AFOSR Interim Scientific Report, Grant AFOSR-81-0116.

In many public policy areas, such as climate change, news media reports about scientific research play an important role. In presenting their research, scientists are providing guidance to the public regarding public policy choices. How do people decide which scientists and scientific claims to believe? This is a question we address by drawing on the psychology of persuasion. We propose the hypothesis that people are more likely to believe local scientists than national or international scientists. We test this hypothesis with an experiment embedded in a national Internet survey. Our experiment yielded null findings, showing that people do not discount or ignore research findings on climate change if they come from Europe instead of Washington-based scientists or a leading university in a respondent’s home state. This reinforces evidence that climate change beliefs are relatively stable, based on party affiliation, and not malleable based on the source of the scientific report.

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Software tool for calculating the predicted environmental concentrations (PEC) of plant protection products (PPP) in soil for permanent and annual crops: External scientific report (Final report)

EFSA Supporting Publications ◽

10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.en-1761 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (12) ◽

Author(s):

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Lieve Decorte ◽

Ingeborg Joris ◽

Stijn Van Looy ◽

Jan Bronders

Keyword(s):

Plant Protection ◽

Software Tool ◽

Plant Protection Products ◽

Final Report ◽

Annual Crops ◽

Environmental Concentrations ◽

Predicted Environmental Concentrations ◽

Scientific Report

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Development of Competitive Skills in Future Mechanical Engineers

ASME 2010 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, Volume 2 ◽

10.1115/esda2010-24494 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

F. Jorge Lino ◽

Teresa P. Duarte

Keyword(s):

Teaching Method ◽

Scientific Article ◽

Good Tool ◽

Teaching Methodologies ◽

Innovative Teaching ◽

Continuous Evaluation ◽

University Courses ◽

Scientific Report ◽

The Web ◽

Innovative Teaching Method

Nowadays, the Web is a common tool for students searching information about the subjects taught in the different university courses. Although this is a good tool for the first rapid knowledge, a more deep study is usually demanded. After many years of teaching one course about ceramic and composite materials, the authors, used the Bologna reformulation of the mechanical engineering course to introduce new teaching methodologies based on continuous evaluation. One of the main innovations is one practical work that comprises the study of a recent ceramic scientific article, using all the actual available tools, elaboration of a scientific report, present the work and participate in a debate. With this innovative teaching method the enrolment of the students was enhanced with a better knowledge about the ceramics subject and the skills related with the CDIO competences.

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Why Accept Stories About China?

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.58.3.464a ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

pp. 464-465

Author(s):

Robert O. Fisch

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

American Academy ◽

The United States ◽

Official Journal ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

The People ◽

Scientific Report

I am always amazed by the fascination of the American public with the "stories" from behind the Bamboo Curtain. The data of Dr. Wray in his article1 are biased, i.e., "I was told," etc. Any other article based upon similarly described data, especially from the United States, would not even be considered for publication by an editor, especially not by the editors of the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Wray's last sentence, "... Chairman Mao's command: ‘Serve the People!’" sounds more like a Marxist manifesto than the conclusion of a scientific report.

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