Sentences with phrase «as scientific studies»

UN plea for food aid to the Sahel as scientific studies flag up climate change threat to food production

The United Nations is appealing for funds to fight hunger in the drought - hit Sahel, as scientific studies highlight climate change threats to food production.

It seems there are good reasons why we can't get enough of those addictive, feel - good emotions, as scientific studies prove there are many physical, emotional, and mental health benefits associated with kindness.

As well as these scientific studies documenting the benefit of kefir, there are also many anecdotal reports of the health benefits of drinking kefir.

I would still be interested in reading Dr. Greger's input on this book as well as scientific studies.

This may be the case, as some scientific studies show that mortality rates go up the farther one lives from green space, or rather, that mortality rates are lower when one lives closer to green space.

We haven't always appreciated the level of importance that should be attached to getting enough sleep, but as the scientific studies stack up in recent times, it is very hard to argue against the observation that getting the right amount of sleep, is a key aspect of achieving a healthy lifestyle.

However, this decision remains fully personal as long as scientific studies do not lean one way or another on this issue.

Most proposals require the consent of the Environmental Protection Agency, with the exception of those deemed to have low environmental impact such as scientific studies or mineral prospecting (section 20).

Only teaching every view of «creation» would qualify as a scientific study, meaning Baal and Ishtar and Quetzecoatl and Jupiter and Tiamat and Shiva and Odin and Tiki and Quan Yin and The Great Spirit and Ahura Mazda / Ormuzd would have to be included with Yaweh (who is all «creationists» mean)

The universe, as scientific study has disclosed it to us, is open to this kind of subtle and vigorous movement of spiritual power working in and through human nature.

So there were various public lectures given and I remember one or two of those [which] talked about the early emergence of climate change as a scientific study area.

IPNB can be characterized as the scientific study of what it means to be human.

Not exact matches

It's a proposed rule stating that only scientific studies which are reproducible, and in which all underlying data are publicly available, can be used as the basis for regulation.

But to every rule there is an exception, and glad I was to be called out (and called up) by the founder and CEO of one mobile - health company whose entire premise is based on scientific research with repeatable results — the exact study, in fact, I had used as my example of what works better than a health app.

As an avid coffee drinker, I'm helplessly drawn to scientific studies purporting to reveal the effects of my daily habit.

An Ohio State University study published in the scientific journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that acetaminophen, the painkilling ingredient in the Johnson & Johnson (johnson - johnson - 40) brand medicine, not only suppresses your own pain, but causes you to perceive other people's pain as being less severe.

That said, as Coren himself points out, the column was based on observations and wasn't intended to have the same impact as a peer - reviewed study — the bare minimum for scientific evidence.

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

While discounting subjective criteria such as eye and skin color, the site scores users out of 10 according to a specific algorithm that «takes into account many factors from neoclassical beauty, modern research papers, and our own scientific studies,» the company said.

As part of that commitment, he introduced the $ 1.5 - billion Oceans Protection Plan to further enhance marine response, complementing the Western Canada Marine Response Corporation,» CAPP said, adding that approval was made based on existing scientific evidence, and a commitment was made to continue studying the effects of spilled diluted bitumen on water.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioAs Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioas higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

A number of affiliate marketers have reported reasonably scientific case studies of penalties from too many affiliate links, therefore, we rate this as likely.

This includes heavy crudes such as diluted bitumen — which has been studied by numerous scientific bodies, including the highly respected and influential National Academy of Sciences, and found to be non-corrosive and safe for pipelines.

This sort of work is difficult and beautiful in its own way, but it is not at all self - evident in the manner of a falling apple or an elliptical planetary orbit, and it is very sensitive to the same sorts of accidental contamination, deliberate fraud, and unconscious bias as the medical and social - scientific studies we have discussed.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

As time went on, scientific study grew increasingly apart from the dominant religion, which was mired in its Greek and medieval thought.

Augros, a professor of philosophy at the Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifStudies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifstudies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifacient.

I read an interesting article today written by a quantum mechanic claiming that the new direction in such scientific studies is that we can't be sure there is an objective reality but can only hope so, because what we perceive as reality is shaped by the observer.

I should point out the links I posted elsewhere aren't to «scientific hypotheses» but rather web pages that cite sources for studies or as reference to their discussions.

[65] He sometimes retorted sharply, «I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God», [66] and at other times was more guarded, telling a young count studying with Haeckel that «Science has nothing to do with Christ; except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence.

The more I have studied the bible, and believe me I have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors had no scientific knowledge and had to imagine gods to explain things.

His so - called study doesn't match 30 years of scientific research that shows overwhelmingly that children raised by parents who are LGBT do equally as well.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.

The Galileo affair is well worth studying as it raises many problems concerning the relations between theology and science, and the philosophy of scientific discovery [3].

Since then, this conception of metaphysics has given way to one of metaphysics as the study of most basic or general presuppositions, and of the metaphysical argument as hypothetical in the manner of a scientific theory, but on a level of higher generality.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.

However, the same dogma could not hold up as «true» under scientific study.

If an alcoholic in counseling mentions the Davies study or the more extreme views of Arthur H. Cain, [There is a wide gulf between the views of the scientific community, as reflected in the above discussion, and those of Arthur H. Cain in The Cured Alcoholic (New York: The John Day Company, 1964).

As far as modern biology is concerned «origin of specie» is an ant study; devoid of other scientific contenAs far as modern biology is concerned «origin of specie» is an ant study; devoid of other scientific contenas modern biology is concerned «origin of specie» is an ant study; devoid of other scientific content.

As David Recardo (1772 - 1823) stressed that, `' the central goal of political economy is the scientific study of growth, the social ownership and the distribution of economic and political power, nationally and internationally.»

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

I really am not trying to belittle faith, but to argue that scientific study is as faith - based as religion is silly.

The Maharishi holds a degree in physics from the University of Allahabad, but as a young man he abandoned scientific study of the material world to begin his pilgrimage toward spiritual understanding.

For convenience the scientific method can be set out as four basic steps, although the degree to which they can be applied in this over-simple form depends very much on the field of study.

The scientific method of study and inquiry, important and indeed essential as it is to us, does not lead us to absoluteness of truth any more than the supposed divine revelation did.