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13 Jul 2024: edge methods of digital analysis to data from the SIMON instrument-makers dataset to interogate questions relating to the origin, development, and social and economic context of the British instrument trade.

13 Jul 2024: Primarily using the work of A.E.S Alcock and Rockefeller's International Basic Economic Corporation (IBEC), this paper traces how different actors found and invented the global village, populating it ... This has also involved questioning some of the

13 Jul 2024: Spear P., India (Ann Arbor, 1971). Subrahmanyam S., Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History (London, 1993). ... Sangawan S., 'The Strength of a Scientific Culture and 19th Century India: Interpreting Disorder in Colonial

13 Jul 2024: It tells a bittersweet story of lovers separated by war, illegitimate pregnancy and social and economic pressure to marry someone you don't necessarily love.

13 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

13 Jul 2024: He felt very strongly about making Cambridge more accessible to students from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, and made significant contributions towards this goal.

13 Jul 2024: of nutrition science and home economics in the twentieth, from the manuals of rural and domestic economy of the seventeenth century to the gastronomic canon of the nineteenth.

13 Jul 2024: Philosophy of measurement; philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy of economics.

13 Jul 2024: economic relations of science.

13 Jul 2024: They have, furthermore, highlighted how the colonial economic and social organization affected the health of populations and how, simultaneously, Western medicine itself was profoundly reshaped by encounters with new cultures, diseases

13 Jul 2024: Thought experiments. History of Medieval Islamic mathematics. Economic feasibility of nuclear fusion.

13 Jul 2024: Huge, multinational, unwieldy and essential; especially helpful for biographical information and for details on the economic relations of the earth sciences. ... of economic and political history.

13 Jul 2024: Hannah Newton explains why this is one area where the past may offer valuable lessons for our own time.

13 Jul 2024: The Issue of Duplicates: Political, Economic and Epistemic Figurations of Object Collections.

13 Jul 2024: were made during the long C19 and transformed in the C20 into a major political, economic and ethical concern.

13 Jul 2024: and their economic uses on paper (for more details, see the project's website).

13 Jul 2024: It investigates the economic, legal, social, cultural and diplomatic context of transnational 'encounters' and employment aboard British naval vessels, drawing on primary sources from British, Dutch, Italian, Maltese, and American archives,

13 Jul 2024: MIT and Stanford, for instance, cultivated a cosy relationship with both industry and government, at times steering their research towards economic and military interests. ... 9 May. Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics). Du Bois' plan for

24 Jul 2023: 11. What lessons should we draw from past social medicine and eugenic.

13 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. ... This has also involved

24 Jul 2023: 5. What lessons can we take about the place of social and political values in.

13 Jul 2024: 3-34. Ramsey, F. P. (1978) 'Theories', in D. H. Mellor (ed.) Foundations: Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics (London: Routledge).

13 Jul 2024: The novel possibilities opened up by their adoption made the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals a necessary tool for economic activity, triggering their consolidated spread in practical mathematics. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study

2 Jul 2024: economics. Does it work? 6. Are there such things as diseases and does it matter?

1 May 2024: YES/NO. Does the grant provide Overheads/Full Economic Costs (FEC)? YES/NO. Are costs from collaborating departments or external organisations needed?

13 Jul 2024: It will show that over time child malnutrition and the solutions proposed became increasingly localised; that is, greater attention was paid to the socio-economic and cultural context of pre-school ... In this paper, I examine relations and disjunctions

13 Jul 2024: This reflected the weaker economic position of Britain in comparison to the USA, backers of the WHO programme, but more importantly, regimes of locust control that used substances such as gammexane ... Bryan W. Roberts (LSE). The good news about killing

24 Jul 2023: economics? END OF PAPER. NST2HP Natural Sciences Tripos Part II: History and Philosophy of Science Paper 3: Modern Medicine and Life Sciences You should answer four questions in total. ... 6. Must economics be a deductive science? 7. Which value

13 Jul 2024: But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. ... We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural

24 Jul 2023: 2. ‘The attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in

13 Jul 2024: now present on all possible scales of the Planet, but also how technologies – observational, computational, visual, economic – were essential in shaping the policy concept.

24 Jul 2023: potentially harmful consequences for health? 10. Which social, economic and political factors motivated the eugenics movement. ... 9. What conception of welfare should economics adopt? 10. Physics does not need to answer metaphysical questions.

13 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.

24 Jul 2023: 4. Must economics be a deductive science? 5. Which value judgments help economics and which harm it?

13 Jul 2024: Created at the end of the eighteenth century, the Calcutta Botanical Garden was an important element of the network of imperial gardens that served economic and political enterprises of the Raj.

24 Jul 2023: 11. What roles did experts play in 'development' (as in 'economic development' or 'international development') in the twentieth century?

13 Jul 2024: This concept of human motivation and purpose brings psychology, physiology, economics, political science and ethics together in one seamless whole, united under the banner of utility.

24 Jul 2023: Do not put your name anywhere in the document. 1. Rational choice modelling is the essence of economics. ... Discuss. 2. Does economics need value judgements? If no, why not?

Further information is available from David Chart. 10 October Lessons 1 & 2 (pp. ... 50–68) 31 October Lessons 9 & 10 (pp. 68–82). 7 November Lesson 11 (pp.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seminars and reading groups in Lent Term 2021. Research Seminars. Reading Groups. Departmental Seminars. Seminars take place on Zoom on Thursdays from 3.30pm to 5pm UK time unless

24 Jul 2023: agendas around 1900? 11. How have anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic. ... Is welfare economics right to rely on preference satisfaction? 5. Is rational choice modelling good science?

13 Jul 2024: 1 March. Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool). Shortening hospital stays: clinico-economic dialogues in the 20th century.

5 Apr 2021: I think it is safe to predict that in future the place of economics will betaken by psychology. ... the whole theory of economics rests on a basis ofpsychological assumptions’ (BP/B.4.10).

practical lessons that teach them how to search literature using databases like the university library catalogue, obviously, but also WorldCat.

24 Jul 2023: economic development after World War II, and with what consequences? 8.

25 February Donald Gillies (UCL) Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems. ... 5. 25 February Donald Gillies (UCL) Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems.

24 Jul 2023: practice of the sciences since 1800. 3. What is the significance of economic factors in explaining the development of.

24 Jul 2023: economics? 9. “The simplest explanation is the best explanation when accounting for.

While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather than synthetic’ by examiners, stronger essays offered interesting distinctions between military, economic and moral functions of natural sciences, with students prompted to reflect on

24 Jul 2023: scientific research? 7. Is the economic conception of choice scientifically valid?