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In recent years, several New England projects have promoted professional development and curriculum design in optics and photonics. Funded in part by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of the National Science Foundation... more
O curso de extensão "Teoria Feminista na Ciência" propõe um diálogo histórico e conceitual com os estudantes de graduação a partir de teóricas feministas que trabalham com a crítica ao modelo hegemônico da ciência moderna.
The renewed interest of stakeholders in multilateral weapons control in the security and disarmament implications of developments in science and technology (S&T) provides an opportunity for critical reflection on and political action... more
Since 9/11, intelligence has evolved within a changing atmosphere of modern tactics and techniques for information collection. This atmosphere, coupled with massive leaps in technological advancement such as social media, mobile... more
In this study, the effect of computer aided teaching of acid-base subject on the attitude towards science and technology course is investigated. In the material developed by the researcher, it was aimed to enable students learn acid-base... more
This article focuses on issues concerning science and technology relationships posed by the emergence of a new drug discovery method, namely, combinatorial chemistry and biology. We assess the scientific content of combinatorial chemistry... more
It is shown that it is possible to use synchrotron X-radiation to measure fast fluorescent emission in compounds not readily available in single-crystal form. Of 85 compounds tested, about half were found to have fluorescence below the... more
Over the last decades Nanotechnology has promised to advance science and technology in many areas. Within medicine, Nanomedicine promises to deliver new methods for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. As the amount of available information... more
This dissertation investigates the ways in which geoengineering interlinks with global environmental politics (GEP) and how they cohere together. The core question is how geoengineering fits in today’s political context and how it affects... more
This study analyzes the age profile of scientific employees and its relation to personnel costs and scientific productivity within eight faculties at the University of Vienna. The age demography can overall be divided into two main... more
The SOFIA and SIRTF EPO Programs have partnered with the Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) Team in designing, evaluating, and facilitating an online program for K-12 teachers to experience multiwavelength... more
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar os avanços científicos e tecnológicos relacionados com a exploração do planeta Marte e sua colonização pela humanidade no futuro como local alternativo de fuga de seres humanos visando sua... more
Both science and technology education have a commitment to teaching process; investigations or scientific method in science, design in technology, and problem solving in both areas. The separate debates in science and technology education... more
Biological processes and methods have been influencing science and technology for many decades. The ideas of feedback and control processes Norbert Wiener used in his cybernetics were based on observation of these phenomena in biological... more
in Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge, edited by Laura Nader (Routledge, 1996), pp.174-97
This tutorial is an outgrowth of a classroom-based simulation project and should act as a general outline for using simulations in English for Science and Technology classrooms. The simulation w as created based on an actual court case... more
Currently, the Vector Space Model algorithm has been widely implemented for the document search feature because of its reliability in retrieving information. One of them in the search for verses of the Qur'an based on the translation.... more
In 1989, former President Bush stated that, as one of the national goals, “the United States would be first in the world in math and science. ” Little did we realize at that time how this would prove to be quite a challenge as the nation... more
This study was designed to identify the relationship between free time management and quality of life, exploring whether the amount of free time or the way people using their free time relates to their quality of life. Data were collected... more