5/10/2024: Discuss pub drafts and do a bit of reading

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

 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• AM's master's report --> publication status? It's at 11 pages. 
• DB suggests removing figures that provide little support or even detract from the main point or lesson of the paper. This will improve the paper and reduce its length as desired to 8 pages. Figures 4, 5 and 6 thus could probably be deleted. 
• Related work can be made more concise but the citations themselves should be retained so that the review is as comprehensive as possible. There could probably be one section for related work instead of a separate section for each one. Also the related work should be earlier in the paper, not toward the end.
• As a general strategy, content could be flagged for discussing its removal if there is questions about its importance and value. Please flag these for discussion.
  
• TE master's report --> publication status? 
• PT is formatting it. We have until early June, probably June 4.
  
• ?
  

 2. Reading and discussion

• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)
• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
  
• Https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240424-do-societies-civilisations-grow-old-frail-and-vulnerable-to-collapse. We read up to "Most states of today are markedly different to the empires of centuries past." and can start there next time we read this.

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 evaluate different readings and read 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.