Science: general issues

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges.

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society.

Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources forregenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and thecapability to differentiate into multiple cell types.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theme of risk, from cutting edge scholars and understandable to all.

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist-Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).

This book focuses on nanocarbons (carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanoporous carbon, and carbon black) and related materials for energy conversion, including fuel cells (predominately proton exchange membrane fuel cells [PEMFC]), Li-ion batteries, and supercapacitors.

Fractional calculus is a collection of relatively little-known mathematical results concerning generalizations of differentiation and integration to noninteger orders.

This book is a thorough guide tailored for researchers, academics, and practitioners immersed in the intricate world of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).

Die Untersuchung analysiert die Entstehung von Wissenschaftsorganisator*innen sowie den Wandel dieser Figur in der ersten Hälfte des 20.

This book focuses on inorganic nanosheets, including various oxides, chalcogenides, and graphenes, that provide two-dimensional (2D) media to develop materials chemistry in broad fields such as electronics, photonics, environmental science, and biology.

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology-the divide between germ and somatic cells-with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September/October 2015.

Molecular Characterization of Autophagic Responses, Part B presents a collection of methods for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of virtually all the morphological, biochemical, and functional manifestations of autophagy, in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo, in organisms as distant as yeast and man.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

Sixth volume of a 40 volume series on nanoscience and nanotechnology, edited by the renowned scientist Challa S.

An updated guide to plant pathogens and their management The impact of plant disease is far-reaching.

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony.

Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spiritualityBetween 1933 and 1941, C.

Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems.

The chapters included in this book address two major questions: what are some of the methodological and theoretical issues in sociocultural research in urban education and science education and what sort of questions do technological and virtual contexts raise for these types of research perspectives.

This book presents a substantial collection of essays from a wide range of well respected scholars addressing several aspects of Piero Sraffa's economics in light of continuing controversies over the interpretation that should be placed on his work.

This book outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology.

This volume contains a variety of basic chemistry experiments including a general introduction which details safety procedures, rules on the use of the balance, rules on the use of pipettes and burettes, and nomenclature.

Microorganisms are essential for the production of many foods, including cheese, yoghurt, and bread, but they can also cause spoilage and diseases.

This book examines the comprehensive engineering education reform since China put forward its New Engineering Education policy in early 2017.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

Christian Kiesow zeigt auf, wie körperliche Performanz, situative Interaktion und Visualität wesentlich zur Konstitution mathematischen Wissens – einem Bereich, der gemeinhin als Domäne rein abstrakten Denkens gilt – beitragen.

Are you considering to test your own DNA?

Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers is a modern, graduate-level text on data analysis techniques for physical science and engineering students as well as working scientists and engineers.

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BiologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for Edexcel Supports Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Biology B (9BI0) specification.

In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world.

Originally published in 1961.

This thesis introduces a figure of merit for light trapping with photonic nanostructures and shows how different light trapping methods compare, irrespective of material, absorber thickness or type of nanostructure.

The origin of life is a hotly debated topic.

Ready for Science series, Emergent Reader, non fiction narrative, strong picture support, Text features: Picture glossary, labels, Comprehension strategies: Identify main idea and details, ask and answer questions, and make text to self and text to world connections.

Diese philosophische, interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht, auf welche Weise Fehlfunktionen einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Daten für Entdeckung und Prüfung von Theorien in vielen Wissenschaften bieten.

Plant Ionomics A thoroughly up-to-date exploration of nutrient uptake in plants In Plant Ionomics: Sensing, Signaling and Regulation, accomplished botanists and researchers Dr.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

A goal of mine ever since becoming an educational researcher has been to help construct a sound theory to guide instructional practice.

A comprehensive, authoritative, innovative and accessible account of Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West.

Originally published in 1935.

The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.

'We all need this book in our lives - Annice is a saviour in hormone hell!

​David Hilbert entwickelte mit seiner Beweistheorie ein Programm zur Grundlegung der Mathematik.

From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle.

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