Affordable method of video recording for ecologists and citizen-science participants

Citizen Science for Citizen Access to Law

Over 2014, the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National University worked with users of the Cornell LII site in a citizen science project to collect over 43,000 crowdsourced assessments of the readability of legal and other sentences. Readers (“citizen scientists”) on legislative pages of the LII site were asked to rate passages from the United States Code and ...

Mapping species distributions: A comparison of skilled naturalist and lay citizen science recording

To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined bumblebee records from the UK's national repository (National Biodiversity Network) and from BeeWatch. The two recording approaches revealed similar relative abundances of bumblebee species but different geographical distri...

Cloud Computing for Citizen Science

semi-analytical solution for static and forced vibration problems of laminated beams through smooth fundamental functions method

در این پایان نامه روش جدیدی مبتنی بر روش حل معادلات دیفرانسیل پارهای بر اساس روش توابع پایه برای حل مسایل ارتعاش اجباری واستاتیک تیرها و صفحات لایه ای ارایه شده است که می توان تفاوت این روش با روش های متداول توابع پایه را در استفاده از توابع هموار در ارضاء معادلات حاکم و شرایط مرزی دانست. در روش ارایه شده در این پایاننامه از معادله تعادل به عنوان معادله حاکم بر رفتار سیستم استفاده شده است که مو...

UbiqUitoUs sUstainability: Citizen sCienCe & aCtivism Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up community participation. Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower ind...