Examining Different Reasons Why People Accept Or Reject Scientific Claims

The current project was designed to examine how cognitive style, cultural worldview, and conspiracy ideation correspond to various levels of agreement with scientific claims. Additionally, the kinds of justifications people provide for their position on scientific issues and the kinds of possible refutations of their scientific beliefs people are able to generate were qualitatively coded and analyzed. Participants were presented with a short survey asking about their level of agreement with scientific claims about biological evolution, anthropogenic climate change, pediatric vaccines, and genetically modified foods. Participants were asked two open-ended questions about each topic, one prompting participants to justify their level-of-agreement rating and the other prompting participants to generate possible refutations to their belief. Participants also filled in measures of cognitive style, cultural worldview, and conspiracy ideation. I predicted that analytical thinking style would be associated with overall higher levels of agreement with scientific claims, intuitive thinking and conspiracy ideation would be associated with overall lower levels of agreement with scientific claims, and agreement with scientific claims would be a function of cultural worldview. Results showed that greater agreement with all four scientific claims is related to a greater predisposition to analytical thinking and stronger self-reported political liberalism. I further hypothesized that the frequency of distinct categories of justifications and refutations would be predicted by level of agreement with scientific claims. Broadly, justifications were coded as non-justifications, subjective, evidential, or deferential, and refutations were broadly coded as denials, subjective, evidential, or deferential. Results of chi-squared analysis revealed topic-specific patterns in participants’ reasoning, suggesting that people do not reason about scientific topics consistently. Different scientific claims appear, instead, to be accepted or rejected for different reasons. For example, evidence may be cited for one socio-scientific issue, but subjective experience or reasoning may be used to justify others. Regression analyses indicated further the nuanced relationship between explicit reasoning provided by participants and their agreement with scientific claims. Higher agreement with all scientific claims was related to a greater frequency of explicitly referencing evidence in some form, but other categories of belief justification and belief refutation showed topic-specific relationships. Generally, findings from this research provide a crucial next step for better understanding why individuals reject established science, as well as for developing more effective means of improving scientific literacy

Repertorio bibliográfico sobre la colección Studien zur romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und interkulterellen Kommunikation (1998-2009) del grupo editorial Peter Lang

El presente artículo bibliográfico recoge las obras publicadas en la colección Studien zur romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und interkulturellen Kommunikation de la editorial Peter Lang. Así, se presentan todas las obras publicadas hasta la fecha (1998-2009), así como las que están en prensa y en preparación, que representan diversos ámbitos relacionados con los Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (teoría de la traducción, interpretación, traducción científica y técnica, traducción jurídica, audiovisual, literaria, terminología, etc.).G.I. HUM 767 (ayudas a Grupos de Investigación de la Junta de Andalucía) / Editorial Comares (colección interlingua

Diseño y construcción de una marmita cilíndrica con agitador y fondo esférico con rango de temperatura de 70ºc a 80ºc para producción de 50 litros de aderezos

The present graduation work "Design and construction of a cylindrical marmita with stirrer and spherical background with temperature range 70 °c to 80 °c production 50 l from aderezos" which was created by COMEX resolution (Resolution No. 011 -2015 Foreign Trade Committee; ANNEX A), the tariff surcharge for imports of industrial food equipment that increase the cost by 45%. This work is funded by the company Mechanical & Solutions Escorpmec S.A. who emits several major technical parameters to be respected when designing, which are explained in the second chapter. Four chapters explain the project: first chapter describes basic concepts like what is an aderezo, emulsification and also of alternatives for the selection of the marmita and theoretical foundation of jacketed container with mechanical agitation. Second chapter is about the selection of materials. The choice was made after a deep study of some alternatives. On the other hand the analysis begins with the design criteria of marmita with the following calculations and designs: design of the structure for the geared motor, tank design, design of heat transfer area, term calculation of the tank, calculation of the force exerted on the tank, design table structure and design of the agitator. One the specific objective of the project is entirely explained in chapter three. There is information about the simulation of some elements such as the tank, stirrer and structure. Finally, last chapter detail the cost that were incurred in the design, construction and commissioning of the marmita.El presente trabajo de titulación “Diseño y construcción de una marmita cilíndrica con agitador y fondo esférico con rango de temperatura de 70°c a 80°c para producción de 50 litros de aderezos” nace a partir de la resolución del COMEX (Resolución N° 011-2015 Comité de Comercio Exterior; Anexo 1), a la sobretasa arancelaria para la importación de equipos de uso industrial alimenticio que aumento su costo en un 45%. Este trabajo es patrocinado por la empresa Mechanical & Solutions Escorpmec S.A. quien emite varios parámetros técnicos importantes que se deben respetar al momento del diseño, los cuales se explica en su totalidad en el segundo capítulo del presente trabajo. El proyecto está constituido por cuatro capítulos: en el primer capítulo se detalla el marco teórico en el cual se describen algunos conceptos tales como que es un aderezo, en que consiste la emulsificación, estudio de alternativas para selección de la marmita y el fundamento teórico de recipientes enchaquetados con agitación mecánica. En el segundo capítulo se realiza el estudio de alternativas para la selección de materiales y con este análisis empieza el criterio de diseño de la marmita con los siguientes cálculos y diseños: diseño de la estructura para el motor reductor, diseño del tanque, diseño del área de transferencia de calor, cálculo término del tanque, cálculo de la fuerza ejercida en el tanque, diseño de la estructura de la mesa y el diseño del agitador. El tercer capítulo se lo dedica en su totalidad para satisfacer uno de los objetivos específicos de este trabajo como es el de la simulación de algunos elementos de la marmita como son el tanque, el agitador y la estructura. En el cuarto capítulo se encuentra al detalle los costos en los que se incurrió para el diseño, construcción y puesta en marcha de la marmita

REPERTORIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO SOBRE LA COLECCIÓN STUDIEN ZUR ROMANISCHEN SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT UND INTERKULTURELLEN KOMMUNIKATION (1998-2009) DEL GRUPO EDITORIAL PETER LANG

This bibliographic article collects the books published in the Studien zur romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und interkulturellen Kommunikation Collection by the publishing house Peter Lang. We thus present all the works published so far (1998-2009), representing different domains related to Translation and Interpreting Studies (Translation Theory, Interpreting, Scientific and Technical Translation, Legal Translation, Audiovisual Translation, Literary Translation, Terminology, etc).El presente artículo bibliográfico recoge las obras publicadas en la colección Studien zur romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und interkulturellen Kommunikation de la editorial Peter Lang. Así, se presentan todas las obras publicadas hasta la fecha (1998-2009), así como las que están en prensa y en preparación, que representan diversos ámbitos relacionados con los Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (teoría de la traducción, interpretación, traducción científica y técnica, traducción jurídica, audiovisual, literaria, terminología, etc.)

FOOTGRAFÍA DE NIÑA SENTADA CON TRAJE DE VUELOS Y ABANICO [Material gráfico]

SAN LUÍS POTOSÍ. MEXICOCopia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 201

Propuesta de programa de contenidos para la asignatura “matemáticas” de los nuevos grados de ADE y FICO

This work is the result of a Teaching Innovation Project developed during the current academic year by teachers from the Universities of Huelva and Seville, Spain, and school teachers. The aim of the study was the design of a teaching program for the subject of “Mathematics” taught in the Module of Basic Training in Business and Economics, as part of the new Business Degree and Finance and Accounting Degree, which are soon to begin at the University of Huelva. In order to develop our draft, we took into account, on the one hand, the requirements of the Bologna process on learning by competences, and on the other, the suggestions of teachers of the above mentioned degrees, who teach subjects other than maths but need mathematical tools.Este trabajo es el resultado de un Proyecto de Innovación Docente desarrollado durante el curso 2009/2010, por profesorado de las Universidades de Huelva y Sevilla, así como de educación Secundaria y Bachillerato, cuyo objetivo principal ha sido el diseño de una propuesta de contenidos para la asignatura “Matemáticas” del Módulo de Formación Básica en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, de los nuevos Grados de Administración y Dirección de Empresas, y Finanzas y Contabilidad, de la Universidad de Huelva. Para el diseño de dicha propuesta, se han considerado, por una parte, los requerimientos del nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior en cuanto a la formación basada en competencias, y, por otra, las opiniones de los docentes de asignaturas de los mencionados Grados, distintas de las Matemáticas, en las cuales es necesario el empleo de técnicas y herramientas matemáticas

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio