Why We Remember
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future. Memory, Dr. Ranganath shows, is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What's more, when we work with the brain's ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness. Including fascinating studies and examples from pop culture, and drawing on Ranganath's life as a scientist, father, and child of immigrants, Why We Remember is a captivating read that unveils the hidden role memory plays throughout our lives. When we understand its power-- and its quirks--we can cut through the clutter and remember the things we want to remember. We can make freer choices and plan a happier future.
Nutrition and its effect on Productivity at the Workplace
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Biology - Diseases, Health, Nutrition, language: English, abstract: This thesis explores the relationship between nutrition and productivity at the workplace and, to a lesser extent, lifestyle. Nutrition is essential for the body to sustain itself and enable its systems to work productively. As important as productivity is, it can be affected by things such as immunity, energy balance, sleep, and more which can be significantly assisted by nutrition. The sections of wellness points described below can affect levels of productivity. The discussion takes place in this document on how diet can affect each point. The topics are Travel and Vacation and how to fight illness before leaving on vacation, combating stress with nutrition, concentration, focus on nutrition, anxiety, fighting disease, the immune system, energy highs and lows, sleep, food at work, meetings and emotional eating. Methods used to gather information were conducted by searching various databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Google, and various medical internet sites. Included in the methods were people of the general healthy working population, mainly in the United States, and exclusions were those with terminal illnesses. The results for each point are in the document, and the discussion allows for the best actions to help productivity thrive at the workplace and personally.
Carbon Nitrides
Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is one of the oldest functional materials reported in literature and has recently had a renaissance as researchers explore the breadth of its functionality. This book explores this active material from its history, structure, preparation, catalytic activity, and applications. This fundamental text is an ideal introduction to this fascinating material and gives a holistic overview of its preparation and potential.
Why Did God Create Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Pathogens?
The question "Why did God create viruses, bacteria, pathogens, venomous creatures and poisonous chemicals is usually asked by irreligious skeptics to challenge God's authority, design, and goodness. It is also asked by those of faith, either out of innocent ignorance or curiosity. Life per se is a balance of life-forms co-existing because they were created by God by means of obvious intelligent design. The authors show the vast majority of bacteria, viruses, and insects are beneficial. The reason some pathogens are harmful is discussed in some detail. Furthermore, the role of toxic chemicals, which are beneficial and even essential to human and animal life at low to moderate concentrations is also covered. The authors' conclusions are well-documented by several hundred peer-reviewed scholarly articles and books. if you have ever wondered about why in God's creation there are "parasites and pathogens," "ticks and toxins," "maladies and mosquitoes," then you owe it to yourself to consider the scholarly explanations that set the record straight-the professional perspective of Bergman and Hoff. If you are looking for sound scientific answers to the question "Why did God create life-forms that have harmful side-effects to other organisms?," this is the book to read.
Why Did God Create Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Pathogens?
The question "Why did God create viruses, bacteria, pathogens, venomous creatures and poisonous chemicals is usually asked by irreligious skeptics to challenge God's authority, design, and goodness. It is also asked by those of faith, either out of innocent ignorance or curiosity. Life per se is a balance of life-forms co-existing because they were created by God by means of obvious intelligent design. The authors show the vast majority of bacteria, viruses, and insects are beneficial. The reason some pathogens are harmful is discussed in some detail. Furthermore, the role of toxic chemicals, which are beneficial and even essential to human and animal life at low to moderate concentrations is also covered. The authors' conclusions are well-documented by several hundred peer-reviewed scholarly articles and books. if you have ever wondered about why in God's creation there are "parasites and pathogens," "ticks and toxins," "maladies and mosquitoes," then you owe it to yourself to consider the scholarly explanations that set the record straight-the professional perspective of Bergman and Hoff. If you are looking for sound scientific answers to the question "Why did God create life-forms that have harmful side-effects to other organisms?," this is the book to read.
Coastal Landscapes
New Jersey has roughly one hundred and thirty miles of coastline, including a wide array of habitats from marshes to ocean beaches, each hosting a unique ecosystem. Yet these coastal landscapes are quite dynamic, changing rapidly as a result of commercial development, environmental protection movements, and of course climate change. Now more than ever, it is vital to document these landscapes before they disappear. Based on numerous aerial images from helicopter and drone flights between 2015 and 2021, this book provides extensive photographs and maps of the New Jersey coast, from the Pine Barrens to the ocean beaches. The text associated with each exceptional image describes it in detail, including its location, ecological setting, and relative position within the larger landscape. Author Kenneth Able, director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station for over thirty years, has thoroughly ground-truthed each image by observations made through kayaks, boats, and wading through marshes. Calling upon his decades of expertise, Able paints a compelling portrait of coastal New Jersey's stunning natural features, resources, history, and possible futures in an era of rising sea levels.
Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast
A new edition of the best-selling field guide to plants and fungi that grow wild throughout the regionThe coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species, edible mushrooms, and marine plants--from Black Gooseberry to Western Tea-Berry, from Golden Chanterelle to Yellow Morel Mushroom, and from Sea Asparagus to Winged Kelp. Now revised and updated with additional species and recipes, this compact, full-color forager's guide offers clear photography, descriptions, safety tips, and warnings, as well as culinary and medicinal uses from Indigenous Peoples and settlers, for more than 150 wild-growing flora species in the region. Practical, user-friendly, and safe, Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast is an indispensable guide for beginner and experienced foragers alike.
Natural Resource Leadership and Management
This book examines leadership and management in natural resources, drawing on literature, principles, and the author's own experiences as a leader and activist.
Natural Resource Sovereignty and the Right to Development in Africa
This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa.
Philosophical Perspectives in Quantum Chemistry
This book explores the philosophy and the foundations of quantum chemistry. It features chapters written by experts in the field. The contributions analyze quantum chemistry as a discipline, in particular, its relation with both chemistry and physics from the viewpoint of realism and reduction. Coverage includes such topics as quantum chemistry as an "in-between" discipline, molecular structure and quantum mechanics, quantum chemical models, and atoms and molecules in quantum chemistry.The interest of this book is twofold. First, the contributions aim to update and refresh the discussions regarding the foundations of quantum chemistry. Second, they seek to develop new philosophical perspectives that this discipline can suggest to philosophers of science.From its origins, quantum chemistry filled a problematic position in the disciplinary space. On the one hand, it is a branch of theoretical chemistry. On the other hand, it appeals essentially to theoretical tools coming from physics. This peculiar position triggered conceptual questions about its own identity. Inside this book, readers will find updated discussions on the foundations and the philosophy of this complex discipline.
Apicoltura per principianti
Se sei stato accarezzare l'idea di tenere le api, ma non so da dove cominciare, dove ottenere le api da, come impostare, come impostare il vostro alveari per la produzione di miele ottimale, come mantenere la salute della vostra colonia e molto altro ancora, continuare a leggere ...Stai per scoprire come iniziare a tenere le api per il miele o cera, da zero, anche se non hai mai fatto nulla di simile prima!Le api sono probabilmente gli insetti pi羅 importanti del mondo, non solo per il loro miele e cera, ma perch矇 svolgono un ruolo importante nell'impollinazione, il che significa che senza di loro, probabilmente non avremmo i frutti succosi che sgranocchiamo. Non c'癡 da meravigliarsi che l'apicoltura commerciale si dice aggiunga 15-20 miliardi di dollari in valore economico ogni anno!Questo probabilmente spiega perch矇 l'allevamento di api sta rapidamente diventando sempre pi羅 popolare di giorno in giorno - e non 癡 solo perch矇 癡 un hobby interessante, ma anche perch矇 癡 uno dei modi migliori per risparmiare, fare soldi, aumentare il vostro giardino di piante e ancora ottenere i prodotti delle api pi羅 puliti e sicuri (miele e cera) direttamente sulla vostra tavola.E ehi, questa non 癡 la parte migliore.Questi insetti sono alcuni degli animali pi羅 indipendenti del pianeta. Infatti, preferiscono essere lasciati soli. ? pi羅 o meno un insieme, fornire condizioni ottimali per loro di prosperare tenendo fuori i pesticidi, e dimenticare - le api si arrangeranno da sole e non richieder? alcun altro input da voi! E vi ricompenseranno profumatamente con tonnellate di miele, cera e piante impollinate!S穫, beh... tutto questo suona appetitoso, ma come potrei iniziare? Non l'ho mai fatto prima... Vi chiedete?Buona preoccupazione.Probabilmente ti sei anche chiesto questo: Come faccio ad acquistare le api?Come faccio a creare una colonia?Cosa mangiano le api; come le nutro?Il miele 癡 un prodotto redditizio?Come posso evitare le punture; posso raccogliere miele e cera senza dover tollerare una o due punture?Se hai avuto queste domande e preoccupazioni, allora hai bisogno di questa guida per principianti all'apicoltura.Questo libro ti guider? attraverso tutto ci簷 che devi sapere su questa facile pratica, dalla selezione delle api, all'allestimento della tua colonia, all'alimentazione, all'evitare i problemi pi羅 comuni e alla vendita del miele, solo per citare il minimo.Pi羅 precisamente, questo libro vi insegner? - La storia e l'evoluzione dell'apicoltura, e cosa dice la ricerca su questa pratica- I diversi tipi di apicoltura- I benefici e i rischi dell'apicoltura- Come selezionare il giusto tipo di ape e come impostare la colonia di api- I tipi di arnie e come scegliere quella giusta per te- Come comprare, trasportare e nutrire le nuove api- Cosa devi guardare quando ispezioni il tuo alveare- Cosa c'癡 da sapere sulle punture delle api- Come evitare e risolvere i problemi pi羅 comuni- Cosa devi sapere sui prezzi del miele e sulla domanda di mercato- Che cosa 癡 necessario sapere sulle attivit? delle colonie in diverse stagioni- Come raccogliere il miele e la cera d'api...E molto di pi羅!Quindi, se sei stato il desiderio di stabilire i vostri alveari belle, ma sono stati un po 'apprensivo di iniziare perch矇 non riusciva a capire come farlo senza rischiare il vostro denaro, tempo e vita, allora credo che ora avete una ragione migliore per iniziare oggi!Anche se sei spaventato e confuso, questo libro allevier? le tue paure e ti dar? la fiducia necessaria per iniziare e avere successo!Basta scorrere in alto e cliccare su Acquista ora con 1 clic o Acquista ora per trasformare i tuoi dolci sogni in realt?!
Communicating Science Clearly
This unique self-help guide equips undergraduates, postgraduate students, and early career researchers within the sciences with transferrable communication skills that they can adapt, and refer back to, as they progress through their careers.
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment
Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics.The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their political economy. Second, they introduce readers to recent theoretical and empirical advances in key issues of political economy of the environment with a special focus on the relationship between inequality and environmental degradation, a nexus that has dramatically come into focus with the COVID crisis. Third, the authors of this handbook open the field to its critical global and regional dimensions: global issues, such as the environmental justice movement and inequality and climate change as well as regional issues such as agriculture systems, air pollution, natural resources appropriation and urban sustainability. Fourth and finally, the work shows how novel analysis can translate into new forms of public policy that require institutional reform and new policy tools. Ecosystems preservation, international climate negotiations and climate mitigation policies all have a strong distributional dimension that chapters point to. Pressing environmental policy such as carbon pricing and low-carbon and energy transitions entail numerous social issues that also need to be accounted for with new analytical and technological tools.This handbook will be an invaluable reference, research and teaching tool for anyone interested in political economy approaches to environmental issues and ecological crises.
Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences
This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are learning and what help they might need to develop competence in biological experimentation.Specific case studies illustrate a comprehensive list of key scientific competencies that unpack what it means to be a competent experimental life scientist. It includes explicit evidence-based guidelines for educators regarding the teaching, learning, and assessment of biological research competencies. The book also provides practical teacher guides and exemplars of assignments and assessments. It contains a complete analysis of the variety of tools developed thus far to assess learning in this domain.This book contributes to the growth of public understanding of biological issuesincluding scientific literacy and the crucial importance of evidence-based decision-making around public policy. It will be beneficial to life science instructors, biology education researchers and science administrators who aim to improve teaching in life science departments.Chapters 6, 12, 14 and 22 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Communicating Science Clearly
This unique self-help guide equips undergraduates, postgraduate students, and early career researchers within the sciences with transferrable communication skills that they can adapt and refer back to as they progress through their careers.It provides practical guidance on how to best communicate science in a range of different settings. This book facilitates clear and concise communication in both academic scenarios and the workplace. It covers settings ranging from job interviews, through conference presentations, to explaining your research to the general public.It is illustrated with first-hand experiences, top tips, and "dos and don'ts" to demonstrate best practices. It will also be a valuable guide for established academics who would like a refresher or a guide to new avenues of science communication, such as podcasts.Key Features: Written by an award-winning professional science journalist and broadcaster with 25 years' experience, including writing for national newspapers, devising and presenting programmes for BBC Radio 4, and being interviewed on radio, TV, video, and podcasts Covers science communication in a broad range of settings including peer-to-peer, to your manager, at job interviews, and during media appearances Includes advice from a range of experts who communicate professionally, including a radio producer, a TV presenter, actors and entertainers, and scientists Additional video material to accompany this book can be found here: https: //www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLUWyRwmgFlW7_NrNupeuiJ86OxIWHZ6I.
Buid Doctoral Research Conference 2022
This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2022). It discusses the following topics: project management, macroeconomic factors, Fourth Industrial Revolution, agility, multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion, leadership, language, discourse analysis, curriculum, critical thinking, programming, online learning, and natural ventilation. The contributions reflect the multifaceted nature of the research in three academic disciplines, i.e., humanities, formal science, and applied science. This publication shares with its readers genuine research studies and reflections from practitioners on the current practice and understanding in the three academic disciplines. The significant findings of these studies have considerable educational, industrial, and economic implications.
Mathematics and Explanation
This Element answers four questions. Can any traditional theory of scientific explanation make sense of the place of mathematics in explanation? If traditional monist theories are inadequate, is there some way to develop a more flexible, but still monist, approach that will clarify how mathematics can help to explain? What sort of pluralism about explanation is best equipped to clarify how mathematics can help to explain in science and in mathematics itself? Finally, how can the mathematical elements of an explanation be integrated into the physical world? Some of the evidence for a novel scientific posit may be traced to the explanatory power that this posit would afford, were it to exist. Can a similar kind of explanatory evidence be provided for the existence of mathematical objects, and if not, why not?
Politics of Turbulent Waters
For the past 10 years, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has been on the front line of the struggle for environmental justice, climate justice and food sovereignty in Africa and the globe. It has been a decade of non-stop probing of the exploitation of resources, peoples and nations, which has given rise to numerous environmental and climate injustices. HOMEF has had a decade of witnessing and standing against the injustice, the powers and structures (industries and policies) suffocating the rights of the people to a healthy environment and standing with the neglected to take charge of their once self-managed food and agricultural systems. The struggle has necessitated the reawakening of communities' consciousness to the injustices that besiege them and to their 'people power' - power to be utilized in seeking the desired change.mPolitics of Turbulent Waters is a compendium of selected articles in the 36 issues of the Eco-instigator published from 2013 to 2022. The Eco-instigator is yet another tool used by HOMEF to pull together thoughts and reports of activities that advance environmental justice and food sovereignty. Issue by issue, these thoughts and reports flow from within HOMEF and other environmental/climate justice and food sovereignty advocates from across Africa and the globe.They form this rich assemblage (Politics of turbulent waters) to commemorate HOMEF's 10th anniversary. The title of the book is one of Nnimmo Bassey's (the director of HOMEF) numerous articles that have graced some pages of the different issues of the Eco-instigator. The article cum title encapsulates the messages that the book intends to convey to you, the reader. It crystallizes the dire condition of Africa and its waters and the power imbalance together with the spatial disposition that plunged the continent into the calamitous environmental situation it faces. It speaks of the politics of economic development and market fundamentalism that avows to maintain the status quo in terms of destructive exploitation of Africa's marine and other natural resources.
Parallel Paths
Parallel Paths, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.
Logging and Clear-Cutting
I dedicate this booklet to all those who love the Canadian outdoors, who appreciate our forests, our wildlife and the flora and fauna that rely on trees, marshlands and water for food and shelter. My hope is that this booklet will encourage readers to do more to help preserve what remains of our wilderness, watersheds, animals and birds. All of these appear to be dwindling as a result of widespread de-forestation and housing developments.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
There are so many things that shape our lives and things that happen around us. Apart from hard work and determination, there is our subconscious mind that constantly attracts things, people and situation in our life. However hard to believe it may sound; subconscious mind is totally in sync with the self-talk that we indulge in all the time. This is in direct corelation with our thoughts. This enlightening book by Dr Joseph Murphy will reveal before you the power that resides in you, the power that your thoughts have to create every moment that you are yet to experience. It all begins with the choice of thoughts you entertain in your mind.
The Great Lakes
Everybody who looks at the Great Lakes knows they're big, but why are they Great? From sea serpents to sunken ships, from lonely lighthouses to fish on Prozac, this book engages the reader in a quest to find what's beneath the surface.FLOW's mission is to ensure the waters of the Great Lakes Basin are healthy, public, and protected for all. The public trust doctrine holds that certain natural resources like navigable waters are preserved in perpetuity for the benefit of the public to use and enjoy. Under the public trust, the waters of the Great Lakes Basin can never be controlled by or transferred to private interests for private purposes or gain. Our rights to use the water of the Great Lakes Basin cannot be alienated or subordinated by our governments to special private interests. Founded in 2011 by pioneering environmental leader and attorney Jim Olson, FLOW is tackling, among other threats, the antiquated Line 5 petroleum pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac, the commercialization of water, and raw sewage contaminating groundwater and surface water.
Numerical Modeling of Superconducting Applications
This book aims to present an introduction to numerical modeling of different aspects of large-scale superconducting applications: electromagnetics, thermal, mechanics and thermo-hydraulics. The importance of computational modeling to advance current superconductor research cannot be overlooked, especially given the enormous benefits provided by superconductors in many human endeavours, including energy generation, medical treatments, and future electrical technologies.Aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners in different fields of applied superconductivity, this book consists of four chapters. The chapter on electromagnetics provides a review of the state-of-the-art modeling of electromagnetic phenomena in superconductors, emphasising the theoretical aspects of the different numerical formulations. This is followed by a chapter on thermal effects, dedicated to the simulation of thermal stability and quench in superconducting magnets, with specific examples of magnets used in particle accelerators. Then, the chapter on mechanics provides details of the modeling of forces and stresses in cables composed of second-generation high-temperature superconducting wires. Finally, the chapter on thermo-hydraulics focuses on the fundamental thermal-hydraulic aspects involved in the cooling of superconducting magnets, with special reference to the issues related to the forced-flow cooling.
Natural Kinds
Scientists cannot devise theories, construct models, propose explanations, make predictions, or even carry out observations, without first classifying their subject matter. The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to nature's own. Another way of putting this is that science aims to devise categories that correspond to 'natural kinds.' The interest in ascertaining the real kinds of things in nature is as old as philosophy itself, but it takes on a different guise when one adopts a naturalist stance in philosophy, that is when one looks closely at scientific practice and takes it as a guide for identifying natural kinds and investigating their general features. This Element surveys existing philosophical accounts of natural kinds, defends a naturalist alternative, and applies it to case studies in a diverse set of sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Thank You, President Corona! - Alpha Volume
Thank You, President Corona! How COVID-19 Improved the World!We know what you're thinking, and maybe you're right!Why should you ever thank COVID-19? How would it have ever changed the world for the better?Though the COVID-19 pandemic was a devastating event for millions of people, causing both economic and emotional distress, it also brought an umbrella of unexpected opportunities.Every golden age stemmed from dire moments of darkness.The coronavirus' actions were certainly unpopular, but they were strikingly impactful, nonetheless. Such an impact was global, and this is why we can call COVID-19 the first president of the world: President Corona!Who should you thank if now you can work from anywhere you want? President Corona!Who should you thank if you left the job you hated? President Corona!Who should you thank if your mental health is finally taken seriously? President Corona!Thank President Corona for this and more!Alex Joonto, the author of this unconventional book, is a Mr Nobody, a normal person with a strong passion for science, a curious mind, a torn, conflicted human being, who, in some moments of his life, felt overwhelmed by this mad world.Just when this mad world was collapsing, Mr Nobody found the strength to put his life back together and use the pandemic as an unexpected fuel to propel himself out of the oblivion where he, and billions of other humans, had fallen into.Starting from the author's personal experience, the book opens wide into the unprecedented winds of change and innovation that swept the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. This dive into those chaotic days is dressed with a healthy dose of humor and self-irony, paired with strict scientific research, and tear-jerking moments that hit both the author and the world. "Thank You, President Corona!" is an anthem to gratitude, to life, to optimism. It's about to turn a crisis, any crisis, into the greatest growth opportunity of your life! If Mr Nobody did it, you can do it too!Whether you're an entrepreneur, a digital nomad, a business owner, a student, or just someone looking for a thought-provoking read, "Thank You, President Corona!" is the motivational guide you need to navigate the post-pandemic world with resilience, adaptability, and a growth mindset.A terminal cancer patient once said: "20% of life is made by what happens to you. The remaining 80% is made by how you react to it."
Getting in
An empowering guide for students in STEMM that demystifies the process of securing undergraduate research experiences. Conducting research is an important foundation for many undergraduates on STEMM career paths. But landing an extremely competitive research spot that is also an enriching experience involves knowing how to present yourself effectively and an awareness of your goals and expectations. In this book, an expert lab manager and a longtime principal investigator share their secrets for obtaining these coveted positions. Offering advice to students in a wide variety of STEMM fields at both research-intensive universities and primarily undergraduate institutions, Getting In helps students navigate the hidden curriculum of academia, unofficial rules that disproportionately affect first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds and communities historically underrepresented in science. The authors provide not only an overview of STEMM research and lab opportunities but also specific strategies for the entire application process--including how to write emails that get noticed by busy professors, how to ask for a research position during office hours, and interview questions to prepare for--so students can claim their place in research settings. With its emphasis on the many interpersonal and professional benefits of research experiences, Getting In equips all STEMM undergrads with the tools they need both to secure these valued positions and to develop habits that will build productive relationships with their future research mentors. As an undergrad, Getting In will help you: determine how much time you can spend on research by evaluating your current activity level and goals. find the time to do research without giving up your social life or risking your GPA. avoid common mistakes in the search, application, or interview that make it harder to find a research experience. write emails that get you noticed by busy professors by customizing the included templates. prepare for tough interview questions so you'll impress the interviewer with your answers, and be able to determine if the position is right for you. As a research mentor, Getting In will help your students: navigate the hidden curriculum of finding a research experience in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM). set realistic expectations for their research experience. understand why conducting research requires effort and will include some failure and other challenges. be active participants in their success in the lab.
Baby Senses
From industrious ants to mischievous whales, sensing, understanding, and responding appropriately to the world is an essential life function. Throughout millions of years, the nervous system has evolved to perform the crucial function of interpreting the world in various animal species based on the unique challenges they faced in different environments. Drawing simultaneously from contemporary research on sensory and perceptual mechanisms as well as historical documentation of the anatomy of sensory systems, Baby Senses, by author Dr. Jaya Viswanathan, provides a unique window into the marvels of sensory perceptions that is appealing to children and curious adults. Baby Senses highlights sixteen systems that span the traditional five human senses, internal sensory systems that help animals maintain internal stability, and exotic systems like those that enable animals to sense electrical and magnetic fields or see polarized light. The neuroscience paintings included illustrate a world normally only accessible through a microscope to scientists or in technical scientific articles and textbooks.
Baby Senses
From industrious ants to mischievous whales, sensing, understanding, and responding appropriately to the world is an essential life function. Throughout millions of years, the nervous system has evolved to perform the crucial function of interpreting the world in various animal species based on the unique challenges they faced in different environments. Drawing simultaneously from contemporary research on sensory and perceptual mechanisms as well as historical documentation of the anatomy of sensory systems, Baby Senses, by author Dr. Jaya Viswanathan, provides a unique window into the marvels of sensory perceptions that is appealing to children and curious adults. Baby Senses highlights sixteen systems that span the traditional five human senses, internal sensory systems that help animals maintain internal stability, and exotic systems like those that enable animals to sense electrical and magnetic fields or see polarized light. The neuroscience paintings included illustrate a world normally only accessible through a microscope to scientists or in technical scientific articles and textbooks.
A Handbook On Corporate Social Responsibility
Social work is a practice-based profession and discipline which works tire- lessly for social development and empowerment, promoting change among individuals as well as in society. Concerning itself with the social welfare, basic and complex needs, optimal health and well-being, Social Work operates at three levels at the micro-level for the individuals, families and groups, at the mezzo-level with neighborhood's, institutions and organizations and at the macro-level involving entire communities and systems of care. Today, Social Work is crucial for the progress of indi- viduals and society and thus, a Social Worker is essential. This book takes a deep look into what it means to be a Social Worker and work in the lucrative field of Social Work.
Building the Science Department
How can your science department become a site for developing science teachers' professional learning? Building the Science Department answers that question through stories from teachers who walk the sometimes rocky path of reforming science teaching and learning. Written by the authors of Reimagining the Science Department, this resource features vignettes from teachers at different career stages. Drawing from these stories, it highlights the common themes in their professional learning and the ways their learning needs have changed over time. The stories are illuminating for teachers as well as for school administrators and other education leaders. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with scientific activity as represented in A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards and its role in making the science department a place for building professional learning. The second part uses teacher vignettes to work through the components of a professional learning framework--context, content, activities, and processes. After each vignette is a commentary on the teachers' key points and their implications. Also included are questions to challenge teachers to improve their instructional practices and align them with current reform initiatives. As the authors write, "Our book gives teachers at different points in their careers a voice in describing their professional learning needs. By combining these voices with theory, we can make use of the department as a place to support all teachers in their reform efforts."
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. Drake also published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. The three-volume collection Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science includes 80 of those papers. Volume I contains a bibliography of the writings of Stillman Drake, biographical sketches of both Galileo and Drake, and various essays covering the broad range of Galileo's scientific endeavors, including outlines of the humanistic and religious background of his era. Other essays take up textual and bibliographical issues, analysing Galileo's mass of notes, treatises, and numerous fragments, previously collected in folios, manuscripts, and unreliable copies. Drake's wide-ranging essays cover Galileo's place in the philosophy of science, his relation to his forebears and impact on posterity, and his contribution to astronomy. In addition, the essays take up ongoing controversies, such as Galileo's stance on the affinity of science with the corpus of human knowledge. Volume I of Stillman Drake's Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science serves as a comprehensive introduction to Galileo's life, science, and writings, and with its forthcoming companion volumes, will indeed be a fitting tribute to the memory of one of Canada's most accomplished scholars.
Essays on Galileo & the History
For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. Drake also published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. The three-volume collection Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science includes 80 of those papers. Volume I contains a bibliography of the writings of Stillman Drake, biographical sketches of both Galileo and Drake, and various essays covering the broad range of Galileo's scientific endeavors, including outlines of the humanistic and religious background of his era. Other essays take up textual and bibliographical issues, analysing Galileo's mass of notes, treatises, and numerous fragments, previously collected in folios, manuscripts, and unreliable copies. Drake's wide-ranging essays cover Galileo's place in the philosophy of science, his relation to his forebears and impact on posterity, and his contribution to astronomy. In addition, the essays take up ongoing controversies, such as Galileo's stance on the affinity of science with the corpus of human knowledge. Volume I of Stillman Drake's Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science serves as a comprehensive introduction to Galileo's life, science, and writings, and with its forthcoming companion volumes, will indeed be a fitting tribute to the memory of one of Canada's most accomplished scholars.
Bush Workers and Bosses Logging in Northern Ontario 1900-1980
The lumberjack - freewheeling, transient, independent - is the stuff of countless Canadian tales and legends. He is also something of a dinosaur, a creature of the past, replaced by a unionized worker in a highly mechanized and closely managed industry. In this far-ranging study of the logging industry in twentieth-century Ontario, Ian Radforth charters the course of its transition and the response of its workers to the changes.Among the factors he considers are technological development, changes in demography and the labour market, an emerging labour movement, new managerial strategies, the growth of a consumer society, and rising standards of living. Radforth has drawn on an impressive array of sources, including interviews and forestry student reports as well as a vast body of published sources such as The Labour Gazette, The Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, and The Canada Lumberman, to shed new light on trade union organization and on the role of ethnic groups in the woods work force.The result is a richly detailed analysis of life on the job for logging workers during a period that saw the modernization not only of the work but of relations between the workers and the bosses.
Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work. During those years, Drake published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. Drake also published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. The three-volume collection Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science includes 80 of those papers. In the papers included in Volume III, Drake explores some of the more technical and practical aspects of Galileo's work, focusing on his contributions to scientific instrumentation. The essays then turn to the history of science, demonstrating the breadth of Drake's interests both beyond and relating to the work of Galileo. These interests are again evident in the final papers in the collection, in which Drake writes on the philosophy of science and language.This collection draws to conclusion Drake's writings on Galileo, capturing the influences and themes in Galileo's life and work.
The Making of the Scottish Countryside
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming 'system' came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.
The Life of a Number
Do numbers have a life of their own or do we give them meaning? How do data play a role in constructing people's perceptions of the world around them? How far can we trust numbers to speak truth to power? The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique moment to answer these questions. This book examines how politicians, experts and journalists gave meaning to data through the story of seven iconic numbers from the pandemic. Shedding light on a new dawn of data, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between numbers, meaning and society.
Nanomedicine
The book is an introduction to nanomedicine informed by a philosophical reflection about the domain and recent developments. It is an overview of the field, sketching out the main areas of current investment and research.
The Human Evolutionary Transition
A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other species The Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence. This incisive book shows how animals rely on robust associative mechanisms that are guided by genetic information, which enable animals to sidestep complex problems in learning and decision making but ultimately limit what they can learn. Humans embody an evolutionary transition to a different kind of intelligence, one that relies on behavioral and mental flexibility. The book argues that flexibility is useless to most animals because they lack sufficient opportunities to learn new behavioral and mental skills. Humans find these opportunities in lengthy childhoods and through culture. Blending the latest findings in fields ranging from psychology to evolutionary anthropology, The Human Evolutionary Transition draws on computational analyses of the problems organisms face, extensive overviews of empirical data on animal and human learning, and mathematical modeling and computer simulations of hypotheses about intelligence. This compelling book demonstrates that animal and human intelligence evolved from similar selection pressures while identifying bottlenecks in evolution that may explain why human-like intelligence is so rare.
Historical Epistemology and European Philosophy of Science
This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the European tradition of the twentieth century. At first, it shows how the epistemological problem of the objectivity of knowledge and axiomatic knowledge have been previously tackled by transcendentalism, critical rationalism and hermeneutics. In turn, it analyses the axiological dimension of scientific research, moving from traditional model of science and of scientific methods, to the construction of a new image of knowledge that leverages the philosophical tradition of the Milan School. Using this historical-epistemological approach, the author rethinks the Kantian Transcendental, showing how it could be better integrated in the current philosophy of science, to answer important questions such as the relationship between science and history, scientific and social perspectives and philosophy and technology, among others. Not only thisbook provides a comprehensive study of the evolution of European Philosophy of Science in the twentieth century, yet it offers a new, historical and epistemological-based approach, that could be used to answers many urgent questions of contemporary societies.
The Plant Detective's Manual
If global challenges in food production and the impact of ever-declining biodiversity are to be tackled, every country will need plant biologists who have a deep understanding of plant morphology, physiology and genetics, and how these interact to affect plant function in changing environments. These scientists will also need the capacity to use an effective and powerful set of technologies and research strategies. To prepare and inspire our students to become that next generation of researchers and to instill a meaningful involvement in research we created an integrated set of laboratory investigations that we felt truly reflected the mysteries of plant biology and puzzle-solving processes that we had encountered in our research experience. Rather than a set of unconnected experimental activities, we created a series of closely related experiments that focused on solving 'mysteries' in the life of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress). The activities charge students with finding the 'suspect' gene responsible for the specific phenotypes of an unknown Arabidopsis mutant, which are encountered when they expose the plants to different environmental stresses. This, we hoped, would give keen but inexperienced student scientists a realistic taste of the joys (and frustrations!) of plant science research.
The Curious Country
By definition scientists are an inquisitive lot. But what are the scientific curiosities and concerns on the minds of Australians? What worries them, baffles them, and sets their curiosity meter to 10 out of 10? To find out, the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) took the nation's intellectual temperature, surveying 1186 Australians: men and women aged 18 to 65, from all education levels and locations around Australia. The results frame this book: a collection of essays covering the diverse areas of science Australians are curious about. Edited by eminent science writer Leigh Dayton and including a foreword from Australia's Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb. The collection covers a range of issues, including food and farming technology, environmental upheaval, health, fuel and energy technology and space exploration.
Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods
Research on real-world problems-like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry-requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as from stakeholders affected by the problem and those in a position to do something about it. This book charts new territory in taking a systematic approach to research integration using dialogue methods to bring together multiple perspectives. It links specific dialogue methods to particular research integration tasks.
