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Showing 1 to 20 of 439 for “"Scientific Community"”.
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Collaboration within the Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Scientific Community
Scientific research is essential to supporting ecosystem recovery efforts. Given limited time and financial resources, funding entities may be interested in factors that influence the `impact' of research findings on recovery processes. This analysis explores one characteristic of scientific …
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How the internet is shaping the Chilean scientific community: globalization and dependency
… brings immediate visibility and relevance to scientific communities in the periphery. Yet, Internet diffusion is often framed by past technology failures that further widen global divides. This characterizes an "affliction" argument. The "teething argument" suggests that adoption within the …
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Integral Exploration of the Engagement of a Scientific Community of Students in a School Conference
… as a vehicle for building a collaborative community of practice involving both scientists and grade-school students. The research involved creating a community of practice involving scientists and grade-school students that culminated in a school conference and a research paper. Using a …
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An Experimental Case Study of the Diffusion of An Information Innovation in a Scientific Community
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Translation and the lingua franca in scientific communication: The case of the scientific community from Mexico
This thesis presents a study of the hybrid scientific discourse developed by a group of Mexican researchers in the area of materials science. The study focuses on the discursive characteristics (i.e. those derived from the interaction between Spanish and English in scientific academic discourse), …
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Development of citation measures and the socio-cultural factors affecting citation behavior in an emerging scientific community
… citation_based bibliometric indicators of scientific research performance and applies them to Iranian medical research. In the absence of any pre-existing bibliometric data to provide objective indices to aid decision-making processes, a new body of information related to medical journals …
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The Formation of The American Scientific Community: The American Association for The Advancement of Science, 1848-1860
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An enquiry into biosafety regulations implementation in Kenya : perspectives and roles of scientists
… behavioural shifts of the heterogeneous Kenyan scientific community in the development and subsequent implementation of biosafety regulations. Kenya's biotechnology innovation system has been driven largely by the contradictory framing of biotechnology as a scientific tool for innovation and …
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The recombinant DNA case: balancing scientific and political decision-making
… group to regulate rDNA was the scientists. The scientific community called for a voluntary moratorium on experiments perceived as potentially dangerous at the time. It was an unprecedented act. The National Institutes of Health subsequently issued guidelines for a safe execution of rDNA …
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Journalism's Revolution: Understanding Sience to Escape the Politicial Manipulation of Public Discourse on Scientific nd Environmental Issues
… manipulation. If journalists understood the scientific community better, they could better adjudicate competing truth claims like "global warming is real and caused by man" vs. "global warming is a hoax/naturally occurring phenomenon". The proposed theory requires an increased level of …
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Negotiating modern and traditional discourses of HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community: school impact and personal cost
… Traditional HIV/AIDS discourse refers to community responses to the disease that ‘resist dominant epidemiological narratives’, while the modern narrative refers to mainstream, scientific research that is supported by the majority of health professionals and the scientific community in …
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How women's calling for science careers relates to psychological predictors of persistence in science
… identity as a scientist, interest in science, scientific community values, and intentions to pursue science. Bivariate correlations suggest perceiving a calling as a scientist is positively related to undergraduate women's science self-efficacy, identity as a scientist, prosocial values of the …
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Seismic analysis of inclined shallow granular deposits
… behaviour of soft soils have been devoted by the scientific community. The aim of this thesis consists to investigate the mechanical response of two granular material (Hostun and Toyoura sand) in cyclic/dynamic conditions. In this paper some relationships between permanent displacement, evaluated …
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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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More money, more science? : how the malaria research community responds to funding opportunities
… research shape both the rate and direction of scientific progress through the resource allocation choices they make. However, our understanding of the degree to which scientists respond to shifts in that allocation is very limited. How does the scientific community reorganize itself and gain …
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When human life begins
… and political communities, but within the scientific community as well. Particular attention is given to this issue as advances in science make it possible to manipulate the embryo and fetus at early stages of development. This study explores these issues as they are revealed in the …
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A knowledge-network model of scientific communities
… valuable knowledge (e.g. expertise) of a scientific community, generating relationships among community members automatically and revealing these relationships through a visualization tool. The types of relationships that this tool reveals are of the form of "who knows what" and "who can …
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A Hydrodynamic Method for Measuring Aqueous Nanoparticle Surface Interactions
… in part through association constants, the scientific community will better understand how organic drugs and nanomaterials interact in the environment, as well as to understand their eventual environmental fate. The biological community, pharmaceutical, and consumer product industries also …
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Taxonomy and the History of Science: A Critical Analysis of Four Historic Publications
… societies, and rejection from others in the scientific community.</p>
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A model and an algebra for semi-structured and full-text queries
… Retrieval techniques is manifest to the scientific community. In order to fulfil this growing request, W3C has recently proposed XQuery Full Text, an IR-oriented extension of XQuery. However, the issue of query optimization requires the study of important properties like query equivalence …
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