Sentences with phrase «complex issues of science»

Courts are increasingly faced with litigation that presents complex issues of science and technology.

In the first place, theology will need to become increasingly a corporate enterprise in which teams of thinkers combine their efforts to relate Christian insights to the complex issues of a science - based technological age.

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First, as they are forming their beliefs — whatever they may be — students will be aware of the nature of science and its relation to complex ethical and religious issues.

The purpose of the meeting is described on the conference website: «within the complex and multifaceted issue of the Science / Faith relationship, this event focuses on the possibility of reconcilingin the same philosophical position the «Creation» and «Evolution'thinking, without frst pretending to be a scientifc theory or secondly being affrmed as a dogma.»

21 The issues here are complex and detailed; nearly every commentator on Whitehead's philosophy of natural science discusses and criticizes this method.

Yet any issue in science that is at all complex can be interpreted in a number of ways.

On the basis of experience from a variety of sources a religious person and the theologian formulate a theory which, like any theory dealing with complex issues in science, is a matter of weighing one experience against another, together with much subjective judgment.

This is too complex an issue to discuss here, but I would submit that if understanding rather than prediction is the goal of science, models can not be replaced by predictive mathematical formalisms.

But the drive to create virtual characters that are indistinguishable from human characters has also given rise to complex forensic and legal issues, such as the need to distinguish between computer - generated and photographic images of child pornography, says senior author Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a pioneering researcher in digital forensics at Dartmouth.

In 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Menczer, the director of IU's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a 4 - year, $ 920,000 grant to study how so - called memes — ideas, issues, and events — are spread across the Internet.

► «The involvement of [online communities in discussions about suspect publications and possible research misconduct] has made the standardization of processes to address allegations more complex and has led to less patience from the scientific community and the public with what are often long timelines in institutional misconduct investigations,» Science journals Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt wrote in an editorial in this week's issue of Science.

But was it realistic to expect new insights into one of science policy's most complex issues from a group who, instead of bringing decades of expert knowledge to the table, compensated with enthusiasm, intellectual creativity, and common sense?

The problem persists because the challenge of clean water ties into complex political and social issues: culture, economics, science, emotion, ideology.

«Here we present a highly efficient, inexpensive and scalable ammonia - based thermally regenerative battery where electrical current is produced from the formation of copper ammonia complex,» the researchers report in the current issue of Energy and Environmental Science.

Members of large, complex communities had both a keener sense of fairness and a greater willingness to punish unfairness, the team reports in tomorrow's issue of Science.

April 13, 2018 • Through science commentary, we created a place for exploration of deep, complex issues.

She is a current member of the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee, which provides independent advice to the Director of the Office of Science on complex scientific and technological issues that arise in the fusion energy sciences program.

«We believe that this knowledge may be important for the further understanding of complex interactions in some major public health issues, that modern science still hasn't been able to explain fully», says Antonio Barragan,

He is against soy for the following reasons: — Most of it is GM — Response: if this bothers you choose organic — it has goitrogens which interfere with thyroid function — Response: my understanding is that this is only a problem in people who are low in iodine — so just make sure you are getting enough of this nutrient — it is estrogenic — Reponse: the science on this issue is so much more complex than Mercola indicates.

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I am well aware of the assignment issues faced by the students and can assist them on complex topics related to Biomedical Science.

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Science fiction is one of the most beautiful genres, its very premise allowing readers, viewers and players to be amazed by visions of the future or glimpses of alternate timelines while also exploring complex issues that relate to us and our planet under a more comfortable guise.

The conservator's science in this case is designed to address the complex issues in these signature sculptures, made of automotive metal (including car bumpers, fenders and hoods), metal file cabinets and various bits of found steel.

Science can help inform judgment calls on complex issues, but it can't make them on behalf of society.

If a goal of realclimate is to inform laypeople of issues in climate science, then arrogance in this forum will only appeal to its most unquestioning adherents while driving away those who prefer to keep an open mind about a complex and dynamic field.

Journalists dealing with global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role as a signpost pointing toward possible futures, not as a font of crystalline answers.

I see no reason to assume otherwise that climate science must go down a well trodden path of iterative model development that has had to handle extremely complex issues.

As an academic who tries (not always successfully) to practice sound science himself, it is clear to me that Steele is a «scientist's scientist» — thorough and fair to the bone, not resting until he has looked at a complex problem from every angle; faithfully following the evidence wherever it may lead; presenting each argument in keeping with Einstein's motto «as simple as possible, but not simpler»; giving credit where credit is due, even to those people who on the whole confound rather than clarify the issues; and doing all this with a lifetime of learning and experience under his belt.

Further, IMHO many of the things that make the science complex and uncertain are a consequence of the way in which the discipline has chosen to approach the science (without one suspects due consideration of the optimum way to address the key policy issues) *.

And GHG emissions were doomed to be more polarizing than any previous issue because the science is more complex, the time scales are longer, the geographic scales are larger (eg, emissions are global), and, key, there is no quick end - of - pipe fix.

In the March, 2008 issue of Physics Today, West, the chief scientist of the Army Research Office's mathematical and information science directorate, wrote that «the Sun's turbulent dynamics» are linked with the Earth's complex ecosystem.

The central issues of climate change and oil decline are so broad and complex that both science and advocacy fall victim to the recency effect.

Accurate reporting and analysis of complex issues, whether in science, politics or whatever, is largely irrelevant.

The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and change.

Such an examination can begin to address the question of how partisan barriers can be broken down in climate science communication, and ask how framing can be used to grow the audience on complex scientific issues.

Well, that strategy didn't work in terms of a justification and even prescription for policy, and it shouldn't have worked; energy and climate policy has much more complex issues to deal with than consensus science (issues of politics and values).

So let us quote the University of East Anglia climate scientist, and former director of the Tyndall Centre, Mike Hulme, who is concerned that science is being used to provide certainty over big, complex political issues:

As with most other issues in the complex world of communicating climate change science and policy, there is no black - and - white up / down true / false simplicity in considering black carbon.

«People need to be aware that it isn't just CO2 that's the problem,» said Keith Shine of the University of Reading in England, co-author of an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science discussing the many unknowns about the complex mixture of greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's atmosphere.

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