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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"scientific progress"”.
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Technological breakthroughs, entry, and the direction of scientific progress : evidence from CRISPR/Cas9
Understanding the direction of technical progress is a central issue for the study of innovation. In this paper, I examine how the introduction of a breakthrough research tool affects the trajectory of a scientific field through new entry and project selection. Specifically, I examine the impact of …
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Incommensurability and scientific progress : an essay concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
… Logical Empiricist and Popperian conceptions of scientific progress is presented. The major criticism made against them is that, contrary to fact, they require that successive scientific theories either contain or explicitly negate parts of each other.In the second part an alternative conception …
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Conceptualising the right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and exploring its potential to enhance access to effective diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
… and treatment is the glaring absence of scientific research in neglected diseases such as TB. This thesis sets out to elaborate the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and explore its potential to increase scientific research in DR-TB and consequently enhance access to …
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Teaching is like engineering: my living educational theory
The traditional view of scientific progress is that human understanding of the world is contiguous and cumulative, with both theories and concepts ‘improving’ incrementally through gradational change. Thomas Kuhn’s (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions challenged this traditional view by …
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Temporal Evolution of Scholarly Communication
… to extend our understanding of the context of scientific progress. The first two sections develop a general mechanism to predict how papers gain attention and how researchers select literatures for their ongoing research agendas. The first section (Appendix A) introduces the idea that …
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Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nano-Material Toxicity
… use, and disposal of nano-materials. Though much scientific progress has been made in nano material synthesis, manufacturing, and application in consumer goods and other sectors such as medicine, textiles and more, not much progress has been made in understanding the adverse effects of nano …
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Treatment of Medication-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Jaws, Using Platelet-Rich Fibrin PRF // Лечение на медикаментозно-индуцирана остеонекроза на челюстите с приложение на богат на тромбоцити фибрин PRF
… current updates are much needed, by means of scientific progress and technical advancement, which provide relatively easy application of growth factors in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery. One of these advancements is the Platelet-rich Fibrin membrane, which could easily be obtained …
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Progress In Scientific Revolutions: The Problem Of Semantic Incommensurability
… of its predecessor, and we cannot verify that scientific knowledge has accumulated across the theory change. Thus, incommensurability creates a problem for the justification of the standard cumulative conception of scientific progress.;To resolve this problem, I distinguish irresolvable strong …
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Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism
… an attempted return from infatuation with the progressive ideals of inevitable historical development and scientific progress to the stability of human rights and freedom. America’s path to defining its brand of liberalism finds expression in the philosophical works of Lippmann, who was at the …
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An Efficient Architecture For Networking Event-Based Fluorescent Imaging Analysis Processes
… performance computing platforms can hinder the scientific progress of researchers across many domains. In addition, such processes occasionally cannot be executed on user-end platforms either due to insufficient hardware resources or unacceptably long computing times. Such circumstances currently …
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The ruins of science : whatever happened to the Tevatron?
… be done with the ruins that lie in the wake of progress? In doing so, 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 …
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Creature Features and Consensus: Genre Fiction's Critique of Postwar Atomic Technology
… the Soviet Union, and the adjustment to extreme scientific progress. However this research project will reveal how "nuclear terror" was the product of a specific historical event, and the public reporting of this event. First, by examining news reports about atomic technology in the 1940s this …
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Doc : a novel ; and, Dying Room : was the Wyndham Native Hospital eugenic?
… psyche, she begins to question her own faith in scientific progress—and the story she’s been told about her patient’s illness. The dissertation examines the Wyndham Native Hospital, established in the Kimberley in 1937, as a window on the way eugenically influenced thought and policy operated in …
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Choosing identities: the politics and practices of classroom discourse on reproductive and genetic technologies
… suggests these technologies may represent a scientific or moral threat to humanity or nature. When biotechnology is raised in biology classrooms, identity is central, as existential questions about the essence of humanity are combined with future visions through genetic screeningtengineering …
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Bayesian variable selection for linear mixed models when p is much larger than n with applications in genome wide association studies
… important SNPs and significantly contribute to scientific progress in the areas of biology, agricultural productivity, and human health.
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Medical Virtue in Contemporary Practice: Has COVID-19 Reawakened Virtue in the Modern Medical Encounter?
… is open and dynamic, changing with the tide of scientific progress and contextualized for each particular patient in this evolving world. In their remarkable experiences, physicians show that virtue lies in embracing the present, discerning the right and good thing to do, and ultimately in being …
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Redesign the blood donation service model - what should the blood donation service be like in the digital age?
… donor recruitment. We have achieved significant scientific progress in the domain of blood donation knowledge. However, the donation service experience has not changed for over fifty years ever since the opening of the first blood bank. The key problem is how blood donation service could be …
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An Invisible Issue of Task Underspecification in Deep Reinforcement Learning Evaluations
… (DRL) algorithms are an integral part of the scientific progress of the field. However, standard performance evaluation practices in evaluating algorithmic generalization of DRL methods within a task can be unreliable and misleading if not careful. An important source of possible error lies in …
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Scienza, tecnica e alienazione del mondo nel pensiero politico di Hannah Arendt
… aware of what they are doing in the name of scientific progress. Therefore, the ambivalent nature of scientific development – both creative and destructive – is criticised. Such criticism focuses on the interactive networks through which technicians and scientists contribute in constantly …
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