level of integration would be higher if either
- the participants share their data with each other (which would be quite idealistic), or
- there are a data platform, to where participants transfer their data (this can be a data warehouse for example).
High integration would be advantageous, as development projects require data for efficient execution. The main reason of my related research is to enable efficient, standardized and data-based decision support for transportation development projects.
I've thought about interpreting data systems as graphs and calculate the level of integration, based on the number of different connections/relations between the participants, but this may result in a rather decentralised/overcomplicated system, in which, the more connections are, the higher the integration is.
I would aim to
- estimate the optimal number of connections between participants, and
- develop a data warehouse framework, where participants do not need to communicate but they transfer their data to the warehouse, in which the data is stored in a structured manner.
In the next step, maybe compare the two solutions. I know there are several policy/management related barriers of data sharing (specially between the participants), this way, the data warehouse seems like a better idea. Of course, sharing data with the warehouse may assume some central legal actions (e.g., law enforcement of data sharing).
Thank you very much for your answers in advance!
With GDPR, transparency is key factor in data sharing. I am looking for opinions on the topic. Any research that shows how let’s say functionality X raises the transparency with Y%?
My name is Iana Rezlauf and I would like to invite German and US scientists to take part in the interview as part of my Ph.D. project "Research data sharing between the EU and the U.S.” at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
In my dissertation, I explore the legal challenges of research data sharing between scholars from the European Union and the United States that are becoming particularly important at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are two main criteria for selecting interview partners:
1) Scientists working with personal data (various disciplines can be considered);
2) Scientists participating in the EU-U.S. research data exchange (within joint projects and private communication).
For more details please send me a message.
Thank you in advance for supporting my project! :-)
In management theory and business ethics, Spiral Dynamics (SD) is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies. SD is renowned as an example of applied memetics. The holistic memetic (turquoise) brings a collective of individuals into harmony. The focus is on the sum of the units, perceived and promoted as integrated systems. GAIA-X as a data and service platform could be an opportunity to advance Europe as a systemic entity. Nevertheless, GAIA-X platform is not without controversy.
What do you think about it?
Dear colleagues,
I am very interested in hearing your opinion about using data collected by others.
Nowadays it is somewhat common to share data after publishing a paper. That data is available in different websites, such as repositories or at the author's personal website.
Occasionally, authors specify themselves if others can use their data or not (including which uses they allow). In other instances, data is very old or the allowed uses are not specified.
It goes without saying that proper acknowledgement should be made when using others' data. That includes at a minimum a citation. I am not sure about additional steps regarding the use of others' data. Should the authors be always contacted regardless of whether the dataset is available online or not? Should one expect a co-authorship when using someone else's data? If a dataset is very old and the authors are retired, can the data still be used? Do these expectations depend on the use of the data?
I would like to know people's opinions about how acknowledgement should be made and how one should go about using other researchers' data.
Cheers,
Ana
We're currently planning a pilot study to explore movement behaviour within urban and sub-urban greenspace, as well as the contribution of greenspace-based physical activity to total weekly physical activity. Participants will be given accelerometers to capture movement, but we're looking for a good (but affordable) method of capturing location. Dedicated GPS devices remain prohibitively expensive for this project, with a potential solution available through using smartphone data collection.
I'd be really interested and grateful to receive recommendations for smartphone apps that would facilitate this capture. Naturally, I'm interested in accuracy, but would be willing to compromise somewhat in order to obtain an app that is cross-platform, simple to use and share data, and possesses precedence for research use. The app also needs to be ethically sound with regard to data sharing and privacy. The choice in available apps is overwhelming, and any recommendations would be most welcome, especially those based on experience.
The question says it all. I need to deposit Lipidomics data for manuscript submission and subsequent data sharing.
I'm in the midst of developing instrument to assess the impact of pandemic crisis on corporate governance. My methods is content analysis in which I wish to study the information (impact of pandemic on CG) disclosed in the Annual Report of the companies.
I am doing species niche modeling of an amphibian species. I have 151 presence observations, after filttering points that were too close (< 1 km). I am using data presence from GBIF, iNaturalist, and presence data shared by colleagues. However, I am worried about sampling bias, because it is an opportunistic kind of approach. Therefore, I am trying to find a way to correct sampling bias to better our models.
Data sharing increases utilization of data requiring protection of privacy of the data owner.
There are a number of regulations that try to make sure that data custodians ensure the privacy of data subjects. However, these regulations do not seem to hold during pandemics, not to mention data privacy dangers that arise due to limited effectiveness of privacy systems as well as algorithms' data leaks.
What are the possible dangers of data privacy during corona pandemic that you think of?
Hi All ,
Please can you recommend a free database (i already use yahoo finance but it's not avaible) ,or if someone has already worked on this index for the period of 2015 it would be great to share data with me thanks
Or some formative data to share? Interested in your inclusion of parents in your study...we are looking at the treatment of mental illness in childhood and the impact of parents on this subject.
Respected RG members,
Journals have started encouraging share data relevant to the research on public repositories at the time of submission. Does anyone know what data should be shared and examples of such repositories?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
I am trying to use Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool for a systematic review. But I couldn't figure out how to use the tool to score a single study.
Can someone who previously wrote systematic reviews and have risk analysis data share with me?
thank you so much
Dear Colleagues!
Do you think a modern researcher should independently make efforts to spread awareness in the world around him about the results of his scientific activity?
If so, how much will it: a) contribute to his research activity, b) interfere with it? Is such an activity necessary for the researcher himself and the organization with which he is affiliated?
Is it possible (and how?), from your point of view, to organize this process effectively?
Dear all, motivated by a variety of MoBI studies currently being conducted in our group, I am thinking of proposing a new Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) extension that addresses MoBI-specific needs for data sharing. This would also encompass flatscreen navigation data or 2D position streams from more conventional studies, so we can easily compare between recordings from different setups. I believe that the community will benefit a lot from clarifying properties specific to recording of spatial data. What are your thoughts on this idea? Is there any ongoing work for BIDS extension for movement data, or would you be interested in creating a new one?
Any one can share data sheet of HF transformer? Thanks in advance.
In the Mental Health Department of the Navarre Public Health Service a Group Therapy Unit has been recently created (August 2018). We are gathering information about management, cost-effectiveness and clinical efficacy, but we would like to know if there are other similar experiences around the world.
We do know that group therapy is a common service provided by mental health departments, but always within wider inpatient or outpatient units that also provide other treatments.
Our inquiry is if there are other specific Group Therapy Units that specialize in providing only group format interventions.
We are interested in sharing data, management indicators identified, clinical and process variables assessed etc.
I need to now how to write a literature review on information dissemination
I need geospatial multi-year Climatic data (rainfall, temperature, barometric pressure, wind, solar etc) of Pak. Plz either share data or suggest download website.
All,
I'm looking for material properties on aluminium alloy 5000 and 6000 series. In particular, strain-life data and toughness.
Could anyone please point me out to a reliable data source or maybe someone already have data to share?
Thank you.
Cheers,
Arturo Francese
Data and accessibility services for persons with disabilities
Many people have privacy concerns particular data as more personal and sensitive than others, I think people's privacy concerns differ according to the purpose for which data is collected, with the contrast between service and surveillance purposes most paramount.
People must know for which purpose data is used and weigh the benefits that providing their data may offer them. When these benefits are of immediate personal relevance e.g. accessibility, medical, access services, I think most people are willing to share their data.
Historical data will be preferable, however cross-sectional data will also be helpful. The reason I prioritize historical data of the share of automation use in US manufacturing is due to the fact that I am interested in seeing the trend of increased use of automation from past to present. Also, county-level data would be perfect for the purposes of my research. Automation and capital intensity can be used interchangeably.
Hello fellow scientists!
Data sharing between labs collaborating on funded projects is becoming more difficult with time as some institutions block access to regular cloud solutions such as Dropbox or google storage to name a few. What solutions are you using for non-hipaa subjected data? Can you name the top 2 and the name of your institution? I am trying to initiate a discussion with our IT department and want to back it with data on what our community is using. Thanks for your help!
I try to investigate the relations between fitbit data like heart rate and step count and physiological status, but do not have enough data. Can anyone share the Fitbit minute-to-minute data (at least one month) of certain group (both healthy group and patients group) if you have published your work? If you have any suggestions on how to get this kind of data, please also let me know. Thanks.
Hello, I do have data on avian diversity in Gannoruwa forest. I am happy to share with this project. Also, I compiled a checklist on insect flower visitors in Mihinthale. You can cross tally my data with your inventory as well.
We use to share data in many research groups, to be used for research purposes, teaching..etc. therefore, we are looking for a kind of agreement between the parties. Especially that kind of agreements that preserve the right of data provider as well as the contributors, mainly when it comes to access limits and degree of freedom of publish the data analysis results or for beneficial purposes.
We are appreciate all your recommendations and suggestions.
Thank you,
Omar AlThuwaynee.
As data sharing is becoming the norm, will you be willing to share the data of your research in open repositories?
Free access to information should prevail on the Internet.
This is the main factor in the dynamic development of many websites, new internet services, the growth of users of social media portals and many other types of websites.
In my opinion, all information that can be publicly disseminated should be available on the Internet without restrictions, universally and free of charge.
Please, answer, comments.
I invite you to the discussion.
Best wishes

Hi,
I need raw PPG signal for a project I am working on. I have tried searching for a pulse oximeter online but many do not allow access to the raw PPG signal. I am looking for a device which can:
a) Store raw PPG signal, not only heart rate.
b) Have some data sharing capability, either wired or wireless.
Thanks a lot!
The trend recently is towards sharing data in open data repositories. Some journals require that data be sent to such repositories as articles are submitted. Considering the pros and cons of data sharing, how willing will you as a researcher be willing to share the yet unexplored data of your research vis-à-vis the requirements for such submission by some journals?
Hello All,
Sorry if this is a really basic question but I'm struggling with when to correct my simple follow-up analyses.
---Background---
I have 2 groups (experimental and control) and on one task am provided with a within-subjects DV with 3 levels (L1, L2, L3).
While I have conducted a mixed-factorial repeated measures ANOVAs to answer the bulk of my research question, I have followed up my main effects / interactions with multiple paired t-tests. These tests compare L1-L2, L1-L3, L2-L3 for both groups (e.g. 6 paired tests). I have Bonferroni corrected for 6 comparisons - no problem.
I now want to ensure that the effects observed in L1, L2, and L3 were significantly above 0. Thus I have elected to run 3 single-sample t-tests for each group (6 tests). i.e. L1 for experimental, L1 for control, l2 for experimental ...etc.
---The Problem----
What I am struggling with is whether I also have to Bonferroni correct my alpha for these analyses. One the one hand, multiple tests increases the likelihood of type 1 error. However, each DV is being used discretely and not being 'double-dipped' in the same way as paired or independent group t-tests that may use a DV multiple times.
I know this is STATS101 but I've gotten myself turned around in circles. Should I correct in this case? i.e. does the Bonferroni correction occur on the basis of # of tests conducted at once / overall even when they don't share data? And if so, is it a correction for 6 (# of t-tests), 3 (# of t-tests for each group), or 2 (#of times each variable is separately tested e.g. L1 for experimental and L1 for controls)?
Any help (and straightforward articles) would be appreciated as information is relatively sparse in this area and I can't seem to find any articles or information in text books directly relevant to 1-sample t-tests.
Cheers,
Matt.
So, what are the Pros and Cons?
Do you want to know if you will get an un-treatable disease in the future? Is that healthy for you?
What does the government want to do with your data?
If the government makes a huge discovery on your data, will they share the profits with you?
Risk of getting a disease is often modified by environmental factors- how reliable will these predictions be? will this all just be another level of Astrology?
By limiting this test to those that can pay, is there not already a bias to the higher classes of society?
What is your opinion?
Today I read a very interesting blog post at MathWorks website (https://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2018/11/21/code-ocean-matlab-and-sharing-reusable-code/) about Open Science, Reproducible Research and Reusable Research.
That was my first contact with tools such Code Ocean, and I got quite curious to know: "what people in the research community are using for those purposes?"
Looking forward to your inputs :-)
I have never published yet. I have a large set of Hylocomium splendens moisture content data that was generated from a privately funded project for a mine. The mine is willing to share the data but I have no idea how to do this. I visited a couple of data repositories (NSF Arctic Data Repository, Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity) but need to generate metadata that meets their criteria. Does anyone know of tutorial on developing metadata for data repositories?
I am working in collaboration with another university where a collaborator was gathering data. He asked me to share my part, and I did as I assumed we were "collaborating". Now that he has all the database, he's no willing to share any of those data with anyone outside his university. I know that worst cases have happened to other researchers, so I am wondering, do we need to move from trusting in our fellow scientists towards legal protection? and how can I avoid this to happen again without losing trust in my colleagues?
Hello,
I am doing research for an efficient encryption algorithm for Ethernet based industry standard protocols.
Currently I am validating the kerberos library for this research.
Any suggestion/ideas would be appreciated.
Regards,
Ravi
Dissemination of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development of the global economy through education and social campaigns in the mass media
The aim of promoting the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development of the global economy should be to educate the society, including the broadcasting of social campaigns in the mass media.
Perhaps thanks to this, the significance and strength of specific barriers to the principle of sustainable development of the global economy will gradually decrease.
In view of the above, the current question is: Should the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development through education and mass media be promoted?
Please, answer, comments. I invite you to scientific cooperation

I'm doing a research regarding ontology and would like to get your opinion on the above question as all the ontology i came across had no data but broken links and nodes of possible class. if you take example of an ontology of college management it tells in the node as Director instead of the name. I'm wondering if those are just the structure and the real data is not shared? is this common to all ontology or have i not found the right one?
I'm interested in the concepts from a variety of fields, which are either not understood (perhaps not so broadly disseminated) or that people misunderstand quite frequently, that you wish was better understood?
Here's an open-ended question relating to copyright, ethics, power relations in academia, and corpus linguistics:
What is the situation in your country/university with respect to the intellectual property rights of corpora/data collected and constituted by a PhD student during the preparation of their thesis?
All other considerations aside (i.e. suppose that the data is original, with no prior copyright holders, and that they have been duly collected with the consent of participants):
(1) Does the PhD student retain the intellectual property rights to such data? Or do they automatically become the intellectual property of the university, by means of an employment contract or another legal document (e.g. one that PhD students may be forced to sign in order to be authorised to defend their thesis)?
(2) What happens if the PhD student wishes to share/publish their data/corpora under an Open Access license (e.g. Creative Commons) after their defence or even before it? Do they need the permission of their supervisor, of a higher-level university body, of their funding agency, of all of the above? Has it ever happened in your university? Have there been cases where the researcher wanted to share data under an Open Access license and were prevented from doing so by another level of the hierarchy?
(3) If the data does become the intellectual property of the university, is there any obligation for the university afterwards (e.g. are they obliged to make them available through an institutional repository)? If the data becomes part of an institutional repository, does the PhD student have any say on the type of license under which they will be distributed? (for example, do they get to choose "non-commercial")?
(4) After the defence, is it possible for the university (or even an individual supervisor) to formally ask their former student (now Dr) to refrain from using the data/corpus they had collected during their thesis? Note that, in theory, if the corpus automatically becomes the intellectual property of the university, this is entirely possible. Do you know any cases of universities sending formal "cease and desist" letters against their former PhD students?
I would like to collect information about current practice and law in different countries with respect to this issue. For example, some countries limit these practices (considered an abusive utilisation of copyright); some Codes of Conduct in Dutch universities explicitly state that, unlike other productions, the copyright of a PhD thesis is retained by the PhD holder; in "business-friendly" Belgium, the issue is dealt under labour law (therefore a PhD student is just another employee and everything they produce belongs to their employer).
Researchers are becoming increasingly aware that the current situation is not really conducive to early-career researchers sharing their corpora under Open Access licenses.
Legal experts will provide data and analyses, as these matters can get complicated. But I would also like to hear some experiences and the opinions of corpus linguistics practitioners. Any pointer to your country's laws, university's code of conduct, case law, cases reported in the media, stories and anecdotes or even personal experiences (if you don't mind sharing them) are welcome.
Thank you very much for participating in the discussion and thank you for your help!
Hi precious researchers,
I Am working on Michel Foucault's subjectivity idea and I am working also him late era works.
I want to contact with ones who works on same project with mine for sharing data.
Can you reach me for that?
Long story short, my MS thesis looked at Sargassum associated macrofauna. My fellow collaborators and I are currently writing everything up for publication as part of larger study but during the collection process, I noticed that a particular species of shrimp had a very noticeable parasite which I made note of. Right now, I just have frequency data about the parasite in conjunction with other variables like species of Sargassum the shrimp was found on, etc. It seems a shame not to share the data.
I am looking for suggestions about what sort of journal might publish this as a note (perhaps?). Would this be best suited for a taxa based journal or more ecology focused?
I'm looking for publicly available speech perception EEG databases with large corpora (preferably at least 10-20 words) or articles that share their data. Can anyone help me find some? Your help would be greatly appreciated!!
Dear scientific community,
I am just wondering if anyone has used commercially available human primary cells for genomic research and if so, how did you addressed the policy requirements for NIH. I need to address this policy for my grant but this well known vendor is not fully cooperating with my requests. Vendor stated that this is not a requirement for commercially available cells, although I believe it should be.
Does anyone know of a vendor that can provide human primary cells but also can provide documentation that donor provided explicit consent for future research use?
Thank you.
The CRISPR-Cas9 method allows one to edit genomic sequences and have these changes permanently established in the organism. It is easy to imagine this technology resulting in biological disasters when in the wrong hands.
Opinion leaders can be used in information dissemination in remote communities. I would like to find out the areas they have been used and with what success.
So many questions and answers are based on the opinion of great scientists. Therefore RG Community/RG should publish valued opinions and make these opinions reach respective governmental authorities, thereby serving the society.
We must look for the effective use of technological advances as the key to successful and sustainable development. The process of implementation is greatly strengthened if there is feedback from the users of technology to generators of knowledge.Literature sharing knowledge from blogs and wikis are important and they provide innovative ideas.
Language plays a major role in readership of scientific and research articles. Translation and editorial help is limited. Many good workers remain un-noticed because of defficiency in English. What is the affordable solution?