Smartphone App for Residential Testing of Formaldehyde (SmART-Form)

It is commonly argued that, despite the tremendous resonance Citizen Science (CS) has shown in recent years, there is still lack of understanding of important aspects defining citizens’ participation and engagement in CS initiatives. While CS initiatives could provide a vehicle to foster forms of participation contributing to the democratization of science, there is still limited attention paid to the “Citizen” component of the Citizen Science term. For the purpose of this work, we systematically reviewed the available literature for empirical studies in respect to citizens’ participation in environmental and nature-based CS initiatives established during the last two decades, using the PRISMA methodology. The participatory facet of the retrieved 119 CS initiatives was analysed on the basis of: (a) exclusion and inclusion demographic factors, (b) CS models and practices, (c) facilitators and constraints of citizen’s participation, and (d) environmental citizenship. Our findings show that the majority of the CS initiatives did not place restrictions on gender participation; however, we have identified that mostly highly educated adults participated in the reviewed initiatives. In addition, most of the CS initiatives reported in the literature were situated in the EU and USA, were mostly limited to the local scale, and primarily followed the contributory model. Academic institutions were found to coordinate the majority of the CS initiatives examined. By using digital technologies, academic scientists were able to control and increase data quality, as well as to engage a broader audience, even though they were mostly treating volunteers as “data collectors”, desiring their long-term engagement. Therefore, it will be of CS benefit to be better aligned with the mentality and needs of citizens. In this direction CS initiatives should trigger citizens’ learning gains and interpersonal/social benefits and personal, environmental, and social motivations, but also to shift their goals towards contributing to science and citizens’ connection with nature. On the other hand, there is a need to overcome any design and implementation barriers, and to enhance democratization through a more participative engagement of active and aware citizens, thus promoting environmental citizenship.

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“…different orientations of the badge and camera to the lighting source while capturing an image for calculation." [86] (p. 577). Funding 7% " .…”

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A Systematic Literature Review on the Participation Aspects of Environmental and Nature-Based Citizen Science Initiatives

Vasiliades

Hadjichambis

Paraskeva-Hadjichambi

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Taking advantage of a paired color detection method would help it become an over-the-counter detector. Many color-based sensors make use of phone apps to allow consumers to obtain accurate, highly sensitive reading based on a colorimetric biosensor, one such example being that from S. Zhang et al, where an app was designed in conjunction with the formaldehyde biosensor for the at-home detection of formaldehyde [ 30 ].…”

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Novel, Inexpensive, and Scalable Amyloid Fibril Formation Method

et al. 2022

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Wheat flour was used as a source of protein for the in vitro synthesis of Amyloid fibrils to develop a novel and inexpensive fabrication method. Amyloid fibrillation was confirmed by Thioflavin T Fluorescence, using confocal microscopy. A morphological study was carried out by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which revealed the high aspect ratio of the amyloid fibrils formed via a novel process. An application of the amyloid fibers produced by the novel method is shown to be melatonin sensing. Tests showed that the amyloid samples had a measurable color variation dependent on the melatonin concentration. This newly derived process could prove to be a cost-effective tool for future nano-biomaterial applications in commercial and research settings.

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“…In this way, bodies can be understood as modest but situated elemental media devices with capacities to sense signs and symptoms of exposure to everyday toxicity in domestic milieus (Creager, 2018). The intuitive understandings generated by these capacities can be given a degree of further legitimacy through the use of a range of low cost and community-based devices and technologies for measuring the presence of toxic substances (Zhang et al, 2019). Other forms of collaborative media experiment are exploring possibilities for making explicit the composition of milieus through a range of devices and practices (see Calvillo, 2018; Calvillo and Garnett, 2019).…”

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Elemental worlds: Specificities, exposures, alchemies

Engelmann

McCormack

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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The elements have become the focus of a significant volume of research by geographers and others. Engagements with the elements have been framed in terms of four elemental orientations: matter, molecule, milieu and media. Our aim is to consider what is at stake in efforts to think with, across and beyond these orientations. Avoiding any reduction of the elements to a single ontological or epistemological proposition, we explore possibilities for grasping their implication in the composition and decomposition of worlds. Doing this can be facilitated by thinking about these worlds in relation to three interrelated matters of concern: specificities, exposures and alchemies.

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Smartphone App for Residential Testing of Formaldehyde (SmART-Form)

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A Systematic Literature Review on the Participation Aspects of Environmental and Nature-Based Citizen Science Initiatives

A Systematic Literature Review on the Participation Aspects of Environmental and Nature-Based Citizen Science Initiatives

Novel, Inexpensive, and Scalable Amyloid Fibril Formation Method

Elemental worlds: Specificities, exposures, alchemies

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