Step by step towards citizen science — deconstructing youth participation in BioBlitzes

step by step progress towards genetic knowledge of prostate cancer

Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science

We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org). We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation relate to success in a science quiz, controlling for factors known to correlate with scientific knowledge. Citizen scientists believe they are learning about ...

Step – By – Step

Approaches to formalisation of medical guidelines can be divided into model–centric and document–centric. While model–centric approaches dominate in the development of clinical decision support applications, document–centric, mark–up–based formalisation is suitable for application tasks requiring the 'literal' content of the document to be transferred into the formal model. Examples of such tas...

Step by Step

In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) ‘bottleneck model’. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called ‘step tolls’, in which the toll takes on different values over discrete time intervals, but is constant within each interval. Given the ...

Step-by-Step Migrations

This paper considers a dynamic model of industry location in which there is a tension between two forces. First, there is the agglomerating force of preference of intermediate input variety that tends to keep an industry at its original location. Second, other location factors matter and these tend to pull the industry in the direction of a new location. A crucial aspect of the model is that th...