Sentences with phrase «human sciences at»

The project resulted in an exhibition of contemporary art works as well as documents from the early human sciences at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam in 2009.
«These low - carb athletes were spectacular fat burners,» said lead researcher Jeff Volek, professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
«The unintended consequence of telling everyone to restrict fat was that people ate an even greater amount of carbohydrates,» said Jeff Volek, senior author on the new study and a professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
Finding this connection was no accident: Along with being the senior administrator of a regional campus in a small metropolitan area of 50,000 residents, Gavazzi is a professor of human sciences at Ohio State and has long studied marriage and family relationships.
It may seem that fathers who are better at this positive parenting behavior would be more engaged with their infants, but that is not always the case, said Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, lead author of the study and professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
Kamp Dush and Yavorsky co-authored the research with Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, professor of human sciences at Ohio State.
«This is a reminder that marriage still matters,» said Claire Kamp Dush, co-author and professor of human sciences at Ohio State.
«Women ended up shouldering a lot more of the work that comes with a new baby, even though both men and women thought they added the same amount of additional work,» said Claire Kamp Dush, co-author of the study an associate professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
«We found that a comprehensive exercise and diet program in a group setting can make a difference for prostate cancer patients, and the difference was greater than I expected in a short period of time,» said lead author Brian Focht, a professor of human sciences at Ohio State.
Household tasks and child care are still not being shared equally, even among couples who we expected would have more egalitarian views of how to share parenting duties,» said Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and associate professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
It may seem that fathers who are better at this positive parenting behavior would be more engaged with their infants, but that is not always the case, said Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, lead author of the study and professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.
In dealing with sub-atomic particles Heisenberg claimed that human science at best attains probabilities.
While you may scoff at trying to form a personal relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms which remain out of reach for human science at present.
«Vitamin E is associated with lipids, or the fats found in the blood, but it's mostly just a micronutrient that's going along for the ride,» said Maret Traber, a professor in the College of Public Health and Human Science at OSU, and a principal investigator in the Linus Pauling Institute.

Not exact matches

While these technologies can carry out specific tasks extremely well, they're nowhere near the level of human intelligence, says Ruslan Salakhutdinov, assistant professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto.
Recently, Thomas Oberlechner, a founding partner and chief science officer at AltX, gave the example of how human - computer collaboration can enable investment decisions that are more closely aligned with people's decision style, investment preference, risk tolerance, crisis vulnerability, financial values, etc..
At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.
Art Markman, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations, which brings the humanities, social and behavioral sciences to people in business.
At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
Phillip Plotch, a political science professor and director of the public administration master's program at Saint Peter's University, told Fortune that as new transportation technologies have emerged throughout history, they have allowed humans to radically alter the landscape.
Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.
Dr. Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.
At its best, science is a human enterprise with a superhuman aim: the discovery of regularities in the order of nature, and the discerning of the consequences of those regularities.
I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is at its bottom line a matter of faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated with science.
I've been able to accommodate faith and science, at least to a degree by Paul's words about our flawed human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..
You still seem a little angry at your fellow human beings even though some are trying to help you understand that science is not your enemy, but an aid to helping you understand the world
This was forced evolution of the human race, and now science looks at religious brains and states they are hardwired.
The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....
Another suggestion is a «theological study in dialogue with the human sciences to develop a multi-faceted look at the phenomenon of homosexuality.»
An important philosophical principle was at stake: whether the immutable laws of science held human destiny in their iron clasp — whether, indeed, human destiny was fixed irrevocably in the remote stellar constellations and the laws of physics.
In a somewhat different vein, Tracy and Lash, while agreeing that the anthropic principle is untenable in science, find a certain kind of anthropocentrism appropriate in theology: (1) human beings are both products of and interpreters of the evolutionary process; (2) human beings are responsible for much of our world's ills: «if we are the «center» of anything, we are the center of «sin,» of the self - assertive disruption and unraveling of the process of things, at least on our small planet» (Tracy and Lash, 280).
As for the basic secrets of the cosmos, Jeans says, «The ultimate realities of the universe are at present quite beyond the reach of science, and may be — and probably are — forever beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»
Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.
[6] Human Goods, Economic Evils; A Moral Look at the Dismal Science (ISI Books, 2007).
The indeterminacy that science has found at the levels of matter (uncertainty), life (chance mutations), and human existence (freedom) are essential cosmological ingredients if the autonomy of the world is not to collapse into the being of the Creator - God (in which case it would no longer be a world distinct unto itself).
Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.
By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.
(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on human rights and at least two statements by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic science.)
Science is, at it's foundation, the effort to explain the causes for what we as humans see around us.
Rubin, a professor of political science at Duquesne University, assesses environmentalism from the standpoint of liberal constitutionalism; he notes that major environmentalists aspire to transform every segment of human existence, from our economic transactions to our private lives.
In the course of history such assumptions have changed — at least partially in response to changes in science, though also in response to changing views of other area of human experience.
Because its very interdisciplinariness and inherent concern with issues of interpretation have put it at the center of the most significant controversy in the human sciences today.
The Catechism is coherent in its own terms, but it only hints at how it all connects with creation and therefore with human science.
Keep in mind that the Human cerebrum has evolved for at least a million years with invented knowledge and only the last few hundred years with Science and discovered knowledge.
Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.
He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the author of several books, including The Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems from an Orthodox perspective.
Whitehead is trying to complete the Copernican Revolution; he is trying to construct a conceptuality which is firmly rooted in the developments of modern science, which at the same time will enable him to do justice to human beings, and yet will enable him to exhibit that human being as rooted in nature.
It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of human consciousness all over the globe.
12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.
Of course, it is possible to reply that the alleged stumbling block occurs every day according to Christian teaching, because what here in the case of the first human being is felt to be contrary to the fundamental conceptions of metaphysics and the methodological basis of natural science, happens continually at the origin of every individual human soul, at the genesis of every single human being, for such souls equally with those of the first human beings, are created by God directly out of nothing.
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