Sentences with phrase «understanding science efforts»

Berkeley's Understanding Evolution website is the precursor to their Understanding Science efforts.

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More than 160 people caught colds for science in an effort to better understand how sleep impacts our immune systems.

That said, to appreciate the science involved in evolution does require some significant effort and will invariably require reading materials for which you'll have to reference other sources to understand definitions and concepts.

Science is sometimes hard to understand, and if you're not willing to invest the time and effort it takes to learn, one option is to believe a just - so story.

The internal debates within the theology - and - science guild will finally be valuable only if they contribute to a realization throughout our culture that we are on the brink of new paradigms for understanding reality, and that those paradigms require the efforts of both scientists and theologians.

WORLD: I'll agree that some of the science relevance of ancient relgious texts may be poetic and effort might be required to understand... and I also agree that all science isn't there....

The Office of Water Science is leading the Australian Government's efforts to improve our understanding of the water - related impacts of coal seam gas and large coal mining development.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

WHILE scientists in Britain are keen to increase the public understanding of science, their European counterparts are concentrating efforts on encouraging la culture scientifique.

As nutritional science advances and, in some cases, becomes increasingly nuanced, there's concern that efforts to simplify labels so consumers can quickly understand them risk going too far.

The effort in science is to peel back those layers of belief and try to understand things in an experimental, rational mode.

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

The award also recognizes his efforts to improve public understanding of science.

One example, he said, is an effort included in the 2015 budget request now before Congress to consolidate an array of projects that involve underground science, including efforts to understand subsurface pollutants and the subterranean storage of carbon dioxide.

Given the impact of the pilot Science for Seminaries project, DoSER is expanding the effort to assist seminaries, which is seen as an opportunity to affect public understanding and support for science — and the degree to which science can benefit society, a mission oScience for Seminaries project, DoSER is expanding the effort to assist seminaries, which is seen as an opportunity to affect public understanding and support for science — and the degree to which science can benefit society, a mission oscience — and the degree to which science can benefit society, a mission oscience can benefit society, a mission of AAAS.

Welcoming Boaty McBoatface back from its first mission, Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson, said: «Fresh from its maiden voyage, Boaty is already delivering new insight into some of the coldest ocean waters on earth, giving scientists a greater understanding of changes in the Antarctic region and shaping a global effort to tackle climate change.

The study is part of an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to use robots to better understand human development.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

Sally, who was nominated by Dr. Beat Schmid, Associate Director, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, was honored for her exceptional contribution in the field of atmospheric science, particularly in her efforts to improve understanding of the radiative effect of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's atmosphere and their representation in climate models.

«I am extremely proud of the fact that HFSPO recognized as frontier science my team's efforts to understand the fundamental principles that govern how the genome is spatially organized inside the cell's nucleus, and I now feel a great sense of responsibility to deliver our best energies towards this goal.»

Two papers published in Science, from scientists from the Universities of Washington and Oxford, discuss the role of uncertainty in current understanding of climate change, and our future efforts to tackle it.

This story, written by Matthew D. LaPlante and Paul Christiansen, described the efforts to understand what is killing the aspen groves in Utah and won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2014.

His work has embodied what the Prize was created to highlight: «promoting scientific literacy, clarity of message, and efforts to foster respect and understanding of science - based values as they relate to the implications of climate change.»

«I appreciate the opportunity to describe the great efforts we made with Interstellar to keep it true to our understanding of the universe; and also our insistence that, wherever scientists are uncertain about the universe and its physical laws, we restrict Interstellar to speculations that emerge from real science and to ideas regarded by respected scientists as possible.»

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

It contained information about their funders and the Institute's apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy.

I appreciated the effortless effort:) of the teachers to make us understand each subject of yogic science: asanas, pranayama, philosophy, anatomy, meditation, yoga nidra, cleansing practices.

Science is the concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the history of the natural world and how the natural world ThinkFoodGroup 5 hours, 35 minutes ago @thinkfoodgroup Winter Restaurant Week kicks off today but why stop at just one week?

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

The Koret report hardly mentions one of the most important developments since Risk: science's remarkable progress in understanding how a child's brain develops in the earliest years and the ensuing efforts to provide the early child care and education necessary for school readiness.

When graphs are produced in collective efforts, the outcomes of the joint efforts and shared academic dialogue facilitate students» communication and understandings of science in authentic settings (Roth & McGinn, 1997).

This article presents efforts to support prospective secondary science teachers in learning and teaching about scientific models and the impact of those efforts on their understandings.

Blending physical and virtual manipulatives: An effort to improve students» conceptual understanding through science laboratory experimentation.

With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments, coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states» efforts towards school improvement.

According to Deans for Impact, «Building off many efforts that came before it and reflecting the general consensus of the scientific community, The Science of Learning is intended to serve as a resource to teacher - educators, new teachers, and anyone in the education profession who is interested in our best scientific understanding of how learning takes place.»

My goal is to support medical students worldwide in their efforts to understand and keep up with the changes in medical science.

This has been discussed so many times that either Victor does not have the intellectual capacity to understand the physics, or he is unwilling to make the effort to learn what the science actually tells us.

But if he's saying that there's little or no value to enhancing public understanding of mercury's dangers, or to trying to enhance public understanding of any science - related issues via efforts analogous to RC's efforts, he loses me.

«Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning «knowledge») is the effort to discover, understand, or to understand better, how the physical world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding.»

Further, we are key players in an effort to transform and update our understanding of land surface air temperatures through the International Surface Temperature Initiative [described in a recent paper, «Guiding the creation of a comprehensive surface temperature resource for twenty - first - century climate science.»

Gavin's efforts go well beyond the classic «public understanding of science», since what he so successfully promotes is the «public understanding of research».

James Hansen reflects on 20 years of climate science and efforts to get the public to understand it and act:

Understanding where these methods come from and how much thought and planning lies behind them may help for more effective efforts to combat them on climate science.

If Victor would refocus his substantial efforts to understanding the science and evidence supporting AGW rather than trying to prove his moot point about volcanism he might actually gain some insight into the actual robustness of the science.

If you are going to make claims about the role of CO2 in the warming of the earth climate system, I suggest you first make an effort to understand what the science actually tells us.

They don't understand the science themselves, they know it would take a tremendous effort to get such an understanding, and they know that the IPCC have the reputation of being the experts.