Nature study finds statistical relationship between El Nino & patterns of civil conflict in tropics: j.mp / NinoCivil
The world was 2 to 3 C warmer than today, and CO2 levels were roughly similar, as well,
the Nature study finds.
Not exact matches
This research supports the
findings of other
studies, which show that spending time in
nature and increasing your exposure to sunlight can lead to higher levels of creativity.
In the
study published in the journal
Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department
findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
monks
studied nature and taught others what they
found.
As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious
nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center
study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.
Whereas sociology
studies the
nature of society and the interplay between the individual and society, education
studies the learning ability of man at various stages and tries to
find those teaching methods which will be most fruitful in leading the individual to full maturity within his society.
Yet despite all these developments a Yale
study has
found that in America, the more a person participates in religious services, the less concern he or she is likely to have for
nature.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose
study of the history of Western attitudes toward
nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to
find» (Santmire, 5).
In other words, theological education still has not
found a new paradigm for the
nature of theology, reasons for the way it organizes its course of
study, and a coherent version of the routes students take through their
studies.
Between 1933 and 1936 Collingwood wrote in the manuscripts «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «The
Nature of Metaphysical Study,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Realism and Idealism,» that metaphysics was an attempt to find out what we can about the general nature of re
Nature of Metaphysical
Study,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Realism and Idealism,» that metaphysics was an attempt to
find out what we can about the general
nature of re
nature of reality.
At most, such
study so interpreted shows us that one corner of
nature is in some respects absolutely peculiar, revealing the introduction of unprecedented forms of reality not to be explained by anything
found in the rest of
nature.
But, leaving these lower prudential regions, we
find, in the
nature of some of the spiritual excitements which we have been
studying, good reasons for idealizing obedience.
Finally, in still a third article in the same issue of Process
Studies, Lewis Ford initially commends Oomen for her highly original solution to the problem of God's prehensibility by worldly actual occasions but
finds problems with her own (and Whitehead's) consequent inability to distinguish real possibilities here and now emergent within the divine consequent
nature from the atemporal pure possibilities forever contained in the divine primordial
nature (Ford 140).
Emerson already said «things are in the saddle and ride mankind» Walter Bagehot, in his Economic
Studies, wrote of David Ricardo, one of the
founding fathers of economics: «He thought he was considering actual human
nature in its actual circumstances, when he was considering a fictitious
nature in fictitious circumstances» (quoted in Daly & Cobb 1989, p. 36).
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The
Nature and Destiny of Man; the
founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the
founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the
Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace
Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
Among contemporary theologians, John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the School of Theology at Claremont and the
founding director of the Center for Process
Studies, has contemplated the place of
nature in theology as much as any other major thinker.
When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from
study of visible
nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and
find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....
Career: Trained in medicine but didn't like it, so decided to go into the Church but again he was not happy so at 22 he
found employment as a naturalist (someone who
studies nature).
«This species is particularly important for us to
study because it's not
found near the coast, which makes it difficult to
study them in
nature,» Ramirez says.
Founded in 1857 to give scientists and
nature aficionados a place to
study and share the specimens they collected, the Chicago Academy of Sciences developed a national and international reputation for its leadership in conservation, its collection and citizen science.
Originally
founded so that scientists and
nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education progra
nature aficionados alike could
study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert
Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education progra
Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.
Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they col
Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was
founded by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they col
founded by
nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could
study and share the specimens they collected.
The
findings of the 7 published observational
studies relating breastfeeding to reduced risks of diabetes were broadly consistent, despite the widely differing
nature of the populations [including one
study conducted in a population born during the Dutch Famine of World War II (6) and 2 conducted in Native American populations (21, 22)-RSB-.
For the limited scope of this
study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those
findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human
nature.
The
study found that, overall, a person's risk of getting dementia by any particular age is a fifth lower than it was 20 years ago (
Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms11398).
And the size and representative
nature of the
study prompt the authors to conclude that their
findings «indicate that social isolation, similarly to other risk factors such as depression, can be regarded as a risk factor for poor prognosis of individuals with cardiovascular disease.»
And in a September
study in
Nature Scientific Reports, he
found that exposure to multiple chemicals in a colony correlates with high rates of colony deaths.
That's the main
finding of a
study appearing May 23 in
Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next - in - line predators they eat and compete with.
Essentially, by dropping this dense lithospheric anchor, there has been an upward bobbing of the entire land mass across hundreds of kilometres,» said Professor Oğuz H. Göğüş of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), lead author of a
study reporting the
findings published in
Nature Communications this month.
Fisher, who is
studying the
nature of large - scale marches since Trump's inauguration, has posted her preliminary
findings on a blog, American Resistance.
The
study, published in
Nature Communications, builds on previous observations from the same team who
found that a specific type of cells regulate antibody production.
Published this week in
Nature Climate Change, the initial
study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
These
findings build on a 2009
Nature study, which showed water violently rushed into the desiccated Mediterranean after shifting tectonic plates reopened the Strait of Gibraltar.
The
study found that a mother mouse can pass along to her offspring a susceptibility to intestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, by way of a gut - residing bacterium called Sutterella, the researchers reported in the journal
Nature on Feb. 16.
As CRISPR - Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new
study published in
Nature Methods has
found that the gene - editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.
Marine science and oceanography are so dependent on the
nature of the world's oceans that many tropical and temperate scientists are also commonly
found studying antarctic systems.
In an accompanying article published yesterday in
Nature Energy, Alice Grønhøj, who researches consumption and the environment at Aarhus University in Denmark, praised the
study for its «methodologically robust design» that «attests to the credibility of the central
findings.»
But in a
study published in this week's advance online publication of the journal
Nature, Peters, the first author of the paper, and his colleagues
found that the motor cortex itself plays an active role in learning new motor movements.
Live Science reports that eight fossilized peach pits
found during a construction dig in Southwestern China are more than 2.6 million years old — so old their seeds have been replaced with iron, according to a
study published in
Nature Scientific Reports.
A single protein building block commonly
found in food may hold a key to preventing the spread of an often - deadly type of breast cancer, according to a new multicenter
study published today in the medical journal
Nature.
Findings from a
study in Springer's journal Sex Roles demonstrate the persistent gendered
nature of how housework is divided, says lead author Rebecca Horne of the University of Alberta in Canada.
A 2015
study in the journal
Nature estimates they cause at least 3.3 million deaths each year globally, and a recent
study in Geophysical Research Letters
found they cause over 500,000 annual deaths in India alone.
Study findings were published in the Jan. 18 online issue of
Nature.
The
study, published in
Nature Communications,
found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.
A
study published in 2004 in
Nature Neuroscience, for example,
found that people could not discriminate between two such odorants.
But in an animal
study published in
Nature in 2012, Shenoy and his colleagues reported
finding that much more is going on: Motor cortical neurons work as part of an interconnected circuit — a so - called dynamical system — to create rhythmic patterns of neural activity.
When Fernando Polack of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues
studied 75 adults with swine flu they
found severe cases had more antibodies that bound to the virus but didn't kill it (
Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2262).
A
Nature Communications
study published in July, however,
found evidence the hook - ups began much earlier: roughly 220,000 to 470,000 years ago.
A new
study published in
Nature Climate Change looks at the next 10,000 years, and
finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease.