Browsing by Subject "Science"
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Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany
(2017)In both medicine and theology, the early modern period was one of flux, characterized by Reformation and Revolution. Scholars tend to analyze shifts in natural philosophy and theology separately. This dissertation brings ... -
Dental microwear and diet in a wild population of mantled howlers (Alouatta palliata)
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Essays on Science and Innovation
(2022)The commercialization of scientific discoveries into innovation has traditionally been the purview of large corporations operating central R&D laboratories through much of the past century. The past four decades have seen ... -
Marketing Nature: Apothecaries, Medicinal Retailing, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Venice, 1565-1730
(2015)This dissertation examines the contributions of apothecary craftsmen and their medicinal retailing practices to emerging cultures of scientific investigation and experimental practice in the Italian port city of Venice between ... -
Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
(2020)In my dissertation, I attempt to demonstrate how both Romantic and Victorian literature and science came together to produce the idea of “objectivity.” Whereas prior naturalists had tended to embrace an epistemic ideal of ... -
Particular Universality: Science, Culture, and Nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915-1960
(2009)This dissertation examines offers a corrective to the world polity theory of globalization, which posits increasing convergence on a single global cultural frame. In contrast, I suggest that national culture limits the ... -
Postsecondary Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs about Writing-Based Pedagogies in the STEM Classroom.
(CBE life sciences education, 2022-09)Writing is an important skill for communicating knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and an aid to developing students' communication skills, content knowledge, and disciplinary thinking. ... -
Primate Neuroethology
(Primate Neuroethology, 2012-08-16)This edited volume is the first of its kind to bridge the epistemological gap between primate ethologists and primate neurobiologists. -
Principles of Micro X-ray Computed Tomography
(2021-08-09)The most authoritative and comprehensive resource available in the molecular-imaging field, written by over 170 of the leading scientists from around the world who have evaluated and summarized the most important methods, ... -
Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
(2021)This dissertation makes sense of New Age healing practices and the spiritual currents undergirding the increasingly popular landscape of alternative healthcare. To do so, it argues, we must first determine its material ontology ... -
Redox-Active Therapeutics
(2016-10-13)This essential volume comprehensively discusses redox-active therapeutics, focusing particularly on their molecular design, mechanistic, pharmacological and medicinal aspects. -
Reduction and Mechanism
(2020-05-31)This Element expounds the debate about reductionism in biology, from the work of the post-positivists to the end of the century debates about supervenience, multiple realizability, and explanatory exclusion. -
Scientific writing: a randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction.
(BMC Med Educ, 2009-05-27)BACKGROUND: Writing plays a central role in the communication of scientific ideas and is therefore a key aspect in researcher education, ultimately determining the success and long-term sustainability of their careers. Despite ... -
Student Learning Dispositions: Multidimensional Profiles Highlight Important Differences among Undergraduate STEM Honors Thesis Writers.
(CBE life sciences education, 2019-06)Various personal dimensions of students-particularly motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and epistemic beliefs-can change in response to teaching, affect student learning, and be conceptualized as learning dispositions. We ... -
Surviving as an underrepresented minority scientist in a majority environment.
(Mol Biol Cell, 2015-11-01)I believe the evidence will show that the science we conduct and discoveries we make are influenced by our cultural experience, whether they be positive, negative, or neutral. I grew up as a person of color in the United ... -
Writing-to-learn in undergraduate science education: a community-based, conceptually driven approach.
(CBE life sciences education, 2012-01)Despite substantial evidence that writing can be an effective tool to promote student learning and engagement, writing-to-learn (WTL) practices are still not widely implemented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...
