Science Sifting

Author : Rodney R. Dietert,Janice Dietert
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814407915

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Science Sifting is designed primarily as a textbook for students interested in research and as a general reference book for existing career scientists. The aim of this book is to help budding scientists broaden their capacities to access and use information from diverse sources to the benefit of their research careers.The book describes why the capacity to access and integrate both linear and nonlinear information has been an important historic feature of pivotal scientific breakthroughs. Yet, it is a process that our students are rarely, if ever, taught in universities. This book goes beyond simply describing the features of great scientific breakthroughs. It discusses the basis for accessing and using nonlinear information in the linear research context. It also provides a series of tools and exercises that can be used to enhance access to nonlinear information for application to research and other endeavors.Topics covered include focal points in scientific breakthroughs, the use of concepts maps in research, use of different vantage points, information as patterns, fractals for the scientist, memory storage and access points, and synchronicities. Young researchers need useful tools to help with a more holistic approach to their research careers. This book provides the useful tools to support flexibility and creativity across a long-term research career.

Author : Janice M Dietert,Rodney R Dietert
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814407922

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Science Sifting: Tools For Innovation In Science And Technology by Janice M Dietert,Rodney R Dietert Pdf

Science Sifting is designed primarily as a textbook for students interested in research and as a general reference book for existing career scientists. The aim of this book is to help budding scientists broaden their capacities to access and use information from diverse sources to the benefit of their research careers.The book describes why the capacity to access and integrate both linear and nonlinear information has been an important historic feature of pivotal scientific breakthroughs. Yet, it is a process that our students are rarely, if ever, taught in universities. This book goes beyond simply describing the features of great scientific breakthroughs. It discusses the basis for accessing and using nonlinear information in the linear research context. It also provides a series of tools and exercises that can be used to enhance access to nonlinear information for application to research and other endeavors.Topics covered include focal points in scientific breakthroughs, the use of concepts maps in research, use of different vantage points, information as patterns, fractals for the scientist, memory storage and access points, and synchronicities. Young researchers need useful tools to help with a more holistic approach to their research careers. This book provides the useful tools to support flexibility and creativity across a long-term research career.Roald Hoffmann — Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — has contributed the to Science Sifting. More information on Professor Hoffmann can be found at .

Author : Laura Lowell,Carolyn Willard
Publisher : Great Explorations
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000048615006

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Sifting Through Science by Laura Lowell,Carolyn Willard Pdf

Young children enthusiastically investigate the properties of objects in this introduction to physical science. In three open-ended activities, children explore materials that sink or float, magnetic and non-magnetic objects, and a sand and bean mixture using tools that can sift and separate. In the final activity, children must apply what they've learned to a garbage dump recycling challenge.

Author : Worthy Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Elocution
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038404281

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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory by Worthy Putnam Pdf

Author : Worthy Putnam
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368848712

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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory by Worthy Putnam Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Mikaela Brewer
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039109957

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The Sifting Project by Mikaela Brewer Pdf

Tony Crypt and Paul Elliott are brilliant, poverty-stricken teenagers living in the Bronx at the helm of the Second World War. As they grow up in a swelling wake of loss, a tunnelled path of engulfing research paves their way forward: they gain insight into the trajectories of souls and memories when someone dies. As Tony and Paul desperately deepen their understanding of the composition and malleability of these trajectories, their research falls into the wrong hands — a fearful government, frantic for the ability to sift through and control a tainted past and the path of knowledge. As Tony and Paul battle with an arrested ability to alter the outcome of their actions, two talented young people with arduous pasts are accosting the barriers of time and circumstance, connecting each line between Tony, Paul, their research, and the hands it should be left in. A swirling of the boundaries of neuroscience, astrophysics, and poetry, The Sifting Project characterizes the biological path of love, trust, loss, control, and legacy within the memories of time. The Sifting Project teaches tensions like non-fiction, illustrates experiences and observations like a memoir, and loves like that one story you'll never forget. It's the excuse you need to read fiction and forget that work exists. This story will remind you that the essence of who you are — your memories, experiences, and truths — is what makes you irreplaceable in the narrative of change. When you do the work to listen to yourself and others, you can lift both history and the future. You are The Sifting Project of today. Be the voice of the truth.

Author : Pam Walker,Elaine Wood
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766054271

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Ecosystem Science Fair Projects, Using the Scientific Method by Pam Walker,Elaine Wood Pdf

How do cool temperatures affect the activity of a fish? Do earthworms prefer to live in light or darkness? Do weeds interfere with the growth of other plants? Readers will find the answers by doing the fun and simple experiments in this book. Many ideas for science fair projects are also included.

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Inventions
ISBN : BL:A0020345138

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First Lines of Science by James Mitchell Pdf

Author : Rui Mao,Hongzhi Wang,Xiaolan Xie,Zeguang Lu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811501210

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Data Science by Rui Mao,Hongzhi Wang,Xiaolan Xie,Zeguang Lu Pdf

This two volume set (CCIS 1058 and 1059) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2019 held in Guilin, China, in September 2019. The 104 revised full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 395 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to basic theory and techniques for data science including data mining; data base; net work; security; machine learning; bioinformatics; natural language processing; software engineering; graphic images; system; education; application.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015074739734

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Mind by Anonim Pdf

A quarterly review of philosophy.

Author : John P. Herron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190452452

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Science and the Social Good by John P. Herron Pdf

From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good. As such, many natural scientists throughout American history have understood their work as a cultural activity contributing to social stability and their field as a powerful tool for enhancing the quality of American life. In the late Victorian era, interwar period, and post-war decades, massive social change, economic collapse and recovery, and the aftermath of war prompted natural scientists to offer up a civic-minded natural science concerned with the political well-being of American society. In Science and the Social Good, John P. Herron explores the evolving internal and external forces influencing the design and purpose of American natural science, by focusing on three representative scientists-geologist Clarence King, forester Robert Marshall, and biologist Rachel Carson-who purposefully considered the social outcomes of their work. As comfortable in the royal courts of Europe as the remote field camps of the American West, Clarence King was the founding director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and used his standing to integrate science into late nineteenth century political debates about foreign policy, immigration, and social reform. In the mid-1930s, Robert Marshall founded the environmental advocacy group, The Wilderness Society, which transformed the face of natural preservation in America. Committed to social justice, Marshall blended forest ecology and pragmatic philosophy to craft a natural science ethic that extended the reach of science into political discussions about the restructuring of society prompted by urbanization and economic crisis. Rachel Carson deservedly gets credit for launching the modern environmental movement with her 1962 classic Silent Spring. She made a generation of Americans aware of the social costs inherent in the human manipulation of the natural world and used natural science to critique established institutions and offer an alternative vision of a healthy and diverse society. As King, Marshall, and Carson became increasingly wary of the social costs of industrialization, they used their scientific work to address problems of ecological and social imbalance. Even as science became professionalized and compartmentalized. these scientists worked to keep science relevant to broader intellectual debates. John Herron offers a new take on King, Marshall, and especially Carson and their significance that emphasizes the importance of their work to environmental, political, and cultural affairs, while illuminating the broader impact of natural science on American culture.

Author : Steven Hrotic
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472527455

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Religion in Science Fiction by Steven Hrotic Pdf

Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature. Space travel, futuristic societies, and non-human cultures are traditional themes in science fiction. Speculating on the societal impacts of as-yet-undiscovered technologies is, after all, one of the distinguishing characteristics of science fiction literature. A more surprising theme may be a parallel exploration of religion: its institutional nature, social functions, and the tensions between religious and scientific worldviews. Steven Hrotic investigates the representations of religion in 19th century proto-science fiction, and genre science fiction from the 1920s through the end of the century. Taken together, he argues that these stories tell an overarching story-a 'metanarrative'-of an evolving respect for religion, paralleling a decline in the belief that science will lead us to an ideal (and religion-free) future. Science fiction's metanarrative represents more than simply a shift in popular perceptions of religion: it also serves as a model for cognitive anthropology, providing new insights into how groups and identities form in a globalized world, and into how crucial a role narratives may play. Ironically, this same perspective suggests that science fiction, as it was in the 20th century, may no longer exist.

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040116074

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Academia versus the World Outside by Bruce Fleming Pdf

Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the left–right animosity of our day. The knowledge industry, a creation of the post-Enlightenment modern age along with other industrial and post-industrial enterprises, is based on creating and adding to a store of knowledge as its own end. This makes academia alien to the more random and personal nature of knowledge acquisition in our everyday lives, as indeed every industry is alien to everyday life in the modern age. Yet most academics are so immersed in the peculiar project they have chosen as their life’s work that they are either unaware of or unsympathetic to the fact that people outside live very different lives with very different presuppositions. Most non-academics, for their part, find academia strange, and for very good reason. Academia versus the World Outside makes this contrast and conflict clear from both directions. This book is aimed primarily at academics, most of whom so take for granted the givens of what they do that they fail to understand why the vast majority of people outside find academia alien. This has led to an increasingly hostile and utterly predictable left–right political conflict, academia tending increasingly left and the world outside increasingly right. The goal of this book is to reduce the tension between both sides: if read by non-academics, this book may help these understand the givens of a world as strange to everyday life as any other specialized industry in the modern age.

Author : Daniel Goleman,Richard J. Davidson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780399184406

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Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman,Richard J. Davidson Pdf

Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it. Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers’ eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short daily doses will not get us to the highest level of lasting positive change—even if we continue for years—without specific additions. More than sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious, less attached view of the self, all of which are missing in widespread versions of mind training. The authors also reveal the latest data from Davidson’s own lab that point to a new methodology for developing a broader array of mind-training methods with larger implications for how we can derive the greatest benefits from the practice. Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000006323301

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