We found higher correlations between items representing more global skills such as "understanding a research journal article" (from the Skills section) and the item "formulating a research question that can be answered with data" (r = 0.47) from the Thinking and Working Like a Scientist section.
Conversely, the Skills items might be more coherent if split between specific skills, such as keeping a detailed lab notebook, and general or cognitive skills similar to those in the Thinking and Working Like a Scientist section, such as managing time and understanding journal articles.
The Scientists Abroad section is gathering useful information for researchers interested in moving to a particular country: a global visa guide for Austria and tips on moving to Denmark, for example.
Wimsatt (1979) suggests that Nagel's and Schaffner's focus on in-principle considerations and the context of justification, to the exclusion of in-practice considerations and the context of discovery, leads to misunderstandings about the nature of reductionism debates, including historical and current controversy among scientists (see Section 2).
In the case of ATP, we relied on an analogy (one of miniature rechargeable batteries) to introduce the concept through a Scientists' Ideas section.
For the longer view, scientists studied sections of more than 200 ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees, some living, some dead, some almost 1,000 years old.
The intrepid scientists monitored sections of the cave for a month, looking for life using pitfall traps baited with cheese.
Hubbs observes that Cott is both an artist and a naturalist as well as a scientist: "In section after section, rivaling one another in fascination, this master of art and of natural history unfolds the biological significance of adaptive coloration in animals".
Update, Oct. 29 | Bryan Walsh's Sandy reflection in Time includes this vital section: Scientists disagree on exactly how climate change will affect future tropical storms.
First results from the encounter, announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, suggest the asteroid, small though it is, is covered with a layer of dust.In this section Scientists behaving badly A dusty neighbour Making new things Phoning ET Reprints.
