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Toward a New Dimension

Author : Anne Marcovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198714610
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Toward a New Dimension written by Anne Marcovich and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last thirty years, the investigation of objects at the nano scale has rocketed. Nanoscale scientific research has not only powerfully affected the amount and orientation of knowledge, it has perhaps even more significantly redirected the ways in which much research work is carried out, changed scientists' methodology and reasoning processes, and influenced aspects of the structure of career trajectory and the functioning of scientific disciplines. This book identifies key historical moments and episodes in the birth and evolution of nanoscience, discusses the novel repertory of epistemological concerns of practitioners, and signals sociological propensities. As Galileo's telescope explored the moon's surface four hundred years ago, nano instrumentation now makes it possible to see the surface of single molecules. Moreover, practitioners are able to manipulate individual atoms and molecules at will to produce pre-designed synthetic materials, non-existent in nature. The combinatorial of heightened observational capacity and the tailoring of synthetic artificial materials exhibiting hitherto novel physical properties has widened and transformed the worlds of scientific knowledge and technical artefact. This book invites the question: to what extent does nanoscale scientific research constitute a kind of "scientific revolution"?

Les nouvelles microscopies

Author : Lionel Aigouy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782701136486
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Les nouvelles microscopies written by Lionel Aigouy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ère des nouvelles microscopies a débuté avec fracas il y maintenant vingt-cinq ans, avec l'invention du microscope à effet tunnel (ou STM). Ce formidable instrument, qui permettait pour la première fois de " voir " les atomes et les molécules, a en effet inauguré la famille des microscopes à sondes locales, où un capteur miniature se déplace à très faible distance de la surface à analyser. Le microscope à force atomique (AFM), les microscopes thermique et optique en champ proche (SNOM) ont bientôt suivi : ce sont des outils incontournables de nos jours, dans les laboratoires comme dans l'industrie, pour qui veut partir à la découverte du nanomonde et sonder voire manipuler la matière à ces échelles. Si une littérature très spécialisée existe sur telle ou telle sonde, aucun traité n'offrait un panorama exhaustif de ces nouvelles microscopies : c'est dire l'importance du présent ouvrage qui détaille avec une grande clarté leur fonctionnement et les principes physiques sous-jacents, d'une profonde unité. Conçu pour être accessible dès l'entrée en master, le livre fourmille également de conseils pratiques sur ces instruments. Il propose enfin une synthèse inédite sur leurs innombrables applications en physique des matériaux et des surfaces, en électronique et en biologie.

Les nouvelles microscopies. À la découverte du nanomonde

Author : Lionel Aigouy
Publisher : Humensis
ISBN 13 : 2701185467
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Les nouvelles microscopies. À la découverte du nanomonde written by Lionel Aigouy and published by Humensis. This book was released on 2015-07-20T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ère des nouvelles microscopies a débuté avec fracas il y maintenant vingt-cinq ans, avec l'invention du microscope à effet tunnel (ou STM). Ce formidable instrument, qui permettait pour la première fois de "voir" les atomes et les molécules, a en effet inauguré la famille des microscopes à sondes locales, où un capteur miniature se déplace à très faible distance de la surface à analyser. Le microscope à force atomique (AFM), les microscopes thermique et optique en champ proche (SNOM) ont bientôt suivi : ce sont des outils incontournables de nos jours, dans les laboratoires comme dans l'industrie, pour qui veut partir à la découverte du nanomonde et sonder voire manipuler la matière à ces échelles. Si une littérature très spécialisée existe sur telle ou telle sonde, aucun traité n'offrait un panorama exhaustif de ces nouvelles microscopies : c'est dire l'importance du présent ouvrage qui détaille avec une grande clarté leur fonctionnement et les principes physiques sous-jacents, d'une profonde unité. Conçu pour être accessible dès l'entrée en master, le livre fourmille également de conseils pratiques sur ces instruments. Il propose enfin une synthèse inédite sur leurs innombrables applications en physique des matériaux et des surfaces, en électronique et en biologie.

Life at the Nanoscale

Author : Yves Dufrene
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 981426797X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Life at the Nanoscale written by Yves Dufrene and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding from basic fundamentals to applications, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the use of AFM and related scanning probe microscopies for cell surface analysis. It covers all cell types, from viruses and protoplasts to bacteria and animal cells. It also discusses a range of advanced AFM modalities, including high-resolution imaging, nanoindentation measurements, recognition imaging, and single-molecule and single-cell force spectroscopy. The book covers methodologies for preparing and analyzing cells and membranes of all kinds and highlights recent examples to illustrate the power of AFM techniques in life sciences and nanomedicine.

Science in the Context of Application

Author : Martin Carrier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048190517
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Science in the Context of Application written by Martin Carrier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific research themselves are generated by science and technology. Simultaneously, problems like global warming, the toxicology of nanoparticles, or the use of renewable energies are constituted by many factors that interact with great complexity. Science in the context of application is challenged to gain new understanding and control of such complexity—it cannot seek shelter in the ivory tower or simply pursue its internal quest for understanding and gradual improvement of grand theories. Science in the Context of Application will identify, explore and assess these changes. Part I considers the "Changing Conditions of Scientific Research" and part II "Science, Values, and Society". Examples are drawn from pharmaceutical research, the information sciences, simulation modelling, nanotechnology, cancer research, the effects of commercialization, and many other fields. The book assembles papers from well-known European and American Science Studies scholars like Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Janet Kourany, Michael Mahoney, Margaret Morrison, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Arie Rip, Dan Sarewitz, Peter Weingart, and others. The individual chapters are written to address anyone who is concerned about the role of contemporary science in society, including scientists, philosophers, and policy makers.

The Book of Evidence

Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032919
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Evidence written by Peter Achinstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is required for something to be evidence for a hypothesis? In this fascinating, elegantly written work, distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein explores this question, rejecting typical philosophical and statistical theories of evidence. He claims these theories are much too weak to give scientists what they want--a good reason to believe--and, in some cases, they furnish concepts that mistakenly make all evidential claims a priori. Achinstein introduces four concepts of evidence, defines three of them by reference to "potential" evidence, and characterizes the latter using a novel epistemic interpretation of probability. The resulting theory is then applied to philosophical and historical issues. Solutions are provided to the "grue," "ravens," "lottery," and "old-evidence" paradoxes, and to a series of questions. These include whether explanations or predictions furnish more evidential weight, whether individual hypotheses or entire theoretical systems can receive evidential support, what counts as a scientific discovery, and what sort of evidence is required for it. The historical questions include whether Jean Perrin had non-circular evidence for the existence of molecules, what type of evidence J. J. Thomson offered for the existence of the electron, and whether, as is usually supposed, he really discovered the electron. Achinstein proposes answers in terms of the concepts of evidence introduced. As the premier book in the fabulous new series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science, this volume is essential for philosophers of science and historians of science, as well as for statisticians, scientists with philosophical interests, and anyone curious about scientific reasoning.

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401703604
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge In the early decades of the 21st century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science. With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, converging in human abilities, societal technologies could achieve a tremendous improvement outcomes, the nation's productivity, and the quality of life. This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term. The phrase "convergent technologies" refers to the synergistic combination of four major "NBIC" (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering; (c) information technology, including advanced computing and communications; (d) cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience. Timely and Broad Opportunity. Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale.

The Artificial and the Natural

Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026201
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Artificial and the Natural written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.

Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science

Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher : Bradford Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science written by Peter Achinstein and published by Bradford Book. This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original contributions by philosophers and historians of science discuss a range of issues pertaining to the testing of hypotheses in modern physics by observation and experiment. Chapters by Lawrence Sklar, Dudley Shapere, Richard Boyd, R. C. Jeffrey, Peter Achinstein, and Ronald Laymon explore general philosophical themes with applications to modern physics and astrophysics. The themes include the nature of the hypothetico-deductive method, the concept of observation and the validity of the theoretical-observation distinction, the probabilistic basis of confirmation, and the testing of idealizations and approximations. The remaining four chapters focus on the history of particular twentieth-century experiments, the instruments and techniques utilized, and the hypotheses they were designed to test. Peter Galison reviews the development of the bubble chamber; Roger Stuewer recounts a sharp dispute between physicists in Cambridge and Vienna over the interpretation of artificial disintegration experiments; John Rigden provides a history of the magnetic resonance method; and Geoffrey Joseph suggests a statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics that can be used to interpret the Stern-Gerlach and double-slit experiments. This book inaugurates the series, Studies from the Johns Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, directed by Peter Achinstein and Owen Hannaway. A Bradford Book.

The Concept of Evidence

Author : Peter Achinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Evidence written by Peter Achinstein and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents work on major topics surrounding the concept of evidence as employed in the empirical sciences. Focusing on the "classificatory" concept of evidence rather than the quantitative "degree of confirmation," the selections include Carl G. Hempel's satisfaction definition, R.B. Braithwaite's hypothetic-deductive view, N.R. Hanson's account of retroduction, Nelson Goodman's entrenchment theory, probability definitions discussed by Rudolf Carnap and Wesley Salmon, Clark Glymour's bootstrap theory, and a view of Achinstein's that combines probability and explanation.

Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations

Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048170449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and science-driven business revolution. The already emerging reality of convergence is to be found in genomics, robotics, bio-information and artificial intelligence applications, such as: • Self-assembled, self-cleaning and self-healing manufactured materials and textiles, and much stronger, lighter and more customizable structural materials, • Miniature sensors allowing unobtrusive real-time health monitoring and dramatically improved diagnosis; with greatly enhanced real time information to vehicles and drivers on the way, • New generations of supercomputers and efficient energy generators based on biological processes, • Greatly enhanced drug delivery from unprecedented control over fundamental structural properties and biocompatibility of materials. These advances are here already, or in development. And Japan, other Asian nations and Western European countries are investing heavily and moving aggressively to develop and apply NBIC technologies. Notwithstanding the passage of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, significant further funding and action by both government and private industry will be critical to maintaining US scientific and industry leadership.

Food Fray

Author : Lisa H. WEASEL Ph.D.
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814401783
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Food Fray written by Lisa H. WEASEL Ph.D. and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten years ago, the first genetically modified foods took their place on the shelves of American supermarkets. But while American consumers remained blissfully unconcerned with the new products that suddenly filled their kitchens, Europeans were much more wary of these “Frankenfoods.” When famine struck Africa in 2002, several nations refused shipments of genetically modified foods, fueling a controversy that put the issue on the world's political agenda for good. In Food Fray, esteemed molecular biologist Dr. Lisa H. Weasel brings readers into the center of this debate, capturing the real-life experiences of the scientists, farmers, policymakers and grassroots activists on the front lines. Here she combines solid scientific knowledge and a gripping narrative to tell the real story behind the headlines and the hype. Seminal and cutting-edge, Food Fray enlightens and informs and will allow readers to make up their own minds about one of the most important issues facing us today.

Mind as Machine

Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019954316X
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Mind as Machine written by Margaret A. Boden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of cognitive science is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is as old as recorded human thought; but the progress of modern science has offered new methods and techniques which have revolutionized this enquiry. Oxford University Press now presents a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners. Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modeling its workings. Psychology is its heart, but it draws together various adjoining fields of research, including artificial intelligence; neuroscientific study of the brain; philosophical investigation of mind, language, logic, and understanding; computational work on logic and reasoning; linguistic research on grammar, semantics, and communication; and anthropological explorations of human similarities and differences. Each discipline, in its own way, asks what the mind is, what it does, how it works, how it developed - how it is even possible. The key distinguishing characteristic of cognitive science, Boden suggests, compared with older ways of thinking about the mind, is the notion of understanding the mind as a kind of machine. She traces the origins of cognitive science back to Descartes's revolutionary ideas, and follows the story through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the pioneers of psychology and computing appear. Then she guides the reader through the complex interlinked paths along which the study of the mind developed in the twentieth century. Cognitive science, in Boden's broad conception, covers a wide range of aspects of mind: not just 'cognition' in the sense of knowledge or reasoning, but emotion, personality, social communication, and even action. In each area of investigation, Boden introduces the key ideas and the people who developed them. No one else could tell this story as Boden can: she has been an active participant in cognitive science since the 1960s, and has known many of the key figures personally. Her narrative is written in a lively, swift-moving style, enriched by the personal touch of someone who knows the story at first hand. Her history looks forward as well as back: it is her conviction that cognitive science today--and tomorrow--cannot be properly understood without a historical perspective. Mind as Machine will be a rich resource for anyone working on the mind, in any academic discipline, who wants to know how our understanding of our mental activities and capacities has developed.

Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences

Author : Jef Caers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119998719
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences written by Jef Caers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences highlights the various issues, techniques and practical modeling tools available for modeling the uncertainty of complex Earth systems and the impact that it has on practical situations. The aim of the book is to provide an introductory overview which covers a broad range of tried-and-tested tools. Descriptions of concepts, philosophies, challenges, methodologies and workflows give the reader an understanding of the best way to make decisions under uncertainty for Earth Science problems. The book covers key issues such as: Spatial and time aspect; large complexity and dimensionality; computation power; costs of 'engineering' the Earth; uncertainty in the modeling and decision process. Focusing on reliable and practical methods this book provides an invaluable primer for the complex area of decision making with uncertainty in the Earth Sciences.

Clean Energy Nation

Author : Gerald McNerney
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814413722
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Clean Energy Nation written by Gerald McNerney and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are already feeling the pressures of the current energy situation, and many of us are ready to make a change. Clean Energy Nation is a timely and hopeful look at an issue we can't afford to ignore. --Book Jacket.

Grammar and Proofreading Course

Author : Pam Helling
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0761214135
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Grammar and Proofreading Course written by Pam Helling and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 1992-08-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive, practical techniques for achieving a more professional writing style. Here are the "how to" keys of writing-from putting the first words on paper to the final polishing and proofreading. Readers will learn how to edit their writing for improved clarity, cut excess words, use transitional phrases, recognize and correct run-on sentences and overcome procrastination and impulsive writing. Readers will learn how to: Identify the key components of any well-written business document Cut excess words and phrases from your writing Use transitional words and phrases Avoid misplaced and dangling modifiers and split infinitives Use commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses Use slash marks, ellipsis marks, quotation marks, italics, and brackets Recognize and correct run-on sentences Proofread your writing for clarity of meaning Overcome the two common writing problems that waste time and money-procrastination and impulsive writing. This is an ebook version of the AMA Self-Study course. If you want to take the course for credit you need to either purchase a hard copy of the course through amaselfstudy.org or purchase an online version of the course through www.flexstudy.com.

Green Tech

Author : Lawrence WEBBER
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814414478
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Green Tech written by Lawrence WEBBER and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today’s electronic systems consuming massive amounts of energy, and improper disposal of old equipment threatening to release dangerous toxicity into the atmosphere, any company whose IT department isn’t actively working to shrink its carbon footprint isn’t just hurting the environment...it is also probably wasting money. Green Tech provides readers with practical, easily implemented strategies for sustainable computing, showing them how to: • build a business case to influence their organization's green strategy • reduce costs and improve equipment utilization while maintaining current customer service levels • identify old equipment at all levels, as well as suitable green replacements • virtualize servers • find alternative methods for data center cooling • conduct an energy audit and establish an energy baseline • determine the best options for recycling or donating old equipment Filled with realistic, cost-efficient ideas, this book shows that going green isn’t just the right thing to do, but also a good business strategy.