Do academics doubt their own research? [PDF]
When do experts doubt or question their own previously published research and why? An online survey was designed and distributed across academic staff and postgraduate research students at different universities in Great Britain.
Stapleton, Lee
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TaxoCom: Topic Taxonomy Completion with Hierarchical Discovery of Novel Topic Clusters [PDF]
Topic taxonomies, which represent the latent topic (or category) structure of document collections, provide valuable knowledge of contents in many applications such as web search and information filtering. Recently, several unsupervised methods have been developed to automatically construct the topic taxonomy from a text corpus, but it is challenging ...
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Green BPM as a business-oriented discipline : a systematic mapping study and research agenda [PDF]
Green Business Process Management (BPM) focuses on the ecological impact of business processes. This article provides a systematic mapping study of Green BPM literature to evaluate five attributes of the Green BPM research area: (1) scope, (2 ...
Couckuyt, Dries, Van Looy, Amy
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Network Inference from Consensus Dynamics [PDF]
We consider the problem of identifying the topology of a weighted, undirected network $\mathcal G$ from observing snapshots of multiple independent consensus dynamics. Specifically, we observe the opinion profiles of a group of agents for a set of $M$ independent topics and our goal is to recover the precise relationships between the agents, as ...
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Development and the United Nations: achievements and challenges for the future [PDF]
This article explores the role of the United Nations in development in the context of both the current critiques of the UN and the failure of the 2005 New York summit to reach agreement on a program of reform.
Connolly, Eileen, Gold, Lorna
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Interplay between consensus and coherence in a model of interacting opinions [PDF]
The formation of agents' opinions in a social system is the result of an intricate equilibrium among several driving forces. On the one hand, the social pressure exerted by peers favours the emergence of local consensus. On the other hand, the concurrent participation of agents to discussions on different topics induces each agent to develop a coherent
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Emerging from out of the shadows? Service user and carer involvement in systematic reviews [PDF]
The systematic review methodology literature refers to the importance of involving stakeholders, including service users and carers, in the research. However, compared with other aspects of the methodology, this aspect of conducting systematic reviews is
Braye, Suzy, Preston-Shoot, Michael
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Oficinas educativas sobre HIV/Aids: uma proposta de intervenção para idosos
O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a eficácia de uma oficina educativa sobre HIV/aids em um grupo de idosos. A população incluiu 471 indivíduos entre 60 e 91 anos composta principalmente por mulheres (83,1%).
Alexandre Ramos Lazzarotto+7 more
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Diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis. EAES consensus development conference 2015
Unequivocal international guidelines regarding the diagnosis and management of patients with acute appendicitis are lacking. The aim of the consensus meeting 2015 of the EAES was to generate a European guideline based on best available evidence and ...
Ramon R. Gorter+30 more
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Multi-view consensus CNN for 3D facial landmark placement [PDF]
The rapid increase in the availability of accurate 3D scanning devices has moved facial recognition and analysis into the 3D domain. 3D facial landmarks are often used as a simple measure of anatomy and it is crucial to have accurate algorithms for automatic landmark placement.
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