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Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Discussion of Extra Solar Planets

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

Fast ForWord Scientific Learning Software

as "b" and "d." It has long been known that "b" and "d" have presented young learners with difficulty, and for years it was belie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scientific Community and the Future of Women

more flexible, in that it looks at gendered behaviours in terms of context: masculine and feminine behaviours can still be disting...

Thales' Philosophy

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

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...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

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...

Atkins Diet Success

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

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...

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...

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...

Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Science

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

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Lawn Comparison Scientific Case Study

grass watered (both volume and frequency)? Are any other chemicals, enhancers, etc. used? A secondary source of information may be...

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. ...