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This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured the collective imagination: crime films and television programs. In contemporary screen culture, crime is increasingly framed as an area of scientific inquiry and, even more frequently, as an area of concern for female experts.

AbstractThe behavioral sciences were there at the beginning of the systematic study of climate change. However, in the ensuing quarter century, they largely faded from view, during which time public discourse and policy evolved without them. That disengagement and the recent reengagement suggest lessons for the future role of the behavioral sciences in climate science and policy. Looking forward, the greatest promise lies in projects that make behavioral science integral to climate science by: (1) translating behavioral results into the quantitative estimates that climate analyses need; (2) making climate research more relevant to climate-related decisions; and (3) treating the analytical process as a behavioral enterprise, potentially subject to imperfection and improvement. Such collaborations could afford the behavioral sciences more central roles in setting climate-related policies, as well as implementing them. They require, and may motivate, changes in academic priorities.

At several points over his career, Pierre Bourdieu articulated a framework for a sociology of science, derived mostly from a priori reasoning about scientific actors in competition for capital. This article offers a brief overview of Bourdieu's framework, placing it in the context of dominant trends in Science and Technology Studies. Bourdieu provides an excellent justification for the project of the sociology of science, and some starting points for analysis. However, his framework suffers from his commitment to a vague evolutionary epistemology, and from his correlative and surprising neglect of science's habituses, with their particular practices, boundaries, and political economies. To be productive, Bourdieu's sociology of science would have to abandon its narrow rationalism and embrace the material complexity of the sciences.

Machine generated contents note: PART I Science at the Turn of the Millennium -- 1 The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology (1996) -- Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades 69 -- 2 Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997) -- Paul Forman 109 -- PART II Science Conceived as a Production Process -- 3 The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research -- (1959) -- Richard R. Nelson 151 -- 4 Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962) -- Kenneth J. Arrow 165 -- PART III Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing -- 5 Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879) -- Charles Sanders Peirce 183 -- 6 Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994) -- James R. Wible 191 -- 7 Toward a New Economics of Science (1994) -- Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 219 -- 8 The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993) -- Philip Kitcher 249 -- PART IV Science Conceived as an Economic Network of Limited Agents -- 9 From Science as an Economic Activity to Socioeconomics of Scientific Research: The Dynamics of Emergent and Consolidated Techno-economic Networks -- Michel Callon 277 -- 10 The Microeconomics of Academic Science -- John Ziman 318 -- 11 A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999) -- William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 341 -- 12 Scientists as Agents -- Stephen Turner 362 -- PART V Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime -- 13 Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest? -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 387 -- 14 The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research -- Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 412 -- 15 Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) -- David F. Noble 431 -- 16 The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000) -- Steve Fuller 444 -- PART VI The Future of Scientific "Credit" -- 17 The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969) -- Michael Polanyi 465 -- 18 The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998) -- Mario Biagioli 486 -- 19 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994) -- D. Wade Hands 515

Historically men have sought knowledge in a variety of ways both for its own sake and in order to increase their control over the environment. Science has increasingly made its impact on society through technical applications of scientific findings. Science has thus helped to alter social struc ture. At the same time increases in population, in social dif ferentiation, and heterogeneity have made necessary large-scale organization. The effect has been felt in the structure of science and the role and status of the scientist; for example, the individual scholar has been replaced to a considerable ex tent by the scientific organization man. Government encour agement of some areas of scientific research has expanded enormously in the United States, inevitably within a bureau cratic framework. In the process the scientist has come to be valued not for his scholarship but for his ability to provide solutions to specific problems and thus to increase national power. Bureaucracy has a price, but it is an organizational form which is understandably and functionally necessary and to which science must adapt.

Nanofins Science and Technology describes the heat transfer effectiveness of polymer coolants and their fundamental interactions with carbon nanotube coatings that act as nanofins. Heat transfer at micro/nano-scales has attracted significant attention in contemporary literature. This has been primarily driven by industrial requirements where significant decrease in the size of electronic devices/chips with concomitant enhancement in the heat flux have caused challenging needs for cooling of these platforms. With quantum effects kicking in, traditional cooling techniques need to be replaced with more effective technologies. A promising technique is to enhance heat transfer by surface texturing using nanoparticle coatings or engineered nanostructures. These nanostructures are termed as nanofins because they augment heat transfer by a combination of surface area enhancement as well as liquid-solid interactions at the molecular scale.