Sentences with phrase «general scientific interest»

s responsibility, to try to educate the public on issues that are of general scientific interest?

While the comparison with tropical insects is of general scientific interest, the study is also important for ecosystem management.

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Granted, however, that biblical criticism is a legitimate, and even a useful, branch of scientific study, is it important for the general reader, who has no particular interest in matters of archaeology or ancient history?

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

The scientist as a person can not fail to be vitally interested in how scientific work fits into the more general pattern of knowledge and how it is to be employed for good and constructive uses.

I would be able to relocate for the right job and would also consider working overseas.I'm not interested in scientific publishing or journalism, but I am open to wider suggestions as I am feeling quite disillusioned about research and science in general following my recent experiences.What can a 35 - year - old academic do outside of science and technology?Jeff

He has a longstanding interest in the interface between art and the scientific study of visual perception, including portraiture, the general principles of composition, and the historical development of space representation.

Moreover, as the various S&E constituencies — disciplinary societies, government agencies, industry groups, and general scientific societies — develop training plans and programs of their own, they tend to focus on narrowly defined interests.

To combine his interest in research with a wider interest in science, Peter Cotgreave took on the directorship of Save British Science, a campaigning organisation that presses the governments in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast for better funding for science, stronger science education in schools, and policies that allow the general public to have greater access to the benefits of scientific and technological research.

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for the Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering.

AAAS counts more than 143,000 individual scientists, engineers, science educators, policy makers, journalists, and interested citizens among its members, making it the largest general scientific organization in the world.

«In general, the United States considers scientific work to be vital to U.S. national interests and we are not seeking to isolate Russia's society.

«But what's really interesting is that in our studies, and across the scientific literature in general, regular consumers of nuts tend to be leaner.»

He has published in major scientific journals such as Nature as well as countless general - interest publications.

«The nuclear industry in general is an industry where it's in our best interest that everybody builds safe and reliable plants,» said Steve Winn, executive vice president of strategy, environment and nuclear development at Princeton, N.J. — based utility NRG Energy, in an interview with Scientific American in 2007.

Website contributors with less media exposure can also learn how to answer questions or convey scientific information in a general interest story by reading more experienced commenters» input, Guilyardi points out.

I further whittled the list by striking off publishers lacking a general interest scientific journal or at least one biological, chemical, or medical title.

The Executive Officer, consulting as appropriate with other AAAS officers, will decide when and if an exception to the general AAAS prohibition against lobbying should be made in the interest of AAAS and the scientific and engineering communities — or in the public and national interest.

It shall be a part of the business of these general meetings to receive the Address of the President of the last meeting; to hear such reports on scientific subjects as, from their general importance and interests, the Standing Committee shall elect; also to receive from the chairman of the Sections abstracts of the proceedings of their respective Sections; and to listen to communications and lectures explanatory of new and important discoveries and researches in science, and new inventions and processes in the arts.

About Nature Publishing Group Throughout all its businesses NPG is dedicated to serving the scientific and medical communities and the wider scientifically interested general public.

The General Clinical Nuclear Medicine (GCNM) Council is a group within SNMMI dedicated to the scientific interchange of ideas among Society members who have interest in clinical nuclear medicine issues.

The article is of special interest to physics teachers, although those teaching general scientific subjects may also be interested.

His general research area is scientific computation and he is particularly interested in efficient, accurate and reliable computational techniques for the solution of partial differential equations.

As to the participation of New Member countries in the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a general consensus has been established in Item 4 of Article 4 of the Statutes of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), as follows: «On the basis of the principle that the opportunity to become a Management Supporting Party (MSP) be open to all interested countries, the Board of Trustees (BOT) decides on the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.»

This huge research project raises an interesting general question about scientific research.

According to Deans for Impact, «Building off many efforts that came before it and reflecting the general consensus of the scientific community, The Science of Learning is intended to serve as a resource to teacher - educators, new teachers, and anyone in the education profession who is interested in our best scientific understanding of how learning takes place.»

We are very interested in any ideas, news, general articles, personal opinion pieces, brief reports or scientific papers that you might care to submit for consideration to Vet On Line.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

It is noteworthy that in the recent campaign of libels against him there has not been, as far as I know, a single suggestion that any particular result or conclusion was reached in part or in whole because either that particular research project or his scientific work in general was funded by fossil - fuel interests.

We find his replies to the questions very helpful — not only for his general conclusions, but for his approach to answering them, which we think reporters, scientists, and others should find interesting and useful, particularly in thinking about how to present scientific findings and their societal implications to nonspecialists.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

Defining the scientific method in general terms is actually a really hard problem, which philosophers of science, and practicing scientists with an interest in philosophy, have struggled with for a century without coming to any sort of consensus.

My main interest is in mis - and / or poorly - applied scientific method resulting in conclusions unsupported by the data and the more general issue of «press release science» in opposition to science journalism.

What is especially interesting is that the general public with its abysmal scientific literacy is rejecting the model.

There's probably an interesting story to be told about why scientific reality has generally triumphed at website that can be edited by anyone who speaks English, when it's a much closer question among English - speakers in general.

Societal investment in science will always require priority - setting; nevertheless, advances in public health deserve special attention The general public may be interested in investing their taxes in discovering life on Mars or the Higgs Boson, but they quite reasonably expect most tax - funded scientific research to be focused on issues of life and death.

This exemplifies how so many conservatives are unserious and clueless about scientific issues in general and climate change in particular, more interested in egos than evidence.

I think we have plenty of whores willing to ignore scientific advice and general interest to cater to powerful economic interests in the US government.

Discussion topics are chosen to be relevant and interesting to the general public as well as receiving scientific attention.

She has developed interests in communicating the scientific outputs with the common people, especially the people in developing countries by transferring the scientific knowledge to the general public.

You have really revealed the depth of revulsion by the general scientific community (and laypeople with an interest) to the dishonest practices that have been going on within climate science.

Indeed, FLP filed an amicus brief in the National Veterans Legal case stating that the FLP is a «nonprofit organization established in 2013 to provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest.»

In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more, you might start with a couple of general interest pieces such as this article in Atlantic («When Gut Bacteria Changes Brain Function») and this in Scientific American («Gut Feelings — the «Second Brain» in Our Gastrointestinal Systems»).

This membership level is for those who have a professional, educational or scientific interest in the field of psychology and are not currently eligible for general membership.