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A very detailed, insider-viewed and vivid field study into the most
active Chinese social controversies. One of the limited scholarly
efforts to combine social movement and science and technology
studies (STS). Combines social movement and STS, communication
research such as social media analysis. The thorough comparative
methodology challenges many traditional observation of Chinese
science. The most comprehensive observation of China's S&T
controversies.
This book examines key aspects of the history, philosophy, and
culture of science in India, especially as they may be comprehended
in the larger idea of an Indian civilization. The authors, drawn
from a range of disciplines, discuss a wide array of issues -
scientism and religious dogma, dialectics of faith and knowledge,
science under colonial conditions, science and study of grammar,
western science and classical systems of logic, metaphysics and
methodology, and science and spirituality in the Mahabharata. This
collection of essays aims to evolve a framework in which science,
culture, and society in India may be studied fruitfully across
disciplines and historical periods. With its diverse themes and
original approaches, the book will be of interest to scholars and
researchers in the fields of the history and philosophy of science,
science and religion, cultural studies and colonial studies,
philosophy and history, as well as India studies and South Asian
studies.
Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums
can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures
to the diversity of ideas, people, and cultures that speak to
modern science. This collection contains individual expressions by
museum insiders addressing a range of particular perspectives -
Native American, African American, Latinx, Islamic, Israeli,
Danish, white North American. These reflections provide guidance to
the museum community as to how their institutions can become more
thoughtful, more welcoming to diverse audiences, and more cognizant
of the ways that different people incorporate science into their
daily lives. As a whole, the book emphasizes the need for museums
to engage in dialogue with their visitors - not merely to present
them with information - and to offer the opportunities to share
experiences, exchange perspectives, and thereby advance science
learning through a dynamic and collective process. Science Museums
in Transition is intended to further discussion on how museums
address the political and social ramifications of science and, as
such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and
postgraduate students working in the fields of museum studies,
science, anthropology, education and history. It should also be
essential reading for museum professionals around the globe.
This book exposes the inadequacy of scientism by demonstrating its
self-defeating nature and 7 important facts it can never explain,
arguing that together science and theology have true things to tell
us about the world.
This up-to-date reference is the most comprehensive summary of the
field of nanoscience and its applications. It begins with
fundamental properties at the nanoscale and then goes well beyond
into the practical aspects of the design, synthesis, and use of
nanomaterials in various industries. It emphasizes the vast strides
made in the field over the past decade - the chapters focus on new,
promising directions as well as emerging theoretical and
experimental methods. The contents incorporate experimental data
and graphs where appropriate, as well as supporting tables and
figures with a tutorial approach.
Imagine you are a scientist faced with presenting your research
clearly and concisely. Where would you go for help? This book
provides the answer. It shows how to use story structure to craft
clear, credible presentations. In it you will find exercises to
help you give both short and long presentations. Elevator pitches,
lightning talks, Three Minute Thesis (3MT (R)), and conference
presentations are all covered as are suggestions for longer
presentations. Separate chapters address good poster design, how to
tailor your talk to an audience, and presentation skills.
Throughout the book the focus is on creating surprising, memorable
stories. Scientific presentations are true stories about new
discoveries. They are surprising because every new discovery
changes our understanding of the world, and memorable because they
move audiences. The book also covers: * Randy Olson's
And-But-Therefore (ABT) narrative form * Mike Morrison's Better
Poster designs * Eye-tracking analyses of posters by EyeQuant *
Numerous case studies and examples from different scientific fields
* Links to videos of exemplary presentations With light-hearted
illustrations by Jon Wagner this book will appeal to researchers
and graduate students in all areas of science, and other
disciplines too.
Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term
"language" as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century
and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably limited our
thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked
volumes of Thibault's study articulate crucially important aspects
of an emerging new perspective shift on language-the Distributed
Language view-that is now receiving more and more attention
internationally. Rejecting the classical view that the fundamental
architecture of language can be localised as a number of
inter-related levels of formal linguistic organisation that
function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the
distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a
bio-cultural organiation of process that is embodied, multimodal,
and integrated across multiple space-time scales. Thibault argues
that we need to think of human languaging as the distinctively
human mode of our becoming and being selves in the extended human
ecology and the kinds of experiencing that this makes possible.
Paradoxically, this also means thinking about language in
non-linguistic ways that break the grip of the conventional
meta-languages for thinking about human languaging. Thibault's book
grounds languaging in process theory: languaging and the forms of
experience it actualises is always an event, not a thing that we
"use". In taking a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, the
book relates dialogical theories of human sense-making to the
distributed view of human cognition, to recent thinking about
distributed language, to ecological psychology, and to languaging
as inter-individual affective dynamics grounded in the subjective
lives of selves. In taking this approach, the book considers the
coordination of selves in social encounters, the emergent forms of
self-reflexivity that characterise these encounters, and the
implications for how we think of and live our human sociality, not
as something that is mediated by over-arching codes and systems,
but as emerging from the endogenous subjectivities of selves when
they seek to coordinate with other selves and with the situations,
artefacts, social institutions, and technologies that populate the
extended human ecology. The two volumes aim to bring our
understanding of human languaging closer to human embodiment,
experience, and feeling while also showing how languaging enables
humans to transcend local circumstances and thus to dialogue with
cultural tradition. Volume I focuses on the shorter timescales of
bodily dynamics in languaging activity. Volume II integrates the
shorter timescales of body dynamics to the longer
cultural-historical timescales of the linguistic and cultural norms
and patterns to which bodily dynamics are integrated.
The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the
marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic
for 160 million years Once seen by some as evolutionary
dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of
thriving in an array of habitats and climates, including polar
winters. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs transforms our
understanding of these great Mesozoic archosaurs of the air. This
incredible guide covers 115 pterosaur species and features stunning
illustrations of pterosaurs ranging in size from swallows to small
sailplanes, some with enormous, bizarre head crests and elongated
beaks. It discusses the history of pterosaurs through 160 million
years of the Mesozoic-including their anatomy, physiology,
locomotion, reproduction, growth, and extinction-and even gives a
taste of what it might be like to travel back to the Mesozoic. This
one-of-a-kind guide also challenges the common image of big
pterosaurs as ultralights that only soared, showing how these
spectacular creatures could be powerful flappers as heavy as bears.
Features detailed species accounts of 115 different kinds of
pterosaurs, with the latest size and mass estimates Written and
illustrated by the acclaimed researcher and artist who helped to
redefine the anatomy and flight performance of pterosaurs Covers
everything from pterosaur biology to the colorful history of
pterosaur paleontology Includes dozens of original skeletal
drawings and full-color life studies
This book describes and compares both the IPv4 and IPv6 versions of
OSPF and IS-IS. It explains OSPF and IS-IS by grounding the
analysis on the principles of Link State Routing (LSR). It
deliberately separates principles from technologies. Understanding
the principles behind the technologies makes the learning process
easier and more solid. Moreover, it helps uncovering the
dissimilarities and commonalities of OSPF and IS-IS and exposing
their stronger and weaker features. The chapters on principles
explain the features of LSR protocols and discuss the alternative
design options, independently of technologies. The chapters on
technologies provide a comprehensive description of OSPF and IS-IS
with enough detail for professionals that need to work with these
technologies. The final part of the book describes and discusses a
large set of experiments with Cisco routers designed to illustrate
the various features of OSPF and IS-IS. In particular, the
experiments related to the synchronization mechanisms are not
usually found in the literature.
Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning explores how some
people are excluded from science education and communication.
Taking the role of science in society as a starting point, it
critically examines the concept of equity in science learning and
develops a framework to support inclusive change. This book
presents a theoretically informed, empirically detailed analysis of
how people from minoritised groups in the UK experience science and
everyday science learning resources in their daily lives. The book
draws on two years of ethnographic research carried out in London
with five community groups who identified as Asian, Somali,
Afro-Caribbean, Latin American and Sierra Leonean. Exploring their
experiences of everyday science learning from a sociological
perspective, with social justice as a guiding concern, this book
opens with a theory of exclusion and closes with a theory of
inclusion. Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning is not
only an essential text for postgraduate students and postdoctoral
researchers of Science Education, Science Communication and Museum
Studies, but for any professional working in museums, science
centres and institutional public engagement.
Based on interrogation and review of historical and current
cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive
curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how
indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more
gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience. The
book argues for the integration of African indigenous science into
the secondary school curriculum as a way to strengthen students'
science comprehension by affirming their society's science
contributions, making clear connections between Indigenous and
Western science, and also as a way to promote female representation
in the sciences. This book will be of interest to scholars and
practitioners of science education, African education, and
indigenous knowledge.
Extension innovation method is an approach to originality
generation. It utilizes basic theories of Extenics, a new
discipline for modeling contradiction problems with formalized
methods and transformation, to establish a modeling and
quantification combined method that can be learned effortlessly and
operated conveniently. This book introduces and analyzes commonly
used extension innovation methods are introduced and analyzed
thoroughly. It makes it easy for readers at different levels and of
different knowledge backgrounds to study. Highly accessible cases
faciliate understanding and application of the models.
This book gives an overview of best effort data and real-time
multipath routing protocols in WMSN. It provides results of recent
research in design issues affecting the development of strategic
multipath routing protocols that support multimedia data traffic in
WMSN from an IoT perspective, plus detailed analysis on the
appropriate traffic models.
The book introduces optical wave propagation in the irregular
turbulent atmosphere and the relations to laser beam and LIDAR
applications for both optical communication and imaging. It
examines atmosphere fundamentals, structure, and content. It
explains specific situations occurring in the irregular atmosphere
and for specific natural phenomena that affect optical ray and
laser beam propagation. It emphasizes how to use LIDAR to
investigate atmospheric phenomena and predict primary parameters of
the irregular turbulent atmosphere and suggests what kinds of
optical devices to operate in different atmospheric situations to
minimize the deleterious effects of natural atmospheric phenomena.
Hark, Hark! Hear the Story of a Science Educator highlights some
compelling ideas on science teaching and learning through the
author's journey and includes evolution and revolution in the
growth of scientific knowledge. The book discusses views of McComas
et al. and Lederman et al. on the nature of science, as well as the
learning theories of Piaget (1926), Vygotsky (1978), and Marton
(1981). The three theories of learning frame methods in teaching
science. The author is well known in the science education research
community for her groundbreaking work in student conceptions and
conceptual change, particularly as related to phenomenography. Key
Features: Helps science educators explore new avenues related to
various innovative curricula, teaching, and learning Presents
abstract learning theories, such as social constructivism in
personal stories and experiences Bridges the divide between the
science education community and the general public on significant
ideas of science teaching and learning Uncovers relational
conceptual change inquiry learning Discusses current
socioscientific community-based issues-other-centeredness-through
scientific investigation and engineering design challenges
A wealth of practical tools and guidance for rooting out injustice
and creating science learning spaces in which students feel valued,
safe, and eager to engage. In Growing and Sustaining
Student-Centered Science Classrooms, David Stroupe promotes
powerful conversation and action around knowledge-building
practices in science education. The book takes readers into
inspiring classroom communities in which all students are invited
and encouraged to engage in the work of science. An illuminating
series of real-time classroom scenes demonstrate flexible teaching
approaches and instructional pivots that Stroupe calls talk moves
and shows how they foster inclusive collaboration and participation
to create a more expansive, and better, version of science
education. Even as Stroupe champions student-centered science
education, he acknowledges that common obstructions to knowledge
sharing, or epistemic injustices, can often prevent this
student-led ideal from materializing. He calls attention to four
types of injustices that frequently stifle student voice and access
in science learning communities: testimonial injustice,
hermeneutical injustice, intrapersonal injustice, and hierarchical
injustice. Recounting real-life examples of these individual and
systemic injustices, Stroupe gives educators the tools to both
identify and eradicate them. This thought-provoking book sets forth
ambitious tactics for educators to audit assumptions and biases in
science, promote student agency, and conduct action research to
document change. Using Stroupe's accessible methods, teachers,
teacher educators, and administrators can design immediate and
long-term efforts to disrupt injustices in STEM classroom
communities and support student learning.
Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola
in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a
perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges
belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach
human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was
messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This
life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and
can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final
remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon
appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the
specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly
crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the
world's anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th
centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their
creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have
seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling
the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science
and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and
education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating
imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax
effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.
Widely employed for separating and detecting chemicals in solution,
separation techniques are most often applied in tandem,
subsequently referred to as hyphenated methods. Hyphenated and
Alternative Methods of Detection in Chromatography details the
development and application of mass spectral detection techniques
coupled with gas phase and liquid phase chromatographies. With
contributions from experts in a variety of fields, as evidenced by
the range of topics, the book describes the advantages and
disadvantages of various separation techniques and addresses
methods for cutting-edge applications such as proteomics research.
Specifically, this book covers: The development of the LC-NMR and
its application in chromatographic science, particularly in
relation to the analysis of natural and environmental samples and
in the study of reaction monitoring, biosynthetic analysis, and
structural elucidation The application of LC-ICP in biological
samples for the speciation of organoarsenic and organoselenium
compounds; metal complexes in microorganisms, plants, and foods of
plant origin; human body fluids and tissues; and in the detection
of chemical warfare agents Electrochemical detection in liquid
chromatography, system optimization, and applications in the
analysis of flavonoids The use of chemiluminescence for microcolumn
and capillary methods of separation The process of employing
multidimensional separation methods as a means of identifying
components in complex samples A detailed reference for those
starting out in the field, this book also suits those who are more
experienced yet require assistance in new directions. It is an
ideal reference for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students
wishing to supplement their learning experience. Containing over
800 references, this book is an excellent source of information
within the field of
This book explains current strategies for mapping genomes of higher
organisms and explores applications of gene mapping to
agriculturally important species of plants and animals. It also
explores the experimental techniques used for genetic and physical
mapping of genes.
Thoroughly revised and updated, The Art of Modeling in Science and
Engineering with Mathematica (R), Second Edition explores the
mathematical tools and procedures used in modeling based on the
laws of conservation of mass, energy, momentum, and electrical
charge. The authors have culled and consolidated the best from the
first edition and expanded the range of applied examples to reach a
wider audience. The text proceeds, in measured steps, from simple
models of real-world problems at the algebraic and ordinary
differential equations (ODE) levels to more sophisticated models
requiring partial differential equations. The traditional solution
methods are supplemented with Mathematica , which is used
throughout the text to arrive at solutions for many of the problems
presented. The text is enlivened with a host of illustrations and
practice problems drawn from classical and contemporary sources.
They range from Thomson's famous experiment to determine e/m and
Euler's model for the buckling of a strut to an analysis of the
propagation of emissions and the performance of wind turbines. The
mathematical tools required are first explained in separate
chapters and then carried along throughout the text to solve and
analyze the models. Commentaries at the end of each illustration
draw attention to the pitfalls to be avoided and, perhaps most
important, alert the reader to unexpected results that defy
conventional wisdom. These features and more make the book the
perfect tool for resolving three common difficulties: the proper
choice of model, the absence of precise solutions, and the need to
make suitable simplifying assumptions and approximations. The book
covers a wide range of physical processes and phenomena drawn from
various disciplines and clearly illuminates the link between the
physical system being modeled and the mathematical expression that
results.
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