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  1. Scientific communication
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    High stakes and great responsibility: An introduction to scientific communication -- PART I Practice and Theory -- 1 Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change -- 2 Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research Integrity -- 3 Science vs. Science Commercialization in Neoliberalism (Extreme Capitalism): Examining the Conflicts and Ethics of Information Sharing in Opposing Social Systems -- 4 Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data Visualizations -- 5 The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and Accessibility -- 6 Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event -- 7 From Questions of Fact to Questions of Policy and Beyond: Science Museum Communication and the Possibilities of a Rhetorical Education -- PART II Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 8 Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical Species -- 9 Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science Communication -- 10 Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service Course -- 11 A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital Contexts -- 12 MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the Sciences -- 13 Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and Communication.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Northcut, Kathryn M. (HerausgeberIn); Yu, Han (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781315160191; 9781351661751
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    Series: Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
    Subjects: Communication in medicine; Science; Science news; Communication in science; Technical writing; Communication in science; Science ; Information services; Science news; Technical writing
    Scope: 1 online resource (vi, 316 pages)
  2. Scientific communication
    practices, theories, and pedagogies
    Contributor: Yu, Han (HerausgeberIn); Northcut, Kathryn M. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    High stakes and great responsibility: An introduction to scientific communication -- PART I Practice and Theory -- 1 Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change -- 2 Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific... more

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    High stakes and great responsibility: An introduction to scientific communication -- PART I Practice and Theory -- 1 Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change -- 2 Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research Integrity -- 3 Science vs. Science Commercialization in Neoliberalism (Extreme Capitalism): Examining the Conflicts and Ethics of Information Sharing in Opposing Social Systems -- 4 Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data Visualizations -- 5 The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and Accessibility -- 6 Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event -- 7 From Questions of Fact to Questions of Policy and Beyond: Science Museum Communication and the Possibilities of a Rhetorical Education -- PART II Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 8 Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical Species -- 9 Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science Communication -- 10 Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service Course -- 11 A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital Contexts -- 12 MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the Sciences -- 13 Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and Communication. "This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section covers topics important to instructors' everyday teaching as well as longer-term curricular development. Chapters address delivery of rhetorically informed instruction, communication from experts to the publics, writing assessment, online teaching, and communication-intensive pedagogies and curricula."--Provided by publisher

     
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    Contributor: Yu, Han (HerausgeberIn); Northcut, Kathryn M. (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781315160191; 1315160196
    Series: Routledge studies in technical communication, rhetoric, and culture ; 8
    Subjects: Communication in science; Communication in medicine; Technical writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric; REFERENCE ; Writing Skills; Communication in medicine; Communication in science; Technical writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 316 pages), illustrations, maps
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. The impact of high school curriculum on confidence, academic success, and mental and physical well-being of university students
    Author: Yu, Han; Mocan, Naci
    Published: May 2018
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 24573
    Subjects: Lehrplan; Weiterführende Schule; Leistungsmotivation; Hochschule; Bildungsniveau; Psychische Krankheit; USA
    Scope: 46 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  4. Scientific communication
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    Contributor: Yu, Han (Herausgeber); Northcut, Kathryn M. (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators,... more

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    "This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section covers topics important to instructors' everyday teaching as well as longer-term curricular development. Chapters address delivery of rhetorically informed instruction, communication from experts to the publics, writing assessment, online teaching, and communication-intensive pedagogies and curricula."--Provided by publisher.

     
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    Contributor: Yu, Han (Herausgeber); Northcut, Kathryn M. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315160191; 1315160196; 9781351661768; 1351661760
    Series: Routledge studies in technical communication ; 8
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, illustrations, maps
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. Scientific communication
    practices, theories, and pedagogies
    Contributor: Northcut, Kathryn M. (HerausgeberIn); Yu, Han (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge,, London

    High stakes and great responsibility: An introduction to scientific communication -- PART I Practice and Theory -- 1 Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change -- 2 Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific... more

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    High stakes and great responsibility: An introduction to scientific communication -- PART I Practice and Theory -- 1 Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change -- 2 Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research Integrity -- 3 Science vs. Science Commercialization in Neoliberalism (Extreme Capitalism): Examining the Conflicts and Ethics of Information Sharing in Opposing Social Systems -- 4 Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data Visualizations -- 5 The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and Accessibility -- 6 Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event -- 7 From Questions of Fact to Questions of Policy and Beyond: Science Museum Communication and the Possibilities of a Rhetorical Education -- PART II Pedagogy and Curriculum -- 8 Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical Species -- 9 Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science Communication -- 10 Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service Course -- 11 A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital Contexts -- 12 MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the Sciences -- 13 Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and Communication.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Northcut, Kathryn M. (HerausgeberIn); Yu, Han (HerausgeberIn)
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    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781315160191; 9781351661751
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    Series: Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
    Subjects: Communication in medicine; Science; Science news; Communication in science; Technical writing; Communication in science; Science ; Information services; Science news; Technical writing
    Scope: 1 online resource (vi, 316 pages)
  6. Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy?
    school outcomes of dragon children of China
    Author: Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han
    Published: August 2017
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 23709
    Subjects: Ankündigungseffekt; Volksglaube; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsabschluss; China
    Scope: 52 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  7. Harmonizing the Yin and Yang
    Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China
    Author: Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han
    Published: October 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the China Family... more

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    China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation around the pensionable age cutoff, we find substantial increases in retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an enhancement among males while not yielding statistically significant improvements among females. Furthermore, this study probes multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health, behaviors, perceptions of income and social status, and confidence about the future. Males showcase improvements in healthy behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater confidence about their future. In stark contrast, females show no statistically significant changes along these dimensions. In fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity. These findings underscore the imperative of recognizing gender disparities in the consequences of retirement on subjective well-being. They highlight the need for targeted policies aimed at enhancing social and economic opportunities for women, ultimately striving for greater gender equality in the post-retirement phase

     
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    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w31780
    Subjects: Geschlechterunterschiede; Altersgrenze; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Ältere Menschen; Sozialer Status; Zufriedenheit; Gesundheit; China; General; Health Behavior; General Welfare, Well-Being; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination; Retirement; Retirement Policies
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  8. Provably good region partitioning for on-time last-mile delivery
    Author: Carlsson, John Gunnar; Liu, Sheng; Salari, Nooshin; Yu, Han
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  [University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management], [Toronto]

    On-time last-mile delivery is expanding rapidly as people expect faster delivery of goods ranging from grocery to medicines. Managing on-time delivery systems is challenging because of the underlying uncertainties and combinatorial nature of the... more

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    On-time last-mile delivery is expanding rapidly as people expect faster delivery of goods ranging from grocery to medicines. Managing on-time delivery systems is challenging because of the underlying uncertainties and combinatorial nature of the routing decision. In practice, the efficiency of such systems also hinges on the driver's familiarity with the local neighborhood. This paper studies the optimal region partitioning policy to minimize the expected delivery time of customer orders in a stochastic and dynamic setting. We allow both the order locations and on-site service times to be random and generally distributed. This policy assigns every driver to a subregion, hence making sure drivers will only be dispatched to their own territories. We characterize the structure of the optimal partitioning policy and show its expected on-time performance converges to that of the flexible dispatching policy in heavy traffic. The optimal characterization features two insightful conditions that are critical to the on-time performance of last-mile delivery systems. We then develop partitioning algorithms with performance guarantees, leveraging ham sandwich cuts and 3-partitions from discrete geometry. This algorithmic development can be of independent interest for other logistics problems. We demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed region partitioning policy via numerical experiments using synthetic and real-world data sets

     
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    Series: [Rotman School of Management working paper ; no. 3915544]
    Subjects: last-mile delivery; region partitioning; vehicle routing; queueing
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  9. Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy?
    school outcomes of Dragon children of China
    Author: Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han
    Published: October 2020
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In Chinese culture, those who are born in the year of the Dragon are believed to be destined for good fortune and greatness, and parents prefer their kids to be born in a Dragon year. Using provincial level panel data, we first show that the number... more

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    In Chinese culture, those who are born in the year of the Dragon are believed to be destined for good fortune and greatness, and parents prefer their kids to be born in a Dragon year. Using provincial level panel data, we first show that the number of marriages goes up during the two years preceding a Dragon year and that births jump up in a Dragon year. Using three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and that they obtain higher scores at the university entrance exam. Similarly, Chinese middle school students have higher test scores if they are born in a Dragon year. We show that these results are not because of family background, student self-esteem or students' expectations about their future. We find, however, that the "Dragon" effect on test scores is eliminated when we account for parents' expectations about their children's educational and professional success. We find that parents of Dragon children have higher expectations for their children in comparison to other parents, and that they invest more heavily in their children in terms of time and money. We also show that girls are about six cm shorter than boys, but that this height disadvantage is cut by about half if a girl is born in the year of the Dragon and that effect is twice as strong in rural areas. Given that childhood nutrition is related to adolescent height, this suggests that parents may also be investing in Dragon girls in terms of nutrition. These results show that even though neither the Dragon children nor their families are inherently different from other children and families, the belief in the prophecy of success and the ensuing investment become self-fulfilling.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 13769
    Subjects: Ankündigungseffekt; Volksglaube; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsabschluss; China
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 67 Seiten), Illustrationen