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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Scientific investigation"”.
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The Risky Side of Creativity: A Scientific Investigation of Creativity and Domain Specific Risk Taking
… a systematic review of the speculations and scientific studies which aimed at uncovering the association between creativity and risk taking in various populations. This discussion aims to bring together the current knowledge centred around the link between risk taking and creativity and poses …
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Supporting Large Scale Collaboration and Crowd-Based Investigation in Economics: A Computational Representation for Description and Simulation of Financial Models
… should be studied as a hard science, where scientific methods apply. When a trading strategy is proposed, the underlying model should be transparent and defined robustly to allow other researchers to understand and examine it thoroughly. Any reports on experimental results must allow other …
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Pulsed laser ablation and micromachining of 4H and 6H SiC wafers for high-temperature MEMS sensors
<p>This thesis provides a scientific investigation of the ablation behavior of single crystal 4H-SiC and 6H-SiC to improve the manufacturability and high-temperature performance of SiC based MEMS pressure sensors using laser applications. The ablation characteristics of both the polytypes were …
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The Significance of Selected Medical and Environmental Factors in The Etiology of Falling Incidents Among The Hospitalized Elderly: A Relative Risk Assessment
… which occur in the hospital are more amenable to scientific investigation. Within the hospital setting, detailed records of circumstances surrounding falls permit various approaches to the investigation and understanding of how falls occur. However, a study of falls among the hospitalized elderly …
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Emerging Technologies and Sciences: an Examination of Some Military Implications
… military applications of several new fields of scientific and technological development. It is neither a comprehensive assessment nor a compendium of specific future weapons systems; rather, it is an exploration of certain new and future technologies in terms of their potential national security …
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ΣΥΛΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΔΡΑΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΥΣΗ ΣΥΜΦΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ ΠΡΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗ ΜΕΤΑΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΣΗ
… PARTIES ETC, ARE PLACED IN THE CENTRE OF THIS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.
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Advancing Scholarship in Wartime: The World War I Research Experience and Its Impact on American Higher Education, 1900-1925
… war and how this influenced their commitment to scientific investigation and their relationship with government, industry, and other sectors of American life. Specifically, it examines how the crisis atmosphere and material conditions of the war coalesced with existing social and intellectual …
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The feasibility of commercial utilization of cotton fabric and cotton conversion products for synthetic lumber
During the past two decades much scientific investigation has been directed toward the elimination and profitable utilization of the waste products of manufacture and agriculture. One of the outstanding developments has been an industry that utilizes agricultural waste products to produce synthetic …
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Ovide Brunet, the Atelier Photographique de Livernois & Cie., and Sites et végétaux du Canada: The Art and Science of Early Canadian Botanical Photography
… to present Canada as a centre of cutting-edge scientific investigation.
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Woman's essential "nature" : a classical, communitarian gender mythology
… and ontological sameness are not amenable to scientific investigation) but from the heuristic classical, communitarian world view. Whether the notion of a distinct 'woman's nature' is accepted or rejected, this decision results in a pragmatic orientation toward women, their roles, and their …
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Dysnatremia and the endocrine regulation of fluid balance during exercise
… exercise. The central theme permeating all investigations is an underlying desire to understand exercise-associated hyponatremia. This thesis reflects a journey of scientific investigation primarily launched by outcomes from the 1st International Consensus Development Conference on …
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Nietzsche's reconception of science: overcoming nihilism
… Nietzsche has a positive conception of science, scientific constructivism, which he develops in response to nihilistic conceptions of science, particularly scientific realism. Scientific constructivism helps overcome nihilism because it correctly captures the nature of scientific investigation. …
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Os impactos sociais, cognitivos e afetivos sobre a geração de adolescentes conectados às tecnologias digitais
… technologies, and showing the importance of the scientific investigation about related themes. The text presents the information’s collected and systemized in sections, that feature the affective implications, mainly in family relation; social, approaching questions that affect the real and …
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Applicability of Healthy Communities in Virginia
… phenomenon that is not amenable to conventional scientific investigation or discussion. HC emphasizes values of community, aestheticism, relativism and private behavior. Review of available material establishes that an existing understanding of the concepts underlying HC movement contributes to …
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High field terahertz radiation : conduits to synchronized hyper spectral systems
… systems to transform the landscape of scientific investigation and medicine among others. In this thesis, the problem of efficient conversion is tackled theoretically. A montage of novel computational techniques, analyses, device proposals and physical mechanisms culminate in record …
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Global Social Disorganization: Applying Social Disorganization Theory to the Study of Terrorist Organizations
… As classification is necessary for any scientific investigation, typologies of terrorism currently found in the academic literature are reviewed next. Finally, a criminological framework is applied to the study of terrorist organizations and the environments in which they operate. The …
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Architecture and space for thought
… thus, follows three intertwined streams. 1) A scientific investigation into means for the description of human experience of (architectural) space, using methods developed from Kelly's Personal Construct Theory Repertory Grids. 2) A partially developed spatial analytic language, my personal …
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Psychopathologische Befunde bei Patienten einer umweltmedizinischen Ambulanz
… Such concepts should be the basis for further scientific investigation. Furthermore, there is a need of a standarized procedure in the diagnosis of these illnesses to make studies comparable.
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Focus and context for volume visualization
Scientific investigation and simulation have been producing increasingly large datasets. Usually that kind of data is visualized employing some scientific visualization technique. Another related field, information visualization, deals with non-scientific large scale data, using different …
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Stones with Souls: How Have Meteorites Been Viewed in the Past and How Are They Viewed in the Present?
… practices, legal structures, and developing scientific investigation. In regions which included Africa, America, and Asia, meteorites acquired cultural significance through oral tradition, craftsmanship, and mythology. Objects such as Libyan Desert Glass, Inuit tools, and Javanese kris blades …
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