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Scientific realism vs. scientific antirealism
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically approximately true and that their key terms typically refer. The no-miracle argument for the view holds that approximate truth and reference provide the best explanation of the success of science. I try …
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
From the publications listed, papers 1 - 3 are derived from research undertaken at the University of Singapore (1961 - 1964) for a Ph D degree. Papers 4 - 27 report the findings of my own research whilst papers 28 - 29 are based on research with technical assistance from K K Tan. Arising from the …
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A scientific workflow framework for scientific data querying and processing
… a better framework to manage the new generation scientific research cycle from data capture, data curation to data analysis, data query and data visualization. Scientific workflows are proving to be one of the key technologies for scientists to formalize and structure complex scientific processes …
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Indexing Scientific Data
… properties of compressed bitmap indexes and scientific meshes we achieved sublinear running times, with respect to the number of points in the query result, for both the index lookup and region consolidation.
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A scientific academy
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1878
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… dissertation explores how aesthetic claims in scientific arguments help construct scientific ethos through demonstrations of the rhetor's judgment. By examining the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their …
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Load Balancing Scientific Applications
… increases with scale because most large-scale scientific simulations today use a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) parallel programming model, and an increasing number of processors will wait for the slowest one at the synchronization points. To address load imbalance, many large-scale …
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Accuracy in scientific visualisation
Quite often, accuracy is a neglected issue in scientific visualization. Indeed, in most of the visualizations there are two wrong assumptions: first, that the data visualized is accurate. Second, that the visualization process is exempt from errors. On these basis, the objectives of this thesis are …
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Scientific thinking in kindergarten
Contains fulltext : 170681.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
… for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of controversies involving science studies can aid students and educators in …
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Scientific inquiry in high school science learning: Collaborative research activities applying scientific visualizations
This research utilized a multi-case, longitudinal study design to examine the theory development activities and high performance tool use of four teams of high school students and teachers. The science learning and research activities of these four high school teams were followed from the start of …
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A Theory of Scientific Change
… moment of history, there are theories that the scientific community of the time accepts as the best available descriptions of reality. In addition, there are methods which the scientific community of the time employs in theory assessment. This set of all accepted theories and all employed …
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Information Extraction from Scientific Literature
The exponential growth of scientific literature, with millions of new articles published annually, has created an unsustainable discovery bottleneck across research communities. Manual extraction of critical information---including methodologies, datasets, and domain-specific terminologies---now …
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Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects
Scientific discourse, as the basic unit of dissemination and exploitation of research results, has steadily enhanced their accessibility and reusability in response to the advancement of web technologies. A highly semantic enriched publication always makes its information and data much easier to …
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SCIENTIFIC REASONING:RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ASSESSMENT
… knowledge but also the development of general scientific abilities that will enable students to successfully handle open-ended real-world tasks in future careers. One such ability, scientific reasoning, is closely related to a wide range of general cognitive abilities such as critical thinking …
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Social origins of scientific deviance.
Scientific communities enjoy nearly unchallenged authority on matters related to the natural world; however, there are instances where significant portions of the population hold beliefs contrary to the scientific consensus. These beliefs have generally been studied as the product of scientific …
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Combinatorial Algorithms in Scientific Computing
… thesis highlighted combinatorial techniques in scientific computing as a research field full of interesting problems with real impact. From the scientific computing point of view, our results show that very significant computational savings can be achieved by employing combinatorial techniques. …
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