1 FCQeI-CIICAp-Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, Col. Chamilpa, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. 2 Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Reforma 113, Col. Palmira, C.P. 62490, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. 3 Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad s/n, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. Corrosión y Pr...

“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including alle...

Given the longstanding shortage of nurses in many jurisdictions, why could not nursing wages be raised to attract more people into the profession? We tell a story in which the status of nursing as a 'vocation' implies that increasing wages reduces the average quality of applicants attracted. The underlying mechanism accords with the notion that increasing wages might attract the 'wrong sort' of...

The manuscript serves as a window into nation's civilisation. Manuscripts, also known "Naskah Kuno" or Klasik" in the Malay world, have evolved important pieces of cultural history that need to be conserved. purpose is learn about and comprehend social conditions past investigate how culture science are absorbed, recorded, repeated. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) said civilization products variety fac...

Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology. This is partly a continuation of the Brahmans' role as literate service people, owing to their traditions of education, learning and literacy, but the range of professions shows that any direct co...

How has research on the Baltic space evolved over last thirty years? Can you perceive a different evolution depending universities/research groups/ countries (in particular when comparing American, French, Nordic or poles/centres)? Which issues have been left out of until today? Generally speaking, sometimes had difficulties to arouse vocations. do explain that? Are perceptions specialists comi...