Complete mitochondrial genomes of two water mite species: Hygrobates (H.) longiporus and Hygrobates (rivobates) taniguchii (Acari, Trombidiformes, Hygrobatoidea) by Shimpei F. Hiruta, Shizuko Morimoto, Gyo Yoshinari, Tom Goldschmidt, Kanto Nishikawa, Satoshi Shimano

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Corrigendum: Three new species of the genus Biasticus Stål, 1867 (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae) from Central Highlands, Vietnam. ZooKeys 1118: 133–180. https:/... by Ngoc Linh Ha, Xuan Lam Truong, Tadashi Ishikawa, Weeyawat Jaitrong, Chi Feng Lee, Bounsanong Chouangthavy, Katsuyuki Eguchi

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Odd versus even: a scientific study of the ‘rules’ of plating by Andy T. Woods, Charles Michel, Charles Spence

“…We report on the results of a series of large-scale computer-based preference tests (conducted at The Science Museum in London and online) that evaluated the widely-held belief that food should be plated in odd rather than even numbers of elements in order to maximize the visual appeal of a dish. …”
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Gene Transfer and Modulation for the Production of Food with Enhanced Quali-Quantitative Values: Potentials, Promises and Achievements by Malgorzata Karbarz, Ivana Gribaudo, Lucia Martinelli

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The visual complexity of coronal mass ejections follows the solar cycle by Jones, SR, Scott, CJ, Barnard, LA, Highfield, R, Lintott, CJ, Baeten, E

“…To explore this complexity, we created a citizen science project with the U.K. Science Museum, in which participants were shown pairs of CME images and asked to decide which image in each pair appeared the most “complicated.” …”

A Novel Allele Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (AS-PCR) Assay to Detect the V1016G Knockdown Resistance Mutation Confirms Its Widespread Presence in <i>Aedes albopictus</i> Popu... by Verena Pichler, Emiliano Mancini, Martina Micocci, Maria Calzetta, Daniele Arnoldi, Annapaola Rizzoli, Valeria Lencioni, Francesca Paoli, Romeo Bellini, Rodolfo Veronesi, Simone Martini, Andrea Drago, Claudio De Liberato, Arianna Ermenegildi, Joao Pinto, Alessandra della Torre, Beniamino Caputo

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A review of Microdytes J. Balfour-Browne, 1946 from Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia with descriptions of five new species and new records (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) by Ryohei Okada, Weeyawat Jaitrong, Günther Wewalka

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STP4: spatio temporal path planning based on pedestrian trajectory prediction in dense crowds by Yuta Sato, Yoko Sasaki, Hiroshi Takemura

“…The results of an evaluation implementing this method in a real robot in a science museum show that the trajectory prediction works. …”
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Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake by Matthew J. Wersebe, Mark B. Edlund, Lawrence J. Weider

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Polymorphism in Mastogloia (Bacillariophyceae) revisited by Mark Edlund, David Burge

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Intelligent algorithms for social robotics by Sim, Seen Zod

“…The analysis was done by analysing the text data collected from her conversations with humans, when Nadine was “working” as a receptionist at ArtScience Museum. As sentiment is an element that highly affects the quality of the interaction between human and social robots, this project focuses on sentiment analysis, through two approaches. …”
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Multimedia courseware for teaching of rapid prototyping systems by Chua, Chee Kai, Leong, Kah Fai, Lim, Chu Sing, Vu, Trong Thien

“…The design and development of the multimedia courseware is based on a “visit a science museum” concept where each topic can be accessed depending on the interests or the needs of users. …”
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On the importance of balance to aesthetic plating by Velasco, C, Michel, C, Woods, A, Spence, C

“…Here, we report on a series of citizen science experiments conducted at the Science Museum, in London, that demonstrate a clear preference for balanced over unbalanced presentations of exactly the same ingredients over all compositions. …”

Phylogenetic relationships of three rockfish: Sebastes melanops, Sebastes ciliatus and Sebastes variabilis (Scorpaeniformes, Scorpaenidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome se... by Peter Searle, Andrea Kokkonen, Jillian Campbell, Dennis Shiozawa, Mark Belk, R. Evans

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Dramatic growth of hydrological science in the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s by Christine McCulloch

“…The research is based on participant observation and examination of contemporary committee papers held in the UK National Archives, Kew and in the Science Museum Archive, Wroughton. HIGHLIGHTS The social history of scientific hydrology in its formative years in the UK reveals complex relations between scientists and government.; Five physicists played leading roles.; An expensive laboratory catchment study failed.; Hydrological science was defended against demand for precipitate applicability…”
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Dinosaurs, Racial Anxiety, and Curatorial Intervention: Whiteness and Performative Historiography in the Museum by Scott Magelssen

“…This essay argues that the staged encounters between museum visitors and dioramic display of dinosaur fossils in natural history and science museum spaces have been designed to capitalize on and performatively reify white anxiety about the exotic other using the same practices reserved for representing other historic threats to white safety and purity, such as primitive “savages” indigenous to the American West, sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon, and other untamed wildernesses through survival-of-the-fittest tropes persisting over the last century. …”
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DNA barcoding of the mesic adapted striped mouse, Rhabdomys dilectus in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa by Emmanuel Matamba, Leigh R. Richards, Michael I. Cherry, Ramugondo V. Rambau

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Effects of environmental factors and intraspecific niche overlap on the body and ecological characteristics of red-tongued pit vipers (Gloydius ussuriensis) by Min Seock Do, Seok-Jun Son, Ji-Hwa Jung, Sang-Cheol Lee, Green Choi, Hyung-Kyu Nam

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An overlooked eighteenth-century scrofula pamphlet: changing forms and changing readers, 1760–1824 by Bower, H

How does interactive virtual reality enhance learning outcomes via emotional experiences? A structural equation modeling approach by Hairu Yang, Minghan Cai, Yongfeng Diao, Rui Liu, Ling Liu, Qianchen Xiang

“…It also emphasizes the role played by emotional experience in this context.MethodsThe sample referenced by this study consisted of 480 college students (193 males) who were simultaneously engaged in guided inquiry and learning in an IVR-based COVID-19 pandemic science museum in groups of 10.ResultsThe findings suggest that presence and perceived enjoyment have a key mediating effect on the relationship between virtual reality (VR) features and perceived learning outcomes in an IVR-based learning simulation. …”
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