SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO FITNESS CONSULTANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY STANDARDIZATION

Scientific approaches to science policy

The development of robust science policy depends on use of the best available data, rigorous analysis, and inclusion of a wide range of input. While director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), I took advantage of available data and emerging tools to analyze training time distribution by new NIGMS grantees, the distribution of the number of publications as a function ...

Maintaining Professional Competence : Approaches to Career

[Scientific approaches to the Mexican mestizo].

The colonial category of mestizo was an ideological tool that shaped national identity in the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. The Indian-mestizo axis functioned to organize the ethnic and political interactions of the state. Doctors and anthropologists reinforced this dual taxonomy in studies of human populations, using biomedical markers to produce differentiated descriptions of the India...

Economic Approaches to Understanding Scientific Norms

A theme of much work taking an “economic approach” to the study of science is the interaction between the norms of individual scientists and those of society at large. Though drawing from the same suite of formal methods, proponents of the economic approach offer what are in substantive terms profoundly different explanations of various aspects of the structure of science. The differences are i...

Neuro–Fuzzy Approaches to Collaborative Scientific Computing

Rapid advances in High Performance Computing (HPC) and the Internet are heralding a paradigm shift to network– based scientific software servers, libraries, repositories and problem solving environments. According to this new paradigm, vital pieces of software and information required for a computation are distributed across a network and need to be identified and ‘linked’ together at run time;...