Scientific Research Platform Research Articles

Guiding Principles in Developing World-class Disciplines at the University of Science and Technology of China: A Case Study of the Development and Innovation of Quantum Information Science

In developing world-class disciplines, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made swift progress in the field of quantum information, which is an all-new and non-mainstream discipline in physics. From a cultural perspective, this paper analyses the construction of the academic–research–production–application chain of USTC's quantum information discipline. It also explores the values and implementation schemes adopted in the development of a leading and open scientific research platform and a high-calibre research team. Based on the analysis, it summarizes the features of scientific culture in this discipline, such as an emphasis on basic education, the integration of research institutes with teaching departments, inclusiveness to cater for various interests, and persistence in serving the country through science.

Establishment and application of the demand-oriented service model for scientific research platforms in hospital

Objective Promote the management and service of scientific research platforms and make sure their supporting role in hospital. Methods The demand of service object and service evaluation of scientific research platforms were obtained in Peking University People’s Hospital, and the demand-oriented service mode for scientific research platforms was established and applied. Results With the implementation of this mode in hospital, the service strategies of scientific research platforms were optimized continuously, the awareness rate and service satisfaction were promoted in some extent. Conclusions This mode based on demand survey can promote the management and service of scientific research platforms in some extent and the better support and service can be provided for the sustainable development of scientific research in hospital. Key words: Scientific research platforms; Demand survey; Service evaluation; Hospital

The concept of operationalization of an integrated platform for scientific research and expertise of war and bioterrorism biological agents

The international situation requires a strengthening of the national security measures, including in the field of CBRN and public health. The upgraded microbiology laboratories from DM/ MND must be operated at full capacity for the operationalization of an integrated Platform for the research and expertise of biological war and bioterrorism agents. This is necessary for reasons of national security, for CBRN defense and for public health, in the context of biological agents of 3 and 4 risk groups’ epidemics. The existing upgraded objectives should be operationalized in order to meet the established scope: scientific research and expertise of biological agents and biological weapons, a laboratory for in vitro analysis and a bio-base for in vivo analysis. The highly secure lab allows working with any high-risk agents: biological, genetic, chemical, radiological, etc., being provided with a special room for the insertion/removal of equipment and their decontamination. Following an increase in the capability requirements concerning laboratories, we have provided in the design concept new technical parameters of the platform and the integration of new compartments with related activities of toxicology, pathology, neuro-psycho-pharmacology, bio-pharmacy, micropharmaceutical, specific testing activities, etc. Creating the integrated platform and its operationalization is necessary in order to meet the requirement of the national security strategy as a collective CBRN defense/protection facility and military-medical scientific research for CBRN medical protection.

Research and Practice on the Construction of Local University Logistics Experimental Platform for Local Economy

According to the teaching problems of Logistics management major in local colleges, this paper puts forward the construction ideas of logistics experimental platform for local economic teaching and scientific research and services. A systematic analysis is given on its construction goal and construction content. At last, the construction of the logistics experimental platform of Guangxi University of science and technology, as an example is discussed.

Evaluation of a Developing Ecotourism Industry: Whale-Watching in The Gulf of Tribugá, Colombia

The ecotour industry continues to grow with a distinct focus on providing the public with up-close encounters with cetaceans. As a result, research focusing on both the effects of ecotourism on cetaceans and the efficacy of conservation-focused educational interventions for whale-watching operators is necessary to monitor and develop industry standards. Each year, whale-watching tours target humpback whales along their Colombian Pacific breeding grounds. There are many benefits to ecotourism in this area, including the use of whale-watching vessels as a platform for scientific research and environmental education. However, some whale-watching operators may lack species-specific knowledge and/or do not follow the suggested industry guidelines. Researchers held educational seminars for whale-watching staff at six hotels that border the Gulf of Tribugá. Seminars focused on whale anatomy, behavior, anthropogenic effects on the species, and sustainable whale-watching protocols. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire aimed to assess constructs related to the conservation of this species. This self-report information was accompanied by implicit measures (e.g., sighting duration, distance from whales) recorded during tours in situ. Behavioral observations aimed at assessing whales’ response to ecotour vessels demonstrated that whales increased rates of surface-active behaviors (e.g., tail slashes) with increasing nearness and duration. Whale-watching operators’ conduct during sightings demonstrated that positive attitudes toward humpback whales did not translate into adherence to sustainable practices. This relationship between the whale-watching operators’ questionnaire results and their behavior in the field demonstrates the need for careful monitoring of this developing industry. This project represents a preliminary evaluation of this budding ecotour industry. Continued efforts to increase knowledge while promoting self-advocacy, positive perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, behavioral intentions, and attitudes towards these animals will enable the safeguarding of near-shore waters essential for breeding and nursing humpback whales.

Application of parallel algorithmic differentiation to optimal CubeSat trajectory design

CubeSats, the class of small standardized satellites, are becoming a viable scientific research platform. At present, a variety of high value Earth Science missions require multiple collecting instruments on separate platforms maintained in precise configurations. A new software tool was created to compute propellant-minimizing maneuvers for multiple CubeSats for use with mission preliminary design. This tool incorporates parallelization of the derivative calculations, and demonstrates speed improvements over previous parallel formulations of small satellite cooperative trajectory design problems.

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Orthognathic Surgery: Outcome in a Facebook Group.

The literature shows that the indications for orthognathic surgery (OS) are often functional problems and unsatisfactory facial esthetics. This study investigated the esthetic outcomes and overall satisfaction following OS. Somatosensory change is a relatively common complication and its influence on the level of satisfaction was studied. The social-networking web site Facebook was used to identify the study population. An online questionnaire was performed using the website SurveyMonkey. In all, 105 (9%) respondents from the Danish Facebook group about OS, called Kaebeoperation (jaw surgery), were enrolled in the study. The respondents consisted of 12 men and 93 women, with a mean age of 27 ± 9 years. Fifty-four percent replied that esthetic concerns were the reason for the OS. Eighty-four percent reported improvement in facial esthetics after the OS. Men indicated a higher degree of improvement in beauty than women (P = 0.030). Sixty-four percent replied that their attractiveness had been increased after OS. Eighty-six percent were happy with the results and 89% would recommend the surgery to others in need. No significant differences in esthetic results and satisfaction were seen with regard to sex, age, and somatosensory change. High satisfaction and improvement in facial esthetic after OS were seen. Young patients (16-25 years) and men indicated a higher degree of satisfaction than old (>25 years) patients and women. The use of social media seems to be an interesting platform for qualitative scientific research in certain age groups. Further prospective and objective studies about the esthetic improvement after OS should be performed.

Accuracy of short-term sea ice drift forecasts using a coupled ice-ocean model.

Arctic sea ice drift forecasts of 6 h–9 days for the summer of 2014 are generated using the Marginal Ice Zone Modeling and Assimilation System (MIZMAS); the model is driven by 6 h atmospheric forecasts from the Climate Forecast System (CFSv2). Forecast ice drift speed is compared to drifting buoys and other observational platforms. Forecast positions are compared with actual positions 24 h–8 days since forecast. Forecast results are further compared to those from the forecasts generated using an ice velocity climatology driven by multiyear integrations of the same model. The results are presented in the context of scheduling the acquisition of high‐resolution images that need to follow buoys or scientific research platforms. RMS errors for ice speed are on the order of 5 km/d for 24–48 h since forecast using the sea ice model compared with 9 km/d using climatology. Predicted buoy position RMS errors are 6.3 km for 24 h and 14 km for 72 h since forecast. Model biases in ice speed and direction can be reduced by adjusting the air drag coefficient and water turning angle, but the adjustments do not affect verification statistics. This suggests that improved atmospheric forecast forcing may further reduce the forecast errors. The model remains skillful for 8 days. Using the forecast model increases the probability of tracking a target drifting in sea ice with a 10 km × 10 km image from 60 to 95% for a 24 h forecast and from 27 to 73% for a 48 h forecast.

The VISPA internet platform for outreach, education and scientific research in various experiments

VISPA provides a graphical front-end to computing infrastructures giving its users all functionality needed for working conditions comparable to a personal computer. It is a framework that can be extended with custom applications to support individual needs, e.g. graphical interfaces for experiment-specific software. By design, VISPA serves as a multipurpose platform for many disciplines and experiments as demonstrated in the following different use-cases. A GUI to the analysis framework OFFLINE of the Pierre Auger collaboration, submission and monitoring of computing jobs, university teaching of hundreds of students, and outreach activity, especially in CERN's open data initiative. Serving heterogeneous user groups and applications gave us lots of experience. This helps us in maturing the system, i.e. improving the robustness and responsiveness, and the interplay of the components. Among the lessons learned are the choice of a file system, the implementation of websockets, efficient load balancing, and the fine-tuning of existing technologies like the RPC over SSH. We present in detail the improved server setup and report on the performance, the user acceptance and the realized applications of the system.

Program Profile: The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Project (GCE‐LTER)

Program Profile: The <scp>G</scp>eorgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Project (GCE‐LTER)

Twenty years' review and prospect of modernization research on traditional Chinese medicine

The modernization strategy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been implemented for 20 years, which has provided a strong impetus to the development of TCM and gained remarkable achievements in scientific research platform, research result, industry scale, clinical evaluation, internationalization and professionals training as well. The achievements of TCM modernization greatly improved the clinical service ability and level of TCM, broadened the scope of service, become the important foundation of the big health industry. TCM has played an irreplaceable role in the health care reform, benefiting people's livelihood, promoting industrial structure adjustment and cultivating strategic emerging industries. This article summarized the main achievements of the modernization of TCM and prospected the direction and tasks in the next 20 years in order to further promote the modernization process of TCM.

Research on the evaluation of Universities Collaborative Innovation Center in Henan Province under the perspective of two-dimensional matrix performance ——Based on the analysis of 10 sample data of universities collaborative innovation centers

How to promote the collaborative innovation center performance and to smoothly promote the collaborative innovation center to achieve the desired objectives is one of the main problems facing the collaborative innovation management. The two-dimensional evaluation of key break through of science and technology-completion rate of construction target, system mechanism reform and innovation effectiveness-collaborative innovation level are multidimensional evaluation cores of collaborative innovation center. Using the Boston Matrix model to build a two-dimensional performance evaluation of collaborative innovation center model, the construction target completion degree and construction effectiveness, innovation synergy level are chosen as the first class index sets; scientific research, scientific and technological cooperation platform as the second class index sets; patents, team building as the third class index sets, choosing 10 colleges and universities collaborative innovation centers as the research samples. The conclusion shows that the evaluation and rank of collaborative innovation centers under the perspective of two-dimensional performance matrixis clear and simple, which can be used to complement the evaluation of the universities collaborative innovation centers.

Marine Ecological Knowledge Management System Based on Ontology Repository

This paper researches semantic retrieval and ontology rule reasoning for marine ecological knowledge management system. Upper ontology plays a critical role in ontology development by giving developers a guideline to view the target domain. By fixing a viewpoint of device-function, we present a domain upper ontology for marine ecosystem, and then construct marine ecology ontology and ontology repository. Based on constructed marine ecology ontology repository, authors design and develop marine ecological knowledge management system, which implements main functions include marine ecological knowledge navigation, term query, knowledge retrieval and ecological crisis early warning. Marine ecology ontology application system provides users a semantic support platform for marine scientific research and cooperation, and it also verifies the rationality and feasibility of ontology modeling method and validity of constructed marine ecology ontology.

Governance for Future Earth: Challenges in Transforming Business and Science Practice

Future Earth is a recently established scientific research platform that seeks to promote co-created, stakeholder engaged, transdisciplinary, sustainability sciences. Responding to findings that re...

Design of Multi-Functional Hydraulic Test Bench

In order to adapt to the development trend in current vocational education, we developed a multi-functional hydraulic test bench for mechatronics teaching practice. The component structure and functional features of the test bench was introduced in this paper and the application to vocational education was proved to be effective. Practice shows that the bench not only provides students with good experimental conditions close to the actual production and inspires learning enthusiasm and innovation consciousness of the students, but also provides teachers with a platform for scientific research, improves the utilization value of equipment.

Key Technologies and Practice of Big Data Platform for Scientific Research

This paper firstly discusses the challenges of big data platform for scientific research in the abilities of data storage, processing, transferring and sharing based on the example of data processing in the field of high energy physics. Then the paper presents a typical structure of big data platform for scientific research and gives a brief review on some key technologies, including data acquisition, cleaning, storage, analysis, transfer, sharing and security. The popular systems and the current research situation of these key technologies are also described in the paper. Finally, the concept and framework of the big data platform of High Energy Physics Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences is introduced in this paper. This open platform is established as the solution of challenges/problems in big data evolution, for example, data acquisition, data transferring, and application interface.

Geospatial Service Platform for Education and Research

Abstract. We propose to advance the scientific understanding through applications of geospatial service platforms, which can help students and researchers investigate various scientific problems in a Web-based environment with online tools and services. The platform also offers capabilities for sharing data, algorithm, and problem-solving knowledge. To fulfil this goal, the paper introduces a new course, named "Geospatial Service Platform for Education and Research", to be held in the ISPRS summer school in May 2014 at Wuhan University, China. The course will share cutting-edge achievements of a geospatial service platform with students from different countries, and train them with online tools from the platform for geospatial data processing and scientific research. The content of the course includes the basic concepts of geospatial Web services, service-oriented architecture, geoprocessing modelling and chaining, and problem-solving using geospatial services. In particular, the course will offer a geospatial service platform for handson practice. There will be three kinds of exercises in the course: geoprocessing algorithm sharing through service development, geoprocessing modelling through service chaining, and online geospatial analysis using geospatial services. Students can choose one of them, depending on their interests and background. Existing geoprocessing services from OpenRS and GeoPW will be introduced. The summer course offers two service chaining tools, GeoChaining and GeoJModelBuilder, as instances to explain specifically the method for building service chains in view of different demands. After this course, students can learn how to use online service platforms for geospatial resource sharing and problem-solving.

Factors for anthropogenic transformation of chernozems

The paper presents a great variety of anthropogenic effects on chernozems against the background of natural and climatic changes; their consequences are shown as well. Changes in regimes, processes and some properties of chernozems are estimated as genetically predetermined to be a current evolution stage of the soil formation. Different kinds of natural and anthropogenic effects, their complicated interactions that lead to the serious transformation of the structure and properties of chernozems are considered as a methodological platform for scientific research.

The exploration and practice of production of transgenic zebrafish into undergraduate student gene engineering experimental teaching

The preparation of transgenic animals is one of the core technology and critical achievement of gene engineering. However, it has not been reported that the gene engineering experimental course of undergraduate students in universities of mainland China has carried out the preparation of transgenic animals. In this paper, the authors took the advantage of scientific research platform, introduced the transgenic zebrafish technology to gene engineering experimental course of undergraduate students, and explored and practiced related teaching model, which had achieved good results and had great value to popularize.