All right. Well, thanks for rejoining us and welcome back. We're in the final segment of the first day of CNI fall 2021 member meetings virtual event, and we'll conclude the day with two to project briefings. For the first one, I am delighted to welcome Wajin Wang and Melanie Ganey, both from Carnegie Mellon University. They're going to talk to us about an end to end open science and data collaboration program. And one of the things that really caught my eye about this and I think is worth considering carefully Is that they're at least as I understand their work and they will tell us about it a little bit more authoritatively in a moment. What they're really trying to do is engage the full research process as distinct from simply picking up outputs at the end of it. Which has been a more characteristic mode of engaging researchers at many institutions and one that has had very mixed success. So I'm really interested to See what they have learned through this work and how successful it's been. And with that, let me just thank you both for joining us and I'll go away and turn it over to you. Thank you for having us. I'm Melanie Ganey and I'm going to start the presentation talking about the open science and data collaborations program at CMU and then Wajin Wang will do the second half of the presentation. In the first part of the talk, I'll be talking about the program and how we use it to support open science at Carnegie Mellon and a little bit about how we adapted to the pandemic. And then Wajin is going to talk about how we are currently developing instruments to assess the impact of the program. The mission of CMU libraries is to create a 21st century library and in our minds, a big part of that will be supporting the future of science, which will be becoming increasingly more open. So to that end, we created the open science and data collaborations program back in 2018, the last few years we've been rapidly expanding the initiatives of the program and we are currently turning to a phase of assessing the impact and success of those initiatives. When we talk about open science at Carnegie Mellon, we really try to frame it more as open research, since we hope that our tools and services will be useful for researchers across the disciplines, not just the sciences, in spite of our own backgrounds as research scientists. And when we talk about open sciences as a commonly used term in the community that refers to a wide variety of practices, many of which we support with the program. And when we talk to researchers, we also try to emphasize that the goal is really to make research products as fair as possible, meaning findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. There are five main categories or pillars of support in the program, be licensed tools and provide training for them that support collaboration and sharing research products publicly. We foster collaboration opportunities, particularly those that bring researchers across disciplines together. We do assessment, including benchmarking against our peer institutions as well as research on the impact of open science. We provide training opportunities, both in the form of short workshops that cover open science practices and tools, as well as longer carpentry workshops that focus on programming and open source languages. And finally, we hold annual events. Two examples are our symposia, the Open Science Symposium and ADAR Artificial Intelligence for Data Reuse Conferences. And I'd also like to note that we also work closely with specialists at CMU Libraries that focus on open access publishing, open educational resources, as well as research data management, which are all closely related to open science. When we talk about the program being end to end, we really mean that we have developed services that can be mapped onto all of the phases of the research lifecycle, everything from the beginning designing and planning stages to the end where researchers are publishing. So for example, some of our tools are really meant for that documentation or planning phase, such as lab archives, which is an electronic research notebook. We then support our in Python with the carpentries workshops, which is really getting to the collecting and analyzing part of a research project. And then we support many platforms that can be used to publish research products, such as protocols IO, open science framework, as well as our institutional repository kill tub. And then many of our events kind of touch on all of these phases of the lifecycle. And as I mentioned before, the services that are in the dashboxes represent services that our colleagues focus on, but we work closely with those folks to ensure that the users at CMU are really receiving holistic support for open science. I'd like to share an example from Carnegie Mellon I think really highlights the power of data sharing and collaboration. This is the bull 5000 data set. This project was a collaboration between researchers in psychology and robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. And they published this data set back in 2019 on kill tub or institutional repository and this was one of the first large data sets that we hosted on there. And our former colleague on a von Gulick worked with these researchers to help provide guidance on things like how to structure the data to optimize its reuse and other considerations around versioning and licensing. What is really novel about this data set is its sheer size. So in this project, the researchers scan the brains of people that were looking at 5000 natural scenes. And typically in these types of projects, a person might look at under 100 scenes, for example. So the really large size of the data set makes it really useful for computer vision scientists, because typically their algorithms have been really difficult to apply to the smaller data sets. And this quote just speaks to the power of that collaboration. This is from Nadine Chang one of the researchers on the project in robotics Institute and she said computer vision scientists and visual neuroscientists essentially have the same goal to understand how to process and interpret visual information. And this data set has been really important in bridging that gap between these two research communities. Since it was designed and implemented as a collaboration between researchers in both disciplines. As I said this data set was shared in kill tab as well as in some other disilent plenary specific repositories to help improve its discoverability. And if you look at the record and kill tub you can see that since 2019, it's been downloaded almost 73,000 times. There are already publications coming out that have cited this data set. So we're already seeing a large impact on from this data set and I think it's just a really great example that we use a lot of Carnegie Mellon to illustrate the benefits of data sharing. When we talk about data sharing as well as other open science practices. We really try to meet the researchers where they are. And I think that depending on their discipline the types of data that they work with, or even the culture of their work group, which is often determined by the PI or the professor. They might have different attitudes or willingness to share data and other research products. So we interact with people at Carnegie Mellon. There are many folks who like to keep their data private because they have concerns about data sharing or they're just simply not interested in doing the work that that requires. And then we meet many people that are doing some sharing because of the mandates from funders and publishers. And that's a great opportunity to talk to them about how they could share more if they wanted to. And then we also have a group of open science advocates and champions on campus that are really doing, you know, sharing all of their research products, the workflows, the code, the data sets, as well as the manuscripts. And we really work closely with those advocates to try and highlight the benefits of open science to the rest of the community. So you could take that gradient of open science attitudes and really map it onto most of our products or services. So we can really tailor the outreach to specific people on campus. And so one example here is how we might do outreach for the product protocols IO, which we license. And if you're not familiar with the platform, it's an open access repository for step by step research methods or protocols. I think we found it's useful for people, no matter where they might fall on that spectrum. So for example, a person can choose to keep their protocols private on there, or just share them with the members of their lab group, which many people like that option. But even though they're not publicly accessible at that point, it still does really help improve the reproducibility because their version controlled. So we do really encourage researchers to do even that. But then what we're really trying to do here is move the needle to the right, where a researcher might then opt to make that protocol public, or link to the protocol in their manuscript. So, as I said, we're really willing to meet the researcher where they are, but we're always hoping to convince them, guide them towards the more public options are possible. This is a service I like to highlight in terms of opportunities that the pandemic presented. So, it's called the data co lab and basically this is a matchmaking service where we pair researchers that have these rich complex data sets with data scientists on campus that can analyze them. When you go to the website and you can see a list of the projects have been supported by the data co lab. But one thing that was really interesting was that during the pandemic particularly the early part of the pandemic. This really provided almost an internship like opportunity for students who otherwise were having a difficult time finding internships. So it was incredibly useful in that context as well. And these quotes are from a pair of researchers that were matched by the service. The top quote is from the person that collected the data saying this project started in a way because of COVID data co lab gave me the confidence that this is doable and I don't have to do this all by myself, referring to the fact that they didn't have to do all of the analysis themselves. And then the bond quotes from the data scientist who said I certainly did learn some new skills and use some of the work I've done only in theory on real data sites. Another thing we noticed during the pandemic was that there was an increased need for virtual collaboration tools. So one example we're highlighting here is lab archives the electronic research notebook platform. And so in the sciences are still many people using paper notebooks, and we saw this increased adoption on the pandemic because as scientists have to start working from home or it was so much easier for them to collaborate having all of their own notebooks in the cloud. And this is a quote from Sarah Werner, a PhD student biological sciences who says, I began using lab archives last fall, which has been intensely useful due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March when I prepared to work from home I do not have to worry about taking home countless notebooks. I just brought my laptop home with me as usual. So we saw a large increased adoption of many of our cloud based collaboration tools during the pandemic. Okay, and with that I'm going to hand over to Wajin who's going to talk about how we've been working recently on developing instruments for determining the impact and success. Assessing the impact and success of the program. Thank you, Melanie. Hi everyone. So after we have running the program for now more than almost three years. We've seen that people are getting engaged with us and we observe some behavioral changes are starting to happen from research communities. So we really wonder exactly how much impact we're making and in what way. So that's like, next slide. So we want to be able to answer questions like what are our active users of our services and how do they benefit from our program offerings in their daily work and how can we actually do more to support their research. So we started to look into the several ways to assess our impact, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Next slide. So the first exercise we did was to develop a logic model. Well, honestly, honestly, this wasn't actually the first but we felt in the end that they should have been done as the first step. And we're very thankful that one of our associate deans, Brian Matthews introduced us to this idea and help to develop it. So this exercise we started from listing out our activities in the spreadsheet that includes for each activity with our investment was our outputs and what our goals, and then we summarize all these in the infograph like this. There's a lot of information to unpack here, but let me walk you through our first look at the two blue boxes here are our activities and outputs. So you can see in the first blue box we have five groups of activities from top to bottom, we have the tools workshops events collaborations and outreach efforts. We summarize their corresponding outputs in the second box here. How much activities do we offer how frequent how many users participate and for some of them we have how many products users produce using our services. So we also outlined our expected outcomes for our collective activities in the pink box here. Which is the basically short medium long term goals. And turns out after we're doing the activity it really aligned very well with our initial intention of establishing this program in the first place, which is to first help researchers learn about open and reproducible workflow then help them to adopt such practices in their daily research, and then eventually, hopefully help to create a cultural shift in their communities and and across disciplines. So working through such a logical model really helped us to think carefully about how each hour activities align with our overall goals and plan strategically because it's sometimes it's so easy to get excited about something new, and unfortunately, it was too many things and end up compromising quality for quantity. In our version of the logic model you may notice that we have also another measurement of impact as their partnership, we've formed along the way that's the last box here. Here we want to especially emphasize that we have a close relationship with the Mellon College of Science. We started our partnership in 2018 by hosting co hosting the first open science symposium together. And most recently, we established the Emerald Cloud Lab partnership. For those who are not familiar, the Cloud Lab is a AI driven laboratory where all equipments are remotely controlled so no grad students in the lab. And so for this, our open science program has been involved from very beginning to support open sharing of the results produced from the Cloud Lab, and you will hear more about this partnership on December 14, where there's will be a closing keynote in the in person C9 meeting. Next slide. So in addition to this logic model of course we were also wanted to find some quantitative ways of measuring our program impact. So we've collected some data across all our services integrated all these data together, the ones that we are able to integrate and ask some questions. So there are some simple questions like who, who are our users, where our top users and what disciplines are the most engaged with us. And there are some are more in depth and more difficult to answer, like how do people use our tools or activities and why do they do that and ultimately, we want to answer what impact we're making in people's research process and maybe in the whole research ecosystem. Next slide. We've been working on developing assessment metrics framework to answer these questions. What you're saying here is still a work in progress but basically, we looked at metrics and variables in the data we already have. Some are from the dashboards or directly from the vendor and others are from, for example, registration records. We have some derivative metrics and variables based on the questions would like to answer and group to all these metrics into a, what we call a five W's and one H framework. For example, for the question, who are our users. Each user affiliation directly collected. And for the how question. How do people use our services. We have that there's a red circle on the right here we have activities or outputs for each user. And this can be a number of projects or a number of events participated and combining information we can come up with a derived metric, which is the super users. As I mentioned this framework is still working progress and is very limited by what data is available to us. But from here you can already extract some interesting patterns. And I'm going to show you just a couple of them over here. Next slide. This plot you're looking at is provides a disciplinary information regarding how our user regarding who our users are. So it's a summary of how many users do we have for each department, based on their preliminary affiliation, the primary affiliation, and this data comes from the integrated data set where the usage of a given service or activity is represented by a true or false value and if it got a true in any of the services and they're counted as user. So that you can see that the top college top user is from the Heinz College of information systems and public policy which is followed by biology university libraries and psychology. So I think that results can partially be explained by the disciplinary culture. For example, we know that Heinz College has some of our biggest fans because based on our personal interactions and university libraries and psychology have been the leading forces for open science movement around the globe. But it's also really nice to see that some of the engineering and computer science departments also are emerging to the top. Next slide. But we also know that having the most users doesn't really necessarily reflect our user activity. So we also looked at how how active users actually are. For example, by looking at number of projects per user. And this we did at a tour activity level, instead of using all the overall integrated data set because each platform has their own measurements. So this box box box here is from the kill top data, and it's a departmental breakdown of the number of public public items, a public items owned by each user. So you're looking at the only the top 10 departments ranked by the median median number. You can see that some of the new departments emerged on top that including type of school of business music and physics. And what you also might have noticed is that there's a wide range of distribution patterns. But overall the medium that the medians are actually pretty low there. They're less than five items per user. But there are some users who have shared a lot of items. For example, in the psychology there are many outliers over there. And these were we call them super users. Next slide. So we're able to find out what these super users are and their departmental affiliation. Of course here, the information is the identified, but internally, knowing who the supers are has been really helpful and valuable for us to make some targeted outreach. And one of the important things for us to know about this, and our impact is how to, how much we have changed the researchers behavior over the years. So from here, you can see that there has been an increase of a number of depositors until pop and users that have accounts on a lab archives and protocols. I owe every year since we started the program in 2018. We would like to attribute this increase to the outreach effort of the open science and data collaborations program and to claim the impact but of course we want to be really cautious about not jumping to conclusions because many factors might be at play here. That's including the influence of pandemic so we want to look at this down the road look at this for the long term. Next slide. Okay, one of the most difficult things we think in the metrics framework to answer is the why question. So why are people using our activities, what are the motivations, is it for to meet the mandates to get credits or for some other reasons for this type of questions we'd really like to get direct feedback from users through surveys and reviews. I think that we collected, like I mentioned before helped us to identify the super users and then, early this year we reached out to the super users and assembled a open science advisory group from students faculty and research stuff. And we've been asking them questions about their motivation to use our services how their experience was and what else would like us to support them. And based on these initial inputs, we hope to be able to design surveys and interviews that are targeted to certain communities or user groups and ask questions like what I listed here. How, whether, or how much our services saved them time and money or whether and how much we have helped them to bring in grants publications collaborations or get them better career options. And also, whether we have helped their specific community to adopt open science and create a culture shift within their community. Eventually, next slide. So eventually we'd like to be able to answer the question what impact are we making in the research landscape at large. We realize this is not an easy thing to assess and so we really welcome collaborations and partnerships from other institutions were also interested in this topic. So was this last but not least I'd really like to thank my colleagues my devoted colleagues, who has been helping working on this project with us, we're a team of library faculty and staff, but most of us don't have the open science in our job description, but we just volunteered time together with the common goal of using data for social good and making the research more open and reproducible. So I'm really grateful for everybody involved. And of course, also thank you for listening. Next slide please. We're eager to get we're eager to hear your feedback input, and we're happy to answer questions. Well, thank you so much for that. That's the the measurement impact assessment tool is really extensive that's that's really interesting data. We probably have time for one quick question before we move on. If somebody wants to drop it in the chat or raise their hand or whatever floors open. Thanks Cliff about the plug about a dark. That's a that's a really good conference I hope it's going to start happening again. Yeah, we hope. Yeah, I got a little, got a little interrupted by the pandemic like so many things. Yeah. Okay, well I think, I think we'll go ahead and move on. I do also want to just echo the point that who John made about the cloud lab closing plenary for the in person meeting which we will be also videotaping for those who won't be at the in person meeting and will subsequently make that available but that's that's an absolutely fascinating complimentary piece to this. And I think you'll find it very interesting. All right, we will pause for just a moment now. Thanks again Melanie. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Our pleasure.


So y'all I'm in my office because Going through this is the first day. We did a time for learning and it's not gonna work for us y'all It's just it's online and it's only for language arts and math and science Halfway through the English JB was done. He was he didn't want to do it And so I don't want to push anything. I want the learning to come natural to him Going through the workbooks I have now So one of the things I says I stated that I purchased from a time for learning a time for learning Excuse me teachers pay teachers is a great resource. So I was able to get second-grade goals This is before anything change as far as ELA and math. I also Was able to let me back up for a second I already purchased a lot all this stuff before I figured oh, I can't do it because this was all going to be Supplemental now. That's not the case. This is gonna be what we're gonna be using the primary Hey, you guys so we stopped by the Dollar Tree this morning to pick up a few things honey I really need to get some vanilla folders folders, but it's the Dollar Tree girl So I always ended up getting like 10 or 15 more items. So some household stuff. That's impons all fall paper Decorative why do they already already have fall hollowing stuff out?  I just got fall stuff We don't do Halloween anymore. So I have some fall decorative here I have a painting set for JP for later on in the year as far as homeschooling supplies I purchased this bingo marker that he can use when we have worksheets where he select an item some dice for math This is great for Addition multiplication some chips here to help with math Manila folders purchase these sticker stories. We're gonna be Sorry, we're gonna be getting into storytelling and stuff like that So these are a little cute to have Maybe they had a number of books and really cute looking books too. So look at these y'all just a dollar. Let me open up one Sorry, the camera went off very nice So this is called me and my mammoth the boy who watered the world and then we just have a pop-up book here Some more index cards and tape and some earbuds girls I'm gonna go ahead and put all this stuff away gathers and things to start homeschooling this morning And that's gonna be it for this Friday y'all.  Well, she let me know that she's sleepy And she wants to sleep in all day. So I'm like, okay girls. So I've been working working working I've had a bit of a headache. No, no, it's cuz I'm stressed out. So y'all What's up got up early this morning to contact the company that produces the gold map now This is coming core by the way Was able to get some lesson plans through teachers pay teachers person's the lesson plans because you can't even You can't look at them Before person some, you know, you see a preview but not everything. Well, the previews I mean the lesson plans referred to you to go to the site called Personal math trainer and we used to go in there because he used go math for his charter school Which is one of the reasons why I wanted to go back because he seems like he did pretty good You know come in core girl on the phone Short short to girl long story short was on the phone for like an hour going back and forth between customer care and Technical support and basically parents can't use that site So I was a little confused as to how can I purchase all 13 workbooks, but I can't access the site So it's not gonna be face it. We can't use it. I mean So I decided I'm gonna use easy-peasy for math and it's very easy and it's not coming core And so it'd be it should be easier for him to understand look at them Sorry y'all so yeah right now. We're just gonna focus on J. We're just gonna focus on language arts and math because JB is still struggling reading. He is a struggling reader He was actually in a separate workshop group at his school because he just reads very slow His handwriting is horrible. So that is gonna be our focus for like a month or so Then we will slowly add in science slowly add in social science, which includes history, economics, civics all of that Yeah, so that's gonna be my plan Just have a headache I'm just over it y'all just not just that but just this week in general has been It's been interesting Yeah, it's weird at the park I am really surprised it is Ten o'clock and there are already people here gathering already hopes were to get here so early They don't want to be a lot of people But it looks like Johnny's folks don't care. They're still gathering and it's still small groups They look like it's six and under and they probably are family members. So who am I to judge? They could be our family This is a huge park. So we've been coming out here probably once every two weeks to get here really early The playground is pretty empty, but there's about 40 people here, which is way more than it normally is JB's the only one in the playground, so we're gonna let him play in the playground. I Feel kind of bad y'all, but I pulled him away from over there. It's about 30 40 people over there We come over here JB's right now. He's the only person on the playground. We'll go out in the middle There's another little boy over there. Call me paranoid But mm-hmm Okay, y'all want to show y'all mine. I'm in my girl. Look. Yeah, I'm back here. I Want to show y'all mine. Let me tell you something Flu season is right around the corner. I need for y'all to start soft piling I have all this tissue paper. I want to get one more large thing of tissue paper. I have Purchased disinfectant spray A couple of weeks ago wipes bleach detergent dishware. I want to get at least two more of everything Let me turn this camera around My husband said that they're already seeing flu cases in the hospital This is a little early, but it's happening and what's gonna happen You guys is that don't think that just because the numbers are going down Cooler weather COVID is gonna return Flu is returning and what's gonna happen is that it's gonna be hard to tell. This is my opinion Let me just say this disclaimer. I am not in the medical field I'm giving you my opinion from someone who has had COVID and has to flew. Oh, by the way I also had the swine flu the swine flu We were out cold for two weeks Granted after we had the swine flu We weren't sick again for a very long time because we had built up those antibodies I feel like by all the flu's shall but not going by the grace of God I have not had the flu since but the swine flu was very bad for us in my opinion. We were very sick. Um, Get to the point I really do think that people need to start stockpiling again for if you haven't even stockpiled Please for the for the wintertime especially live if you live in areas where it's really cool Especially if you live in Florida, Texas DC what is Minnesota if you out here with me in ratchets, Arizona, California? I have groceries I have you know tissue. I have water this water I had before we went through when we were all sick and we went through it fairly fast you guys cuz when you if You do get sick, you know, yeah, you could do roadside pickup. What is it? curbside pickup But we didn't even feel like going down and mind you we had mild symptoms We did not feel like going out. That was the last thing we wanted to do was to go out So if you have enough supplies at home, you can avoid all that all I'm saying is just go ahead and do it for yourself And I would go even further if you can afford it Look up what you should stop power for these for at least three months and really really start taking this series Come because I think I have another another thing in a war and a One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven Eleven all right. We're good. We're good. Yeah We have 11 gallons of water in our in our My little linen closet here, but I'm gonna get some more because I'm not playing we and we have the space I have the space to know put more stuff. I have soap like I said, I have tissue I have a map of my area Now that was a little extreme baby, I have seeds I don't know how to grow so but I got seeds just in case I need to replant the earth. I'm ready Y'all but one thing Let me turn this off a little bit. Just come on sweetheart. Come in here mommy son One thing that I think my husband is really Kind of in denial. You see I'm kind of coughing the weeds and I yet my allergies are in there They kind of briefly spoke about long-term long-term symptoms from having COVID and Granted, yeah, we all have allergies and we have asthma, but my husband now has a cough and He's in denial a lot y'all cuz he's like he's like this is not a symptom Do you even know what a symptom is?   He's a noaceous my allergies.  Yeah, but I mean I should trust my husband and his you know his opinion, but I just for me personally I've never seen him cough this much and it just so happened to be after he had COVID so Child so prayer say everyone definitely pray over your family.  I forgot to turn the camera on I'm doing my nails. I'm drawing my nails now with the Y'all can't see this a gel lamp So they sent me four colors plus a top coat and a base the base I didn't use because again I have a dip powder and so they sent me three colors They sent me this red Really really nice red color. They sent me this pink and They sent me this blue, which is what I have on my nails here and I should give you guys a close-up now What I decided to do was I'm gonna have to do a new set soon because this set is just does not look great. I did a new I did a Change colors all I did but I added glitter towards the bottom That's a trick if you feel like your nails are not looking all that great So let's see if these things can zoom in some y'all hold on There We go you see so Didn't a full glitter on this one glitter on the bottom of the other ones and this one right here is blank So this is what we have Just different glitter design and then like solid here You can see I need a feel soon and then half glitter on this one. 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You get a full you get a full set Which means you get these tips on top Right acrylic nails then they use acrylic powder What do you say? acrylic powder to shape your nail beds and so and every two weeks you will get a feel right or You could do dip powder which what you would do is you would paint your nail with a base Dip your nail into the dip powder like this Dip your nail into the dip powder until you basically get the look of an acrylic nail except their dip powder nails some of my most of my dip powders have color in them and so what I did last time is I'm Dip the nail in the color and then once it's done you top it with a clear top coat Give me that quick dip I do not recommend this thing y'all. I just Give me this fuss put you in a headlock My brush cleaner. I don't need to do this. So what's the other powder for this, baby? First of all these powders are trash Can you can I oh? Baby, I still need that. I still have it just in case Baby stop. 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You know, I ain't got time for that. Can you open this up figure out how to open this up?  Look because I would have an attitude. What is this? Oh, that's glass, baby from that thing that broke. All right, you guys so Look at him.  You know what I was thinking about moving that one and putting up these short a Short vows, but Oh lord, so this poster Elements of a story, excuse the background elements of a story I got from the Dollar Tree actually and that two posters actually came with that But I don't think we need that I got a set of 12 posters Which are these math posters and I have more down here. I got them from Um, amazon. Yeah, baby. So we have money time numbers addition and subtraction right here in front of him So I have a speaker So this right here is a storyboard type of this not supposed to really stick, baby It's so you can move it around. Okay So it's so these stick So we got this kit from The Dollar Tree and basically the kids Or to use stickers to create a story.  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Abyssinian cat vs Singapore cat. Where are the differences between these two cat breeds? A love of heights is a signal trait of the Abyssinian. He likes to be as high up as possible, and will appreciate having one or more ceiling height cat trees. This is a medium-sized cat weighing 6-10 lbs. The Singaporea has three distinguishing characteristics.  The abye is often said to look as if he had just walked straight out of the wild. That's because of his ticked coat pattern, which resembles that of wild cats such as cougars. A ticked coat is alternating light and dark bands of color on each hair shaft. Everything about him suggests his lively, attentive nature. The abye has a slightly rounded wedge-shaped head top with large, broad ears, the better to hear you with. Large, almond-shaped eyes of gold or green express interest in everything they see. On the face, dark lines may extend from the eyes and brows. The muscular body is graceful and athletic. It falls into a middle ground between the stocky, or kabi, the body of a breed such as the Persian, and the long, svelte body of the Oriental breed such as the Siamese. The body is supported by slim, fine-boned legs atop small, oval, compact paws. Abyss are often said to look as if they are walking on tiptoe. Swishing behind them is a long, tapering tail. Singapore is short, fine coat has a silky texture. Its color is called sepia aguti, described as dark brown ticking on a background color that resembles warm old ivory. Each hair has at least two bands of dark ticking separated by light bands, ending with a dark tip. The fur on the muzzle, chin, chest, and belly are the color of unbleached muslin. On the face, the Singapore looks as if he's been playing in the makeup box, with dark lines extending from his brows and the outside corners of his hazel, green or yellow eyes, dark lines extending downward from the inner corner of the eyes along the bridge of the nose called cheetah lines, and dark brown lines around the eye's lips and nose.  The Singapore may be small, but he's by no means delicate. His body is stocky and muscular, and his neck is short and thick. Heavily muscled legs tapered a small, short, oval feet. His tail is short and slender with a dark tip. Of all the cat breeds, the Abyssinian is perhaps the one who lives life to the fullest. He climbs higher, jumps farther, plays harder. Nothing escapes the notice of this highly intelligent and inquisitive cat, a quality that makes life with him both endlessly entertaining and continuously challenging. Staying a step ahead of an abye, as the breed is nicknamed, or even just keeping pace with him, requires the fancy footwork of a Fred Astaire, the brain power of an Einstein, and a sense of humor that never stops. You never know what he'll get into next, although you can assume that if you have something or are doing something, your abye will want to investigate it closely. Sometimes it may seem as if the abye never sleeps. He is ever in motion, jumping up in the window to look at birds or squirrels, leaping on top of the refrigerator to supervise meal preparation, perching on your desk to watch your fingers move over the keyboard, and then swiping at them so you'll pay attention to him instead. This is a playful, persistent cat who adores being the center of attention, and will do anything to achieve and maintain that status. The abye loves to play, so plan on making or purchasing a variety of toys to keep him occupied. Ping pong balls, bottle caps, watered up pieces of paper, puzzle toys, and teasers such as big peacock feathers will all amuse this busy and brainy cat. Teach him to retrieve at your peril.  He learns tricks quickly and many abyss enjoy running a feline agility course. A love of heights is a signal trait of the Abyssinian. He likes to be as high up as possible, and will appreciate having one or more ceiling height cat trees. When those aren't available, he is perfectly capable of making his way to the uppermost point of any room. He is naturally graceful and rarely breaks items unless it is simply out of curiosity. Abyss are adaptable throughout their lives and fit well into any home where they are loved and given plenty of attention. In a home where people are at work or school during the day, the abye does best with a companion, ideally another abye, who can match his activity level. If left to his own devices, the abye may well dismantle the house in his search for something interesting to do.  He retains his playfulness well into adulthood. The Singapore loves people and isn't shy about meeting people. He likes being a lap cat and is an excellent bed warmer on cold winter nights. Despite his busy nature, he is a gentle friend who will put aside his activities to keep you company when you're feeling under the weather. The rest of the time? Watch out, he is as curious as cats come and will be into anything that looks interesting. The Singapore does best in a home where he will have plenty of company, human or animal. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. The short, fine coat of the Abyssinian is easily cared for with weekly combing to remove dead hair and distribute skin oils. A bath when the cat is shedding will help to remove excess hair more quickly. The Singapore is short, smooth coat is easy to care for with a quick weekly combing. Polishing it with a chamois will make it shine. A bath is rarely necessary. Brush the teeth to prevent periodontal disease. Daily dental hygiene is best, but weekly brushing is better than nothing. Trim the nails every couple of weeks. Wipe the corners of the eyes with a soft, damp cloth to remove any discharge. Use a separate area of the cloth for each eye so you don't run the risk of spreading any infection. Check the ears weekly. If they look dirty, wipe them out with a cotton ball or soft, damp cloth moistened with a 50 to 50 mixture of cider vinegar and warm water. Avoid using cotton swabs, which can damage the interior of the ear. Keep the litter box spotlessly clean. Cats are very particular about bathroom hygiene, and a dirty box may cause them to start using other places in the house instead. It's a good idea to keep an Abyssinian and Singapore as an indoor only cat to protect them from diseases spread by other cats, attacks by dogs or coyotes, and the other dangers that face cats who go outdoors, such as being hit by a car. Abyssinians in Singapore who go outdoors also run the risk of being stolen by someone who would like to have such a beautiful cat without paying for it. The active and social Abyssinian is a perfect choice for families with children and cat-friendly dogs. He will play fetch as well as any retriever, learns tricks easily, and loves the attention he receives from children who treat him politely and with respect.  Nothing scares him, certainly not dogs, and he will happily make friends with them if they don't give him any trouble. Abyssinians have also been known to get along with large parrots, ferrets, and other animals. The Singaporea is playful and smart and can be a good friend to a child who treats him nicely.  He is happy to live with other cats and cat-friendly dogs, too, thanks to his amiable disposition. Singapore is usually get along well with other animals and seem to prefer living with some kind of company, not thriving when left alone all day. Introduce pets slowly and in controlled circumstances to ensure that they learn to get along together. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


This study investigated the use of a new type of polymer-based composite membrane structure to create high-performance microwave absorbers. The structure was composed of one-dimensional end-oped carbon nanofibers embedded within HoloCo3-SNC0.7 nanocubes. The presence of space charge stacking between the nanoparticles allowed for the formation of a necklace structure, which could then be further enhanced by the presence of a carbon network. This combination of factors resulted in a high impedance matching and a large absorption bandwidth. When tested at 800 degrees Celsius, the necklace-like structure exhibited an RL value of minus 51.2 dB at 2.3 mm and a thickness of 2.5 mm. Furthermore, the multiple reflections and interfacial polarization between the fibers and their internal walls contributed significantly to the overall absorption of electromagnetic waves.