Sentences with phrase «better scientific knowledge»

The agreement calls for those nations to refrain from fishing there until there is better scientific knowledge about the marine resources and until a regulatory system is in place to protect those resources.

It seemed to him necessary to distinguish the immediate «acquaintance with» God of the religious person from the indirect «knowledge about» to which at best scientific knowledge could lead.

oceanoise2017 format aims at favouring a dynamic exchange of the latest findings in the field of ocean noise in order to assist in providing ocean users with the best scientific knowledge and technical solutions to address operational and environmental issues.

We have good scientific knowledge that our planetary home exists in space - time, is finite, has frangible ecological systems and possesses scarce resources, many of which are being dissipated by you and me, so that our children and coming generations will likely be deprived of them.

I rather think that they used what was the best scientific knowledge at the time.

2 We urge you to align the EU biofuels policy with the best scientific knowledge and take into account emissions from indirect changes in land use.

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The good news is that there are other kinds of knowledge beyond scientific knowledge... and there are long philosophical tracts dealing with the existence of God (both pro and con).

I also think you have to consider some things such as the many medical laws in the Old Testament that were well beyond scientific knowledge at the time, regarding what people were to eat, germs, etc..

«Culture is «a study of perfection» which «moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for public knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.»

Seriously, we do and will need a good amount of service personnel, so keeping their level of knowledge below the belt of a fine scientific education is okay, too,

Scientists use theories as a foundation to gain further scientific knowledge, as well as to accomplish goals such as inventing technology or curing disease.

Yeah, nevermind your well established 21st century scientific knowledge, I'll stick with my nonsensical bronze - age book of conjecture and fairy tales for all of my beliefs.

Nye — a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» — said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

* Education as the respect for and nurture of each student as an individual with unique gifts to be discovered and developed while introducing students to the best of art, knowledge, scientific inquiry, logic, and philosophy and encouraging play, creativity, self - confidence, self - reliance, self - expression, independence, collaboration, and community.

While well - acquainted with the tradition of philosophical reflection on the soul and its relationship to the body, Fr Selman's knowledge of recent scientific research relevant to his subject appears less impressive and his terminology, and even some of his ideas and arguments, can therefore appear outdated or irrelevant.

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.

It may have started out as a way to explain what people did not have the scientific knowledge to explain at one point in our history, but then it was learned by some that religion was useful in controlling the masses and bending them to their will for good or ill.

Scientific knowledge is simply the best knowledge we have * GIVEN CURRENT TECHNOLOGY AND OBSERVATION *.

In such education scientific knowledge and engineering skill will be taught not as means of making good the claims of the autonomous human will against nature, but as resources for the informed pursuit of the good.

Hence, one could well disagree with some of Whitehead's personal cosmological conjectures (and advancing scientific knowledge will surely necessitate this) without disagreeing with any of his fundamental principles.

Our predicament is a commentary, not on instruments and instrument makers, but on the human inability to employ both scientific knowledge and technical achievement to bring about the good life and the good society.

Both recognize the importance both of scientific knowledge and of meeting the physical needs of human beings, but both deny that either this kind of knowledge or material wealth is of primary importance for true human well - being.

Nye - a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» - said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

In fact, the great progress of scientific knowledge that we saw during the last century has helped us understand the mystery of creation better and has profoundly marked the awareness of all peoples.

Here, if you like, is a man who, over a long period of time, has followed a certain scientific method and laboriously gained his results, who says to us: «Experience, with the help of reasoning, leads to this point; scientific knowledge begins here and ends there; such are my conclusions»; and the philosopher would have the right to answer: «Very well, leave it to me, and I'll show you what I can do with it!

The scientist as a person can not fail to be vitally interested in how scientific work fits into the more general pattern of knowledge and how it is to be employed for good and constructive uses.

Descartes» interest in analyzing the foundations of scientific knowledge, an interest Whitehead shares, is still with us, as it well should be.

A little judicious observation as well as knowledge of scientific law will convince any one of this fact.

This will enable environmental water holders and managers to respond to new knowledge gained through local input as well as new scientific research and other sources of information.

I think I was put on this earth to make the world a better place — or help people to get more out of life — in a way that doesn't require any scientific knowledge.

As such, identified outcomes and limitations are used to inform environmental watering in future years leveraging the best available, contemporary scientific knowledge.

Innovation The R&D team at Creamy Creation is well known and respected for their scientific skill, beverage knowledge and innovation in the cream liqueur category.

Both programs are based on scientific research into how students of various ages learn best and have allowed students to not only grow in their educational knowledge, but strengthen their problem - solving and critical thinking skills.

The Lancet series will explore ways of applying scientific knowledge to help children get the best from their early years.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The Governor who titled his speech, «Towards an Inclusive Good Youruba and Good Muslim», however enjoined religious leaders on the need to dwell more on scientific knowledge, which according to him has redefined the world.

«Expanding scientific knowledge and protecting the ethical practice of science could find no better partnership — together AAAS and Sigma Xi will further enrich opportunities for members in and outside the scientific community and deepen our commitment to advance science and engineering,» said Holt, who also serves as the executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

In making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»

With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

The multi-society letter called on the OMB to work with leaders of government agencies to back the use of the best scientific evidence in their decision - making and to see that federal agencies support scientists doing the work required to «produce the knowledge upon which the nation relies.»

Other colleagues and I have long shared the view that the best way to truly change the situation for minority students is to use our scientific knowledge as a tool for their empowerment.

Using a combination of engineering and scientific knowledge gained from field studies, as well as interaction with communities in developing countries, some researchers in our department are developing methods to effectively communicate information about best practices to the farmers, as well as methods to train them by example.

If you have the background, i.e., a degree in a scientific or technical subject, and have acquired or are willing to acquire the linguistic and pedagogical knowledge needed to teach EST, then there are certainly opportunities out there, and a university EST post can be quite well paid.

If the growing awareness of an ongoing problem has led to more transparency, the scientific process, and the public who benefits from the knowledge it generates, will be better off.

However, Krutilla, Good and Graham recommend updating the 2006 elicitation study to reflect additional experience with the method and new scientific knowledge.

Writing in this month's Scientific American, Gary Stix investigates the mechanisms of such resilience and how this knowledge can provide reassurance to those who suffer personal losses as well as help to craft treatment and intervention programs for people with post-traumatic stress and depression.

Although I was viewed as a stellar scientific surgeon during my clinical training, when it came to competing with full - time researchers, I was clearly limited by the lack of an up - to - date armamentarium of technological knowledge and scientific trivia, as well as a credible track record of success in scientific publication.

The production of scientific knowledge is a very significant social good and our understanding of the past relies on the ability to analyse and re-analyse a number of different archaeological remains.

Barroso's broad knowledge of chemistry and immunology were directly relevant to the field of antidoping, and his scientific background included «a good combination of basic science and applied science and management of science,» Rabin says.

To harness the energy already generated by the March for Science, «clear, science - based messages must be presented repeatedly to both those making policy and to the broader public, and these messages should focus on the value of scientific knowledge that results from well - funded research,» added Rovito.