Tackling Tough Topics: Using Socio-Scientific Issues to Help Museum Visitors Participate in Democratic Dialogue and Increase Their Understandings of Current Science and Technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann ◽  
Christine Reich ◽  
Larry Bell ◽  
Juli Goss
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Democratic Dialogue ◽  
Current Science

scholarly journals The Importance of Technology to the View of the Qur'an for Studying Natural Sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Leli ◽  
Po Abas Sunarya ◽  
Ninda Lutfiani ◽  
Nuke Puji Lestari Santoso ◽  
Restu Ajeng Toyibah
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Ethics Of Science ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
World Information ◽  
Unity Of God ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
Current Science ◽  
The Ideal

Islam advances its people to spread science and technology. According to Muslims who believe in the Koran, learning to develop science and technology is an attribute of their faith. Those who are knowledgeable have clearly been shown that they will attain invaluable rewards in the last day. In view of the present current science that can be seen from the unprecedented investment particularly for the characteristic, physical and clinical sciences to expand the considerable advancement in people. In science that depends on the administration of logical, experimental or skeptic perceptions to get ready comprehensive and manageable answers for worldwide ecological science, financial matters and basic individuals have genuinely vanished. This initial attempt to use the restless Westerners was according to the philosophers' view of reunifying science and the ethics of science from a spiritual worldview. We acknowledge that if scholars, organizational technology, technologists, creative and scientific institutions always pay attention to natural events from positivism, naturalist, modernist, empirical, agnostic or theistic philosophical assumptions that describe different branches from secular views to modern science will continue to participate critically. modern cemetery. As strict individuals, we change the viewpoint of the real world, nature and life dependent on the regulation of Tauhid (assertion of indisputably the unity of God as Creator, Ruler and Sustainer of such exists). Such world information is the Qur'an which is articulated like an elective information on the mainstream world, subsequently, It is the ideal opportunity for earnest researchers and goal logical sentiment, particularly youthful science understudies and Muslim researchers, to do the worldview change that is so required in the investigation of regular wonders. We perceive that the unmistakable goal to human advancement and the planetary emergency lies in the reshaping of the Tawheed idea of the Cosmos, Nature and Man as the mystical establishment of the normal sciences.

scholarly journals Sustainability as a Multi-Criteria Concept: New Developments and Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Diaz-Balteiro ◽  
Jacinto González-Pachón ◽  
Carlos Romero
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Current Science

The sustainable management of the environment and its embedded resources is one of the most important, if not the major challenge of the 21st century, which demands from current science and technology the development of a scientifically sound conceptual framework that is implementable from an operational point of view for properly tackling this important and complex topic [...]

Measuring the Intelligence of Everything

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Hernández-Orallo ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intelligence Quotient ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Turing Test ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Natural Distribution ◽  
Autonomous Weapons ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Current Science ◽  
Real Danger

In this dialogue comprising seven widely diverse sections, José Hernández-Orallo, specialist in AI, reflects on a variety of topics surrounding Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (AI): 1. On what is measurable in intelligence, and what its ingredients are; 2. On how to universally measure intelligence; 3. On the Turing test; 4. On compared intelligences and the IQ (Intelligence Quotient); 5. On the AI agents of software; 6. On whether the human condition, (and happiness), can be mathematized; 7. On the relationship between intelligence and humor; and, 8. Are there universal ingredients in what we call intelligence? Toward the end, he talks about the current science and technology debate on whether the evolution of AI and its latest most disturbing incarnations (e.g., lethal autonomous weapons) can become an existential threat for humans or not. His reflections are culminated with arguments concerning a real danger— that someone, or something, might modify the present natural distribution of intelligence in the planet, which could end up being controlled by a global oligopoly.

The Quiet Australian Harvest

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 293-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Mitra ◽  
Venu Kumar ◽  
Owain Wyn
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Science And Technology Parks ◽  
Technology Parks ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Current Science ◽  
Science Technology And Innovation ◽  
Suitable Case

Australia's outstanding economic success in recent years has been aided by significant developments in science and technology research and by the ways in which research has been exploited for commercial development. Australia's success in this respect, and its rapid and sometimes innovative development of such vehicles for R&D exploitation as science and technology parks, makes it a suitable case for study. This paper arises from the findings of a study mission from the UK, which set out to identify and analyse the various ways in which Australia is addressing the challenge of science and technology exploitation. The authors focus on current science, technology and innovation policies at state and national levels, and assess the various ways in which science and technology parks have been used as vehicles for innovation, business development and economic regeneration. The paper is divided into three main parts: Part 1 discusses policy issues at state and Commonwealth levels; Part 2 is concerned with technology, innovation and economic regeneration and describes various science and technology park developments; and Part 3 assesses the ways in which university-industry links are manifested in science and technology parks. A concluding section summarizes the key aspects of Australia's strategy for economic development through science and technology, in terms of both policy and implementation.

Laboratory Simulation of Lunar Luminescence

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 441-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Geake ◽  
H. Lipson ◽  
M. D. Lumb
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Laboratory Simulation ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Luminescent Spectrum

Work has recently begun in the Physics Department of the Manchester College of Science and Technology on an attempt to simulate lunar luminescence in the laboratory. This programme is running parallel with that of our colleagues in the Manchester University Astronomy Department, who are making observations of the luminescent spectrum of the Moon itself. Our instruments are as yet only partly completed, but we will describe briefly what they are to consist of, in the hope that we may benefit from the comments of others in the same field, and arrange to co-ordinate our work with theirs.

Fit Vs Faint: Assessing Work Causation in “Idiopathic Fall” Cases

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Lorne Direnfeld ◽  
David B. Torrey ◽  
Jim Black ◽  
LuAnn Haley ◽  
Christopher R. Brigham
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Loss Of Consciousness ◽  
Brain Electrical Activity ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Medical Causation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Current Science

Abstract When an individual falls due to a nonwork-related episode of dizziness, hits their head and sustains injury, do workers’ compensation laws consider such injuries to be compensable? Bearing in mind that each state makes its own laws, the answer depends on what caused the loss of consciousness, and the second asks specifically what happened in the fall that caused the injury? The first question speaks to medical causation, which applies scientific analysis to determine the cause of the problem. The second question addresses legal causation: Under what factual circumstances are injuries of this type potentially covered under the law? Much nuance attends this analysis. The authors discuss idiopathic falls, which in this context means “unique to the individual” as opposed to “of unknown cause,” which is the familiar medical terminology. The article presents three detailed case studies that describe falls that had their genesis in episodes of loss of consciousness, followed by analyses by lawyer or judge authors who address the issue of compensability, including three scenarios from Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania. A medical (scientific) analysis must be thorough and must determine the facts regarding the fall and what occurred: Was the fall due to a fit (eg, a seizure with loss of consciousness attributable to anormal brain electrical activity) or a faint (eg, loss of consciousness attributable to a decrease in blood flow to the brain? The evaluator should be able to fully explain the basis for the conclusions, including references to current science.

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