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Showing 1 to 20 of 384 for “"Scientific Knowledge"”.
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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 knowledge extraction from massive text data
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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The Logical Structure of Scientific Knowledge-Systems
… concerns itself with the formal structure of scientific knowledge has focused excessively on the structure of scientific theories. In response, I consider the prospects for the formal study of other, supratheoretical aspects of science, culminating in the proposal for a research programme …
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Essays on the production and commercialization of new scientific knowledge
Scientific research frequently generates tremendous economic value. Yet, this value tends to be elusive and public and private organizations often struggle to obtain returns from their investment in science. This dissertation, composed of three essays, examines persistent challenges to the …
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Institutional Analysis of a Natural History Museum: Formation and dissemination of scientific knowledge
<p>When the canonization of scientific knowledge is considered as a point of sociological inquiry the interrelations of popular culture, commerce, and enterprise become crucial elements to understanding how forms of knowledge are produced and reproduced. Scientific knowledge is an integral part of …
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Social Justice Pedagogies and Scientific Knowledge: Remaking Citizenship in the Non-Science Classroom
… to efforts to rethink the meanings of democracy, scientific literacy, and non-scientist citizenship in the United States. Beginning with questions that emerged from action research and exploring the socio-political forces that shape education practices, it shows why non-science educators who teach …
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Politics in Hobbes' mechanics: a case study in the sociology of scientific knowledge
A case study in the sociology of scientific knowledge is presented involving an examination of the development of Thomas Hobbes' mechanics in light of Hobbes' political views and the political context. Hobbes provides a good subject for research in the sociology of scientific knowledge for at least …
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Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment: Scientific Knowledge & the Extension from Aesthetics to Ethics
… judgments must be better than others. The scientific cognitive model posits that the natural world must be interpreted through an understanding of biological and geological categories, which are provided by scientific knowledge and common sense. While there are clearly merits to this model, …
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Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment: Scientific Knowledge & the Extension from Aesthetics to Ethics
… judgments must be better than others. The scientific cognitive model posits that the natural world must be interpreted through an understanding of biological and geological categories, which are provided by scientific knowledge and common sense. While there are clearly merits to this model, …
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Understanding The Effects of Incorporating Scientific Knowledge on Neural Network Outputs and Loss Landscapes
… decision-making that is consistent with scientific knowledge, limiting their applicability for scientific discovery applications. Recently, a new field of machine learning that infuses domain knowledge into data-driven ML approaches, termed Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (KGML), has …
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What Is a Wolf? The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Scientific Knowledge in Children's Books
… how visual images impart social, cultural, and scientific information about both wolves and humans, I analyze over 200 illustrated editions of traditional and fractured tales, animal stories, and informational books featuring wolves. In addition to developing a typology of visual depictions of …
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A rhetorical analysis of patient decision aids for genetic testing: Scientific knowledge, embodiment, and problematic integration in biomedicine
… includes elements of deliberation, epideixis, scientific knowledge, and embodied knowledge. I incorporate into these elements the theory of problematic integration, which describes the interrelationships between probabilistic orientations—the scientific knowledge of biomedical practitioners—and …
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Innovation in the life sciences : the impact of intellectual property rights on scientific knowledge diffusion, accumulation and utilization
… on the production, diffusion and accumulation of scientific knowledge has been a central concern of public policymakers and economists in both public and private institutions, and scholars in management economics and sociology. In this dissertation, I examine the central patenting debates over the …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
Recent debates in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) literature center on (i) the alleged distinction between the (sociological) context of inquiry and the (epistemological) context of justification, (ii) the relativist--rationalist controversy regarding questions of cognitive warrant, …
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Standing on the shoulders of Chinese giants? : a study on international biases in the process of global scientific knowledge diffusion
… we collected citation and other key data on scientific publications from the highly prestigious and rigorously screened Nature and Nature-derivative (which we will refer to as Nature X) journals. In addition to conditioning out publication quality, we employ coarsened exact matching (CEM) to …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… discusses the political dimensions of scientific practice in Taiwan from two perspectives: the social contingencies of scientific knowledge and the role of government in medical science. The history of Taiwanese hepatitis B control program from 1980 to 1993 provides a valuable case …
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A Defense for Scientific Realism: Skepticisms, Unobservables & Interference to the Best Explanation
The epistemological status of scientific knowledge claims has been undermined by skepticism, in particular by universal skepticism. This thesis asserts that Bas C. van Fraassens empirical stance is akin to universal skepticism. This work also maintains that van Fraassens empirical stance does not …
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