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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"science studies"”.
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Exercise science depression studies: A cultural, interpretive, and science studies perspective
… takes an interdisciplinary approach to exercise science research on depression, providing a cultural interpretive and science studies perspective. I locate this work at the intersections of multiple fields including kinesiology, sport sociology, disability studies, body studies, and science and …
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Colonizing Bodies: a Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-Fgm Discourse
… of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of protecting female bodies from harm. To date, most criticisms of female circumcision, practiced mainly in parts of Africa and Southwest …
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Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies.
Environmental issues are often complex with many different constituents operating according to a broad range of communication techniques. In order to foster negotiations, different perspectives need to be articulated in lucid ways sensitive to various viewpoints and circumstances. In my thesis I …
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Scientific phenomenology and science studies: Gaston Bachelard and the concept of phenomenotechnique
… and 1953 try to make traditional philosophers of science aware of the discontinuous structure of scientific change and the dynamics of the scientific mind. Bachelard often argued that the historical and technical progress of the sciences show that the purely descriptive and classificatory features …
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Using the learning by developing action model: case study in project-based computer science studies in higher education institutions.
… and used by the Laurea University of Applied Sciences, where the starting point is authentically working life development and problem situations in cooperation with working life. LbD aims to produce new competencies, products, operating models and work culture. The LbD model has been developed …
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
… some of the implications of contemporary science studies for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of controversies …
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The ambiguity of hybridity : an encounter between constructivism and Latvian sociology
With few exceptions, science studies has neglected potential insights that could be gained by studying sociology, a discipline that has played an important role in its own development. This thesis addresses the specificities of sociology from the perspective of constructivist science studies and …
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The production of economic knowledge in the anti-corn law campaign, 1839-1846
Science studies contends that scientific knowledge is produced through social and geographical processes. This dissertation applies this insight to the production of economic knowledge, specifically addressing how the Anti-Corn Law League, an organization that campaigned against the protectionist …
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Uniquely Structured: Debating Concepts of Science, from the Two Cultures to the Science Wars
The purpose of this thesis is to compare the science wars of the 1990s with the two-culture debate of the 1960s. It is a work in the history of intellectual debates, focusing on contested concepts of science. Over the past decade, there have been numerous references made in science wars literature …
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Environmental ethics and the oyster of the Chesapeake Bay
One of the primary concerns of science studies scholars is the translation and utilization of theory in practice. In this thesis, I address this concern as it applies to theories of environmental ethics by analyzing the present use in and the applicability of Green philosophy to a current …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
… post-Soviet culture and politics of science and intellectual elites. By adopting a ""symmetrical"" perspective on science and society, this study develops a theoretical and practical critique of reductionist approaches, especially strong in the field of Soviet and Russian studies. …
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Deliberative Democracy and Expertise: New Directions for 21st Century Technology Assessment
… key insights that have emerged from the field of science and technology studies. First, is the "third wave" science studies movement that identifies problems of expertise as the "pressing intellectual problem of the age." Characterized by the problems of legitimacy and extension, Collins and Evans …
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The social relations of a basic life science laboratory and its heterotopic milieu
The social relations of a “basic” life science laboratory, its relations to the other life sciences, to the physical sciences, to clinical medicine, and to the economic imperatives of the present era are examined. This work attends to some of the "day to day" activities of this group as it …
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Science of science: Biological research network
The science of science studies how scientists do research effectively. In this thesis, we focus on the science of biology by analyzing a biological research network which is defined as a graph where species are nodes and common papers between species are links. Building upon the idea that many …
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Program officers at the National Science Foundation: a case study of the Biological Instrumentation Program
… Instrumentation Program at the National Science Foundation. It was conducted in order to fill a lacuna in the literature concerning the program officers of science funding agencies. The current literature places the program officer in a black box, implying an autonomous professional. In …
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Gaston Bachelard's scientific philosophy: an approach to science and technology studies
… Bachelard to the history and philosophy of science are not very well known in the United States. This thesis traces the particular characteristics of Bachelard's epistemology within the context of early twentieth century French culture and science. Bachelard began his career in philosophy …
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Development of a subcortical emphasized physical human head model for evaluation of deep brain source contribution to scalp EEG
… related disease monitoring and cognitive science studies. Quantifying EEG rhythms through low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) analysis could further provide important biomarkers to determine the underlying neuronal activities in the brain. However, the performance of …
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Firms finance and the weather: the UK weather derivatives market
… of current theories in human geography and science studies, the research also illustrates the material and discursive implications weather derivatives are having not just on firms and meteorology, but also climate change policies.
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Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research
… research therein, and contribute to feminist science studies literature on the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary work across women's studies and STEM fields. Building upon Wenger's concept of brokering, I analyze how I brought previously underexplored STS and feminist theory …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and ecological theories and practices. My analysis studies their …
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