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{"title":"The Politics Behind Overinterpreted and Underexplored Models: A Review of Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore (eds.), The Politics of Modelling - Numbers between Science and Policy","authors":"L. Melsen","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09524-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09524-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics Behind Overinterpreted and Underexplored Models: A Review of Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore (eds.), The Politics of Modelling - Numbers between Science and Policy","authors":"L. Melsen","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09524-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09524-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139833259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely","authors":"Pierre Benz, Felix Bühlmann","doi":"10.1007/s11024-023-09520-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09520-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139591628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape","authors":"Niels Taubert, Linda Sterzik, Andre Bruns","doi":"10.1007/s11024-023-09519-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09519-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publication system, significant attention is focused on Diamond Open Access (OA). Diamond OA is characterized by no charges for readers or authors and relies on monetary allowances and voluntary work. This article explores the potential and challenges of Diamond OA journals, using Germany as a case study. Two key questions are addressed: first, the current role of such journals in the scientific publication system is determined through bibliometric analysis across various disciplines. Second, an investigation is conducted to assess the sustainability of Diamond OA journals and identify associated structural problems or potential breaking points. This investigation includes an in-depth expert interview study involving 20 editors of Diamond OA journals. The empirical results are presented using a landscape map that considers two dimensions: 'monetized and gift-based completion of tasks' and 'journal team size.' The bibliometric analysis reveals a substantial number of Diamond OA journals in the social sciences and humanities, but limited adoption in other fields. The model proves effective for small to mid-sized journals, but not for larger ones. Additionally, it was found that 23 Diamond OA journals have recently discontinued their operations. The expert interviews demonstrate the diversity within the landscape and the usefulness of the two dimensions in understanding key differences. Journals in two of the four quadrants of the map exemplify sustainable conditions, while the other two quadrants raise concerns about long-term stability. These concerns include limited funding leading to a lack of division of labor and an excessive burden on highly committed members. Gift-like contributions, while appealing, also present challenges as potential donors not only decide whether to contribute but also how to contribute, potentially creating friction between the gift and the journal's requirements. Furthermore, journals in the lower right quadrant often rely on third-party funding, necessitating a transformation once the funding expires. Common pathways for sustaining operations include lobbying for funding at the journal's home institution or increasing reliance on gift-based completion of tasks. These findings underscore the need for the development of more sustainable funding models to ensure the success of Diamond OA journals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139396218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding","authors":"Lucas Brunet, Ruth Müller","doi":"10.1007/s11024-023-09518-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09518-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Punctuated by joy, disappointments, and conflicts, research evaluation constitutes an intense, emotional moment in scientific life. Yet reviewers and research institutions often expect evaluations to be conducted objectively and dispassionately. Inspired by the scholarship describing the role of emotions in scientific practices, we argue instead, that reviewers actively define, display and manage their emotions in response to the structural organization of research evaluation. Our article examines reviewing practices used in the European Research Council’s (ERC) Starting and Consolidator grants and in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action’s (MSCA) Individual Fellowships. These two European funding mechanisms offer different perspectives on the organization of grant evaluation. We conducted interviews with review panel members and analyzed various institutional documents. By drawing on the sociological concepts of feeling rules and emotional work, we demonstrate that reviewers define rules concerning how emotions should be experienced and expressed to ensure the proper functioning of evaluation, and that reviewers experience the need to actively regulate their emotions to comply with these rules. We present four feeling rules concerning the experience and expression of: (1) excitement for novelty during individual evaluation; (2) respect for others’ opinions and the absence of anger in review panels; (3) attentiveness and interest, which are seen as missing in online evaluations. Reviewers also expect ERC candidates to (4) avoid pride and manifest modesty during interviews. These rules demonstrate that proposal peer review is governed by emotional norms, and show the influence of organizational settings and moral requirements on research evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139061978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Algeblocks as a playful technique for the development of algebraic operations: a pedagogical experience with high school students","authors":"Leonardo Miguel Franco Yagual, Alba Dolores Alay Giler","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.145","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the Algeblocks technique as a playful tool that uses colored blocks to represent variables and algebraic operations. This technique is widely used to teach basic algebraic operations, such as factoring, remarkable products, and first-degree equations. The population consisted of 150 students, with a sample of 50 high school students. A pre-test was conducted as a diagnostic evaluation at the beginning of the year, and a post-test was applied as a summative evaluation at the end of the program. The results showed an increase in the student's grades but also revealed that the strategy caused motivation, enthusiasm, and high collaboration in the study group, confirming that learning was successfully achieved.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138584794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping during the COVID-19 pandemic in the cleaning staff of a public hospital","authors":"Hector M. Mendoza Bustamante, Segundo Alcides García M., Ramón E. Cevallos Cedeno, Gonzalo Oswaldo García Vinces","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.144","url":null,"abstract":"The present work aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Ca(OH)2 obtained from eggshells as a catalyst in the transesterification of first-generation oil compared to catalysts such as Na(OH) and Ca(OH)2.GR. The eggshells were subjected to thermal treatment in a muffle furnace with temperature intervals to reduce CaCO3 to CaO. Once the calcium oxide was obtained, it was mixed with distilled water, which evaporated over time due to the exothermic reaction of CaO conversion to produce Ca(OH)2. The results showed that Ca(OH)2.GR has greater efficacy than Ca(OH)2 obtained from eggshells, while Na(OH) proved superior to the other catalysts used in the study","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping during the COVID-19 pandemic in the cleaning staff of a public hospital","authors":"Erika Guamanquispe, Willian Moyano","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.143","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to generating physical conditions and consequences in the population, caused psychosocial disorders, for which people developed levels of coping with stress, causing difficulties in the cognitive and behavioral capacity of those affected, being a of the most affected populations the cleaning staff who worked in health institutions. The purpose of the study was to determine how the cleaning and cleaning staff of the Ambato General Teaching Hospital coped with stress during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This is an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional cohort study with random probabilistic sampling. The Perceived Stress Scale-10 adapted to COVID-19 (EPP-10-C) was used. The main results show that, for the most part, the cleaning staff presented a moderate level of coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many also registered a mild level of coping. Finally, it was observed that the cleaning staff had developed different levels of coping, which allowed for reducing the impact on mental health.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The escape room as a didactic strategy for learning physics","authors":"Gloria Alexandra Mera Gonzalez, Vilma Esther Vasquez Cantillo","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.141","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching dynamic mechanics in physics is a common pedagogical challenge, as abstract and mathematical concepts can be complex for students to assimilate. In this context, innovative teaching strategies become a valuable tool to improve the understanding and learning of these concepts. Therefore, this work has implemented the escape room as a didactic learning strategy. The current research is based on a mixed approach, with a population of 62 students and a sample of 31, with which a correlation and comparison between the experimental groups is made. It is expected that the strategy used will help to solve the low academic performance in the learning process. The main results show a significant motivation in students when the escape room strategy is applied. Still, it is also observed that learning is noticeable and effective, which improves grades and student performance.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interactive applications as a didactic strategy in the development of mathematical skills","authors":"Michelle Gilly Gorozabel Chata, Mirian Elena Alcivar Cruzatty, Tito Alberto Gorozabel Chata","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v2023ispecial.142","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzed the effectiveness of interactive applications as a didactic strategy in developing mathematical skills in primary school students. This is an explanatory, exploratory, quasi-experimental, and longitudinal study. We worked with a control group and an experimental group. The population consisted of 38 primary school students. The main results show that interactive technological applications are effective as a didactic strategy in developing mathematical skills, achieving a significant difference in the tests applied to the control group in correspondence with the experimental group. These findings reveal that teaching mathematics must be innovative without neglecting the classical elements that make meaningful learning possible.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}