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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"big science"”.
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The Fusion Enterprise Paradox: The Enduring Vision and Elusive Goal of Unlimited Clean Energy
… and development (RandD) budgets, sustaining big science and technology (SandT) projects is inevitably questioned by publics and policy makers. The fusion enterprise is an exemplar. The effort to develop a viable system to produce unlimited and environmentally benign electricity from fusion of …
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When Public Relations and Particle Physics Collide: An Ethnographically Informed Account of Life in the CERN Communications Group
This thesis explores how ‘big science’ becomes public within an era of digital scholarship and evolving professional practices. Focusing on research conducted at CERN, I explore the strategic approaches and operational principles and practices of communication professionals and researchers working …
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New sustainable models of open innovation to accelerate technology development in cellular agriculture
… in-depth case studies from open-source models, big-science collaborations, and pre-competitive consortia were evaluated. Nine best practices to support open innovation across translational development were surfaced: Open-Source Models I OpenCompute Foundation, a community for open-source data …
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The ruins of science : whatever happened to the Tevatron?
… it examines a difficult challenge facing today's science and technology museum curators, namely how to preserve the historical and scientific value of important artifacts amid the acceleration of scientific progress and the growing prevalence of big science.
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Scientific communication, information flows in industry - exemplified by pharmaceutical information in China & the UK
… between information situation and the status of science and industry in a country. In China scientific information has long dominated information flows while in the UK scientific information in dominance has gradually been changed to industrial information flow in dominance (i.e. information work …
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Mark Oliphant FRS and the Birmingham Proton Synchrotron
… decades and the growth of the phenomenon of Big Science. It also recounts in detail the conception, funding, design, construction and impact of the machine up until its shutdown in 1967.
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A contemporary history of the origins and development of UK Biobank, 1998-2005
… issues, typical of those confronting Big Science initiatives, were largely responsible for this difficult legacy. Issues of leadership, the hub and spoke model, the sequencing of funding decisions, appointment of groups and committees and protocol development, uncertainties about who …
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Arguing the Genome: A Topology of the Argumentation Behind the Construction of the Human Genome Project
… to revolutionize the conduct of biological science in the twenty-first century. For several years before its formation in 1990, a federally-funded, systematic study of the human genome was discussed first in the scientific arena and then in the public arena. The central thesis of this …