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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"scientific understanding"”.
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Making Sense of Understanding: A Pragmatist Account of Scientific Understanding
… based on theories and laws, thereby gaining understanding of phenomena by explaining them. This thesis takes a radically different approach, instead relating the notion of understanding to the *activities* that scientists perform. Scientific understanding is not just a matter of representing …
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The development of scientific understanding : children's construction of their first biological theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1997.
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
… implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naïve knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific …
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The public understanding of climate change : A case study of Taiwanese youth
… in scale and long term in scope. Due to its high scientific complexity and uncertainty and high political and economic sensitivity, mitigating the problem will require interdisciplinary cooperation and collective and sustained efforts on the part of all nations. Sufficient domestic support from …
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The dancer in nature
… and descriptions of dance performances with scientific discussion of the art form. Greater scientific understanding of the art of dance is needed in order to improve teaching practices and decrease injuries to dancers.
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A soft circuit curriculum to promote technological self-efficacy
… field of computing. Students'self-efficacy and scientific understanding can benefit from engaging in hands-on activities, such as creating soft, electronic textile (e-textile) circuits. There is, however, a notable lack of instructional materials to support such learning experiences. I have …
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Causal structure discovery from incomplete data
… learning is a fundamental tool for building a scientific understanding of the way a system works. However, in many application areas, such as genomics, the information necessary for current causal structure learning algorithms does not match the information that researchers can actually access, …
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Making Change Intelligible: Why The Study of Human Kinds Is Just Science As Usual
… impact on human kinds, the author argues that understanding the causal pathways and utilizing behavioral science can offer reliable generalizations about human kinds. The paper presents examples such as the Buraku of Japan and African Americans to demonstrate how behavioral science can be …
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"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic
… analyzes how knowledge production interacts with scientific uncertainty about CKDs specific biomedical causes. It posits that scientific knowledge does not close controversy, but rather proliferates uncertainties, thereby forestalling the potential for rights claims. A strictly scientific …
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The Iconographic Owl through the Eyes of American Artists: From Native Americans to Joseph Cornell
… awareness and to promote the advancement of scientific understanding. During the twentieth century, Joseph Cornell and other artists thrust the owl’s image back into the public eye. This paper will compare the early works of owls by Native American Tribes, to that by some of the more recent …
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Oxide based thermoelectric materials for large scale power generation
… However, recent significant advances in the scientific understanding of quantum well and nanostructure effects on TE materials properties and modem thin layer and nanoscale manufacturing technologies have combined to create advanced TE materials with high figure of merit (>3). An engineering …
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An environmental research laboratory for Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
As scientific understanding of the origin and order of coastal barrier islands continues to grow, designers are being forced to reevaluate their design strategies for the shore and near-shore areas. This project involves the design of an Environmental Research Laboratory on Back Bay, in the Back …
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Studies towards assessing the effects of aviation on climate
… One of the main challenges of the aviation scientific community has been to increase the level of scientific understanding of these effects, especially with respect to those most uncertain (i.e. NOx effects, contrail-cirrus and aerosol effects). Another challenge has been to develop a simple …
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The perception of organizational prestige and employee engagement
… to increase employee engagement, as well as the scientific understanding of employee engagement.
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Resonating Fluidic Circuits: A Novel Technology to Create a Portable Blood Viscoelasticity Measuring Device
… applied to this clinical need. In this work, the scientific understanding of fluidic circuits is expanded, a fluidic circuit design is created for optimal viscoelastic measurement of blood clots, a portable, inexpensive, and efficient method of electrically instrumenting fluidic circuits is …
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Relative Roles of Environmental Conditions and Riverscape Connectivity On Fish Metacommunity Structure
<p>An understanding of how riverscape connectivity influences species assemblages has been identified as critical for effective conservation management and restoration of fish communities in dendritic river networks. This study investigates the relative roles of abiotic conditions and spatial …
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United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
… makes an important contribution to advancing understanding of the role of LCLU change on the climate system, which the <em>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</em> [2007] currently describes as having a low to medium level of scientific understanding. This research explicitly addresses …
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Novel patterning techniques for manufacturing organic and nanostructured electronics
… of unconventional techniques, and the scientific understanding behind the manufacture processes. We introduce the first-generation Molecular Jet (MoJet) printing technique for vacuum deposition of evaporated thin films and apply it to the fabrication of high-resolution pixelated (800 …
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Visualizing models driven by real-time, sensor-based data : a new way to experience the inner workings of ecosystems
… used to inspire curiosity for visitors, enhance scientific understanding for researchers, and promote community development by demonstrating the value of ecological restoration. As environmental sensing becomes more ubiquitous in our daily lives, this thesis provides a foundation for harnessing …
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Insights in plant ecology from Bromus tectorum invasion in the Great Basin, USA
… tectorum invasion in the Great Basin to increase scientific understanding of invasion dynamics and to provide rigorous information to enhance land management. First, a conceptual model of invasion, the Triangle Model for Evaluating Species Invasion, is presented. Components and utility of the …
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