Getting it together in Burgundy, 1675–1975

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I Knew There Was Something Wrong with That Paper : Scientific Rhetorical Styles and Scientific Misunderstandings

This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday\u27s favorite clause type, the author examines argumentative strategies in dense scientific prose both in bold and cautious rhetorical styles and invented lexical changes in new scientific development

Novel massless phase of Haldane-gap antiferromagnets in magnetic field

The behavior of Haldane-gap antiferromagnets in strong magnetic field is not universal. While the low-energy physics of the conventional 1D spin-1 Heisenberg model in its magnetized regime is described by one incommensurate soft mode, other systems with somewhat perturbed coupling constants can possess two characteristic soft modes in a certain range of the field strength. Such a {\em two}-component Lutinger liquid phase is realised above the massive Haldane-gap phase, and in general above any massive nonmagnetic phase, when the ground state exhibits short range incommensurate fluctuations already in the absence of the field.Comment: 4 pages, 2 eps figures, to appear in Phys Rev B: Rapid Communication

Inícios da província da imaculada Conceição: comemorando o tricentenário de sua ereção: 1675-1975

As dua s antiga s Província s Franciscana s n o Brasil , a d e Sant o Antônio e a de Nossa Senhor a da Conceição, cuja s respectivas sede s se acham atualmente no Recife e em São Paulo, descendem em linha reta da Província de Santo Antônio dos Currais em Portugal, uma em primeiro grau e a outra em segundo

Pioneiras na ciencia: o papel das mulleres na revolución científica

[RESUMO] Os cambios nos paradigmas de control e acceso ao coñecemento que tiveron lugar a partir da segunda metade do século XVII tiveron como consecuencia a expansión da ciencia fora do control escolástico nas universidades, creando unha comunidade científica teoricamente máis accesible. De xeito paralelo apareceu un novo tipo de discurso científico no que os autores eran responsábeis de asegurar a veracidade dos feitos narrados e da divulgación do coñecemento baixo o manto da corrente humanista. Porén, estes avances non impediron que as novas comunidades científicas seguisen estando conformadas case en exclusiva por persoas dos niveis superiores da xerarquía social. Esta situación afectaba dobremente ás mulleres que querían dedicarse á ciencia. Estas mulleres, ademais de sufrir unha importante presión social e familiar que puña impedimentos ao seu desempeño de traballo científico, vían tamén como a comunidade científica (maioritariamente masculina) amosaba reservas cara ao seu traballo. O obxectivo deste traballo é dar a coñecer as contribucións dalgunhas destas mulleres pioneiras que decidiron dedicarse á ciencia nun período onde esta sae da escuridade medieval e comeza a expandirse, amosando os diferentes tipos de muller científica da época. Ao mesmo tempo, amosaremos como as reservas da comunidade científica levaban a moitas destas mulleres tanto a publicar os seus traballos sen o seu nome, ben como anónimo, con pseudónimos ou baixo o nome dun familiar varón; como a ser especialmente coidadosas no uso do rexistro científico, o permite que o discurso científico feminino sexa especialmente relevante como mostra do uso persuasivo da linguaxe neste rexistro

Scholarly communication in education journals

The rise of disciplines is connected with the formation of groups or networks of specialists. It is connected with the emergence of "scientific communities," theorized about since Thomas Kuhn and Robert Merton. But how is such a community of specialists brought together; how are common orientations among members of a scientific community upheld? In this article it is argued that scholarly journals play a key role in the modern scientific disciplines. Journals both secure the shared values of a scientific community and endorse what that community takes to be certified knowledge. Publications in scholarly journals have become the basic units of scientific communication in a discipline. Against this theoretical background, I analyze in this article the evolution of the leading scholarly journal in the field of education in the Dutch-language community, Paedagogische Studien (Studies in Education). The analyses illuminate a number of historical evolutions in this journal in the period 1920-75: the increase in coauthorship and the concomitant standardization of publication formats; the changing role of the editorial board, especially in its function of gatekeeper of scientific communication; and the increase and the shifting "global" nature of cited work in the journal. Because of the close relationship between journal and discipline, this analysis highlights basic characteristics of the patterns of communication and the constitution of disciplinary identity in Dutch-language educational science

In/gratitude? Library acknowledgement in theses and dissertations at a distinguished African university

Giving credit to where it is due is common across cultures. In research, researchers widely express their gratitude to those who would have contributed to their studies in one way or the other under the acknowledgements section. In most cases, the selection of who to acknowledge remains the prerogative of the author. The purpose of this study was to review acknowledgements in Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) with a special focus on the acknowledgement accorded to the library and librarians at the North-West University in South Africa. This was done in order to determine the perceived value of librarians as partners in the research process by postgraduate students. The study followed a two pronged approach in which bibliometrics and survey research methods were used. In the case of the bibliometrics, ETDs completed between 2012 and 2018 were reviewed. Regarding the survey, both print and online questionnaires were used to gather data from postgraduate students. Excel spreadsheets and QuestionPro software were used to analyse the data. The study findings indicate that supervisors of research work topped the list of acknowledgees followed by family, friends and colleagues. The library/librarian acknowledgements, were among the least with only 15% of ETDs giving gratitude to the library/librarians. However, like in previous studies, it was observed that library/librarians were mentioned in other parts of the ETDs, apart from the acknowledgements section. The results further indicate that the majority of the surveyed participants, held acknowledgements in high esteem. The paper will go a long way in adding value to a body of existing literature which is largely from the developed world. It may also stimulate interest for related studies in other developing countries