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The study of natural phenomena by observation, measurement, and experimentation.
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My own area is Social Sciences and Education
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In the context of research that intersects economics and business science with psychology, how can a researcher explore subjects from the latter field, and what percentage of their time would be considered appropriate to successfully integrate this multidisciplinary approach into their research?
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Shabir Ghafari Thank you for sharing your insights on the intersection of psychology, economics, and business science. I completely agree that integrating concepts from multiple disciplines can lead to a deeper understanding of complex phenomena.
Additionally, I'm curious about your thoughts on the potential limitations of this approach. Are there any areas where you think this intersection is particularly challenging or where further research is needed?
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As one of humanities, introduction to and understanding of some basic principles may help one by adding a dimension to the decision- making approach. Bonus - addition to thought process and your persona ....
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Science Citation Index (SCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) are both considered gold standards for scientific research. SCI journals are generally considered more prestigious and have higher impact factors than SCIE journals, but SCIE journals are more comprehensive.
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There are some who advocate the perpetuation of our ignorance because they fear that science will undermine the mystical concepts that they have substituted for reality. (Alfred Kinsey)
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Navigating a challenging area of research
"Fraught societal debates, particularly surrounding gender identity, are raising questions about how to best take sex and gender into account in research, both in studies of human health and in other contexts. At the same time, scientists are increasingly recognizing that they must move past assumptions that findings from mainly male individuals will apply to everyone. The articles in this special collection, with contributors who work in fields such as neuroscience, psychology, immunology, cancer and global health, explore the value of considering sex and gender in research, as well as the perils and pitfalls. They explain why progress in this long-neglected area of research is crucial — and consider how differences between individuals can be explored responsibly, inclusively and for the benefit of as many people as possible..."
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Science is the inquiry about and successful discoveryof to relations, principles, linear causal identities of the quantitative aspects of the physical world in line with the correspondence theory of truth and functional theory of truth.
Its aim beyond discovery is to improve or provide the control and Interventions, over physical world to the use on human easing of quality of life and empowerment.
It accepts its quantitative focus is a limited one in principle but still wide yielding and resourceful for the general aim of control and Interventions for bettering human conditions.
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No. Science is the answers to the question "Who Am I?". See my paper "The "Who Am I?" Question".
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Is the design of new pharmaceutical formulations through the involvement of AI technology, including the creation of new drugs to treat various diseases by artificial intelligence, safe for humans?
There are many indications that artificial intelligence technology can be of great help in terms of discovering and creating new drugs. Artificial intelligence can help reduce the cost of developing new drugs, can significantly reduce the time it takes to design and create new drug formulations, the time it takes to conduct research and testing, and can thus provide patients with new therapies for treating various diseases and saving lives faster. Thanks to the use of new technologies and analytical methods, the way healthcare professionals treat patients has been changing rapidly in recent times. As scientists manage to overcome the complex problems associated with lengthy research processes, and the pharmaceutical industry seeks to reduce the time it takes to develop life-saving drugs, so-called precision medicine is coming to the rescue. It takes a lot of time to develop, analyze, test and bring a new drug to market. Artificial intelligence technology is particularly helpful in this regard, including reducing the aforementioned time to create a new drug. When creating most drugs, the first step is to synthesize a compound that can bind to a target molecule associated with the disease. The molecule in question is usually a protein, which is then tested for various influencing factors. In order to find the right compound, researchers analyze thousands of potential candidates of different molecules. When a compound that meets certain characteristics is successfully identified, then researchers search through huge libraries of similar compounds to find the optimal interaction with the protein responsible for the specific disease. In contrast, many years of time and many millions of dollars of funding are required to complete this labor-intensive process today. In a situation where artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are involved in this process, then the entire process can be significantly reduced in time, costs can be significantly reduced and the new drug can be brought to the pharmaceutical market faster by pharmaceutical companies. However, can an artificial intelligence equipped with artificial neural networks that has been taught through deep learning to carry out the above-mentioned processes get it wrong when creating a new drug? What if the drug that was supposed to cure a person of a particular disease produces a number of new side effects that prove even more problematic for the patient than the original disease from which it was supposed to be cured? What if the patient dies due to previously unforeseen side effects? Will insurance companies recognize the artificial intelligence's mistake and compensate the family of the deceased patient? Who will bear the legal, financial, ethical, etc. responsibility for such a situation?
I described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:
OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Is the design of new pharmaceutical formulations through the involvement of AI technologies, including the creation of new drugs to treat various diseases by artificial intelligence, safe for humans?
Is the creation of new drugs by artificial intelligence safe for humans?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne on leaving Stanford and joining biotech’s new AI mega-startup
"Former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne will lead one of biotech’s biggest-ever startup launches: Xaira Therapeutics, which has secured over $1 billion to transform drug discovery and development with AI...
The move is sure to raise eyebrows..."
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I need assistance to search articles on the Web of Science (WoS). I access WoS through my university login, but I am encountering an issue with the search options.
I can only see options for searching by author name and affiliation (organization). The document search option appears to be hidden and unavailable.
Can you advise me on how to search for articles on WoS? I am interested in applying the VOSviewer software to develop clusters on WoS.
Best Regards
Mudassar Ali
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1. World Order has shown changes, especially after 2020 in almost all major fields of Politics, Economics, Social, Geopolitical etc.
2. Where the world order in real is diverting?
3. What will be the ultimate outcomes?
4. The alteration & changes of systems on Earth will change anything in Space?
5. Which systems will lose centuries-long grounds and what new will rise?
6. Is the current scenario being same as the Rise/Fall of Nations, Games of Thrones etc. or there is something significantly different this time?
7. Ultimately what impact will the Next World Order make on the entire human race and especially on the Bio-sphere?
8. How much was any World Order got impacted/formed/shaped through/by religious education directly/indirectly and why did such neuroplasticity/mind exercises base practices remain an integral part of World Orders in past? Can humans afford to continue past practices to build any new future?
9. What changes do you suggest in Next World Order, and Why?
10. Are Human going to accept defeat & surrender in front of Alien powers like gods, AIs, energy, any other life forms etc.?
11. How long more humans have the current status of rapidly shrinking freedom?
12. Will the current form of human life exist after such surrenders and what will be the expected shape of any of such life?
13. Its understood that human have to sacrifice current systems and life forms for existence, but, Is it necessary? Any workable solutions ?
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Weak!
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the quantity of credentials or problems solved?
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Problems solved.
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Dear colleagues,
I require urgent assistance regarding the authenticity of the "Plasma Science and Technology" journal. Upon investigation, I found two websites bearing the same name and ISSN number "ISSN: 1009-0630":
  1. https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1009-0630
  2. https://dlztkxyjs-e.cn/index.php/pst/index
This discovery raises concerns about the legitimacy of one of these platforms. I seek your expertise in discerning the genuine journal from any potential fraudulent counterpart.
Your prompt assistance in clarifying this matter is greatly appreciated.
Warm regards,
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Dear Lina Naji
I raised this/your point here on RG https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples and mentioned and I quote:
“Thanks to a highly valued member of RG, I came across another example of a hijacked version of a legit and genuine journal called “Plasma Science and Technology”. There are two legit websites of the two (co-)publishers behind this journal:
And
http://pst.hfcas.ac.cn (see also enclosed file how proper papers published by them look like).
There are numerous red flags:
-Looking at the latest volume 25 number 1, I see that basically all papers have nothing to do with the scope of the journal http://dlztkxyjs-e.cn/index.php/pst/index
-Looking at the contact info of this fake journal it is vague, and they make use of Gmail http://dlztkxyjs-e.cn/index.php/pst/about/contact
-The papers published by this fake version are not edited that well, it looks extremely basic. They pretend to be open access while the real one is subscription-based
So, unbelievable but this fake version is a blunt example of a hijacked version of a legit and genuine journal."
Best regards.
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Most of the researchers use to teach at university. In some careers, professionals who exert their profession without doing research share teaching spaces. When I was a chemistry student, 100% of my teachers were researchers ranging from PhD candidates to experts in their respective fields. While it may seem logical for researchers to be the best candidates to teach in fields such as chemistry or biology, what about healthcare-related fields like medicine, pharmacy, or biochemistry? Who is better suited to lead a class, a researcher or a professional, or both, each one in different subjects? We can distinguish between basic and clinical subjects. I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this matter.
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Being a proficient researcher doesn't necessarily equate to being a better professor. While research expertise can enhance teaching by bringing current knowledge and real-world applications into the classroom, effective teaching requires distinct skills such as communication, empathy, and the ability to engage students.
A good professor balances both research and teaching responsibilities, tailoring their approach to meet the needs of their students while contributing to their field through research. However, being a successful researcher doesn't guarantee effective teaching, as teaching requires its own set of abilities and dedication.
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Dear Prof,
Greetings .....
I'm Sebastian, would like to do research on paper publication and its impact in the ResearchGate database, like Web of Science and Scopus. So if you all have any idea or any direction, please suggest.
Thanks in Advance
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There seems to be no export function for citations, at least the help pages (https://help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us) do not mention such a function.
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Exploring the scientific foundation of Geographic Information Systems to establish geography or GIS as a science was once a significant issue in 1990s. However, the emergence of deep learning and AI has gradually shifted the focus of GIS towards application, gradually eroding its disciplinary independence.
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Andy Jingqian Xue In your question, you are conflating geography and GIS, which are two very different fields of human endeavor. Geography existed long before the emergence of GIS, and now in some areas geographers can sometimes do without GIS in their research. Geographic information systems are a tool that greatly simplifies and facilitates the analysis of large amounts of spatial data. Scientists who have a good understanding of the essence of their scientific problem can successfully use this tool. At the same time, you are right that in recent years, more and more attention has been paid to methods and algorithms designed to improve spatial information processing, analyzing satellite information using deep learning and artificial intelligence methods. And as a rule, these methods are not developed by geographers at all (geographers often do not have relevant knowledge), which leads to the fact that algorithms become an end in themselves. They are good at solving a narrow specific problem, sometimes losing the comprehensiveness of geographical knowledge. That's why I think we should support cooperation between geographers and algorithm developers by testing artificial intelligence in real tasks
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There is a new open access platform where articles may be submitted as both preprints and final articles. According to their website, preprints are indexed in Europe PMC, but final papers are not listed in PubMed, Scopus, or Web of Science. papers are selected depending on reviewer acceptance. Anyone have any experience with this?
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"Should there be a BS in 'Doctor of Psychotherapy' degree to meet the growing demand for mental health problems?? and if so, what might such a program entail?"
While "Doctor of Physiotherapy" is indeed a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, there's no inherent reason why there couldn't be a "Doctor of Psychotherapy" degree. There are already doctoral-level degrees in psychology and counseling fields that prepare individuals for careers in psychotherapy, such as Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, or related fields. However, such degrees mainly focus on the research side. The world is facing a pandemic of mental health issues, there is a dearth of mental health professionals who can use their counseling and therapy skills to treat patients with various mental illnesses.
These programs typically involve rigorous academic coursework, supervised clinical training, and research, preparing graduates to become licensed clinical psychologists or counselors who can provide psychotherapy services. So, a BS in Doctor of psychotherapy would solve this problem.
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The Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science is committed to methodological and research methodological pluralism. Empirical and hermeneutic papers – also in combination – as well as theoretical and historical papers can be written, including critical examination of existing research directions or schools. The duration of the programme is 6 semesters. The academic degree Doktorin / Doktor der Psychotherapiewissenschaft (Dr. scient. pth.) is awarded.
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Je veux indexer ma revue scientifique intitulé international journal of sciences and Technology dans votre plate-forme et je veux savoir les étapes à suivre
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A cooperation between you and ResearchGate is needed, see https://help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/sections/14292301411217-Publishers. See also https://www.researchgate.net/journal-home and the "Contact us" button at the end of the page. I am just a user of RG and do not have more details. Please note that you wrote to the RG community, not to the RG team.
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I submitted a paper to the Iranian Journal of Science in December 2023. required reviews completed in the first week of January 2024, till now, no comments from the editor about the paper, i.e., corrections or accepted or rejected, even after multiple reminder emails.
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It,s really Sad to hear this.I guess there must be some techincal issue.Maybe the journal is bi-annual.Else yoj can go to their website and write or contact the editor in chief.I wisj yoi lucl for early publication.
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Hi everyone, I want to export literature data from web of science for analysis in citespace software.But this interface changed and I found that the citespace software would remind me "No data files found in C:Usersl0000Desktoplcitespace-testidata" or "The time slicing setting is outside of your data."Do you know how to fix it?
My English expression is not very skillful, if I didn't express it clearly, I hope you can point it out, thank you!
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找到解决方法了~!最关键的一步就是在进入wos界面的时候就选好数据库,即 web of science core collection。
Found the solution~! The most critical step is to pick the database, the web of science core collection, as soon as you enter the wos interface.
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Chalmers in his book: What is this thing called Science? mentions that Science is Knowledge obtained from information. The most important endeavors of science are : Prediction and Explanation of Phenomenon. The emergence of Big (massive) Data leads us to the field of Data Science (DS) with the main focus on prediction. Indeed, data belong to a specific field of knowledge or science (physics, economy, ....).
If DS is able to realize prediction for the field of sociology (for example), to whom the merit is given: Data Scientist or Sociologist?
10.1007/s11229-022-03933-2
#DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #Naturallanguageprocessing #DeepLearning #Machinelearning #Science #Datamining
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Evgeny Mirkes I am glad that we are both on the same page: data science in its current form is not science at all, it's just a loose collection of various statistical tools.
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I have installed R-cran, then RStudio and all the related packages but I can't import raw dataset from web of science in biblioshiny package of RStudio. Please see the error mgs attached herewith and suggest solution if possible.
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Hola, en la parte inferior del bibioshiny exporta el archivo a excel y vuelve abrir el archivo en formato Biblishiny y se soluciona
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Which are the (or, Are there) what may be termed the most reliable principles or ways of selecting a range of phenomena and data within the experimental sciences? Are there ways (methods) of empirically dealing with them? Or, can there be the involvement of theoretical principles completely devoid of experiment (or primarily based on reason alone), which are inevitable in experimental sciences?
How to select phenomena and data in a satisfying manner?
Raphael Neelamkavil
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Statistical Causality: In my opinion, the scientific, analytic-philosophical and scientific-philosophical concepts of causation and “causal explanation” (20thcentury) follow one type of admixture or other of the above two. Here follow the dire – science-debilitating – consequence of such an attitude of ignominy of Causality in science and philosophy. I shall exemplify this by critiquing the physical and cosmological turn in statistical causality and its consequences.
The first mistake that statistical causalists make is the confusion between the epistemic and the metaphysical, because they (just like all of us, most scientists and philosophers) they make us to think that, what we discover is the whole reality about whatever object is under inquiry at that time, merely and directly because (1) our causal discovery or non-discovery of something specific is verified experimentally and experimental-theoretically, (2) the statistical method yields the “scientific” truths just like the “experimental” method does, (3) “scientific” truth is the only possible mode of truths, and (4) in most cases in most sciences we have only the statistical method to fall back upon.
The technological economic, and daily-life orientation of truth is to blame. Not merely are scientists but also technologists, politicians, and the medical industry who refuse to recognize the problem. The above is one of the most terribly unassuming fallacies that humankind has got trapped in. I have mentioned it earlier as the worst epistemological mistake of humanity. If the experimentally based method of statistical reasoning concerning causation in the sciences concludes that there is causation at some spots in existent physical processes and there is no causation at some other spots, a rationally justified objection is as follows.
A mode of thinking, logic, mathematics, philosophy, and science that can at least attempt to transcend this problem by assuming the utmost importance to the fundamental Categories and truths is yet to emerge. That alone can annihilate the politically and economically religious and scientific use of truths and Nature in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Eastern Europe, and most parts of western Europe. This alone will change the power-political scenario in the world. This may ultimately change humanity into a democratically peaceful place to continue to exist. All other sorts of attempts will be quick-fix solutions, but short-lived, and destructive.
The statistician, statistical physicist, and statistical causalist have the right only to claim that at some spots in physical processes specific kinds of causation may be discovered and at some other spots they are not able to fix or determine the existence of causation at all. This does not mean that their effort was to discover all possible sorts of causation in their sample.
Now, converting this indecision into not admitting Universal Causality and into the claim that there are some spots in physical nature where there is no causation is absolutely unwarranted, because the scientist here is not trying to nor is capable of discovering all sorts of causation within the field of inquiry, and instead, only some kinds of it. Therefore, the epistemically based and oriented conclusion of discovery of some causes cannot be converted into a metaphysically based and oriented conclusion, that is, a conclusion that treats of the existent processes as being causal.
A metaphysical conclusion saying that the statistically attained state of non-attainment of all sorts of causes is the nature of all existents is unacceptable from a rational viewpoint, however great and appealing the empirical appeal exerted by such scientists is. I agree that there have been great empirical discoveries and theoretical edifices where only and merely statistically characterized methods have been used.
This is merely because the statistical inquiry in such sciences is for some specific kinds of causes – not for all possible sorts of causes that there can be in the whole system of existent processual objects under consideration! It is beyond their field of study to ask after the causal or non-causal nature of all that exist.
Does that mean that they must now reach their hands in fields where they cannot reach by their own choice and make mysterious, mystery-mongering, and irrational statements about the already pre-scientifically Universal-Causal characteristic of Reality-in-total, or call all theories of Causality as mechanistic?
All their arguments in favour of the above-said position of ignominy of the pre-scientifically metaphysical (physical-ontological) concept of Universal Causality would finally imply at least that the creation of a cosmos and even the normal processual events in any part of the cosmos will then have to be a statistical, stochastic, probabilistic process. That is, if creation, or for that matter any event in the cosmos, has happened once, it could have happened many times, and it would happen many more times in the future.
Bibliography
(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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By reason of the application of the Lorentz Factor [(1 - (v squared / c squared)) raised to the power of 1/2] in the denominator of equations, luminal and other comparable energy propagations take on one and the same velocity. This is the relativity-effect (better, comparative effect) between v of objects, compared to c of the speed of light. That is, it is presupposed here that c is the object of comparison for determining the speed effect of velocity difference across a duration.
It is against the criterion-velocity itself c that c becomes unsurpassable! Hence, I am of the opinion that the supposed source-independence is nothing but an effect of OUR APPARATUS-WISE OBSERVATION LIMIT AND OUR FIXING OF THE CRITERION OF OBSERVATION AS THE OBSERVED VELOCITY OF LIGHT.
In this circumstance, it is useless to claim that (1) luminal and some other energy propagations with velocity c are source-independent, and (2) these wavicles have zero rest mass, since the supposed source-independence have not been proved theoretically or experimentally without using c cas the criterion velocity. The supposed source-independence is merely an effect of c-based comparison.
Against this background, it is possible to be assured that photons and other similar c-wavicles are extended particles -- varying their size throughout the course of motion in the spiral manner. Hence the acceptability of the term 'wavicle'. Moreover, each mathematical point of the spiral motion is to be conceived not as two-, but as three-dimensional, and any point of motion added to it justifies its fourth dimension. Let us call motion as change.
These four dimensions are measuremental, hence the terms 'space' (three-dimensional) and 'time' (one-dimensional). This is also an argument countering the opinion that in physics and cosmology (and other sciences) time is not attested!
The measurements of the 3-space and measurements of the 1-time are not in the wavicles and in the things being measured. The measurements are the cognitive characteristics of the measurements.
IN FACT, THE EXTENSION OF THE WAVICLE OR OTHER OBJECTS IS BEING MEASURED AND TERMED 'SPACE', AND THE CHANGE OF THE WAVICLE OR OTHER OBJECTS IS BEING MEASURED AND TERMED 'TIME'. Hence, the physically out-there-to-find characteristics of the wavicles and objects are EXTENSION AND CHANGE.
Extension is the quality of all existing objects by which they have parts. This is not space. Change is the quality by which they have motion, i.e., impact generation on other similar wavicles and/or objects. This is not time. Nothing has space and time; nothing is in space and time. Everything is in Extension-Change.
Any wavicle or other object existing in Extension-Change is nothing but impact generation by physically existent parts. This is what we term CAUSATION. CAUSALITY is the relation of parts of physical existents by which some are termed cause/s and the others are termed effect/s. IN FACT, THE FIRST ASPECT OF THE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE PARTS, WHICH BEGINS THE IMPACT, IS THE CAUSE; AND THE SECOND ASPECT IS THE CAUSE. Cause and effect are, together, one unit of continuous process.
Since energy wavicles are extended, they have parts. Hence, there can be other, more minute, parts of physical objects, which can define superluminal velocities. Here, the criterion of measurement of velocity cannot be c. That is all...! Hence, superluminal velocities are a must by reason of the very meaning of physical existence.
THE NOTION OF PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ('TO BE') IS COMPLELTEY EXHAUSTED BY THE NOTIONS OF EXTENSION AND CHANGE. Hence, I call Extension and Change as the highest physical-ontological Categories. A metaphysics (physical ontology) of the cosmos is thus feasible. I have been constructing one such. My book-length publications have been efforts in this direction.
I invite your contributions by way of critiques and comments -- not ferocious, but friendly, because I do not claim that I am the last word in any science, including philosophy of physics.
Bibliography
(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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Experimentally, observationally, and observational-theoretically, some of the generalizations of any physical ontology of cosmology may, strictly speaking, be non-verifiable and non-falsifiable.
But the empirical method of the sciences is continuous with the theoretical. Both, together, form part of "reason". Note also this: Reason is not equivalent to logic. There are many sorts of logic. Reason is the general set, and the various logics are sub-sets or members.
From this viewpoint, would you admit that there seems to be the possibility of obtaining SOME REASON from the suggestion that a PHYSICAL ONTOLOGY OF THE REASON WITHIN THE COSMOS be constructed? I CALL THIS REASON UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY.
I have developed an MMM (maximal-medial-minimal) method, where the approachable values are zero, finite, and infinite -- all others being strictly of the realm of the positive sciences. Zero, finitude, and infinity may be available in the positive sciences. But in the case of zero and infinity, the attitude is that of limiting values.
Finitude is a general term. In the positive sciences there must be specific values, not generally finite values!
Of course, we do not know of infinite values in the strictest sense of the term. But on the same count we do not also know zero value except as the absence of WHAT WE CONSIDER at a given instance.
I feel that a sort of "axiomatization" is perhaps possible -- at least as a physical ontology of the cosmos, PROVIDED UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY IS DERIVABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE CONCEPT OF EXISTENCE (TO BE).
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(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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For millennia the questions of CAUSALITY and FREEDOM have been conceived as opposites in both sciences and philosophies. If they can be unified (possibly, freedom brought under the other's explanation), is it possible to bring the physical, natural, and social sciences together under one set of basic notions?
I have a unique manner of argument in the direction of a solution for the reconciliation of causality and freedom.
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Why are numbers and shapes so exact? ‘One’, ‘two’, ‘point’, ‘line’, etc. are all exact. But irrational numbers are not so. The operations on these notions are also intended to be exact. If notions like ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘point’, ‘line’, etc. are defined to be so exact, then it is not by virtue of the exactness of these substantive notions, but instead, due to their being defined so, that they are exact, and mathematics is exact.
But on the other side, due to their being adjectival: ‘being a unity’, ‘being two unities’, ‘being a non-extended shape’, etc., their application-objects are all processes that can obtain these adjectives only in groups. These are pure adjectives, not properties which are composed of many adjectives.
A quality cannot be exact, but may be defined to be exact. It is in terms of the exactness attributed to these notions by definition that the adjectives ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘point’, ‘line’, etc. are exact. This is why the impossibility of fixing these (and other) substantive notions as exact misses our attention.
If in fact these quantitative qualities are inexact due to their pertaining to groups of processual things, then there is justification for the inexactness of irrational numbers, transcendental numbers, etc. too. If numbers and shapes are in fact inexact, then not only irrational and other inexact numbers but all mathematical structures should remain inexact except for their having been defined as exact.
Thus, mathematical structures, in all their detail, are a species of qualities, namely, quantitative qualities. Mathematics is exact only because its fundamental bricks are defined to be so. Hence, mathematics is an as-if exact science, as-if real science. Caution is advised while using it in the sciences as if mathematics were absolutely applicable, as if it were exact.
Bibliography
(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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SCIENTIFIC METAPHYSICAL CATEGORIES
BEYOND HEIDEGGER
ENHANCING PHYSICS
Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil.
1. Introduction beyond Heidegger
I begin my cosmologically metaphysical critique of the foundations of Heidegger’s work, with a statement of concern. Anyone who attempts to read this work without first reading my arguments in the book, Physics without Metaphysics?, (1) without being in favour of a new science-compatible metaphysics and concept of To Be, and (2) without a critical attitude to Heidegger – is liable to misunderstand my arguments here as misinformed, denigrative, or even trivial. But I do this critique in search of very general means of constructing a metaphysics capable of realising constant guidance and enhancement to scientific practice.
Contemporary mathematics, physics, cosmology, biology, and the human sciences have a shape after undergoing so much growth that we cannot think philosophically without admitting the existence (termed “To Be”) of all that exist, the cosmos and its parts. The general concept of existence is always as “something-s” that are processually out there, however far-fetched our concepts of the various parts of or of the whole cosmos are. “The existence of the totality (Reality-in-total) as the whole something whatever” and “particular existence in the minimally acceptable state of being something/s whatever that is not the whole totality” are absolutely trans-subjective and thus objectual presuppositions behind all thought.
Today we do not have to theoretically moot any idea of non-existence of the cosmos and its parts as whatever they are. This is self-evident. That is, basing philosophical thinking – of the very nature of the existence-wise metaphysical presuppositions of all that are subjective and objective – upon the allegedly subjective origin of thought processes and concepts – should be universally unacceptable.
Therefore, I think we should get behind Heidegger’s seemingly metaphysical words – all based on the human stage on which Being is thought – by chipping his prohibitively poetical and mystifying language off its rhetorically Reality-adumbrating shades, in order to get at the senses and implications of his Fundamental Ontology as Being-historical Thinking. It suffices here to admit that the history of Being is not the general concept of the history of the thought of Being, and not the history of the thought of Being.
Moreover, it is not a necessity for philosophy that the Humean-Kantian stress on the subject-aspect of thought be carried forward to such an extent that whatever is thought has merely subjectively metaphysical Ideal presuppositions. All subjective presuppositions must somehow be taken to possess the merely subjective character.
There are, of course, presuppositions with some conceptual character. But to the extent some of them are absolute, they are to be taken as absolutely non-subjective. These presuppositions are applicable without exception to all that is, e.g. To Be and all Categories that may be attributed to all that exist. HENCE, SUBJECTIVE PRESUPPOSITIONS ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONCEPTUAL PRESUPPOSITIONS.
This fact should be borne out while doing philosophy, without which no philosophy and science are possible. The weight of the subject-aspect continues to be true of thought insofar as we go to non-absolute details of metaphysical presuppositions and empirical details, and not when we think only of the metaphysical Ideals of all existents in themselves.
It is true that there is no complete chipping off of the merely subjective or anthropological aspect of the Heideggerian theory. Nor is there an analysis without already interpreting anything. The guiding differentiation here should be that between “the subjective” and the “conceptual”. The conceptual is not merely subjective, but also objective. It is objective due to the inheritance pattern behind it from the objectual.
Such a hermeneutic is basic to all understanding, speculation, feeling, and sensing. The linguistically and otherwise symbolic expression of concepts and their concatenations is to be termed as the denotative universals and their concatenations.
At the purely conceptual level we have connotation. These are purely conceptual universals and their concatenations. Since these are not merely a production of the mind but primarily that by the involvement of the generated data from the little selection of the phenomena from physical processes, which are from a highly selected group of levels of objectual processes, which belong to the things themselves.
At the level of the phenomena, levels of objectual processes, and the things themselves there are universals, which we shall term ontological universals and their conglomerations. These conglomerations are termed so because they have the objectual content at the highest level available within the processes of sensing, feeling, understanding, speculation, etc.
2. Conclusions on Heidegger Proper
The above should not necessarily mean (1) that we cannot base thought fully on the Metaphysical Ideals of “To Be” and “the state of existents as somethings”, and (2) that we cannot get sufficiently deep into the fundamental implications of his work by side-lining the purely subjective concepts of the fundamental metaphysical concepts. This claim is most true of the concept of To Be.
To Be is the simultaneously processual-verbal and nomic-nominal aspect of Reality-in-total, and not merely that of any specific being, phenomenon, or concept. For Heidegger, To Be (Being) is somehow a private property of Dasein, the Being-thinking being. To Be which is the most proper subject matter of Einaic Ontology (metaphysics based completely on the trans-thought fact of the Einai, “To Be” of Reality-in-total) is not the Being that Dasein thinks or the Being that is given in Dasein, because To Be belongs to Reality-in-total together and in all its parts.
Even in Heidegger’s later phase highlighted best by his Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning, his concept of To Be as belonging to the Dasein which is the authentically Being-thinking human being has not changed substantially. Even here he continues to project positively the history of Being-thinking human being as the authentic Being-historical process and as the essence of the history of all that can be thought of.
Against the above metaphysical backdrop of essentially anthropocentric definitions, I write this critique based on cosmological-metaphysical necessities in philosophy, and indirectly evaluate what I consider as the major ontological imperfection in Heidegger’s thought from the viewpoint of the Categorial demands of the history of metaphysics, various provincial ontologies and scientific ontology, and of the way in which I conceive the jolts and peaks in such history.
Along with the purely meta-metaphysical To Be, (1) I present the metaphysical abstract notions of Extension (= compositeness: i.e., having parts) and Change (= impacts by composites: i.e., part-to-part projection of impact elements) as the irreducibly metaphysical Categories of all existents and (2) argue that Extension-Change existence in their non-abstract togetherness as existents is nothing but Universal Causation (= everything is Existence-Change-wise existent, i.e. if not universally causal, existence is vacuous).
These are metaphysical principles that Heidegger and most philosophers till today have not recognized the primordiality of. Most of them tend to fix to existence universal or partial or absolutely no causality. In short, Universal Causation, even in some allegedly non-causal aspects of cosmology, quantum physics, philosophy of mind, and human sciences, is to be the taken as a priorias and co-implied by existence (To Be), because anything existent is extended and changing...! No more should sciences or philosophy doubt Universal Causality. Herein consists the merit of Einaic Ontology as a universally acceptable metaphysics behind all sciences – not merely of human sciences.
To Be is the highest Transcendental Ideal; Reality-in-total is the highest Transcendent Ideal; and Reality-in-general is the highest Transcendental-Transcendent Ideal of generalized theoretical concatenation of ontological universals in consciousness. These are meta-metaphysical in shape. They are not at all classificational (categorizing) of anything in this world or in thought.
Although Heidegger has not given a Categorial scheme of all existents or Categorial Ideals for all metaphysics and thinking, he is one of the few twentieth century thinkers of ontological consequence, after Aristotle (in favour of an abstract concept of Being) and Kant (against treating the concept of Being as an attribute), to have dealt extensively with a very special concept of Being and our already interpretive ability to get at To Be.
I present here in gist the difference between the Dasein-Interpreted concept of Being and the ontologically most widely committed, Einaic Ontological, nomic-nominal, and processual-verbal concept of To Be, which should be metaphysically the highest out-there presupposition of all thought and existence. This is the relevance of metaphysics as a trans-science.
Bibliography
(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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If induction and deduction are mutually connected, what is the framework upon which they may be connected? Will such a framework of connecting induction and deduction be a mere perspective or something fundamental?
Courses in logic, philosophy of science, etc. begin always with a detailed study of induction and deduction. Most courses tell us that these are typically different kinds of reasoning. But are they?
I would happily obtain your arguments for or against the so-called mutual exclusiveness of induction and deduction.
I believe that relativising induction and deduction and connecting them with one another under some very general framework of thought will be a grand starting point to revolutionize the foundations of the whole of philosophy and science, and of logic and linguistic analytic philosophy in particular.
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HOW TO GROUND SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY TOGETHER AXIOMATICALLY?
Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil.
We see many theories in physics, mathematics, etc. becoming extremely axiomatic and rigorous. They call themselves or attempt to be as quantitative as possible. But are adequate comparisons between mathematics, physical sciences, biological sciences, human sciences, and philosophy, and adequate adaptation of the axiomatic method possible by creating a system of all exact, physical, and human sciences that depend only on the quantitively qualitative proportionalities and call them invariables?
They cannot do well enough to explain Reality-in-total, because Reality-in-total primarily involves all sorts of ontological universals that are purely qualitative, and some of them are the most fundamental, proportionality-type, quantitative invariables of all physical existents in their specificity and totality in their natural kinds. But as the inquiry comes to Reality-in-total, ontological qualitative universals must come into the picture. Hence, merely quantitative (mathematical) explanations do not exhaust the explanation of Reality-in-total.
Existence as individuals and existence in groups are not differentiable and systematizable in terms of quantitatively qualitative universals alone. Both qualitative and quantitatively qualitative universals are necessary for this. Both together are general qualities pertaining to existents in their processual aspect, not merely in their separation from each other. Therefore, the primitive notions (called traditionally as Categories) of Reality-in-total must be ontological qualitative universals involving both the qualitative and quantitative aspects. The most basic of universals that pertain properly to Reality-in-total are now to be found.
Can the primitive notions (Categories) and axioms of the said sciences converge so that the axioms of a system of Reality take shape from a set of the highest possible ontological Categories as simple sentential formulations of the Categories which directly imply existents? This must be deemed necessary for philosophy, natural sciences, and human sciences, because these deal with existents, unlike the formal sciences that deal only with the qualitatively quantitative form of arguments.
Thus, in the case of mathematics and logic there can be various sorts of quantitative and qualitative primitive notions (categories) and then axioms that use the primitive notions in a manner that adds some essential, pre-defined, operations. But the sciences and philosophy need also the existence of their object-processes. For this reason, the primitive axioms can be simple sentential formulations involving the Categories and nothing else. This is in order to avoid indirect existence statements and to involve existence in terms exclusively of the Categories.
Further, the sciences together could possess just one set of sufficiently common primitive notions of all knowledge, from which also the respective primitive notions and axioms of mathematics, logic, physical and human sciences, and philosophy may be derived. I support this view because the physical-ontological Categories involving the existence of Reality and realities, in my opinion, must be most general and fully exhaustive of the notion of To Be (existence) in a qualitatively universal manner that is applicable to all existents in their individual processual and total processual senses.
Today the nexus or the interface of the sciences and philosophies is in a crisis of dichotomy between truth versus reality. Most scientists, philosophers, and common people rush after “truths”. But who, in scientific and philosophical practice, wants to draw unto the possible limits the consequences of the fact that we can at the most have ever better truths, and not final truths as such?
Finalized truths as such may be concluded to in cases where there is natural and inevitable availability of an absolute right to use the logical Laws of Identity, Contradiction, and Excluded Middle, especially in order to decide between concepts related to the existence and non-existence of anything out there.
Practically very few may be seen generalizing upon and extrapolating from this metaphysical and logical state of affairs beyond its epistemological consequences. In the name of practicality, ever less academicians want today to connect ever broader truths compatible to Reality-in-total by drawing from the available and imaginable commonalities of both.
The only thinkable way to accentuate the process of access to ever broader truths compatible to Reality-in-total is to look for the truest possible of all truths with foundations on existence (nominal) / existing (gerund) / To Be (verbal). The truest are those propositions where the Laws of Identity, Contradiction, and Excluded Middle can be applied best. The truest are not generalizable and extendable merely epistemologically, but also metaphysically, physical-ontologically, mathematically, biologically, human-scientifically, etc.
The agents that permit generalization and extrapolation are the axioms that are the tautologically sentential formulations of the most fundamental of all notions (Categories) and imply nothing but the Categories of all that exist – that too with respect to the existence of Realit-in-total. These purely physical-ontological implications of existence are what I analyze further in the present work. One may wonder how these purely metaphysical, physical-ontological axioms and their Categories can be applicable to sciences other than physics and philosophy.
My justification is as follows: Take for example the case of the commonality of foundations of mathematics, logic, the sciences, philosophy, and language. The notions that may be taken as the primitive notions of mathematics were born not from a non-existent virtual world but instead from the human capacity of spatial, temporal, quantitatively qualitative, and purely qualitative imagination.
I have already been working so as to show qualitative (having to do with the ontological universals of existents, expressed in terms of adjectives) quantitativeness (notions based on spatial and temporal imagination, where, it should be kept in mind, that space-time are epistemically measuremental) may be seen to be present in their elements in mathematics, logic, the sciences, philosophy, and language.
The agents I use for this are: ‘ontological universals’, ‘connotative universals’, and ‘denotative universals’. In my opinion, the physical-ontological basis of these must and can be established in terms merely of the Categories of Extension-Change, which you find being discussed briefly here.
Pitiably, most scientists and philosophers forget that following the exhaustively physical-ontological implications of To Be in the foundations of science and philosophy is the best way to approach Reality well enough in order to derive the best possible of truths and their probable derivatives. Most of them forget that we need to rush after Reality, not merely after truths and truths about specific processes.
Bibliography
(1) Gravitational Coalescence Paradox and Cosmogenetic Causality in Quantum Astrophysical Cosmology, 647 pp., Berlin, 2018.
(2) Physics without Metaphysics? Categories of Second Generation Scientific Ontology, 386 pp., Frankfurt, 2015.
(3) Causal Ubiquity in Quantum Physics: A Superluminal and Local-Causal Physical Ontology, 361 pp., Frankfurt, 2014.
(4) Essential Cosmology and Philosophy for All: Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology, 92 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 2nd Edition.
(5) Essenzielle Kosmologie und Philosophie für alle: Gravitational-Koaleszenz-Kosmologie, 104 pp., KDP Amazon, 2022, 1st Edition.
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In celebration of the release of the 3rd edition of my book 'Effective Science Communication', IOP publishing is making the 2nd edition FREE via open access until the end of May!
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Thank you David. 🙏
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For instance, if we want to reach for the stars physically with science and technology, to climb a ladder to the stars with science and technology, and having been briefed on all of our imaginative Star Trek scenario hypotheses, are we asking the right questions about the stars if we are still having trouble getting there?
Or, are the stars actually not what science thinks they are yet something more in-line with how we formulate Star Trek, namely a type of imaginative expression of our consciousness? Could the stars be an apparition for instance, a great natural hologram?
When is a spade a spade?
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You: Here I present my findings that the solar system mirrors atomic systems.
Me: I should present my findings on the new nuclear model soon. This model is the same in the structure of atoms and in the whole universe.
I am concerned about your findings. I am worried that you will approach my discoveries.
This content was accompanied by a small joke. Your sacrifice, Arash
I made several tricks about how the nuclei of atoms form, without which the answer would not be possible. And it is very unlikely that anyone will know about my tricks. I am ready to cooperate with you
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I work in different disciplines (biology, history of science) and would like to list my publications in these field under these categories. Under each category I want to list them by year of publication. Is this possible?
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Unfortunately, it is not possible to sort publications by discipline or by other criteria than time. Formerly, there were projects and it was possible to assign publications to a project, but these were discontinued.
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Are you a full-fledged empiricist and see a totally empirical Psychology?
Maybe if you don't see that you will after reading about 1000 pages of my writings :
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One should also see my most recent 30 or so posts here; those are not in any of the collections
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AI is coming fast, and we have to adapt.
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Eh, I'd rather be mysteriously confusing than rigorously understandable any day. Keeps people on their toes, you know? :P
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In material science, steel have more group, So what is the best explain answer according in metallurgy science?
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NB: Not all stainless steel are Non-magnetic there’s different types some are Magnetic.
It is necessary that steel contains iron and has either a martensitic or ferritic crystal structure in order to “be magnetic.”
  • There must be iron in the alloy
  • The alloy must possess martensitic or ferritic crystal structures
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Is the journal of nanotechnology research a predatory Journal?
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Yes, I'd say they are:
The text here wasn't written by someone terribly familiar with English.
Or with the rudiments of how to convey information by a flow-chart.
I'd avoid it.
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Will the development of intelligent chatbots available on the Internet based on generative artificial intelligence negatively or rather positively affect the development of science, the development of scientific research, the analysis of data from research conducted, the description of results obtained from research conducted, the writing and publishing of scientific texts, etc.?
Recently, rapid development of ICT and Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies is taking place, including Big Data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, digital twins, multi-criteria simulation models, machine learning, deep learning and generative artificial intelligence, among others. Developments in generative artificial intelligence technology are being made through the use of artificial neural networks, among others. New applications of generative artificial intelligence are determined by the previously carried out process of GAI system training, i.e. teaching the implementation of specific skills, performing complex tasks, performing new functions, solving specific problems intelligently using deep learning technology. Increasingly, generative artificial intelligence technology is being trained to intelligently perform complex research and analysis processes. Among other things, this kind of application of generative artificial intelligence is the implementation of this technology for business analytics carried out using large sets of data and information, i.e. analytics carried out on computerized business intelligence and Big Data Analytics platforms. This type of analytics is being applied in various fields of knowledge, various sectors of the economy, various companies, enterprises, financial and public institutions. This type of analytics is also increasingly used in improving research processes and increasing the efficiency of complex analytical processes carried out as part of ongoing research in various scientific disciplines. Since OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot was made available on the Internet, i.e. since November 2022, more similar intelligent chatbots created by other leading technology companies have been successively appearing. The intelligent chatbots made available on the Internet are used, among other things, in the development of the results of scientific research conducted, in the execution of certain stages of analytical processes, in the processing of results obtained from scientific research conducted, etc. The increase in the application of intelligent chatbots in research and analytical processes is due to the simplicity of operation of these chatbots, their availability on the Internet in the formula of open access, the ability of these tools to implement complex research processes, multi-criteria analysis, intelligent problem solving. On the other hand, the possibilities of applying the aforementioned chatbots in the processes of conducted scientific research are still severely limited due to the many imperfections of the databases on which certain generative artificial intelligence systems were trained. It still happens that the databases of data and information on which the said GAI systems were trained contain data and information in many respects outdated, incomplete, in the course of the "work" of these tools certain data and information can be "creatively" combined so that in the results of the work of a certain intelligent chatbot there are often "fictitious facts", ie. generated new and factually inconsistent content, factual errors, misrepresentations, falsehoods, which can be presented and described within the phraseologically, syntactically, stylistically correct essays, papers, articles, etc., written by generative artificial intelligence. Besides, the textual and other studies created by these tools often do not show all the data sources, all the source publications, all the materials that the chatbot used in drawing certain data and information while creating the commissioned human textual, graphic work, etc. Besides, even if the sources of data and information are partially shown, they are often shown in an incomplete way, inconsistent with the current standards for showing and compiling source and bibliographic footnotes. Perhaps, in the future, the aforementioned, used currently made available on the Internet intelligent chatbots will be sufficiently improved, corrected, supplemented so that they can be used by researchers and scientists in specific research, analytical processes within the framework of ongoing scientific research to a fuller extent and without the currently existing risks. Therefore, the development of intelligent chatbots available on the Internet based on generative artificial intelligence currently both negatively and positively can affect the development of science, the development of scientific research, the analysis of data from conducted research, the description of results obtained from conducted research, the writing and publishing of scientific texts, etc. Whether serious risks are generated or rather positive aspects prevail with the application of currently available intelligent chatbots on the Internet in certain aspects of the research and analysis processes carried out as part of the scientific research conducted depends on a number of factors. On the one hand, it depends on whether the technology company developing the said intelligent chatbots keeps improving them, enhancing them and expanding them with new functions and skills. On the other hand, it also depends on whether such cultivated specific research and analytical tools are used prudently by researchers and scientists with knowledge of the drawbacks and limitations associated with the use of these tools.
I described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:
OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Will the development of intelligent chatbots available on the Internet based on generative artificial intelligence negatively or rather positively affect the development of science, the development of scientific research, the analysis of data derived from research conducted, the description of results obtained from research conducted, the writing and publishing of scientific texts, etc.?
Will the development of chatbots based on generative artificial intelligence negatively or rather positively affect the development of science?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
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We have the tools ready. But the way we practice with it based on our experience and ethics is what really influences the outcome.
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In an manuscript, I need to cite a paper. Since the article was recently published and the page number information has not been updated in Web of Science, so I can't get a full quote for it. how should I deal with this question?
Because the article could be searched in Web of Science, I can't ignore this article.
Could I just cite it with the information already available, but without the page number information?
or any other good ways?
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thanks@Dominic Worku
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If humans are so "complex", is it always harder to understand human behavior [patterns] than to understand similarly functioning patterns in other animals? NO !!
Of course not: we see as other humans see and, to some notable extent, what they see; we hear what they can hear; we smell what they can smell; we understand the types of things they are trying to understand and master; and we understand (roughly) what they are trying to accomplish at each stage of life ('stage' both in the strict sense, of the ontogeny that is child development, and otherwise). WITH RESPECT TO NO OTHER ANIMAL DO WE HAVE THESE COMMONALITIES TO USE AS PART OF OUR UNDERSTANDING.
Then, how is it that all this does not help us; I , for one, am not willing to believe that we are yet otherwise extremely complex to any point of not being able to come to understand humans (ourselves). [( In most cases, claims of complexity can be regarded as simply indications of confusion* (and ignorance) -- and not necessarily anything more. And, the confusions are often not necessary at all, even in the first place.)]
FOOTNOTE: Try the proposed word substitution ("confused/confusion" for "complex/complexity") and see.
Let me explain:
It is as if bad philosophy has put a "spell" (actually: blocks and limitations, over-generalizations and other wrongful mental behavior patterns, aka "thought") on us that incapacitate our moving forward, thinking along/upon more constructive lines such as (in small part) indicated above [(but much more clearly indicated, and then outlined, in other parts of my writings)]. We very much too often ask "what have the philosophers thought?" when, frankly, that hardly matters at all (they may have had some point sometimes at some junctures but, with their same body of philosophy, they commonly very much over-"define" (notably wrongly and falsely), and then overgeneralize their 'position' to make unsubstantiated CLAIMS -- yet these thought-out armchair claims are accepted!! BIG EXAMPLES OF THEIR WRONGFULNESS COME UP in statements beginning "ONLY Man can ... ". And this is in addition to THEM saying in other ways (which I am now characterizing in vague outline and obviously paraphrasing): only some 'this' or 'that' [way] will work or only some 'this' or 'that' can be the "way it is", as they "determined". They analyze any single words they choose (e.g. how we can supposedly "understand" our "will" or understand certain particular other things) as if any of these are well established concepts, when they are not; THEY then "define" other things and move on from there, both of these wrongful ways [further] making a fundamental breach with empiricism and then necessarily also with science (AND all this CAUSES CONFUSION (and it should be clear it is based on ignorance)).
Those large aspects of many, many of the philosophies are not only incongruent with science, but lead to unnecessary confusions (on larger "related" topics, like "consciousness" -- something they go on to develop ideas about, based on their initial "definitions", all that yielding the "complex" "understanding" and then also "finding" that which "cannot be understood" (e.g. the " 'hard problem' of "consciousness" " -- [a problem I see as nonexistent from another standpoint]) .
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No. All that humans care about is survival and reproduction.
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I begin scientific inquiry by somewhat philosophizing. Science approximately derives from philosophy. Engineering is roughly derived from science.
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Scientific research is a dynamic process that allows us to acquire new knowledge and understand the world around us. Here are the key steps to starting a scientific investigation:
1. Observation: The first step is to observe a phenomenon, event, or problem. This observation may arise from curiosity, detecting a pattern, or identifying a need, leading to formulating a question: why does this happen? How does it work? What is the cause?
2. Problem definition: The problem to be investigated is clearly defined based on the question generated in the observation stage. It must be relevant, interesting, and address a specific area of knowledge.
3. Formulation of the hypothesis: A hypothesis is an assumption or prediction about the relationship between variables. It is a tentative answer to the question posed. The hypothesis must be testable and capable of being evaluated through experimentation or analysis.
4. Experimentation: In this stage, the hypothesis is tested through experiments, observations, or data analysis. Data is collected and compared to the predictions of the hypothesis.
5. Evaluation and analysis: The results obtained are evaluated objectively. The data is analyzed, and conclusions are drawn. If the results are consistent with the hypothesis, it is confirmed. If they are not, it is adjusted or discarded.
6. Communication of results: The findings are communicated to the scientific community and the general public. This can be done through publications.
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Another try to make progress in eliminating ignorance/delusion and arrogance and conceit in behavioral SCIENCE.
For science , for empiricism (and for AI (<-- to enlist, YET eventually dispel, the greed motivator)) : the truly empirical behavioral scientists, those who ARE empirical in studying behavior PATTERNS (SO: just and only all the involved overt behavioral PATTERNS will do, when looked at developmentally, for ALL explanation), must work in a way to come to see that THE MAJOR TYPES OF LEARNING (and these occur during ontogeny) ___ ARE ___ found (discovered, like the naturalist) to BE major kinds/types of INDUCTION (as is true of all other developed organisms). We cannot be that different for it to be otherwise.
As true factual and empirical as classical and operant conditioning (and habituation, etc.) ARE, THESE ARE the extreme trivial details. [ AND, one must realize : "Social leaning" is a farce, for such a vague concept looses the individual organism as the ONLY true empirical unit-of-analysis -- which it IS (MUST be, that's biology, friends). ] MY system of understanding, in my two major papers, OUTLINES what one should find concretely IN OVERT BEHAVIOR PATTERNS (and never leave the word "patterns" out ) -- reflecting the major types/kinds of induction.
[ And, though big on induction, the proximate causes are [ attentional / ] perceptual shifts . (I hate to say it, but one can reason-out the necessity of this being the case.) ]
Starting with this attitude and outlook, only then can we find (AS IS NECESSARY for ALL good reasons and science) the was-ness in the is-ness ( i.e.; previous grand well-developed units as THE units, or portions as part-units, USED IN more advanced inductive reasonings). This all (all the above) is absolutely the shortest way of saying what we MUST realize (<-- not "just subjectively" at all) ). AND: one cannot argue an excuse, or THAT ITSELF is THE VERY damning premature hypothetico-deductive "reasoning" , the very essence of arrogance and conceit AND that which necessarily derails science -- that being the necessary consequence of "jumping the gun" on prediction .
Any questions? I am 70 years old, so one will find further true leads / clues (or that which will result in true leads IN my WORK (science essays and the theory outlines)) , I have introduced before in my writings, beginning 40 years ++ ago.
[ FOOTNOTE : the descriptors provided by researchgate ARE GROSSLY INCOMPLETE and INADEQUATE. Just one example : NO "inductive reasoning" ! : this is the premature know-it-all stance that has been, and is, destroying science (AND us). ALSO : no "innate action pattern" !! No : "hypotheses" -- enabling THAT to be a SUBJECT itself ! Come on ! It's sickening -- and NOT the way to make progress, but the way to fail. (One used to be able to add non-existing descriptors, but THAT is gone, obviously WAY TOO SOON.) ]
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Wisdom can emerge at any time rather than regurgitation of past knowledge and its deductions. This being said, our limited knowledge of cognitive development has to be based on observations of diverse reality, as per Copernicus. The observer does have an intricate effect upon the observation, so deductive reasoning alone limits and induction takes us beyond the assumptions of neatly packaged compartmentalized thinking, antithetical to the pioneers in thought and cognition. Margaret Mead tried to break through this by her investigations into other diverse culture/paradigmatic views. She said: "Children need to be taught how to think, not what to think." Albert Einstein in Relativity recognized that everything is relative, everything is in relationship with everything else from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic. The analogs in nature he observed led to his own theory inductions, never fully proven by science until years after his death. He stated: "I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." Art met Science in his thinking. We need merger of the arts to express cognitions that go beyond our current cognitions/assumptions/compartmentalized thought and observe All inducing in us that which we participate in throughout the cosmos. Then science can deduce new ideas from that inspirational origin with first humility and then heuristic quality. Psychology is still a new science still defending itself by certitude of what cognition is, which limits our understanding. William James, the Father of American Psychology investigated the "Stuff of Consciousness" grounding in the observable, pragmatics of the stuff of the Cosmos.
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Ethogram Theory and the Theories of Copernicus "et al" : beyond analogy, but a real similarity
Back in the 1500s, Copernicus "stepped back" and looked at more and more carefully. He gave us a reason to think that, indeed, everything does NOT revolve around the Earth.
In the next century, Galileo Galilei and Keplar gave us more reasons to think this way. Keplar described orbits of the planets as elliptical and Galileo showed that OTHER non-Earth objects had things going around them (e.g. Saturn -- the moons). Finally, with Newton's work, the orbits of the planets were mathematically described.
Now, I firmly think Ethogram Theory is more than an analogy to that above, but has REAL similarity. Ethogram Theory "steps back" and looks at more (and more carefully as well). Ethogram Theory looks at cognitive development in a way like Piaget, but Piaget's theory is merely just descriptive and puts forward nothing like proximate causes; thus, in a way Ethogram Theory, with regard to Piaget's particular theory, is only an analogy to Piaget's, with Ethogram Theory empirical and totally investigateable ; the weakness is not with Ethogram Theory but with Piaget's. Ethogram Theory, like Piaget's , reckons cognitive development as central to most major developments in Psychology. Ethogram Theory yet sees way to see similar stages, not only with Piaget's. but phenomenology described by other major stage theorists. Some of these stage theories, Piaget's in particular, actually have good evidence of universality among peoples (despite being only descriptive); such is seen in all cultures tested. But, by being just descriptive, Piaget doesn't NOT even point us at proximate causes, AND to totally empirical things that could be empirically investigated -- exactly verified or amended, totally INVESTIGATABLE with modern eye-tracking technology.
This is what Ethogram Theory does. If you are familiar with Ethogram Theory, indeed : material, empirical, actual, directly observable phenomenon are cited for the cognitive stage transitions. These are perceptual shifts, often attentional/perceptual shifts (in what the subject looks at, and seeks to see better and more of).
I would argue that something like these shifts is necessary. Nothing except something like Ethogram Theory stages, points clearly to anything fully empirical.
Finally : The productive thinking about Ethogram Theory would be BY FAR mainly inductive processes. And, in fact, inductive processes ARE the very main way [ at least ] ALL other mammals process information and learn. I firmly think that the major types of learning in humans are via such inductive processes, in both child and adult -- for most processing of information both for advanced scientists and babies. [ There are qualitatively different types of inductive learning, varying with the stages. ]
I am going downhill hard and fast (related to age and me); I would guess this is my last post.
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Sorry you are going downhill fast, but wisdom can emerge at any time rather than regurgitation of past knowledge and its deductions. This being said, our limited knowledge of cognitive development has to be based on observations of diverse reality, as per Copernicus. The observer does have an intricate effect upon the observation, so deductive reasoning alone limits and induction takes us beyond the assumptions of neatly packaged compartmentalized thinking, antithetical to the pioneers in thought and cognition. Margaret Mead tried to break through this by her investigations into other diverse culture/paradigmatic views. She said: "Children need to be taught how to think, not what to think." Albert Einstein in Relativity recognized that everything is relative, everything is in relationship with everything else from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic. The analogs in nature he observed led to his own theory inductions, never fully proven by science until years after his death. He stated: "I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." Art met Science in his thinking. We need merger of the arts to express cognitions that go beyond our current cognitions/assumptions/compartmentalized thought and observe All inducing in us that which we participate in throughout the cosmos. Then science can deduce new ideas from that inspirational origin with first humility and then heuristic quality. Psychology is still a new science still defending itself by certitude of what cognition is, which limits our understanding. William James, the Father of American Psychology investigated the "Stuff of Consciousness" grounding in the observable, pragmatics of the stuff of the Cosmos.
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Those methodologies, we have to assume that are not the better ones, are being used to claim humans are 'making progresses' with regards the 2030 SDGs agenda.
As the ongoing human-sparked climate crisis and the huge Earth's ecology breakdowns seem unstoppable, scientists must ask what are the methodologies that are being used by other scientists to support those claims.
A generalized optimism keep asking time we (humans) do not have to fulfill those goals.
The 21st century science will be all about try to avoid a major planetary disruption sparked by just the biology-based dominant species.
We need metrics to avoid groundless discourses. That task will imply to create a system of systems regarding Earth observation in all scales.
It is relevant to say that the problem is not suitable for a technological perspective only... The problems we are facing are behavioral in nature.
Hernan L. Villagran
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Dear Hernan L. Villagran , I find this blog appropriate for your research question.
WHY EMBRACE SDGS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION?
"Medical research and publication underpin the success of several SDGs—most notably Good Health and Well-Being (SDG #3) and Quality Education (SDG #4). As technology advances and the quantity and availability of research expands through open science and data sharing initiatives, international collaboration and interdisciplinary research has become more attainable and practical than ever before. By dedicating time, funds, and resources into fulfilling the SDGs, the medical research and publication industry can create strong collaborations and partnerships to accelerate accessibility and quality across all dimensions of healthcare...
There are several ongoing initiatives that will continue to support SDG adoption and growth in the medical research industry:
  • Emphasize systems thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the intersectionality of SDGs.
  • Embrace advocacy and policymaking.
  • Support adoption of a universal SDG taxonomy.
  • Support data sharing and open science..."
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When I first had sex, I told my boyfriend that I felt no sensation from intercourse. He replied that other virgins had made the same comment. More importantly I had felt zero erotic arousal. Yet masturbation had always worked. So I decided to ask other women about these porno orgasms that men believe women should have. I have not found a single woman who can explain them. Some female sexologists helpfully refer me to a book. But they all refuse to discuss the topic. Is sexology truly a science?
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It maybe a science in the making Jane Elizabeth Thomas Imo, Otto Gross and Wilhem Reich were pioneers of this field; one of sexologist Wilhelm Reich's most ambitious and enduring theories claims that sexuality and sexual repression play a central role in the production and reproduction of class structures and hierarchies (the role of sex in producing and reproducing class oppression). The most radical and innovative of Reich's claims was that sexual repression was a classed phenomenon. He understood that sex and sexuality are not socially neutral phenomena, but play a role in the production and reproduction of class structures and hierarchies.
The core methodological tool of sexology, as psychoanalysis, is the case study, an account of an individual subject's psychosexual experience that, as Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, and Alison Lewis have outlined in their history of the case study.
Lang, Birgit, Joy Damousi, and Alison Lewis (eds.), A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature (Manchester and Michigan: Manchester University Press, 2017).
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Science involves challenging the status quo and being willing to ask difficult questions. Scientists need to be curious but also unbiased (not intent on proving any preconceived preferred result but open to accepting any conclusion that is supported by the evidence). There is no research that suggests that women are capable of the orgasms described in erotic fiction. Yet not even female sexologists are willing to discuss the issues that surround our understanding of women’s responsiveness.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
And in your mentioned case Jane Elizabeth Thomas the commercial factor is also very strong to keep the status quo of accepted facts.
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or what do you think you will offer him in the future?
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As a sociologist currently pursuing a master's degree at Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto, Nigeria, and actively engaged in humanitarian work, my experiences have significantly contributed to the advancement of sociology, particularly in addressing community social problems and health-related issues, particularly in the context of maternal and child health amidst conflicts.
Drawing upon sociological theories and insights, I have been able to analyze and understand the intricate dynamics within communities affected by conflict situations. This understanding has enabled me to develop targeted interventions aimed at improving food security and access to essential resources, particularly for vulnerable populations such as mothers and children. In my research and practical endeavors, I utilize sociological frameworks to examine the structural inequalities, power dynamics, and cultural factors that impact access to healthcare and nutrition during times of crisis. By integrating sociological perspectives into my work, I aim to not only address immediate needs but also advocate for systemic changes that promote long-term resilience and well-being within communities.
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Due to memory effect and heredity characteristics fractional calculus is mainly employed in many field of sciences, how can we applied this tool to solve problems in AI systems.
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fractional calculus has been applied in various computer vision domains
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I'm considering submitting a manuscript to this journal (Tobacco Regulatory Science ISSN: 2333-9748 )
Has anyone published in this journal before? I am looking to confirm that this journal is legitimate and not predatory; I am interested in learning more about the reputation of this journal and the typical publication timeline.
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Stay away from this journal, I see disturbing issues:
-According to https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101048271 they are discontinued in Scopus, while the indexing info claims they are https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/index-citations
-The same is true for Clarivate’s ESCI, SCIE and SSCI (it was already strange to claim to be indexed in all three indexes, this is close to impossible), they are not indexed, you can check here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
-They have a ridiculous and completely vague author fee policy https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/author-fees
-Looking at for example https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12 they publish papers fully out of scope of the journal
-I am unable to find decent contact info (physical address etc.) https://tobreg.org/index.php/journal/about/contact
It used to be a promising journal that started in 2015 but in 2021the journal was sold and after that it went downhill: https://blogs.bmj.com/tc/2021/08/03/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-the-dumpster-fire-that-is-the-journal-tobacco-regulatory-science/
So personally, I would avoid this one.
Best regards.
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Sign the Diamond Initiative for Publishing Open Access Are you upset/frustrated about the unsustainable profiteering of commercial publishers which put papers behind a paywalls and/or require authors to pay the journal to make their paper open access (i.e., "Gold" OA)? Do you want to make a difference and help us change this system, towards a more community led publishing system? The collective action in science committee at freeourknowledge.org is launching a petition to encourage researchers to publish at least one scholarly paper with a non profit / diamond open access agreement within a five-year period. Diamond Open Access refers to a publishing model in which authors are not charged for making their work publicly available to all readers. We hereby invite you to contribute to this initiative by signing the pledge here. By signing the pledge, you will contribute to an increased demand for alternative community-led and university-led publishers. The pledge's activation is contingent on a threshold of 500 people which will demonstrate that researchers can reach a critical mass to change the status quo.
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There is also this initiative on right retention strategy : https://www.coalition-s.org/resources/rights-retention-strategy/
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Dear aspiring young researchers, Tech Science Press recognizes the important role that you play in shaping the future of science and technology worldwide. As such, we are looking to recruit early career editorial board members to enhance the quality and increase the international reputation of our journals. Our goal is to create a diverse and talented pool of professionals for the editorial board of each journal, providing a platform for open, free, and equal communication among young researchers. We firmly believe that by working together, we can achieve mutual success and growth. If you are passionate about your field and want to be part of a professional community that is dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge, we welcome your application. As an early career editorial board member, you will have the opportunity to polish your skills, edit high-quality research papers, provide guidance to fellow researchers, and forward important discoveries to the broader scientific community. Join us at Tech Science Press and let us work together towards a brighter future for science and technology. Sincerely, Tech Science Press
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Hello,
For sport in general, between long traditional training and "modern" training (but not necessarily effective) which quickly seeks results sometimes at the expense of the athlete's health (strict diet, high training load, recovery time short or non-existent).
Through this "modern" method of training and sports career management, it can easily be noted that sport has "developed" very well in recent decades, in terms of new performances and new world records, but what really happens to the athlete himself, has he really developed? Doesn't he have health problems or injuries during his career or after? Is his mental or psychological state not affected by the stress generated by the demands of training and competition? Therefore, in the long term, will high-level sport not have an inverse effect on the athlete's health?
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Sport modernity
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If man succeeds in building a general artificial intelligence, will this mean that man has become better acquainted with the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness?
If man succeeds in building a general artificial intelligence, i.e., AI technology capable of self-improvement, independent development and perhaps also achieving a state of artificial consciousness, will this mean that man has fully learned the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness?
Assuming that if man succeeds in building a general, general artificial intelligence, i.e. AI technology capable of self-improvement, independent development and perhaps also obtaining a state of artificial consciousness then perhaps this will mean that man has fully learned the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness. If this happens, what will be the result? Will man first learn the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness and then build a general, general artificial intelligence, i.e. AI technology capable of self-improvement, independent development and perhaps also obtaining a state of artificial consciousness, or vice versa, i.e. first a general artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness capable of self-improvement and development will be created and then thanks to the aforementioned technological progress made from the field of artificial intelligence, man will fully learn the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness. In my opinion, it is most likely that both processes will develop and implement simultaneously on a reciprocal feedback basis.
I have described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:
OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
If man succeeds in building a general artificial intelligence, i.e., AI technology capable of self-improvement, independent development and perhaps also achieving a state of artificial consciousness, will this mean that man has fully learned the essence of his own intelligence and consciousness?
If man succeeds in building a general artificial intelligence, will this mean that man has better learned the essence of his own consciousness?
And what is your opinion about it?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
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It will be very difficult to create an AGI... and it will be a different type of intelligence...
The cognitive system will have to go through "crime and punishment"... The genie will need to be let out of the bottle... Only intense mental suffering shapes humanity and spirituality... You have to love and hate at the same time... Mental struggle necessarily leads to a violation of ethics, morality...
Governments are trying to ban this path of AI development... But without this, AGI cannot be created...
Without a Soul there is no AGI! ... there is no consciousness and human intelligence...
AGI will appear like Covid-19... from secret laboratories... after many, many decades...
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How should ChatGPT and other similar intelligent chatbots be improved so that they do not generate plagiarism of other publications that their authors have previously posted online?
This issue is particularly important, because it happens that the data entered into ChatGPT, the information contained in the texts entered for the purpose of automated rewriting, remains in the database that this chatbot uses in the situation of generating answers to questions asked by subsequent Internet users. The problem has become serious, as there have already been situations where sensitive data on specific individuals, institutions and business entities has been leaked in this way. On the other hand, many institutions and companies use ChatGPT in the preparation of reports, editing of certain documents. Also, pupils and students use ChatGPT and other similar intelligent chatbots to generate texts that act as credit papers and/or from which they then compose their theses. On the other hand, functions have been added to some existing anti-plagiarism applications to detect the fact that ChatGPT is being used in the course of students' writing credit papers and theses. In addition to this, the problem is also normative in nature, as it is necessary to adapt the legal norms of copyright law to the dynamic technological advances taking place in the development and application of generative artificial intelligence technology, so that the provisions of this law are not violated by users using ChatGPT or other similar intelligent chatbots. Among the important issues that could significantly reduce the scale of this problem would be the introduction of a mandatory requirement to mark all works, including texts, graphics, photos, videos, etc., that have been created with the help of the said intelligent chatbots, that they have been so created. On the other hand, it is necessary for the AI-equipped chatbots to be improved by their creators, by the technology companies developing these tools, in order to eliminate the possibility of ChatGPT "publishing" confidential, sensitive information from institutions and companies in response to questions, commands, tasks of developing a certain type of text by subsequent Internet users. In addition, the said intelligent chatbots should be improved in such a way that if in the course of automated text generation, including inspiration from other source texts, "quoting" whole sentences, substantial fragments of them, substantive content of other publications but without fully showing the sources, i.e. without a full bibliographic description of all the source publications that the chatbot generating subsequent texts used. In addition, the user of the aforementioned intelligent chatbots does not know to what extent the text they created with the help of these tools is plagiarized from other texts previously entered into them or from publications published on the Internet, including documents of companies and institutions, theses, scientific publications, industry articles, journalistic articles, etc.
I described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:
OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
How should ChatGPT and other similar intelligent chatbots be improved so that they do not generate plagiarism of other publications that their authors have previously posted on the Internet?
How should ChatGPT be improved so that it does not generate plagiarism of other publications that their authors have previously posted on the Internet?
And what is your opinion about it?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
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I recommend AnswerThis, an AI research tool to facilitate the writing. https://answerthis.io/signup.
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Astrology: Is it scientific?
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Dear Doctor
"Astrology, the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world, has been a subject of interest and debate for centuries. While some view astrology as a form of pseudoscience, others argue that it is a valid scientific practice.
One argument in favor of astrology as a science is that it has been used for thousands of years in various cultures and societies as a means of understanding and interpreting the world. Astrology has been used to predict weather patterns, natural disasters, and even political events. The fact that it has been relied upon for so long by so many cultures and societies suggests that there may be something to it.
Another argument in support of astrology as a science is that it is based on a complex system of mathematical and astronomical calculations. The positions of the planets and stars are calculated with great precision, and the interpretation of these positions is based on a complex system of symbolism and meaning. Astrology is not just about the stars and planets, it’s about the relationship between them and the earth, and how that relationship affects human life.
Astrology also has a psychological aspect, it can be used as a tool for self-discovery, personal growth, and insight into one’s own nature. Astrology can help people to better understand themselves and their place in the world, which is a valuable benefit in and of itself.
It is also worth mentioning that astrology is not a substitute for scientific methods, it is a complementary practice. Astrology and science can work together, astrologers can use scientific data and research to support their predictions and interpretation of astrological events."
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For my thesis, my supervisor and I have decided to look at how questions are posed in research across different cultures. In order to do this, we will use framing analysis. The issue is, however, that I need to operationalise the sociology of science before I can start the analysis.
I need to figure out how to operationalise the preoccupation in social research. So what could possibly not be neutral, and where does it come from?
I really hope some of you can give me a helping hand or a direction to look in because I am really struggling.
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i believe that you must precisely define the topic and narrow the scope of your research so that you can study it very closely, i advise you to address epistemological errors, which were carefully addressed by gaston bachelard and karl popper in the three worlds theory, you should also familiarize yourself with the francophone school and the useful theories it contains regarding your topic.
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According to epigenetic science, does it play a role in discovering genes that contain different amino acids that cause the appearance of characteristics or behaviors in people who eat meat and milk from imported animals? Which lived in a special nature other than that in which the importing country lives?
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No, I do not!
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“Equation dooms the universe to chaos” (“Science Illustrated” – Issue #104, pp.80-81) states,
“A physicist would describe entropy as a measure of how much energy is spread between the molecules of a closed system (say, a gold ingot).”
And “… all molecules in the universe will, according to current theory, end up in one big lukewarm mess (in 10^26 years).”
The article illustrates this with the formula Δ S ≥ 0 (change of entropy is bigger than, or equal to, zero).
This is one possible formula. Another is Δ S = 0 (change of entropy equals zero). This alternative is possible because the universe may not be a closed system. In general, most physicists today have faith that a successful theory of Quantum Gravity will be found someday. Such a Theory of Everything would reconcile two theories that are in apparent conflict – our best explanation of the microscopic world (Quantum Mechanics) and the best description we have of gravity (General Relativity).
The molecules in a gold ingot are connected in what appears to be a closed system. Quantum Gravity might conceivably connect all the molecules existing in space-time … in the universe as well as every period of time. But the universe could not be considered a closed system if it’s literally infinite and eternal. Throughout history, and including the present, speculation that the cosmos is infinite and eternal has never gone away. Despite the claim that the universe is finite and began at a definite point in linear time, knowledge of its origin is uncertain (the James Webb Space Telescope could make even the most dedicated proponent of the Big Bang doubtful at some point). We all have our theories and convictions but I believe it’s best to never say our deepest convictions can’t be incorrect.
If the cosmos is not a closed system, the heat produced by each of its seemingly closed systems wouldn’t simply be wasted. The energy created by the entropic 2nd Law of Thermodynamics would be diverted into the 1st Law of Thermodynamics i.e. the total mass-energy in the universe would forever remain constant, with mass and energy being converted into one another. It might be said that although no component of the universe can display the perpetual motion of existing forever, it’s plausible to regard the entire universe (entirety of spacetime) as in perpetual motion.
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It makes no sense to talk about a “perpetual motion machine” in the classical sense. Another thing is a free engine. But not at a primitive level - hydraulic turbines and so on - but at a fundamental level. In this case, a free engine means a non-equilibrium pumping of energy from a vacuum using some kind of analogue of “Maxwell’s demon”. But what kind of problems such pumping will cause in nature - depends on its scale.
As for heat death, it's just the opposite of a singularity. And as always, there is only one way out of two opposites: quantum fluctuation saves. This was clear even at the time of Planck's discovery.
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This list is still quite influential, although it is quite old (it was published 8 years ago). However, it can still be used as a filter in the process of preparing systematic reviews, etc.
You can find a critical view on this list here:
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What is the referencing style used in the frontiers of chemical science and engineering journal?
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APA :)
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This doesn't fit into science. Perhaps Buddhists are familiar with this?
I ask you to let me know, maybe someone has encountered this.
I personally photographed this at the end of the sunset in Haifa over the sea.
January 7, 2024.
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Это одна из проекций "Черного принца", я видел и другую, которая появляется на снимках, но я не успел сфотографировать. Солнце зашло.
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relationship between science and art and how these are related to management
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Dear Saulosi
Interesting question.
Management is, in my opinion, the intrerest in looking for ways to do things better backed up by science.
Ford, inventor of the moving assembly line is a typical example. It requires a lot of engineering effort in developing mathematical models
The result is a consequence of a symbiosis between applying mathematial methodologies and the thinking of manasgers, based on common sense, knwoledge, expertise, humility to learn from others, etc. Of course the decision must always be a human output, the method is on nly a tool.
Until the 50s, management was reduced to selecting projects based on the C/B relations.
At that time, managers realized that a new technique known as AHP would be useful in helping them, because they also were following a hierarchcal lineal procedure, and it could help them in validate what they were doing, and the decistion was right.
However, there were profound social an environmental pressure, that after that date started judging the old procedure, and demanded more participation. This lead to different schemes of industrial organization, being the matrix form apparently the adequate and still used, and opposite to the lineal scheme.
Consequently, managers detected that the AHP procedure, because its rigid structure was no longer useful, and this provoked the appearence of new techniques, pioneered by Kantorovich in 1940 and later made accedsible by Dantzig (The Simplex method), Roy (ELECTRE),and Saaty (ANP), the creator of the AHP. in developing techniques adequate to the new structure.
As can be seen, in this case management promoted the necessity of having new techniques, which made scientists to produce them, in a clear example of symbiosis between management and mathematics.
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Dear colleagues,
as part of a systematic literature search on the subject of comics in science
lessons, we are looking for articles that have not yet been published.
We would be pleased to receive any contribution that meets the following criteria
and thank you in advance for your support.
We are looking for the following sources:
- (un)published/printed/accepted journal articles
- between January 2013 and December 2023
- full text
- quantitative and/or qualitative data
- Science education (e.g. biology, natural sciences)
Does your article meet the criteria for our systematic literature review? Are you
interested in having your contribution included in our SLR?
Please send your contribution to the following e-mail: tom.jungbluth@ph-
Kind regards
Tom Jungbluth & Martin Schwichow
University of Education Freiburg, Deutschland
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Hi, Tom
You might consider the works of Estelle Blanquet (Science Education, Un. Bordeaux, France), which might have flown under your radar, since most are in French.
Regards,
Eric
The include :
Baryga, P., Blanquet, E. (2024, accepted). Explorer l’imaginaire technique et scientifique des élèves de cycle 3 par la bande dessinée. Reliance n°3 Numéro thématique « La littérature de jeunesse : médiatrice de la construction de savoirs ? », Université de Bordeaux.
Blanquet, E., Baryga, P. (2022). Rahan scientifique : enquête épistémologique sur un héros de la culture populaire. Strenae, numéro spécial Pif Gadget. 20-21 | 2022, mis en ligne le 01 octobre 2022, consulté le 04 novembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/strenae/9309 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/strenae.9309.
Baryga, P., Blanquet, E. et Perolat, L. (2023).
“ Regarde le ciel et réfléchis, controverse s(c)olaire “, article et BD de 29 pages, in Fugier, P., Ghedamsi Lecorre, I., Lecorre, T., Mabilon-Bonfils, B. ( dir) Que fabrique la science ? Construction(s) et Réception(s) de la science T.2, Strasbourg : EDBH.
Blanquet, E. (2023).
“Des pirogues comme le Soleil ? Points de vue et estrangement visuel dans « Le Secret du Soleil » de Roger Lécureux & André Chéret“ in Baryga, P., Blanquet, E., Picholle, É.(dir.), Lecture d’image et estrangement visuel.
Nice : Somnium, col. Enseignement et science-fiction.
Blanquet, E., Saulnier, M.-L., Picholle, É. (2021).
“Bande dessinée et illustrations de science-fiction : des outils pour former les professeurs des écoles en astronomie et développer leur compréhension du principe de relativité“.
in Rollinde, E. (dir.), L’Astronomie dans l’éducation francophone.
France : Editions Le Manuscrit, col. Astronomie pour l’éducation, pp. 39-49.
Blanquet, E., Baryga, P. & Picholle, É. (2019).
“ Le Secret Du Soleil : Un Pas De Côté Pré-Copernicien Avec Rahan “, in De Hosson C., Bordenave L., Daurès P.-L., Décamp N. (Dir), Telling Science Drawing Science 2. Paris, France : IREM, 2019, ISBN : 978-2-86612-392-5. https://tsds2019.sciencesconf.org/
Blanquet, E. (2016).
“ De la science en bulles pour des situations de départ en démarche d’investigation à l’école primaire ?“ Telling Science Drawing Science 1. Angoulême, 24-25 novembre 2016. https://sarabandes2016.sciencesconf.org/112926.html
Blanquet, E. & Baryga, P. (2022). Le Schtroumpf volant de Peyo : une leçon d’épistémologie entre ingéniosité, ténacité et renoncement. Actes en ligne, colloque Telling Science Drawing Science #3, Angoulême, 2022 

Blanquet, E. (2021). La fiction pour associer enseignement de l’astronomie et de la relativité du mouvement : Rahan et Le Secret du Soleil“. Cahiers Clairaut, n°176
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Couldn't any field of research, either from Humanities, arts or exact sciences, be on behalf of Palestine Issue ? Couldn't science, Professors and/or Researchers, cowork to find a solution for the holy Palestinian land ? 🤔
Your view points, what Ever would be your research field, would be welcome 🙏
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Possibly contributions can be made from the academic field, but the solution does seemingly lie elsewhere. Researching within my field, that of agri-food marketing, and in specific looking at one among the many excellent Palestinian agri-products, not the mention the cuisine, for example the olive oil from Palestine and its marketing can be of good support. However, and very sadly, just to tender olive trees and also harvest olives, permission is required. Note the trees and land on which olives grow are owned by Palestinian farmers, but still they need permission to work on their own land. Further they are racially harassed, bullied and killed by colonizers and their armed militias. Thus and very sadly it becomes more than challenge for Palestinian farmers to tender and harvest olives, hence will research, for example, on olive oil marketing from Palestine change the situation? The solution to the 'permission system' lies elsewhere, but research can possibly emphasise and provide hard fact evidence on such an apartheid regime, which can be used as evidence in law courts.
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How to make science learning more culturally relevant?
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To make science learning more culturally relevant, incorporate diverse examples, connect concepts to everyday life and local knowledge, highlight contributions from scientists of various backgrounds, use culturally inclusive resources, and adapt teaching strategies to recognize and respect diverse learning styles and experiences.
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What is science capital?
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Hello Dr. Bello,
Science capital, at least at face value, is scientific value(often measured by the problems solved by the inquiry). Unfortunately and respectfully, sometimes contentious issues need solving so, scientific capital CAN positively correlate with controversy. Example:
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I am seeking your assistance in recommending a reputable unpaid journal indexed with Web of Science (Q1-Q4), known for its efficient peer-review process (around 3 months from Submission to Acceptance). The domains include IT, CS, Cybersecurity, HCI, and Information Systems. Thanks
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Thanks. But I need a journal.
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I am looking for ways teaching specifically science teaching can be improved by using visualisers in classroom .This should to help student to understand clearly ,avoid any misconceptions and reduced cognitive load
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Dear Mr. Nambiar!
You raised an important point - how to teach science visually simply to children. The solution here is a case - and context-dependent one: what kind of subject you teach (math, psychology, biology, etc.) and the culture of the children they are educated along with (parents, family relations, school community):
1) Wiebels K, Moreau D. Dynamic Data Visualizations to Enhance Insight and Communication Across the Life Cycle of a Scientific Project. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2023;6(3). doi:10.1177/25152459231160103, Open access:
2) Knox, J., Kontorovich, I. Growing research groves to visualize young students’ learning in small groups. Math Ed Res J 35, 401–425 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-022-00422-0, Open access:
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
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I need help to understand something. One statement to consider is "I exist". Another is "I exist today". Why is the first statement more appropriate than the second?
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Why does the research obtained by the efforts of researchers and scientists of any society not reach their own society or the world society? Why is science better than wealth?
As you know, scientists have always been unknown throughout history, or by looking at the history of scientists of any society, we see that they are very unknown, or if they have invented or discovered something or are in obscurity. Either they have so many enemies, or someone doesn't care about their opinion, they doubt that the material they found and discovered is not important, and they abuse this research and register it in their own name and steal their research, or the researcher himself is in poverty. Like most researchers and scientists, governments don't care about them and don't give them money for their studies, and they play everything as a pimp and want to steal and abuse the other party's science with money. . Like Abu Ali Sina in Iran who was in prison for several years and wrote the medical law book in prison and was in poverty and poverty, or Edison in America and Einstein in Germany and then went to America. Or in Iran and many other countries, we see that researchers are used badly and they are not cared for, then the statesmen will understand how useful science and research is for the society and it is better than politics, money and wealth. Therefore, unfortunately, no one understands the value and dignity of science and research, except the thinkers and wise men of that society. .
Why does human history always ignore science and the world? Why is the engine of human science always carried by the scholars of the society, but no one cares about them and they care about the rich? Isn't knowledge better than wealth? Isn't it time to involve science in all society so that people can live more easily?
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Science is widely available in an almost endless list of journals, but is rarely of direct use or importance to society.
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Hello dear professor, thank you very much for your kindness and love. Abbas
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Why doesn't the research that is achieved by the efforts of researchers and scientists in every community reach their own society or the world society?
As you know, scientists were always unknown throughout history, or we look at the history of scientists of any society, we see that they are very unknown, or if they have made an invention or a discovery about a subject, or they are in anonymity, or they have so many enemies, or someone They don't care about their opinion, he doubts that the material he found and discovered is not important, and they abuse this research and register it in their own name and steal their research, or the researcher himself is in poverty. It lasts Like most researchers and scientists, the governments don't care about them because they study, and they don't give them money, and everything is played by brokers, and they want to steal and misuse the other side's science with the money. Like Abu Ali Sina in Iran who was in prisons for several years and wrote the book of medical law in prison and was in poverty and hardship, or Edison in America and Einstein in Germany and then went to America. Or in Iran and many other countries, we see that researchers are used badly and they don't care about them, then the government men will understand how useful science and research is for the society and it is better than politics, money and wealth. Because of this, unfortunately, no one understands the value and dignity of science and research, except the thinkers and wise men of that society. .
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Science is widely available in an almost endless list of journals but rarely of any direct use or significance to society.
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Are sciences more of a continuum from hard to soft than those two as discrete categories? How? Why? I think the former. My book here somewhat touches on that question:
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This continuum would certainly apply to psychology. There is some use of mathematical models and a great deal of methodology applied in some cases but there are many non-quantitative hypotheses only tested statistically. Sometimes the concepts employed in these studies are not clearly defined. Worse still the sampling of subjects is opportunistic and stimuli are often selected on an ad hoc basis. Mostly it is not tight (hard) science.
I am not sure whether sociology should be included in the discussion of science, in which case you need to go beyond soft to hairy. I have met quality material but innumeracy and and lack of clarity are all too common features of the thinking found here.
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How could politicians and scientists better work together to address issues in our world? For example, can Researchgate provide opportunities for politicians to get involved in some sort of discussion forum for a specific issue to exchange information and ideas between researchers and politicians?
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Many thanks, Lemma Lessa for your points and contributions to this discussion!
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I have worked on a publication involving bibliometric analysis, which is stuck with a query.
The editor has asked to prepare the figures (author and country network maps) following English grammatical rules, i.e. to capitalize the initials of names of authors and countries.
However, since the figures are software generated, I have not been able to resolve the query.
I downloaded the data from the Web of Science Core Collection and used vosviewer for performing bibliometric analysis.
Can somebody help in resolving the query for capitalizing the initials of author and country names.
Thanking you in anticipation.
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In VOSviewer, save the map and the network files. Open the saved map file with Notepad++. Select the entire text and under the Edit menu, navigate to Convert Case to Proper Case. Go back to VOSviewer, and open the map file. You will realize the terms in the map will have their initials capitalized.@Abhishek Kumar.
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How can we improve the science soft skills?
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Engaging in scientific writing workshops enhances your ability to communicate research effectively. Seize public speaking opportunities at conferences and outreach events to refine communication skills.
Explore interdisciplinary projects for a crash course in teamwork, and bring team-building activities into the lab environment.
Sharpen critical thinking through case studies and regular brainstorming. Stay adaptable by exploring related fields for a fresh perspective, while emphasizing meticulous time management for project success.
Develop leadership skills through mentorship and targeted workshops. Actively build your professional network through conference attendance and LinkedIn engagement. Boost emotional intelligence through empathy training and conflict resolution sessions.
Prioritize ethics through workshop participation and discussions with peers. Commit to continuous learning with professional development courses and online platforms for ongoing growth.
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How can the future of the world or the universe be imagined in the image of quantum physics?
In the science of quantum physics, as Einstein imagined and depicted in his general and special relativity theories, it is being realized in a way. And Hubble and Einstein worked hard in the direction of quantum physics. Today, where do we stand in this world and the universe, and specifically where are we now? Where exactly are we in the world and how many years have passed since the Big Bang? And in which world are we located and how far is the end of the world? Does anyone imagine how small we humans are compared to the vastness of the world and how the science of astronomy and cosmology answers the question of where we are? Where is the end of the world? And how far does dark matter exist in this world? ? How far have the stars and galaxies expanded? Will there be planets where intelligent beings like us humans exist? With the help of quantum physics and astronomy, can we help the future of man to better understand the world and our environment and the conditions of climate change, and to understand the opinions of Yugoslavian Melankevich about climate change on earth? Is it the age of drought or the age of frost and cold in the future?
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Greetings and courtesy
Thank you very much for your complete and comprehensive answer. Thank you Abbas
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Are psychology & psychiatry locally & socially scientific but worldwide being unscientific ?
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Psychiatry can be questioned, with respect to the scientific method and also political implications, like mental policing and drug prescription.
Psychology has a solid scientific foundation, since Wilhelm Wundt and his Leipzig laboratory.
Medicine needs psychology, because many pathologies of humans cannot be attacked by one-dimensional physical treatments, i.e. healing requires deeper approaches, which include behavioral approaches.
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In this sense, science grows by combination with auxiliary science:
Math by logic (e.g. Gödel, Jv Neumann).
Engineering by technology (e..g. AI tools, but also problem-solving).
Economics by sociology (e.g. political economy, statistics).
Medicine by psychology (e.g. physiology of behavior).
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena.
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Conclusion:
Personally Sinan Ibaguner I do consider psychiatry not as a science,
but as a sort of mental police.
As example (but no more limited to a political entity):
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Please could anyone suggest me a journal with feedback, to fast publishing in physics, indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, low IF and no fees to publish my research paper:
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Dear Cemil Keski̇noğlu ,
Thank you for your answer and help!
I am deeply indebted to you.
Regards,
Adrian.
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The impact of retracted papers on the scientific community can be significant and far-reaching. When a scientific paper is retracted, it means that the findings and conclusions presented in the paper are no longer considered valid or reliable. This can have serious consequences for future research, as other researchers may have built their work upon the now-discredited findings. Furthermore, retracted papers can erode public trust in the scientific community and raise questions about the peer-review process and the rigor of scientific research.
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There is nothing anyone can do about article retraction especially if scholars already cited the article before it was retracted. In fact, there is no impact on the authors who cited the retracted papers if they cited it before it was retracted. This is because research papers are published on the expectation that the journal editor and reviewers have certified that the findings are credible.
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Is conversational AI a beneficial tool or potential threat in science education?
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Conversational AI holds significant potential as a beneficial tool in science education. By leveraging advanced natural language processing capabilities, these AI systems can engage students in dynamic and interactive conversations, providing personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Conversational AI can offer real-time feedback, answer queries, and guide students through complex scientific concepts, fostering a more interactive and engaging learning environment. Moreover, it can accommodate diverse learning styles and paces, catering to individual student needs. However, cautious implementation and thoughtful design are essential to ensure that conversational AI complements, rather than replaces, human educators. Striking the right balance between technology and traditional teaching methods will be crucial in maximizing the positive impact of conversational AI on science education.
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I would like recommendations of articles on science as an institution. I'm writing a thesis on the institutional history of science.
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The following articles could be useful for your institutional history of science thesis( for any help reach me: [email protected]
Thomas F. Gieryn's book "The Institutionalization of Science"
The process of institutionalization in science is examined in this article, along with how scientific knowledge is developed within certain structures and organizations.
Robert K. Merton, "The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations"
Merton's contributions to the sociology of science are fundamental, and his reflections on the standards and principles of science's community shed light on the institutional features of science.
George W. Stocking Jr., ed., "The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911: A Franz Boas Reader"
This collection of publications offers insights into the institutionalization of science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, despite its anthropological orientation.
"Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society" written by Bruno Latour
In the field of science and technology studies, Latour's work is significant. This book sheds light on the institutional processes by examining science from an actor-network approach.
Thomas S. Kuhn, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
The notion of paradigm shifts in science is first introduced in Kuhn's seminal work, which also offers insights into the transformative transformations that scientific communities experience throughout time.
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts"
This book provides a closer look at the institutional practices and interactions within scientific communities through a thorough ethnographic analysis of the daily activities in a scientific laboratory.
Steven Shapin's book "The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation"
Shapin offers historical viewpoints on the institutionalization of scientific processes while examining the ethical and social facets of the scientific community.
Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, editors, "The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology"
This collection of essays offers insights into the social and institutional dimensions of the creation and acceptance of new scientific knowledge and technologies, despite its technology-focused orientation.
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Do you think poets know the unified word in their poems?
A general invitation to all poets. And linguists and specialists in speech science
Our first selection is from Humanities (literature (Poetry) of 35 Research Sources, that challenges Poets and Linguistic Professionals dealing with WORDs.
Most do not know the unified word; a few know it a little. If the poets realized, understood, and applied the discoveries and innovations of the unified word in their poetry, they would be among the greatest poets in the world.
We will show many examples of Poems later and analyze them using Unified words, and we will offer what is wrong with the poems and suggest changes in.
We have an entire book on Unified Word -- Research Sources to prove "the Word is Unified and Stable and considered the "Core Knowledge." All its misconceptions are masks, views, and ideas. The research sources exist in (1) Humanities, (2) Social Sciences, (3) Sharia Sciences, (4) Applied Sciences, (5) Natural Sciences, and (6) Formal Sciences.
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TO: Ghadah Marie
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Scientists around the planet discover some part of the Divine Science and give their name of that discovery. When are we going to admit that God created the universe with Divine Laws?
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The way this question is phrased seems impregnated with a predetermined theistic conclusion. It might be better to try to approach this question giving equal weight to all sides as a basis for a conclusion, as I have attempted to do in the attached, although I am sure it can be improved upon. On this basis, we may be able to point to what is most likely on the balance of probability.
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The capitalism of science may contribute to its deterioration and decline, especially since some merchants have begun to enter the field of science and make a living from it. This group does not care about the extent of scientific benefit, but what is important to them is obtaining money, and in this aspect their entry into the scientific field may contribute By opening universities and schools to graduate students who do not understand anything in their specialty, which will generate for us an army of ignorant people.
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it is clear that science and technology are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the global economy. but it is difficult to predict because the issues are a multifaceted issue.
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¿Porqué los artículos que se publican en la afamada revista C3 Bioeconomy, no tienen un DOI para cada artículo y el que figura en la revista no sirve para incorporarla en Web of Science?
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Estimado Rob Keller, agradezco la buena noticia y la respuesta con todos los detalles descritos. Las recomendaciones serán tomadas en cuenta y la aclaración final sobre donde debe estar indexada la revista, cierra el círculo de la consulta que formule.
Atentos Saludos.
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International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences(IJRMMS)
The paper was submitted on September 13, 2022, and was rejected on January 11, 2024.
During the 485 days review cycle, there was no response, no review or suggestions made on the content of the paper, and it was ultimately rejected as not meeting the scope of publication in the journal.
Several authors waited for 485 days, only to receive an unapologetic and irresponsible response below.
Dear Professor XXX, Thank you for submitting your manuscript to International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. I regret to inform you that the reviewers recommend against publishing your manuscript, and I must therefore reject it. My comments, and any reviewer comments, are below. We appreciate you submitting your manuscript to International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences and thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your work. Kind regards,   Professor XXXX XXXX Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences Editor and Reviewer comments:   This manuscript is primarily focused on geophysical imaging and processing techniques and in my opinion is outside the scope of IJRMMS. The work presented is largely mathematical with little rock mechanics. My recommendation is to encourage the authors to transfer their manuscript to Elsevier's Journal of Applied Geophysics, where it is better suited both in terms of interests of the readership and securing knowledgeable reviewers.
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Incredible! Some Elsevier journals aren't kidding. May this decision not discourage you for future submissions.
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What are the main determinants of obtaining a prestigious grant to fund an innovative and necessary for the development of civilization research project?
What are the main determinants of the possibility of obtaining a prestigious grant to fund an innovative research project, for certain reasons considered particularly important for humanity and necessary for the development of civilization?
Many researchers and scientists strive to obtain for the development of their research work and scientific activity financial support in the framework of grants and financial subsidies from institutions that support the conduct of research work carried out within the framework of colleges, universities and scientific institutes. it is often the case that the possibility of implementing major research projects and conducting scientific activity in the framework of new, developmental topics is determined by the ability to obtain funding for the research work carried out. In the situation of limited financial budgets of universities, scientific public institutions, limited finances within the system of public finances of the state, researchers and scientists look for sources of funding for their research projects in commercially functioning economic entities, companies and enterprises interested in developing specific scientific research and research work. In addition, researchers and scientists seek funding for their research work and scientific activities in foundations set up by non-governmental organizations established to support the development of scientific research within specific fields, scientific disciplines or topics on key problems of the development of civilization. However, among the particularly important sources of funding for specific research projects are financial grants allocated through competitions announced for the implementation of scientific research and research projects on defined scientific topics. In particular countries, regions of the world, in certain types of scientific institutions and research environments, there may be certain main factors determining the possibility of obtaining a prestigious grant to finance an innovative research project, for certain reasons considered particularly important for humanity and necessary for the development of civilization.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
What are the main determinants of the possibility of obtaining a prestigious grant to finance an innovative research project that is, for specific reasons, considered particularly important for humanity and necessary for the development of civilization?
What are the main determinants of obtaining a prestigious grant to fund an innovative and necessary for the development of civilization research project?
And what is your opinion on this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Dear Prof. Prokopowicz!
I claim that the theme of a multinational research project must be relevant and has to have a global level of multidimensional system impact. For example, cybersecurity is a top priority in fighting criminal teams, specialists engaged in deploying uncertainty. I am developing a research project idea that could be relevant to the CEE - region including Poland and Hungary. The keywords are as follows: cyber resilience, humanitarian logistics & healthcare supply chains, cyber maturity index, and crisis management capabilities.
Hope we can discuss this idea of mine further and create a forum for the benefit of the EU: Poland, Hungary, etc.. I could introduce you to my mentor CEO, Editor-In-Chief Emeritus Dr. Kenneth David Strang. He is an easy to approach and a nice person to talk to. Please see hereby some resources I have collected so far:
1) Cybersecurity for Decision Makers, Edited By Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, Kenneth David Strang, Copyright 2023, http://kennethstrang.com/cyber/
2) Call for Papers: Special issue on Cybersecurity in Healthcare: https://link.springer.com/journal/10207/updates/25237774
3) Alqudhaibi, A., Krishna, A., Jagtap, S. et al. Cybersecurity 4.0: safeguarding trust and production in the digital food industry era. Discov Food 4, 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44187-023-00071-7, Open access:
4) CKM-2024: Cybersecurity in Knowledge Management: Cyberthreats and Solutions, Available at: https://easychair.org/cfp/ckm2024
Please feel free to address me with any further questions you consider appropriate!
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Why was 2023 the warmest year in 130,000 years? Do you agree with the thesis, confirmed by the results of many scientific studies, that 2023 was the warmest year on record due to the accelerating process of global warming, still civilization's high greenhouse gas emissions and, in addition, the impact of the El Ninio phenomenon?
Why are the results of scientific studies confirming the thesis that it is the man-made combustion economy based on coal-fired power generation and the burning of other fossil fuels as well, that is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions, the accelerating process of global warming and the climate and environmental crisis worsening year after year, still being questioned by some representatives of the scientific world?
In Spain, in mid-December, wintertime temps on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean coasts were recorded at around 30 degrees C, or temperatures that were once considered typically summer in Europe for many years are now occurring in winter. But this is just one of the last recorded numerous occurrences of record-high, historically highest levels of the planet's atmospheric temperature in 2023. Never before have such high, record-breaking atmospheric temperatures been recorded so often and in so many parts of the world during the summer heat and beyond.
That the companies and enterprises of the combustion, dirty energy sector, lobbyists and others acting on their behalf, for the interests, business of the companies and enterprises of the combustion energy sector is a matter of course. The driving force behind the development of business operating in the dirty combustion energy sector is dominated by selfishness, greed and lack of looking to the future, ignoring the future of the climate, the biosphere, the biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems and the future of future generations of people. Greed and selfishness, lack of social, climate and environmental responsibility, including ignoring the issue of responsibility for the future of the next generations of people, dominate. As early as the 1970s, some leading oil companies commissioned and financed scientific studies, or should we say pseudo-scientific studies with a predetermined informal result of these pseudo-studies on climate change and the role of human activity in these changes with a predetermined confirmation of the thesis that it is not the burning of fossil fuels that is responsible for the progressive warming of the climate. Through these actions, humanity has lost half a century of time. If a few decades ago the companies of the fossil fuel extraction and energy sector had not covered up the actual results of the studies carried out, if they had not swept the problem of global warming under the rug, if they had not financed fictitious studies that had the predetermined goal of questioning the role of fossil fuel combustion as the main factor generating the process of global warming, then the process of green transformation of the economy, including the green transformation of the energy sector, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, counteracting and reducing the scale of the greenhouse effect could have been started half a century earlier. Half a century of time is precisely the time that will be sorely lacking in the 21st century, because the process of global warming is accelerating and what has been done so far in terms of the green transformation of the economy, including the green transformation of the energy sector is still far from sufficient. For wasting half a century of time on this issue, humanity owes it to the deliberately unethical, anti-social, anti-climate and anti-environmental activities of companies and enterprises operating in the fossil fuel extraction, processing and combustion sector. It is these companies and enterprises that bear the main responsibility for the lost time of the mid-century. Time that is now in short supply. Time that may be missing to prevent the critical level of the amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases emitted into the planet's atmosphere from occurring in a few years or so, after which the process of global warming will further accelerate and enter a path of irreversible process which may then inevitably lead to the occurrence of a global climate catastrophe already in the second half of the 21st century. The result of this catastrophe will be a much greater degradation of the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems to a much greater extent than has occurred to date. This will lead to most land areas experiencing permanent heat, droughts, forest fires, tornadoes, violent storms. The climate and nature will be destroyed to such an extent that there will be no living conditions for humans in most land areas of the planet. For all this, the full responsibility lies mainly with the companies and enterprises that continue to extract, process and burn fossil fuels and have knowingly for at least half a century, since the 1970s or even before, knowingly misled the public by claiming that humans are not responsible for global warming despite the fact that they themselves knew that this was not true, that it is their activities that are generating high greenhouse gas emissions to a key degree, which results in the planet's greenhouse effect and the global warming process proceeding ever faster.
Unfortunately, it is still the case that not only in the business community, but also in the political and scientific community, there are still a few representatives of the position of questioning the results of many scientific studies confirming the thesis that it is the man-built combustion economy that is the main source of the accelerating process of global warming and the growing risk of a global climate and environmental catastrophe in the perspective of the next few decades. In fact, this is an obvious point, and the question should be: Why is this still being questioned?
In view of the above, 2023 was the warmest year in 130,000 years. It was another year in a row with historically high temperatures of the planet's atmosphere recorded in various parts of the world during the summer and non-summer recurrent seasons. Researchers and scientists operating in various parts of the world, on the basis of their research work, conclude that it is the civilizational activity of humans within the framework of the development of the combustion emission economy that is the source of climate change, the working greenhouse effect, the accelerating process of global warming and the ever-increasing risk of a global climate catastrophe in the current 21st century. In 2023-2024, the cyclical El Ninio effect is also an additional factor in the increase in the average temperature of the planet's atmosphere. If you disagree with the above thesis, with which about 99 percent of researchers and scientists around the world agree, then give your scientific arguments.
A lot of data on the planet's climate, including the results of studies of long-term climate change indicate that the current year 2024 will also be another year of record high temperatures of the planet's atmosphere and the scale of weather anomalies and climate disasters may increase again.
I am conducting research on this issue. I have described the key aspects of the above issue in the article: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
I invite you to scientific cooperation in this problematic,
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Why was 2023 the warmest year in 130,000 years? Do you agree with the thesis, confirmed by the results of many scientific studies, that 2023 was the warmest year on record due to the accelerating process of global warming, still civilization's high greenhouse gas emissions and, in addition, the impact of the El Ninio phenomenon?
Why are the results of scientific studies confirming the thesis that it is the man-made combustion economy based on coal-fired power generation and the burning of other fossil fuels as well, that is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions, the accelerating process of global warming and the climate and environmental crisis that is worsening every year, still being questioned by some representatives of the scientific world?
Why was 2023 the warmest year in 130,000 years? Why are there still people who question scientific findings?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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Dear Prof. Prokopowicz!
You made a crucial point - how to convince people about the negative effects related to climate change:'
1) Ettinger, J., McGivern, A., Spiegel, M.P. et al. Breaking the climate spiral of silence: lessons from a COP26 climate conversations campaign. Climatic Change 176, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03493-5, Open access:
2) Falkenberg, M., Galeazzi, A., Torricelli, M. et al. Growing polarization around climate change on social media. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 1114–1121 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01527-x, Open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01527-x
3) Andreotta, M., Boschetti, F., Farrell, S. et al. Evidence for three distinct climate change audience segments with varying belief-updating tendencies: implications for climate change communication. Climatic Change 174, 32 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03437-5, Open access:
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In your opinion, are so-called "carbon credits" consisting of some corporation taking a specific patch of natural forest cover, including, for example, a patch of natural Amazon Rainforest, for an additional ton of CO2 emissions, an effective instrument for real reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere?
To consider the question of the role of so-called "carbon credits" in the context of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, one would have to assume that such a system actually reliably works. However, from what is reported by independent journalists, environmentalists, people who care about protecting the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems, including the forests of the Amazon, even those declared patches of natural Amazon Rainforest taken for protection under the so-called carbon credits are nevertheless often cut down.
Perhaps something will finally begin to change, to improve, in terms of protecting the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of the natural ecosystems of the Amazon Rainforest in connection with the first Amazon Forest Conservation Summit in 14 years, currently being held in Belém, Brazil. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 60 percent in July compared to the same month last year. The announcement of the positive trend coincides with the start of a summit in Belém of the 8 countries whose territories include the Amazon forest. This summit is attended by representatives of the governments of the 8 countries whose territory includes the natural Amazon Forest. Perhaps plans and commitments will be made to realistically protect this largest terrestrial reservoir of natural biodiversity and natural forests characterized by a particularly high contribution to absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and producing oxygen. It may also be that the processes of increasing the scale of protection of these forests and reducing their still large-scale logging will be accelerated so that by 2030 at the latest, the deforestation of these forests will be completely ended. This is a particularly important issue because more than 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has already disappeared due to human activity.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In your opinion, are the so-called carbon credits, which consist in the fact that some corporation, for an additional ton of CO2 emissions, will take under protection a certain patch of natural forest cover, including, for example, a patch of natural Amazon Rainforest, an effective instrument for real reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere?
Are so-called carbon credits an effective instrument to realistically reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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The description of Complex Multivariable Dynamic Systems using Two-by-Two (or more) Isolate Parameters' Correlations can only be Incomplete; so that it can't produce irrefutable scientific assertions. In this regard, The well-known (1535 citations) old paper [1] by Trenberth (1990) shows that climate analyses can be compromised by measurement, data coverage, or analysis uncertainties. One may read within the text "...Most presentations of climate change focus on the surface variables of importance to man, in particular temperature and precipitation. But in order to understand why the changes occur the way they do, it is essential to consider the atmospheric dynamics, as well as the local physical processes operating to induce change. The atmospheric circulation forms the main link between regional changes in wind, temperature, precipitation, and other climatic variables, and there is likely to be a reasonably strong relationship between these even on monthly or longer time scales. Physical and dynamical consistency between changes of several climate variables can add confidence to results for a single variable which might otherwise be compromised by measurement, data coverage, or analysis uncertainties..."
[1] Trenberth, K. E. (1990). Recent observed interdecadal climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 71(7), 988-993.
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Hello,
In this discussion, I am obviously talking about martial arts and traditional training and not necessarily training for competitions (which is another thing).
Before, for an athlete or martial arts practitioner to become an expert in their discipline, it required a lot of time and training, so that their body could acquire the necessary technique, flexibility and strength. But now, with all the knowledge about the human body and the development of training and recovery tools and techniques, wouldn't that time needed to become an expert be reduced?
However, what will be the consequences on the sport itself, positive or negative?
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On average, yes – providing the sensei/trainer/coach incorporates scientific knowledge into the training. But then, it'd be performance-focused training, and not traditional training anymore.
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In the situation of failure within the framework of human efforts to stop the increase in the temperature of the planet's atmosphere and, therefore, in the perspective of the next few decades of the increasing scale of the global climate catastrophe, are humans able to adapt to these climate changes, will they find ways to survive the ever-increasing scale of the negative effects of the increasingly rapid process of global warming?
In recent years, from the many studies conducted in the problem of the sources and effects of climate change, it has become clear that the process of global warming continues to accelerate, that industrial and energy global greenhouse gas emissions remain high, that the scale of the negative effects of progressive climate change continues to expand, that the risk of permanently exceeding the level of 2 deg. C of average atmospheric temperature relative to the level before the first industrial (technological) revolution, and that the ever-accelerating process of global warming may irreversibly spiral out of control, may irreversibly become an irreversible process, and will do so within the next few decades. A new report by the humanitarian organization Oxfam shows that in 2019 the richest part of the world's population. accounting for 1 percent of humanity, emitted as much carbon dioxide as two-thirds of the Earth's population. According to the aforementioned Oxfam report, the richest 1 percent of people accounted for 16 percent of the world's total CO2 emissions in 2019. According to the humanitarian organization Oxfam, additional, appropriate and adequate taxation of the super-rich would help reduce both climate change and inequality. According to Oxfam's projections, increased CO2 emissions will lead to up to 1.3 million deaths from excessive heat. Most of these will occur between 2020 and 30. Oxfam Executive Director Amitabh Behar said that "the super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet, causing humanity to suffocate from extreme heat, floods and drought." In addition to this, Oxfam Executive Director Amitabh Behar also stated that "For years we have been fighting to end the fossil fuel era to save millions of lives and our planet. (It is now) clearer than ever that this will be impossible until we also end the era of extreme wealth." "Not taxing the rich allows the richest to steal from us, ruin our planet and deviate from democracy. Taxing extreme wealth changes our chances of fighting both inequality and the climate crisis. Trillions of dollars are at stake to invest in dynamic, green 21st century governments, but also to strengthen our democracies." In view of the above, it is essential to impose additional taxes on the richest who own industrial corporations that emit greenhouse gases, and with the money raised, renewable and emission-free energy sources should be developed, and those regions of the world that are most threatened by permanent heat, water shortages, floods and other negative effects of ongoing climate change, including, above all, the accelerating process of global warming, should be secured. In recent days there has been another very disturbing development for the future of humanity, the future of the biosphere, biodiversity and the planet's climate. More data has emerged to support the thesis that continued high greenhouse gas emissions generated by unsustainable economies, including mainly power generation through the burning of fossil fuels, are accelerating the progressive process of global warming. On 17.11.2023, for the first time, the average temp. of the planet's atmosphere reached 2 degrees C more compared to the state before the 1st industrial (technological) revolution. In view of the above, saving biodiversity, the biosphere and the planet for future generations of people should be implemented according to at least two strategies. One strategy for saving the biosphere and the planet's climate is the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, including, first and foremost, the green transformation of the energy sector, including the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources. The second parallel strategy for saving the planet's biosphere and climate is the creation of new technological solutions, green technologies, eco-innovations, security systems, which will reduce the scale of the negative effects of the progressive process of global warming and reduce the negative impact on communities of such negative effects of climate change as increasingly severe heat, longer and longer drought periods, drinking water shortages, violent storms and floods, soil barrenness and such serious problems that can be associated with the aforementioned negative effects as epidemics and high levels of environmental pollution.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In the situation of failure within the framework of the measures taken by humans to stop the increase in the temperature of the planet's atmosphere and, therefore, in the perspective of the next few decades of the increasing scale of global climate catastrophe, are humans able to adapt to these climate changes, will they find ways to survive the ever-increasing scale of the negative effects of the increasingly rapid process of global warming?
Can people adapt to the climate crisis that is progressing faster and faster and the ever-increasing scale of the negative effects of this process?
I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:
And what is your opinion on this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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This does not really answer your question, but I was wanting to be able to add this interesting topic and there were no questions that I could answer with it.
Two important threats in my mind are climate change and antibiotic resistance.
I found this article from Nature that unites them:
'Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat — is climate change making it worse?'
Researchers are studying how extreme weather and rising temperatures can encourage the spread of drug-resistant infections.
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Remark_1: a PDF of this draft has been added to this discussion to allow the readers to have access to the hyperlinks.
Remark_2: this discussion is aimed at drawing attention to the seriousness of the current man-made global warming in which science has much to do in order to avoid the uncertainty spreading.
Last November 17 and 18 a very concerning fact took place for the first time in modern recorded history. The global surface air temperature exceeded in 2-degree Celsius the pre-industrial average temperature taken between 1850-1900 prior to extensive and widespread use of fossil fuels. Despite scientists assure that the observed exceeding, that happened for a limited number of days, does not mean that the Paris Agreement targets are already compromised, it is urgent and mandatory to keep a precautionary tracking of the atmosphere to dilucidated if a threshold is gaining momentum pushing the atmosphere to start working around the 2-degree Celsius atmospheric overheating, and becoming the main feature of the anthropogenic climate warming within the next ten years.
What happened last November 17 is a serious issue that cannot be overlooked nor discarded by the irresponsible "optimism" which tells things will get better because of technology-based fairy-tales, and by the institutional denialism that exist around the seriousness of the human-sparked global warming and all that has to do with its speed (or if you prefer, its rate of advancement). For those reasons, a conservative perspective will not be helpful keeping in mind the last twenty years trends in CO2 global emissions.
As expected, COP 28 was unable to leave behind its 1.5-degree Celsius goal as nothing serious is taking place with regards how fast the human-boosted warming is going to exceed the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average.
Almost in parallel, the tipping points narrative has been warning humans cannot exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius, despite it is being also said that humans are "near climate tipping points". The bad news is humans still have not developed the hard models and measurements to obtain an accurate metrics of who far humans are to reach that tipping points. Furthermore, the "tipping points" discourse is too vague, and it is becoming another meaningless concept that too many in the world talk about, without having yet available any measurable parameters nor a quantifiable perception of those potential thresholds.
For decades it has been told that remote sensing and all that comes from Earth Observation (EO) systems would help to achieve a sustainable path while planning for a sustainable development (SD), and for a tough future under severe climate strikes. Tonnes of papers using satellite-provided data have been published and, no doubt of it, will keep a high rate of publishing being, so far, unable to show evidence of an overall improvement of the global situation as human dynamics seems unstoppable.
Despite the lack of a decisive global and integrative climate action will persist as one of the main features and drivers of the international system in the near term, to start thinking about implementing a global coverage alert system to inform globally when and how often the global mean Earth temperature gets closer or exceeds the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average. That alert system should also have a straightforward design to display the information to obtain trends (the speed of atmospheric overheating is crucial) and frequency of that events.
That alert system should be very "sonorous". It does mean it should, among other means and devices, reach the cell phones of the people in a similar way as, for instance, earthquakes alarm systems work. In few words, each time the global mean temperature gets closer and/or exceeds the 2-degree Celsius above pre-industrial average people must know.
To make concrete progresses concerning the sense of urgency and the situational awareness among global citizens, to end with the self-deceiving attitude that can be witnessed not only in rich but middle income and poor countries too. The warming is being faster than predicted and expected. Humans lost this war twenty years ago when it was, finally, accepted that the warming was faster the previously accepted. Unfortunately, despite the huge amount of data, and the quantity of satellites orbiting Earth, it is rather an impossible task yet to provide any measure of that speed and nor agree on how humans should measure that rate of change.
It is time to end the over discussing time and get serious. It is quite advisable to carry out a sustained observing effort on what is going on in Brazil and in the middle of the Amazonia, while following the situation over there all along the summer 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is important to be able to know how many times it could happen during the next six months.
It is also advisable that science make its best effort in avoiding publishing papers that provide grounds for time ambiguity. It should be a mandatory attitude to be quite clear in validating the scope and conclusions of any paper in concrete time-frames. To leave the door open for speculation regarding the timing that can be inferred from those publications exerts a very negative impact in all that pertain to figure out the right time scales for climate action globally speaking.
An explicit acknowledgment of what version, the weak or the strong, of the sustainable development (SD) concept is being framed as the main analytical tool is a complementary publishing strategy that could be of great assistance when evaluating the reach and strength of the conclusions. It is worth mentioning that the “weak” version has been adopted for so long and can be the explanatory root for the aggregate failure of both, to accomplish higher levels of sustainability and give shape to the urgent human collective self-restrain to ameliorate the response to the climate and ecological crisis.
Science is not free of being submitted to any governance regime which should be vigilant of the undesired and counterproductive effects of scientific papers on the political process that, regrettably, took the control of all that concerns to the climate discussion, and the institutions designed to institutionalize a, supposedly thought, collective action.
The bottom line is nineteen years have been lost. In December 2015 it was projected the world would reach the 1.5-degree Celsius by March 2045. Reassessed estimations are suggesting the world risk breaching that benchmark by February 2034.
Remark_3: as always I am willing to build network capabilities aimed at publishing papers with policy-implications, participate in workshop, and/or find the paths for setting the structure of a good well-funded research project.
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Alexander Kolker I imagine that the Daily mean absolute temperature was calculated from the hourly values by summing them and dividing by 24. The annual average surface air temperatures were calculated by summing the daily temperature and dividing by 365 or 366 for leap years.
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Physics specialized didactics or "science education" finds take up to 90% of professional continuing education for physics teachers.
But important results are out of the picture, in my opinions, by bad choice.
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For examples the "design, teaching approaches, and assessment approaches alignment" as suggested by Biggs, is a strong tool that could revitalize the unimpressive learning outcomes stricken field of science education if taken more seriously.
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Dear friend Philippos Afxentiou
Well, you Philippos Afxentiou know, it's a bit baffling, isn't it? The Higgs alignment principle and other general didactics principles are like the unsung heroes of the education realm. Physics educators sometimes seem to have this bizarre tendency to sideline these principles. It's almost like they're stuck in the past, resisting change and innovation.
I mean, come on, up to 90% of professional continuing education is dedicated to physics specialized didactics, but it's like they're missing the forest for the trees. The Biggs approach, with its emphasis on aligning design, teaching methods, and assessment, is a game-changer. It's the secret sauce that could breathe life into the somewhat lackluster outcomes in science education.
It's high time we break free from the old shackles and embrace these principles with open arms. Maybe some educators just need a nudge in the right direction, a wake-up call to recognize the untapped potential of these didactics principles. Let's hope they wise up and give these approaches the attention they truly deserve. After all, it's about shaping the minds of the future, and we can't afford to be stuck in the past.
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When it comes to climate change decision makers always tell you follow and respect the science.
When it comes to pandemics like Covid 19 decision makers always told you to respect and follow the science, ...
BUT when it comes to economics, decision makers are not calling for follow and respect the science. They quietly have apparently moved away of requiring economics to stay a science.
Since 2012 when decision makers avoided to shift from traditional market thinking to green market thinking, the science based evolution point a la Thomas Kuhn as there was consensus then for paradigm change, they have slowly move away from science by going dwarf green markets a la environmental externality management first, and now it seems they are going to square one, circular economic thinking, a thinking totally delinked from the problem we are supposed to be trying to solve, the environmental problem.
Hence, there are science based ways to fix the environmental problem and there are non-science based to patch and manage the environmental problem.
But science follows the scientific truth, if the science does not support what those decision makers want to do, no matter how much they play with the theory and the practice, why support thinking not based on science aimed at perpetuating the problem?
And this raises the question: If climate change action is based on science and the economy to implement it is not, is that good for the environment?
I think No, what do you think? If you think Yes, why? If you think No, why no?
Note; This is an academic question, not a political one.
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Janusz, you are contradicting your self, each time you bring examples related to how to manage the pollution production problem. If your goal is a world under PERMANENT pollution production management, then your thinking is fine. If the goal is to fix the root cause of the pollution production problem then you need GREEN markets, pollution reduction markets.
Since You think is okay to implement a science based climate change program to address the environmental crises using market tools that FEED the pollution crisis, let's leave it here and agree to disagree.
Respectfully yours!
Lucio