Mental models: Exploring how people think about heat flows in the home
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DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.012
Abstract: Abstract To achieve energy efficiency targets, the behaviour of building occupants is critical in counteracting or enhancing efficiency measures. Yet behaviour and decisions are construed through the lens of the mental models that occupants hold.… read more here.
Keywords: models exploring; home; mental models; heat flows ... See more keywords
Random models for exploring planet compositions I: Uranus as an example
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DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115017
Abstract: Modeling the interior of a planet is difficult because the small number of measured parameters is insufficient to constrain the many variables involved in describing the interior structure and composition. One solution is to invoke… read more here.
Keywords: planet compositions; compositions uranus; uranus example; models exploring ... See more keywords
Governing by models: Exploring the technopolitics of the (in)visilibities of land
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104241
Abstract: Achieving food security at a global scale while protecting the environment, as envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals, will require a complex process of collaboration and the integration of analyses at multiple scales. Agricultural and… read more here.
Keywords: models exploring; governing models; technopolitics visilibities; visilibities land ... See more keywords
Confusion Over Models: Exploring Discourse in a STEM Professional Development
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440221097916
Abstract: For 2 weeks in the summer of 2018, K-12 STEM teachers (n = 40) attended a professional development (PD) that included four sessions focused on computer science modeling with follow-up academic year sessions; however, overall, the teachers did… read more here.
Keywords: confusion models; models exploring; exploring discourse; stem ... See more keywords