Monthly Archives: September 2010

WorldWideScience.org translations available in 9 languages

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“The National Research Council’s Canada Insti­tute for Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (NRC-CISTI) announced the launch of WorldWideScience.org., a mul­ti­lin­gual trans­la­tion tool that pro­vides real-time search­ing and trans­la­tion of glob­ally dis­persed mul­ti­lin­gual sci­en­tific lit­er­a­ture.  Users can search data­bases in China, Rus­sia, France and sev­eral Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries and receive the search results trans­lated into one of nine languages.”

Source:  Online, Vol.36(5), Sept.-Oct, 2010, p. 12.

All access links for Online (jour­nal) at Princeton.

Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) predicts Nobel Laureates for 2010

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Thom­son Reuters pre­dicts Nobel Lau­re­ates for 2010 — 22 Sep 2010

“Infor­ma­tion ser­vices provider Thom­son Reuters, US, has announced the 2010 Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates researchers likely to be in con­tention for Nobel hon­ours. Thom­son Reuters claims to be the only organ­i­sa­tion to use quan­ti­ta­tive data to make annual pre­dic­tions of Nobel Prize winners.

Each year, Thom­son Reuters uses data from its research solu­tion, Web of Knowl­edge, to quan­ti­ta­tively deter­mine the most influ­en­tial researchers in the Nobel cat­e­gories of Phys­i­ol­ogy or Med­i­cine, Physics, Chem­istry, and Eco­nom­ics. Based on cita­tions to their works, the com­pany names these high-impact researchers as Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates and pre­dicts them to be Nobel Prize win­ners, either this year or in the near future. Since 2002, 19 Cita­tion Lau­re­ates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.

The Thom­son Reuters Cita­tion Lau­re­ates typ­i­cally rank among the top one-tenth of one per­cent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields, based on cita­tions of their pub­lished papers over the last two decades. This year, 15 of the 21 Cita­tion Lau­re­ates hail from Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties. Researchers from France, Japan, Aus­tralia, Canada and the United King­dom also appear among the 2010 picks.

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 9–22-10

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“Change the Equation” new government mandated non-profit led by CEOs to improve STEM education

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White House Announces Launch of New Non­profit to Strengthen STEM Education
The President at MLK Charter School in New Orleans, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 11/15/09.
By Molly Galvin

Sep­tem­ber 16, 2010 — The Obama admin­is­tra­tion announced today the launch of “Change the Equa­tion,” a new non­profit cor­po­ra­tion led by CEOs in an effort to improve edu­ca­tion in sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy, engi­neer­ing, and math (STEM). Accord­ing to the White House, the ini­tia­tive is a response to the president’s speech at the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences in April 2009 in which he urged Amer­i­cans to ele­vate STEM edu­ca­tion as a national pri­or­ity. The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, National Acad­emy of Engi­neer­ing, and National Research Coun­cil have a long his­tory of efforts to improve STEM edu­ca­tion, includ­ing the influ­en­tial 2005 report Ris­ing Above the Gath­er­ing Storm: Ener­giz­ing and Employ­ing Amer­ica for a Brighter Eco­nomic Future, which urged improve­ments in K-12 STEM edu­ca­tion to keep the U.S. eco­nom­i­cally competitive.

Assessment Report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Harold Shapiro, Chair of the InterAcademy (IAC) Council Committee to Review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), holds up a copy of the IAC's newly-released independent review of IPCC processes and procedures, during a press conference at UN Headquarters. UN photo by Devra Berkowitz.

August 30, 2010 — A new report from the Inter­A­cad­emy Coun­cil, an orga­ni­za­tion of the world’s sci­ence acad­e­mies, includ­ing the U.S. National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, says that the process used by the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change to pro­duce its peri­odic assess­ment reports has been a suc­cess over­all, but that IPCC needs to reform its man­age­ment struc­ture, strengthen its pro­ce­dures, and become more trans­par­ent to han­dle increas­ingly com­plex cli­mate assess­ments and greater pub­lic scrutiny. The report was released today at the United Nations.

Source:   Sept. 13, 2010

International Year of Biodiversity declared by UN

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This year we have a unique oppor­tu­nity to share our knowl­edge of Earth’s bio­log­i­cal diver­sity and encour­age con­tri­bu­tions to its con­ser­va­tion. The United Nations has declared 2010 the Inter­na­tional Year of Bio­di­ver­sity. Sci­en­tists and con­ser­va­tion prac­ti­tion­ers from around the world have been work­ing with their local and national gov­ern­ments to edu­cate the pub­lic on species, ecosys­tems, and eco­log­i­cal processes. Our goal is to ensure sig­nif­i­cant advances in con­ser­va­tion pol­icy that pro­tect resources fun­da­men­tal to human well-being are met in 2010.

To cel­e­brate this year, Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy has cre­ated 3 FREE Vir­tual Issues. Read them here:

 

Com­pli­ments of Wiley — Black­well publishers

 

 

Con­nec­tiv­ity and Cor­ri­dors
Arti­cles address phe­nom­ena and actions that affect move­ment of genes, organ­isms (includ­ing humans), and eco­log­i­cal processes. Arti­cles also empha­size the influ­ence of social and eco­nomic con­text on main­te­nance of con­nec­tiv­ity.
 

 

Cli­mate Change
Arti­cles high­light research in all con­ser­va­tion sci­ences — social, bio­log­i­cal, and phys­i­cal — that may reduce uncer­tainty about the poten­tial effects of alter­na­tive man­age­ment and invest­ment deci­sions on diverse con­ser­va­tion tar­gets.
 

 

Con­ser­va­tion Social Sci­ence
Arti­cles empha­size the neces­sity to change human behav­ior in order to achieve the vast major­ity of con­ser­va­tion objec­tives. Diverse soci­etal struc­tures and processes are rel­e­vant to con­ser­va­tion of Earth’s bio­log­i­cal diversity.