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Whence philosophy of biology? [PDF]
, 2006 A consensus exists among contemporary philosophers of biology about the history of their field. According to the received view, mainstream philosophy of science in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s focused on physics and general epistemology, neglecting analyses ...
Byron (formerly Baker), Jason M.
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Manifesto for transparent mathematical modeling: from ecology to general science
Academia BiologyMathematical black-box models, which hide the structure and behavior of the subsystems, currently dominate science. Mechanisms under study remain hidden.
Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov, Lev V. Kalmykov
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Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), including the astronomy projects Galaxy Zoo (www.galaxyzoo.org) and Planet Hunters (www.planethunters.org).
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The Science of Obesity Management: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement.
Endocrine reviews, 2018 The prevalence of obesity, measured by body mass index, has risen to unacceptable levels in both men and women in the United States and worldwide with resultant hazardous health implications.
G. Bray +14 more
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Subpar reporting of pre‐analytical variables in RNA‐focused blood plasma studies
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Pre‐analytical variables strongly influence the analysis of extracellular RNA (cell‐free RNA; exRNA) derived from blood plasma. Their reporting is essential to allow interpretation and replication of results. By evaluating 200 exRNA studies, we pinpoint a lack of reporting pre‐analytical variables associated with blood collection, plasma preparation ...
Céleste Van Der Schueren +16 more
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The regulation of scientific work [PDF]
, 2009 Government research councils, national science foundations and the like have become ubiquitous. The first one seems to have been the US National Science Foundation (NSF), created in 1950; the similarly named organization with an equivalent function ...
Ramsden, Jeremy J.
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The epistemic predicament of a pseudoscience: social constructivism confronts Freudian psychoanalysis [PDF]
, 2011 Social constructivist approaches to science have often been dismissed as inaccurate accounts of scientific knowledge. In this paper, we take the claims of robust social constructivism seriously and attempt to find a theory which does instantiate the ...
Boudry, Maarten, Buekens, Filip
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A Systematic Literature Review of Undergraduate Data Science Education Research [PDF]
The presence of data science has been profound in the scientific community in almost every discipline. An important part of the data science education expansion has been at the undergraduate level. We conducted a systematic literature review to (1) portray current evidence and knowledge gaps in self-proclaimed undergraduate data science education ...
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2020 Nobel Prize for Physics: Black holes and the Milky Way's darkest secret [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This article was written at the invitation of Current Science to explain the history and Science behind this year's Nobel prize in Physics. The article is aimed at a general audience and provides a popular account and perspective on the subject of black holes.
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Science in General Education [PDF]
The Journal of General Education, 2013 AbstractGeneral education must develop in students an appreciation of the power of science, how it works, why it is an effective knowledge generation tool, and what it can deliver. Knowing what science has discovered is desirable but less important.
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