4/12/24: Finish a reading

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 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

Finally, a new photo connected, perhaps tangentially, to space exploration. (Taken 4/8/24, 1:45 p.m. CDT, a few miles west of Little Rock, by the side of Highway 10 near Lake Maumelle.)

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Updates?

2. Reading and discussion

• We finished reading Lifetime Estimation Using Only Failure Information From Warranty Database, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5196697.

The meeting finished here.

• Let's evaluate the third abstract that we didn't get to last time.
  

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9347460 evaluated at 3.8 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915023479 evaluated at 3.1 on 4/5/24.
  
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296321002290 - we will check this abstract next time.

• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so let us read from that article.
  

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could simply continue our process of evaluating/voting on different readings and reading the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.