Throughout human history, science and technology have been the backbone of innovations that have driven economic development. Yet, rather oddly, they have not been seriously invoked in the pursuit of diplomacy. This Commentary examines the important role of science in diplomacy and its soft-power in world affairs and peace.

Information from the study of toxins by hard sciences like toxicology is interpreted based on affective, emotional, and instinctive psychologic cues discovered by social science. Understanding and respecting these soft science insights can help toxicologists better communicate their work and findings and have greater influence on the choices of individuals and policy makers.

XUANHE ZHAO∗,†, SOO JIN ADRIAN KOH∗,‡ and ZHIGANG SUO∗,§ ∗School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Kavli Institute for Nanobio Science and Technology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 †Soft Active Materials Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 ‡Institute of High Performance Computing 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis S...

TANGISOFT is a hybrid of a physical and a soft keyboard designed specifically for digital tabletops. The aim of the design was to combine the advantages of tangible and directtouch interaction in a tool for the tabletop. TANGISOFT was realized by printing a keyboard on paper, tracking the paper, allowing text entry by direct-touch on the printed layout, and augmenting printed layout through pro...

What is science? Beyond Popper and Lakatos Why allowing non-falsifiable theories doesn’t make science soft and mushy Critics of the proposal, e.g. Stich Familiar construction kits Concrete and abstract construction kits Explaining what’s possible vs explaining what happens Historical note on "How is X possible?" Proving impossibility Eventual publication of the paper, in 1976, then as book-chap...

speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. the applicati...

The authors are grateful for the contributions of Hanyang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as the guest reviewers for their suggestions on revising this manuscr the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Gra 71390525, and 71572078) and Soft Science Fund of Taizh ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. Lin), zengsaix [email protected] (H. Liu), chao.li@postgr...

National CRI Center for Integrated Optofluidic Systems and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea AdVanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea, Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul 136-713, Korea, Department of Physics and DiVision of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HarVard UniVersity, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, and Center for Soft Matter Resea...

In this paper, based in the L ukasiewicz logic, the definition offuzzifying soft neighborhood structure and fuzzifying soft continuity areintroduced. Also, the fuzzifying soft proximity spaces which are ageneralizations of the classical soft proximity spaces are given. Severaltheorems on classical soft proximities are special cases of the theorems weprove in this paper.

Chou et al. (Applied Soft Computing 12 (2012) 64-71) used combination of fuzzy AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and fuzzy DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) in human resource for science and technology (HRST). For applying the fuzzy DEMATEL method there is a need to find the multiplicative inverse of a fuzzy matrix. In this paper, it is pointed out that the method, used b...