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16-Dec-2024

Towards smart cities: Integrating ground source heat pump systems with energy piles

Shibaura Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Integrating ground source heat pumps and energy piles is a promising approach to address the issue of energy efficiency for developing smart cities in the future. Recently, a team of researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology has comprehensively reviewed this dual technology, highlighting its features and benefits. The proposed technology not only reduces electricity consumption and operating costs but also mitigates the urban heat island effect.

Journal: Smart Cities

16-Dec-2024

How TikTok & Co are shaping cultural production

Goethe University Frankfurt
Business Announcement

The CEDITRAA research project, short for “Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia”, has been investigating since 2021 how cultural productions in Africa and Asia are created and what role digital media have played in their global dissemination. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has now extended the project – led jointly by Goethe University Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, Nigeria – for three years, and included an expanded research question.

16-Dec-2024

Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries are concerned about the use of plagiarism detection software in education. Their concerns lead to counterproductive behaviour and misdirected learning, according to the researchers behind the study.

Journal: International Journal for Educational Integrity

13-Dec-2024

UCF named co-lead on multi-million dollar department of defense grant for STEM education

University of Central Florida
Grant and Award Announcement

The Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities (HSRU) will lead a project to increase the number of doctoral graduates in technical fields from its 22 institutions from across the nation. The initiative is supported by a new $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). UCF’s portion of the funding totals approximately $4.8 million.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense

13-Dec-2024

Creating a global map of different physics laboratory classes

JILA
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physics lab courses are vital to science education, providing hands-on experience and technical skills that lectures can’t offer. Yet, it’s challenging for those in Physics Education Research (PER) to compare course to course, especially since these courses vary wildly worldwide.

To better understand these differences, JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Heather Lewandowski and a group of international collaborators are working towards creating a global taxonomy, a classification system that could create a more equitable way to compare these courses. Their findings were recently published in Physical Review Physics Education Research.

Journal: Physical Review Physics Education Research

13-Dec-2024

Sage acquires the scientific and medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
Business Announcement

Sage, a leading independent academic publisher, has acquired Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a renowned global media company publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed journals in biotechnology and the life sciences, specialized clinical medicine, public health and policy, and technology and engineering, as well as the leading B2B media brands Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) and Inside Precision Medicine.

13-Dec-2024

MLB adds lifesavers to the chain of survival at annual Winter Meetings

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association and Major League Baseball (MLB) brought cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) training to the League’s annual Winter Meetings held in Dallas this week.