Sentences with phrase «application of science as»

With a background in the practical application of science as an engineer, and as someone who finds activity requiring any athletic ability beyond hand - eye coordination challenging, Tammy found clicker training much more appealing than the traditional obedience classes available at the time.

With a background in the practical application of science as an engineer, and as someone who finds activity requiring any athletic ability beyond hand - eye coordination challenging, Tammy found clicker training much more appealing than the traditional obedience classes.

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Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

Social science experiments such as this have limited application to the wider population, for a number of reasons.

It is also possible for engineers (as appears to be the case here) to maintain a cognitive dissonance regarding the science of origins and the practical application of mechanics or electronics.

As the cautionary principle in all applications of science has been grossly abused by commercial giants in all fields of science, the church will not hasten to reassure a rightly sceptical public.

What strikes me as another salient detail is the final topic in the historical section of the biological sciences, «The physiology of the nervous system and its application to psychology» (C.II.m).

«Pure science» is justified by the applications to which it may eventually lead in unexpected ways, but it is also valuable as part of man's quest for knowledge.

In the light of man's unrelenting attack on disease, some biologists believe that development of deadly germs is a betrayal of the human race as well as of the ideals of science; one - hundredth of an ounce of botulism toxin could kill a million people, and its production seems to further neither scientific knowledge nor any peacetime applications.

As already mentioned, many of these society - wide assumptions derive from modern science and (more important, I think) from the everyday applications of science by way of technology.

In collaboration with the BENEO - Institute (nutrition science and legislation), the BENEO - Technology Center (food application and technology) as well as with the company's marketing experts, she will provide solutions leveraging BENEO's product portfolio of functional fibers, functional carbohydrates, rice ingredients and functional proteins.

Originally developed in the 1960's as part of the Russian space program, the science of heart rate variability has since found broad application in cardiac medicine.

Members interested in this area of work aim to raise the visibility of human rights principles as part of the practice of science and its applications, linking ethics codes that guide the scientific, engineering and health communities to human rights principles.

The work, which was released in March, was voted by Science and AAAS (the publisher of Science Careers) as the 2010 Breakthrough of the Year «in recognition of the conceptual ground their experiment breaks, the ingenuity behind it and its many potential applications,» according to a AAAS press release.

From its position at the interface of science and government, AAAS maintains a close watch on basic research trends as an important component to the R&D process given the contributions it makes to expanding our knowledge or understanding of phenomena quite apart from any specific applications this understanding may yield.

We cover fascinating bits of pure science with no possible application as well as high - impact stories such as weapons technology and the psychology of terrorism.

While she felt as though she «wasn't very familiar with much of science policy,» her application included a policy brief on the Bayh - Dole Act since she had some experience in tech transfer issues.

If your degree is in a technical field such as computer science, engineering, or one of the life sciences, many intellectual property law firms employ PhDs as technical specialists to review and compose patent applications.

Like other countries that see knowledge - growth as a pillar of their economies, Wales has created a science agenda that aims not only to expand academic science, but to translate science and technology into applications that lead to economic growth.

The Coalition has created new human rights resources for science and engineering associations, tools for human rights organizations that seek to incorporate science and technology in their work, increased awareness of the opportunities for scientists and engineers to contribute to human rights, and advanced international discussions regarding the significance of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, as guaranteed in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The robots, described in the April 18 issue of Science Robotics, also showed human - like dexterity to construct the chair, suggesting that these manufacturing machines may soon be ready for use in a wider range of applications, such as aircraft manufacturing, without needing special mechanical modifications or well - organized surroundings.

For the past decade, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition has been eliciting the perspectives of scientists, engineers, and health professionals as to the meaning of the right to «enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and associated obligations (Article 15, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

Corillon examines four issues: the scientist as human rights activist, the scientist as human rights victim, the scientist as human rights abuser, and the application of science to human rights work.

The efficient movement of basic science discoveries into clinical applications — often described as «bench to bedside» work — is the goal of translational research.

All of us will take our careers in very different directions, but the lessons that we learned will be as valuable in writing the grant applications of tomorrow as reporting the science headlines of today.

My first application was to the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity which is also interested, as part of its science communication activities, in funding artists.

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

Historically, the federal government has provided the bulk of the nation's spending on fundamental science, defined as studies undertaken without «specific applications towards processes or products in mind.»

The new material, described online 25 April in Science by synthetic chemist Andreas Lendlein of mnemoScience GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and biomedical engineer Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is composed of two polymers, each already used separately in clinical applications such as drug delivery.

► «Even as the practice of science becomes ever more advanced, the observations more precise, and the applications more prevalent, there are signs of public misapprehension, distrust, and eroding support,» wrote Rush Holt, the new chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, in this week's ediscience becomes ever more advanced, the observations more precise, and the applications more prevalent, there are signs of public misapprehension, distrust, and eroding support,» wrote Rush Holt, the new chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, in this week's ediScience, in this week's editorial.

Such new technology will enable advances in battery materials science, flexible battery charging rates, thermal and electrical engineering of new battery materials / technology and it has the potential to help the design of energy storage systems for high performance applications such as motor racing and grid balancing.

A competitive faculty application package, I was told, should include publications in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature, or Science; evidence of fundraising such as travel grants and in - kind research support; and teaching experience as a teaching assistant or guest lecturer.

and hence the illustration of the nature of the scientific hearings of the accessions to knowledge which his expedition has produced are drawn from these materials; but, as other branches of the information embraced in his observations are unfolded, other theoretical applications will appear for the advancement of philosophy and such of the geographical sciences as meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, concerning which the observations made in the South Polar regions tend in some respects to deliver the deciding stroke in the elaboration.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science took another step toward clarifying the meaning of the human right «to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and assisting in the eventual implementation of a right that the AAAS Board of Directors has endorsed as central to its mission.

For instance, women accounted for 51 % and 49 % of the applications in medical sciences and social sciences respectively; as it happens, those fields had the lowest overall success rates (14.9 % and 13.4 %, respectively) within NWO.

«Rhamnolipids are already on the market, but our product, with its synthetic flexibility, has just as many applications and may be improved rationally by synthetic design,» says Luk, who also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Even though this work started as a basic science study, the tool that came out of it will be really useful for applications down the line,» he said.

Gevorg Grigoryan, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, and researchers from other institutions have built the first artificial transporter protein that carries individual atoms across membranes, opening the possibility of engineering a new class of smart molecules with applications in fields as wide ranging as nanotechnology and medicine.

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

Better application of science and technology, empowerment of local communities in decision making, integrating biodiversity conservation into other key sectors, scenario planning that is sensitive to economic and cultural diversity, private sector partnerships in financing biodiversity protection, as well as better cross-border regional collaboration, are some of the many important approaches the report identifies.

Trigonometry has important applications in many branches of pure mathematics as well as of applied mathematics and, consequently, much of science and precalculus.

During the Cold War, the U.S. military became convinced it was losing the «mind race» against the Soviet Union, and as recently as the late 1980s was investigating a range of paranormal phenomenon and their potential uses in espionage and combat, says Jonathan Moreno, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who studies military applications of cognitive science.

• The computational design of nano - catalysts from gold and silver alloys for use in energy and environmental science applications, such as in automobile exhaust cleanup.

In agricultural applications, that means you also need a strong background in areas such as soils, crop production, pest management, crop biology, and / or social sciences such as economics and sociology, depending on the type of position you're interested in.

«As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organizations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain.»

Despite extensive efforts to develop practical applications for graphene and explore the exotic physics at work in its two dimensions, obtaining a usable sample is still more art than science, as Scientific American learned one slushy winter afternoon in the Columbia University lab of Philip Kim, one of our co-authors and a leader in the field.

It defines natural science as any activity «requiring the application of scientific principles, competently performed.»

The work demonstrates how computer science and optimization programming can have applications to new areas such as sustainability, noted Carla Gomes, professor of computing and information science at Cornell University and another co-author.

«This characteristic makes gold nanorods attractive for use in catalysis, security materials and a range of biomedical applications, such as diagnostics, imaging, and cancer therapy,» says Joe Tracy, a materials science and engineering researcher at NC State who is senior author of a recent paper on the improved technique.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.