Sentences with phrase «ability of scientists»

JAMES HANSEN Ph.D., Dir., NASA Goddard Institute: In my 30 - some years in the government, I've never seen constraints on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public as strong as they are now.

There is also a doubt about the ability of scientists to accurately predict climate a hundred years from now.

Donald Trump's presidency has climate scientists concerned about the implications for U.S. environmental policies, the worldwide effort to curb the impacts of climate change, and the ability of scientists to freely to continue their research, which can be insidiously undermined through funding cuts, gag orders, or punitive measures and retaliatory attacks against scientists who publicly discuss their research.

The ability of scientists to present their findings to the scientific community, policy makers, the media, and the public without censorship, intimidation, or political interference is imperative.

It surprises me that so many people are so ready to doubt the ability of scientists to understand the data that they have themselves collected, and yet are willing to use that data in their own analysis (in which they express great confidence).

Writing NIH grants and biomedical manuscripts remains a major challenge for many researchers and clinicians world - wide, and many reputations and careers rest on the ability of scientists to communicate clearly and forcefully.

The ability of scientists to modify bacteria and other organisms by adding designer gene sequences may lead to faster flu vaccines and carbon - free fuels, Church and other scientists told a presidential bioethics commission meeting earlier this month in Washington.

The project will build an Advanced LIGO Observatory in India, a move that will significantly improve the ability of scientists to pinpoint the sources of gravitational waves and analyze the signals.

Still, that precious ability of scientists to shift their thinking can be deeply frustrating — especially when it applies to urgent matters of policy.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

They have refused to publicly disclose the chemicals that are used in fracking, won gag orders in legal cases and restricted the ability of scientists to get close to their work sites.

Spanger - Siegfried said the proposed cuts are already impeding the ability of scientists to perform basic scientific research as the agency grapples with how it can lose such a significant part of its functionality.

To collect information on restrictions of scientific freedom and of the ability of scientists to carry out their responsibilities, and to make such information available to scientists, scientific societies, and others who may be interested in taking action to counter these restrictions.

The new modeling tool — Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment, or CORPSE — represents a major advance in the ability of scientists to simulate the global carbon cycle.

The ability of scientists - in - training (especially those who plan private sector careers) to plan for the future, and of venture capitalists to make money, depends on the success of scientific and economic prognostication: Which scientific fields, which technologies, will yield revenues and jobs in the future, with a sustained demand for resources, human and otherwise?

The ability of scientists to work across borders is clearly essential to U.S. public - health and environmental goals.

It is the first paper to come out of Lehigh's Nano / Human Interface Presidential Engineering Research Initiative, a multidisciplinary research initiative that proposes to develop a human - machine interface to improve the ability of scientists to visualize and interpret the vast amounts of data that are generated by scientific research.

Novartis puts great store on the abilities of its scientists.

The ability of a scientist to maintain a continuous stream of publication has not been well studied.

Science has grown well beyond the ability of any scientist to comprehend all of it.

Your missing my point, the issue here is the ability of a scientist to use a cherry picked piece of science as a case against global warming, not regional variability in relation to natural variation.

Though we may be right to be skeptical of the ability of a scientist to capture the magic of romance, this is not what Dr. Gottman claims to do at all.

Not exact matches

Princeton scientists found that height predicted success even among three - year - olds taking tests of cognitive ability.

None of this is good for our ability to comprehend deeply, scientists say,» Sakaj reports.

The Titan V could go in a high - powered PC used by an AI scientist on a local project, while the Tesla V100 will be good for servers that handle the immense app workloads that power the voice recognition abilities of digital assistants from Google or Amazon, for example.

But the technique is much more powerful than that — it basically gives scientists the ability to rewrite specific chunks of an organism's genetic code, including that of humans.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

University of Toronto brain scientist Cheryl Grady has led the way in studying the performance of the dorolateral prefrontal cortex, key to our ability to concentrate.

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

sammy» 100 scientists have declared that they «are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.»

As a scientist and Christian, who knows alcoholics, I choose to believe that conscious life is a sort of test of its ability to submit itself to something which can never in this Universe be proved exists with empirical evidence.

The things Hitler's scientists were trying to do before we had the ability — but now some scientists are beginning to wonder if we shouldn't do the very sorts of things that Hitler's scientists were trying to do & found morally reprehensible for doing.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

He also feels that it is unfair for the public to «impose» responsibility on scientists, which is to «exact disproportionate service from one group because of their special ability.»

The ability to change ones mind is the hallmark of a scientist presented with data however on the existence of God, and most things that are not on the fringe of theoretical physics, I have not see Hawkings vascillate at all

While there is no existential god that dispenses grace or justice I believe that the gods of the bible, the «Elohim», were scientists from another world who had reached the technical abilities to travel through space to other planets and clone humans and they did just that on our planet thousands of years ago.

The polyphenol content of many chocolates varies greatly around the world, scientists from the Nestlé Research Center (NRC) report in an article that adds to the company's ability to validate potential nutritional and health...

Forty - plus years later, it turns out, scientists are learning that all those undeniable benefits have not come without risks — to the environment, the planet, and, in what may be the most shockingly personal risk of all, to our and our children's ability to start healthy families of our own.

In the study, scientists documented a lemon shark's ability to expel a large metal fish stringer out of its body cavity over the course of 435 days.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

That is what political scientists call a «competency» or «valence» issue, meaning that political parties have an incentive to prove their ability to contain such costs irrespective of their different policy positions on other issues.

In advance of receiving an award from the Human Rights Campaign, Cuomo announced a series of measures intended to eliminate so - called conversion therapy, a practice that claims the ability to reverse same - sex attraction in some people but that has been widely discredited by scientists and criticized by gay - rights groups.

«We... needed an easy - to - use and intuitive solution that did not require the intervention of any data scientist or developers, so journalists around the globe could work with the data, regardless of their technical abilities,» ICIJ data editor Mar Cabra

Because names of potential experts may come from sources other than panel members — for example, from scientific societies — the panel's other important role will be to vet the recommended scientists, engineers or physicians for scientific merit, reputation, and the ability to communicate highly technical information to non-scientific audiences.

As the stories of these three young group leaders returning to the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary illustrate, the struggles Eastern European scientists find back home depend on when they left, the country they're coming back to, and their ability to get funding.

Much of the value of the program lies in its unique position and ability to meet the needs of both the government and its own needs for scientists and engineers, and those of fellows with respect to career development.

Instead of evaluating scientists» ability to accumulate data and divide it into the maximum number of densely worded journal papers, it rewards those who create brief, cogent descriptions that vividly convey their research's central idea and importance.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

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