MinervaPub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09533-3
M. Chankseliani
{"title":"David P. Baker and Justin J.W. Powell, Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations and Knowledge Production","authors":"M. Chankseliani","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09533-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09533-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141380782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.47460/minerva.v5i14.160
Jenniffer Alexandra Agila Tufino, Ivette Andrea Moya Reina, Alcides Muentes Segundo Garcia, R. E. Cevallos Cedeno
{"title":"Obtaining and characterization of biodiesel by transesterification from sunflower oil","authors":"Jenniffer Alexandra Agila Tufino, Ivette Andrea Moya Reina, Alcides Muentes Segundo Garcia, R. E. Cevallos Cedeno","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v5i14.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v5i14.160","url":null,"abstract":"The present work proposes the process for obtaining biodiesel from the transesterification of commercial sunflower oil. Characterization of the oil was carried out considering the acidity index, the peroxide index, the humidity, and the density, using the test method established by the Ecuadorian Technical Standard. To obtain biodiesel, the oil was transesterified, a process in which a triglyceride reacted with an alcohol to form esters and glycerol. The biodiesel obtained was characterized according to ASTM and EN standards. Parameters such as density, kinematic viscosity, humidity, and acid number were analyzed at 30 min, 45 min, and 60 min. It is concluded that sunflower oil is a good alternative for obtaining biodiesel, being within the established international standards.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141279616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.47460/minerva.v5i14.161
Edisson Lascano, Alba Alay, Fredy Rivadeneira
{"title":"Use of GeoGebra as a didactic resource for the solution of linear ordinary differential equations","authors":"Edisson Lascano, Alba Alay, Fredy Rivadeneira","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v5i14.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v5i14.161","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work was to statistically test whether the free software GeoGebra is useful as a didactic tool to facilitate the teaching-learning process of linear ordinary differential equations (ODE). For this purpose, we worked with a group of engineering students who, in the first instance, were taught traditionally, while in the second phase, GeoGebra was used as a didactic support tool to improve understanding and facilitate the solution of these equations. The grades obtained by the students in each stage of the process were used to perform the Wilcoxon nonparametric test for two related samples applying the free software R, which showed that the didactic strategy implemented allowed the students to achieve a better understanding of the basic theory of linear ODEs.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141234509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09530-6
Öznur Karakaş
{"title":"The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec","authors":"Öznur Karakaş","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09530-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09530-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>E-science, or networked, collaborative and multidisciplinary scientific research on a shared e-infrastructure using computational tools, methods and applications, has also brought about new networked organizational forms in the transition of higher education towards the entrepreneurial academy. While the under-representation of women in ICTs is well-recorded, it is also known that the potential of new organizational forms such as networked structures to promote gender equality remains ambiguous, as they tend to perpetuate already existing inequalities due to their embeddedness in larger and longer-term structural or institutional gender effects. Based on a year-long ethnographic study in a networked academic e-science collaboration in Sweden and 45 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with its affiliated researchers, this article analyzes the multi-level obstacles to achieving gender equality in e-science to highlight the ways in which gendered disparities persist in this new, project-based academic networked organization in Sweden, hereafter called eSec. At the <i>organizational level</i> eSec remains deeply embedded in the traditional disciplinary and institutional academic setting, inadvertently reproducing existing gender imbalances across sciences. Furthermore, as a project-based organization, it is also embedded in the shift towards an entrepreneurial university model driven by new managerialism, the latter having a well-documented adverse effect in gender equality. This represents <i>a structural-level</i> obstacle which leads to especially female junior faculty leaving academy for industry. An <i>individual level</i> obstacle is observed alongside these as disavowal (<i>Verleugnung</i>) of gender disparities, an affect identified as a key mechanism of subjectivation in neoliberalism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.47460/minerva.v5i14.159
Jose Arturo Asanza Choez, Rodrigo Rogerio Asanza Choez, Yhonny Alberto Pincay Mendoza
{"title":"Digital marketing in higher education","authors":"Jose Arturo Asanza Choez, Rodrigo Rogerio Asanza Choez, Yhonny Alberto Pincay Mendoza","doi":"10.47460/minerva.v5i14.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47460/minerva.v5i14.159","url":null,"abstract":"Digital marketing is undoubtedly a source of technological learning, proving invaluable in universities. The purpose of this work was to explore the incorporation of digital marketing in higher education programs. A quantitative methodology was employed to establish the strategies implemented by the teachers, considering a population of 100 students and four teachers who are experts in digital marketing. Among the main results is that virtual classes have enabled students to enhance their innovative skills, meeting the academic requirements set by the teachers. Therefore, it can be concluded that using technology in a marketing career significantly influences the development of skills and knowledge for future career success.","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141280409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09526-2
Jochen Gläser
{"title":"From Effects of Governance to Causes of Epistemic Change","authors":"Jochen Gläser","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09526-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09526-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper I argue that the attempts by science studies to identify epistemic effects of new governance instruments have largely failed. I suggest two main reasons for this failure. The first reason is that neither quantitative nor qualitative studies of effects of governance instruments meet the respective methodological standards for establishing causality. While much of this could be repaired, the second reason is more severe: given the complex causal web between governance and knowledge production and the multi-level nature of causation, a strategy that starts from a particular governance instrument and tries to identify its effects cannot work. I propose to reverse this strategy by starting from the observation of epistemic change and applying a strategy of “causal reconstruction” (Mayntz), which identifies the causes of this epistemic change and among them the contribution by governance. This approach has the advantage of starting from well-identified change. Challenges posed by the new approach include the empirical identification of epistemic change and the need to integrate sociological methods in science policy studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141170221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-05-25DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09527-1
Raquel Velho, Michael Gastrow, Caroline Mason, Marina Ulguim, Yoliswa Sikhosana
{"title":"What is the Space for “Place” in Social Studies of Astronomy?","authors":"Raquel Velho, Michael Gastrow, Caroline Mason, Marina Ulguim, Yoliswa Sikhosana","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09527-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09527-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>All large-scale telescope facilities are constructed within a geographical, social, historical, and political context that includes nested layers at the global, national, and local levels. However, discussions about the geographic siting of astronomy facilities, for example, the communities in which they are embedded or the interactions between the facility and its locale, are uncommon in social science studies of astronomy, and no extant review focused on this gap in the literature. In this literature review and discourse analysis, we explore the ways in which research about astronomy facilities and their local communities has emerged, and the extent to which it focuses on the Global South. We find that literature addressing the social and policy aspects of astronomy facilities has an emphasis on the Global North. However, literature addressing host communities has an emphasis on the Global South. Broadly, the discourses related to host communities in the Global South have emerged from reflections on the controversies related to large-scale telescopes in Hawai’i, Chile, and South Africa. One common theme linking these discourses is that a focus on benefits at the national and international levels obscures a range of problematic power dynamics and outcomes at the local level. The notion of the Global South as an ‘empty space’ in which astronomical observation does not constitute impactful action amongst local communities, is challenged by discourses that centre local contexts, and challenged by discourses that employ conceptual frameworks with a focus on revealing power dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141153872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09529-z
Nick Hacking, Jamie Lewis, Robert Evans
{"title":"Mapping Approaches to ‘Citizen Science’ and ‘Community Science’ and Everything In-between: The Evolution of New Epistemic Territory?","authors":"Nick Hacking, Jamie Lewis, Robert Evans","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09529-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09529-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1007/s11024-024-09532-4
Joris Mercelis
{"title":"Eric S. Hintz, American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D","authors":"Joris Mercelis","doi":"10.1007/s11024-024-09532-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09532-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140962461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MinervaPub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1007/s11024-023-09517-9
Steven Brint, Megan Webb, Benjamin Fields
{"title":"An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression","authors":"Steven Brint, Megan Webb, Benjamin Fields","doi":"10.1007/s11024-023-09517-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09517-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years an uneasy peace has descended in U.S. academe between those who feel research universities have done too little to advance the representation of minority groups and women and those who feel that the administrative policies developed to improve representation can and sometimes do come into conflict with core intellectual commitments of universities. Using quantitative and qualitative evidence from interviews with 47 natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics faculty members at a U.S. research university, the paper examines the background characteristics of three sets of protagonists - academic progressives, academic traditionalists, and those whose views bridge the divide - and the way respondents discussed and justified their viewpoints. The paper draws on the theory of strategic action fields to illuminate the structure and dynamics of the conflict and suggests modifications to the theory that would improve its explanatory power for this case.</p>","PeriodicalId":47427,"journal":{"name":"Minerva","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}