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The federation was created in 1919 to represent the United States in the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The founders of ACLS, representatives of 13 learned societies, believed that a federation of scholarly organizations (dedicated to excellence in research, and most with open membership) was the best combination of U.S. democracy and intellectual aspirations.
19 Jan 1949 [7] International Council for Science 1931: Paris: International Council of Onomastic Sciences Uppsala: International Fiscal Association 1938: International Geographical Union 1922: Cape Town, Delhi: International Institute for Conservation 1950: International Mammalian Genome Society 1991: International Mathematical Union 10 Sep ...
A learned society (/ ˈ l ɜːr n ɪ d /; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. [1] Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honour conferred ...
The Scholarly Kitchen was a 2010 nominee for the Webby "Blog-Business" award. [9] It has been an important site within academia for discussion of the open access movement. [10] The Society for Scholarly Publishing established The Scholarly Kitchen in February 2008 to: [10] Keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in ...
The forgetting curve describes the exponential loss of information that one has learned. [7] The sharpest decline occurs in the first twenty minutes and the decay is significant through the first hour. The curve levels off after about one day. A typical representation of the forgetting curve
In April 2009, The New York Times released a crossword application for iOS developed by Magmic. [59] A sudoku application developed by Magmic was released in October. [60] NYT Crosswords debuted on the Google Play Store in November 2016. [61] In April 2017, the application was added to the Amazon Appstore.
More than half of the OA publications (27.5% of all indexed works in 2023) were in fully Gold Open Access sources, 16.7% of all were in Green OA sources (i.e. which allow for self-archiving by authors), 9.2 % in Hybrid Gold OA sources (such as journals, which have open access and behind-paywall articles in the same issue), and 10.6 % were in ...
Washoe learned approximately 350 signs. [2] For researchers to consider that Washoe had learned a sign, she had to use it spontaneously and appropriately for 14 consecutive days. [19] [20] These signs were then further tested using a double-blind vocabulary test. This test demonstrated 1) "that the chimpanzee subjects could communicate ...