scholarly journals The Sociological Debate of the Life Sciences Research: from Molecular Biology to Human Genome Sequencing

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Renan Goncalves Leonel Da Silva ◽  
Maria Conceicao Da Costa

This paper presents some sociological debates involved in the new field of life sciences at the end of 20th century. From a bibliographic review concerning history of science and Social Studies of Science, it will be presented some particular sociological issues of the research on molecular biology and its historical evolution – the formation of speeches and legitimization; institutional arrangements and alliances in post-war period. We will focuses on the emerging systems of information and communication technology, ICTs. and how it transformed the biomedical research. The goal is to show briefly how molecular biology was built, from the post-war period to the end of the 90’s, and what was the main proceedings of interdisciplinary associations and technoscientific interactions in the life sciences agenda.

Author(s):  
Vittorio Degiorgio

The new sources of light (laser and led) that have been invented and developed during the last fifty-sixty years have given origin to a true scientific and technological revolution. This article synthetically follows the main steps of the history of light, which started by studying the properties of solar emission, and introducing the concept of electromagnetic wave. At the end of the 19th century there was experimental evidence that it was necessary to complicate the approach by introducing the assumption that the electromagnetic energy is a discrete, and not continuous, quantity. The new concept led to design and realization of the laser and the led. Through the utilization of these sources fundamental progress was achieved in both science and technology, by deepening the description of wave-particle dualism and of the coherence concept, by putting on a completely new basis information and communication technology, and by giving new tools to industrial and biomedical sensing.


2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-88
Author(s):  
Masataka Kimura

This essay examines the history of electoral modernization in the Philippines from its beginning in the early 1990s to the present. The essay identifies the problems the country has encountered and accomplishments it has achieved and draws lessons from these experiences which may be useful for electoral modernization in other countries with similar socioeconomic conditions. It will become clear that not only the characteristics of the technologies but also political, legal, administrative, economic, and even socio-cultural factors have significant influence, both positive and negative, on the modernization process.


Author(s):  
Peter Yates

The Australian Antarctic Division has a long history of providing telecommunications as part of the support provided to expeditioners within the Australian Antarctic Territory. Since the days when Mawson’s expedition in 1911 setup the first transmitter at Commonwealth Bay, the Division has provided continuous and increasingly sophisticated telecommunications capability that now includes data to support medical services, science, education and Internet access. The provision of telecommunications to Antarctica relies on satellite transmission for backhaul.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Putu Kussa Laksana Utama

<p><em>Education is a important thing in a human civilization history. The progress of a civilization is mostly determined by education as a main factor. Throughout the history of human civilization, there were so many learning methods has been invented such as discussion method, discourse method, group teaching, and technology-supported learning method. The fast development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the era of information society has facilitated all of knowledge seekersnowdays to learn something better and better.E-Learning as a implementation of ICT in education domain takes the role as a education media which provide education content so that the students are able to access it times infinity.</em></p>


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