Polarisation, incivility, and scientific debate during covid-19—an essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster

Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate

1. The Debate: Conceptual Themes 2. Function vs. Form: Rational Principles, Taxonomy, & Comparative Anatomy 3. Functional Anatomy vs. Philosophical Anatomy: Scientific Explanation in Comparative Anatomy 4. Observation vs. Hypothesis: The Role of Induction in 19th Century Science 5. Limited Variation (within embranchements [3]) vs. Teratological Evolution 6. After the Debate: Reinterpretations i...

Biomedical ontologies: toward scientific debate.

OBJECTIVES Biomedical ontologies have been very successful in structuring knowledge for many different applications, receiving widespread praise for their utility and potential. Yet, the role of computational ontologies in scientific research, as opposed to knowledge management applications, has not been extensively discussed. We aim to stimulate further discussion on the advantages and challen...

ESSAY How to Reject Any Scientific Manuscript

After a short overview of arguments pro and contra peer reviews, examples of gross misjudgement are compiled, followed by an attempt to identify some frequent, recurrent patterns of unjustified rejection of scientific manuscripts. A few specific questions are studied in more detail: the claim for still more precise and comprehensive definitions, the right way of handling ‘‘parallel theories’’, ...

Agnes Kovacs

The estimation of the tensile strength of certain brittle fibers at extremely short lengths from tensile strength measurements of these fibers at longer lengths is of fundamental importance in the theory of modern fiber composite materials. We examine a competing risks model in which the fiber strength arises as the minimum of two (independent) Weibull random variables having distinct Weibull e...

Agnes Gayibor_Master Thesis Final