Natural Phenomena and the Primacy of Experiment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Keyword(s):  
Objective Data ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Material World

This chapter defines what phenomena and objective data are and how the latter ones are obtained, and explains the fundamental role of experiments in obtaining information on the material world.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL HAZARDS ON SOIL DEGRADATION AND AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IN THE CRIMEA

2015 ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. S. Pashtetsky ◽  
K. G. Zhenchenko ◽  
A. V. Prikhodko
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Yield ◽  
Soil Protection ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Ecological Significance ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Strong Winds ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

The information of the impact of adverse natural phenomena related with the high temperature regime, deficit of precipitation and strong winds on the soil erosion, growth and yield of the crop. The status of shelterbelt, their ecological significance and the role of melioration and soil protection tillage systems in the Republic of Crimea are discussed.

scholarly journals El papel del lenguaje en la construcción de explicaciones en la clase de ciencias en contextos bilingües a través del enfoque CLIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Mauricio Mancipe Triviño ◽  
Cynthia Marcela Ramírez Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Language ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
L2 Proficiency ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Science Classes ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
L1 English ◽  
Do So

This paper covers the issue with respect to elaborating explanations about natural phenomena in the Science class in bilingual contexts (Spanish (L1) – English (L2)), in which the role of the language is analysed from two perspectives: communicative and explanatory. To do so, this article focuses on the categorisation of cognitive-linguistic abilities exhibited by the students throughout the implementation of the designed unit, as well as analysing the expressions used by them from the communicative perspective; this analysis is born from the upcoming and growing concern of bilingualism implementation in Colombia and Latin America. The methodology used follows an interpretative-qualitative analysis with an inductive analysis approach, analysing the collected information during the didactic implementation in recordings, products developed by students and class diaries from a sample of 25 and 19 students belonging to two private secondary schools located in Cajicá and Bogotá, Colombia. The document presents the reflections arisen from the analysis categories built to assess the collected information: socio-linguistic abilities, communication of ideas in both L1 and L2, the conceptual, social, epistemological and didactic aspects of knowledge. It was found a close link between the L2 proficiency and the depth of the explanations elaborated by the students, enabling the more competent students in L2 to communicate better using the scientific language and getting to more complex explanations. Moreover, the implementation re-dimensioned the content perspective applied by some teachers when using the CLIL approach, placing bilingualism in the Science classes in a dimension distant from transmitting information, being a medium that fosters communicative and explanatory processes by nurturing different cognitive-linguistic abilities.

scholarly journals Historical timber as a sustainable material, Studies about Islamic architecture in Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Dalia Shebl Said
Keyword(s):  
Timber Structures ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
Modern Material ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Material Studies

<p>Wood is an old – modern material, It was and still used in a wide range in a various purposes as construction, decoration and remains the most popular material all over the world, The research provides an overview of the role of  timber as an important heritage element which forms the main characters and distinguishes features of many historical buildings in Islamic architecture and used widely in many applications, it had been played a great role in construction and structure of buildings, besides that it had been used in a beautiful purpose in different places whether indoors or outdoors use<strong> </strong>. The research presents the case studies of historical timber in different types of building in Islamic architecture which constructed from more than 1400 years ago, although the historical timber in old buildings exposed to many disasters and faced quite numbers of problems as a result of natural phenomena, man-made, humidity, and termites but it still stands proudly as a great sustain materials. The research shows how he use of timber in historical buildings as sources of inspiration and living evidence of ways of sustainable building practices the types of deterioration which appeared clearly an effect on the statue of historical timber, for that the research introduces some recommendations in the light of ICOMOS international charter “ <a href="http://www.icomos.org/en/home/179-articles-en-francais/ressources/charters-and-standards/163-principles-for-the-preservation-of-historic-timber-structures">Principles for the Preservation of Historic Timber Structures</a> 1999” that Emphasizes the necessity of taking a serious steps and clear strategy to save our heritage elements</p>

scholarly journals Regeneration: Why junk DNA might matter

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Díaz-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Variation ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Junk Dna ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
The Individual

The ability of certain natural species to restore or regenerate missing structures has been a recurrent source of inspiration to forge our collective knowledge, from being used to adorn mythological figures with superhuman powers to permitting controlled reproducible observations that help setting the bases of entire research fields such as experimental biology and regenerative medicine. In spite of being one of the oldest natural phenomena under study, what makes certain species able or unable to regenerate missing parts is still largely a mystery. Recent advancements towards the highly detailed characterization of the sequence, the spatial organization, and the expression of genomes is offering a new standpoint to address the study of the natural variation in regenerative responses. An intriguing observation that has not yet conveniently pursued is that species with remarkable regenerative abilities tend to have genomes loaded with junk DNA (jDNA), i.e., genetic elements presumed to be useless for the benefit of the individual, whereas species for taxa with limited regenerative abilities tend to have jDNA-poor genomes. Here, I use existing knowledge on the role of jDNA as genome evolution facilitator and its non-random chromosome and nuclear distributions to speculate about two non-excluding ways through which the variation in jDNA genomic content might end up enhancing or limiting regenerative responses. The present piece aims to go beyond the confines of correlational studies between biological variables and to lay sensible conceptual grounds for future hypothesis-driven attempts to substantiate the genomic determinants of the natural variation of regenerative responses.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinarni pristup u razmatranju odnosa znanost — teologija

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-412
Author(s):  
Krešimir Cerovac
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Material World ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Modes Of Thought

There are many reasons why a partnership dialogue between theology (religion) and the natural sciences is needed. However, first and foremost this must be a conversation between one human being and another regarding the most important of human interests. The most effective way to approach complex issues and problems in the dialogue between theology and science is the transdisciplinary approach. Transdisciplinarity can solve prob lems which cannot be resolved by separate attempts. This approach can connect different modes of thought, that is, thought beginning with different points of view on the material world or religion. The transdisciplinary approach takes on the role of mediator, which demands at the “round table” that which unites human beings on a universal human level. This is a new, challenging and demanding approach which requires researchers to leave their own field of interest and strive to learn about other fields. The transdisciplinary approach, as “critical rationality” and a new way of thinking, opposed to classical and reductive rationalism, emphasizing objectivity, is based on controlled conflict–induced paradoxes. Transdisciplinarity creates a new quality — which is not an arithmetic sum of individual disciplines — and enables articulation, i.e. a link between two, at first glance, controversial disciplinary modes of thought.

Commitment to Theory

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Friel-Patti
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Efficacy ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Peer Reviewers ◽  
Auditory Integration ◽  
Professional Review

In summary, authors Rimland, Edelson, and Veale are to be commended for bringing the topic of auditory integration training forward for professional review and debate. AIT offers an excellent forum for consideration of the role of theory in intervention for clinicians engaged in treatment of persons with communication disorders. Each clinician must take a step back on occasion and face the question about treatment efficacy from an objective, data-driven perspective. Such public discussion of AIT as intervention inevitably leads to reexamination of what is meant by success/failure in treatment; indeed, what constitutes intervention itself. AIT is being held up to the scrutiny of both the clinical and research communities, and, if it is valid, it will withstand such inquiry and will even advance our understanding of some very perplexing disorders. In order for that to happen, responsible researchers and clinicians must be willing to shed biases, ask questions, conduct studies, and report them to their professional community of peer reviewers. The process is vital for every speech, language, and hearing professional and for the persons with communication disorders they serve.

Navigating Frames of Address: María Lugones on Language, Bodies, Things, and Places

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Roelofs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Social Categorization ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Material World ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Maria Lugones ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Feminist Work ◽  
Do So

Address figures prominently in contemporary (Latina) feminism, yet calls for further theorizing. Modes of address are forms of signification we direct at people, objects, and places, and they at us. Address constitutes a vital dimension of our corporeal interactions with persons and the material world. Our relationships are in motion as we adopt modes of address toward one another or fail to do so. Clarifying address through examples from Gloria Anzaldúa, this essay reveals its importance in María Lugones's writings. The essay thereby highlights underexplored aspects of Lugones's texts, identifies continuities between Lugones's philosophy and (Latina) feminist work that comprehends address as a carrier of aesthetic and political meanings, and illuminates the resources of a remarkably fruitful concept. Address, in Lugones, is the centerpiece of a quotidian cultural politics. Principal concepts she introduces (concerning subjectivity, critique and transformation, social categorization and interaction, the role of language, bodies, objects, and places) recruit address. Yet, by foregrounding address, the essay also brings into view unforeseen obstructions in the paths of address that Lugones champions, and an enlarged playing field that we can activate to realize desirable frames of address and derail objectionable structures. Avenues open up for further development of Lugones's insights and for inquiries into address.

The progress and organization of science in the U. S. S. R

1965 ◽  
Vol 286 (1407) ◽  
pp. 441-454
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Organization Of Science ◽  
Century Science

Allow me first of all to express my deep gratitude for this honour: to speak before the Royal Society, before Britain’s foremost scientists. Your President suggested to me that I speak about the organization of science in the Soviet Union. This is no easy task, because the organization of science cannot be considered apart from its development. Nor can one avoid making certain assessments of various scientific trends, and here there are always pitfalls. I must also ask you to excuse me in advance if I happen to lapse into some commonplace generalities about science and its significance, but so much has already been said on the subject that one can scarcely be original in dealing with it. Nevertheless, it is here that I shall begin. In our day we very often hear it said that in the twentieth century science has come to play a special role in the development of society and the role of the state in organizing science has been enhanced. For centuries science has been a motive force of progress, and in advanced countries governments have been at pains to found universities, which have been centres of learning. There is no doubt, however, that never before did the scope of research and the number of people occupied in it increase as rapidly as they are doing today. Man has realized that major technical advances nowadays depend on harnessing less and less conspicuous natural phenomena, hidden deeper and deeper from view.

scholarly journals Revisiting the life of things: A cognitive semiotic study of the agency of artefacts in Amazonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Mendoza-Collazos ◽  
Göran Sonesson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Material World ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Moment

Many contemporary scholars have recently defended the idea that the agency of things is symmetrical and equivalent to human agency. We propose an alternative approach to artefacts’ agency based on a field study concerned with contextually situated observations of the process of design of artefacts in Amazonia. By means of participant observation and interviews, we address the role of artefacts in relation to human agency. In so doing, we focus on the human-unique capacity for design as it is related to cognitive resources such as intentionality, decision-making, planning, and volitional adaptations of the material world to human purposes. We argue that such cognitive resources are ultimate manifestations of human agency. The findings allow us to conclude that artefacts possess a special form of agency, which operates in different ways from the agency of true agents. This agency is derived: it depends on the actions of true agents, with either function as remote intentions or are required for the artefact to work at the moment of use. Thus, the relation between artefacts and agents is asymmetrical. Given that the derived agency of artefacts allows people to expand their own agency, we propose the notion of enhanced agency for the prosthetic incorporation of artefacts into the agentive capabilities of human agents.

scholarly journals Woman-Nature affinity in Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer: An Ecofeminist Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 248-253
Author(s):  
Arshad Nawaz ◽  
Nimra Iftikhar ◽  
Ruqayya Maqbool
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Natural Images ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Archetypal Feminine ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Pain Distress

This research paper focuses on the images extracted from natural phenomena in Anita Desai's WhereShall We Go This Summer? (1982), to illustrate the pros and cons of patriarchal society'smarginalization and alienation of women in today's world. The article exposes the deep hiddenmeanings of natural imagery through a feministic sensibility. Desai uses natural and animal elementsto create a metaphoric picture of an archetypal feminine figure that works on two levels at the sametime. At a primary level, this technique of inserting natural images at various points throughout thenovel aims to heighten the magnitude and intensity of the mental and spiritual agony of a victimizedwoman who faces domestic violence, male oppression, and female suppression while on a secondarylevel, the role of these images helps the women in the catharsis of that pain, distress, and anguish whichis the result of the rejection of her husband and society as a whole. Karen Warren’s theory ofEcofeminism which regards both women and nature as oppressed objects, is applied for the purpose ofresearch methodology. This research aims to overturn oppressive patriarchal practices by bringingwomen and ecology from the margins to the forefront

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