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This book is a guide to writing scientific research proposals for submission to funding agencies. It approaches the topic by placing it in the larger context of planning and carrying out a research project, offering guidance on selecting a suitable research topic, organizing and planning the project, identifying a funding agency, writing the proposal, and managing the funded project. The book also discusses the ethical responsibilities of the researcher, the proposal review process, and how to deal with declination of a proposal. The author's 25 years of experience as an NSF program officer lend the book a unique insider's perspective on the proposal writing and research funding process. Because of that experience, the author is able to anticipate and answer the questions that researchers most frequently ask when preparing to write a proposal, and also to explain how program officers think about proposals when they are making funding decisions.

Science --- Research grants. --- Grants --- Grants, Research --- Grants-in-aid --- Scholarships --- Subsidies --- Federal aid to research --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Research grants --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology

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Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."

Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- History --- Newton, Isaac, --- Newton, Izaak, --- Niu-tun, --- Nʹi︠u︡ton, Isaak, --- Niutun, Yisake, --- Niyu̇ton, Isak, --- Nyuṭon, Ayzaḳ, --- Nyuṭon, Ayziḳ, --- ניוטאן, אייזאק, --- ניוטון, אייזק --- ניוטון, אייזיק --- 牛頓, --- 牛頓, 伊萨克,

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Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.

Science --- Scientific apparatus and instruments. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Apparatus, Scientific --- Instruments, Scientific --- Scientific instruments --- Research --- Technological innovations. --- Philosophy. --- Instruments --- Equipment and supplies --- Scientific apparatus and instruments --- Science - Philosophy --- Science - Technological innovations --- Philosophy --- Technological innovations --- analytical chemistry. --- astronomy. --- boyles law. --- chemical analysis. --- chemists. --- cyclotron. --- electric motor. --- epistemology. --- faraday. --- history of science. --- instrumentation. --- machines. --- material culture. --- mechanical models. --- natural philosophy. --- natural sciences. --- nonfiction. --- orreries. --- philosophy of science. --- philosophy. --- progress. --- science and technology. --- science. --- scientific experiments. --- scientific instruments. --- scientific knowledge. --- scientific labs. --- scientific method. --- social change. --- solar system. --- spectrometers. --- technology. --- tools. --- universe.

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From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic growth, leads to adaptation and escalation among organisms. Although disruptions in production halt or reverse these processes temporarily, they amplify escalation in the long run to produce trends in all economic systems toward greater power, higher production rates, and a wider reach for economic systems and their strongest members. Despite our unprecedented power to shape our surroundings, we humans are subject to all the economic principles and historical trends that emerged at life's origin more than 3 billion years ago. Engagingly written, brilliantly argued, and sweeping in scope, Nature: An Economic History shows that the human institutions most likely to preserve opportunity and adaptability are, after all, built like successful living things.

History of civilization --- Natural history --- Economic aspects --- Competitive Behavior. --- Economic Competition. --- Evolution. --- Economic aspects. --- 330 --- 338 <09> --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.100 --- Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse --- Economische geschiedenis --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- 330 Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse --- Science --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- History, Natural --- Physiophilosophy --- Competition, Economic --- Competitions, Economic --- Economic Competitions --- Commerce --- Behavior, Competitive --- Behaviors, Competitive --- Competitive Behaviors --- Biology --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Competitive behavior --- Competitiveness (Psychology) --- Conflict (Psychology) --- Interpersonal relations --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Philosophy --- Creation --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Competition --- Competition (Economics) --- Competitiveness (Economics) --- Economic competition --- Conglomerate corporations --- Covenants not to compete --- Industrial concentration --- Monopolies --- Open price system --- Supply and demand --- Trusts, Industrial --- Natural sciences --- Natural history - Economic aspects

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Huygens, Christiaan --- Science --- Scientists --- 51:93 --- biografieën --- Huygens Christiaan --- wiskunde --- #GGSB: Wetenschap --- 510 --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- 510 Fundamental and general considerations of mathematics. Foundations, logic etc. --- Fundamental and general considerations of mathematics. Foundations, logic etc. --- History --- Hugenius, Christianus --- 510.2 --- Centrifugale kracht --- Conische slinger --- Cycloïdale slinger --- Lenzen --- Slingeruurwerk --- Sterren --- Geschiedenis der wiskunde - Wiskundigen --- Wiskundigen --- Biografieën --- Geschiedenis --- Natuurkundigen --- Fysica --- Wiskunde --- Mechanica --- Optica --- Astronomie --- Slingerklokken --- 929 --- Christiaan Huygens --- Natural sciences --- 5 <09> --- 53 HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN --- 929 HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN --- 5 <09> Geschiedenis van wiskunde en natuurwetenschappen --- Geschiedenis van wiskunde en natuurwetenschappen --- 929 HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN --- Physics--HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN --- Wiskundige --- Biografie --- Natuurkundige --- Boekdrukkunst --- Film (cinematografie) --- Literatuur --- Geneeskunde --- Techniek (wetenschap) --- Atlas --- Museum --- Noorwegen --- Kafka, Franz --- Vlaanderen --- Vlaams --- Emigratie --- Vrouw --- Wetenschap