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Embedding Scientific Explanations Into Storybooks Impacts Children’s Scientific Discourse and Learning [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Children’s understanding of unobservable scientific entities largely depends on testimony from others, especially through parental explanations that highlight the mechanism underlying a scientific entity. Mechanistic explanations are particularly helpful
Kathryn A. Leech +3 more
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Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of researchers and practitioners. [PDF]
HEC Forum, 2022 The controversy over vaccines has recently intensified in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with calls from politicians, health professionals, journalists, and citizens to take harsh measures against so-called “anti-vaxxers,” while accusing them ...
Elisha E +3 more
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A crisis of authority in scientific discourse. [PDF]
Cult Stud Sci Educ, 2021 Scientific training often begins with learning content knowledge and techniques. As a student progresses, they are required to communicate the results of their experiments with their instructors in a manner that other scientists would understand.
Nichols MD, Petzold AM.
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Natural language processing and network analysis provide novel insights on policy and scientific discourse around Sustainable Development Goals. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are heterogeneous and interdependent, comprising 169 targets and 231 indicators of sustainable development in such diverse areas as health, the environment, and human rights.
Smith TB +3 more
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Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. [PDF]
Atten Percept PsychophysHypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication – and thus, scientific progress – is hampered if the meaning of these terms ...
Liesefeld HR +20 more
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Hedging with modal auxiliary verbs in scientific discourse and women’s language
Open Linguistics, 2023 This Critical Discourse Analysis examines hedging as a linguistic device at the intersection of scientific discourse and women’s language. Hedging has been identified as a marker of scientific discourse where it is valued for expanding dialogic space for
Schmauss Lindsay Susannah, Kilian Kelly
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Scientific discourse in the era of open science: a response to Hall et al. regarding the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model. [PDF]
Int J Obes (Lond), 2019 In November 2018, we presented the results of a large macronutrient feeding study at The Obesity Society’s Blackburn Symposium [1] and simultaneously in BMJ, with peer review available online [2]. In that study, total energy expenditure (TEE) measured by
Ludwig DS +3 more
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Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse [PDF]
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021 The article views categoricalness as a communicative category functioning in the scientific discourse and adversely affecting the process of scientific communication. The results of the discourse and contextual analysis of categoricalness revealed its correlation with the communicative categories of politeness, authoritativeness, confidence ...
Panchenko N.N., Volkova Y.A.
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Preprint servers facilitate scientific discourse. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Preprints are scientific manuscripts posted online before formal peer-review and publication in journals. Preprints have become prominent in scientific publishing, which is increasingly shaped by an emphasis on speed, transparency, and accessibility. Important as they are, those factors are entwined with the journal’s primary role as an arbiter of the ...
Verma IM.
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Imagery in Scientific Discourse
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2023 The article is an overview of the problems on the topic of figurativeness in scientific discourse. The analysis was carried out in three perspectives: “conceptual” - the key ideas about the role of figurativeness in the formation of scientific discourse (
Natalya Yu. Kozlova
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