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The Role of Razi’s Empirical Method in the Discovery of Alcohol [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2021 Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakaria al-Razi, one of the greatest Iranian scientists in the Middle Ages, discovered “alcohol” through the distillation process for the first time.
Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi
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Science and Philosophy: A Love-Hate Relationship [PDF]
Foundations of Science, 25, 2000, pp. 297-314, 2013 In this paper I review the problematic relationship between science and philosophy; in particular, I will address the question of whether science needs philosophy, and I will offer some positive perspectives that should be helpful in developing a synergetic relationship between the two.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 352-364, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research has highlighted the importance of Indigenous knowledge and cultural practice in healing from ongoing histories of trauma, dispossession, and displacement for Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere. Connection with culture, Country, and kinship has been identified as protective factors for Aboriginal social and emotional well ...
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Report on a Boston University Conference December 7-8, 2012 on 'How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary U.S. Science Teaching?' [PDF]
Science & Education, September 2014, 23(9): 1853-1873, 2015 This is an editorial report on the outcomes of an international conference sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (REESE-1205273) to the School of Education at Boston University and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University for a conference titled: How Can the History and Philosophy of Science ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 829-846, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Introduction The inclusion of people who use drugs in the design and evaluation of their health services remains a relatively new phenomenon. The aim of the research was to explore the experiences and perceptions of people accessing the Medical Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), and Clinic 180, Sydney Australia, and the factors facilitating ...
Greg Rickard, Bethne Hart
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Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2019 Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was an outstanding Polish physicist, known e.g. as a pioneer of statistical physics. His short paper about history of physics in Poland represents the initial study in this field.
Paweł Polak
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Overdiagnosis: The silent pandemic of the West?
Public Health and Toxicology, 2022 An intense and widespread phenomenon of modern western societies is our recourse to doctors for preventive reasons in order to maintain good health.
Fanourios Perros, Achilleas Koumpos
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Ukr. J. Phys. 2019. Vol. 64, No. 11, 2019 The emergence of the new, non-Euclidean geometry of Bolyai, Gauss, and Lobachevskii (BGL) and its impact on modern sciences is the subject of a series of biennial conferences. Below, I briefly review the history.
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Fictionalism and the problem of universals in the philosophy of mathematics [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2018 Many long-standing problems pertaining to contemporary philosophy of mathematics can be traced back to different approaches in determining the nature of mathematical entities which have been dominated by the debate between realists and ...
Đorđević Strahinja
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2021 Science took on several distinct uses and meanings under Francoism. It was exhibited as a token of intellectual prowess, deployed as a mighty diplomatic tool, applied as a resource for industry, and invoked in support of National Catholicism. However, in
Clara Florensa, Xavier Roqué
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