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ScienceMatters, Blockchain & Scientific Publications

Open science platform powered by blockchain, Sciencematters allows scientists to share their observations. Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland ( https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sciencematters ) https://www.sciencematters.io/   https://twitter.com/SciMts FORCE11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology.  ( https://www.force11.org/about ) https://www.force11.org/ https://www.validitylabs.org/

Current Trends in Clinical Trials

Virtual clinical trials will be standard, says THREAD exec on Novartis project 09-May-2018  By Brittany Farb Gruber Novartis’ recently launched FocalView app will be used in a new study to remotely collect electronic device reported outcome measurements (eDROs) from 150,000 users. HTTPS://WWW.OUTSOURCING-PHARMA.COM/ARTICLE/2018/05/09/VIRTUAL-CLINICAL-TRIALS-WILL-BE-STANDARD-SAYS-THREAD-EXEC-ON-NOVARTIS-PROJECT  Top CROs slow to adopt new tech? Smaller firms better positioned for innovation, says exec 19-Mar-2018  By Melissa Fassbender More efficient clinical trials may reduce global CRO revenue, potentially slowing adoption of new technology, says Otsuka director – noting that the industry doesn’t often take operational risks, but it must. HTTPS://WWW.OUTSOURCING-PHARMA.COM/ARTICLE/2018/03/19/TOP-CROS-SLOW-TO-ADOPT-NEW-TECH-SMALLER-FIRMS-BETTER-POSITIONED-FOR-INNOVATION-SAYS-EXEC  Innovative Technologies for Clinical Trials Showcased at Oracle Ind...

Photography + Clouds = Citizen Science

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Pictures of clouds are very popular on social networks, Instagram, photo-sharing sites. There are 84 Mio posts with hashtag  #clouds  on Instagram and 168 Mio pictures with hashtag  #sky.   With NASA Globe and Globe Observer app, Sky photography and Citizen Science can be combined.  Recording sky and clouds observations is technically simple. There is a minor data entry on high, mid and low level clouds required before pictures of clouds can be taken. Altogether up to 6 pictures can be recorded: North, South, West, East, Up and Down. Once observation is done, measurements and pictures shall be checked and submitted to the NASA server. These can be then publicly visible on the NASA GLOBE Visualization System:  https://vis.globe.gov/GLOBE/ Training materials to identify cloud types, step-by-step instructions to record measurements are provided via Globe Observer website (1) and the app (2). Program updates, events, webinars are also published @NASA...