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Hubálovská, Marie; Hubálovský, Štepán; Krejcí, Pavel – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
The research orientation of the Department of technics, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Kralove focuses on finding new ways for development of polytechnic and science education. The research is motivated by the fact that children's interest in technical and science subjects is decreasing in recent years in the Czech Republic. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Technical Education, Secondary Education
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Pantin, Javier del Rey; de Zarate, Jose M. Ortiz – Physics Education, 2010
In this article we describe and build a model of a historical weighing device proposed by the Spanish engineer Dario Bacas in the second half of the 19th century. The balance was named "goniobarimeter" by its inventor, and the weighing principle is based on a curious, and not very well known, property of the cycloid. The simplicity of the design…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Measurement Equipment, Models
US Congress, 2011
The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-358) was put in place to invest in innovation through research and development, to improve the competitiveness of the United States, and for other purposes. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; (2) Sec. 2. Definitions; and (3)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computation, Research and Development, Innovation