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Under the background of the new era,popular science books for children help to cultivate the scientific spirit of children readers,and also help to improve the scientific literacy and awareness of the whole nation. Based on the analysis of the connotation of popular earthquake science books for children,this paper compares the knowledge content and ...
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"Accomodating science" : a new way of thinking about rhetorical dynamics [PDF]
By analyzing three case studies (neutrinos, victimization survey and quality of mass media), our present issue is to figure out if underlying successive accommodations to new rhetorical situations will have an impact on the respective importance of logos,
Herman, T., Salas, C.
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Abstract Normal fault slip is regularly quantified for instantaneous seismic events and across geological timescales in rate‐and‐state friction frameworks. However, recent studies have shown that normal faults may undergo transient aseismic slip exceeding time‐averaged rates, outside of steady state conditions.
James Wood +4 more
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CHOICE Internal Report I-2, Chinese Regional and Local Funding Bodies for Scientific and Technical Research [PDF]
In this report it is shown that to understand the structure of the Chinese local government offices funding S&T research it is necessary to be aware of where they are located in the hierarchy of Chinese administrative divisions.
Itagaki, T, Owens, TJ
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Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon +2 more
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Aiming at the problems of low user participation caused by one-way communication in the human-computer interactive interface, insufficient emotional authenticity of digital human interaction, and bottleneck of real-time processing of multimodal data ...
Zhao Boyu, Yue Xiuxia, Yao Xinqiang
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Comparison Between Bayesian and Frequentist Tail Probability Estimates
In this paper, we investigate the reasons that the Bayesian estimator of the tail probability is always higher than the frequentist estimator. Sufficient conditions for this phenomenon are established both by using Jensen's Inequality and by looking at ...
González, Bárbara +2 more
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Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment
The literature on the costs of climate change often draws a link between climatic 'tipping points' and large economic shocks, frequently called 'catastrophes'. The use of the phrase 'tipping points' in this context can be misleading.
Kopp, Robert E. +3 more
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Next-Generation Digital Earth - A Position Paper from the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science [PDF]
This position paper is the outcome of a joint reflection by a group of international geographic and environmental scientists from government, industry, and academia brought together by the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information
ANNONI Alessandro +10 more
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UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives?
Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) is typically regarded as the sine qua non case of an economy experiencing chronic external imbalances under the post‐war Bretton Woods system, apparently unable to reconcile the divergent objectives of robust economic growth and current account equilibrium.
Joshua J. Banerjee
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