scientific foundations and the courts
the scientific revolution and the foundations of modern science
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06/07/2014, 15:32
... represent the real motions of the planets, contradicted the Aristotelian concept of the nature of the universe The apparent loops in their orbits made by the planets in their retrograde motions and their ... from the Sun The Earth also rotated; this accounted for day and night and the apparent daily motion of the Sun across the sky Because the Pole Star retained its position in the northern part of the ... omnipotence, and beneficence The Watershed In the course of the sixteenth century there evolved changing attitudes about nature, the development of technology and the crafts, and the importance...
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The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions (Pierre Bourdieu)
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16/02/2016, 09:34
... motivate them and the means they employ in order to satisfy them, depend in fact very closely on their position in the field, i.e on their scientific capital and the power it gives them over the field ... between the principle giving primacy to observation and experimentation, and hence to the corresponding dispositions and capa- cities, and the principle which privileges theory and the correlative scientific ... increase, so the incorporated scientific capital needed in order to appropriate them and thereby gain access to scientific problems and tools, and thus to the scientific struggle, becomes greater and...
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Tài liệu Closing the gap between research and practice: Foundations for the acquisition of literacy pptx
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17/02/2014, 06:20
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered and the emphases of the different ... administrators and the public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
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05/03/2014, 16:14
... discovery of the light bulb and the electric motor In the mid-1940s, when the nuclear force was harnessed, the world was again t u r n e d upside down with the development of the atomic and hydrogen ... practical question: If the theory is proved correct, then when will we be able to harness the power of the hyperspace theory? This is not just an academic question, because in the past, the harnessing ... tilted a b o u t 23 degrees from the vertical (the 'vertical" being the perpendicular to the plane of the earth's orbit a r o u n d the sun) Because of this tilt, the northe r n h e m i s p h e r e...
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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05/03/2014, 16:15
... earthquakes, and continental drift The strong force holds the nucleus of the atom together The energy of the sun and the stars originates from the nuclear force, which is responsible for lighting up the ... next to each other with north poles opposite each other, the two magnets repel each other (If we rotate the magnet, so that the north pole is close to the other south pole, then the two magnets ... science were not known in the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth Given the huge gaps in the understanding of science at the time, especially at the atomic level, it's no wonder...
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A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE, BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE, AND THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION pdf
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06/03/2014, 13:20
... either in the best, or even in the most current, conception of the scope and province of our science The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the ... they appear at the time, and the size and color of the same or of similar objects as they appeared when close at hand, or when their degree of remoteness was known by other evidence The perception ... principles But the bulk of mankind require either to understand the theory of what they are doing, or to have rules laid down for them by those who have understood the theory In the progress of...
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Quantum information theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics c timpson
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17/03/2014, 14:42
... physical principle, the Turing Principle, underlies the Church-Turing hypothesis; and consider briefly the question of whether the Church-Turing hypothesis might serve as a constraint on the laws of physics ... of the distinctive ideas of quantum information theory are then introduced, before I turn to consider the dilemma that faces the slogan ‘Information is Physical’ The claim that the everyday and ... understand the foundations and philosophy of physics at the same time, just about a decade ago, now Since then, we have shared much camaraderie and many conversations, several of which have found their...
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SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES IN THE PROGRESSIVE CONTROL OF FMD IN SOUTH ASIA pot
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18/03/2014, 00:20
... KEYNOTE: DEMAND, SUPPLY AND THE GAPS BETWEEN THE BEST CONVENTIONAL VACCINES AND THE WORST ON THE MARKET; WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? Danny Goovaerts Holland, MSD Animal Health Demand and supply The Animal ... governments With the expansion of SEACFMD in 2010 and new developments in the socio-political arena in the region, new findings on the epidemiology of the disease in the economic and political, the SEACFMD ... of the United Nations Scientific Developments and Technical Challenges in the Progressive Control of FMD in South Asia –February 2012- New Delhi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The EuFMD of the Indian and the...
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efficiency and sustainability in the energy and chemical industries scientific principles and case studies
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01/04/2014, 11:38
... probability On the one hand, these processes proceed without driving forces; on the other hand, and this is inconsistent and unrealistic, there is no incentive for the process to proceed These imaginary ... applications We cover the first and second laws and discuss the most important thermodynamic properties and their dependence on pressure, temperature, and composition, being the main process variables ... half of the molecules are nitrogen, the other half are oxygen, and all nitrogen molecules fill the left half of the vessel whereas all oxygen molecules fill the right half of the vessel, then this...
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scientific american - 1993 03 - black holes and the centrifugal force paradox
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12/05/2014, 14:49
... exactly on the path of the circular ray so that the axis of the tube and the path of the ray coincide The astronauts know that the axis of the tube is circular because Bob has measured the curvature ... rotate their spacecraft so that the stretched spring always points toward a mark on the hull The direction of the spring is therefore ịxed in the ship but not in space On the other hand, the gyroscope ... the weight: the gravitational force and the centrifugal force To measure either one of these forces alone, Bob and Alice must change the orientation of their spaceships as they orbit the black...
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scientific american - 1993 09 - special issue - life, death, and the immune system
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12/05/2014, 14:50
... mature in the thymus and in the bone marrow, then circulate through the body and lymphoid organs such as the spleen and lymph nodes Copyright 1993 Scientific American, Inc The current understanding ... break oÝ and travel to the cell surface They serve as ripe targets for the T cell, which can then attack the infected cell and inhibit the spread of the virus So far I have described T and B lymphocytes ... lymphatics and travel through the fluid in the lymphatic vessels until they reach the bloodstream and spread their protective influence around the body Eventually the lymphocytes flow into other lymph...
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scientific american - 2001 12 - india, pakistan and the bomb
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12/05/2014, 16:11
... on the test range, withdrew from the explosion and then returned for lessons in decontaminating the equipment they had left on the site.” in the stellar universe before Indeed, the motion of the ... but if the theorists were right, I had to go back to the lab and continue searching And maybe what I was trying to create— on the type of atoms in the material and their crystal structure— the spacing ... justifiable to claim the example of the Neanderthals shows The Neanderthals left behind precious few hints of symbolic abilities in the abundant record they bequeathed us of their lives, and it is clear...
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the emergence of a scientific culture science and the shaping of modernity 1210-1685 feb 2007
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11/06/2014, 10:28
... specification of the probability of any hypothesis in the light of the available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing of the falsifiable and the ı rejection of the unfalsifiable ... science in England The simultaneous combination of the decline in the fortunes of religion and the increase in the fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the abandonment of ... was they who were routing the theologians, confounding the mystics, imposing their theories on philosophers, their investments on capitalists, and their discoveries on medical men; whilst they...
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university of chicago press the essential tension selected studies in scientific tradition and change mar 1979
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11/06/2014, 17:02
... ordinarily supposed The relationship between the metascientific environment, on the one hand, and the development of particular scientific theories and experiments, on the other, has proved to ... process them differently Inevitably, it was the processed signs—for example their reading notes or their memory of the text—rather than the signs themselves that provided the basis for their reports, ... concerns is the nature and the relevance to philosophy of the historian's craft, a lecture entitled "The Relations between the History and the Philosophy of Science" is the first of the essays...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Migratory birds, the H5N1 influenza virus and the scientific method" docx
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20/06/2014, 01:20
... trying to impose narrow norms and methods on scientific practice and today emphasizes the diversity of methods and of the means of discovery and justification [4,5] The scientific method is what ... only the testing of hypotheses, not their discovery, constitutes science and is covered by the scientific method This is an outdated idea The philosopher Hans Reichenbach [3] introduced the notions ... or acceptance of hypotheses, rather than an assessment of degrees of likelihood The p value in null hypothesis testing represents the probability of the data if the null hypothesis is true We believe...
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Scientific, Health and Social Aspects of the Food Industry Part 1 doc
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22/06/2014, 04:20
... on the product Scientific, Health and Social Aspects of the Food Industry integrity, the environment and the health of workers and customers However, these procedures will be universal in the ... (OH •) The electron (e-) of the conduction band reduces the oxygen or other oxidative agent in the absence of O2 (Ahmed et al., 2010) The oxidizing agent binds to the conduction band, where the ... processes The processes or equipment which have the greatest water demand are usually the most important and the easiest points for which to verify the possibilities to avoid the misuse and overexploitation...
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Scientific, Health and Social Aspects of the Food Industry Part 3 pot
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22/06/2014, 04:20
... turn damages the palatable attributes and consumer acceptance of the frozen products The extent of these damages is a function of the size and location of the crystals formed and therefore depends ... sarcoplasmic and myofibrillar proteins are coagulated and denaturated The extent of these changes depends on the temperature and time and affects the yields and final quality of the fishery product ... stable for the first months and then the size of the ice crystals 61 Freezing / Thawing and Cooking of Fish tended to coarsen for longer storage (up to months) In comparison, the size of the ice...
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