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The absence of women's scientific contributions in core UK pre‐university science qualifications
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite their groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the natural world and the universe, women's roles in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, environmental science and geology remain largely absent from standard educational specifications in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly at Key Stage 4 (KS4) and Key Stage 5 (KS5), or ...
G. J. Cooke +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper provides a revised knowledge–attitude–behaviour (KAB) framework to explain sustainable consumption. Drawing on the dual‐process perspective, the study investigates how intuitive and rational cues shape the translation of objective product knowledge into sustainable attitudes and consumption.
Alberto Massacci +3 more
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The life and work of Ernest Sydney Keeping
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract This article reviews the life and contributions of Ernest S. Keeping (1895–1984), a British‐born physicist who became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta in 1929. He played a pivotal role in shaping the university's Mathematics Department, serving as its head from 1954 to 1961, and continuing to teach until 1970, nine years ...
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Meteorological effects of the 29 March 2025 solar eclipse over the UK
Weather, EarlyView.Here we present a comprehensive analysis of the effects of the moderate partial solar eclipse of 29 March 2025 on meteorological conditions over the UK, based on 1‐min‐resolution data from ~250 automatic weather stations in the Met Office's Meteorological Monitoring Network, finding a modest but nevertheless significant surface air temperature response
Edward Hanna +4 more
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Scienza, filosofia, senso comune: come l’incredibile può diventare ovvio [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2016 Science, Philosophy, Common Sense: how the extraordinary could turn into the Obvious The paper is devoted to an examination of some aspects of the relation between science, philosophy and common sense.
Pasquale Frascolla
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Filsafat Islam pada Masa Golden Age dan Kontribusinya dalam Dunia Pendidikan
Scaffolding: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam dan Multikulturalisme, 2022 This study aims to look at the history of the development of Islamic philosophy which in its time influenced world civilization, to find out the famous Islamic philosophy figures and make a very large contribution to this day, some of the theories put ...
Hotmasarih Harahap +3 more
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Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Philosophy, history, astronomy: a study about Ptolemy
, 2019 Ptolomeu é conhecido pela sua obra científica, especialmente pelas suas pesquisas astronômicas contidas no Almagesto. Defendo, porém, que Ptolomeu também possui um pensamento filosófico, com posições originais e que dialogam com a tradição e com os ...
Faria, Rodrigo Cristino de
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Analysis of astronomers position in society and the rule of the Safavid era [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019 Introduction The formation of the Safavi dynasty in Iran was important in several aspects that the most important was: the restoration of the national unity of Iran and the officialization of the Shiite religion.
زهرا اسفندیاری مهنی
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