SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT

quran and new scientific discoveries

abstract the great quran is the honorable speech of allah which was descended to his honest prophet as a miracle to represent the truth of his mission of summoning people to god. allah- glory to him- has expressed everything in the quran. as the great quran emphasizes, it is full of scientific points and information currently and even very recently discovered by scientists; and it is a wonder t...

The Lag between Scientific Discoveries and Legal Procedures

Visual Analysis of Scientific Discoveries and Knowledge Diffusion

We introduce a new visual analytic approach to the study of scientific discoveries and knowledge diffusion. Our approach enhances contemporary co-citation network analysis by enabling analysts to identify co-citation clusters of cited references intuitively, synthesize thematic contexts in which these clusters are cited, and trace how research focus evolves over time. The new approach integrate...

Nber Working Paper Series the Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries

This paper estimates science production functions for R&D-performing firms in the United States using scientific papers as the measure of output, by analogy with patents. The underlying evidence covers 200 top U.S. R&D firms during 1981-1999 as well as 110 top U.S. universities. We find that industrial science builds on past scientific research inside and outside the firm, with most of the retu...

Surprising Discoveries by Recommender Systems

Recommender systems apply data mining techniques to predict users’ interest on information, products and services among a tremendous amount of available items. Key to the success of recommender systems is user satisfaction. That cannot be achieved only by accurate recommendations. Recent work has focused on new measures that are beyond the accuracy of recommender systems. Serendipity is one of ...