Sentences with phrase «building science points»

Below are the associated building science points to consider when making the change to an unvented roof / conditioned attic:

Not exact matches

One of my overall points in writing this column is that building a business is not rocket science; it's about having an idea and seeing it through with integrity.

When I was a senior in college I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs, which paired political science majors with cadets in the hopes of building future civilian - military relationships.

Ramsey points out that his position is similar to that of Max Black, even to agreement that both science and the humanities build on imaginative insights.

In science, however, which is fueled by skepticism, which actively tries to disprove itself, the «evidence of our senses» builds up to the point that we have a preponderance of evidence and it becomes impossible to deny, if you take it seriously.

Universities need community allies to stand with us, and science cafes offer a fun starting point for building these relationships.

One answer is provided by the Industrial Co-Operative Award in Science and Engineering (CASE), a U.K. Ph.D. studentship that seeks to build meaningful and sustainable relationships between industry and academia, with early career researchers at the point of intersection.

«There are some building - science labs out there who try to bring in as many components as possible, but we never thought they got to the point where they really could address all the issues that might come up in a building design standard,» says Dana Pillai, president of Delos's research division and executive director of the Well Living Lab.

We took a point off because there's no explanation of how HAL works, but again, since we don't know how to build an advanced AI, no explanation might be better than some vague science jargon.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

He climbed the stairs to the roof of the Perkins building at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, pointed his laptop's video camera at himself and, with the center's 9 - inch Clark telescope dome in the background, made a science sales pitch directly to the public.

Develop and lead a proactive and effective media strategy; build relationships with journalists, and act as the main point of contact for journalist enquiries; write press releases and news articles for the website; produce background briefings and prepare spokespeople for interviews, co-ordinating media interviews and requests; arrange media interviews and develop a public profile for key staff; monitor current issues and public opinion to inform the media strategy; work with Member Organisations and the Science Media Centre; ensure that all media communications comply with the Society's brand identity and guidelines

Abstract: We present a first determination of distances and extinctions for individual stars in the first release of the APOKASC catalogue, built from the joint efforts of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) and the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC).

Ayurveda science points out the importance of the three pillars that support the building of your health: Diet, exercise and proper rest.

WB's Maximum Movie Mode (last seen on Watchmen) allows director McG to give us a personal tour of the film, including picture - in - picture demonstrations, storyboard comparisons, a Terminator Mythology Timeline, and eleven Focus Points also accessible directly from the menu: «Digital Destruction,» «Enlisting the Air Force» («Molten Metal and the Science of Simulation,» «Building the Gas Station,» «Creating the VLA Attack,» «Exploding Serena's Lab in Miniature,» «Hydrobots,» «An Icon Returns,» «Terminator Factory,» «Stan Winston Shop,» and «Napalm Blast.»

That the most exciting bits of Black Panther have to do with world - building — the futuristic costuming, the urban design, the smooth assimilation of the technological into the everyday — point to another problem with the CGI - driven mass destruction template of science fiction: it doesn't account for the ways in which the cultural place of technology — and the resultant shape of our technophobia — has evolved over time.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

High Point Academy Spartanburg (HPAS) will be a community - centered school built on the principles of honor, integrity and service where academic excellence, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) education, fine arts and a project - based, applied learning style of instruction produces an educational environment rich in creativity, innovation and achievement.

Among other compelling points, they make the case that we just aren't investing deeply enough or long enough in the up - front R&D process to build out truly innovative, technology - enhanced, learning - science - enabled new approaches to student learning and development.

As for research, Mokris pointed to brain science studies that have shown that repetition helps build synapses in the brain.

Since then, the garden has become a focal point of school life, used by geometry students who apply math to building projects, by English students to write poetry, by environmental science classes to study sustainable agriculture and irrigation.

Bonus Points: Connecting the two building science museum is a stroller friendly natural pathway along the edge of the Owls Creek salt marsh.

You start small; a single planet is your home, so you build a science ship and use some influence points to hire a scientist to command it.

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

I was very impressed early this year with former Representative Sherwood Boehlert's op - ed in the Washington Post on the need for the party to embrace science, including the science pointing to building risks from human - driven climate change.

The point is that for far too long climate campaigners have had a tendency to speak of the science pointing to rising risks from building emissions of greenhouse gases and their favored solutions in a single breath.

Creighton also points out that journalists who care deeply about accurate science reporting will already have some sort of standard review built into their process that should bring these kinds of issues to light before publication.

The Acoustic Ecology Institute's «Wind Farm Noise 2011: Science and policy overview», compiled by Jim Cummings, makes the point that several Scandinavian studies have shown turbine noise annoyance is notably higher in rural settings than in more built up areas.

My questions about a) Christy and Spencer are relevant to the points raised on this thread by Craig Loehle abourt conflicts of interest; b) My points and questions about you failing applying skepticism and scrutiny equally is also relevant to the whole point of your blog and claims about caring about the science and building bridges.

The point he was making was that the consensus took time to build, and as the science got better, Chevron moved with it.

Here's the key point: All of the benefits mentioned above — climate, economic, security — are built on the science of safe hydraulic fracturing.

As Jeff Dozier, dean of the Bren School, points out, the planning process for the building began in 1992 before there was a school of Environmental Science & Management.

In an irony not appreciated except by building science geeks ventilation air in the summer months in most parts of North America brings moisture into crawlspaces and deposits this moisture on surfaces that are below the ventilation air dew point.

Obviously, climatology is an incomplete science but we can all agree the basics as a new starting point to build on — Climatology II, if you will.

As anomalous results build up, science reaches a crisis, at which point a new paradigm, which subsumes the old results along with the anomalous results into one framework, is accepted.

As President Obama recently noted in his article in Science, «the irreversible momentum of clean energy» will be difficult to overcome — it just might take a while for this momentum to build to the point where the discussion on clean v. dirty energy is moot due to the favorable economics of clean energy alone.

The context being the point I'm making that the Greenhouse Effect is built on science fraud by sleight of hand changes to real physics, the ideal gas / real gas is just one example — the real world around us is nothing like it is depicted in the AGW GHE..

The science Joel, not some book, not some claims somebody made, dig out the science points they are building their claims on and present the science point by point, most here know science well enough to handle it.

As has been pointed out, climate science is building a body of knowledge to act upon.

In addition to referring to the results of the injured worker survey, this document also points out the recent significant drop in workers» compensation costs (with additional reductions likely to occur as a result of adopting a formulary for prescription drugs) and the fact that the current guidelines essentially «build in» advances in medical science for many evaluations.

This science has progressed to the point where we can not only help a couple move into satisfaction, but build the kind of secure connection where simply holding a partner's hand calms your brain and lessens pain, even in the face of the threat of electric shock.

For example, HCP is developing a seven - building life sciences campus in the San Francisco suburbs called The Cove at Oyster Point.

Thus, a raft of social science research points to the heightened value of relationship building.