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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado y El Espacio para la Ciencia en Puerto Rico in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoGonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado y El Espacio para la Ciencia en Puerto Rico in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoGonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses, 1898-1916 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses, 1898-1916 in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoScience and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a predictor…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoScience and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a predictor…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited From Galileo to Boltzmann: A History of the Fragility and Resilience of Science in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWhen the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited From Galileo to Boltzmann: A History of the Fragility and Resilience of Science in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWhen the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoLos Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916 in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoLos Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Biology and Ethics in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoBiology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Biology and Ethics in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoBiology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell deposited THE CHANGING PLACE OF INFORMATION: An examination and evaluation of how the context in which an object is set affects the information which it conveys. in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis research examined how the context in which an object is placed affects the information that person viewing the object gleans from it. It used objects displayed in museums as they were easily accessible and were a ready source of a variety of types of display and information.
It used the concept of ‘object as document’, initially dev…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell deposited THE CHANGING PLACE OF INFORMATION: An examination and evaluation of how the context in which an object is set affects the information which it conveys. in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis research examined how the context in which an object is placed affects the information that person viewing the object gleans from it. It used objects displayed in museums as they were easily accessible and were a ready source of a variety of types of display and information.
It used the concept of ‘object as document’, initially dev…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited EVOLUTIONARY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOR GENERAL BINOMIAL COEFFICIENTS AND FIBONACCI NUMBERS in the group
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and science for General Binomial Coefficients and Fibonacci Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王 抗 曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 4, April 2021; 34 pages. Lenox Institute Press,…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited EVOLUTIONARY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOR GENERAL BINOMIAL COEFFICIENTS AND FIBONACCI NUMBERS in the group
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and science for General Binomial Coefficients and Fibonacci Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王 抗 曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 4, April 2021; 34 pages. Lenox Institute Press,…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Module on Fractions in the group
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis module deals with fractions. This includes how to order and compare fractions and how to perform operations on fractions and apply these basic concepts to problem-solving. This module also includes common errors committed by students in dealing with fractions.
The module is divided into three lessons, namely: Lesson 1 – Rational Numbers w…[Read more]
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