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4 Jul 2024: At the national level, government ministries, universities, and private and public research institutes became centres for the application of physical sciences to environmental questions, often with generous state funding. ... Similar aims are pursued

4 Jul 2024: Papers. There are two examination papers: History of Science (HPS1) and Philosophy of Science (HPS2). ... Final-year students from any subject in the University, including those in the humanities and social sciences, are encouraged to apply.

4 Jul 2024: Keck Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and an honorary Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. ... It investigates the economic, legal, social, cultural and diplomatic context of transnational

4 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... peoples. As a destination

4 Jul 2024: Reproduction can link films across a wide range of periods, national cinemas, and genres as different as slapstick and horror, melodrama and social realism, sex education and experimental. ... 16.15–17.00. Final discussion. The registration fee of £30

4 Jul 2024: In the 20th century, biomedicine built upon this legacy to become a major object of economic, political and ethical concern. ... to prompt assessments of the roles of social, cultural, institutional and national dimensions of medicine, the life sciences

4 Jul 2024: A move to the National Maritime Museum in 1977 confirmed Jim's status as a curator of exceptional talent, cemented two years later by his appointment as successor to David Bryden ... Jim knew well that all of this scholarship rested upon a foundation of

4 Jul 2024: new national movements. The workshop will furthermore examine the importance of language as a tool of cultural domination within, and beyond, science and medicine. ... 10.30. Tatjana Buklijas (University of Cambridge), 'A Surgically Divided Empire:

4 Jul 2024: were made during the long C19 and transformed in the C20 into a major political, economic and ethical concern. ... the Public Records Office); and the National Register of Archives (for British manuscripts and historical records).

4 Jul 2024: over time, his later work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the recent resurgence of sociological interest in Du Bois. ... It will raise questions about activism and academic work, the relations between history,

4 Jul 2024: All screenings at 7pm. All welcome. Admission free except for final event with live music, which costs just £5. ... It tells a bittersweet story of lovers separated by war, illegitimate pregnancy and social and economic pressure to marry someone you

4 Jul 2024: 9 June. Jeffrey Y. Tsao (Material, Physical and Chemical Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories). ... We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and

4 Jul 2024: Spear P., India (Ann Arbor, 1971). Subrahmanyam S., Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History (London, 1993). ... eds.) International Science and National Scientific Identity (Dodrecht, 1991). Chambers D.W., 'Process in

4 Jul 2024: 1 February. Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore). People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China. ... Furthermore, food calories arguably remained the prime source of energy in China's national economy, which was

22 Nov 2023: There were no notable incidents during the examinations, to the examiners’ best knowledge. ... Q9. How did chemical industries support national self-sufficiency in the twentieth century?

4 Jul 2024: Huge, multinational, unwieldy and essential; especially helpful for biographical information and for details on the economic relations of the earth sciences. ... Biographical sources. W.A.S. Sarjeant, Geologists and the History of Geology (1980) is the

4 Jul 2024: the US military as a resource for the economic and social development of Arctic North America. ... Part I: Economics. [Week 1, 11 October] Graeber, D. (2014) Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

4 Jul 2024: This entanglement of scholarly and economic interests is particularly visible in Gomes' concern about the plant's increasing rarity. ... 1 February. Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK). Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the

24 Jul 2023: social and economic factors? 9. In medieval Europe, doctors healed the body and clerics healed the soul. ... nineteenth-century medicine? 7. Either (a) To what extent was the National Health Service the result of popular.

4 Jul 2024: 23 November. Fiora Salis (University of York). Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling. ... In this presentation we explore the hypothesis that constrained uses of imagination are crucial to economic modelling.

4 Jul 2024: Bulger et al. (eds.), Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, Washington: National Academy Press, 388-408. ... Weinberg, S. (1992), Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, New York: Pantheon.

4 Jul 2024: The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialisation and sustained economic growth. ... And it documents attempts to mobilize its member-states to either economic assistance or environmental protection

4 Jul 2024: election year data for the period of 2004–2016 from the American National Election Studies' (ANES) Times Series Study. ... 13 October. Grace Redhead (University College London). Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and

24 Mar 2023: Dissertation. The medic in the machine: final and efficient causes in Hobbes and Descartes. ... James Hutton and 'perfect coal' at the intersection of politics, economics and chemistry.

4 Jul 2024: American Economic Review, 107 (5): 1–26. 9 February. Seawright, Jason (2016), 'Case Selection in Small-N Research'. ... Economics & Philosophy, 2022: 1–25. 2 March. Haven, Tamarinde L., and Leonie Van Grootel (2019), 'Preregistering qualitative

4 Jul 2024: Organised by Richard Staley. 28 April. Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute). ... now present on all possible scales of the Planet, but also how technologies – observational, computational,

4 Jul 2024: 4 November (McConnell Lecture). Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich). ... 25 November. Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics). Causal explanation and revealed preferences.

15 Mar 2024: March. Dimensions of modelling. Research Centre for Social Urban Modelling, National Museum of Denmark. ... Geopolitical relativities and the tensions between ‘tribal’ and national economy in Bronislaw Malinowski’s early.

4 Jul 2024: Finally, the third mechanism comes into play when reviewers judge submissions on multiple criteria: aggregating these judgments into a final decision leads to a third possible source of bias. ... Created at the end of the eighteenth century, the Calcutta

4 Jul 2024: The impact of machines. More than thirty years before the 'Two Cultures' debate came into the national consciousness, I.A. ... 1 March. Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool). Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century.

5 Apr 2021: Ramsey exceedingly unhappy – though this did not prevent him fromachieving a remarkable First in his Finals in 1923. ... Freud in Cambridge 19. Thus Keynes’s economics required a psychological underpinning for itsportrayal of those economic virtues

4 Jul 2024: Although economics face limitations when applied to complex, large-scale societal challenges like climate change, I wish to highlight a potentially important role for economic methodology. ... Current scholarship also suggests that fashion was a means

4 Jul 2024: With the first paper applying this method to cytoskeleton research, published 1974 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, a new kind of visual evidence got ... S. Sivasundaram); Global currents in national histories of science,

29 Nov 2022: Protected area classification and indigeneity at the Third World Congress of National Parks. ... Dissertation. Do cyborgs dream of customer fulfilment? Logistics and economics at RAND, 1946–1960.

4 Jul 2024: We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and colonial territories, and the eventual consolidation of 'ethno-' disciplines

5 Apr 2021: Both Salter and Neumayr, significantly, were members of national geological surveys and concerned with arrang-ing specimens in public displays. ... Pitt Rivers and his allies proposed “a great National Anthropological Collection” set out in the

Examiner’s meetings. Preliminary examiners meetings were held to set papers on 12 February and to prepare for the final examinations on 13 May. ... Due to the contingencies of scheduling 24-hour online examinations, examination dates were spread out

4 Jul 2024: Dog Stranglers in the Park?: National and Vegetal Politics in Ontario's Rouge Valley.' Journal of Canadian Studies 47, no.

An examination warning was received for one candidate, but it arrived very late. ... Finally, the examiners recommend that the Department’s Guidelines for Undergraduate Examinations are scrutinized.

4 Jul 2024: solutions to a range of problems of the young modern Japanese nation on a national as well as international scale. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its

5 Apr 2021: From its inception, Urania was as much an economic proposition as anideological one. ... But science too is determined by class! Only the Marxist candiscover the economic and social driving forces behind the theories andideologies of each epoch.36.

4 Jul 2024: of the Company which witnessed heightened inter-imperial competition and a severe economic downturn that had far-reaching consequences in Company posts across the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. ... Giants and national identity in early modern

previous years, lower marks in individual examination papers were sometimes due to very. ... national standards. The examiners reported several problems associated with the conduct of examinations.

Paper 4: Metaphysics, Epistemology and the Sciences 15 students chose to sit the examination paper. ... Beyond that, there was a good spread of answers across the examination paper.

For Part IB students, these took the form of single-marked formative assessments, and for Part II students, these were double-marked and formally assessed (contributing towards final degree transcripts). ... There were no notable incidents during the

5 Apr 2021: Cédric Crémiere for showingme models at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. ... But though widely. recognized by law, it remained controversial as a final punishment for poverty, and the.

proportions. The National Institutes of Health (as well as the Food and Drug Administration) introduced prescriptive rules to govern medical research. ... An examination of Pierre Gassendi’s ‘Physics’ is a compelling illustration of this thesis.

The history of disease is a multifaceted enterprise in which social, cultural, demographic, economic and sociological approaches have played a dominant role in recent decades. ... would enable the individual to resist the depersonalizing action of the

5 Apr 2021: Several redrawings later, the final instalment (1885) offered a lithograph of the external anatomy of embryos from the end of the second week to the end of the second month of ... development of other animals might well repeat characteristic major

All welcome! Organised by Richard Staley. 30 October Charlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris) Brownian motion pictures. ... 22 October Christopher Clarke (HPS, Cambridge). 29 October Kim Sterelny