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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...

Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

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, ...

Autobiographical Recollections and Their Accuracy

In four pages this paper examines scientific findings in an assessment of the accuracy of autobiographical recollections and a con...

The East Coast Problem of Beach Erosion

In fact, some project the future as being very different from the beaches that are present today. There is a fear that the beaches...

Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

Ancient Alchemy and Its Progress

have causes to which they can be traced, the causes in themselves can be classified into four principles of explanation: material...

Antarctic Research and What is Learned from the Connection Between Politics and Science

the changes in the worlds political and economic foundation (Elzinga, 1991). Looking at the area today, there are twenty four co...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...

Quaternary Geology Field and Dendrochronology

the next years new growth cells that make this tree ring and make the dating possible(Easerbro 2004). Working backward through...

Human Behavior and the Effects of the Full Moon

very ancient ancestors, experts theorize. Experts tracked the biorhythms of various individuals and found that the new moon and th...

Assessment of Armstrong's Quote 'Human Resource Management Nothing More Than Old Wine in New Bottles'

as having input and value that can be added, rather than simply in the hiring and firing function that was associated with personn...

An Artificial Intelligence Overview

in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...

British Scientist John Frederic Daniell's Life and Work

only due to contacts, but also dui to the reputation he had already been establishing for himself. Daniell had been conduc...

Science That Changed the World

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

Discussion of Extra Solar Planets

(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

Organizational Structure and the Perspectives of Frederick Taylor and Max Weber

modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...

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...

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...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

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

Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

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. ...

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...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

California National Assembly Health Committee, and as Wakefield reports, this is what makes the current situation so untenable. ...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Atkins Diet Success

effect can be seen almost everywhere. Atkins has influenced the commodities market, advertising, marketing and even changed the w...

Europe of the 1930s and the Relationships Between Government and Science

commune for the people of Germany. The need to establish communes and become self-supporting nations is a Marxist princip...