scholarly journals Development of research capacities in space weather: a successful international cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Christine Amory-Mazaudier ◽  
Sandro Radicella ◽  
Patricia Doherty ◽  
Sharafat Gadimova ◽  
Rolland Fleury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Space Weather ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Tools

This paper presents an international cooperation which has successfully developed research capacities in the scientific disciplines of sun–earth relations and space weather in many countries over the world during the past decades. This success was based on the deployment of scientific instruments in countries that did not have them, on the sharing of knowledge and research tools, on thesis supervision and on the integration of researchers trained in their country. This article will only focus on aspects of training conducted by ICTP, Boston College, ICG, SCOSTEP and GIRGEA. We will highlight what has been enhanced in international cooperation to achieve this success and what remains to be done.

scholarly journals The Promise of Interreligious Dialogue for a World in Conflict

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Boston College ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Jewish Learning ◽  
Organized Action

Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr. until recently served as the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Vatican. In February 2006 he was appointed by Pope Bendedict XVI to be the apostolic nuncio to Egypt and the Holy See's delegate to the League of Arab States. This address was delivered at the conference "In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World," co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and Brandeis University to mark the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. It was given at Boston College on March 16, 2006. After reviewing regions of conflict in the world, Archbishop Fitzgerald first discusses what interreligious dialogue cannot do. He then explores the Catholic Church's understanding of dialogue as reflected in Nostra Aetate. He considers how a history of past conflicts can be overcome by (1) forgetting the past; (2) achieving mutual understanding; and (3)collaborating. Finally, he examines how dialogues can be encouraged through good neighborliness, through organized action, with intellectual backing, and with spiritual backing.

Alone, Together

2022 ◽  
pp. 77-95
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Cooperative Institutions ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides insight into the contemporary problems plaguing the international community, including climate change and terrorism, and examines how international cooperation has worked to combat issues in the past. The chapter will highlight the criticality of cooperative institutions and organizations within the international community and how those organizations may stand up to the rising tide of nationalism around the world.

scholarly journals Co-designing Educational Games for Classrooms

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Matthew Gaydos
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Game Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Tools

Over the past 15 years, various government agencies in Singapore have supported educational game development and research, producing multiple digital games (e.g., Legends of Alkhemia, Statecraft X), and non-digital games (e.g., Green City Blues, Money Matters). Although these games had been successful as research tools used to investigate gamebased learning, their impact in schools has been limited by contextual factors including the school environment and culture (Chee et al., 2014). Further, little is documented regarding the details of designing educational games for these contexts. This paper describes the challenges I faced as a new researcher in Singapore tasked with designing new educational games that could simultaneously be used as research tools while also serving as effective, sustainable learning experiences in classrooms in Singapore. Although research-based educational games in Singapore and around the world have been created to instantiate and test theories of learning, these games have often been created without much attention given to classroom practicality and longer-term sustainability. This paper recounts this process and describes the constraints that were faced. By describing the conditions and constraints from the development process, the author hopes to inform and improve the design of future research/educational games that can have lasting and significant impact on Singapore student learning.

scholarly journals Leveraging e-Science infrastructure for electrochemical research

2011 ◽  
Vol 369 (1949) ◽  
pp. 3336-3352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Peachey ◽  
Elena Mashkina ◽  
Chong-Yong Lee ◽  
Colin Enticott ◽  
David Abramson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Laboratory Science ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Data Archives ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

As in many scientific disciplines, modern chemistry involves a mix of experimentation and computer-supported theory. Historically, these skills have been provided by different groups, and range from traditional ‘wet’ laboratory science to advanced numerical simulation. Increasingly, progress is made by global collaborations, in which new theory may be developed in one part of the world and applied and tested in the laboratory elsewhere. e-Science, or cyber-infrastructure, underpins such collaborations by providing a unified platform for accessing scientific instruments, computers and data archives, and collaboration tools. In this paper we discuss the application of advanced e-Science software tools to electrochemistry research performed in three different laboratories – two at Monash University in Australia and one at the University of Oxford in the UK. We show that software tools that were originally developed for a range of application domains can be applied to electrochemical problems, in particular Fourier voltammetry. Moreover, we show that, by replacing ad-hoc manual processes with e-Science tools, we obtain more accurate solutions automatically.

Henry William Robinson

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Memory ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

For frequenters of the library of the Royal Society it is still hard to get accustomed to the absence o f M r H. W . Robinson, who was for so long not only a familiar and friendly figure to all readers, but was a man to whom seekers turned instinctively for information about less familiar records bearing on the history of science, especially those in which the Royal Society was concerned. He was an unrivalled expert on matters contained in the Society’s extensive archives, which were within recent memory not so well catalogued and classified as they are today, thanks to the labours o f Mr Kaye and his collaborators. He had a rare knowledge, the fruit of years o f study, o f the whereabouts of scarce books, documents and manuscripts bearing on particular aspects o f the science of the past, o f delineations of scientific instruments and of portraits of men o f science, and this knowledge he was always delighted to place at the disposal of serious enquirers. Scholars in all parts of the world have in their publications acknowledged with gratitude their indebtedness to him for recondite information gladly furnished. Henry William Robinson was born on 23 March 1888, in W ood Green, a pleasant suburb in the north of London, and throughout his life he was closely associated with the social life of the neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Neuromarketing: The Philosophy and Culture of Consumerism in Indonesia

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Asra Al Fauzi ◽  
Eko Armada Riyanto
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Products ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Potential ◽  
Research Tools

Neuromarketing is a revolutionary idea, which combines several disciplines such as psychology, economics, and neuroscience. Indonesia as a developing country that has experienced a fairly rapid economic escalation in the past decade, with the potential for a consumer culture as well as a large purchasing capacity, is a viable market for the application of neuromarketing which is also developing in the world. This review aims to learn more about the idea of neuromarketing, its relation to consumerism culture, and its opportunities in the Indonesian market. For the relevance of the study, this review has also involved the field of neuroscience to discuss philosophical approaches from the use of the subconscious mind, consumerism culture, and the application of neuromarketing in Indonesia today which are known to have successfully utilized neuromarketing principles to boost their sales. However, this technique is not without challenges. In this study, we identified at least some problems, both related to ethics, effectiveness for primary products, to expensive research tools. However, despite these problems, we consider that the use of neuromarketing still has good potential to be applied more widely in Indonesia.

Science Without God?

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Naturalism ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Periods

Modern scientific explanations invariably exclude reference to God and the supernatural. Science and naturalism thus go hand in hand. But in the past things were often different. Beginning with the naturalists of ancient Greece, and proceeding through the Middle Ages, the scientific revolution, and into the nineteenth century, the chapters of this volume examine past ideas about ‘nature’ and ‘the supernatural’. Ranging over different scientific disciplines and historical periods, they show how past thinkers often relied upon theological ideas and presuppositions in their systematic investigations of the world. In addition to providing material that contributes to a history of nature and naturalism, this collection challenges a number of widely held misconceptions about the history of scientific naturalism.

scholarly journals Peptide hormones and current problems of biotechnology

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Pankov
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Bioorganic Chemistry ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Recombinant Dna ◽  
Peptide Hormones ◽  
Nucleotide Sequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
The World

The study of peptide hormones is a rapidly and dynamically developing field of biology throughout the world, closely associated with the latest achievements of fundamental science and medical practice. The study of peptide hormones was greatly influenced by recent major events in science. In the mid-70s, thanks to classical studies by F. Sanger et al., A. M. Mahat and W. Gilbert, efficient methods for sequencing DNA nucleotide sequences were developed. Later this event became known as the revolution in molecular biology. Together with the existing methods for cloning fragments of nucleotide sequences in plasmids and phages, they made it possible to develop a modern recombinant DNA methodology, which formed the basis of rapidly developing genetic engineering biotechnology, bioorganic chemistry, molecular genetics, microbiology, virology, and a number of other scientific disciplines. Recent advances in molecular biology have tremendously accelerated the entire process of scientific knowledge and made it a reality, for example, to develop global scientific programs such as the study of the complete nucleotide sequence of the human genome. It is no exaggeration to say that over the past 20 years, biological science has accumulated more experimental data than over the entire previous period of its development. At present, 70-80% of research in the advanced countries of the world is carried out using molecular biology methods, which now allow us to solve such scientific problems within 1 year that previously had to be spent decades.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

On the Symbolism of Rain in A Farewell to Arms

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Farewell To Arms

This paper critically analyzes the symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929). The researcher has applied the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis as a research tool for the analysis of the text. This hypothesis argues that the languages spoken by a person determine how one observes this world and that the peculiarities encoded in each language are all different from one another. It affirms that speakers of different languages reflect the world in pretty different ways. Hemingway’s symbolic use of rain in A Farewell to Arms (1929) is denotative, connotative, and ironical. The narrator and protagonist, Frederick Henry symbolically embodies his own perceptions about the world around him. He time and again talks about rain when something embarrassing is about to ensue like disease, injury, arrest, retreat, defeat, escape, and even death. Secondly, Hemingway has connotatively used rain as a cleansing agent for washing the past memories out of his mind. Finally, the author has ironically used rain as a symbol when Henry insists on his love with Catherine Barkley while the latter being afraid of the rain finds herself dead in it.

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