NASA’s Mobile Agents project leads coordinated planetary exploration simulations at the Mars Desert Research Station. Through ScienceOrganizer, a Web-based tool for organizing and providing contextual knowledge for scientific datasets, remote teams of scientists access and annotate datasets, images, documents, and other forms of scientific information, applying pre-defined semantic links or met...

Mountain landscapes have changed drastically during the 20th century. The knowledge of changing patterns and processes is currently considered a key element for conservation and management. This integrative study combines different data sources, methodologies and representations that contribute to the history of common property land in Leomil highlands (Beira Alta, Portugal). The evaluated mate...

Maps of the world are common in classroom settings. They are used to teach the juxtaposition of natural and political functions, mineral resources, political, cultural and geographical boundaries; occurrences of processes such as tectonic drift; spreading of epidemics; and weather forecasts, among others. Recent work in scientometrics aims to create a map of science encompassing our collective ...

Bin Cui,1,2 Bing Huang,3,2,* Chong Li,4,2 Xiaoming Zhang,1,2 Kyung-Hwan Jin,2 Lizhi Zhang,2 Wei Jiang,2 Desheng Liu,1,5 and Feng Liu2,6,† 1School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA 3Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China 4School of Physics and Eng...

Interactive technology offers new opportunities to design dialogic learning spaces and scaffolds with the aid of visual icons. These technological environments can support construction open-ended cognitive digital maps, which portray an external representation scientific knowledge that could foster meaningful resolution socio-scientific challenges. In this context, research aims study impact ma...

explaining a political map as regards power/knowledgeextended abstractintroductiongetting a deeper understanding of many phenomena necessitates a deeper knowledge of their hidden meaning which is the key to a perfect understanding of that particular phenomenon . no true understanding is achieved unless through a sound methodology of phenomena . although positivism has been a dominant methodolog...

In a recent essay reviewing the historical works on women in politics and work, Elaine Tyler May, a perceptive social historian, argued that women’s history in general is flourishing. She based her judgment on a course correction, a change in direction, which the sub-discipline had reflected during the last few years. Once its task had been to “uncover women’s buried past and place the female e...

These are two in a series of occasional reviews of sabermetric articles published in academic journals. It is part of a project of mine to collect and catalog sabermetric research, and I would appreciate learning of and receiving copies of any studies of which I am unaware. Please visit the Statistical Baseball Research Bibliography at www.udel.edu/johnc/fa culty/pavitt.html, use it for your re...

J. L. Borges once wrote about a Chinese emperor, who commanded the creation of an accurate map of China [1]. The resulting map was as detailed as possible but therefore it had to match the size of China. What use would make such a map, especially if you have a narrow navigation question, e.g. where the forbidden city is located? This legend makes the central problems involved in graphical visua...