The present paper gives a summary of the development of more and more sophisticated validation strategies up to the present trend for science-based validation approaches.
As far as epistemology is concerned, the critical philosophy constitutes a theory of science that agrees with current trends, for science must have a base that is empirical though also real.
During a recent conversation with computer scientist Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington, Seattle, he alerted Science Careers to a very impressive analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) looking into trends for science-related jobs and predictions for job growth between the present and 2020.
Quite apart from the domestic consequences, Winnacker has warned policy-makers that Germany is running against the current international trend toward increased funding for science and research institutes--a trend that holds despite the fact that those countries are also suffering from less-than-robust economies.
We discovered a number of interesting trends with direct relevance for science policy.
We needed to ensure that any trend in PubMed abstracts was specific for science rather than reflecting general trends in words used in society.
This model bears some conceptual relationship to the recent trend in computing science for component-based or component-oriented software engineering – in which new programs are constructed by reusing programme components, which may be available in libraries.
"It has been the trend in life science for the past 20 years," says Christoph Borchers, who recently left his position as faculty director in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's proteomics core facility to move to the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
The trend toward "big science" calls for the development of systems for managing and evaluating large scale, multi-site, collaborative scientific research initiatives.
The researchers attribute the trend to a strengthening of support for science in general.Attention-grabbing protests by extremists who oppose animal testing have waned over recent years, thanks mostly to the work of a specialised police unit.
But some researchers contend that the trend toward short articles is also better for science.
