Axiological grounds for a prospective engineer training

A prospective investigation of injury incidence and risk factors among army recruits in combat engineer training

BACKGROUND United States Army combat engineer (ENG) training is an intense 14-week course designed to introduce new recruits to basic soldiering activities, Army values and lifestyle, and engineering skills and knowledge. The present investigation examined injury rates and injury risk factors in ENG training. METHODS At the start of their training, 1,633 male ENG recruits were administered a ...

Toward a Purely Axiological Scientific Realism

The axiological tenet of scientific realism, ‘‘science seeks true theories,’’ is generally taken to rest on a corollary epistemological tenet, ‘‘we can justifiably believe that our successful theories achieve (or approximate) that aim.’’ While important debates have centered on, and have led to the refinement of, the epistemological tenet, the axiological tenet has suffered from neglect. I offe...

Axiological Categories for Designing the System of Technical Education

The article presents a systemic approach to axiological categories in the model creating a coherent and co-existing hierarchy. The proposed solutions constitute a clear indication for seeking criteria of human life quality beyond the categories which are exclusively economic defining only the state of possessing (“having”), pushing the personal – subjective and autonomous development of a human...

Coffee: grounds for concern?

C aff eine is the most widely ingested nonregulated substance on earth. A major portion of this drug is consumed as coff ee, with an annual production of over 7.8 million metric tons. Over 2.5 billion cups of coff ee are consumed worldwide each day. Given its popularity, it is hard to conceive of how Western civilization might begin each workday without this critical liquid allotment. Despite t...

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee