Museum collecting policies in modern science and technology  1993.3.18.1 with introduction by Thomas Wright. 244 × 185 mm, 52pp. London, Science Museum, 1991, £8.90 (ISBN 0 901805 378). Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD, UK

What makes for a good scientist or a good engineer? How does using a new technology or working in a research lab begin to shape our thought and behavior? How can we best anticipate and navigate the ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology? Scholars across multiple disciplines have begun turning to a surprising resource to address these questions: discussions of virtue that have their roots in ancient philosophical and religious traditions. This volume gathers a number of these perspectives to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the fruits of modern science and technology.

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Development of Applied Technology in University Library

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1023.229 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1023 ◽

pp. 229-232

Author(s):

Qing Chen

Keyword(s):

Communication Technology ◽

Computer Technology ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science ◽

Multimedia Technology ◽

Network Technology ◽

University Library ◽

Applied Technology ◽

Information Media ◽

Advanced Computer

The development of science and technology and market offered more chances for applied technology in university library. And university library is necessary to utilize modern science and technology , advanced computer technology, high-density storage technology, multimedia technology, network technology, communication technology and information media to share documentary information resources with public. Only in this way can university library realize digitalization, networking and virtualization and applied technology is functioning adequately in jobs of university library.

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Ecclesia Anglicana Conference of September 2020

Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOSHS) ◽

10.35544/jjeoshs.v3i2.30 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Julius Gathogo

Keyword(s):

Virus Disease ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science ◽

Market Place ◽

Public Square ◽

Ecclesial Leadership ◽

The Status ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Spanish Flu ◽

Intellectual Activities

As the first wave of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) was being experienced in Kenya since 13 March 2020, when a 27-year-old Kenyan woman became the first person to be diagnosed with it, some Anglicans in Kenya were contrariwise overcoming the shock, that went with it, as they undertook noble intellectual activities. As numbers went on soaring, and as some celebrated artists, scholars, clerics, and other cadres of society became early casualties of Covid-19, an Ecclesia Anglicana was boldly entering the ecclesiastical market-place with new rhythms hitherto unknown in Kenya’s historiography. In other words, a theo-ecclesial creativity was cooking in an African pot, and cooking well from the nethermost depths of the Ocean floor, rather than from the top stratums. While the revolutionary trigger was set on 6 August 2017, it had to await the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 before it picked up its momentum. Put it differently, the momentum picked up astoundingly during Kenya’s Covid-19 lockdown, as two major conferences were successfully held during this chilling moment. The first major webinars’ conference was held on 26 August 2020; while the second one was held on 16 September 2020. Characteristically, the two conferences made a bold attempt at understanding the Anglican ecclesiology by cooking it from the local resources and spiced it up through the modern science and technology. Was it a protest against theo-intellectual lockdown cutting across the continent, a phenomenon where a casual observation shows that social and ecclesial leadership has largely attracted the less intellectually-inclined sons and daughters of the land? Methodologically, this article seeks to explore, and indeed make a survey of Ecclesia Anglicana and attempt to understand it beyond the founders’ perspectives, after interviews with some of them, and make an informed analysis. Second, this article will attempt to show how Ecclesia Anglicana is ushering in a new rhythm, as it beats the drums of science and technology, modern communication and social media platforms, and hopefully change the status quo for the better. It appears that nothing will slow down this rapid tempo; for if the pandemic has not, what else can do so? Third, the article will focus more on the 16 September 2020 webinar conference which, in my view, was the most climactic moment for Ecclesia Anglicana since 2017 when the idea was mooted and subsequently released to the public square for broader consumption. Will Ecclesia Anglicana help in building a more informed and/or an intellectually engaging Kenyan Anglican society?

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Discursive Contextures of Science: Euro/West-Centrism and Science and Technology Studies

Engaging Science Technology and Society ◽

10.17351/ests2016.71 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 193 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Amit Prasad

Keyword(s):

Network Theory ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Embryonic Stem ◽

Modern Science ◽

Actor Network Theory ◽

Scientific Practices ◽

Technology Studies ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Science and Technology Studies (STS) by the very act of showing the multiplicity, contingency, and context-dependence of scientific knowledge and practice, provincialized modern science. Postcolonial interventions within STS have pursued this goal even further. Nevertheless, Euro/West-centrism continues to inflect not only scientific practices and lay imaginaries, but also sociological and historical analyses of sciences. In this article, drawing on my own training within STS – first under J.P.S. Uberoi, who was concerned with structuralist analysis of modernity and science, and thereafter under Andy Pickering, when we focused on material agency and temporal emergence and extensively engaged with Actor Network Theory - I emphasize the continuing role of Euro/West-centric discourses in defining the “self” and the “other” and in impacting epistemological and ontological interventions. More broadly, building on a concept of Michael Lynch’s, I call for excavation and analysis of discursive contextures of sciences. In the second section of the article, through a brief analysis of embryonic stem cell therapy in a clinic in Delhi, I show how with shifting transnational landscape of technoscience certain discursive contextures are being “deterritorialized” and left “stuttering.”

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Practice of Running Dyeing & Weaving Weekly in the Republic of China and Dissemination of Science and Technology

Asian Social Science ◽

10.5539/ass.v17n6p13 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Bochong Zhao ◽

Kehui Deng

Keyword(s):

Textile Industry ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science ◽

Modern China ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Long Time ◽

Technology Dissemination ◽

History Of ◽

The Republic

Dyeing & Weaving Weekly (1935-1941) is a scientific and technological periodical which has been published for a long time and has never been interrupted in the field of textile in modern China. The journal publishes a large number of the latest achievements in textile science and technology, and is an important historical material and typical case for the study of modern science and technology dissemination. Rich in content, Dyeing & Weaving Weekly focuses on solving practical problems in the textile industry and guiding the direction of scientific research, which not only promotes the dissemination of textile science and technology but also contributes to the development of the textile industry. Therefore, from the perspective of science and technology communication and the history of newspapers and periodicals, this paper examines the practice and communication strategies of Dyeing & Textile Weekly, in order to prove that Dyeing & Textile Weekly has a positive impact on science and technology communication in modern China, and also provides experience reference for the development of contemporary science and technology periodicals in China, which has certain reference significance.

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The ‘Vero Cell’ COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Nepal: What we know about the Chinese vaccine development and access?

Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences ◽

10.3126/jpahs.v8i1.36768 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Jay Narayan Shah

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science ◽

Phase Iii ◽

Phase 3 ◽

Pharmaceutical Group ◽

Fda Approval ◽

The Usa ◽

The Impact

The world has changed dramatically from the impact of the COVID-19. It has impacted the normality of daily life, highlighting the failure of rich and poor nations alike, which is evident from the high number of human lives lost in rich and powerful countries like the USA with total deaths of 32,735,704 and Europe with 43,708,958 until April 24, 2021, as per Worldometer. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that all of us ‘have and have-not’, no one can escape from the effects of the lockdowns, disruption of normal life including education, businesses, etc. reminding all of us that equitable access to vaccines is the best possible choice not to further exacerbate the challenges because ‘no country is safe until every country is safe’. It is a remarkable scientific achievement that within a year of the identification of the virus, we have COVID-19 vaccines, albeit available mostly in rich countries. The benefit of research is possible only with solidarity, by sharing the available resources, vaccine included, for the control of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Modern science and technology, including the development and marketing of COVID-19 vaccines, have been focused in the USA and Europe. China joined this club of elites of science following the Chinese FDA approval of Sinopharm (the subsidiary of state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group- CNPG), first COVID-19 vaccine (inactivated Sars-Cov-2) based on the results of the phase-3 clinical trial in UAE and Bahrain showing up to 86% efficacy of the vaccine in preventing COVID-19. Detail of trials of Sinopharm inactivated COVID-19 vaccines (Vero Cells) available on two early trials in China (Phase I/II ChiCTR2000031809, enrollment 1,456) and later 4 trials outside China (phase III, NCT04510207 Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates- enrollment of 45,000; ChiCTR2000034780 United Arab Emirates, enrollment of 15,000; NCT04612972 Peru, enrollment of 6,000) show the progress of research and approval in China and UAE. Modern science and technology, including the development and marketing of COVID-19 vaccines, have been focused in the USA and Europe. China joined this club of elites of science following the Chinese FDA approval of Sinopharm (the subsidiary of state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group- CNPG) first COVID-19 vaccine (inactivated Sars-Cov-2) based on the results of the phase-3 clinical trial in UAE and Bahrain showing up to 86% efficacy of the vaccine in preventing COVID-19.3

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Appraising the Records of Modern Science and Technology: A Guide

Technology and Culture ◽

10.2307/3105316 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 710

Author(s):

Richard Lytle ◽

Joan K. Haas ◽

Helen W. Samuels ◽

Barbara T. Simmons

Keyword(s):

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science

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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Ferroelectricity

Physics and High Technology ◽

10.3938/phit.30.024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (9) ◽

pp. 2-3

Author(s):

Jaichan LEE

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern Science ◽

New Age ◽

100Th Anniversary ◽

Look Back ◽

History Of ◽

Quantum Behavior ◽

Collective Phenomenon

It is 100 years when we think about the history of ferroelectricity. We, who study ferroelectricity, are honored and pleased to share the 100-year anniversary of ferroelectricity and recall its history. At this great moment, we look back to the brief history on the verge of ferroelectricity. Our hope is that ferroelectricity studied as an early collective phenomenon will be coupled with quantum behavior, the essence of modern science, to become a new age in the history of science and technology.

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