Enlightenment in polymer science

Knowledge Science and Technology: Operationalizing the Enlightenment

The aspirations and achievements of research and applications in knowledge-based systems are reviewed and placed in the context of the evolution of information technology, and our understanding of human expertise and knowledge processes. Future developments are seen as a continuation of a long-term process of operationalizing the rational stance to human knowledge processes adopted in the enlig...

Childhood, identity and human science in the Enlightenment.

Data Science of Stroke Imaging and Enlightenment of the Penumbra

Imaging protocols of acute ischemic stroke continue to hold significant uncertainties regarding patient selection for reperfusion therapy with thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy. Given that patient inclusion criteria can easily introduce biases that may be unaccounted for, the reproducibility and reliability of the patient screening method is of utmost importance in clinical trial design....

Technological Enlightenment in Russia

Peter the Great brought technological enlightenment to Russia. In his lifetime, two special schools for training engineers were established, the Engineering School in 1700, and the Mathematical-Navigation School in 1701. Peter the Great introduced engineering training into other institutions as well, not only into the Naval Academy, but also regimental schools and even religious colleges. (See ...

In the shadow of the Enlightenment. Occultism and Renaissance science in eighteenth-century America