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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

Futurum

Their research sheds light on the significant role that social inequalities play in determining the outcomes of a pandemic. In light of the social inequalities highlighted by COVID-19, this knowledge has never been more important. Taylor and Lisa use death records as their main source of quantitative data for their research.

Biology 85
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena.

Science 122
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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pave the way to our advancement into the future. Technological positions are leading the charge for growth, and people who choose to specialize in computer and mathematical degrees will stand to gain a unique advantage. of the total STEM workforce.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

It explains that III has four divisions: Mathematical and Programming Services, Behavioral Science, Operations, and “New York”. So what happened is Marvin [Minsky] and I basically fleshed out the idea of a mathematical thing. It says that “From a one-man operation [in 1962], I.I.I. And it was agreed that we would do it.