Genome Know-How

Plant genome values: how much do we know?

Plants are the basis of life on earth. We cannot overemphasize their importance. The value of plant genome initiatives is self-evident. The need is to identify priorities for action. The angiosperm genome is highly variable, but the extent of this variability is unknown. Uncertainties remain about the number of genes and the number of species living. Many plants will become extinct before they ...

legal protection of know how

unlike patent, there are not clear legal rules to protect know how in iranian law, then intellectual property law theories require to afford protection to know haw and its owner. the protection rules may be provided under contractual bases or under law. approaches of legal systems towards the terms and rules of the protection are different. in iranian legal system some protection rules are foun...

How Scientists Know What Babies Know

How do we know that we know what we know?

How Science Works’ is now the focus of the national science specifications in English schools. This article is a brief introduction to the philosophy of science from the Greeks to the present day that underpins this notion. From September 2006, the emphasis for teaching science at GCSE is on ‘How Science Works’. This focus will also shape the revisions of the AS and A2 specifications from Septe...

How do people know?

To fully understand processes of knowing and knowledge acquisition, it is necessary to examine people's understanding of their own knowing. Individual and developmental differences in what it means to know something, and hence in the criteria for justifying knowledge claims, have potentially wide-ranging implications. In providing support for a claim, young children have difficulty differentiat...