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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Citations are insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research contribution
However, citations are one of many attributes surrounding a publication and by themselves provide an insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research contribution. This is due to a wide range of characteristics they exhibit, including the variations in sentiment (positive…
Carl Sagan - Wikipedia
Atheism
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Epistemic value of nanopublications
What remains problematic is that even if we were to have a perfect representation of phrases into triplets, this collection of sentences still do not answer the question ‘what does p53 activate?’ An important omission of this representation is that we get no grip on the…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Semantic integration contributes to the information value chain in science
Such a common metadata representation of scientific claims, argument, evidence and annotation in biomedi- cine should serve as an integrating point for the original publication, subsequent annotations, and all other com- putational methods, supporting a single framework for…
Faults in the communication of scientific evidence and citations
Recent results spotlight concerns with the communi- cation of evidence and its citation. Begley and Ellis re- cently found that only 11% of research findings they examined from the academic literature could be repro- duced in a biopharmaceutical laboratory [8]. Fang et al…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Behavior is evidence of mind, not mind itself
Chomsky claimed that the idea that when we study psychology we are studying behavior is as unintelligent as the idea that when we study physics we are studying meter readings. Of course we use behavior as evidence in psychology, just as we use meter readings as evidence in…
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
Citations are insufficient evidence of impact
The assumption of our research is that citations themselves are an insufficient evidence of impact.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Armchair necessities contradicted by facts
These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always vulnerable to facts emerging on the ground which plain contradict them. People with Cotard Syndrome or transient…
Consciousness emerges from the working brain
what does seem to be true is that consciousness does indeed emerge from complex physical events in the brain, even if we don’t know how it does so. Whatever the mechanism, we have thoughts and feelings because we have physical brains that work, not because there’s something…
Remaining mysteries don't justify souls
Those who hold on to the idea that something other than a functioning brain is required to create persons with a sense of self are simply not looking the evidence in the face. Just because some mysteries remain, that does not mean that everything is a mystery, and it certainly…
Traits are fairly stable across situations
Several attempts to analyse data on behaviour over a range of situations have suggested that there is significant stability of traits over different situations.7 This alone is enough to show that the idea that character is just an illusion is far too simplistic.
Few people are of consistent character
If people are indeed variable in this way, then what would that predict for the kinds of studies that Doris cites? We would expect to find that only a minority of people are actually of consistent good character, and, likewise, only a few of consistent bad character. We would…
The plural of anecdote is not data
Here we move from conceptual coherence to empirical evidence, and despite the numerous books and testimonies Akong and Ringu cite, as the old saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data. If someone had really remembered a detail from a past life which could be verified and…
Choosing the late lama's possessions
Without necessarily adopting a deliberate strategy, a child could sense from the reactions of the group which object should be his settled choice. This is not remotely fanciful: even horses can do as much.
The Clever Hans effect
In the early twentieth century, one called Clever Hans appeared to be able to do some basic arithmetic, repeatedly and reliably tapping his hoof the same number of times as the right answer to a sum set for him to solve. When investigated, it was discovered that Hans was…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Importance of presenting data clearly
Here’s the lesson I learned from this exercise: In just three or four hours of work, I completed a personal project that allowed me to see the evidence supporting Matt Ridley’s discussion on the evolution of fertility. His hypotheses seem to have some basis after all. But if…
Worry Less About Children's Screen Use, Parents Told - Bbc News
Screen time and children
The recommendation that children should not use the devices in the hour before bedtime comes because of evidence that they can harm sleep. The devices stimulate the brain, and the blue light produced by them can disrupt the body's secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin. While…