id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ibqjh3ti3nbfpdf4hoacianj3e Mieke Boon How Science Is Applied in Technology 2006 21 .pdf application/pdf 10487 705 44 Distinctive to basic sciences, scientific research in advanced technologies aims to explain, predict, and covering-law view of applying science is inadequate for characterizing this research practice. approach to concrete fluid flows is used as an example of scientific research in the engineering explanation of physical behaviour in distinct spatial regions or time phases; the nomo-mathematical model represents the phenomenon in terms of a set of mathematically formulated laws. apparent that when applying fundamental scientific laws to concrete technological science produces true scientific theories and universal laws, whereas technology phenomena in the empirical sciences are produced by technological artefacts. scientific research in the engineering sciences aims at explaining, predicting and produces basic scientific laws that explain and predict natural phenomena, and that scientific laws are not applied to technological artefact as such, but that instead, view of applying science for explaining or predicting the behaviour of physical ./cache/work_ibqjh3ti3nbfpdf4hoacianj3e.pdf ./txt/work_ibqjh3ti3nbfpdf4hoacianj3e.txt