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The object of this research is materials science dual-use technologies and their transfer. It is important to study the problems of transfer of dual-use technologies and related prerequisites, as well as their vital role in Ukraine, trying to understand how to fix all those in the right legal and political way, otherwise, literally, it looks like a chasing a ghost. To successfully solve this problem, one need to understand that in this case there no turnkey solutions ever exist. The complex nature of dual-use technologies and their potential for development of the economies of any countries make fundamental for both R&D and political debates. It should be noted that there has never been a clearly defined line between defense and civilian research, and that line is still rather dimmed and blurred. Dual technologies become being applied in more and more industrial sectors, from nuclear science and materials science to electronics, etc., and those are attracting increased interest from developers, policymakers and legislators. The erosion of civil and defense industrial bases and principles, as well as an avalanche growing number of problems associated with undefined dual-use functions and misuse make it difficult to distinguish between civilian and military products and platforms and complicate issues of export control and technology transfer. The concept of creating a so-called «scientific and technological depository of advanced material science technologies» by high-tech states and its' profound significance for state's security is also being debated. The establishment of a scientific and technical deposit is considered as a common task of national economy and security of states. A required and vitally important condition for a successful development of scientific and technological progress is the timely creation of a scientific and technical reserve of modern technologies, which provides a solid basis for new developments, state economy and military-industrial complex. The work also assesses the symbiosis ...

REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTERESTS & POLITICAL ENMITIES (1949-67);INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS; DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; CLASS CONFLICT AND FORMATION; ABOUR UNREST; COMMUNAL COMPETITION FOR EMPLOYMENT; PETROLEUM PRODUCTION; AND INTER-REGIONAL ALLOCATION.

This article contributes to a more reflexive mode of research on public engagement with science-related issues through presenting an in-depth qualitative study of the actors that mediate science-society interactions, their roles and relationships, and the nature of learning and reflexivity in relation to public dialogue. A mapping framework is developed to describe the roles and relations of actors mediating public dialogue on science and technology in Britain. Learning within public dialogue networks is shown to be instrumental only, crowding out potentials for reflexive and relational learning. This calls for renewed critical social science research alongside more deliberately reflexive learning relating to participatory governance of science and technology that is situated, interactive, public, and anticipatory.

Acts of scientific calculation have long been considered central to the formation of the modern nation state, yet the transnational spaces of knowledge generation and political action associated with climate change seem to challenge territorial modes of political order. This article explores the changing geographies of climate prediction through a study of the ways in which climate change is rendered knowable at the national scale in India. The recent controversy surrounding an erroneous prediction of melting Himalayan glaciers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides a window onto the complex and, at times, antagonistic relationship between the Panel and Indian political and scientific communities. The Indian reaction to the error, made public in 2009, drew upon a national history of contestation around climate change science and corresponded with the establishment of a scientific assessment network, the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment, which has given the state a new platform on which to bring together knowledge about the future climate. I argue that the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment is indicative of the growing use of regional climate models within longer traditions of national territorial knowledge-making, allowing a rescaling of climate change according to local norms and practices of linking scientific knowledge to political action. I illustrate the complex co-production of the epistemic and the normative in climate politics, but also seek to show how co-productionist understandings of science and politics can function as strategic resources in the ongoing negotiation of social order. In this case, scientific rationalities and modes of environmental governance contribute to the contested epistemic construction of territory and the evolving spatiality of the modern nation state under a changing climate.

In this article, we review the latest literature and news articles on the recent announcement by Government of India about a new Science,Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) 2020. We discuss that this is a unique policy in many ways, in particular, with an implementation plan and with a lot of specifics on different areas rather than a broad-based policy document. We critically review this upcoming policy in the light of Covid recovery that is happening across the world and in India. We conclude by stating that this has addressed many shortcomings of the past policies and can potentially usher in an era of self reliant India, contributing globally, benefitting from the global prowess of science, technology and innovation.

Social work educators and practitioners have had an ongoing debate whether the profession is primarily a science or an art. The pendulum has swung back and forth, with the current tilt toward scientific explanations and formulations. Evidence-based practice is the most symbolic manifestation of this tilt. The authors propose an alternative approach to practice that integrates, rather than separates, the art and science traditions. Evidence-guided practice incorporates research findings, theoretical constructs, and a repertoire of professional competencies and skills consistent with the profession's values and ethics and the individual social worker's distinctive style. Major assumptions, as well as challenges, associated with the model are identified. A case example illustrates major concepts of the model.

Contexts for migration in the early modern world: public policy, European migrating experiences, Transatlantic migration, and the genesis of American culture / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Huguenot settlements in Central Europe / Thomas Klingebiel -- The Salzburger migration to Prussia: causes and choices / Mack Walker -- German religious emigration to Russia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: three case studies / Andreas Gestrich -- The spiritual importance of the eighteenth century / Jon Butler -- The problem of the eighteenth century in Transatlantic religious history / A. Gregg Roeber -- Communication at risk: the beginnings of the Halle correspondence with the Pennsylvania Lutherans / Thomas M(c)ơller-Bahlke -- Communications and group interaction among German migrants to colonial Pennsylvania: the case of Baden-Durlach / Mark H(c)Þberlein -- From the Rhine to the Delaware valley: the eighteenth-century Transatlantic trading channels of Caspar Wistar / Rosalind J. Beiler -- German settlements in the British North American colonies: a patchwork of cultural assimilation and persistence / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Land, population, and labor: Lutheran immigrants in colonial Georgia / Renate Wilson -- "We do not want to introduce anything new": transplanting the communal life from Herrnhut to the upper Ohio valley / Carola Wessel -- Recent research on migration / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Transatlantic migration, Transatlantic networks, Transatlantic transfers: concluding remarks / Hartmut Lehmann

Seventeen years after the end of the Liberian civil war, which is partly blamed for the waning of the standard of education, the country is still grappling with providing a competency-based science educational experience that will enhance the science inquiry process skills of its youth. In this paper we used the constructivist theoretical perspective to compare the science inquiry process skills of Grade 11 students in government and private schools. The study employed a descriptive survey design and the quantitative research method. Six high schools were selected by cluster random sampling, and a total of 360 students constituted the study sample. This study found that government school students have significantly higher perceived science inquiry process skills than their private school counterparts and that an average of 42% of private school students cannot demonstrate any skills related to experimental design, data representation, communication and presentation. Male students indicated having significantly higher science inquiry process skills compared to their female counterparts. However, a varying majority across study groups practise the science inquiry process skills occasionally.

For many parts of Africa and Asia a rural society is often a pedestrian society. There are limited means of transport; the peasant is largely immobilized and his movement to the outside is a major undertaking. He lives in an economic and political microcosm Typically his world may be ten miles long and twelve miles wide, bounded by where a road comes through a swamp and ending where it drifts over hills. It is a world that is effectively cut off from the outside; in his own view the pedestrian lives on an island, surrounded by a vast sea of the uninhabited and the unknown.