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2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-110
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Nadun H. Madanayake ◽  
Nadeesh M. Adassooriya

Science and technology have advanced rapidly in every aspect; thus, nanotechnology is one of the highly promising interdisciplinary approaches which has swiftly emerged in the world. The inherent properties of nanomaterials (NMs) made them widely accepted to use in many fields, including agriculture. Because of this, NMs have attracted novel agrochemical formulations to enhance crop productivity. However, deliberate and accidental release of nanoparticulate based agrochemical formulations and engineered NMs have raised concerns on the possible effects on agricultural crops. Therefore, the interaction of NMs leading to phytotoxicity is the biggest concern that is required to be assessed prior to their applications. Hence, this review discusses whether NMs can be used as a feasible stand-in candidate for agriculture.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Krasnyak ◽  
Mik Fanguy ◽  
Elena Tikhonova

History of Science and Technology (HST) courses are increasingly becoming part of core curriculums for undergraduate students due to an increased emphasis on scientific literacy. HST courses should aim to help students gain an understanding of the nature of science and should enable them to reflect epistemologically. The authors suggest teaching HST courses through several interchangeable content blocks, and herein, present the material and discussion topics that they believe should be implemented in a content block on cognitive sciences through a linguistic component. Language has a special meaning for humankind as it indicates its unique ability in the evolutionary development and in creating a new social environment. Therefore, paying special attention to the linguistic component when teaching HST courses helps students obtain a basic level of linguistic knowledge as its interdisciplinary approaches are increased through the study of cognitive sciences such as evolutionary psychology, behavioral genetics, and artificial intelligence.In order to represent a practical meaning of linguistics in the processes of constructing social environment, the authors conducted an empirical study based on the analysis of media texts. We asked 63 sophomores majoring in social sciences and humanities, who are affiliated with the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations to choose 60 media texts, both broadsheets and tabloids, on social and political content. Estimating and analyzing the surveys allowed the authors to determine students’ abilities to identify communicative strategies that were used in the media texts, to understand the role of the strategies in forming the social environment of a person or a group, and to recognize how using the tools of cognitive linguistics enhances sophisticated thinking and develops synergetic perceptions of every individual.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Triantafyllos Kaloudis ◽  
Jussi Meriluoto ◽  
Ludek Blaha

<p>COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a pan-European intergovernmental framework. Its mission is to enable break-through scientific and technological developments leading to new concepts and products and thereby contribute to strengthening Europe’s research and innovation capacities. It allows researchers, engineers and scholars to jointly develop their own ideas and take new initiatives across all fields of science and technology, while promoting multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. COST aims at fostering a better integration of less research-intensive countries to the knowledge hubs of the European Research Area. The COST Association, an International Not-for-profit Association under Belgian Law, integrates all management, governing and administrative functions necessary for the operation of the framework. The COST Association has currently 36 Member Countries. <a href="http://www.cost.eu">www.cost.eu</a></p>


1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Akiko Tsugawa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-127
Author(s):  
Kaelani Kaelani

Islamic Education Development Strategy Based on Interdisciplinary Approaches: Philosophical, Paedagogical, Psychological and Sociological. Indonesian Muslims, now is the time to think about how to anticipate and accommodate the development of science and technology in this post-modern era which is increasingly sticking out, which sometimes confuse humans themselves. This clearly has an impact on the perspective of the paradigm of human thinking in life, both at the upper middle and lower levels, especially for groups of people whose educational level is still relatively low, including the educated or the younger generation. To anticipate this, the community still believes that the path of education is considered very dominant or is obliged to form a moral human (integrating faith and science and technology in students), maturing students or call it: humanizing humans according to the human nature given by Allah SWT. Seeing the urgency of such a substantive existence of education for society now and in the future, for this reason the author is touched to conduct research based on an interdisciplinary approach: opinions of experts in education, science and technology and the environment. In this study, the authors used an analysis-descriptive-argumentative approach. Therefore, the writer contemplatively-ijtihadi will try to make a kind of strategic effort in developing alternative Islamic schools, meaning an effort to find or make a strategy from institutional, curriculum, process and Islamic evaluation while still paying attention to science and technology and the environment. So that it is truly a strategy to develop Islamic schools that are taqorrub-accommodative to quality education (Islamic schools) which are kaffah-feasable and acceptable.  Abstrak Strategi Pengembangan Pendidikan Islam Berdasarkan Pendekatan Interdisipliner: Filosofis, Paedagogis, Psikologis dan Sosiologis. Umat Islam Indonesia, sekarang sudah saatnya untuk memikirkan bagaimana upaya untuk mengantisipasi dan mengakomodasi perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi di era pasca-modern ini yang semakin hari semakin mencuat, yang terkadang manusia sendiri confuse dibuatnya. Hal ini jelas berdampak kepada perspektif paradigma berpikir manusia dalam kehidupannya, baik pada level menengah ke atas maupun ke bawah, lebih-lebih kepada kelompok manusia yang tingkat pendidikannya masih relatif rendah, termasuk juga kalangan terpelajar atau generasi mudanya. Untuk mengantisipasi hal tersebut masyarakat masih mempercayakan bahwa jalur pendidikan dianggap sangat dominan atau berkewajiban untuk membentuk manusia yang bermoral (mengintegrasikan imtaq dan iptek pada diri siswa), mendewasakan siswa atau sebut saja : memanusiakan manusia sesuai dengan fitrah insaniah yang diberikan Allah SWT. Melihat urgensi yang demikian substantif dari eksistensi pendidikan bagi masyarakat sekarang dan masa depan, untuk itu penulis terketuk hatinya mengadakan penelitian Berdasarkan Pendekatan Interdisipliner:Filosofis, Paedagogis, Psikologis dan Sosiologis] yang bersumber pada Al-Qur’an dan Al-Hadits, yang diintegrasikan dengan pendapat para ahli pendidikan, iptek dan evironment.  Dalam penelitian ini penulis menggunakan pendekatan metode analisis-deksriptif-argumentatif. Maka dari itu penulis secara kontemplatif-ijtihadi akan mencoba untuk membuat semacam upaya strategis dalam mengembangkan sekolah-sekolah Islam-alternatif, artinya suatu upaya mencari atau membuat strategi dari mulai kelembagaan, kurikulum, proses dan evaluasi yang Islami dengan tetap memperhatikan sisi iptek dan environment. Sehingga betul-betul merupakan suatu strategi pengembangan sekolah-sekolah Islam yang taqorrub-akomodatif kepada pendidikan (sekolah Islami) yang bermutu secara kaffah-feasable dan acceptable


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