Philosophy in science – a case study of the reception of the Special and the General Theory of Relativity in Kraków and Lwów before 1925 by Paweł Polak

“…Next, it shows how the discussions during the 10th and 11th Congresses of Polish Physicians and Natural Scientists (Lwów 1907, Kraków 1911) influenced the reception of the STR. …”
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Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses by Nalini M. Nadkarni, Jacqueline M. Chen, Jeremy S. Morris, Amanda E. Carriero, Thomas N. Kaye, Kelli Bush, Megan Young, Laura George

“…These considerations should be further explored with collaborations of natural scientists, social scientists, corrections staff, and people who are incarcerated as ecological restoration projects in correctional institutions become more prevalent.…”
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Islamic Versus Modern Western Education by Anne Sofie Roald

“…The Islamization of education, which is part of the more overarching discussion of Islamizing knowledge, has activated Muslim social and natural scientists as well as scholars in the humanities. …”
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Comparative analysis of methodologies for landscape ecological aesthetics in urban planning / Kraštovaizdžio ekologinės estetinės urbanistinio planavimo metodologijos palyginamoji... by Maija Jankevica

“…There is a lack of cooperation between planners and nature scientists in urban studies and planning process. …”
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Science and philosophy of Korea traditional foods (K-food) by Dae Young Kwon, Kim Soon-Hee, Kyung Rhan Chung, James W. Daily, Sunmin Park

“…Nevertheless, until now, the history of food on the Korean Peninsula has been mainly studied by history scholars who can read Chinese characters rather than by natural scientists, resulting in errors and distortions in our understanding of the identity, history, and originality of Korean food. …”
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New information of the biodiversity of the nymphalid family (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) species collected in Romania’s fauna between 1887–1984 by Cristina Stancă-Moise, George Moise, Tom Brereton, Mirela Stanciu

“…These collections are of extraordinary interest not least because they are associated with natural scientists of European renown, such as Daniel Czekelius, Eugen Worell, Viktor Weindel, Rolf Weirauch, Heinrich Hann von Hannenheim and Eckbert Schneider. …”
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Was heißt Fortschritt im Wissen? Gnoseoto­pi­sche Überlegungen zur Auf­klä­rung und ihren Folgen by Adler, H.

“…The article concludes with recent debates (as initiated by Ulrich Beck, Rainer Specht, and contemporary natural scientists) about the effects that a gnoseotopical perspective has on globalization and ecological politics, and more broadly with reflections on the current need for core Enlightenment ideas in their full complexity.…”
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Ocean Ecosystem-Based Management Mandates and Implementation in the North Atlantic by Murray A. Rudd, Mark Dickey-Collas, Mark Dickey-Collas, Johanna Ferretti, Ellen Johannesen, Nicol M. Macdonald, Richard McLaughlin, Margaret Rae, Torsten Thiele, Jason S. Link

“…Our Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance (AORA) task group was comprised of a small, focused and interdisciplinary mix of lawyers, social scientists, and natural scientists from Canada, the USA, and the EU. We characterized, compared, and synthesized the mandates that govern marine activities and ocean stressors relative to facilitating EBM in national and international waters of the North Atlantic, and identified formal mandates across jurisdictions and, where possible, policy and other non-regulatory mandates. …”
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Viewshed and sense of place as conservation features: A case study and research agenda for South Africa's national parks by Jaco Barendse, Dirk Roux, Waldo Erfmann, Johan Baard, Tineke Kraaij, Cara Nieuwoudt

“…Conservation implications: Viewshed and sense of place can be used as boundary concepts to (1) facilitate interdisciplinary research between social and natural scientists, (2) help understand the connectedness and feedbacks between people and nature and (3) promote communication between science, management and stakeholders regarding desired conditions of landscapes in and around parks.…”
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WORK RESERVATION FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL FRATERNITIES by J. Basson

“…<p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Council for the Built Environment Act, Act No. 43 of 2000, the Engineering Profession Act, Act No. 46 of 2000 and the Natural Scientific Professions Act, Act No. 27 of 2003 provide for, amongst others, the establishment of juristic persons known as councils for the registration of professional, candidate and certified natural scientists, the registration of professionals, candidates and specified categories in the engineering profession, and work reservation for all these categories of registered persons. …”
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The Practice of Experimental Psychology: An Inevitably Postmodern Endeavor by Roland Mayrhofer, Christof Kuhbandner, Corinna Lindner

“…Many psychologists take pride in being “real natural scientists” because they conduct experiments, but it is particularly difficult for psychologists to evade certain elements of postmodern thinking in view of the specific nature of their subject matter. …”
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Self-mentions in evaluating academic discourse by Viktorova, Elena Yuryevna

“…The research proves that self-mentions are more typical of reviews written by humanitarians than by natural scientists. It is also shown that we-self-mentions prevail over I-self-mentions and men use self-mentions more frequently than women.…”
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Governance, Scale and the Environment: The Importance of Recognizing Knowledge Claims in Transdisciplinary Arenas by Marleen Buizer, Bas Arts, Kasper Kok

“…We will argue that scale issues, governance practices as well as their mutual interdependencies should be considered as human constructs, although dialectically related to nature's materiality, and therefore as contested processes, requiring intensive and continuous dialogue and cooperation among natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and citizens alike. …”
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Governance as a Strange Elephant Past Legacies, Current Complexities and Future Challenges by Izabella Agárdi

“…Historians, political scientists, philosophers, economists, sociologists, and natural scientists, under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, joined together not to simply honour Schöpflin’s achievements but to contemplate further many of his ideas. …”
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Kontekstualisering: geologiese tydskaal en preservering van die fossielrekord by M.S. Coetzee, F.B. Waanders

“…In the 18th century, some natural scientists formed the view that the earth was very old, although it was not possible to determine the absolute age of the earth before the discovery of radioactivity (1896) and its application in the dating of rocks (1905). …”
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The societal roles and responsibilities of plant scientists in the context of genome‐edited crops by Aisha M. So, Michelle G. J. L. Habets, Christa Testerink, Phil Macnaghten

“…In order to better align the perspectives of social and natural scientists on the topic of science‐responsibility, and to constructively contribute to the debate on GE crops, we argue for more interaction between the these two communities.…”
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Syntactic Pattern Recognition for the Prediction of L-Type Pseudoknots in RNA by Christos Koroulis, Evangelos Makris, Angelos Kolaitis, Panayiotis Tsanakas, Christos Pavlatos

“…The observation and analysis of RNA molecules have proved crucial for the understanding of various processes in nature. Scientists have mined knowledge and drawn conclusions using experimental methods for decades. …”
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Non-Invasive Physical Plasma Enhances the Membrane Permeability to Low Molecular Weight Compounds and Subsequently Leads to the Loss of Cellular ATP and the Devitalization of Epith... by Caroline Sander, Andreas Nitsch, Holger H. H. Erb, Eva K. Egger, Lyubomir Haralambiev, Benedikt Eggers, Franz-Josef Kramer, Martin Weiss, Alexander Mustea, Matthias B. Stope

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Changes in prescribed medicines in older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in general practice by Fiona von Buedingen, Marc S. Hammer, Andreas D. Meid, Walter E. Müller, Ferdinand M. Gerlach, Christiane Muth

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A Synthesis of Marine Monitoring Methods With the Potential to Enhance the Status Assessment of the Baltic Sea by Leoni Mack, Jenni Attila, Eva Aylagas, Arne Beermann, Angel Borja, Daniel Hering, Maria Kahlert, Florian Leese, Robin Lenz, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Antonia Liess, Urmas Lips, Olli-Pekka Mattila, Kristian Meissner, Timo Pyhälahti, Outi Setälä, Jennifer S. Strehse, Laura Uusitalo, Anna Willstrand Wranne, Sebastian Birk

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