US science policy: Room at the top

Top 40 Priorities for Science to Inform US Conservation and Management Policy

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Victim-Oriented Criminal Policy in Respect to the Patients With AIDs Through a Glance at the US Regulations

Like the Other Citizens, The Patients With AIDs Have Certain Rights. The First Right That Can be Recounted as a victim-Oriented Support for the Individuals With AIDs is the Safeguarding of the Health Right of this Set of Victims Which is Named the Victim-Oriented Criminal Policy and this Right is Amongst the Examples of the Fundamental Human Rights. In Case of an Individual’s Infliction With a ...

Public values and public failure in US science policy

Domestic science policy in the United States is linked inextricably to economic thinking. We seek to develop a practical analytical framework that confronts the manifest problems of economic valuing for science and technology activities. We argue that pervasive use of market valuation, market-failure assumptions and economic metaphors shapes the structure of science policy in undesirable ways. ...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

2 Room at the Bottom , Plenty of Tyranny at the Top

Richard Feynman is generally regarded as one of the fathers of nanotechnology. In giving his landmark presentation to the American Physical Society on December 29, 1959, at Caltech, his title line was, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” At that time, Feynman extended an invitation for “manipulating and controlling things on a small scale, thereby entering a new field of physics which wa...