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Syntheticising Scandinavia: The Introduction of Synthetic Pesticides to Scandinavian Gardens, 1945-1952

open access: yesHoST, 2020
This study examines the introduction of prescriptive pesticide technologies into Scandinavian family gardens. It analyses pesticide propaganda and plant protection experts’ advice and instructions on the use of pesticides directed at amateur, home ...
Nielsen May-Brith Ohman
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The Transformation of a Science by a “Technology”: The Case of Astrophysics and the Introduction of Machine Learning

open access: yesHoST, 2023
This article explores the transformations of an area of scientific research provoked by the introduction of big data and the possibilities to treat them by Artificial Intelligence.
Marcovich Anne, Shinn Terry
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From Fenye to Latitude and Longitude: The Adjustment and Renewal of the Positioning System in Chinese Local Gazetteers during Qing Dynasty

open access: yesHoST
Influenced by a cosmological view of the interconnectedness between heaven and humankind, ancient Chinese astrologers developed the fenye (分野, “field allocation”) system.
Zhang Jiajing
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Maria Corinta Ferreira (1922–2003?), “Naturalist at the Museu Dr. Álvaro De Castro, Lourenço Marques [Now Maputo], Mozambique,” 1949–1974

open access: yesHoST, 2016
In 1940, the naturalist Maria Corinta Ferreira decided to leave the zoology research centre of the board for colonial research (Junta de Investigaçoes Coloniais-JIC), where she felt gender discriminated as a scientist, and compete for the position of ...
Antunes Luis Pequito
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A New Approach to the Concepts of Conservation to Identify and Evaluate Railway Heritage through Indicators

open access: yesHoST, 2020
The wide railway universe, with its particular and peculiar characteristics, requires the implementation of criteria to improve the identification and conservation of cultural goods.
Borges Breno Albuquerque B.
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Circulating Silence. The Reaction to Rachel Carson’s Book Silent Spring (1962) in Scandinavian Gardening Magazines

open access: yesHoST, 2023
This article examines the reception of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring in Scandinavian family gardening magazines. In Sweden, Norway and Denmark, family gardening associations were broad organisations with significant social impact. They were the most
Nielsen May-Brith Ohman
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Co-evolution and Co-speciation of Host-Gut Bacteria Systems

open access: yes, 2021
© 2020 The Authors Mammalian gut microbiomes profoundly influence host fitness, but the processes that drive the evolution of host-microbiome systems are poorly understood.
Mazel, Florent   +3 more
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Small Science, Little Fraud? Scale and Misconduct in Contemporary Science

open access: yesHoST
Given that issues of scale and size are commonly used in characterizations of small science, this paper explores their possible relationship with the prevalence of scientific misconduct.
Aibar Eduard
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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science in the Anthropocene

open access: yesHoST, 2018
The paper argues that humanity has entered a new stage of evolution: epistemic evolution. Just as cultural evolution emerged against the background of biological evolution, epistemic evolution began as an aspect of cultural evolution and now dominates ...
Renn Jürgen
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Is Small Science Cargo Cult? Mimicry, Dependency and Agency in the Margins of Big Science

open access: yesHoST
This paper argues that the application of the notion of cargo cults to science provides a valuable heuristic for revisiting the dichotomy between big and small science.
Aubin David
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