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FACT vs. MEDIAFACT: a Comparative Analysis of Conceptual Models
Научный диалог, 2020 The relevance of the study is due to the problem of the discrepancy between the constructed media reality and reality. The author sees the reason for this problem in the fact that media content producers exploit the synonymous use of the words “fact” and
N. A. Prom
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Journal of Technology and Science EducationThe impact of Einstein’s theory of relativity has undeniably led to a surmountable advancement in today’s technology. Its abstract nature may limit teachers from developing learning materials that could equip students to improve their conceptual ...
Faith Celeste Ole
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On Equivalence of Definition of the Energy-Momentum Tensor in General Relativity and Field Theory [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Astronomy and AstrophysicsThis work investigates a fundamental pedagogical question concerning the definition of the energy-momentum tensor in theoretical physics. Students learn the definition of energy-momentum tensor in the field theory and on the other hand a different ...
Sohrab Rahvar
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Compound words prompt arbitrary semantic associations in conceptual memory
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Linguistic relativity theory has received empirical support in domains such as colour perception and object categorisation. It is unknown however, whether relations between words idiosyncratic to language impact nonverbal representations and ...
Bastien eBoutonnet +2 more
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How students learn from multiple contexts and definitions: Proper time as a coordination class
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, 2008 This article provides an empirical analysis of a single classroom episode in which students reveal difficulties with the concept of proper time in special relativity but slowly make progress in improving their understanding.
Olivia Levrini, Andrea A. diSessa
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Semantic Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability: The Case of Lorentz and Einstein
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 Semantic incommensurability is understood as non-translatability of concepts taken from different theories. My aim is to give a rational reconstruction of the notion of incommensurability underlying the writings of Feyerabend and the later Kuhn.
Martin Carrier
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Orice filosofie este o poetică (II) Principiul relativității în metapoetică
The Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi. Fascicle XVIII, PhilosophyThe article argues that the major forms of knowledge-science, philosophy, the sacred, and the arts-are constitute forms of poetics, that is, language games which possess ontological status, whose identity is preserved through conceptual deformation and ...
Iulian GRIGORIU
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Cognitive Exploration of ‘Traveling’ in the Poetry of Widad Benmoussa
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2018 The concept of motion is central to the human cognition and it is universally studied in cognitive linguistics. This research paper investigates concept of motion, with special reference to traveling, in the poetry of Widad Benmoussa.
Encarnación Sánchez Arenas +1 more
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Relativity in the Global Positioning System
Living Reviews in Relativity, 2003 The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses accurate, stable atomic clocks in satellites and on the ground to provide world-wide position and time determination.
Ashby Neil
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The influence of grammatical gender on cognition: the case of German and Farsi
Open LinguisticsThis study investigates whether and how grammatical gender influences cognition by comparing speakers of German, a language with three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neutral), and Farsi, a genderless language.
Fatemi Maryam +2 more
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