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The Celebrity Scientists
… study examines how four contemporary British scientists and popular science writers, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Susan Greenfield and James Lovelock, are portrayed in mass media as celebrities. It finds that the scientists’ private and public lives merge in their representations, their …
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Scientists and the ABM.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Scientists in the principal investigator role
The social and economic contributions of R&D are essential in the development of countries, since they are the motor for their progress. Research can be implemented by companies, but it can also be implemented in universities and research centres. The research process is more and more often …
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Organizational behavior, social scientists, and Soviet foreign policymaking
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1991.
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Countering Medical Misinformation on Twitter: Readying Clinicians and Scientists
This thesis explores how clinicians and scientists are using Twitter to counter medical misinformation. Medical misinformation also referred to as fake news, reached an unprecedented level of sharing on social media between 2020 and 2022 due to COVID-19, the global pandemic. Many public health …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
This dissertation examines scientists' views concerning the ethics of U.S. weapons research and military advising, through the changing politics and economy of the Cold War. After the development of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project generation of physicists posed a series of troubling ethical …
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Purposeful Reading of Science Materials by Scientists and Children
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:34:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100193.pdf: 8680705 bytes, checksum: ee6782f69ec25a3a65f2891b7452f111 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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The role of research scientists in adaptive management programs
… in improving and increasing the contributions of scientists to natural resource management decision-making. Natural resource managers turn to scientists for assistance in understanding the complex natural systems they are charged with managing. However, interaction between scientists and decision …
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Using machine learning methods to aid scientists in laboratory environments
As machine learning gains popularity as a scientific instrument, we look to create methods to implement it as a laboratory tool for researchers. In the first of two projects, we discuss creating a real-time interference monitor for use at a radio observatory. We show how deep neural networks can be …
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Reclaiming peace : evangelical scientists and evolution after World War II.
… evangelicalism, two key groups of evangelical scientists attempted to initiate a countervailing trend. The American Scientific Affiliation was founded in 1941 at the encouragement of William Houghton, president of Moody Bible Institute. The Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship was started …
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Chutes and ladders : the career paths of scientists and engineers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
Highly automated cars -- unlike robots in factories -- must operate in existing social spaces, which are complex and hard to control. Unlike household robots, these systems are also fast and dangerous. The fundamental problem of getting robots to interact in the world will be getting them to do the …
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A model of scientists' information seeking and a user-interface design
… research regarding the characteristics of HEP scientists and their information-seeking practices, a set of six personas, representing typical members of the HEP community, is constructed. An original model is developed that leverages existing models of information behaviour, information …
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A Model of Scientists’ Information Seeking and a User-Interface Design
… research regarding the characteristics of HEP scientists and their information-seeking practices, a set of six personas, representing typical members of the HEP community, is constructed. An original model is developed that leverages existing models of information behaviour, information …
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The Development of a Criterion of Theoretical Significance for Educational Scientists
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Collaboration between designers and scientists in the context of scientific research
Collaboration between Designers and Scientists in the Context of Scientific Research This thesis presents the results of a research project that examines collaboration between product designers and scientific researchers. For this purpose, it initially illustrates the objectives and scope of the …
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Cross cultural communication between scientists and lawyers in judicial policy-making
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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The role of immigrant scientists and entrepreneurs in international technology transfer
… characterizes the important role of US ethnic scientists and entrepreneurs for international technology diffusion. Chapter 1 studies the transfer of tacit knowledge regarding new innovations through ethnic scientific communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic …
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Mechanisms driving the formation and success of collaborations between scientists in biomedicine
… mechanisms that allow collaborations between scientists to form and thrive are not well understood. Surveys, interviews, and studies of laboratories inform most of what is known about collaboration; yet each method has limited scalability. Studies of extensive co-authorship networks offer an …
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