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  Bi-connected Components in the Journal Citation Report of the Social Science Citation Index
1608 social science journals plotted in terms of the two main dimensions of the matrix (“economics” and “psychology” journals, respectively).
Unlike the natural and life sciences, the social sciences often construct their subject matter both in terms of “what” they study and in terms of “how” the subject under study is to be analyzed.
For example, in the case of science studies we found a longitudinal decay of a previously stabilized interdiscipline during the first half of the 1990s (Leydesdorff and Van den Besselaar, 1997; Van den Besselaar, 2001).
users.fmg.uva.nl /lleydesdorff/sosci01/art   (5613 words)

  
  Physical science Summary
Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science, and science (generally), that study non-living systems, in contrast to the biological sciences.
Natural sciences generally, and physical sciences particularly, tend to be more reductionist sciences, in contrast to the more holistic social sciences; i.e., physical science tends to explain the whole system from the system's fundamental parts, whereas social science tends to explain the whole system as more than the mere sum of its fundamental parts.
Physics is the science of nature in the broadest sense, dealing with the fundamentals of matter, energy, and the forces of nature governing the interactions between particles (such as molecules, atoms, or subatomic particles).
www.bookrags.com /Physical_science   (10893 words)

  
 New York University College of Dentistry
The goal of the predoctoral D.D.S. curriculum is to educate health care professionals who value health promotion and possess the knowledge and skills to diagnose, manage, and prevent diseases, abnormalities, and other conditions affecting the oral and perioral tissues.
The education encompasses a broad understanding of the biomedical sciences, behavioral sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as the social issues related to the general health and well-being of the public.
The educational process develops and reinforces the ethical responsibility of the health care professional for the public and develops a keen sense of the role of the dentist as an integral member of the health professions team.
www.nyu.edu /dental/academicprograms/dds/index.html   (599 words)

  
 Mueller Science - Modell: Imagination
John Tyndall: Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science.
Henry Rose: Poetic imagery and the science of correspondence.
A social psychology of scientific knowledge, studying the interplay of psychological and cultural factors in science with emphasis upon imagination.
www.muellerscience.com /MODELL/Literatur/Lit.Imagination(1501-2000).htm   (2943 words)

  
 Biographies, The Scientists: A List.
Ampère, a teacher at Paris, has his permanent place in the history of science because it was his name that was given to the unit by which we measure electrical current.
Humanist, atheist and science popularizer, Julian Huxley, a Professor of Zoology, was the brother of Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas H. Huxley.
In 1772 he was appointed to the French Academy of Sciences; and, in 1780, the St. Petersburg Academy.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Science/Scients.htm   (4560 words)

  
 Philosophy of Science at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
Hopos is an informal, international working group of scholars who share an interest in promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the philosophy of science and related topics in the history of the natural and social sciences, logic, philosophy, and mathematics.
Forster also maintains Philosophy of Science, Wisconsin Style, with information about graduate studies in the philosophy of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, plus general links to science and philosophy of science resources.
Paul Feyerabend (b.1924, d.1994), having studied science at the University of Vienna, moved into philosophy for his doctoral thesis, made a name for himself both as an expositor and (later) as a critic of Karl Popper's `critical rationalism', and went on to become one of this century's most famous philosophers of science.
www.erraticimpact.com /~topics/html/philosophy_of_science.htm   (1660 words)

  
 Science & Philosophy :: View topic - Formal Falsify and Replace Analysis of Darwinian Theories
Back in the old days when biologists were careful about what kind of claims they made, the explanation for the offered falsification demonstration would have been "We currently do not have enough knowledge to formulate testable predictive theories of evolution".
Back in th eold days, internet pseudoexperts did not declare that all fields of scienc emust acquiesce to their particular idiosyncratic notions of what constitutes good science.
For people that followed the old fashioned scientific standards, the 'interesting' part of this demonstration is not the falsification, but the fact that I have been able to fit the data to a new typoe of testable predictive theory that appears capable of passing testing.
www.sciencechatforum.com /bulletin/viewtopic.php?t=406   (3322 words)

  
 Science Whatzit!
I have a science calendar that states the following: "After about six years, every person in the world inhales, on average, one atom that we have exhaled.
It is a tenet of science that energy on the large scale can not be created nor destroyed, only changed into another form.
The actual wind we feel every day is an incredibly complex result of all of these forces, plus the effects of water, mountains and even the buildings and trees that surround us.
www.omsi.edu /explore/whatzit/answers.cfm?category=earth   (3888 words)

  
 Science Forum - Scientific Discussion and Debate
The science of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems.
Geology, Geography, Tectonics, or any of several essentially geologic sciences that are concerned with the origin, structure, and physical phenomena of the earth.
The science of matter and energy and of interactions between the two, grouped in traditional fields such as Acoustics, Optics, Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Electromagnetism, as well as in modern extensions including Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Cryogenics, Solid-state Physics, Particle Physics, and Plasma Physics.
www.thescienceforum.com   (649 words)

  
 Food Science Program
The Department of Food Science was founded in 1959 and officially activated after the appointment of a chairperson in January 1960.
The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition requires students majoring in Food Science to complete 36 credits in prerequisite and core courses that emphasis the basic principles and industrial applications of chemistry, microbiology, mathematics and engineering to the control and enhancement of flavor, color, texture, nutritive value and safety of foods.
Research: Cereal science; physicochemical and functional properties of different constituents of cereal grains in relation to end-use quality; extrusion; dough theology; baking; and utilization of certain constituents from grain for food and/or non-food industries, with emphases on cereal proteins.
www.msu.edu /unit/fshn/handbooks/undergrad_fsc.html   (4119 words)

  
 Keck Revolution in Telescope Design Pioneered at Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Of all the tools and instruments of science, there is none so grand or enduring as the telescope.
Bob Weitzmann of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory made fundamental contributions to the passive support system and its attachment to the telescope structure.
It was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, who became the first man to see the craters of the moon, and who went on to discover sunspots, the four large moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn.
www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/keck-telescope.html   (3877 words)

  
 Stanford Department of Political Science Bachelors Degree
Submit an application for the Political Science major to the undergraduate administrator, and declare on Axess.
Satisfy breadth requirements (45 units): each student must take two courses out of the following Political Science courses, one of which must be in the primary concentration; the other must be in the secondary concentration.
Courses counting toward the 70-unit requirement must be taken for a letter grade, although units in excess of the required 70 may be taken on a credit/no credit basis.
www.stanford.edu /group/polisci/bachelors.html   (775 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
By his own (ambiguous) account, between 10 March 1608 and 10 March 1609.
He was a virtuoso in the style of the day, interested in everything but accomplished (in science) in nothing.
However, he did experiment fairly extensively in chemistry and was known at the time as a chemist.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/moray.html   (657 words)

  
 The Paper Project - History of the Microscope
The usually accepted date for the invention of the telescope is 1608.
It is based on a letter from Jacob Adriaanzoon (also called James Metius) to the States General, in which he asked for exclusive rights to sell an instrument he had invented by which distant objects appeared larger and more distinct.
It was to Christina of Lorraine the granddaughter of Catherine de' Medici that Galileo wrote his letter on science and scripture, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine."
lifesciences.asu.edu /paperproject/Microscopehistory   (1326 words)

  
 mcli Forum: Fall 2001: SyRIS
Systemic Reform In Science (SyRIS), funded by the National Science Foundation and in-kind support from participating colleges and the mcli, is a district-wide project designed to improve student outcomes in science through changes in curriculum and pedagogy.
These teams are charged with designing, developing, and field-testing interdisciplinary science modules for entry-level science courses using active learning strategies and critical thinking.
These hands-on science modules that reflect real-life applications will enhance student learning and success by improving the quality of undergraduate science instruction.
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu /forum/fall01/syris.html   (785 words)

  
 Herbal Lottery: Science News Online, June 7, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Several years ago, however, Christine M. Gilroy of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver was unsure whether to trust data from those experiments because few reports included biochemical proof of which species of purple coneflower had been used.
Moreover, any set of standard practices may be severely challenged by the complex makeup of herbal products, several scientists told Science News.
If you have a comment on this article that you would like considered for publication in Science News, send it to editors@sciencenews.org.
www.sciencenews.org /20030607/bob8.asp   (2778 words)

  
 DLIST - Network Structure, Self-Organization and the Growth of International Collaboration in Science. Research Policy, ...
Using data from co-authorships at the international level in all fields of science in 1990 and 2000, and within six case studies at the sub-field level in 2000, different explanations for the growth of international collaboration in science and technology are explored.
Crawford, E. Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 1880-1939: Four Studies of the Nobel Population.
The Intellectual and Social Organisation of the Sciences.
dlist.sir.arizona.edu /1571   (1067 words)

  
 Milton and the Natural World - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Milton and the Natural World overturns prevailing critical assumptions by offering a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which the representation of Eden's plants and animals is shown to be fully cognizant of the century's new, scientific natural history.
The fabulous lore of the old science is wittily debunked, and the poem embraces new imaginative and symbolic possibilities for depicting the natural world, suggested by the speculations of Milton's scientific contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn.
Karen Edwards argues that Milton has represented the natural world in Paradise Lost, with its flowers and trees, insects and beasts, as a text alive with meaning and worthy of close reading.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521643597   (304 words)

  
 EARTH SCIENCE: More Signs of a Far-Traveled West -- Kerr 277 (5332): 1608 -- Science
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www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/277/5332/1608   (211 words)

  
 ScienceWeek
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The following points are made by E. Weiss et al (Science 2006 312:1608):
Zohary, M. Hopf, Domestication of Plants in the Old World (Oxford Science, Oxford, ed.
scienceweek.com /2006/sw060630-2.htm   (532 words)

  
 Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of "cock and bull"?
We've seen similar usages arise in our own time, leading me to think Word Detective has it right and that alternative theories are not just cock and bull stories but--dare I say it?--mickey mouse.
Staff Reports are researched and written by members of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, Cecil's online auxiliary.
Although the SDSAB does its best, these articles are edited by Ed Zotti, not Cecil, so accuracywise you'd better keep your fingers crossed.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mcockandbull.html   (360 words)

  
 Grinnell College Biology150, Gregg-Jolly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The class will have three, one hour and fifty-minute meetings per week that combine lab, lecture, and discussion.
Class meetings will be held from 10:00 to 11:50 am on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Science 1605 and 1608.
This course will be taught in a workshop format, integrating lecture, laboratory work and discussion in each class period.
web.grinnell.edu /courses/bio/f05/bio150-02   (169 words)

  
 Welcome to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
It is interesting to scan the Index to the database to see the variety of topics that are covered.
In a way this database can be regarded as an index to all of science.
The email servers were written up in Newsweek's "Cyberscope" column on Jan. 9, 1995; in Science on July 22, 1994; and in several other places.
www.research.att.com /~njas/sequences/Seis.html   (1917 words)

  
 Carl Peck, M.D.
The Center for Drug Development Science (CDDS), established in late 1994 at Georgetown University and with the UCSF School of Pharmacy since October, 2004, seeks to advance the science, strategic planning, and management processes of drug development and to establish clinical drug development science as a rigorous academic discipline through four programs:
Contributing to the education of practitioners of drug and regulatory science.
Providing for a discussion of drug development science and regulatory policies.
www.ucsf.edu /dbps/faculty/pages/peck.html   (561 words)

  
 Structure of the calcium-dependent lectin domain from a rat mannose-binding protein determined by MAD phasing -- Weis ...
Home > Science Magazine > 13 December 1991 > Weis et al.
Copyright © 1991 by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Structure of the calcium-dependent lectin domain from a rat mannose-binding protein determined by MAD phasing
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/lookup?vol=254&fp=1608&view=abstract   (1754 words)

  
 Bibliographies on Theory/Foundations of Computer Science
A large bibliography on theory/foundations of computer science
Bibliography of the proceedings of the annual IEEE symposia on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
Bibliography for the Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
www.cs.toronto.edu /pub/mirror/bibliography/Theory/index.html   (318 words)

  
 Science In Your State: South Dakota
National Center for Earth Resource Observation and Science (EROS)
Timely and ready access to global land remote sensing and other Earth surface data and information from USGS Earth Resource Observation and Science (EROS).
Statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, national security, and protection of the environment
www.usgs.gov /state/state.asp?State=SD   (408 words)

  
 Development of SCAR and CAPS Markers Linked to the Beta Gene in Tomato -- Zhang and Stommel 41 (5): 1602 -- Crop Science
Development of SCAR and CAPS Markers Linked to the Beta Gene in Tomato -- Zhang and Stommel 41 (5): 1602 -- Crop Science
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education
Copyright © 2001 by the Crop Science Society of America.
crop.scijournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/41/5/1602   (343 words)

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