Sentences with phrase «by advancing the understanding»

«We are proud of our association with Dr. Kellermayer and with Texas Children's Hospital's IBD Center and we couldn't be happier to see our funds really making a difference by advancing the understanding and treatment of IBD.»

The researchers also hope that by advancing the understanding of which genes play a role in DLB, their results will aid in the development of targeted therapies.

Players were tasked with growing the schools tree of knowledge by advancing their understanding of PLP.

The Climate Impacts Group supports the development of climate resilience by advancing understanding and awareness of climate risks, and working closely with public and private entities to apply this information as they act to shape society's future.

The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development's (IGSD) mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, accountable and democratic systems of governance for sustainable development.

It will respond to the ARCSS mandate by advancing our understanding of coupled atmosphere - ocean - ice processes with a focus on the role and response of cyclones in altering the state of the Arctic system.

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«He not only advanced our understanding of the universe and its contents by his discoveries, but by provoking us to think about how the cosmos works,» said Tothill.

This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

By better understanding a person's microbiome (gut, oral, skin, lung, and other body sites), the company anticipates developing improved probiotics and other advanced diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to improve health and wellness.

The WE FOR SHE conference will play an important role in growing our provincial economy and advancing gender equity by giving students a greater understanding of their career options and potential, expanding their confidence in what they can achieve, and giving them a chance to meet dynamic and successful role models.

Binary 365 has an easy to use interface making the robot very easy to understand and use by both novice and advanced traders.

The insurance against deception is the marvelous method God used to reveal himself by giving us simple, easy to follow stories that do not require advanced degrees to understand.

In every vibrant period of the Church's life, it has been understood that her message and mission are based on public events, are advanced by public argument, and invite public response.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Life in its entirety, regarded as a creative evolution, is something analogous; it transcends finality, if we understand by finality the realization of an idea conceived or conceivable in advance.

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Living by how someone else understood God and people is not advancing the kingdom.

(This claim is advanced, for example, by V. G. Simkhovitch, Toward the Understanding of Jesus [New York: Macmillan Co., 1921] and by C. J. Cadoux, The Historic Mission of Jesus (London, 1941; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943).

This is the understanding advanced by the declaration Dominus Iesus, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith six years ago under the leadership of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict.

God, so understood, is not only the chief causative principle, although He is not by any means the only such principle (since there is freedom of decision throughout the world - order); He is also the supreme affective reality, because what happens in the world, by precisely such free decision and its results, makes a difference to and (if we may put it so) contributes to the divine principle in providing further opportunities for advance as well as in enriching the experience of the divine itself or himself.

The main take - away from all the above is this: Hamilton, the likely author of # 65, and Madison and Jay also, to the extent this particular paper was run by them in advance (scholars think such a preview was done sometimes, but not generally), did not understood impeachment for «high crimes and misdemeanors» as referring to an easily defined category.

There is the God of the gaps who is brought in to fill the gaps left by science; that God grows smaller with every advance in scientific understanding of the universe.

As an alternative to such a disreputable point of view, however, we might understand purpose in the universe in terms of what has sometimes been called a «loose» teleology.7 By this I mean that the cosmos may be a significant, value - laden process without needing to be strictly directional in its advance through time.

Niebuhr treats these contradictory understandings of Christ's association with culture as motifs advanced by different theologians and schools of thought through Christian history.

By advancing and acting upon his understanding of the power of courts, says Bork, «Barak surely establishes a worldrecord for judicial hubris.»

Edited by Anne Fox and Mike MacAvoy and prepared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies and DrinkWise Australia, this book seeks to advance current understanding of the individual and collective meanings, purposes, and functions of drunkenness.

As ingredient specialists, Advanced Food Systems (AFS) understands market trends and the formulation challenges encountered by rising meat and processing costs.

Appreciating and understanding the challenges faced by manufacturers of all sectors, Ishida Europe uses its unique expertise and experience to develop advanced automated systems for handling food and non-food products alike.

By 4 months old, a baby's understanding of what she is hearing is advanced enough to recognize voices she hears frequently.

A child who is advanced in some areas and slower in others (for instance a child with dyslexia who has excellent understanding of maths) will not want to be limited by a curriculum that has rigid «grade level» expectations.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

When partners become parents, they benefit by understanding the common issues that affect the couple relationship, and when prepared in advance for how they can manage change as a team, they are able to provide a firm foundation for the family to thrive.

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

The promise of having young men and women mature and become thoughtful citizens who deepen their understanding of the world through a curiosity promoted by their teachers will not be advanced under a regime that seeks to stigmatize and punish.

I understand that Vince Cable's public musings about a coalition government were emphatically not sanctioned in advance by his leader.

Signed by the leaders of the Academy and AAAS, a memorandum of understanding now outlines a plan to advance scientific cooperation by Cuban and U.S. scientists, in key areas of mutual interest to both countries.

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

Supported by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, KOFAC is active throughout the country in promoting public understanding of science; advancing science communication and education; and fostering collaboration across the science disciplines, humanities, and the arts.

«About a third of the gamma - ray objects seen by Fermi remained unknown in the most recent catalog, and this result represents an important advance in understanding their natures,» said David Thompson, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Better understanding of how climate affects tornado activity can help to predict tornado activity in the short - term, a month, or even a year in advance, and would be a major aid to insurance and reinsurance companies in assessing the risks posed by outbreaks.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

Discovered in 1998 by a peat farmer, Fred's well - preserved bones have advanced our understanding of the massive animals» evolution.

Sleep - wake cycles and our understanding of narcolepsy have been advanced by the discovery of orphan receptors, as well as their associated ligand peptide hormones and the genes that code for them.

«We are excited by the work of Dr. Pourdehnad and colleagues and believe these results are an important advance in understanding the role of myc pathway dysregulation in multiple myeloma, and ultimately allow for the development of therapeutic strategies to address it,» said Jeffrey Wolf, MD, a UCSF blood disorder specialist and director of the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative at UCSF, a sponsor of the research.

Lead author, Kaori Mizuno, said: «By blowing air through their trunks to obtain inaccessible food, the elephants appear to exhibit an advanced understanding of their physical environment.

The prevention of dilated cardiomyopathy in a mouse model by feeding a high - fat diet signals an advance in the understanding of the mechanisms involved in heart disease and has implications for the future development of treatments for this condition.

Beghein and her research team advanced our understanding of how oceanic plates form and evolve as they age by using and comparing two sets of seismic data; the study revealed the presence of a compositional boundary inside the plate that appears to be linked to the formation of the plate itself.

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

«Linking these developmental dynamics with underlying neurobiology may advance our understanding of causes of ASD and further efforts to personalize treatment for ASD by tailoring it to specific clinical profiles and their developmental dynamics.»