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Abbreviations

 

AI (artificial intelligence)

AR&T (advanced research and technology)

API (academic performance index)

ADEPT (adaptive demand prediction technique)

DP (data processing)

ETIP (experimental technology incentives program)

EVPI (expected value of perfect information)

EVSI (expected value of sample information)

FAME (forecasts and appraisals for management evaluation)

FAST (forecast analysis and sheduling technique)

FID (forecast in depth)

GIS (generalized information system)

GPFS (general-purpose forecast simulator)

GST (general systems theory)

IBUI (interesting but useless information)

ISCED (international standard classification of education)

ISDS (international serials data system)

ISSN (international standard serial numbering)

LCD (literature classification code)

LGD (leaderless group discussion)

LRF (long-range forecasting)

LRP (long-range planning)

LRTF (long-range technological forecast)

MACRO (methodology for allocating corporate resourses to objectives)

MARSAN (method of analysis, research and selection of new activities)

MSRP (methodology of scientific research programs)

OAD (operations analysis division)

PABLA (problem analysis by logical approach)

POST (project-oriented study)

Pseudoscience

PSP (potential scientists pool)

RALPH (resource allocation logic for planning heuristically)

SBD (standard bibliographical description)

SBN (standard book number)

SCANS (scheduling and control by automated network systems)

SCI (science citation index)

SCOOP (scientific computation of optimum progress)

SCORE (select concrete objectives for research emphasis)

SDI (selective dissemination of information)

SDS (scientific data system)

SEER (system for event evaluation review)

SM (scientific model)

SPD (scientific preparation of decision)

TORQUE (technology of research quantitative evaluation)

VTK (valid technological knowledge).



Words


abduction

abstracting

abstraction

absurd

accumulation

acquisition of information

action

aggregation of data

aging of information

aim of research

alethiology

algorithm

anagogy

analogy

analysis

annotation

antagonism

anticipation

antinomy

apagogy

approbation, testing

approximation

apriority

argument

aspect

assumption

assurance

attribute

autocorrelation

automation

autonomy

axiology

axiom

axiomatics

backwash

bibliometry

black box

brainstorm

branch of science

buildup

by-effect

by-product

capability

categorization

category

causal chain

causality

certitude

chance

chart

cicle

coefficient

cofactor

cognition

cognitive

combination

comparable

comparison

complexity

compliance

concept

conception

conclusion

conclusion

condition

conditional

confirmability

conflict of opposites

confluence

conformability

conjuncture

consilience

constant

context

continuity

creatology

criptomnesia

criterion

crosscheck

currency of theme

data

deduction

definition

degree-of-freedom

Delphi design

dependence

derivation

description

determinism

dialectical contradiction

dialectics

dialectics

difference

diffusion

digression

dilemma

dimension

discrepancy

disjunction

divination

dogmatization

effect

empirics

entailment

entity

entropy

epiphmenomen

epistemology

equation

equivalence

estimation

ethics

evaluation

evidence

exception

experiment

expertize

explanans

explicand

explicatum

extensial

extrapolation

extremum

fact

factor

fallacy

falsity

feedback

fidelity

field

filtration

fluctuation

fluency

focus

forecast

forecasting

form

formula

formula of invention

frame

framework

function

futurible

game

gane

generality

generalization

gist

gnoseologics

gnoseology

goal

graph

guess

habit

heterobathmy

heuristics

hierarchy

hitchhiking

holism

hypostasis

hypothesis

idea

Idealization, ideal

identifier

imagination

impact

implication

impossibility

incoherence

inconsistency

independence

indeterminism

index

indicator

induction

inferability

inference

influence

information

inquiry

insight

intensial

intensity

interaction

interdependence

interference

interpolation

irrefutability

judgment

judgment

justifiability

key word

knowledge

ladder of abstraction

lawlikeness

liaison

logic

logical breakdown

logical mistake

machine

mathesis

matrix

mentation

metainformation

metascience

method

methodology of scientific cognition

methods of research

mnemology

mnemotechny

mode

model

morphological box

network

nexus

noise

noology

norm

notion

object

operation

paper

paradigm

paradox

parameter

pattern

phenoinformation

phenomenon

postulate

predictor

premise

presumption

principle

problem

problemology

procedure

process

prognoseology

provability

pseudoeffect

pseudologic

pseudoproblem

quality

quantity

quotient

rationalism

realism

reason

reduction

referential information

refutability

regression

relation

relevance

relevant information

reliability

requirement

research

research apprenticeship

research object

research speciality

result

review

review information

rule

rung

scale

scepticism

scheme

science

sciencific cognition

sciencific report

scientific theory

scientocracy

screening

search

secondary information

sentence

serendipity

signal information

simplification

smooth

socioforecasting

solution

solving

sophism

source

spinn-off

stage

statement

statistic

strategy

strength

structure

study

subject

supposition

syllogism

synectics

synthesis

system

tactics

tautology

team

technique

tectology

tendency

term

test

theorism

theory

thesaurus

thesis

thinking

tool

tree

trend

truth

uncertainty

unit

vagueness

validity

value

variable

vector

view

world

wrong

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