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by Vaughan Prain, Carolyn S. Wallace, Brian B. Hand
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
This volume is of interest to science educators, graduate students, and classroom teachers. The book will also be an important addition to any scholarly library focusing on science education, science literacy, and writing.
This book is unique in that it synthesizes the research of the three leading...
The Strength in Numbers
The New Science of Team Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Once upon a time, it was the lone scientist who achieved brilliant breakthroughs. No longer. Today, science is done in teams of as many as hundreds of researchers who may be scattered across continents and represent a range of hierarchies. These collaborations can be powerful, but they demand new...
Fundamentals of Interface and Colloid Science
Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1995
Interface and colloid science is an important, though often under-valued, branch of science. It has applications and ramifications in domains as disparate as agriculture, mineral dressing, oil recovery, chemical industry, biotechnology, medical science, and many more. Proper application of interface...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science. It covers all areas of research in polymer and biopolymer science including chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, material science.
The thematic volumes are...
Applied Physics, System Science and Computers
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Applied Physics, System Science and Computers (APSAC2016), September 28-30, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book reports on advanced theories and methods in three related fields of research: applied physics, system science and computers. It is organized in two main parts, the first of which covers applied physics topics, including lasers and accelerators; condensed matter, soft matter and materials...
A Little Book for New Scientists
Why and How to Study Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Many young Christians interested in the sciences have felt torn between two options: remaining faithful to Christ or studying science. Heated debates over the past century have created the impression that we have to choose between one or the other. The result has been a crisis of faith for many students....
by Mark Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Food Science and the Culinary Arts is a unique reference that incorporates the principles of food and beverage science with practical applications in food preparation and product development. The first part of the book covers the various elements of the chemical processes that occur in the development...
Metacognition in Science Education
Trends in Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular? What does metacognition contribute to the theory and practice of science learning?
Metacognition in Science Education discusses emerging topics at the intersection of metacognition...
Modern Biopolymer Science
Bridging the Divide between Fundamental Treatise and Industrial Application
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Industrialists developing new food and pharmaceutical products face the challenge of innovation in an increasingly competitive market that must consider incredient cost, product added-value, expectations of a healthy life-style, improved sensory impact, controlled delivery of active compounds and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This inaugural handbook documents the distinctive research field that utilizes history and philosophy in investigation of theoretical, curricular and pedagogical issues in the teaching of science and mathematics. It is contributed to by 130 researchers from 30 countries; it provides a logically structured,...
by G. Lagaly, Faïza Bergaya
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The first edition of the Handbook of Clay Science published in 2006 assembled the scattered literature on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science. The topics covered range from the fundamental structures (including textures) and properties of clays and clay minerals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of what...
Science, Philosophy and Sustainability
The End of the Cartesian dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge. This process of change has to include a new commitment to knowledge creation...
The Unfinished Quest
The Plight of Progressive Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Modern educators are currently ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone tragically astray. For over 100 years the American educational system has been the hope of those who want to level the playing field...