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Blomley, Matthew. "The new science, social science, and society." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620289.
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Williams, E. H. L. "Science, sociology and the new epistemology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309277.
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Kazzazi, Seyedeh Anahit. "Performing science : new physics and contemporary British and American science plays." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67576/.
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Randolpe, Lyssa. "The new woman and the new science : feminist writing 1880-1900." Thesis, Coventry University, 2001. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/206dbf26-a8d1-ea66-bafb-338445adbefc/1.
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In this thesis I contend that evolutionary scientific discourses were integral to the work of "New Woman" writers of late Victorian literary culture in Britain. In the cultural debates that raged over the new gender politics and their relationship to social and moral values at the fin de siècle, the questions raised about femininity, modernity and the "woman question" were also central to the "new sciences" of sexology, eugenics, psychology and anthropology. This thesis investigates the issue of whether the new sciences offered an enabling set of discourses to New Women through which to produce new artistic, professional and personal feminine identities and to campaign for feminist goals. An understanding of the field of cultural production informs this discussion; I argue that science functions as cultural and symbolic capital in literary production of the period, and consider the dynamics between constructs of value, status, and the feminine in the literary market-place and their relationship to scientific narratives. This analysis is developed through the illumination of the relationship between New Woman novelists and poets, female aesthetes, and other forces in the field, in discussion of the thematic concerns and literary strategies of those participating in these debates: amongst others, Mona Caird, "Iota" (Katherine Mannington Caffyn), Victoria Cross(e) (Annie Sophie Cory), Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth McFall), Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), Alice Meynell, May Kendall, Constance Naden, and the anti-New Woman male writer, Grant Allen. An examination of a variety of literary forms and genres, in addition to the novel — the principal focus for much scholarship on the New Woman — such as the feminist periodicals, poetry, journalism and the short story, is central to the thesis and enables identification of shared literary strategies and techniques as well as consideration of readers and critical contexts. The roles and representation of "woman" in this period were produced within biological determinist concepts of sex and Nature. The study concentrates on ways in which essentialist dichotomies of cultural and biological reproduction redefined notions of literary and artistic "genius", motherhood and female citizenship, as they intersect with "race" and sexuality in imperial contexts. Women's critique and construct of these subjectivities differed; study of the women's journals reveals a consumer culture saturated in discourses of health and hygiene, negotiated by a divided community of readers. Focus on theories and representation of the child in late Victorian culture finds that Alice Meynell's writing challenged evolutionary psychology, and relates Sarah Grand's child genius to emergent Galtonian eugenics. I argue that late nineteenth-century feminism was intimately involved in imperialism and eugenics, and suggest that current feminist scholarship must confront and analyse these investments. In this thesis I find that boundaries between the groups' identities are fluid; points of intercourse and affiliation are revealed, such as the ways in which scientific constructs of "race", as in Mona Caird's use of the Celtic, are deployed in order to comment on literary value. I have highlighted the ambivalences at work in these appropriations, and suggest that the New Woman text was not always polemical, nor did it reject "high art" values, and that the female aesthetes also express feminist convictions. I contend that for many feminist writers, participation in these late nineteenth-century debates was a necessary and productive critical intervention, with radical, if not always progressive, implications.
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Maddocks, Liana Elizabeth. "Contemporary Canadian drama and the new science." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56346.pdf.
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Jones, David A. "Creation science a new test of orthodoxy? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Hepburn, Winthrop Brent. "the mind in Giambattista Vic's new science." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533128.
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Krise, Kelsy Marie. "Exploring Learning Progressions of New Science Teachers." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1438277705.
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Shearn, Peter Anthony. "Making science visible : new forms of science and technology management and evaluation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500670.
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Reidy, Lisa Jayne. "Stable isotope analysis : a new forensic science tool." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479310.
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Gallagher-Jones, Marcus. "New science exploration from XFEL : a new paradigm for structural visualisation of macromolecules." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2002601/.
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X-rays have a long-standing history as an investigative probe in the sciences, and in particular their application to the biological and biomedical sciences has provided an enormous contribution to these fields. Indeed structural biology, the study of the molecules of life at an atomic scale via macromolecular crystallography, has been a major benefactor of advances in x-ray radiation sources. Currently two major bottlenecks exist within this field, the need for well diffracting crystals and radiation damage limitations. The advent of fourth generation x-ray sources, X-ray Free-electron Lasers (XFEL) heralds a shift in the way such experiments are performed. XFELs, due to their high brilliance and ultra short (fs) pulses, hope to decouple radiation dose limitations from spatial resolution by outrunning this radiation damage in short exposures, ‘diffraction before destruction’. This thesis is concerned with exploring experimental methodologies made possible by XFELs, including establishing the experimental infrastructure required at the worlds second XFEL, SACLA, and performing initial experiments. Firstly the potential of performing gas-phase small angle x-ray scattering experiments (gSAXS) is investigated. The current need for gas-phase structural information will be presented and the experimental parameters and projected signal requirements will then be explored. The results of experiments at a synchrotron radiation source with various biomolecules will be presented. It is shown that with the current experimental set-up experiments are fundamentally limited by the signal to noise ratio (SNR) pointing to the necessity of XFEL. Secondly the application of coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) to biological systems at synchrotron and XFEL sources is explored, and the development of experimental systems at both sources is outlined. A method for combining complimentary scattering experiments at both sources is demonstrated and the results of its application to the assembly mechanism of the self-assembling, non-crystalline, macromolecule, the RNAi microsponge, are presented. The microsponge is found to have a nucleating origin leading to a core-shell like nanostructure in the fully formed molecule.
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Feldges, Thomas Karl. "Cognitive science and phenomenology : Varela's 'new science of consciousness' at the system-theoretical crossroads." Thesis, University of Hull, 2016. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14801.
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Derkatch, Colleen Joan. "Rhetorical boundaries in the "new science" of alternative medicine." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14201.
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This dissertation investigates scientific studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as episodes of scientific boundary work: these studies shift, and then seek to fix, the boundaries between what counts as proper medical science and what does not. Rhetoric scholars have mapped sites of boundary work both in science and in various CAM practices, but there is still some question of how biomedicine itself responds to challenges to its borders—and, by extension, challenges to its social and epistemic authority. This dissertation examines the rhetorical constituents of biomedical boundary work by analyzing a corpus of CAM-themed special issues of the journals of the American Medical Association from 1998, in which members of the medical profession consider the implications of including under biomedicine’s purview health practices formerly considered outside it.
The project examines this corpus, and responses published in both medical and popular outlets, to illuminate some of the ways in which members of a culturally dominant profession evaluate medical therapies in the face of disciplinary unrest, both within and beyond the borders of their profession. The chapters move from contexts internal to medicine to those external, mapping, sequentially, the historical-professional, epistemological, clinical, and popular dimensions of biomedical boundary work. The project aims to provide a more nuanced, stratified account of the rhetorical negotiation of medical and scientific boundaries. Its main claim is that, despite the willingness of many medical researchers and practitioners to elide distinctions between mainstream and alternative medicine, this research on CAM, and its related activities (i.e., publication, clinical practice), ultimately strengthen those distinctions and expand science’s authority in medicine.
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Lee, Joungmin. "A New Music Composition Technique using Natural Science Data." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557005560251117.
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Schlaepfer-Miller, Juanita. "Defining new knowledge produced by collaborative art-science research." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/6500.
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This thesis takes a theoretical framework constructed for transdisciplinary research within different natural science disciplines and investigates what kind of new knowledge is produced when this framework is applied to projects at the interface of art and natural science. The main case study is “Sauti ya Wakulima – The Voice of the Farmers”, which involves collaboration with another intervention artist, and with natural scientists and farmers. This is a collaborative knowledge project with small-scale urban as well as rural farmers in Tanzania who have created an online community archive of their farming practices by using mobile phones to upload images and sounds onto a website. The research uses an open-ended participatory methodology that gives the participants as much creative agency as possible within the given power structures and practical and technical parameters. A second work examined is the Climate Hope Garden, an installation by the author in collaboration with ecologists and climate scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ). The installation consisted of a garden grown in climate-controlled chambers based on the climatic conditions proposed by IPCC climate scenarios. The project aimed to enact these scenarios on a spatial and temporal scale to which visitors could relate. Transdisciplinary research has become a key reference point in funding proposals. Despite many references in the literature, and calls for research involving both the natural sciences and humanities to solve complex world problems such as adaptation to climate change, there seems to be little consensus about exactly what kind of knowledge might be produced from such projects, and how transdisciplinary research proposals might be evaluated, especially those at the interface of art and the natural sciences. Several theoretical frameworks have been suggested for designing transdisciplinary research between and within scientific disciplines, or between the natural and social sciences and humanities. The present study applies the framework proposed by Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn (2007) to a real-world transdisciplinary art-science project in a development context in order to examine the balance between the collective, locally embodied experience and the nomothetic knowledge that arises from it. This thesis found that transdisciplinarity is a different question from that of types of knowledge on the nomothetic-idiographic scale. Transdisciplinarity is a pragmatic question of definitions and inherited boundaries of disciplines. The framework categories do not differentiate between nomothetic and idiographic, just to which part of the problem-solving puzzle they fit. This is perfectly valid for goal-oriented, problem-solving research and can be applied to art-science research, but there are other ways of describing this work, such as using a philosophical description of the knowing process which comes closer to encompassing the richness of the knowledge produced. It is in this sense that the new type of knowledge generated by the transdisciplinary projects required an expansion of the given theoretical framework.
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Cepni, Salih. "New secondary science teachers development in Turkey : implications for the 'Academy of New Teacher' Programme." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239922.
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Hedges, Christina Louise. "Shedding new light on old data : finding new results for exoplanet science in archival data." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269412.
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In Chapter 2 of this thesis I present my database of molecular absorption cross sections. These were developed using public molecular transition line-lists (from the ExoMol group). I use them to find limitations in the modelling of exoplanet atmospheres due to pressure broadening. Pressure broadening, where collisions between molecules in atmospheres cause a Lorentzian broadening of molecular transitional lines, is little understood in the field. In this chapter I consider its effects on real exoplanet atmosphere observations, both with current and future instruments. I show that pressure broadening may affect future observations of exoplanets in the JWST era. Pressure broadening primarily affects cooler, small exoplanets such as Earth analogues. In Chapter 3 I present the pipeline I have developed to reduce HST WFC3 spectra of exoplanet hosts during transits to create transmission spectra. This code corrects several instrumental systematics, from varying dark signal in the detector to subpixel shifts in the target position over time. By creating a pipeline to process all targets, regardless of observing strategy, systematics are dealt with uniformly and different planets’ spectra can be meaningfully compared. I show that the height of the water feature in 30 unique exoplanets’ transmission spectra is strongly correlated with the most simplistic absorption model. I use this to predict a list of the best future targets for observations with HST WFC3 to find water. In Chapter 4 I discuss my work with the stellar spectra from WFC3, which utilise the sub-pixel shifts in target position to oversample the spectra and increase the resolution. I have compared these exoplanet host stellar spectra with stellar models to investigate how well stellar atmosphere models describe the near IR. I find a small discrepancy in temperature when WFC3 alone is used to assess the stellar temperature, particularly with cooler stars. I attribute this firstly to an error in the WFC3 sensitivity curve and secondly to an inaccuracy in models of cool, small stars due to molecular absorption. In Chapter 5 I present my work on K2 light curve data using machine learning to find young stellar objects that display unusual, transit-like behaviour. These objects are known as dipper stars due to their distinctive occultations with depths of 10-50% in flux and very fast orbital periods of a few hours to a few days. Such large occultations are difficult to explain and are currently attributed to material at the inner edge of the protoplanetary disk. This behaviour is often variable and aperiodic, suggesting that the occulting material is changing in morphology on the time scale of a single orbit. Using python’s scikit-learn I have developed a code that utilises a Random Forest algorithm to classify stars in K2 Campaign Field 2 and distinguish these objects from other types of variables, such as eclipsing binaries and pulsating stars. This method has proved very successful and has allowed me to nearly quadruple the number of known dipper candidates in the Upper Scorpius and Rho Ophiuchus regions.
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Forret, Joan Boyce. "An Interface between science and law: What is science for members of New Zealand's Environment Court?" The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2667.
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This study investigates the interface between science and law with reference to models of science described by members of New Zealand's Environment Court. The aim of the research is to identify differences and consistencies between the members of the Court in the way that they articulate their understanding of science and of scientific evidence. This research also aims to locate those individual models of science within a wider philosophical discourse concerning the nature of science. The research adopts a qualitative and interpretive approach that focuses on understanding the detail of contextual interactions arising from interviews with eight Environment Judges and 13 Commissioners. The interview group comprised all of the judges of the Court during the research period (1999 - 2000) and all but one permanent Commissioner. The analysis of interviews show a wide range of views concerning the scope and nature of science. Criteria significant to each individual's model of science have been identified as a series of micro themes. Those micro themes differ between individuals as to the combinations of criteria significant when locating the boundary between science and non-science. The analysis of interviews also identifies three macro themes that describe whether and how individuals differentiate science, technology and expertise. That analysis identifies a group of interviewees, comprising both judges and commissioners, that equates science with expertise without distinction as to any knowledge component or process considerations. The analysis of interview responses adopts a boundary-work approach that identifies how individuals locate the boundary between science and non-science through their articulation of the micro themes significant to their model of science. The study contributes to the discourse concerning the relationship of science and law within modern society. That discourse commonly addresses the appropriate legal framework to assess questions involving scientific expertise and invariably describes the legal process and the role of expert and decision maker within that process. However, that discourse rarely articulates the meaning of the terms science, scientist, or technology, assuming that science is a self-evident concept, its meaning having universal application and acceptance. This research challenges that approach and identifies wide differences in the models of science held by individual decision makers and differences in their expectations of evidence from expert witnesses. Aside from the implications of the research results for the discourse concerning the relationship of science and law, this research also has practical implications for the evaluation of expert scientific evidence within an adversarial system of law, and for expert evidence before the Environment Court. Suggestions to improve communication both within the Court and between the Court and parties appearing before it are made with a view to identifying consistent and fair expectations of experts and their evidence.
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Zeller, Benjamin E. Ariel Yaakov S. "Storming the gates of the Temple of Science religion and science in three new religious movements /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,733.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Department of Religious Studies." Discipline: Religious Studies; Department/School: Religious Studies.
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Lange, Alissa A., and Laura Robertson. "Collaborating to Teach Science to K-3rd Grade Students Using the New Tennessee State Science Standards." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4683.
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Greene, Jason. "New planet." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2001. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/278.
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Najike, Samuel Vegola. "Learning Science In A Secondary School In Papua New Guinea." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15922/.
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This study investigated teaching and learning, and the classroom learning environment in which the electricity topic was taught by the regular class teacher within the prescribed Grade 9 syllabus in a Secondary School in Papua New Guinea. The study was motivated by the perceived problems students had with understanding science concepts and the lack of classroom-based studies that provide a better understanding of teaching and learning science and the influence of the classroom learning environment on students' learning. An interpretive with embedded case study was conducted in a Grade 9 class over a period of 12 weeks in which data was gathered using mixed and multiple methods. Findings of the study revealed the presence and influence of aspects of the indigenous traditional teaching and learning approach impacting on the formal modern Western oriented teaching and learning approach in this particular classroom. The study recommended that in order to maximise students' learning and understanding of science concepts in the classroom observed, cultural sensitivity should be incorporated in the pedagogy.
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ARAUJO, RODOLFO PETRONIO DA COSTA. "PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: A NEW APPROACH AND COMPLEMENTARITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12026@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEsta investigação tem por objetivo apresentar um modelo de cooperação entre filosofia e ciência experimental, por meio de um domínio comum, a matemática, especialmente a álgebra. Essa coordenação entre dois domínios situados em níveis distintos de conhecimento da realidade natural chama-se filosofia da natureza, e havia sido proposta por Aristóteles nos oito livros da Física. Com o advento da ciência experimental moderna entre os séculos XVI e XVII, tal tipo de investigação passou a ter um caráter secundário, porquanto se entendeu que as teorias, especialmente as de base matemática, e o método experimental em conjunto seriam suficientes para dar conta da estrutura da realidade. No entanto, faz-se necessário -- e esta é nossa proposta --, em decorrência das questões de limite suscitadas pela própria ciência experimental, retomar uma investigação complementar à científica ou epistêmica, e coordenada com esta, de modo a prover um conhecimento integral, totalizante, da realidade natural. Portanto, analisa-se o alcance da ciência experimental quanto à compreensão científica da natureza da matéria, expondo certas limitações deste tipo de enfoque, tendo por base a epistemologia proposta pelo filósofo Jacques Maritain. Em seguida, analisa-se o estatuto metafísico ou ontológico da matéria, com base em vários textos de Tomás de Aquino, e propõe-se um modelo algébrico para a representação de elementos daquela ontologia. Por fim, apresentam-se algumas conseqüências que se podem extrair desse modelo, com vistas à compreensão de aspectos da realidade natural como espaço-tempo e movimento, não-localidade quântica, e uma proposta de visão totalizante da realidade física,denominada holomovimento, sugerida pelo físico David Bohm.
The main purpose of this enquiry is to provide a cooperative framework for philosophy and experimental science. This should be accomplished by means of a common domain, namely mathematics, specifically through algebra. Such a coordination between two different levels of knowledge of the natural world is named philosophy of nature, and had been proposed by Aristotle in his eight book Physics. As an outcome of the rise of modern science between 16th and 17th centuries, this kind of enquiry has been left aside as a secondary enterprise. For it has been a common understanding that modern scientific theories together with experimental methods would suffice to account for the structure of reality.However, I shall propose that it is necessary -- as a consequence of edge research on experimental sciences -- to resume a complementary enquiry to the scientific (epistemic) research, in such a coordinated way with this latter as to provide a whole knowledge of the natural world. Thus, I shall analyze the concept of matter as it is understood by experimental science, and based upon Jacques Maritain´s proposed epistemology I shall present some of the shortcomings of scientific approach to matter. Shortly afterwards, I shall analyze the metaphysical (ontological) status of matter based upon several writings from Thomas Aquinas, and I shall propose an algebraic model to represent some of the ontological elements that build up matter from a metaphysical point of view. Lastly, I shall present some of the consequences that can be obtained from that model in order to gain a metaphysical understanding of physical aspects such as space-time and movement, quantum non-locality, and also a whole perspective of physical reality as proposed by David Bohm which he called holomovement.
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Owen, Walter Lee. "A new model of evolution education for middle school science." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2999.
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Proposes a new model for teaching inquiry and critical thinking in the middle school science classroom. This model will assist students in learning the evidence for evolution for themselves, as well as assisting them in developing skills in critical thinking and inquiry. The objective of this model is to create a more scientifically literate student body who can go on to pursue an even greater understanding of the nature of science.
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Dunlap, Sarah Elizabeth. "Novel Ecologies: The New Science of Life in Modern Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494318892609889.
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Yunus, Hashimah Mohd. "Primary science in Malaysia : the implementation of a new curriculum." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3089/.
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This thesis investigates the implementation of the science curriculum in Malaysian primary schools. The study is concerned primarily with teachers' pedagogical content knowledge as a crucial determinant of teaching performance in implementing the new curriculum. The research involved the administration of a questionnaire to seven states in Malaysia to seek information regarding the implementation of the primary science curriculum. The main body of research data consists of case studies of 14 teachers. Teachers' pedagogical content knowledge and its influence of the implementation of the primary science curriculum were analysed on the basis of interviews and classroom observations. The lack of science pedagogical content knowledge is indeed a problem for teachers in implementing the curriculum. That knowledge is limited and constrained by other contributing factors - science instructional needs, especially the constructivist view of science teaching; knowledge of the ways in which children learn science; and the lack of resources and support. Teachers' belief in the subject and its teaching also affect the implementation. In the light of these constraints, it would be more appropriate to identify the necessary science pedagogical content knowledge, within the primary science curriculum, that teachers need to acquire in order to implement the curriculum as the developers intended. The key question, in the Malaysian primary school context, is how science pedagogical content knowledge is to be generated and disseminated. In-service teacher education is essential if there is to be an impact in the shorter term. Another question is the kind of initial training that will be fruitful and effective and worth investing in. Conceptual understanding and science pedagogical knowledge and skills are two promising areas of teachers' understanding of the curriculum that could be developed when planning in-service provision for Malaysian primary science education. An explicit examination to teachers' beliefs about science and the teaching and learning of science is also required in pre-service and in-service courses.
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France, Catherine Ann. "Gunnery and the struggle for the new science (1537-1687)." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7912/.
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This thesis re-examines the contribution of ballistics and gunnery to the emergence of modern science. It seeks to answer the question that inevitably emerges from A. R. Hall’s seminal Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century (1952): Why did early modern scientists and writers on gunnery include theoretical treatments of the trajectory of a gun in their works, despite the fact that it could be of no use to the practice of gunnery? Hall’s response to this perplexing question was simply that ballistic theory provided a scientific ‘veneer’ in support of attempts to gain patronage from rulers and military leaders who were anxious to gain an advantage in the new cannon warfare that played a crucial role in the development of the emerging European nation states from the end of the fifteenth century. Recent historiography, which has emphasised the role of etiquette and rhetoric in patronage relationships, has only served to bolster the credibility of Hall’s explanation, leading to an attenuation of the programme of the early modern writers who attempted to solve the mystery of the trajectory (‘the gunners’ question’). My thesis contends that, pace Hall, the struggle for the solution to the gunners’ question is paradigmatic for the resolution of unsolved issues in the history of science, and would aid substantially in delineating the role of mathematics and quantification not only in ballistics but in the transformation of natural enquiry into a recognisably modern enterprise. Whilst retaining the long-term chronological approach of Hall, my thesis re- examines in detail a number of central figures in the history of ballistics as historical actors, rather than focusing narrowly on theoretical results. This brings to the forefront their struggle to unite theory with practice and to persuade their audience of the necessity for a new approach to natural enquiry. Through a re-examination of key texts, the thesis attempts to uncover their wider programmatic aims. They all had in common a self-perception that they were involved in building a new science of motion that would lay certain foundations for practice, they sought commonalities in all the diverse domains of the natural and artificial world, and they recognised that this was the only route to new and certain knowledge.
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Tomlins, Steven. "In science we trust: Dissecting the chimera of New Atheism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28795.
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New Atheism is a neologism that is explicitly linked to four public intellectuals: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. At the heart of this movement are the five books these four atheists have written specifically on the topic of religion. Throughout the New Atheist literature science is conceptualized as the most powerful force for secularization in the modern era. This thesis is a textual discourse analysis of the New Atheist literature, with a primary focus on how the themes 'secularization' and 'science' are framed. It will explore how notions of secularization and science often bleed into each other, with science being portrayed as necessarily opposed to religion. It will also highlight the New Atheists' similarities and diversities of opinion on these matters, as well as examine where their stances are located in the broader debates concerning the so-called secular/religious divide and the interactions between science and religion.
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Nadrowski, Karin, Daniel Seifarth, Sophia Ratcliffe, Christian Wirth, and Lutz Maicher. "Identifiers in e-Science platforms for the ecological sciences." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101319.
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In the emerging Web of Data, publishing stable and unique identifiers promises great potential in using the web as common platform to discover and enrich data in the ecologic sciences. With our collaborative e-Science platform “BEFdata”, we generated and published unique identifiers for the data repository of the Biodiversity – Ecosystem Functioning Research Unit of the German Research Foundation (BEF-China; DFG: FOR 891). We linked part of the identifiers to two external data providers, thus creating a virtual common platform including several ecological repositories. We used the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF) as well the International Plant Name Index (IPNI) to enrich the data from our own field observations. We conclude in discussing other potential providers for identifiers for the ecological research domain. We demonstrate the ease of making use of existing decentralized and unsupervised identifiers for a data repository, which opens new avenues to collaborative data discovery for learning, teaching, and research in ecology.
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Pearson, Jennifer Olwyn. "New tricks for old hands : how experienced primary teachers incorporate new science curricula into their practice /." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13222.
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Primary teachers are constantly required to make changes in their teaching practice. This thesis reports on a year in the professional life of two experienced primary school teachers as they engage in implementing a new science program called Primary Investigations (Australian Academy of Science, 1994). The study examined the issues that arose as the two adapted the strategies and philosophies of the new program into their pre-existing pedagogical frameworks. The study used qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. Over ten months of participant observation several stories or narrative vignettes were created to highlight the major issues faced by the two teachers. These stories were then analysed to identify several propositions about curriculum implementation and primary science. The narrative vignettes provide descriptive accounts around several implementation issues. The two teachers experienced some problems with the supply of equipment to support their teaching and lacked the subject knowledge to identify when the equipment was inadequate. The teachers had high expectations of the teachers' resource book but a lack of science content knowledge hindered their ability to use the document with confidence. While the teachers believed that science is important for children they lacked the confidence and questioning skill to engage the students in 'science talk'. 10 teachers were able to transfer pedagogical knowledge from other disciplines 0 overcome some of the dilemmas they faced in science lessons. Both teachers displayed a strong 'ethic of care’ for the children in their class that covered gaining knowledge, behaviour towards others and safety during science lessons.There was evidence that the past experience of both teachers in their childhood and educational years had been influential in their beliefs about their interest and ability to teach science. The two teachers' personal and professional lives interacted in complex ways as they adjusted to the demands of the school year and the impact of implementing the new science program. Finally the two teachers lacked certainty in science teaching - they experienced epistemological confusion in their understanding of the nature of science. These issues lead to several implications for primary teachers of science, teacher educators, school leaders and curriculum developers.
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Sessions, Laura A. "Verification and balance in science news: How the New Zealand mass media report scientific claims." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mass Communication, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4853.
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Accuracy and balance are fundamental principles of journalism worldwide. The main way that journalists ensure accuracy is by verifying the information in their stories against an independent account. Most journalists who report science must rely on scientific experts to verify the validity of claims they report. However, previous studies have found that science stories commonly contain only one source. Journalists typically maintain balance by fairly presenting opposing views. Previous
studies show that when journalists present conflicting claims, they tend to balance the
different opinions equally, regardless of the empirical evidence on which those claims
are based.
This thesis investigated verification and balance in New Zealand mass media science
news, using a national survey and in-depth interviews with New Zealand journalists,
and a content analysis of newspaper, radio and television coverage. The content analysis
showed that verification was uncommon in New Zealand science news, and only 32%
of science claim stories cited more than one source. Furthermore, 23% of stories were
five sentences or shorter, and the majority of stories (65%) were drawn from overseas
news organisations and wire services. When opposing views were presented, journalists
tended to use a balancing strategy without any interpretation of which view was
supported by the weight of evidence.
The interviews indicated that these practices are partly influenced by time constraints.
New Zealand almost completely lacks specialised science reporters, and only five of the
surveyed journalists had a dedicated science round. Most surveyed journalists spent less
than 20 hours per month reporting science, and few had formal training in science.
However, journalists also said that the normative dimensions of being a journalist were
important. In particular, journalists tended to value balance and fairness over ensuring
the validity of claims they report. Exploratory focus groups suggested that audiences
may also strongly value a balanced and unbiased approach to science reporting.
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McMillan, Katherine Alexandra. "Citizenship Under Neo-Liberalism: Immigrant Minorities in New Zealand 1990-1999." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2347.
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Ideally, a citizen is an individual who is a formal member of a self-governing political community, with individual rights and freedoms that are equal to those of other citizens, and which are protected by law. This thesis investigates how closely the citizenship status of non-Maori ethnic minorities in New Zealand approximated this ideal during the 1990s. Its particular focus is on how the neo-liberal ideology of National and Coalition Governments between 1990 and 1999, and those Governments' understandings of the nature and political significance of ethnicity, affected the ability of those belonging to non-Maori ethnic minority groups to be full and equal members of the New Zealand political community, with an equal capacity for self-governance at the individual level and as members of the political community. The thesis takes the form of a survey of public policy and law over a period of nine years. Five broad areas or aspects of public policy are examined: the collection and dissemination of official 'ethnic' statistics; immigration and citizenship policy; civil rights provided for in domestic and international law; mechanisms for ensuring access to political decision-making; and social policy. The question asked in the thesis is whether the policies developed and administered in each of these areas during the 1990s enriched or detracted from the citizenship status of non-Maori ethnic minorities.
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Brettl, Eva, Vinia Kleinert, and Liliya Karamatova. "The New Venture Creation Process in Cooperation with Science Park Jönköping." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12445.
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Purpose
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how students at Jönköping University can establish a new business and to what extent Science Park Jönköping is involved throughout the business creation process.
Background
Numerous researches have been done on new venture creation and business incubation. However, these two areas of research are rarely combined. When it comes to venture creation, most theories focus either solely on the start-up process or on the entrepreneur and the environment. The novelty of this thesis lies in combining those two different fields of research and at the same time focusing on the entrepreneur, the environment and the start-up process. The authors aim at investigating the start-up process in connection with the business incubator Science Park Jönköping. This paper is opposing new venture creation process theory with empirical findings and further examining the influence of the business incubator Science Park Jönköping.
Method
The authors of this paper followed a qualitative approach which was implemented in the form of personal interviews. The participants of this study are entrepreneurs who created their venture in cooperation with Science Park Jönköping as well as one representative from Science Park Jönköping.
Conclusion
Contrary to previous research, the participants of this study do not perceive the business creation process and its stages as linear. Moreover, influential factors like the attributes of the entrepreneur and the environment have to be taken into account when speaking about the start-up of a company. Science Park Jönköping offers services at all stages of the process whereas the most intense contact between the business incubator and the entrepreneur takes place in the very beginning.
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Mari, Zenzeng Bofirie Tore, and n/a. "Analysis of grade 7 social science textbooks in Papua New Guinea." University of Canberra. Education, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060829.162904.
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This thesis reports on a study which made an analysis of the new
Grade 7 social science syllabus textbooks that are currently being
implemented in the high schools of Papua New Guinea. Data relating
to these textbooks has been gathered from the teachers who are
teaching the course and their Regional Secondary Inspectors. The
data was basically obtained through postal questionnaires.
The basic aim of the study was to find out how the syllabus materials
are received and used in the implementation process. The study also
attempted to identify the problems and difficulties the teachers
encountered and the concerns they had about the new course.
The study revealed some interesting results. For example, there are
some teachers of social sciences in the high schools who do not have
secondary teaching qualifications, the level of English language used,
which was one of the major problems identified with the old
syllabus, has not been completely overcome, the problems,
difficulties and concerns identified by this study differ from school
to school and between rural and urban schools.
In addition, the study also identified many practical problems,
difficulties and concerns which affect the effective and successful
implementation of the syllabus. These include the need for additional
support such as reference materials both for teachers and students
and a need for more short in-service courses to resocialise teachers
in order to change their classroom culture and thus facilitate change.
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Lillis, David A. "Ethnic minority science students in New Zealand : attitudes and learning environments." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 1999. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=9832.
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This thesis describes a study of the attitudes towards science and learning environments among junior secondary school science students in New Zealand, focussing particularly on Maori and Pacific Island students. The rationale for the research was that ethnic minority group students often experience difficulties in adapting to modern science education. The study was restricted to forms three, four and five of the New Zealand education system in order to focus attention primarily on the development of recommendations for enhancement of science education outcomes which relate to the early years of science education.The study aimed to investigate student attitudes towards science and their perceptions of their learning environments by using questionnaire surveys and interviews in order to produce complementary information about students' attitudes and perceptions. The study produced some unexpected findings. For example, Maori and Pacific Island students displayed more positive attitudes towards science than others, and female students displayed more positive attitudes than males. These findings contradict those of many previous studies.The findings of the study are used to provide input to the development of recommendations for the enhancement of educational outcomes for all students, but especially for ethnic minority students in science.
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St-Denis, Natalie. "Gender differences in the enculturation process of new faculty in science." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/MQ58509.pdf.
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Abouarghoub, Wessam M. T. "Implementing the new science of risk management to tanker freight markets." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/20836/.
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Studies in the area of shipping freight risk measurement and management are limited and the understandings of the impact of freight volatility dynamics on the freight market remain insufficient and under-researched. The few studies that explore different approaches to measuring freight risk disagree on the most suitable measures and this is down to different interpretation of the underlying conditional variance for freight rates. Thus, the intention of this study is to contribute to the literature in the field of shipping freight risk studies. In this thesis tanker freight risk is measured using univariate and multivariate value-at-risk measures that are structured on a variety of single- and multi-state conditional variance models. Moreover, uncorrelated freight risk factors and conditional freight-beta are estimated through an orthogonal conditional variance and a dynamic freight-beta approach for a portfolio of freight returns, respectively. This thesis also investigates the hypothesis of the state dependency of freight dynamics through a conditional freight limitation framework, which distinguishes between ‘ship-owner’ and ‘cargo-owner’ markets, in particular pre- and during the most recent financial crisis. Furthermore, the short and long term effect of the financial crisis on freight markets are examined through a multi-state Markov switching-regime framework that provides thresholds indicating different freight bands for distinct market conditions. Thus, the hypothesis of variation in the freight-return relation is investigated on the basis that up and down market movements are defined as shipping agent controlled. Additionally, specific and systematic risks for the tanker market are extracted and compared across distinct tanker segments. Finally, a practical insight into shipping practitioners’ measurement and management of freight risk for different shipping segments is examined, where the directional accuracy and volatility of short- and long-term forward curves are assessed and compared against a general perception in the literature.
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Owusu, Kofi Acheaw. "Assessing New Zealand high school science teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Leadership, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9254.
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Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is the knowledge required for effective technology integration in teaching. In this study, New Zealand high school science teachers’ TPACK was assessed through an online survey. The data and its analysis revealed that New Zealand’s high school science teachers in general had a high perception of their understanding of TPACK and its related constructs. Science teachers had high mean scores on all the constructs on a five- point Likert scale except technological knowledge. There is thus an indication that science teachers in New Zealand perceived themselves as being able to teach with technology effectively. Correlation analysis revealed that all six constructs correlated significantly with TPACK (also referred to as TPCK). Multiple and stepwise regression analyses revealed that Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) and Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) made statistically significant unique contributions to Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK). Pre-registered teachers indicated that their levels of TCK and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) were lower than more experienced teachers. This implied that recently graduated teachers found it difficult to appropriate the affordances of technology to affect the content they taught. Also, these recently graduated teachers lacked the experience to represent content in a format that made it comprehensible to their learners.
The contextual factors that influenced teachers’ use of technology as well as teachers’ TPACK levels were investigated through multiple embedded case studies of six teachers who were regular users of technology in their teaching. The case studies revealed that science teachers used technology to support inquiry learning in a wide range of ways in lower levels of high school but mostly to clarify concepts and theories when it came to the senior level of high school. Teachers demonstrated different levels of expertise and engagement in the use of technology for transferring different types of knowledge from one teaching and learning context to another and for addressing differences amongst learners. This signalled that science teachers’ TPACK apparent developmental levels shifted depending on the context of the assessment requirements of the students. This is a major finding in this study because although previous researchers have assumed that context influences teachers’ TPACK characteristics and development, this study provides evidence of how specific aspects of context influences teachers’ TPACK. This evidence shows examples of how the development of an individual’s TPACK can be considered as dynamic where the interacting constructs and characteristics shift and change based on the context.
The recommendations from this study propose that teacher education programmes should ensure that there is a focus on teaching preservice teachers how to appropriate the affordances of technology to teach specific content instead of teaching one technology skills based course. The evidence from this study indicates that teachers in New Zealand schools use collegial approaches in the use of technology. Therefore professional learning programmes should target groups of teachers in the same school or cluster of schools rather than targeting individual teachers. This will enable teachers to share ideas and provide leadership for their colleagues in terms of how to use technology. Again, technology related professional development programmes should move away from enriching teachers’ technological skills to emphasising how teachers can appropriate the affordances of technology in their classroom practices to meet their instructional goals as well as students’ learning outcomes. There is a consequent obligation for teacher educators, educationists and stakeholders to enable teachers to understand how best to harness the increased knowledge retrieval capacity that Information and Communication Technology affords, its information sharing abilities as well as the capacity to engage young people to act as experimenters, designers and creators of knowledge.
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James, Sarah Jane. "Changing faces, facing changes : forensic science in search of new horizons." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10173.
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The focus of this thesis is a study of change in a public sector environment and the effect it has on that environment. It is a combination of an empirical study of the author’s former employer, specifically the Police Scientific Support Department, and a critical analysis of the technique used to carry out the study and its application, Soft Systems Analysis. The thesis is multi‐layered through the additional use of a diary, which gives a more personal view of what the author experienced during the project, along with a third more clinical and critical review of the project and its outcomes through Actor‐Network Theory. This allows the author to portray a number of different perspectives on the same reality. The author’s position within the force as project manager, allowed comprehensive access in which to carry out detailed action research through at‐home ethnography, unstructured interviews and documentary data collection. A police force’s forensic strategy and the way it conducts its business in order to provide a comprehensive service, offer value for money and work within a limited budget, is a complex process which is affected by many factors. Some of these include political issues over government finance, organisational issues surrounding staff levels and their deployment, as well as technical issues over available techniques, their success rates and how to make the most efficient and effective use of them. The case study covers a period during which the construction of a new Scientific Support single site is being carried out. Many departments are being moved to the new site, away from their city centre base, to provide a more comprehensive and extended service.
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Jones, Kevin Edison. "The politics of new agricultural technologies : contesting risk, science and governance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2004. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7890.
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This thesis provides a sociological exploration of the politics of new agricultural technologies in the United Kingdom. It addresses some of the key issues involved in these politics, as well as how they are discussed and fought over. Conceptually it addresses these questions by focussing on issues of risk, science and governance. In doing so, this thesis situates the politics of GM crops and foods in relation to wider normative concerns about the cultural values, relationships and institutions shaping agriculture, and British society more generally. Empirically, this thesis applies a qualitative methodology, primarily relying on data generated from a series of in-depth interviews. Through these interviews active participants in the debate were able to express a variety of opinions about the risks and benefits of agricultural biotechnology. The interview data is further supplemented by some documentary evidence, particularly as relates to several government led initiatives addressing agricultural debates in terms of contestations over risk and knowledge. Key chapters in this thesis look at the way in which the debate over GM crops and foods has been shaped by perceptions of the role and values of the life-industry, science and the Government in developing and regulating biotechnology. Finally, this thesis also addresses how society, and practices of governance in particular, are able to accommodate these political issues in managing risk and regulating technological change.
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Williams, Alexander S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A study on the art and science of pitching new businesses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80674.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Page 55 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-47).
This study focuses on how entrepreneurs can optimize the venture capital procurement process by understanding the venture investment decision-making process. For new ventures, procuring capital is a notoriously difficult process. To succeed, an entrepreneurial team must overcome investor uncertainty about the quality of their product/service/idea and market, as well as their own capability to execute. This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that there are multiple venture investor "types," or "personalities," defined by the way in which they weight the importance of product/idea/service/market (horse) vs. entrepreneurial team (jockey) during the decision-making process. Therefore, an entrepreneurial team should match the strengths of their business with the right investor type to maximize chances for funding. To test this hypothesis, we ran an empirical study which mimicked the first two stages of the venture investment process - executive summary review and entrepreneurial pitch assessment. The experimental results suggest that investors do seem to report varied preferences on the importance of "horse" vs. "jockey." In addition, investor personality may dictate decision-making at the executive summary stage. However, the overall quality of a business' pitch can have significant influence on investor opinion and "willingness to invest" regardless of investor personality.
by Alexander Williams.
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Wilson, Gerald I. "The role of providence in the "New Science" of Giambattista Vico." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10441.
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The question of how to interpret the role of providence in the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is one of the most vexing problems of interpretation surrounding Vico's magnum opus. In this essay I come at the problem by attempting to understand Vico's theory of knowledge and how it comes to bear upon his interpretation of history. In chapter one I offer a phenomenology of the historical world according to Vico. I consider the problem of historical knowledge as such and attempt to show that Vico makes an original contribution by his insistence that we need to critically appropriate the historical texts from the past. In chapter two I explore some of the main features of Vico's epistemology. I then attempt to get more deeply into Vico's view of history by looking at him through important interpretations. In chapter three I discuss the interpretation of Leon Pompa. In chapter four I discuss the interpretation of Vichian epistemology found in the work of Donald P. Verene. In a fifth and final chapter I attempt to then make some determination of how providence functions in the NS. I seek to interpret Vico's providence doctrine as requiring a transcendental referent or God, based on the verum-factum principle as the central epistemic model. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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De, Kadt Daniel 1986. "Electoral participation in a new democracy : essays on voting in the new South Africa." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113490.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190).
Electoral participation is at the heart of democratic politics. Who comes to the polls, who does not, and why? In three essays that leverage natural experimental research designs, I advance new explanations for individual turnout, focused on citizens' access to, and experiences with the core electoral institutions of democracy. In paper 1 I show that policies focused on increasing access to elections can increase the size of the electorate, but also that they may carry compositional costs. Using new administrative data from South Africa and a difference-in-differences design, I show that the Independent Electoral Commission's large scale expansion of access to voting stations has increased national turnout by between 2.3 and 4.7 percentage points over the period 1999 to 2014. I then demonstrate, in the context of an administrative quasi-experiment, that those of high socio-economic status and those who are older are much more sensitive to electoral access than others. In paper 2 I explore whether differential representation in government shapes political behavior. I leverage the fact that the size of local government councils in South Africa follows a population-based formula with cutoffs that alter the degree of local representation. The results from a regression kink design suggest that at the margin the degree of representation is not particularly important for informing voters' decision to vote. Finally, paper 3 considers the effect of voting in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994 on future voting, and present evidence of the lasting behavioral effects of past participation using a regression discontinuity design. Eligibility to participate in 1994 affects future voting by 3 percentage points, with an average treatment effect of actually voting between 3.5 and 8.5 percentage points. I argue that persistence (or habituation) in voting behavior is at least partly driven by the creation of associations between first time voting and positive emotional states. If those who have positive electoral experiences are more likely to be particular types of voters, this can influence the trajectory of democracy.
by Daniel N. J. de Kadt.
Paper 1: How electoral access encourages turnout but exacerbates political inequality -- Paper 2: Does local representation influence turnout? -- Paper 3: The long term consequences of participation in a first democratic election -- supplementary material for each paper.
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Al-Bashaireh, Zeid Ali. "A study of the new science curriculum in Jordanian secondary schools with special reference to science practical work." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286575.
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Han, Chunhui. "Social gate: a new social accountable framework for computer networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66970.
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Internet is a tremendous success and is an indispensable part of our everyday activities. However, Internet does not provide sufficient integrity to ensure the end hosts accountable for the communication. In this thesis, we present a new social accountable framework for the Internet that leverages the trusted links found on online social networks to hold the people and organizations accountable for their actions. Our framework is incrementally deployable without modifying the operating systems or applications running on the hosts. We provide the full design and discuss how different types of applications can be mapped onto the proposed framework. A prototype of this social accountable framework is partially implemented to evaluate the performance of the framework.L'Internet est un succès extraordinaire et est une pièce indispensable de notre vie quotidienne. Cependent, l'Internet ne fourni pas assez d'integrité pour assurer que les hébergeurs finaux soient responsables pour les communications. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons un nouveau cadre social responsable pour l'Internet qui exploite les liens de confiance trouvés sur les réseaux sociaux pour tenir les utilisateurs et les organisations responsables pour leurs actions. Notre cadre se déploit de facon itérative sans la modification du système d'exploitation ou les applications qui y exécutent. Nous présentons le plan complet et élaborons comment différent types d'applications peuvent s'adapter au cadre proposé. Un prototype de ce cadre social responsable est partiellement mis en application pour évaluer sa performance.
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Kennedy, Lance. "Supranational Union and New Medievalism: Forging a New Scottish State." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26519855.
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This study aims to understand why the Scottish National Party (SNP) accelerated to prominence after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Specifically, this study seeks to answer the following question: To what extent does the European Union (EU) influence the Scottish independence movement and does this trend support the theory of New Medievalism? Data drawn from interviews with members of the 4th Scottish Parliament, comments made by former First Minister Alex Salmond, and scientific polling tend to show that the EU’s increasing institutional powers have facilitated the modern Scottish independence movement’s growth by mitigating the Scottish people’s fears of independence from the UK. However the data also demonstrates that the SNP’s election victory in 2011 was not just an indication of Scottish nationalism, but was a result of the SNP’s competence in government. This investigation concludes that as the EU centralizes power in supranational bodies the process of New Medievalism is working its course by dissolving Westphalian nation states. This process is revealed in the rise of the modern Scottish nationalist movement as well as other subnational independence movements in EU member states. The culmination of this movement was the rise of the SNP and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
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Kanhaiya, Pritpal. "Three-dimensional device and circuit architectures : new systems with new nanotechnologies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122552.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-39).
Physical scaling of silicon-based field-effect transistors (FETs) has been a major driving force to improve computing energy efficiency (quantified by the energy-delay product, EDP, the product of energy consumption and circuit delay) for decades. However, continued silicon scaling is becoming increasingly challenging. This is motivating the search for beyond-silicon nanotechnologies, such as one-dimensional carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or two-dimensional nanomaterials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Yet simply relying on new materials alone is insufficient for realizing the next generation of energy-efficient computing. Rather, coordinated advances across the entire computing system stack are required, as their combined benefits are greater than the sum of their individual benefits.
In this work, I illustrate how by combining multiple advances - from new nanomaterials to new device geometries to new circuit architectures - there is a feasible and exciting path towards realizing the next generation of energy efficiency for digital very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) systems. As a case study, this thesis focuses on CNT-based electronics. I experimentally demonstrate that by leveraging this new nanomaterial, we can naturally realize CNT field-effect transistors (CNFETs) that take advantage of new device geometries (specifically, new three-dimensional (3D) stacked-channel transistor geometries), as well as new 3D integration schemes (specifically, 3D circuit architectures based on stacked-channel transistors and new schemes for monolithic 3D heterogeneous integration of a wide range of technologies spanning silicon, III-V, and CNTs). The key contributions of this thesis are the following: 1. We experimentally demonstrate, DISC-FETs (Dual Independent Stacked Channel Field-Effect Transistors), a new 3D transistor architecture naturally enabled by CNFETs low temperature processing requirements.
2. We use this new 3D transistor architecture to enable new 3D circuit layouts, providing a promising path for energy-and area-efficient very-large scaled integrated (VLSI) circuits. 3. We develop and experimentally realize X3D, a new paradigm for monolithic 3D heterogeneous integration of a wide range of nanowire-based semiconductors (e.g. silicon, III-V, and CNTs), enabling new system design that leverages a range of technologies for a range of different functionality - all within the same chip (wide-bandgap III-Vs for power management, CNTs for energy efficiency, tailored bandgaps for specialized sensors or imagers, etc.). 4. We leverage X3D to experimentally realize digital logic spanning multiple vertical circuit layers and heterogeneous nanowire-based semiconductors.
by Pritpal Kanhaiya.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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TOYOKUNI, SHINYA. "Toward a New Era of the Nagoya Journal of Medical Science: Message from the New Editor-in-Chief." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14288.
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Helland, Christopher. "Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0021/MQ43609.pdf.
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Johnson, Catherine Ann. "A New Meridian." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4006.
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