Sentences with phrase «general science at»
The main objective of the reform is to introduce formal subjects like English, Mathematics, Pakistan Studies, Social Studies and General Science at the primary and secondary levels.
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Yet, while both are at the height of hype in the tech world, much of the general public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the realm of science - fiction.
In the pages of the scientific journal Physics in Canada in 2010, Eric Vogt, director emeritus of the TRIUMF nuclear accelerator at the University of British Columbia, described General Fusion as «unproven science masquerading as achievable technology.»
Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer in 1981 after graduating from Northwestern with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering at Northwestern and doing a two year stint at the General Motors Institute (a condition of her college scholarship).
Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.
He flunked out, he says, of honours chemistry at McGill, and after graduating with a general science degree, worked for a while at Shell Oil as a business analyst.
Vijay Pande, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, leads investments at the cross section of biology and computer science.
«As far as we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast,» said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan «s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be built.
Samir was soon persuaded to leave Flagship Ventures, and in 2006, he became a founding general partner at Khosla Ventures focusing primarily on renewable energy, sustainability and life science investing.
Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.
Jantoon earned his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration as well as his Master in International Management by CEMS at Rotterdam School of Management and HEC, Paris, respectively, and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School's GMP15 (General Management Program).
In effect, in order to arrive at some general principle which applies to all sectors of reality, more is needed than just an extrapolation beyond the limits of some particular science to a metaphysical principle which that particular science presupposes and which metaphysics alone can adequately explain.
For example, the Bible says that time was created by God when He created the universe.19 Stephen Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose extended the equations for general relativity to include space and time, demonstrating that time began at the formation of the universe.20 Of course, the biggest coup of the Bible was to declare that the universe had a beginning21 through an expanding universe model.22 The New Testament even declares that the visible creation was made from what was not visible and that dimensions of length, width and height were created by God.23 In addition, the Bible refuted steady - state theory (saying that the creation of matter and energy has ended) 24 long before science made that determination.
Certainly some sects of some religions are at odds with science, but the general question is more open to opinion.
There's a general sense that science and religion are two camps, and the two can never meet without fighting or, at the very least, stepping mighty carefully around each other's views.
On occasion we have forgotten that fact and, at our peril, relied upon insights from philosophy, the social sciences or general education.
whole is, is not a question for the natural sciences as such at all, but a question for ontology within a general philosophy of man.
The third possibility will be favored by those who make their own the anterior existential decision, which — as even Bultmann admits — was imported from Greek thought at the beginning of Western science, and on which that science is largely based even today — viz., the existential decision that the individual is no more than a specific instance of a general cosmic law and order which is capable of being expressed in a terminology which is at bottom quite simple and which is detachable from existence.
At the other extreme, in a general - education biology course one might give rather frequent attention to what Conant calls «the strategy and tactics of science.
However, this opposition has to be understood in the context of the more general mistrust of science prevailing at the time, given the international climate of socialism, which it saw as a consequence of evolutionism.
These include lecture notes for Whitehead's «Philosophy of Science: General Metaphysical Problems,» (Philosophy 3b), which met Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:00 noon (1:332).
Also, in a letter to Mark Barr concerning the possibility of being offered a post at Harvard, Whitehead says the post would be very attractive because it would provide him the opportunity of developing in systematic form his «ideas on Logic, the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and some more general questions, half philosophical and half practical, such as Education» (ANW - 2 134).
The preceding books in Whitehead's metaphysical period, namely, Science and the Modern World, Religion and the Making, and Symbolism, express the same system «at least in its general outline and perhaps in a less mature form» (48).
At the same time, I wish to maintain that a logic of science can not perform these roles unless it has itself received grounding in a more general, viz., metaphysical, theory.
And further, the so - called laws of science are at best nothing but a statement of the observed general sequences of behavior in those areas of the Creation with which they are concerned; they are, so to say, «statistical averages,» and they do not cover everything.
It can put the weight of its educational program solidly behind the movement which aims at disbursing to people in general the precious discoveries of the social sciences in the area of healthy personality growth.
It is a twofold harmony, logical and aesthetic, he said at the end of the first chapter of Science and the Modern World: «While the harmony of logic lies upon the universe as an iron necessity, the aesthetic harmony stands before it as a living ideal molding the general flux in its broken progress towards finer, subtler issues.»
A science might come to understand everything about the causes and elements of religion, and might even decide which elements were qualified, by their general harmony with other branches of knowledge, to be considered true; and yet the best man at this science might be the man who found it hardest to be personally devout.
Dr. David Pearl, Chief of Behavioral Science, Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institute for Mental Health, had just conducted a 10 - year followup study on behalf of the Surgeon General «s office.
Swapan Datta is Deputy Director General (Crop Science) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India; the Rash Behari Ghosh Chair Professor at Calcutta University, India; and a former scientist at ETH - Zurich, Switzerland, and at IRRI, Philippines.
Former Australian Federal Industry Minister for Industry and Science, Mr Ian Macfarlane, second left, performs the official launch ceremony, congratulating the Managing Director of NH foods Australia Mr Takeo Kudo and (right) the General Manager, Overseas Operations Department, Fresh Meat Business Division, NH Foods Mr Norio Itazaki and (at left) the General Manager of Oakey Beef Exports Mr Pat Gleeson.
The future of agricultural science, in general, and rice science, specifically, is at stake if we can not nurture the next crop of vibrant, intelligent, and caring young scientists.
The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.
He also held the position of VP & General Manager for the Southern Region at Dun & Bradstreet Software, Inc. and served as Vice President of Solutions Marketing for Management Science America, Inc..
players aren't dead at 30 anymore thanks to sports science and general health improvements.
«My bias has not changed, but in the interests of patients, I need to see past my own opinions and look at the whole picture of the appropriate blend of science, good practice, and the viewpoints of the general public that will inevitably steer their rehabilitation in a good or bad direction.»
This might as well have been written by a blogger at age of autism because the understanding of anything related to epidurals is just as poor as the understanding of science in general.
«The thing with referendums in general (is that) unless the issue is highly publicized or intensely emotional, voters tend to ignore it,» said Yanna Krupnikov, an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University.
The courses taught at the primary or basic school level include English, Ghanaian language and culture, mathematics, environmental studies, social studies, Mandarin and French as an OIF associated - member; as further languages are added, [166] integrated or general science, pre-vocational skills and pre-technical skills, religious and moral education, and physical activities such as Ghanaian music and dance, and physical education.
A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana says the presence of Mr John Rawlings at National Democratic Congress (NDC)'s campaign launch is an endorsement for President John Mahama's candidacey ahead of the crucial December 7 general elections.
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According to Mr. Kwadwo Gyan - Darkwa, she then entered St. Louis Senior High at age 10 and offered General Science, and continued to complete her Senior High (SHS) education at age 12 plus.
At the Festival of Social Science event, the general public will be able to try out some of the things that researchers from the Institute will demonstrate.
Cuomo and his delegation of more than a dozen officials, which included New York's attorney general, its comptroller and its secretary of state, spoke Tuesday at a public round table at the University of Puerto Rico's medical sciences campus in the capital of San Juan.
Top Trump campaign officials, meanwhile, played down the work of the data - science company, which was paid at least $ 6 million to do voter modeling and ad buys for Trump in the 2016 general election.
General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: rainbowradioonline.com Former President John Mahama A political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Mohascience lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), MohaScience and Technology (KNUST), Mohammed...
The Dean of the School of Health and Allied Sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Addae Mensah says former President John Dramani Mahama may do better than any other candidate in his party (NDC) in the 2020 general elections.
«This pattern might be a general mechanism for functional diversification of enzyme families, as it allows the acquisition of new functions without disrupting the native folding structure and primary enzyme function,» says Xiao - Ru Wang, Senior lecturer at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University.
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