Public Articles
Social media: the more we share the more we learn
and 2 collaborators
One day I received an email from a researcher who is living in Japan. He said there’s something wrong with my supplementary data set which was published in a paper in 2014. Apparently there was a miss-location in one of the coordinates. Recently, I received an email from a fellow researcher from UK asking for my availability to be the co-PI (Principal Investigator) on a project. Both researchers said they know me and my work from social media. I even got invited for a coffee science-talk originating from a “mention” on Twitter.
Although Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world, it doesn’t make our research have more impact. This is mostly due to language barrier and limited network. For years we tend to do research only as personal or organizational event, no more and no less. Nevertheless, out of that manner, we demand acknowledgment, citations, and better yet we use that citation counts to judge who are more prominent than others. Research had been placed as a closed-loop activity, with no attention from others except the team member itself. More and more research will ended up as closed report and then locked up in somebody’s drawers or some dusty shelves in the library. Social media could be the answer we’ve been looking for. Continue reading and we will show you that it is the answer we’ve been looking for. Please kindly visit my ScienceOpen interview with Jon Tennant.
Before we know and use social media, as academics living in a developing country, we have suffered from brain drain, lack of ideas, lack of facilities, lack of information and limited network. Today, we can harvest ideas in a snap, add some thoughts, and having more ideas in return. We can exchange ideas with people from the other side of the globe (or other part of the world, for those who believe the earth is flat-your choice). We know about the latest work/ scholarship offers within minutes. It is that easy. We read more science than ever before; we learn from it and disseminate it further. Borrowing @Thesiswhisperer ’s words “When I read the tweets of others I consume their thoughts and ideas”. We believe people now capture ideas more quickly from social media feeds. Instead of have a direct conversation, most of us are now skillful in fast reading and typing to explain something in less than 160 characters.
So you might ask what did we and so many others do on social media. Did we just create and respond to random posts or chats, spend more time on it than on our real work, the one we get paid for? No, we simply share what we know and re-tweet others’ that we thought would be valuable for our followers. It could be an inspirational one, a knowledge-driven one, or even a funny one. We don’t intend to brag (or humblebrag) about what we do, we’re just letting others know what we have achieved, and what we have not due to many obstacles. Share the ones we know and the ones we don’t. A kind soul would step forward and tell you what’s wrong with your work and how you can make it more sound.
Many times, we just send out words. We don’t know who would read nor deeply care about them, but oftentimes people just show up and send us their opinions, corrections, and inputs to expand and enrich our work. On the other hand, simplest rule of nature applies, “you reap what you sow”. Social media is a giant ‘take and give’ spyder web. We share solutions, instant help, or just send our sincere and deepest sympathy. In the future, others will help you in a way you could never predict. Our number one motto as healthy and breathing academics is ‘the more we share the more we learn’. Isn’t it a wonderful way to live our life?
What Lady Gaga didn't have for lunch
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione_fabiola_bruni
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_03_definizione_funzionalità
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione_Chiara_Elzi
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_04_analisi_classificazione
and 1 collaborator
Dynamic, non-contact 3D sample orientation in microscopy
and 2 collaborators
A comparison of Extreme Programming and the Rational Unified Process from a practical perspective
In this paper, a comparison of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Extreme Programming (XP) is discussed from a practical perspective. The paper starts with a short introduction to both software development methodologies and is followed by a description of similar research comparing XP and RUP. The aforementioned comparisons are from a more theoretical perspective. Therefore, this paper continues with a contribution comparing both methodologies from a practical perspective by combining multiple research sources. The conclusion of the similar comparison research is that XP and RUP are very different. After adding comparisons from a practical perspective however, the conclusion is that XP and RUP are in fact very similar when it comes to end result and usage.
Analytica Chimica Acta Template
Welcome to Authorea!
Hey, welcome. Double click anywhere on the text to start writing. In addition to simple text you can also add text formatted in boldface, italic, and yes, math too: E = mc2! Add images by drag’n’drop or click on the “Insert Figure” button.
Role of mycorrhizal symbiosis in mineral weathering and nutrient mining from soil parent material.
and 1 collaborator
#Introduction
Rocks are the primary source of all plant nutrients, except nitrogen. These nutrients are bound into a variety of crystalline structures (minerals).
Minerals are either formed during rock formation from magma (primary minerals) or formed during soil formation (secondary minerals).
Secondary minerals are formed when the local soil solution is saturated in respect to that mineral. In contrast to secondary minerals, primary minerals are formed in the earth mantle at high temperature and pressure.
At the earth surface these minerals may be thermodynamically unstable, and will eventually dissolve completely.
This dissolution process is extremely slow for most minerals. It has been estimated that it takes more than 30 million years to dissolve a 1 mm diameter quartz grain under natural soil conditions \citep{Lasaga_1984}.
Nonetheless, soil mineral weathering provides an essential input of plant nutrients into ecosystems, avoiding or delaying nutrient limitations \citep{chadwick_changing_1999}.
In addition, mineral weathering produces cations that counteract soil acidification, thereby improving the availability of most plant nutrients \citep{van_Breemen_1983}.
Also clays are formed as a weathering product of feldspars and micas \citep{Oades_1988}.
Clay particles contribute, with their negative charged surfaces, to the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of the soil, reducing the leaching of positively charged nutrients like K+ and NH4+.
Clay content correlates positively with water holding capacity and soil organic matter (SOM) content \citep{Sollins_1996}.
Moreover, weathering of Ca- and Mg-silicate minerals play a central role in the global carbon cycle, because large amounts of Ca and Mg, released by the weathering process, will be locked up as carbonates in marine sediments \citep{Sundquist_1985}.
In the long-term, atmospheric CO2 is regulated by the weathering rates of these minerals, which is influenced by climate and mountain uplift \citep{Berner_2003, Raymo_1992}.
The vast amounts of nutrients locked in soil minerals triggered, nearly 100 years ago, the question of wether or not plants can actively tap into this potential nutrient source \citep{HALEY_1923,TURK_1919}.
Five decades later, studies appear on the role of microorganisms, including mycorrhizal fungi, in mineral weathering \citep{WEBLEY_1963,DUFF_1963,Sperber_1958,Boyle_1967,Boyle_1973}.
More recently, a publication with the provocative title `Rock eating fungi' appeared in the journal Nature \citep{Jongmans_1997}.
This publication presented evidence of, presumably mycorrhizal, fungal hyphae drilling their way (chemically and/or physically) into feldspar grains.
This paper initiated renewed interest into the topic.
A series of reviews has been published since then, covering the research up to 2009 \citep{Finlay_2009,Hoffland_2004,Landeweert_2001}.
Since 2009, more evidence of mycorrhizal weathering has been published, based on in vitro and microcosm research.
A new perspective is the influence of the emergence of different types of mycorrhizal fungi during the evolution of land plants on mineral weathering rates, and thus the global carbon cycle.
The gap between laboratory based studies and the real world has been bridged by a number of field based studies and mathematical modeling.
So far, evidence of a substantial role of mycorrhizal fungi on soil mineral weathering has been missing, while modeling studies show contrasting results.
In this chapter we briefly introduce the basics of physical and chemical weathering mechanisms, as insight in these mechanisms is of vital importance in the interpretation of results from laboratory based experiments and modeling studies.
Next, we give an overview of the recent literature on this topic, and set their results in perspective with the current knowledge on mineral dissolution kinetics.
gui_es_03_definizione_funzionalità_fabiola_bruni
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_03_definizione_funzionalità
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_03_definizione_funzionalità_serena_berti
and 1 collaborator
Composite Higgs Model parameter determination at the FCC-ee
and 2 collaborators
A future e+e− collider will be capable to show the imprint of composite Higgs scenarios encompassing partial compositeness. Amongst the possible designs of such a machine, a Future Circular Collider of e+e− beams (FCC-ee) has become a frontrunner project in terms of cost effectiveness, precision and search reach \cite{Bicer_2014}. Besides the detailed study of the Higgs boson properties, based upon the analysis of the Bjorken production channel e+e− → ZH at an energy of about 240 GeV, such a machine will have a rich programme also covering top-quark physics (at the energies of 350 to 370 GeV) and revisiting the typical LEP1/SLC and LEP2 energy ranges (from MZ to 2MW) with significantly increased luminosity. Of particular relevance for our purposes is the FCC-ee ability to afford one with a very accurate determination of the top-quark properties, chiefly, its mass, width and couplings to SM objects. This is because the top quark is the natural carrier of New Physics (NP) phenomena associated to the partial compositeness mechanism.
Wordpress_basic_es_02_mappatura&menu Enrico Peruselli
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_02_analisi_coerenza_Eva_Vezzani
and 1 collaborator
gui_es_03_definizione_funzionalità_Eva_Vezzani
and 1 collaborator
wordpress_basic_es_02_mappatura&menu
and 1 collaborator
wordpress_basic_es_02_mappatura&menu Aurora_Cappello
and 1 collaborator
Wordpress_basic_es_02_mappatura&menu Giulio Bergamo
and 1 collaborator