Natural Science - Science topic

This article proposes a project aimed at introducing secondary school students to artificial intelligence and logic programming using the Prolog language. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Prolog’s development, the authors participate in the international initiative “Prolog Education and Thinking” through the “Digital Bulgaria in Prolog”...

Close-contact places such as long-term facilities have been found to be high-risk and high-morbidity places in the United States during COVID-19 outbreaks. This could be due to the presence of vulnerable resident population, frequent contacts of residents with visitors, staff working at multiple facilities, and potential contaminated surfaces at th...

It has always been my ambition to try to view physical and mathematical concepts with an inner, intuitive perspective. Of course, one can simply accept certain connections and laws as given and more or less memorize them. For many practical applications, that suffices, but haven’t you often felt that this is not enough? As a physicist, mathematicia...

Hilmi S. Salem has published outstanding research which is built on, cited, and referenced in several scholarly books, dealing with different fields of specialization in natural sciences, engineering & technology, and humanities (socioeconomics and geopolitics), with respect to porous media and fluid flow characterization, water, environment, energ...

The Basics of Science Education course plays an important role in equipping prospective teacher students with basic concepts of Natural Science which build their understanding of nature and scientific principles. In an effort to support the sustainability of the coastal environment, the integration of sustainable maritime education in learning is a...

Objective: Development of an algorithm for studying the extrema of a function in the polar coordinate system and its application for curve analysis. Theoretical Framework: The study of curves was developed on the basis of the general theoretical foundations of mathematics, geometric problems, and tasks from mechanics, physics, natural sciences, and...

Diversity of Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) in the Shar Mountains (North Macedonia) Ajten Rushiti1, Valentina Slavevska-Stamenković2, Halil Ibrahimi3, Gazmend Iseni1, Astrit Bilalli4, Xhezair Abdija1, Jelena Hinić2 1Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Tetova, Department of Biology, Tetova, North Macedonia, ajten.rushiti@uni...

Social media has a rapidly widening impact on individuals' and societies' lives. With its psychological, cultural, economic, and technological dimensions, social media has become a dynamic force that both shapes individuals' daily lives and paves the way for social transformations on a global scale. In this context, the need for scientific studies...

Neste trabalho, apresentamos uma entrevista com a Professora Doutora Vera de Mattos Machado, destacando sua notável trajetória no ensino de ciências da natureza e biologia. A entrevista, conduzida no âmbito do projeto Roda Sbenbio, aborda a evolução da carreira acadêmica e profissional de Vera desde sua formação inicial até suas contribuições signi...

The focus of this study was to examine the views and learning experiences of the high school students in Mathematics and their relationship to their academic performance. The respondents of the study were the 190 students from the three secondary schools of Valencia district. The correlational method was used in this study. It utilized the t-test a...

The city of Verona has a long tradition of natural science studies. One of the first natural history museums was founded here 16th century and the first surveys aimed at checking the presence and distribution of flora and fauna were carried out in the 19th century. Recent surveys on the flora and studies on specific animal taxa make it possible to...

Antoine Dugès (1797-1838) was a physician, exercising in Paris then in Montpellier. He was too a naturalist specialized on invertebrates. This paper enlightens some important events that printed his carrier, in Paris when he assisted Cuvier in the Natural Sciences, then when he disputed the innovation in the medical diagnostic of pregnant women usi...

Spatiotemporal dynamics pervade the natural sciences, from the morphogen dynamics underlying patterning in animal pigmentation to the protein waves controlling cell division. A central challenge lies in understanding how controllable parameters induce qualitative changes in system behavior called bifurcations. This endeavor is made particularly dif...

The 20th century was characterized by a radical paradigm shift from modernism to postmodernism. Postmodernism rejected the stances of objectivism, universalism and the construction of meta-narratives that were evident in the modern epoch. Postmodernism re-affirms subjectivism, perspectivism and particularism in knowledge attribution, acquisition an...

A ‘representative sample’ is one of few terms used in statistical inference which do not have a precise and commonly recognised definition. The need for such a definition is less nagging in sciences and natural sciences, where empirical experimental research has exploratory objectives, and thus rarely requires obtaining representative samples. On t...

Chat Generative Pre‐Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has emerged as a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tool with an aptitude to transform course design in higher education significantly. While ChatGPT's applications in education are substantially growing, its role in natural sciences, particularly in course planning and content generation among e...

INTRODUCCIÓN La Geología en Educación Primaria La secuencia didáctica que se presenta en este trabajo está pensada para ser implementada en el último ciclo de Educación Primaria, pero es perfecta-mente válida en la Enseñanza Secundaria Obligato-ria o incluso en niveles superiores. Es decisión del docente el evaluar la idoneidad de la secuencia para...

Forensic science is the application of scientific disciplines which are directed to the recognition, identification, individualization, and evaluation of physical evidences by the application of the principles, technology, and methods of natural sciences for the purpose of administration of criminal justice or in order to serve the law. Improved fo...

In the field of education, generative artificial intelligence has a profound impact, mainly reflected in areas such as personalized learning, automated assignment evaluation, content generation, and open educational resources. However, some scholars have begun to discuss whether this technology may lead to new inequalities. Therefore, this study ai...

``A thoughtful story at Christmas time'' or ``A theoretical level where advanced religious notions and natural sciences occur as unity''. An intellectual experiment. The very first mathematical and graphical approach.

The current study explores the preferences of primary school teachers on the characteristics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based teaching via Discrete Choice Models (DCM). These models analyze the preferences of teachers towards alternatives that are formed by different characteristics. In this study we examined the characteri...

Are multidisciplinary journals truly multidisciplinary, and, how has the multidisciplinary character of these journals evolved over the long term? Here, we assess these questions by analyzing data from the Journal Citation Reports. We examined 983,246 articles and reviews published between 1980 and 2021 in 127 journals categorized under ‘Multidisci...

An axiomatic approach to macroeconomics based on the mathematical structure of thermodynamics is presented. It deduces relations between aggregate properties of an economy, concerning quantities and flows of goods and money, prices and the value of money, without any recourse to microeconomic foundations about the preferences and actions of individ...

Background Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate among gynaecological malignancies and is initially screened using ultrasound. Owing to the high complexity of ultrasound images of ovarian masses and the anatomical characteristics of the deep pelvic cavity, subjective assessment requires extensive experience and skill. Therefore, detecting t...

Background Dengue remains a global threat to public health, however, its disease burden among children and adolescents has always been poorly quantified. Therefore, we aimed to systematically estimate the global, regional, and national burden and temporal trends of dengue infection in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2021. Methods Data on the...

The aim of this research is to use Wordwall as a learning tool to improve students' understanding of Natural Sciences (IPA), with special emphasis on the ecosystem subtheme. Grade 5 students at SDN 19 Muara Telang use this media as an interactive learning alternative that is interesting and easy to use. This research uses research and development (...

The study aims to analyze poetry as possessing an interactive chemical quality and to view chemistry as having a poetic nature, applying this concept to the "Dura’iyyat" poems of Al-Ma'arri. These poems are believed to embody a unique poetic chemistry that reflects his vision and perspective on himself and his society. The study also seeks to highl...

A Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) is a collection of thunderstorms that function as a system, representing a widely discussed phenomenon in both the natural sciences and visual effects industries, and embodying the untamed forces of nature.In this paper, we present the first interactive, physically inspired mesoscale thunderstorms simulation mode...

Background A singular reliable modality for early distinguishing perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease (PFCD) from cryptoglandular fistula (CGF) is currently lacking. We aimed to develop and validate an MRI-based deep learning classifier to effectively discriminate between them. Methods The present study retrospectively enrolled 1054 patients with...

Hilmi S. Salem has published research that is widely built on, cited, and referenced by research scientists in international leading and premier peer-reviewed and well-refereed journals, in addition to some widely viewed blogs. These hundreds of journals (555+) and blogs (a few) are concerned with a wide variety of fields of specialty and interest...

The author examines Kant’s transcendental doctrine of space and time in order to find out possible anthropological connotations of the German philosopher’s topology. The analysis allows us to draw the following conclusions: 1) the anthropological features of space and time significantly correct the transcendental understanding of space and time as...

This paper investigates the impact of the shared responsibility model on cloud security posture and vulnerability management. The shared responsibility model divides security roles between cloud service providers and customers, with providers securing the cloud infrastructure and customers responsible for securing their data, applications, and acce...

Groundwater research on climate change is one of the significant topics in the field of natural sciences that is receiving increasing attention. However, no bibliometric research papers have been published that have analyzed the field for relevant knowledge graphs and relational networks. R-Bibliometrix and VOSviewer software are used to quantitati...

This paper explores six widely used research methods in PhD studies: meta-analysis, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) (Survey Data), empirical analysis (Panel Data analysis), bibliometric analysis, qualitative interviews and thematic content analysis, and mathematical and computational proof. Each method is systematically...

Complexity science is a discipline which explores how complex systems behave and how we interact with them. Though it is widely implemented outside medicine, particularly in the sciences involving human behavior, but also in the natural sciences such as physics and biology, there are only a few applications within medical research. We propose that...

Las demandas formativas de los estudiantes en la sociedad del conocimiento requieren que los educadores incluyan metodologías atinentes con los contenidos de su asignatura en el caso de las Ciencias Naturales en educación Básica el ciclo del aprendizaje científico es proceso clave en la estimulación de la curiosidad en el educando como antesala de...

God’s word is the starting point of all theological knowledge and is conveyed through different objectivations. Since the 16th century, the authorised places of testimony of the Word of God have been referred to as “loci theologici”. The Dominican Melchior Cano distinguished ten homes of the divine word of revelation, whereby he counted human reaso...

The workshop was organized by Laoshan Laboratory (LSNL), China Geological Survey (CGS) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - added by Yaoling Niu (in order to upload this), but he is NOT an author

Lower secondary education plays a crucial role in shaping and developing human resources to support national growth. In practice, teachers in general, and natural science teachers in particular, represent a key human resource for the successful implementation of the general education curriculum. This study focuses on developing a team of natural sc...

Harnessing a positive relationship with biodiversity among university students is crucial for a sustainable future, as they are the future decision-makers. Many socioeconomic factors can affect this relationship between students and biodiversity. This study examines how university students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior towards biodiversity va...

tunBasel is an interactive experience show for 7 to 13 year olds. Its aim is to counteract skilled labour shortage in the science and technology sectors.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on higher education worldwide, underscoring the need for effective technology integration to enhance teaching and learning. This study aimed to address technophobia by introducing four iPad software applications to a group of 35 first-year Bachelor of Education preservice teachers specializing in the Inte...

In 2015, two pottery kilns were found in the historic centre of Ghent. Their dating in the late 9th or 10th century based on both archaeomagnetic research and radiocarbon analysis on charcoal places this production in direct relation to the earliest phase of Ghent's portus. In the whole discussion concerning the origin and layout of the trading set...

The paper considers the development of functional literacy and its structural components in the process of organizing the research activities of undergraduates in the process of mastering the discipline «Foreign Language in Law». Assessment of the level of development of the components under consideration was carried out at each stage of the studen...

Education is the primary capital of a nation's progress, because with education, the human resources that a nation possesses will become quality. Physics is a branch of natural science, specifically studying natural phenomena and events through several scientific and systematic methods. The research is aimed at developing a tool to evaluate the mul...

This research aims to develop flipbook media based on augmented reality using ecosystem material. Research and Development (R&D) is the research method used, while ADDIE is a development model consisting of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Tests and non-tests are used for data collecting, while qualitative and quantita...

Conducted as a qualitative interpretative case study, this research explored the influence of the developed isiNdebele scientific language register for Natural Sciences on meaningful learning among learners. Data collection involved interviews and observations of stakeholders. The findings revealed a positive correlation between the use of indigeno...

Background: Many teachers still need the appropriate knowledge, skills and training to ensure effective ICT integration in their subjects. The group training that is sometimes provided by district office personnel, National Department of Education or Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) for efficient use of training leaves many behind as they atten...

The IX International Conference on Human Rights was held at Antalya Bilim University in Türkiye, on June 14, 2024. This year’s theme, The Sustainability of Democracy and the Rule of Law, provides a critical platform for engaging with the challenges, complexities, and technological innovations that impact democracy, human rights, and the rule of law...

The aim of this research is to describe the cultivation of written-based aspects of communication digital literacy in learning Natural Sciences (Science) and exploring oral-based communication aspects digital literacy in learning Natural Sciences (IPA). The research method uses a qualitative research approach, the research design uses a case study....

Alvin Plantinga believes there are some kinds of conflicts between some deliverances of science and religious beliefs. To correct, on one hand, misinterpretations of the Scripture and, on the other hand, wrong scientific claims, he proposes, we must use in science all of what we know: what we find through experience, as well as what we know by way...

Biology is one of natural sciences that cherish either process or product in every aspect of its study. Biology's learning outcomes identic with the score that achieved by students post learning process. This research aims to illustrate the biology's learning outcome of high school students after the application of Socratic Dialogue. The participan...

Introduction to Research Methodology The concept of research has been part of human history for centuries, evolving alongside intellectual developments in various cultures. The term itself comes from the Old French word "recherche," meaning to search or seek again. Throughout history, research has played a critical role in the advancement of soc...

Post-normal conditions require post-normal resolutions. When stakes are high and values are disputed, policy discussions and decisions cannot rely on science alone. Such discussions require post-normal science , which centralizes the qualitative value of diverse knowledge groups. We discuss the usefulness of post-normal science in the context of th...

The existence of an open access (OA) citation advantage, that is, whether OA increases citations, has been a topic of interest for many years. Although numerous previous studies have focused on whether OA increases citations, expectations for OA go beyond that. One such expectation is the promotion of knowledge transfer across various fields. This...

Objective: This study, the result of a master's research project developed in the Postgraduate Program in Teaching in an Intercultural Indigenous Context at UNEMAT, aims to develop teaching strategies in the areas of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Language and Social Sciences, which are areas foreseen in the Base National Common Curricular. To deve...

ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY AND ITS SUITABILITY FOR AGRICULTURAL USE IN THE AIN OUSSERA PLAIN, DJELFA, ALGERIA Fatah BOUTELDJAOUI *1,2, 1Department of Agricultural and Veterinary Science, Faculty of Natural Science and Life, University of Djelfa, PO Box 3117, Djelfa 17000, Algeria. 2Laboratory for Exploration and Valorization of Steppe Ecosys...

The "Autiom" model represents a groundbreaking conceptual framework that bridges quantum mechanics, cellular biology, topology, and mathematical formalism. By analyzing dynamic homologies and systemic interdependencies, the model proposes that both atomic and cellular systems share a core functionality characterized by balance, adaptability, and in...

The Ninth Workshop of Vietnamese Researchers in Poland (WVRP2024) will be held on November 15-16, 2024 in Krakow, Poland in a hybrid form (onsite and online). WVRP2024 is jointly organized by Vietnam Association of Science and Technology in Poland, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics (AGH University of Krakow), Institute of Physics (Polish Acad...

Statistics taught at high school level consists of several basic concepts, namely descriptive statistics, combinatorics, and probability theory. Competitions can be an effective tool to encourage students to hone their skills and assess the extent to which the concepts they have learned are applied well. However, until now there is still a gap in s...

Lime burials are the archaeological remains of one of the most enigmatic burial rites in the Mediterranean Iron Age. They can be found in caves and rock shelters. Unlike other types of sites, they present unique challenges both in their appearance and in their methodology of excavation and analysis, which has made their study difficult. While early...

This article investigates the reasons behind interwovenness and the profound philosophical thought that a God must be a part of the brain’s predictive processing entropies. The article accomplishes this by utilising South African theologian Wentzel J. van Huyssteen’s epistemological consciousness as an added benefit in examining our planet and, as...

Thermometry is a fundamental parameter estimation problem that is crucial for the advancement of natural sciences. One widely adopted approach to address this issue is the local thermometry theory, which employs classical and quantum Cramér-Rao bounds as benchmarks for thermometric precision. However, this theory is constrained to decrease temperat...

O artigo discute a constituição do Programa Residência Pedagógica enquanto um espaço privilegiado para a constituição do desenvolvimento profissional de estudantes de Licenciatura em Ciências Naturais. A partir da análise da experiência do Subprojeto Ciências Naturais da Universidade de Brasília são analisados aspectos que contribuem para o desenvo...

In the post-COVID-19 era, information education with highly interactive teaching methods has become increasingly common. In particular, the metaverse and virtual reality (VR) technology can be used in novel learning methods to leverage the intuitiveness, immersivity, and interactivity of VR. For example, students could use VR to simulate scientific...

This brief investigation traces the formation of the educational system to its current stage. The data analyses are referred to the achieved results of the educational system. This study seeks perspectives from both teachers and students, aiming to comprehend the collective objectives in their symbiotic relationships. The ensuing report contemplate...

In response to increasing calls for better consideration of social dimensions in Forest (and) Landscape Restoration (FLR), this systematic literature review identifies and synthesises relevant themes associated with critical social perspectives in FLR. Critical perspectives are methodologically diverse but generally share an intention to interrogat...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is widely used to supply summarization ability from long context to structured information. However, extracting structured knowledge from scientific text by NLP models remains a challenge because of its domain-specific nature to complex data preprocessing and the granularity of multi-layered device-level informatio...

El propósito del presente trabajo es analizar los museos escolares como un espacio didáctico que puede ser utilizado en la educación formal y no formal, para desarrollar estrategias de aprendizaje que incentiven el interés por las Ciencias Naturales y la valoración de la biodiversidad. Para ello, se realizó una revisión de literatura. Detectando es...

Population size estimation is a major challenge in official statistics, social sciences, and natural sciences. The problem can be tackled by applying capture-recapture methods, which vary depending on the number of sources used, particularly on whether a single or multiple sources are involved. This paper focuses on the first group of methods and i...

Academic Plagiarism is one of the serious issues in both fields of "education" and "research." Formal education worldwide, at all levels, and researchers across various scientific disciplines are the two main groups most affected by plagiarism. In the research domain, those who publish the results of others' thoughts and efforts under their own nam...

The present study provides a mapping of the scholarly productivity of Assam University by doing bibliometrics analysis based on the theses uploaded in online ETDs database hosted by INFLIBNET Centre, Shodhganga. The study is arranged in such a way that, categorization is done based on chronological wise and department wise submission of theses. The...

According to the archaeological discoveries, Zhejiang Province yields the most typical and well-preserved prehistoric wetland settlements in China. In this region, the development of prehistoric cultures is closely related to the natural environment and climate changes. The earliest settlements of the Shangshanculture appeared at about 10,000–8500...

Since ancient times, auroras have fascinated science and religion because of their amazing natural displays in Earth's upper atmosphere. With an emphasis on the recombination and diffusion of ions during auroral events, this study investigates the ionospheric processes in the E-region and syndicates the results with spiritual and cultural interpret...

The constructs Working Memory (WM), Executive Function (EF), Field Dependence-Independence Cognitive Style (FDI CS) have been related to Academic Performance (AP) in different compulsory and fundamental areas, especially in mathematics and language. The objective was to analyze the relationship between the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial ag...

The implication of scientific methodology in terms of its philosophical roots and divergences constitutes a massive untapped topic for modern academics. This paper's critical review articulates the philosophical premises of positivism and constructivism, which eventually define scientific approaches with their respective limitations. It also extend...

Emerging AI tools that generate 3D models from text and images, while simplifying object texturing, represent a groundbreaking advancement for Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and 3D reconstruction across various scientific fields. These technologies enable the modeling of hypothetical scenarios, facilitating visualization and analysis...

It is estimated that up to 9 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year. There is a top of research on the harmfulness of microplastics to our health. While aspects of the use of polymeric packaging for food, dishes, or plastic furniture and clothing are often dictated by economic considerations, psychological, sociological and cult...

Drawing on diachronic and synchronic collexeme analyses, this paper investigated preferences of interpersonal metaphor of modality, which is realized by explicit subjective orientation, explicit objective orientation and implicit objective orientation, in academic disciplines of Corpus of Contemporary American English or COCA. The findings demonstr...

The contemporary American university largely operates as an agent of domestication, tasked more with enforcing the social and economic order than with expanding the horizons of possibility. The dawn of the Anthropocene, however, demands that we reconceive of the humanities not as self-sufficient, hierarchical, or divided away from other modes of se...

Marek Nowicki, Radosław Walkowiak. Natural Science & Philosophy of Nature. Paper # 4 of 10. CTC Meeting 12-14/11-2024. Conference Name: Relationships between science, culture and religion (c) CTC PAPER 2024. Prague, Czechia, European Union. Open Access.

The DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) Flanders consortium, with one of the set goals being "maturing" (i.e., optimizing the management of) and unlocking (i.e., publishing) their DNA collections, identified 1) the need for actively sharing best practices on the management of DNA collections; and 2) a need for guidance on how to b...

Population size estimation is a major challenge in official statistics, social sciences, and natural sciences. The problem can be tackled by applying capture-recapture methods, which vary depending on the number of sources used, particularly on whether a single or multiple sources are involved. This paper focuses on the first group of methods and i...

This Communication article was inspired by Thomas Bradley’s IPI Lecture, "The Laws of Physics Embodied by Fundamental Replicators: Exploring Femes”, delivered on the 9th of Nov. 2024 to the members of the Information Physics Institute. The Communication (limited to two pages by IPI) addresses the question of the universe's possible fine tuning - wi...

It is established that the standard metrology SI-2019 cannot provide a quantitative assessment of the metric units of the Standard Physical Model with a relative accuracy better than 1/10^12 due to the logically contradictory fixation of the constant "Speed of light" as an integer value of 299792458 m/s. It is shown that the position vector-tensor-...

Deep learning has made significant progress in the fields of data science and natural science. Some studies have linked deep neural networks to dynamical systems, but the network structure is restricted to a residual network. It is known that residual networks can be regarded as a numerical discretization of dynamical systems. In this paper, we con...

Since the late Ming Dynasty, Western missionaries have gradually set foot in China, among which Ba Fanji, Michele Ruggieri, Matteo Ricci and so on are representatives. In the cultural exchange and integration between China and the West, many advanced natural sciences were introduced to China by missionaries, such as astronomy, geography, mathematic...

Background Globally, approximately 19.4% of women of reproductive age use intrauterine contraception, encompassing both copper intrauterine devices (Cu-IUDs) and levonorgestrel intrauterine devices (LNG-IUDs). Despite current guidelines endorsing intrauterine contraception as a primary method, there remains debate regarding device selection. Notabl...

Typically, biology students pursue natural sciences. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and reliant on digital technologies and platforms, it is essential to evaluate their technological preparedness. This study aims to validate a mapping instrument of the digital competence of pre-service Biology teachers in a leading private univers...

The tendency of Natural Science Learning, especially biology today is students only studying biology as a product, memorize concepts, theories and laws. Facts in the field also found that teachers have not empowered the students' potential. Consequently metacognitive skills, cognitive learning outcomes, and low student retention. It takes a learnin...

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The first Herbaria that we have evidence of were small collections for the personal use of apothecaries and physicians interested, fundamentally, in the therapeutic properties of the plant world. However, the appearance of the Herbarium as an institution dates back to the 16th century, and was always associated with the...

Scope of Book The importance of wetland has been widely revered for decades. However, the worsening issues of global climate has highlighted the role and contributions of wetlands in mitigation of climate change and related issues. Wetlands across the world has been compromised by unplanned and unscrupulous anthropogenic activities. Recent scientif...