Verharen, Charles C
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Science and engineering ethics
In the twenty-first century, Stephen Hawking proclaimed the death of philosophy. Only science can address philosophy's perennial questions about human values. The essay first examines Nietzsche's nineteenth century view to the contrary that philosophy alone can create values. A critique of Nietzsche's contention that philosophy rather than science ...
Cotur, Y Kasimatis, M Olenik, S Kaisti, M Gergiou, C Guder, F
A highly flexible, stretchable, and mechanically robust low‐cost soft composite consisting of silicone polymers and water (or hydrogels) is reported. When combined with conventional acoustic transducers, the materials reported enable high performance real‐time monitoring of heart and respiratory patterns over layers of clothing (or furry skin of an...
Barros, Alba Lúcia Bottura Leite de Nóbrega, Maria Miriam Lima da Santos, Rosângela da Silva Cézar-Vaz, Marta Regina Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena Freitag
ABSTRACT Objective: to identify funding demands in the light of CNPq’s knowledge subareas, as well as data on researchers and research groups, their distribution in the regions and their approximation with health research priorities of the Ministry of Health and the new knowledge tree framework of the area. Method: a descriptive study developed wit...
Aleksandrova-Howell, Maria V. Abramson, Charles I. Cota, Lisa D. Braches, Douglas A. Karitsky, Igor N. Antonenko, Irina V. Mazilov, Vladimir A.
The Psychology as Science Scale (Friedrich, 1996) was administered to 525 psychology students from nine Russian universities to assess their beliefs about the nature of the discipline. About half of students (49.6%) generally agreed that psychology may be called a scientific discipline. Specifically, 71. 5% of the students agreed that psychology is...
Turnbull, Neil
Richardson, Kevin Holt
By the end of the 1960s, a severe environmental crisis had gripped the Japanese public and ushered in an era of national concern over the toxic burdens of industrial growth. Poor rural communities poisoned by industrial runoff and middle-class metropolitan residents choked by air pollution found that Japan’s two decades of rapid economic growth req...
Kurian, Amrita Achamma
This dissertation examines the making and un-making of expertise as it unfolds over the socio-economic geographies in India that grow Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco. Specifically, the dissertation studies the work of agrarian experts of the Tobacco Board who work to improve the quality of this lucrative cash crop used in the manufacturing of cig...
Abambres, Miguel Salloom, Tony Beganovic, Nejra Dojka, Rafał Roncallo-Dow, Sergio Verma, Tarun Takhar, Sukhraj
This work is the continuation of a ‘revolution’ started with "Research Counts, Not the Journal". Own and published opinions from worldwide scientists on critical issues of peer-reviewed publishing are presented. In my opinion, peer-reviewed publishing is a quite flawed process (in many way) that has greatly harmed Science for a long time – it has b...
Yang, Jae
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Open Theology
This article argues that Wolfhart Pannenberg’s doctrine of resurrection can be demonstrated as science. I utilize the so-called “soft” sciences (history and anthropology) alongside the “hard” sciences (cosmology and neuroscience) to demonstrate the rationality of the ostensibly miraculous resurrection. In the discussion, I argue against empiricists...
Sinay, Laura Sinay, Maria Cristina Fogliatti de Carter, Rodney William (Bill) Martins, Aurea
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the influence of the algorithm used on scholarly search engines (Garfield’s algorithm) and propose metrics to improve it so that science could be based on a more democratic way. Design/methodology/approach This paper used a snow-ball approach to collect data that allowed identifyin...
