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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Scientific Practice"”.
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Project Meshnet And The Politics Of Scientific Practice
… technology is changing the possibilities and practices of grassroots political movements, and conversely, that a politics of resistance aimed against real and perceived sociopolitical circumstances is shaping the use of technology. I examine the Project Meshnet community’s endeavor to create a …
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Creating a modeling culture : supporting the development of scientific practice among teachers
… in a modeling culture can contribute to a scientific way of thinking, for both teachers and their students, and can help teachers bring authentic science practice into high school classrooms. Employing technological tools developed at the Media Lab, we crafted an introduction to scientific …
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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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Extra-Institutional Science and the Democratization of Scientific Practice: DIY Biology in Canada, Great Britain, and Germany
… DIY biology is envisioned to democratize the scientific enterprise. Second, DIY biologists argue that extra-institutional science allows for greater academic freedom than traditional academic research. Third, DIY biologists commonly imagine their movement as an avenue that allows for the …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
… This dissertation examined the research practices of experimental social psychologists as these researchers typically study the impact of the social environment on human behavior in a laboratory or online setting, which impacts the way social identity categories can be used in the …
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"From Scientific Practice to Science Classrooms: Impact of Technological Tools on the Enactment of ""Authentic"" Inquiry in High School Science Classrooms"
… and processes inherent to the development in scientific contexts, and the adoption for teaching in high school science classrooms, of two technological tools: Biology Student Workbench and ChemViz. Participants included key players along the path of development, transformation, and …
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The Structure of Meta-Scientific Claims: Toward a Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
… provides a basis on which to adjudicate meta-scientific claims. The appeal to context blurs internal and external references, offers an ontological starting point for STS accounts of science, serves as the basis for methodological debate, and refers to values which anchor a notion of …
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RELATIVE AND OBJECTIVE, ON BALANCE: Detailing the Best Systems Analysis of Laws
… allow it to accommodate the peculiarities of scientific practice. That move has allowed such views to do a lot of good work in solving old and new challenges for the BSA, but at the cost of strengthening the argument against the BSA that it is insufficiently objective. I argue that the …
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Truth in explanation
… Should the best account of certain bits of our scientific practice focus on the concept of truth? More specifically, should the crucial distinctions between good and bad aspects of that practice be drawn in terms of truth? My thesis consists of three case studies: ceteris paribus laws in the …
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Scientific discourse, sociological theory, and the structure of rhetoric
… constructivist principles and descriptions of scientific practice from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) as a basis for analyzing scientific discourse. While epistemological claims in the social sciences have been considered inherently self-referential and subject to reflexive …
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Translating the intimate: digital renderings of bio-matter into material forms through artistic research.
… between my blood and the machinic in a practice-led process of fabrication, this PhD enquiry considers how the materiality of my body is translated, dispersed amongst the non-representational “froth of code”; becoming techno-corporeal abstractions through techno-scientific processes. …
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Precept and practice in science an examination of some objections to theories of scientific method
… of science—that is, a normative theory of scientific method. The rules and standards of such a theory are intended to capture the central features of scientific rationality and to explain the sense in which scientific knowledge progressively grows. Although no particular methodology of …
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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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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
… forward. Optimistic naturalism attempts to use scientific methods to give positive answers to traditional epistemological questions. Epistemologists, for example, are urged to draw on psychology and evolutionary biology in order to show our beliefs are justified. I argue that this project fails. …
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The Vertical Globe: Altitude and Science in the Exploration of the Himalaya, 1800-1850
… Indian empire. This thesis examines the scientific, political and imaginative understandings of the Himalaya that emerged from this context. It traces two overlapping sets of arguments through the mountains. Firstly, it examines the laboriousness of scientific practice in the high spaces …
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From Socio-Technical Challenges to Transferable Recommended Actions in Interdisciplinary Research Environments
… recognised as a necessary component of good scientific practice, yet often perceived as an administrative burden rather than a structurally integral part of interdisciplinary research. This dissertation addresses that gap through sustained empirical engagement with two interconnected …
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Disciplinarity and literate activity in science: tracing pathways of becoming, writing and practice
… Next Generation Science Standards outlined eight practices or “habits of mind” that students must possess in order to “do science”. Rather than accept these practices as truth, this dissertation explores, from the perspective of the university scientists, how they came to engage in scientific …
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Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology
… approach runs afoul of the messy conceptual practices that real scientists engage in. I examine a case from ecology where ecologists are engaged in conceptual practices, employing the terms ‘mechanism’ and ‘pathway’ in their explanation. What I learn from this case is that the terms are …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848--1914
… and ultimately managed. The production of this scientific knowledge, I argue, thus made possible the practical application of nationalist ideology to everyday life. Armed with scientifically 'accurate' ethnographic tables and maps states could redraw political and administrative boundaries to …
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Where Lies Germany: Science and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
… and ultimately managed. The production of this scientific knowledge, I argue, thus made possible the practical application of nationalist ideology to everyday life. Armed with scientifically ‘accurate’ ethnographic tables and maps states could redraw political and administrative boundaries to …
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