MOTHERHOOD AND SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION

Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 7332-7342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soňa Hermanová ◽  
Martin Pumera

Artificial, self-propelled micro- and nanomotors are small devices capable of autonomous movement, which are a powerful scientific innovation for solving various medical and environmental issues.


2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junlong Luo ◽  
Xiumin Du ◽  
Xiaochen Tang ◽  
Entao Zhang ◽  
Haijiang Li ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Shaw

This paper reports on one aspect of qualitative research on public understandings of food risks, focusing on lay understandings of genetically modified (GM) food in a UK context. A range of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical literature on food, risk, and the public understanding of science are reviewed. The fieldwork methods are outlined and empirical data from a range of lay groups are presented. Major themes include: varying “technical” knowledge of science, the relationship between knowledge and acceptance of genetic modification, the uncertainty of scientific knowledge, genetic modification as inappropriate scientific intervention in “nature,” the acceptability of animal and human applications of genetic modification, the appropriate boundaries of scientific innovation, the necessity for GM foods, the uncertainty of risks in GM food, fatalism about avoiding risks, and trust in “experts” to manage potential risks in GM food. Key discussion points relating to a sociological understanding of public attitudes to GM food are raised and some policy implications are highlighted.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (321) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Elvira Tlessova ◽  
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Aizhan Khoich ◽  
Nazerke Kurash ◽  
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...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Anisah Indriati

<p class="16"><em>This article discusses the issue of jihad in Islamic sources. This effort is important because of the negative image of the Islamic Jihad command. Presented in this article about the meaning of jihad in Islamic sources and how to interpret contextually jihad with jihad fi sabilillah in accordance with the interests and capacities of each. Jihad does not only means qital or war. Jihad in the Qur'an is also </em><em>found in other, more beneficial to the institution</em><em> of humanity. In the contemporary era of jihad environmental, health and scientific innovation become necessary to save a human life.</em><em></em></p><p><em>Artikel ini membahas persoalan jihad dalam sumber ajaran Islam. Upaya ini penting dilakukan karena adanya Image Islam yang negatif dari adanya perintah jihad. Dalam artikel ini dikemukakan tentang pemaknaan jihad yang ada dalam sumber ajaran Islam dan bagaimana memaknai jihad secara kontekstual dengan melaksakan jihad fi sabilillah yang sesuai dengan kepentingan dan kapasitasnya masing-masing. Jihad tidak hanya bermkna qital atau berperang. Jihad dalam al-Quran juga ditemukan dalam bentuk lain yang lebih bermanfaat bagi intitusi kemanusiaan. Di era kekinian jihad lingkungan, kesehatan dan inovasi keilmuan menjadi suatu yang penting untuk menyelamatkan kehidupan manusia.</em></p>


Author(s):  
J. G. Vitale

Abstract. The city walls of Florence constitute a complex system: six circles and at least nine distinct phases of use and transformation, from the foundation of Florentia to Florence Capital, to contemporary adjustments. The DIDA, Department of Architecture of the University of Florence with the Municipality of Florence, has been carrying out since 2012 the FIMU project with the study of the various walls circuits and diachronic surveys of the surviving wall sections. The aim is to combine and harmonize the historical data with technical-scientific innovation, expressing its own vision of the relationship between the history of the city of Florence and the correct valorization of one of its important Landmark. Every citizen must be able to recognize in the traces of the past his belonging to a community, the results expected from this research are the realization of an informative-didactic and informative apparatus that will emphasize this important historical testimony of Florence and its transformations occurred over the centuries. Data acquisition, processing and visualization methods define this research as ‘experimental’ for the knowledge and evolution of a historic city that would contribute to elevating services for the technical scientific community and the citizen, to which data would become available currently ‘raw’ with the preparation of an apparatus based on a database through the ‘Open Data’ platform of the Municipality of Florence.


2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Sulloway

Innovations in science can be divided into at least four major types: radical revolutions (such as Copernican and Darwinian theory), technical revolutions (led by scientists such as Newton, Lavoisier, and Einstein), controversial innovations (for example, Semmelweis's theory of puerperal fever), and conservative innovations (eugenics and various vitalistic doctrines). Biographical predictors of support for scientific innovations are distinctly different depending on the type of innovation, as are the predictors of who initially engineers such innovations. A meta-analytic approach assessing each new scientific theory according to its salient features (including epistemological, ideological, and technical attributes) is required to make sense out of the varied predisposing factors associated with the origins of these innovations. These predisposing factors are not neatly classifiable in terms of Simonton's (2009, this issue) hierarchical model of domain-specific dispositions, although this model is applicable under some conditions. Instead, the principal sources of scientific achievement are largely a product of person-by-situation interaction effects that are dictated by the nature of the particular innovation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habibollah Faraji ◽  
Reza Nedaeinia ◽  
Esmaeil Nourmohammadi ◽  
Bizan Malaekeh-Nikouei ◽  
Hamid Reza Sadeghnia ◽  
...  

Nanotechnology as a multidisciplinary and scientific innovation plays an important role in numerous biomedical applications, such as molecular imaging, biomarkers and biosensors and also drug delivery. A wide range of studies have been conducted on using of nanoparticles for early diagnosis and targeted drug therapy of various diseases. In fact, the small size, customized surface, upgraded solubility, or multi-functionality of nanoparticles enabled them to interact with complex cellular functions in new ways which opened many doors and created new biomedical applications. These studies demonstrated that nanotechnology vehicles can formulate biological products effectively, and this nano-formulated products with a potent ability against different diseases, were represented to have better biocompatibility, bioaccessibility and efficacy, under in vitro and in vivo conditions.


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