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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Total Pages: 2170
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To See the Unseen
Author: Andrew J. Butrica
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive & illuminating history of this little-understood, but surprisingly significant scientific activity. Quite rigorous & systematic in its methodology, the book explores the development of the radar astronomy specialty in the larger community of scientists. More than just discussing the development of this field, however, the author uses planetary radar astronomy as a vehicle for understanding larger issues relative to the planning & execution of "big science" by the Fed. government. Sources, interviews, technical essay, abbreviations, & index.
Big Science Transformed
Author: Olof Hallonsten
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-15
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 3319327380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse. Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding science, and their impact on a number of new accelerator and reactor-based facilities that have come to prominence in materials science and the life sciences. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be of great interest to historians, sociologists and philosophers of science.
Research Collaboration between Europe and Latin America
Author: Rigas Arvanitis
Publisher: Archives contemporaines
Published: 2014-02-19
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 2813001244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational collaboration has become increasingly important in carrying out research activities. This book, written by a large group of scholars from Europe and Latin America, maps, analyses and discusses research collaboration between the two continents during the last twenty years. The empirical material underlines the richness and the variety of the links that bind the two continents, well beyond the simplified views of science, either as the brainchild of global networking or as a result of dependence. The book also develops an innovative methodological approach, combining bibliometric analysis, social surveying, in-depth interviews, and a careful analysis of research programmes and policies. While arguing that the asymmetry of relations that once existed in cooperation has turned into a more equal partnership between the two continents, it deciphers some of the reasons behind this more balanced cooperation. It also challenges the view of science as a global self-organising system through collective action at the level of researchers themselves. On the contrary, the importance of policy, institutions, and previously developed research is highlighted and recognised
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
Author: Karen Kastenhofer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3030617289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research funding as well as more intangible transformations in our society’s understanding and expectations of technoscience. In so doing, this book reinvigorates the concept of scientific community. Readers will discover empirical analyses of newly emerging fields such as synthetic biology, systems biology and nanotechnology, and accounts of the evolution of theoretical conceptions of scientific identity and community. With inspiring examples of technoscientific identity work and community constellations, along with thought-provoking hypotheses and discussion, the work has a broad appeal. Those involved in science governance will benefit particularly from this book, and it has much to offer those in scholarly fields including sociology of science, science studies, philosophy of science and history of science, as well as teachers of science and scientists themselves.
Virtuality and Virtualization
Author: Kevin Crowston
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0387730257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization. It includes papers that consider ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work processes. It examines group processes within virtual teams, focusing in particular on leadership and group identity, as well as the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.
Wandering with Sadhus
Author: Sondra L. Hausner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0253349834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntimate portraits of the life of Hindu Sadhus.
ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer
Author: American College of Sports Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2013-03-22
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1469826577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKACSM’s Resources for the Personal Trainer provides a broad introduction to the field of personal training, covering both basic science topics and practical application. It was originally designed to help people prepare for the ACSM Personal Training Certification Exam. It continues to serve that function, but the market for it has expanded to practitioners in the field looking for an additional resource, as well as in an academic setting where the book is a core text for personal training programs.
Essentials of Mini ‒ One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass
Author: Mervyn Deitel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 3319761773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book indicates the technique and fine points of the mini- and one-anastomosis gastric bypass, and looks at the means of revising other operations related to it. The chapters discuss postoperative complications, treatment and requirements, postoperative diet and medications, the remarkable effects on the co-morbidities of morbid obesity, and the durability of the weight loss, as well as the improvement in the quality of life. Essentials of Mini ‒ One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass aims to help surgeons manage the difficulties encountered within this procedure and to help create improved practice.
