Sentences with phrase «debates over research»

The piece focused on the example of recent debates over research creating a virulent flu strain.

G. Reid Lyon, the chief of the division of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development that subsidizes reading research, praised teachers during his presentation and urged them to ignore what he called the «ludicrous» debates over research methodologies that have polarized the field in recent years.

Not exact matches

The Committee for Perth has added to the debate over Perth's public transport system by releasing research indicating light rail systems attract more passengers, have lower running costs, and travel faster than rapid bus systems.

He gives the example of the debates over embryonic stem cell research.

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

One cost often neglected in the debate over recombinant DNA research concerns the allocation of scarce resources that might be used otherwise.

Second problem: One group that does not know the debate is over is the group of pro «embryonic stem - cell research advocates, whose name is Legion.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

, its speech codes, its teacher evaluations conducted sub secreto pontificio, its heated debate over the minutest matters, its hair - splitting fights over teaching loads and research assistants (tenure as benefice!)

How can you have a debate when one side had observable data, evidence from all over the planet, genetic research on its side and the other has no evidence just magic?

The debate over how to respond to the growing research linking brain trauma to injuries sustained in sports has spread to Europe, with many of the same dynamics seen in recent years as the issue gained momentum in the United States.

These studies changed the way in which physical punishment would be researched over the subsequent decade and redrew the landscape of the debate.

As it is, the deluge of research into the question of Scottish autonomy seems mostly to have muddied the water instead of clearing it (where its effect has been felt at all), leaving the public debate to retreat slowly to expressions of «gut instinct» over reasoned reflection.

E.J. McMahon, research director for Empire Center for Public Policy, said he believes the debate over the millionaires» tax has gained the most attention out of the executive budget.

Peers who did not speak once in House of Lords debates over the past year still claimed almost # 1.3 m in expenses and allowances, according to research by the Electoral Reform Society.

In 2004, she was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in recognition of her «sustained contributions to the national debate over improving the practical handling of ethical, legal, professional and administrative issues as they affect scientific research.»

With supporters in all fifty states and around the world, Stand With Science continues its efforts to ensure that those on the front lines of research and at the heart of the research funding debate have a chance to be heard in the ongoing debate over our nation's commitment to research.

«It was important to bring microchemistry into the debate, because discussion has been going on for years over whether these structures were just fossilized bacteria or specific bodies where melanin is concentrated,» said Roger Summons, the Schlumberger Professor of Earth Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the research.

The research culminates centuries of debate over whether the disease stemmed from bacteria that originated in the Old or New worlds.

But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines.

The effort is part of a much broader debate that spans research and clinical care over which genetic results should be returned — an ethical, legal, and practical minefield.

The debate over English is «a micro-phenomenon of diversion,» sociologist Vérène Chevalier of Université Paris Est - Créteil - Val de Marne and the research association Sauvons la Recherche (SLR), told ScienceInsider.

NEW DELHI — A fierce debate has erupted in India over proposed rules to create a government - run system to regulate research using animals.

Such conflicting opinions are part of the debate over how to rank graduate research programs, a debate that has sharpened in recent months as the NRC gears up for its third attempt since 1982 to plumb the world's best academic research system.

Debate over Chagnon's work continues, but research by Dreger, which she describes in the book, severely undercuts the charges of genocide and countenancing homicide.

Henig charts the tumultuous growth of this revolutionary procedure, from the research that led to the birth of the first test - tube baby in 1978 to present - day debates over cloning and genetic engineering.

Medical research is only a small part of the larger debate over privacy, and the U.S. spying scandals uncovered last year have prompted citizens and politicians to take a tough stance.

He argued that this tactic — hyping preliminary adult stem cell research and other alternative strategies at delicate political moments — has been a set piece in the national debate over stem cells since the Bush decision in 2001.

His sometimes awkward straddling of the corporate and nonprofit worlds has placed him squarely in the middle of a heated debate over the issue of conflict of interest in the research world.

Take the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

And it has spurred debate over whether it will help boost public support for research, or make scientists look like another special interest group, adding to political polarization.

The failure to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technical Transfer (STTR) programs leaves in limbo the fate of the programs, which expire on 31 January 2011, and ensures that a debate among legislators, biomedical researchers, and venture capitalists over the size and scope of the programs will continue into the new Congress.

Marc Lipsitch wants to turn the bitter debate over risky virus research into a search for solutions.

The research aims to settle a major anthropological debate over whether political systems develop the same way regardless of culture; the results suggest that some aspects of political development are in fact universal.

In his January 2008 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush claimed that research by James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of the University of Kyoto in Japan would finally end the morally and politically nettlesome debate over embryonic stem cell research.

«There has long been a debate in the medical community over striking the right balance between pain relief and physical function,» said John Markman, M.D., director of the Translational Pain Research Program in the University of Rochester Department of Neurosurgery and lead author of the study.

The data shows that the debate over geoengineering breaks down in many ways, but to be more specific, more research is necessary, said Mercer.

More importantly, perhaps, how NSF did spend the money illustrates an important point often lost in the sometimes highly partisan debates over government research spending: Most of those dollars go to educate the next generation of scientists.

If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.

They also touched off the most serious moral and ethical debate so far over both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

The two researchers analyzed nationally representative surveys collected between 2002 and 2010 with the goal of better understanding how the U.S. public came to form opinions in the debate over human embryonic stem cell research.

Debate over adequate funding and job stability dominates discussion of attempt to simplify and improve public research system

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Debate is heating up over proposed changes to the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) merit review process» «broader impact» criterion, which requires that research have benefits to society beyond merely advancing scientific knowlege.

A noted U.S. fertility researcher is relocating to England in a move that some researchers say underscores the uncertainty created by the current debate over government funding of research involving embryonic stem cells (Science, 13 July, p. 186).

Debate over U.K. research into genetically modified wheat ended up on a BBC news program.

At ESOF meetings leading scientists, researchers, young researchers, business people, entrepreneurs and innovators, policy makers, science and technology communicators and the general public from all over Europe discuss new discoveries and debate the direction that research is taking in the sciences, humanities and social sciences.

The debate over targeted research versus basic research came to a head earlier this month when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report advising the army on how to spend the money.

(Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group) The co-workers, Jan Witkowski, director of the lab's Banbury conference center, and Alex Gann, editorial director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, share Watson's sense of humor, his appetite for gossip, and most of his research interests, so the restaurant conversation shifted from the sex lives of various scientists, to debates over the relevance of left - handed DNA, and back to the legacy of the double helix.