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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE?

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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

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PubMed PubMed is a platform that features academic and scientific research covering the areas of biomedicine, health, life sciences, behavioral science, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. identify scholarly research of a given institution), and more. billion of cited references."

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Is Economics STEM – Why Colleges Want Economics to Be a STEM Major

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Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors. How does Emil study the efficiency of differential treatment? What has Emil discovered?

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Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life

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Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. The researchers found that these effects on well-being remained even up to when all children returned to school the following school year.