Adopting an explicit and reflective approach to the teaching of the history and philosophy of science is useful in promoting high school students’ understanding of the nature of science. Whereas the history of science is usually signposted clearly in the school science curriculum, the philosophy of science is considered to be embedded in and integral to science education. This article argues that philosophical topics also need to be explicitly signposted and discussed in the teaching of the nature of science in high schools. This study investigates an interdisciplinary course on the nature of science in a Chinese senior high school. The course involved explicit teaching of philosophy of science topics with subject knowledge in each lesson. This mixed method design of the research included a modified version of the Views on Science, Technology and Society questionnaire as reported by Aikenhead and Ryan (Science Education, 76(5):477?491, 1992) and phenomenographical analysis. Although the sample size is small, the results suggest that explicit teaching of philosophy of science topics helps students better understand both the nature of science and the relationship between science, technology and society.
Scrubbing of NOx from the gas phase with Fe(II)EDTA has been shown to be highly effective. A new biological method can be used to convert
NO to N2 and regenerate the chelating agent Fe(II)EDTA for continuous NO absorption. The core of this biological regeneration is how
to effectively simultaneous reduce Fe(III)EDTA and Fe(II)EDTA-NO, two mainly products in the ferrous chelate absorption solution.
The biological reduction rate of Fe(III)EDTA plays a main role for the NOx removal efficiency. In this paper, a bacterial strain identified asKlebsiella Trevisan sp. was used to demonstrate an inhibition of Fe(III)EDTA reduction in the presence of Fe(II)EDTA-NO. The competitive inhibition
experiments indicted that Fe(II)EDTA-NO inhibited not only the growth rate of the iron-reduction bacterial strain but also
the Fe(III)EDTA reduction rate. Cell growth rate and Fe(III)EDTA reduction rate decreased with increasing Fe(II)EDTA-NO concentration
in the solution.
Project (No. 20176052) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Scientific Research Foundation
for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education 相似文献
This paper presents a discussion on a problem suggested by N.Salinas(J.Operator Theory,Vol.10,1983),i.e.,if T=(T_1,T_2,…,T_n)is a commuting n-tuple ofhyponormal operators on a complex Hilbert space,do we have(1)(2)δ(T-μ)=dist(μ,σ_l(T)),μ∈C~n?It is proved that the problems(1)and(2)are both true for some commuting n-tuples ofsemihyponormal operators.In general case,problem(1)has a negative answer.As an ap-plication,we point out that there exists a commuting n-tuple of hyponormal operatorsT(n≥2),such that|λ|<,where σ_T(T)denotes J.L.Taylor'sjoint spectra of T,even if the condition of Taylor's joint spectra of T is given. 相似文献