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    RESEARCH ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. A TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDY

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    Research on Scientific Research sets out to explain how scientific research is conducted. Editors Mauro Maldonato and Ricardo Pietrobon and Contributors focus on the emerging inter/transdisciplinary dimensions of research. They use an approach grounded in the sciences of complexity to counteract the disciplinary fragmentation and decontextualization created by a reductionist approach. ... The underlying theme throughout all the chapters is a practical focus on improving the way practitioners conduct and educate for scientific research. By rejecting the reductionistic approach to science, the authors propose research platforms that offer a broader perspective on the nature and practice of research, and the implications thereof for more complex and productive research environments. ... This volume combines leading-edge essays that focus on the inter/ transdisciplinary study of research systems, from a group of international researchers from Italy, the UK and the United States. While the book is essential reading for all those involved in planning scientific research projects, the arguments put forward for the conduct of research have broader implications and applications for the social sciences and education

    Double-inhibitor and uncoupler-inhibitor titrations. 2. Analysis with a nonlinear model of chemiosmotic energy coupling.

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    The results of double-inhibitor and uncoupler-inhibitor titrations have been simulated and analyzed with a nonlinear model of delocalized protonic coupling obtained by linking two proton pump models of the kind studied by Pietrobon and Caplan [Pietrobon, D., & Caplan, S. R. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 5764-5776] through their common intermediate delta mu H. It is shown that the results predicted by a delocalized chemiosmotic model are highly dependent on the kind of relationships existing between rate of ATP synthesis, Jp, and delta mu H and rate of electron transfer, Je, and delta mu H. With nonlinear flow-force relationships all the results reported so far are not necessarily inconsistent with the delocalized chemiosmotic model provided that the relationships between rates and delta mu H satisfy the following requirements: Jp/delta mu H increases and/or Je/delta mu H decreases as (delta mu H) increases

    PENSARE LA SCIENZA

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    Pensare la scienza: Un volume in cui la ricerca scientifica diventa essa stessa oggetto di indagine Affrontando da prospettive disciplinari differenti molteplici temi - dagli ambiti neurobiologici dell'individualità, della memoria e della coscienza alla singolarità linguistico-epistemologica della psicologia; dalle questioni del riduzionismo alle conseguenze dei "neuroni specchio" nell'interpretazione di fenomeni come l'empatia; dalla relazione cervello-memoria-storia alla creatività; dalle procedure delle scienze biomediche alla relazione tra ricerca e integrazione dei saperi - i saggi raccolti mostrano come, nelle sue consuete procedure, la ricerca scientifica non sia né più né meno "razionale" di qualsiasi altra attività uman

    Making sense of a complex world using our cognitively limited minds: A proposal for an empirical innovation model in biomedical research.

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    Innovation has multiple dimensions. Its application in the domain of business systems, research, institutions and, more generally, in the cultural domain requires original strategies and a new way of looking at reality. The subject of innovation can only be addressed through an indirect approach which points out the mental activities that can translate into original and creative strategies
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