because it was not a conventional science book. Yes‚ it talked a lot about science but the paradigm shift that Kuhn wrote about got my interest. The ‘scientific revolutions’ were true and believable and somehow‚ I agree with them. Science‚ or normal science as Thomas Kuhn put it‚ is the process of gathering facts to build hypotheses that explain different phenomena in the world. It is a ‘research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements‚ achievements that some particular community
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social context‚ particularly when it is applied to our own species. When Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859‚ he was aware that applying the concept of natural selection to humans would create controversy in a religious Europe‚ and therefore only briefly mentioned that‚ “[i]n the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches […] light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history” (Darwin‚ 1859). He waited another 12 years to revisit the issue of human evolution
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become a very successful author with having written many novels‚ film scripts and short stories. In 2013‚ Dave Eggers wrote a novel called The Circle‚ which is a type of literature known as dystopian literature‚ which means to have a negative view of the future of society. Works like this are most commonly
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scientific paradigms and how do they function? Choose one of Jonathan Wells’ icons of evolution (any one of your choice) and show how this particular icon could be understood as demonstrating the paradigmatic status of modern Darwinian evolutionary theory. According to Thomas Kuhn‚ normal science is this idea of puzzle solving where scientists take past achievements and base their research on that achievement. The achievements are acknowledged for a certain period of time making them paradigms. Instead
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Information‚ Privacy and System Security of Cloud based ERP (Cloud ERP) Shital H Abstract With the advent of latest technologies‚ the whole concept of Enterprise resource planning is taking a holistic turn towards a highly sophisticated cloud based systems. However‚ before appreciating the cloud ERP concept as a path-breaking break through‚ one should equally focus on the issues‚ concerns and management related nuances of this technology in the areas of information privacy‚ systems security and trust
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Narrative Paradigm Thomas McGarity College America/Eng223 We all had that friend that always had a story to tell. Years later I find out that story telling is a big part of communication. Walter fish wrote that all meaning full communication comes from storytelling‚ which is referred to as narrative paradigm. We use narrative paradigm every day to help us remember people‚ places‚ and things. We also use narrative paradigm to help us make decisions in life. Not all narrative paradigms are useful
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Literature De La Salle University Library System Migration: A Strategic Decision Library automation at DLSU-Manila had undergone a gradual but steady development. It started in 1985 when it implemented the MINISIS software/Hewlett Packard 3000 hardware package. The system was able to create 11‚000 bibliographic records for Filipiniana and Reference collections. The massive hardware maintenance problem led to a management decision to phase out the system in 1988. At the later part of the same year
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1) A well-designed activity-based costing system starts with __________. A. analyzing the activities performed to manufacture a product B. assigning manufacturing overhead costs for each activity cost pool to products C. computing the activity-based overhead rate D. identifying the activity-cost pools 2) "Generally accepted" in the phrase generally accepted accounting principles means that the principles __________. A. have been approved for use by the managements of business
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NEW SYSTEM My Proposal for a New System Laura L. Koskimaki Luvenia (Lisa) Gordon University of Phoenix Whenever some one thinks of health care‚ they think of illness‚ bills‚ and insurance. Most people do not like going to a doctors’ office or to a hospital because of these three things. An illness can be a scary thought to one who may be carrying the illness. No one wants to find out an illness that may have been found especially if it includes surgery or even death because their life
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RFID BASED ATTENDANCE CUM SECURITY SYSTEM [pic] Submitted By: INTRODUCTION Our final year project is RFID based Attendance cum Security System. This idea came to my mind when I saw our lecturers taking the attendance of 100s of students very hardly. We thought we can integrate the RFID based Security System with attendance system as well. That what our final year project is doing. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE PROJECT: [pic] History of RFID: In a very interesting article
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