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19th and 20th Centuries' Changes in Scientific Research Funding

the aim of advancing in terms of methodology when uncovering longitude at sea (1991). This situation had been for the most part re...

Design, Empirical Research, and Scientific Method

technology (McPherson, 2001). As this suggests, there are other legitimate forms of scientific investigation besides the classical...

Ice Sculpture, Science, Theology, and Sensations

rationalize our mental processes. Beliefs such as those involving our ice sculpture are typically viewed from the foundationalist...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

Human Physiology and Prostanoid Receptors

to be not as hydrophobic as they were once thought and that they do not incorporate into or permeate cell membranes (Narumiya, Sug...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Issues of Partnership and Scientific Integrity

For example, if scientists are supported by R.J. Reynolds, they realize the people who pay their salaries will not want to find ou...

Three Themes Relating to Audience Studies

that they may have a different response to it, actively choosing to either accept the message, or to reject it and interpret it di...

Global Hospitality Industry and Human Resource Management

but in the service industry as it reflects on the quality of service received by the guests (Lucas , 2004, Korcynski, 2002). Howev...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...

Leadership of BMW

supervisory board (aufsichtsrat), and the management board (vorstand). This has a strong historic presence and has mandatory since...

The Reputation of Alfred Russel Wallace

of existence. The Enlightenment symbolized the chance to break free from such constraints as heretofore placed upon the concept o...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Performance of Employees and Motivation

attempting to induce others to accept certain goals and/or standards (Accel-Team.com, 2004). There are important caveats managers...

Robots' Limitations and Scientific Method

process of deduction occurs, reasoning progresses from the specific to the general. In reality both processes are important to th...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Science Achievement and Gender Differences Proposal

National Science Foundation reported that half of the people working in social sciences were women but only 8 percent of engineers...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Adolescent Suicide and Depression

In six pages scientific research regarding depression and how it is manifested differently among genders and the factors that infl...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

'No Miracles' Argument and Scientific Realism

not in the business of representing aspects of the world, there is no way to argue for a plurality of moral truths, simply from th...

Plant Modification Through Genetics

creation of specific plant types through cross-breading was a standard in agricultural research for decades. The introduction o...

Overview of OPC3

large role in the stabilization of collagen and elastin, which are two basic proteins in the connective tissues that surround most...