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Child Witness Policy: Law Interfacing with Social Science [PDF]
The number of children testifying in court has posed serious practical and legal problems for the judicial system. One problem confronting the courts is how to protect children from experiencing the psychological trauma resulting from face-to-face ...
Graham, Louise +3 more
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Open Access as part of scientific policy
The article covers the development of Open Access activities in the context of policy implemented by public authorities with the focus on Polish experiences, and the framework of European Union.
Piotr Kępski
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Public Participation Organizations and Open Policy:A Constitutional Moment for British Democracy? [PDF]
This article builds on work in Science and Technology Studies and cognate disciplines concerning the institutionalization of public engagement and participation practices. It describes and analyses ethnographic qualitative research into one “organization
Cooke B. +13 more
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Integrating Species Traits into Species Pools [PDF]
Despite decades of research on the species‐pool concept and the recent explosion of interest in trait‐based frameworks in ecology and biogeography, surprisingly little is known about how spatial and temporal changes in species‐pool functional diversity ...
Darwin C. +4 more
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The EPSRC's policy of responsible innovation from a trading zones perspective [PDF]
Responsible innovation (RI) is gathering momentum as an academic and policy debate linking science and society. Advocates of RI in research policy argue that scientific research should be opened up at an early stage so that many actors and issues can ...
Murphy, Joseph +2 more
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Basic Scholarship in Biosafety Is Critically Needed To Reduce Risk of Laboratory Accidents
Our firm conducted a risk/benefit assessment of “gain-of-function” research, as part of the deliberative process following a U.S. moratorium on the research (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.
Ryan Ritterson, Rocco Casagrande
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THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF SELF-ORGANIZATION OF BASIC SCIENCE: A HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE
The article examines theoretical problems of self-organization of basic science in the historical perspective, including the influence of sociology of science and ethnographic approach on the ideas about the formation of scientific knowledge.
Glagolev V.S., Konnov V.I
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The article analyzes the consequences of the reductionist application of criteria characteristic to the natural, mainly laboratory sciences, in the evaluation of the results of the work of researchers and institutions in other scientific disciplines ...
Ivan Kovačević, Miloš Milenković
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Within a STS approach to science policy, the concept of coproduction suggests that scientific explanations and normative evaluations are deeply entangled.
Mariachiara Tallacchini
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Helga Nowotny in Conversation with Elena Esposito
Helga Nowotny, Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies at ETH Zurich, is a leading scholar in the social studies of science and technology. In her extensive publications she dealt, among other topics, with social and individual structuring of
Helga Nowotny, Elena Esposito
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