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Stewart Shapiro • Philosophy of Science
(1983)
The subject of this paper is the philosophical problem of accounting for the relationship between mathematics and non-mathematical reality. The first section, devoted to the importance of the problem, suggests that many of the reasons for e...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/289138
Deborah Loewenberg Ball • The Elementary School Journal
(1993)
Ideas like "understanding," "authenticity," and "community" are central in current debates about curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Many believe that teaching and learning would be improved if classrooms were organized to engage stude...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/461730
John Maynard Smith • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1968)
This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological problems can be expressed mathematically, and shows how the mathema...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511565144
Yulun Cheng, Longxiang Yang • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
(2015)
This paper presents an opportunistic reception (OR) algorithm for energy-efficient transmission in cooperative wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where the characteristics of random linear network coding and the energy consumption property of...
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DOI: 10.1155/2015/238386
Roberto Montemanni, Sara Ceschia, Andrea Schaerf • EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
(2025)
Home healthcare has become more and more central in the last decades, due to the advantages it can bring to both healthcare institutions and patients. Planning activities in this context, however, presents significant challenges related to ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejco.2024.100101
Jianjun Cao, Bailing An, Enran Hou, Fuzhang Wang • Frontiers in Physics
(2026)
This study presents a novel local meshless approach for solving one-dimensional Fisher’s equation, combining a local scheme, Gaussian radial basis functions (G-RBF), and a collocation technique. The method leverages the Gaussian basis’s non...
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DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2026.1792548
Michael D. Resnik • Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-4549
Christian Greiffenhagen • British Journal of Sociology
(2014)
Sociology has been accused of neglecting the importance of material things in human life and the material aspects of social practices. Efforts to correct this have recently been made, with a growing concern to demonstrate the materiality of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12037
Rafaely Angelica Fonseca Bandeira, Antonio de Souza Araujo, Almir Mariano de Sousa Junior, Francisco Odair Filgueira Junior • Vetor
(2021)
A indústria da construção civil utiliza asfaltenos oriundos de petróleo na fabricação do CBUQ - Concreto Betuminoso Usinado a Quente desde tempos mais remotos. Hoje, o CBUQ é amplamente utilizado para construção de estradas no país. Para a ...
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Khan Mohsin, Sheheryar Shah, Amra Al Kenany, Meshal Shutaywi et al. • Discover Nano
(2026)
Abstract In the modern era, energy has become a vital concern across all sectors, while efficient energy generation remains a significant challenge for scientists and engineers. To overcome this issue, researchers have developed ternary hyb...
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DOI: 10.1186/s11671-026-04821-1
Hong Sheng, Wei Wang, Rong Dai, Jing Ning et al. • Nanomaterials
(2021)
Uniform flowerlike microspheres Cd2+/Fe3+ co-doped BiOBr were prepared with the aid of the microwave hydrothermal process. The results indicate that the degradation performance of Bi1−xCdxOBr and Bi1−xFexOBr are 1.31 and 2.05 times that of ...
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DOI: 10.3390/nano11020423
Kamilla L. Lomborg, Carolina Cucart-Mora, Jan-Olaf Reschke, Christine Hertler et al. • Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
(2026)
In a world of drastic climatic and ecological changes, our knowledge of how the environment influenced hominin behaviour is of the utmost importance. Archaeology plays a key role in this domain, as it is the only discipline that studies emp...
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DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.212
• Routledge eBooks
(2013)
Contents: Preface. Part I: P. Cobb, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Mathematics Learning. P. Cobb, B. Jaworski, N. Presmeg, Emergent and Sociocultural Views of Mathematical Activity. J. Voigt, Negotiation of Mathematical Me...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053126
DAVYDOVA, Nadezhda, LUKASHEVICH, Dmitry, BYKOV, Dmitry, VASIUK, Valery et al. • Journal of Engineering Science (Chişinău)
(2020)
Biomechanical analysis of motions solves the tasks of efficiency estimation of movement realization, search of technique optimal variants and tactics of motion performance, definition of a degree and reasons of not matching real movement ac...
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3949690
LI Wenwen, YUAN Ruiming, ZHOU Hui, WANG Guoxing et al. • Diance yu yibiao
(2026)
Aiming at the influence of the fast, large range and random change of dynamic load current on the electricity metering, this paper firstly establishes a non-stationary random process modulation model and bimodal modulation model for complex...
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DOI: 10.19753/j.issn1001-1390.2026.01.020
Kathryn Crawford, Sue Gordon, Jackie Nicholas, Michael Prosser • Studies in Higher Education
(1998)
A Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire was developed, designed to provide an indicator of the nature of students' conceptions of the subject matter they were studying. The scales of the questionnaire were based upon a set of conceptions...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079812331380512
Horst R. Thieme • Princeton University Press eBooks
(2003)
"The formulation, analysis, and re-evaluation of mathematical models in population biology has become a valuable source of insight to mathematicians and biologists alike. This book presents an overview and selected sample of these results a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187655
Ciyun Lin, Bowen Gong • Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
(2016)
This study presents methods of transit signal priority without transit-only lanes for a transit-based emergency evacuation in a sudden-onset disaster. Arterial priority signal coordination is optimized when a traffic signal control system p...
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DOI: 10.1155/2016/3625342
Edgar Chávez, Verónica Ludueña, Nora Reyes, Fernando Kasián • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
(2018)
Given a collection of n objects equipped with a distance function d(·, ·), the Nearest Neighbor Graph (NNG) consists in finding the nearest neighbor of each object in the collection. Without an index the total cost of NNG is quadratic. Usin...
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DOI: 10.24215/16666038.18.e07
Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2014)
This book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an 'inclusive ma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139600378