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Results suggest that CBSSA can provide students with a realistic self-assessment of their readiness to take Step 1....
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PMID: 20881715
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The difficulties encountered in the discovery of the exoerythrocytic stage of the asexual cycle of the human plasmodia are described. These illustrate how deference towards scientific orthodoxy and a degree of reluctance to question and to criticize can delay advances in knowledge.
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PMID: 20658276
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Evolutionary epistemology can provide a unified scientific methodology that enables scholars to study the evolution of life as well as the evolution of cognition, science, culture and any other phenomenon displayed by living organisms. In this article, three heuristics are provided that allow for a...
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PMID: 20502982
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We explore the epistemological and ontological assumptions that have been made to make political science "scientific." We show how political science has generally adopted an ontologically reductionist philosophy of science derived from Newtonian physics and mechanics. This mechanical framework has e...
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PMID: 20571938
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The debates which drive the nursing profession often put forward the notions of profession, discipline and science to qualify nursing. It is advisable to clarify each of these concepts, as well as to highlight the importance of structuring them in order for nurses to be able to assume as best as pos...
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PMID: 20963985
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In the late 1970s politicians and civil servants were acutely aware of the chronic decline of the manufacturing sector as a source of employment in Britain. At a time of fear of mass unemployment, sources of new work were urgently sought. Biotechnology had been promoted by visionaries since the earl...
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PMID: 20973345
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We argue that one important reason for this discrepancy is that STEM careers are perceived as less likely than careers in other fields to fulfill communal goals (e.g., working with or helping other people). Such perceptions might disproportionately affect women's career decisions, because women tend...
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PMID: 20631322
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Students without the traditional premedical preparation performed at a level equivalent to their premedical classmates....
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PMID: 20671464
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