Sentences with phrase «important role of science»

Speakers also addressed the important role of science and technology in conducting Human Rights Impact Assessments and other types of research and documentation that are key components of the business and human rights framework.

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«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

Most of the successful women I have interviewed talked about the important role that their parents had played in encouraging them to pursue science and engineering and succeed in a male - dominated industry.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Psychology will serve a less exclusive (though still important) role, while social sciences such as economics or political science will become powerful tools of interpretation.

The idea that these two are opposite is simply wrong... passion has an important place as a motivator in science, and science has an important role as informer of emotions.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

According to a study by the Journal of Food Science in 2008, eating apples has benefits for the neurological health and plays an important role in reducing the risks of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

The science world has taken a tremendous leap forward and shown the way forward to other industries who also need to focus on just how important the role of dad can be.

There is an increasing body of science that shows just how important the role of dad is.

► Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and the executive publisher of Science, wrote an editorial in this week's issue about the important role that the association plays within the scientific community.

These are uncertain times for government support of scientific research, even as the role of science in informing policy has never been more important.

«I also feel like I still have an important role in science, yet I have a lot of flexibility to go home and see my kids» soccer games or whatever.»

The report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early - career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role of the early career researcher and the need for professional development in areas beyond research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the professional development of early - career researchers, in an email to Science Careers.

«Continued funding of ITER doesn't just threaten our investment in domestic science, it also threatens funding for the Army Corps of Engineers, which plays a really important role in maintaining our nation's infrastructure,» Feinstein said.

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

Regional agencies such as FAPESP play a very important role in Brazil, says Wanderley de Souza, a biomedical scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.

Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

Mark Berry, president and CEO of Schoodic Institute, said, «Acadia and our other parks represent an important opportunity to demonstrate the vital role of science in stewardship of the places we care for.»

We have been able to prove that the nervous system plays an important regulatory role here,» emphasises Professor Thomas Bosch, evolutionary developmental biologist and spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1182 «Origin and Function of Metaorganisms,» funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Some of those jobs involve doing serious science in research labs and other facilities, where technicians often play important roles.

«Most Americans recognize that science and technology play an increasingly important role in many aspects of our lives.

The event reflects the increasing awareness of the important role that science diplomacy is gaining in a complex world where challenges cross geographical borders, and demand the knowledge and tools of science and technology to resolve.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology acknowledges the increasingly active and important role of neurobiology in advancing our understanding of the functioning of the brain and the nervous system.

On that scale, personalities become less important and the role of science and technology becomes much more clear.

J. Casey Moore, a research professor of Earth sciences at UCSC and coauthor of the Chester et al. paper, said he suspects the clay layer observed in the Tohoku fault zone may play an important role in other fault zones.

Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.

«Understanding this previously ignored part of the human genome, its role in human development, and how it may be taken over by disease, opens a new frontier in science with important implications for medical advances,» said Philipp Kapranov, Ph.D., lead researcher at the St. Laurent Institute.

Regardless of its fate, a proposal before the U.S. Senate to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) has raised important questions about the role of science in setting policy.

But Finch's most important role in gerontology, some colleagues say, has been as a deep thinker who has substantially cultivated gerontology's reputation as a field of credible science.

There seems to be little doubt that this material will soon play an important role in materials science all over the world, much like graphene has in the last couple of years.

BOSTON — These are uncertain times for government support of scientific research, even as the role of science in informing policy has never been more important.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

«We take great pride that it recognizes the public service contributions of the Science & Technology Policy Fellows, and the important role of our partner societies and the host offices and mentors who have participated over the past 41 years.»

An early African Union proposal said that it would be the «African equivalent of the OECD's [Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's] Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry» and that «an important role for the Observatory would be to manage the collection of statistics on science, technology and innovation from African countries.Science, Technology and Industry» and that «an important role for the Observatory would be to manage the collection of statistics on science, technology and innovation from African countries.science, technology and innovation from African countries.»

The role of science in evidence collection and presentation has only become more important over time, and it continues to evolve at an ever - accelerating pace.

In the current study, being published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the international interdisciplinary research team demonstrates that the transport of molecules across the blood - brain barrier can be modulated by gut microbes — which therefore play an important role in the protection of the brain.

Institutions have an important role to play, writes Gail Kinman, a professor at the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom, in an email to Science Careers.

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

And the [House] science committee is one important platform to have that discussion about the proper role of science in government and in the economy.»

High - precision time measurements play an important role in many fields of science and technology.

We hope this opportunity to engage with a live science project will show the important role that science has in many aspects of their lives.»

«While most cybersecurity research considers software vulnerabilities and defenses, our research focuses on the underlying hardware and computer architecture, which also play important roles in computer security, both in terms of introducing new vulnerabilities as well as supporting more secure software,» said Abu - Ghazaleh, who is now in the University of California, Riverside's computer science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering departments, in a press release from the school.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

«One of the most important roles science can play is to invent new options and introduce them to decision - makers,» he says.