First, the story challenges the medical "establishment" and the efficacy of medical science in bringing about results: Pat doesn't take his medication because he doesn't like how it makes him feel — and because it makes him gain weight, whereas he wants to be svelte and buff in order to win his wife back.
In either case, however, the account given is intended to explain the efficacy of the science of astrology.
To optimally exploit this potential is in the efficacy of transforming advances of science and technology into pecuniary benefits through entrepreneurship-enabled innovation.
The SEM presented in this study confirms that students' interests, attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and images of science exert direct and indirect effects on students' perception of future job or career expectation.
Students' interests, attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and images of science and scientists interact (Dimopoulos and Smyrnaiou 2005; Schreiner and Sjøberg 2004) and consequently affect their achievement (Jones et al. 2000; Britner and Pajares 2006; Siegel and Ranney 2003) as well as their study and career choices and personal and social lives (Cleaves 2005; Britner 2008; Schibeci and Lee 2003).
There is a huge body of literature describing the science behind this type of approach but only relatively few clinical trials that shed light on the feasibility and efficacy of turning this interesting science into useful medicine [1].
Analysis of international assessments of 15-year-olds also reveals that levels of science self-efficacy are gender-patterned (OECD 2015, p. 84).
We also documented overall high levels of adaptive forms of science motivation (self-efficacy, interest, mastery goals) and provided evidence that students did indeed perceive the pharmacology enrichment program as aligned with our motivational design principles.
The saga has raised anew perennial questions about the responsibility of senior authors on a paper and the efficacy of the peer-review process although Science has learned that an initial paper on the stem cell method was rejected by Cell, Science, and Nature.
Others turn this argument around, insisting that the alleged efficacy of biological and other "special science" properties is by no means sacrosanct (Antony 1995).
