Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences. [PDF]
Meta-analysis is a quantitative way of synthesizing results from multiple studies to obtain reliable evidence of an intervention or phenomenon. Indeed, an increasing number of meta-analyses are conducted in environmental sciences, and resulting meta ...
Nakagawa S+4 more
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Replication across space and time must be weak in the social and environmental sciences. [PDF]
Replicability takes on special meaning when researching phenomena that are embedded in space and time, including phenomena distributed on the surface and near surface of the Earth.
Goodchild MF, Li W.
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The Bibliometric Literature on Scopus and WoS: The Medicine and Environmental Sciences Categories as Case of Study. [PDF]
In a broad sense, science can be understood as the knowledge contained in scientific manuscripts published in scientific journals. Scientific databases index only those journals that reach certain quality standards.
Cascajares M+3 more
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Translating New Synthetic Biology Advances for Biosensing Into the Earth and Environmental Sciences. [PDF]
The rapid diversification of synthetic biology tools holds promise in making some classically hard-to-solve environmental problems tractable. Here we review longstanding problems in the Earth and environmental sciences that could be addressed using ...
Del Valle I+5 more
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Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences [PDF]
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance scientific ...
D. Fraisl+11 more
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Informetric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers in Environmental Sciences Based on Essential Science Indicators. [PDF]
Highly cited papers in the Essential Science Indicators database refer to papers with citations in the top 1% of all papers in a research field, and they are considered to be symbols of scientific excellence and top performance of the past ten years ...
Ma Q, Li Y, Zhang Y.
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Translational Biomarkers of Neurotoxicity: A Health and Environmental Sciences Institute Perspective on the Way Forward. [PDF]
Neurotoxicity has been linked to a number of common drugs and chemicals, yet efficient and accurate methods to detect it are lacking. There is a need for more sensitive and specific biomarkers of neurotoxicity that can help diagnose and predict ...
Roberts RA+15 more
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Environmental Sciences at Universities of Applied Sciences
Three institutes of the Universities of Applied Sciences that are active in Chemistry and Life Sciences present a selection of their activities in the field of environmental sciences.
Simon Crelier+3 more
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Footprint of publication selection bias on meta‐analyses in medicine, environmental sciences, psychology, and economics [PDF]
Publication selection bias undermines the systematic accumulation of evidence. To assess the extent of this problem, we survey over 68,000 meta‐analyses containing over 700,000 effect size estimates from medicine (67,386/597,699), environmental sciences (
František Bartoš+11 more
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Demands to manage the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) are growing. These demands and the government standards arising from them both call for trustworthy AI.
Ann Bostrom+27 more
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