scholarly journals Symbolernas arkeologi: Teman i en studie kring Hannes Alfvén

1970 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Svante Lindqvist
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The Archæology of Symbols Symbols are created, manifested and ultimately disappear. This essay discusses how symbols are created, but also how they are rejected, destroyed or just simply fade away. The artefacts we preserve in the belief that they were important symbols in their own time had perhaps already lost their symbolic importance. This interest in symbols is a common theme in a study of the Swedish Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén and in scientific research in post-WW2 Sweden on which I have been working for a long time. Some examples of symbols for various beliefs concerning science and technology are given in this essay, and two examples are discussed in more detail. The first is a large ceiling painting in one of the lecture halls of the engineering college in Stockholm, the Royal Institute of Technology. It was executed by Axel Törneman (1880–1925) in 1917. The painting ”disappeared” in the late 1950s and was rediscovered in 1993. The second example is a sculpture by Ebba Ahlmark-Hughes, erected in 1990, also at the Royal Institute of Technology. The essay tries to demonstrate how relatively difficult it is for the historian to reconstruct the processes by which symbols are created or destroyed. This is nevertheless important, particularly the latter question. If we can determine the values a symbol signified when it was created, then its silent disappearence will tell us that these values were no longer shared by its surrounding.Tostudythedisappearnceofsymbolsmay thus also be of relevance in recreating the past. 

Navigation and Technology

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-163
Author(s):  
W. H. McKinlay
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientists And Engineers

Over the past thirty years progress in the technologies associated with navigation has been so rapid as to produce a change in the balance between the art of the navigator and the practice of the technologist. The Royal Institute of Navigation was founded at the beginning of this era and one of its major aims was to provide a forum for discussions between practising navigators, scientists and engineers. Therefore, it seems that a consideration of the technical changes should help the Institute to adapt, much as all our social institutions are adapting, as a result of wider changes brought about by science and technology.

scholarly journals JACIII Distinguished Editor & Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 710-710
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Electronic Technology ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan ◽  
Metropolitan University ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The JACIII Distinguished Editor and Outstanding Reviewer Awards were established for the purpose to honor and editors who have made a significant contribution to the growth of the JACIII in 2018 and to acknowledge reviewers who have made a significant contribution to reviewing in 2019. We express our deepest gratitude for their professional work, which we believe conductive to development of not only the JACIII but also scientific research. JACIII DISTINGUISHED EDITOR AWARD 2020 Fei Yan (Changchun University of Science and Technology, China) Guohun Zhu (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China) Junzo Watada (Waseda University, Japan) Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi (Shimonoseki City University, Japan) JACIII OUTSTANDING REVIEWER AWARD 2020 Fei Yan (Changchun University of Science and Technology, China) Yasufumi Takama (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) Luefeng Chen (China University of Geosciences, China) Xin Chen (China University of Geosciences, China) Tomomi Hashimoto (Saitama Institute of Technology, Japan) Hiroyuki Masuta (Toyama Prefectural University, Japan) Yasutake Takahashi (Fukui University, Japan)

scholarly journals Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

eLight ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Chen ◽  
Mordechai Segev
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Topological Insulator ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Quantum Photonics ◽  
Young Researchers

AbstractLet there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science of light, as light-based technologies have revolutionarily changed our lives. Needless to say, photonics has now penetrated into many aspects of science and technology, turning into an important and dynamically changing field of increasing interdisciplinary interest. In this inaugural issue of eLight, we highlight a few emerging trends in photonics that we think are likely to have major impact at least in the upcoming decade, spanning from integrated quantum photonics and quantum computing, through topological/non-Hermitian photonics and topological insulator lasers, to AI-empowered nanophotonics and photonic machine learning. This Perspective is by no means an attempt to summarize all the latest advances in photonics, yet we wish our subjective vision could fuel inspiration and foster excitement in scientific research especially for young researchers who love the science of light.

Gyorgy Kepes, Billy Klüver, and American Art of the 1960s: Defining Attitudes Toward Science and Technology

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Collins Goodyear
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
American Art ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Insight Into

ArgumentThis essay aims to broaden our understanding of relationships between art, science, and technology during the 1960s by juxtaposing two of the most important, and under-examined, figures of this period, the artist Gyorgy Kepes and the engineer Billy Klüver. While these two are generally linked due to their similarities, a closer examination demonstrates significant differences in their outlook. Comparing the organizations they nurtured, Kepes, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Klüver, Experiments in Art and Technology, provides unique insight into the distinct origins of such organized collaborations between art, science, and technology. It reveals both how the cultural conditions of the 1960s contributed to the perceived need for such agencies and how interactions between art, science, and technology reflected, at once, the culmination of aspirations reaching back to the opening decades of the twentieth century, and a perceived break with the past.

scholarly journals Exploration of the Scientific Research Ability Cultivation of Major Basic Course Teachers in Military Science and Technology Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Jingna Cui ◽  
Jian Pan ◽  
Xinwei Gao ◽  
Luya Zhang ◽  
Shasha Wu
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Cultivation System ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Research Ability ◽  
Evaluation Mechanism ◽  
Basic Course

Scientific research is an important function of modern colleges and universities, for teachers who undertake major basic courses, they has undertaken basic teaching for a long time, their scientific research development has been constrained, which are mainly expressed in the following aspects: weak scientific research consciousness, weak scientific research ability, weak scientific research atmosphere, and insufficient scientific research impetus, so it is very necessary to improve their scientific research ability. On the basis of this current situation, this paper proposes to build "strengthen awareness-rational position-training platform-evaluation mechanism" four-in-one ability cultivation system.

Starch-modified fillers for linerboard and paper grades: A perspective review

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
YULIN DENG ◽  
PHIL JONES ◽  
LESLIE MCLAIN ◽  
ART J. RAGAUSKAS
Keyword(s):  
Filler Content ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Development Opportunity ◽  
Laboratory Results ◽  
Addition Rate ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Paper Product ◽  
Detrimental Impact

High-filler-content paper is a growing research and development opportunity in papermaking. These new products must address traditional paper product properties while providing papermakers with distinct product platform benefits. Over the past decade, a research team involving researchers from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology and from Imerys have significantly advanced the application of starch-encapsulated papermaking fillers. This review summarizes these accomplishments from initial laboratory studies to mill trials. Laboratory results have illustrated that starch-encapsulated fillers can facilitate a near-doubling of filler content over conventional levels at equal tensile and z-direction tensile (ZDT) values. Equally important is that the use of starch-encapsulated kaolin (SEK) filler has been shown to facilitate a doubling of filler addition rate without any detrimental impact on ring crush compared with control studies with filler. Pilot-plant and mill trials have shown that SEK can function as a fiber extender, reduce steam demand for drying by 10%, and increase papermaking speeds and production rates.

RESEARCH COLLABORATION AMONG LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA (1991–2012): AN INFORMETRICS STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Maluleka ◽  
Omwoyo B. Onyancha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Collaborative Activities

This study sought to assess the extent of research collaboration in Library and Information Science (LIS) schools in South Africa between 1991 and 2012. Informetric research techniques were used to obtain relevant data for the study. The data was extracted from two EBSCO-hosted databases, namely, Library and Information Science Source (LISS) and Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA). The search was limited to scholarly peer reviewed articles published between 1991 and 2012. The data was analysed using Microsoft Excel ©2010 and UCINET for Windows ©2002 software packages. The findings revealed that research collaboration in LIS schools in South Africa has increased over the past two decades and mainly occurred between colleagues from the same department and institution; there were also collaborative activities at other levels, such as inter-institutional and inter-country, although to a limited extent; differences were noticeable when ranking authors according to different computations of their collaborative contributions; and educator-practitioner collaboration was rare. Several conclusions and recommendations based on the findings are offered in the article.

scholarly journals Predicting Fraud Victimization Using Classical Machine Learning

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Mark Lokanan ◽  
Susan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Machine Learning Model ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Regulatory Organization ◽  
Investment Fraud

Protecting financial consumers from investment fraud has been a recurring problem in Canada. The purpose of this paper is to predict the demographic characteristics of investors who are likely to be victims of investment fraud. Data for this paper came from the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada’s (IIROC) database between January of 2009 and December of 2019. In total, 4575 investors were coded as victims of investment fraud. The study employed a machine-learning algorithm to predict the probability of fraud victimization. The machine learning model deployed in this paper predicted the typical demographic profile of fraud victims as investors who classify as female, have poor financial knowledge, know the advisor from the past, and are retired. Investors who are characterized as having limited financial literacy but a long-time relationship with their advisor have reduced probabilities of being victimized. However, male investors with low or moderate-level investment knowledge were more likely to be preyed upon by their investment advisors. While not statistically significant, older adults, in general, are at greater risk of being victimized. The findings from this paper can be used by Canadian self-regulatory organizations and securities commissions to inform their investors’ protection mandates.

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