Search Results for applied research

... a sustainable process for fostering scientific advances and selective production of state-of-the-art deliverables that support military operational needs, often with collateral significant benefits to the civilian sector. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 R&D policy fundamental research applied...

... of the university and business that has shifted the focus to applied research over teaching per se not only has heightened the intrinsic prestige of research in tenure but has also turned the university into a corporation, prompting...

...- demia selects the best projects for funding 1 Thus, although university re- search encompasses ‘‘basic research, applied research, and development basic research, now called ‘‘curiosity researchdrivenbyasheer inter...

... specializing in the new discipline. The need to implement proper governance of the frontier pushed anthropological research of the frontier toward the more pragmatic direc- tion of applied anthropology. Wu Wenzao suggested, “Applied anthropology is mainly used in the West today to aid colonial...

... of the 1990s” and she is the principal investigator for and editor of the Protectorate of Silence research project ( https://protectorateofsilence.bham.ac.uk/ ). She is the editor of a blog on sexual violence at wartime. Prior to that, she was a research associate in applied linguistics/psycholinguistics...

..., and that we must be cognizant of setting our selected range into a much broader context of time. And yet, conventionally, medievalists do not apply this framework to other aspects of the discipline's design. For example, they do not extend the same flexibility that they do to temporal scope to geographic...

... Research Centre. His recent work includes Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-­Prosperity (2005); an edited volume, Re-­Politicizing the Kyoto School as Philosophy (2008); and A Very Short Introduction to Modern Japan (2009). Jim Merod is professor of American...

..., motivation) to be tapped into at will by the military high command. A similar point applies to the indus- trial, mineral, and agricultural resources of France and many other nation- states. Given the complete mobilization of society’s resources involved in total war, it is therefore not surprising...

... Kong Polytechnic Univer- sity China Social Work Research Centre, and an associate professor in the Depart- ment of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her repre- sentative work is Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Durham, N.C.: Duke University...

... and parcel of the discursive community of science, even though they did not engage directly in research and appli- cation in the natural sciences. These intellectuals not only endowed their cultural activities with scientific meaning but also imitated the language of science in their discourse, so...

... of Minnesota Press. DeShazo, Peter, and Johanna Forman. 2010. Latin America and the Middle East: The Dynamic of an Evolving Relationship. Miami: Florida International Uni- versity: Applied Research Center. Dinges, John. 2004. The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terror- ism to Three Continents...

... focused on ‘‘scientific method which was identified with the quest to dis- cover laws of behavior and a ‘‘preference for concrete, empirical work 25 Paul Lazarsfeld’s Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University was an exemplary center of methodological expertise pursuing an explicitly...

..., Buick, Honda, Bluebird, Nissan, Sonata, Audi, Citron, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens), the privatization of state enterprises, the transferring of state-owned means of production to private enterprises, and the high technology applied in production, all these conspire to force thousands...

... of the political potential of aesthetic modernism. More than a mere theoretical appreciation of the avant-garde, Benjamin’s work represents a sustained attempt to apply modernist methods of production to the practice of theory itself. Benjamin’s experiments carry the expectation that the reception of theory...

..., or its effect. The other approach can be called hermeneutic. On the materialist assumption that language is I gratefully acknowledge the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society for enabling me to share this research at the Society for Biblical Literature Con...

... Eskridge, Josh Kleinfeld, Simon Lazarus, Richard Posner, Stephen Presser, and a discussion group at Northwestern Law School for helpful comments, and to Marcia Lehr for research assistance. 1. 505 U.S. 833 (1992). 2. Id. at 999 (Scalia, J., dissenting). boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659...

... and ever expanding field of empirical research has substantially increased information about, but has provided no unified theory of, society. The seem- ing opaqueness of such a claim is due, in turn, to a profound naïveté...

... An- thony Oberschall, Empirical Social Research in Germany, 1848–1914 (New York: Basic Books, 1965). In the late 1890s, Du Bois applied for a position with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the director, Carroll Wright, published some of Du Bois’s early publications. Wright learned a good deal about...

...Michael Kimmage Abstract Michael Kimmage reviews a textbook recently published by Anthony Grafton and David Bell, The West: A New History , identifying this book as a splendidly researched and written contribution both to the history of Europe and to ongoing debates about the scope, meaning...

...Lawrence Venuti Despite the increased attention that translation has received in conjunction with the newly revived topic of “world literature,” translation research and practice continue to be marginal in comparative literature as the field has developed in the United States. The evidence...