the nature of science problems and perspectives pdf

... to show the relative positions and movements of the sun, planets, and moon as they cir- cled the earth. As the center of the uni- verse, the earth was a sphere in the center of the orrery. The other ... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty of the heavens, but by a deeper understanding of nature and by an appreci- ation of the power of the human intellect. This triumph of the human mind says...

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... that ropes A and C were the two ends of the same rope and B and D were two ends of another rope. Karen had A and B as ends of the same rope and C and D as ends of another rope, and her explanation ... informed not only by the beauty and majesty of the heavens, but by a deeper understanding of nature and by an appreci- ation of the power of the human intellect. This triumph of the human mind says ... biological evolution and the nature and history of science. ã Chapter 5, Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution and the Nature of Science, ” gives short answers to some of the questions asked...

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... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... relaxed and happy—did not. On this stern-faced woman and her opinion of my work, my livelihood depended. And now she wanted my opinion of something she’d written? Umm, maybe, I ventured, there ... transition? And this word, here, perhaps it wasn’t exactly what she meant? Elise took back the manuscript and looked at it, hard, the way she always did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her...

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... education, or interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to ... into the rare and splendid precincts of her mind. And in doing so, she’d bestow just the sorts of insights you’ll find in the pages of this book. I speak now not of such matters of common sense and ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she...

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... indicate the 5Â-ter- minus of 33 clones isolated after 5Â-RACE. (B) Primer extension analysis of fgl2 mRNA. The left side of the figure is the sequence ladder using the same primer and the pM166 ... indicates the nucleotide that is matched to the band present in the primer extension reaction on the right. The sequence of the primer is 5Â-CCTCCACCGCTCGG CAGGCAGCGAGGACGG-3Â. The lanes on the right ... recruited to the fgl2 promoter and then facilitate the further recruitment and binding of other positive trans-regulators, such as Oct-1, Ets-1, and Stat3-like protein (Fig. 5). In other systems...

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... Kawachi is Professor of Health and Social Behavior and the Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research concerns the social and economic ... reviews the relevant literature and demonstrates that the nature of parents’ working conditions, rather than the mere fact of parents’ employment, is what determines whether the effects of parental ... uni- laterally to problems. The end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century experienced what has been referred to as early globalization, and countries saw the growth of a more integrated...

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... evaluation of the percentage of the expected loss; (2) the other, deals with the physical vulnerability of individual structures and on the estima‐ tion of the likelihood of occurrence of physical ... representing the degree of loss/potential damage of the element at risk (see Table 1). The evaluation of vulnerability and the combination of the hazard and the vulnerability to obtain the risk differs ... after the event) through the use of interviews, questionnaires and field mapping. The main advantage of these methods is the use of real data. However, the results are very much dependent on the...

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... Proximity of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean coastlines, of allogen rivers or of Lake Chad, constitute yet other factors of differentiation, while the nature of the soil (whether it is rocky or sandy) ... deposited along the bedding planes of the sandstone bedrock as a consequence of the recharge of the hydrographic net inside the mountain and they implicate a high precipitation rate. A number of U/Th ... (Fedoroff and Courty, 1989; Cremaschi and Trombino, 1998). According to the stratigraphic sequence of Uan Afuda, in which this type of soil was observed at the top of Unit 3, the development of the...

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... describes the oscillation of some object on half-line. The controlling cost at each step is unbounded and is defined by conditional expectation of the cost caused by the number of jumps and of the integral ... and of the integral of the square of the difference of the state and control processes. The goal of controlling is to minimize the cost evarage on infinite time inter- val. The main result obtained ... controlling strategy. 1.2. Definition of the Cost If at the n-th step, the state of elementary process is x and we selected a control with the parameter μ(μ>0) then we define the cost at this step by formula r n (x,...

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