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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. We have to consider farmers’ motivators from a social science perspective,” says human geographer Dr Ray Chan. Published: May 25, 2022. Farmers often use fungicides to protect their crops from fungal diseases.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. Language barriers were also a challenge as communication was translated from English to Spanish to Quechua, an Indigenous language spoken throughout the Andes. ABOUT ENGINEERING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.

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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

The message to teachers is that if we engage in implicit bias in teaching – knowingly or unconsciously – it communicates to students they may not belong in certain professions, or they may not be able to succeed in fields of study and professions if they do not fit the image or stereotype. What about “teacher,” “scientist,” “nurse”?

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. One of the things I love most about science, and GIS and ecology in particular, is that it’s a creative process.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. This equivalence has many consequences.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. that in thermal equilibrium all possible states of the system—say, spatially uniform and nonuniform alike—are equally probable … comparable to the situation in the game of Lotto where every single quintet is as improbable as the quintet 12345.

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Classroom resources for the new school year

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Biology Cells – A heathy adult produces billions of new blood cells every day, but problems with this process can lead to blood cancer, so Dr Kristina Ames is investigating why blood production problems occur. Design – How do fonts communicate messages? Students can then research how art influenced public opinion during the Cold War.