These studies investigate children's use of scientific reasoning to infer the reality status of novel entities. Four- to 8-year-olds heard about novel entities and were asked to infer their reality status from 3 types of evidence: supporting evidence, irrelevant evidence, and no evidence. Experiment 1 revealed that children used supporting versus irrelevant and no evidence differentially. Exper...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced a set of health status indicators in 1990 in response to a need for health status measures that present a broad overview of health and can be used by various levels of government (1). The indicators include 18 measures of health status and/or factors that put individuals at increased risk of disease or premature mortality. The developmen...

The logical empiricists expressed a consistent attitude to racial categorisation in both the ethical and scientific spheres. Their attitude may be captured in the following slogan: human racial taxonomy is an empirically meaningful mode of classifying persons that we should refrain from deploying. I offer an interpretation of their position that would render coherent their remarks on race with ...

A critical issue for scientific investigators is ready access to the large volume of data generated by large scale supercomputer simulations and physical experiments. This paper describes the current status of a collaborative effort which focuses on managing data produced by climate modeling applications. The project is aimed at signifcantly improving the accessibility and ease of use of large ...

A scientific management information system is the way forward for modern scientific management. The management status and layout of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences is introduced. By comparing the Client/Server and Browser/Server models, a structure combining both models is described together with its network topology. Having analyzed the functional requirements of the management informa...

The nature and role of folk psychology is a very delicate issue within the philosophy of science. Although it is one of the main problems within the psychology of mind its status and usefulness is on the fierce debates. In the present paper intend to show that despite the progress of scientific psychology, or better, because of it, the nature of relationship of folk and scientific psychology wi...