Sentences with phrase «founded on basic sciences»

The key thing you learn from it is that the modern science of climate is well founded on basic sciences, and the uncertainties are no greater than any application of a range of sciences to a complex real - world problem.

Not exact matches

To succeed as a clinician - researcher, a physician - scientist uses his or her mastery of both clinical practice and basic science research in parallel, often drawing on both skill sets to find advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease.

We rely on high quality basic and translational respiratory science, such as these latest findings, to develop novel therapeutic approaches for the millions of patients suffering from devastating and often fatal respiratory conditions.

Having long relied on materials found in nature, or modifications of those materials, materials science is working toward the goal of designing new materials from basic principles to fulfill particular needs.

«We founded this company on the basis of an idea and some basic science done at Caltech, but to demonstrate that we could transform the idea into a sensor required some start - up capital, and the SBIR grant was very useful in that regard,» says Kayyem.

The group» finding that the impaired intracellular protein trafficking leads to neuropsychiatric disorders - related abnormal higher brain functions has high impact on the fields of psychiatry, basic medical sciences, and pharmaceutical sciences.

Her team also analyzed the type of research that NIH funded, but found no substantial relationship between whether the grant focused on basic or applied science and its likelihood to be cited by a patent.

The authors stressed that their findings, which combine basic science with large - scale analysis of genetic studies, depended on an unusual level of cooperation among experts in genetics, molecular biology, developmental neurobiology and immunology.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

«This company was founded on the strength of decades of basic research at Gladstone, and now we are proud to be associated with an exciting new company that can bring this science to the service of patients who truly need it.»

She leads a research group that follows two distinct but complementary approaches: basic science focusing on cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, and a programme to translate those findings into treatments and cures.

Pew created a 12 - question quiz to test basic science knowledge and found that on average, respondents were only able to correctly answer 65 percent of the questions.

It's this perspective that dredges up findings like: 70 percent of elementary programs don't require a single basic science course of their candidates (neither through their ed coursework or their general university requirements), or one in four secondary programs don't require a full subject - specific methods course, or one in five programs we were able to study on their use of outcomes data don't conduct surveys of their grads.

«The most effective response to today's findings is focusing on what works across mathematics, reading and science — high - quality leaders teaching an engaging curriculum which delivers strong basic skills, attitudes and behaviours that can equip young people to succeed.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

«The most effective response to today's findings is focusing on what works across reading, mathematics and science - high - quality school leadership and great teachers delivering an engaging curriculum which includes strong basic skills, attitudes and behaviours that can equip young people to succeed,» he said.

The findings indicate that students who had never received English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services and students who had received but exited from these services significantly outperformed similar students in a control group who were not exposed to the intervention curriculum on measures of science achievement, basic learning engagement, and goal orientation.

In the first, I show some of the basic data sets and findings about global warming, including some comments on historic land marks of our science.

The leaders of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change review of the basic science on climate change and its causes have weighed in with a strong defense both of their findings and the individual scientists involved in the hacked e-mail messages and files.

Another, of course, is that the science illuminating the extent of the human influence on climate is not «settled» for many specific, and important, points, even though the basic case for rising risks from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is robust enough to merit a strong response, according to a host of experts (even if you take the intergovernmental panel's findings with a grain of salt).

(3) On this specific issue, I've found little to be gained in arguing with those who are sceptics / denialists regarding the basic science.

With every assessment the group publishes four technical reports, each thousands of pages long — one on the basic science, and others on climate impacts and how to adapt to them, ways to curb emissions, and a synthesis of all the findings — as well as a 20 - page summary for policymakers that covers the material most relevant to world leaders and the public.

In my quest to educate the world on building science topics, I find that I often have to go back to basics.

Basic data sets and findings about Global Warming, including some comments on historic land marks of the Science.

Find out in this section basic material with explanations on how climate sciences interact with society: definitions, explanations and multimedia on Climate Observations, Earth - System Modeling, Climate Services.

While I have my own area of technical knowledge, including some basic physics and biology, it does not extend to the core science of AGW, and so I make no direct comment on it, other than to say it has been one of the most intensely studied and debated scientific issues in history and I find it difficult to believe that the vast majority of climate scientists have got it completely wrong.

Now, as I said, I'm finding it really difficult to find anything discussing this sensibly at all, most of what's on line has been so thoroughly trashed by AGWScience propaganda in its utter mangling of basic science concepts.

Treatment research seems to have lagged behind the basic science, and rather than being based on our new - found understanding of the development of these conditions, has often developed downsized versions of adult treatments, such as cognitive behaviour therapy.