scholarly journals Specialized terminology limits the reach of new scientific knowledge

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Martínez ◽  
Stefano Mammola
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWords are the building blocks of science. As our understanding of the world progresses, scientific disciplines naturally enrich their specialized vocabulary (jargon). However, in the era of interdisciplinarity, the use of jargon may hinder effective communication amongst scientists that do not share a common linguistic background. The question of how jargon limits the transmission of scientific knowledge has long been debated, but rarely addressed quantitatively. We explored the relationship between the use of jargon and citations using 21,486 articles focusing on cave research, a multidisciplinary field particularly prone to terminological specialization and where linguistic disagreement among peers is frequent. We demonstrate that the use of jargon in the title and abstract significantly reduces the number of citations a paper receives. Given that these elements are the hook to readers, we urge scientists to restrict jargon to sections of the paper where its use is unavoidable.

scholarly journals Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1948) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Martínez ◽  
Stefano Mammola
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Relationship

Words are the building blocks of communicating science. As our understanding of the world progresses, scientific disciplines naturally enrich their specialized vocabulary (jargon). However, in the era of interdisciplinarity, the use of jargon may hinder effective communication among scientists that do not share a common scientific background. The question of how jargon limits the transmission of scientific knowledge has long been debated but rarely addressed quantitatively. We explored the relationship between the use of jargon and citations, using 21 486 articles focusing on cave research, a multidisciplinary field particularly prone to terminological specialization, and where linguistic disagreement among peers is frequent. We demonstrate a significant negative relationship between the proportion of jargon words in the title and abstract and the number of citations a paper receives. Given that these elements are the hook to readers, we urge scientists to restrict jargon to sections of the paper where its use is unavoidable.

Energy Efficiency of Vehicles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Fuel Economy ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rational Decisions

Energy Efficiency of Vehicles educates readers about energy and the environment and the relationship between the energy we use and the environment. The world is at a point in time when people need to make very important decisions about energy in the next few decades. This book enables readers to utilize our scientific knowledge to make good rational decisions. Energy Efficiency of Vehicles provides information on: Calculations related to energy, power, and efficiency, and the impact of using different types of energy on the environment. Environmental consequences of consuming energy. Models related to impact of city driving on the energy efficiency and fuel economy of cars and trucks.

Are the religious suspicious of science? Investigating religiosity, religious context, and orientations towards science

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 967-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Chan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Are the religious suspicious of science? Drawing on data from 52 nations in the World Values Survey (wave 6) ( N = 58,474), I utilize multilevel models to examine the relationship between religiosity, religious context, and five different orientations towards science: confidence in science, trust in scientific authority under conditions of conflict with religion, faith in science, views on the moral effects of science, and interest in scientific knowledge. Results show that while religiosity is on average negatively associated with the five outcomes, the relationship between religiosity and orientations towards science varies by country such that religiosity is sometimes positively associated with the different outcomes. Religiosity is only consistently negatively associated with trust in scientific authority in all countries and with all orientations towards science in western countries. Finally, differences in orientations towards science also exist across country religious contexts, with countries dominated by the unaffiliated having more positive orientations towards science.

scholarly journals MANUSIA DAN AGAMA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Achmad Asrori
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Absolute Necessity ◽  
Interesting Study ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

The study of humans is a very interesting study, because besides being approachable from various aspects, it also concerns us as human beings. This study of humans has been done for a long time since the time of the ancient philosophers in Greece. They have started talking about humans, besides talking about God and the universe. This study of humans also eventually gave birth to various scientific disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, biology, psychology, and other sciences.Religion is a part that cannot be separated from humans, considering that since humans were born into the world, God has actually been equipped with religion. For this reason, the relationship between humans and religion will be explained in this section so that it becomes clear that religion is an absolute necessity for humans and humans cannot live in order and prosperity in this world without religion. In other words, human nature is religious, so when a human claims to be non-religious means he has lied to himself and at the same time has done wrong against him.

scholarly journals The term «Concept»

2020 ◽  
pp. 236-243
Author(s):  
Zh. M. Kakulya ◽  
D. D. Jantassova
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Definition ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years in the humanitarian field of scientific knowledge more and more attention has been paid to the relationship of language and culture, language and national mentality, language and national consciousness. In this connection, the object of study, the approaches and methods of describing and studying language are being reinterpreted. Researches pay more and more attention to such a category as a concept. Despite a widespread use of this concept in the field of scientific research, the term «concept» itself has not yet received an unambiguous interpretation. And this is due to the fact that researchers representing various branches of scientific knowledge, single out and consider decisive various features of this object. At present it should be recognized that it is a concept that is the key of cognitive linguistics. However, despite the fact that a concept can be considered established for modern cognitive science, the content of this concept varies significantly in the conceptions of various scientific schools and individual scientists. The fact is that a concept is a category of thinking that is not observable, and this gives a lot of room for its interpretation. Today the category of a concept appears in the studies of philosophers, logicians, psychologists, and cultural scientists, and it bears the traces of all these extra-linguistic interpretations. This term, although firmly established in modern linguistics, does not still have a single definition, although many well-known scholars are fruitfully studying a concept: N. D. Arutyunova, A. P. Babushkin, A. Vezhbitskaya, E. S. Kubryakova, S. E. Nikitina, V. N. Telia, R. M. Frumkin and others. Thus, it can be stated that the term of a concept in linguistics is both old and new at the same time. Back in 1928 famous scientist S. A. Askoldov published the article «Concept and Word», but until the middle of the last century, a concept was not perceived as a term in scientific literature. A concept is a cultural phenomenon of storing, developing and accumulating information, perhaps its universal definition is the shortest logical characteristic: a concept is a constructive concept of storing and accumulating information in the linguistic picture of the world. Thus, concepts represent the world in the head of a person, forming a conceptual system, and the signs of the human language encode the content of this system in a word.

EXPRESSÕES LITERÁRIAS DO REENCANTAMENTO DO MUNDO: PROMETHEA DE ALAN MOORE "Literary expressions of the re-enchantment of the world: Alan Moore’s Promethea"

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Ramalho de Sá Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Literature And Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Support Research

Esse artigo tem como temática central a relação entre literatura e religião, especificamente a literatura das histórias em quadrinhos, também conhecidas como HQs, e o ocultismo contemporâneo, um agente do reencantamento do mundo, sendo esse uma crítica e produto da modernidade, o qual promove o retorno ou popularização da magia. Dessa forma, o objetivo da pesquisa é analisar a HQ Promethea, de Alan Moore, publicada em 1999, e que aborda o ocultismo de forma didática, assim, busca-se identificar quais são os elementos do ocultismo na obra e como estes e a própria HQ de Moore se inserem no processo de reencantamento do mundo. Como metodologia, o trabalho faz uso de pesquisa bibliográfica e a forma de abordagem é qualitativa em função das características do tema estudado (crenças, valores, atitudes). O marco teórico conceitual utilizado para fundamentar a pesquisa é a sociologia da religião. Constata-se entre os elementos ocultistas abordados em Promethea a magia cerimonial, a astrologia, o tarô, a cabala hermética e a goécia. E as características do reencantamento do mundo presentes na obra, entre outras, são a revalorização dos elementos não racionais da vida, como a imaginação; o resgate de crenças e práticas pré-modernas, como a própria magia; a racionalização e “psicologização” desta; e uma dialética entre o conhecimento científico e o pensamento mágico.Palavras-chave: Magia. Ocultismo. Literatura.AbstractThis paper has as its central theme the relationship between literature and religion, specifically the literature of comics and contemporary occultism, an agent of the re-enchantment of the world, the latter is a product and critique of modernity which promotes the return or popularization of magic. Thus, this research intends to analyze Alan Moore’s comic, Promethea, published in 1999, which addresses the occult didactically, thus, the paper seeks to identify those elements of occultism and how they and the comic fit into the process of re-enchantment of the world. As methodology, the work makes use of bibliographic research and the approach is qualitative based on the characteristics of the studied subject (beliefs, values, attitudes). The theoretical and conceptual framework used to support research is the sociology of religion. It appears among occult elements addressed in Promethea ceremonial magic, astrology, tarot, Hermetic Qabalah and the Goetia. And the characteristics of the re-enchantment of the world in the present work, among others, are the revaluation of non-rational elements of life such as the imagination; redemption of pre-modern beliefs and practices, such as magic itself; rationalization and "psychologization" of magic; and a dialectic between scientific knowledge and magical thinking.Keywords: Magic. Occultism. Literature. 

scholarly journals Worldmaking as an Approach to Scientific Pluralism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Fišerová
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Scientific Pluralism ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World

This study discusses the extent to which Goodman’s constructivist conception of worldmaking may serve the needs of scientific practice. I argue that worldmaking should help us retain a common methodological order and a basic framework for scientific pluralism. In this way it should provide us not only with better scientific knowledge but also with a greater understanding of the world in general that would be inclusive of both scientific and nonscientific disciplines. The main purpose of this paper is to show that, if revisited, Goodman’s idea of versions, including even mutually exclusive scientific theories, can aid the gradual progress of pluralistic science. Taking the prevailing criticism of Goodman’s conception into account, I argue that worldmaking can serve as a methodological apparatus for scientific disciplines because it presents a position of moderated constructivism which, thanks to the variable criterion of rightness, offers a way to maintain both relativism and skepticism.

scholarly journals The Concept of Scientific Worldview in the Russian Philosophy of the First Quarter of the 20th Century (Based on the Works by V.I. Vernadsky and L.M. Lopatin)

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
Il’ya V. Demin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Special Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Worldview ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Methodology Of Science

This article analyses the concept of scientific worldview in the Russian philosophical journalism of the first quarter of the 20th century. It examines and compares the interpretations of scientific worldview in the works by V.I. Vernadsky and L.M. Lopatin. Both philosophers distanced themselves from the positivist model of scientific knowledge; however, Lopatin was able to identify certain elements of positivism in Vernadsky’s ideas on the relationship between philosophy and science. It should be noted that Lopatin left unchanged the juxtaposition of metaphysics and positivism. The definitions of scientific worldview given by the two Russian philosophers are tautological, being reduced to the following: scientific worldview is a set of ideas about the world shared by the majority of scientists of a particular era. Vernadsky and Lopatin used the term scientific worldview as a synonym for the concepts of science, scientific knowledge, scientific thinking, and scientific way of comprehending the world, without attributing any additional meaning to it. The dispute over scientific worldview is actually a dispute about the metaphysical origins, foundations and prerequisites of scientific knowledge as such. The expression scientific worldview (when it implies an organized conceptual unity and not just a set of conclusions in special sciences) indicates no more than one or another metaphysical system and the principle (or set of principles) of thinking that determines it. Thus, the concept of scientific worldview in the works by Vernadsky and Lopatin expresses a vain pursuit to preserve the conceptual unity of philosophical and scientific knowledge, without dissolving philosophy in the theory and methodology of science.

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

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