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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Scientific Practices"”.
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Towards a genealogy of planet management: Computer simulation, limits to growth and the emergence of global spaces
… of ""planet management"" by focusing on the scientific practices and discourses that make it possible to conceptualize the earth and human activity as a total system. Examples of these scientific practices, (which are constitutive of the very notion of planet management that they facilitate), …
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The Next Generation and Texas Science: Life Science Teacher’s Use of Literacy and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Assessing Students’ Abilities to Engage in Science Practices, A Three Article Dissertation
… as an avenue to promote students’ proficiency of scientific practices. To do this, a progressive three-article dissertation format was followed to complete a qualitative evidence synthesis of three NSTA journals, conduct an exploratory case study of three life science teachers, and develop an …
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Coleções de material humano para uso em pesquisa: controvérsias e redes na construção da regulamentação de biobancos e biorrepositórios no Brasil
… has mobilized issues and actors who are not only scientific and technical, but also political, legal and ethical. The overlapping of these spheres seems to interfere with prospects that are based on dualities, such as nature vs. culture, fact vs. value. This is the case with regards to biobanks …
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The work of art in the age of its technoscientific re-enhancement : recasting light, Colloids, and microbes for art and heritage conservation in U.S. and Italian laboratories
This ethnography tracks a diverse set of scientific practices that have developed new technologies for the conservation of artworks and cultural heritage. I examine how scientists in physics, chemistry, and biology have intervened in the restoration of artifacts ranging from faded abstract …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… decade, there has been a growing interest in scientific practices as a reform focus in K-12 science education of the United States. In this context, scientific practices refer to practices that have family resemblance to scientists' professional practices and simultaneously are pedagogically …
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Language and IQ in Children With Language Impairment
… variables. Implications regarding clinical and scientific practices are discussed.
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H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque
… including religious satire, scrutiny of scientific practices, and the modernist concept of "literary difficulty." This dissertation serves to establish a new place for Lovecraft in the larger context of English literature, and to establish a new way of thinking about modernism with …
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Herman Feshbach : what it meant to be a physicist in the twentieth century
… funding place strains and provoke change in scientific practices. The second theme pertains to how scientists accommodate to the aforementioned strains, either through open political activism or changes within scientific institutions. Herman Feshbach's life is an excellent example of how …
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What shapes instruction in course-based undergraduate research experiences? & Spatial, temporal, and structural drivers of soil microbial communities in regenerative agricultural systems
… also known as CUREs, integrate authentic scientific investigations into STEM curricula. These experiences prioritize scientific practices, discovery, real-world relevance, collaboration, and iterative experimentation. CUREs offer a more accessible approach to engaging diverse student …
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Looking at what Geographers do – Empirische Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsbeobachtung in der Geographie
… field. In this dissertation, a total of five scientific articles are presented. All contributions examine German-language geography from a scientometric perspective. The unifying aspect of this work is not the one major research question, but the research object and the methodological …
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
… state and a result of its calculative and scientific practices. The thesis demonstrates how the plan operates as an apparatus partaking in the formation of subjectivities and social citizenship of the people, while it manages to desubjectify its users within its design calculus. This way, …
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Control risk as audit risk element assessment model /
… on the results of this study and the global scientific practices, a control risk assessment model was created. The model has been tested on the basis of audits conducted by audit firms, which employ one auditor. It was found that a structured assessment of control risk provides reliable audit …
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Reducing Linguistic Barriers In Secondary Chemistry Through Inquiry-Based, Phenomena-Driven Instruction For English Language Learners
… learners rather than active participants in scientific sense-making. Grounded in the Promoting Science among English Language Learners (P-SELL) model and inquiry-based instructional frameworks, this project proposes a shift toward phenomena-driven, culturally responsive teaching practices. …
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Protocol and beyond: experiment and care during a TB vaccine clinical trial in South Africa
… It has been argued that formal ethics and the scientific practices they govern obscure a relational and affective dimension of clinical trials, which is both necessary for, and transcends, the requirements of trial protocols. On the basis of ethnographic research with a clinical research …
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The Productive Roles of Falsehoods In Science
… common, if rarely recognized, part of many good scientific practices. In many cases, there is no mystery behind the use of a falsehood. For instance, when scientists approximate some physical value - say, that an electron has a charge of exactly 1.6EE-19 coulombs, rather than 1.60217....EE-19 - …
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"The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"
… a thorough critique of the eighteenth-century scientific world--a world marked by systematization, theoretical speculation, stories of "progress," and innovation, which people have commonly embraced and into which the "modern" mind had unresistingly and perhaps unconsciously placed itself. …
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Utilizing the History of Science to Enhance Student Understanding and Engagement: A Compilation of Earth Science Lesson Plans
… can be used to enhance student understanding of scientific concepts and processes, as well as the context in which science is explored. Successful methods for incorporating the history of science in to the classroom can also improve student understanding and use of scientific argumentation, as …
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Vocational science and the politics of independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812
… the Boston Marine Society developed vocational scientific practices adapted from day-to-day work routines to expand the navigational knowledge of New England's coastlines. For this reason, the Marine Society's navigational work suggests important parallels with the history of colonial science in …
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Notes from the Ground: Science and Agricultural Improvement in the Early American Republic
… 1840s; more specifically, it explores the role scientific and technical practices played within that era's improvement ethic. I argue that science, as seen through the lens of agricultural chemistry and, to a lesser extent, geology, became an important, acceptable, and credible way to interact …
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Epidemiology Experimentation and Simulation Management through Scientific Digital Libraries
Advances in scientific data management, discovery, dissemination, and sharing are changing the manner in which scientific studies are being conducted and repurposed. Data-intensive scientific practices increasingly require data management related services not available in existing digital …
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