Eugenics: Then and now     

Staffan Müller-Wille 《Metascience》2011,20(2):347-349

  相似文献   

The Aviation Paradox: Why We Can ‘Know’ Jetliners But Not Reactors     

John Downer 《Minerva》2017,55(2):229-248

Publics and policymakers increasingly have to contend with the risks of complex, safety-critical technologies, such as airframes and reactors. As such, ‘technological risk’ has become an important object of modern governance, with state regulators as core agents, and ‘reliability assessment’ as the most essential metric. The Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature casts doubt on whether or not we should place our faith in these assessments because predictively calculating the ultra-high reliability required of such systems poses seemingly insurmountable epistemological problems. This paper argues that these misgivings are warranted in the nuclear sphere, despite evidence from the aviation sphere suggesting that such calculations can be accurate. It explains why regulatory calculations that predict the reliability of new airframes cannot work in principle, and then it explains why those calculations work in practice. It then builds on this explanation to argue that the means by which engineers manage reliability in aviation is highly domain-specific, and to suggest how a more nuanced understanding of jetliners could inform debates about nuclear energy.  相似文献   

You Say “Myth” Like It’s a Bad Thing     

Christopher Hamlin 《Science & Education》2017,26(1-2):191-193

  相似文献   

<Emphasis Type="Bold">October’s</Emphasis><Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">Sumerki</Emphasis>     

David Randall 《Academic Questions》2017,30(3):365-370

  相似文献   

Erratum to: Who Benefits Most from a University Degree?: A Cross-National Comparison of Selection and Wage Returns in the US,UK, and Germany     

Renee Reichl Luthra  Jennifer Flashman 《Research in higher education》2017,58(8):879-879

  相似文献   

A novel sleep optimisation programme to improve athletes’ well-being and performance     

Emer Van Ryswyk  Richard Weeks  Laura Bandick  Michaela O’Keefe  Andrew Vakulin  Peter Catcheside 《European Journal of Sport Science》2017,17(2):144-151

Objectives: To improve well-being and performance indicators in a group of Australian Football League (AFL) players via a six-week sleep optimisation programme. Design: Prospective intervention study following observations suggestive of reduced sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness in an AFL group. Methods: Athletes from the Adelaide Football Club were invited to participate if they had played AFL senior-level football for 1–5 years, or if they had excessive daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale [ESS] >10), measured via ESS. An initial education session explained normal sleep needs, and how to achieve increased sleep duration and quality. Participants (n?=?25) received ongoing feedback on their sleep, and a mid-programme education and feedback session. Sleep duration, quality and related outcomes were measured during week one and at the conclusion of the six-week intervention period using sleep diaries, actigraphy, ESS, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Profile of Mood States, Training Distress Scale, Perceived Stress Scale and the Psychomotor Vigilance Task. Results: Sleep diaries demonstrated an increase in total sleep time of approximately 20?min (498.8?±?53.8 to 518.7?±?34.3; p?<?.05) and a 2% increase in sleep efficiency (p?<?0.05). There was a corresponding increase in vigour (p?<?0.001) and decrease in fatigue (p?<?0.05). Conclusions: Improvements in measures of sleep efficiency, fatigue and vigour indicate that a sleep optimisation programme may improve athletes’ well-being. More research is required into the effects of sleep optimisation on athletic performance.  相似文献   

Parent and Family Engagement in Higher Education     

Judy Marquez Kiyama  Casandra E. Harper  Delma Ramos  David Aguayo  Laura A. Page  Kathy Adams Riester 《ASHE Higher Education Report》2015,41(6):1-94

  相似文献   

Clayton Childress: Under the Cover: The Creation,Production, and Reception of a Novel     

David Emblidge 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2017,33(4):497-499

  相似文献   

Materials Research in France: A Short-lived National Initiative (1982–1994)     

Emanuel Bertrand  Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 《Minerva》2011,49(2):191-214

This paper describes the French initiative in materials research against both a national and an international background, in an attempt to disentangle the local circumstances, which prompted this governmental initiative, and to characterize the specific profile of materials research in France. In presenting a biography of the interdisciplinary program in materials research (PIRMAT), we argue that: i) the PIRMAT denotes a failure of the French science policy in materials research; ii) the leadership of the CNRS led to a specific style of research, quite different from the engineering approach of Materials Science and Engineering, and characteristic of a French style in materials research.  相似文献   

“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”     

Jeff Buechner 《Ethics and Information Technology》2017,19(3):221-236

  相似文献