Sentences with phrase «issues involving science»

This is not the first time adversarial proceedings have been proposed, and in some cases applied, to highly contentious and polarized issues involving science and policy.

This is not only a mischaracterization but a great insult to people who actually make their living reporting on science and issues involving science — a group which would not include Steve Milloy.

The implication was that religious people had no right to speak out on public issues involving science.

This is not only a mischaracterization but a great insult to people who actually make their living reporting on science and issues involving science — a group which would not include Steve Milloy.

It is imperative, therefore, that people who would like to lead our country provide us with their thoughts on issues involving science and technology.»

The purpose of the Committee is to foster improved policy making on issues involving science and technology.

Not exact matches

The chapter will conclude with a look at some of the concrete contemporary issues involved in the fields of science, art, and education.

Anyone who has followed recent critiques of modern science should find in Whitehead a sure guide to the deepest issues involved.

An elucidation of the agreement here, however, involves concepts which provide a context for an alternative which challenges the formalist position with respect to the logic of other key issues in the philosophy of science, viz., with respect to the nature and status of laws, the role and justification of induction, the model of theoretical explanation, and the intelligibility of conceptual change.

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

A recent letter from the AAAS and 28 other prominent scientific and higher education organizations urged President - elect Donald Trump to quickly appoint a «nationally respected leader» as science advisor, given that scientific questions are deeply involved in almost every issue the president will deal with, from national security to agriculture.

The workshop — which will take place at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Macungie, PA from June 11 - 13, 2018 — will bring together scientists from allied disciplines in the basic and social sciences and engineering to address many issues involved in multi-sensory data science as applied to problems in materials research.

Although few scholarly publications have appeared on science and human rights issues in the chemical - related sciences, we have included the primer and those entries reflective of the issues involved.

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Societal tensions around issues such as the teaching of evolution in public science classrooms typically involve only a subset of Christians, and they have too often been depicted as more sweeping conflicts, Tippett argued.

This process is not typical for the women - in - science issue, but applies to any field where minorities are involved, be they black people in a white environment or young people in an old one.

It is an issue that the scientific community as a whole needs to tackle, says Michael Halpern, who is program manager at the Center for Science and Democracy of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in Washington, D.C., and has not been involved in SAR or the report.

At issue, Xi's lawyer and scientists familiar with the case assert: a glaring misinterpretation of the science involved.

In today's issue of Science, Cronin and his colleagues report printing a series of interconnected reaction vessels that carry out four different chemical reactions involving 12 separate steps, from filtering to evaporating different solutions.

Steve: I mean, even if you cut these guys all the slack in the world, and say that they were sincere in their efforts and there was no mendacity involved, then the movie is just sort of incompetent in its presentation of the issue and of whatever science it tries to get into which is, you know, very little, but that's it.

Published December 18, 2017 issue in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

Its tasks are to reflect different standpoints in the scientific and public discussion of life science issues, to develop ideas how to involve citizens, and to give policy advice on ethics questions surrounding new developments in the life sciences.

After the trial there will be a review of the efficacy of the approach, the underpinning science and a review of the ethical issues involved.

The researchers conclude in tomorrow's issue of Science that chronic stress rewires brain areas involved in the switch between goal - directed and habitual actions.

«This innovative gas separation platform provides large surface areas while eliminating a number of operational issues, including corrosion, evaporative losses, and fouling,» said Ah - Hyung (Alissa) Park, the chair in applied climate science and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University, who was not involved in the research.

Many of the STOQ project's initiatives involve engaging cultures in dialogues about science; in some sense its undertakings can be perceived as a shrewd PR move, giving the Holy See an opportunity to inject the issue of religion into scientific discourse.

Today the academy's mandate involves promoting the progress of mathematical, physical, and natural sciences and participating in the study of related epistemological questions and issues.

J. Thomas Ratchford served as the AAAS Associate Executive Officer from 1977 to 1989, during which time he was involved in governance and managerial issues over the shape of AAAS and broader policy issues that affected the association and science as a whole.

Working with Executive Officer William Carey, Ratchford was involved in governance and managerial issues involving the shape of AAAS and monitored broader policy issues that affected the association and science as a whole.

I don't think people know, because science has been so involved in politics on this issue that it's very hard to know whom to believe.

The answer, revealed in tomorrow's issue of Science, seems to involve how people move in everyday life: who snoozes and slouches, who fidgets and paces.

While Topics in Human Genetics focused my attention on the issues involved in one particular area of science, the second course that influenced my appreciation for ethics was appropriately named Bioethics, one of the core courses all students at Meharry must take regardless of department or funding status.

Furthermore, some bureaucrats contend that the talks will bring about little change because they involve science officials from each country rather than customs or security officials who deal with visa, import / export, and border issues on a daily basis.

This symposium brings together experts from both the tourism and veterinary worlds to examine the science, economics and welfare issues involved in the use of animals in tourism, and to discuss how animal welfare in tourist settings can be improved.

Through an agreement of cooperation between ZMT and the International Ocean Institute (IOI), with each contributing its respective expertise and channels, it is expected that a global network can be created going beyond science, seeking a comprehensive approach to addressing ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social sciences, economics, and legal elements addressing education, training and research.

He is involved in projects focused on understanding the role of genomics in health disparities, identifying the societal implications of genomics, and analyzing the health care and science policies relevant to these issues.

Further, the authors politely notified representatives of the funding organizations involved before the study came out, giving them an opportunity to (1) take immediate action to strengthen privacy of CEPH samples, and (2) write an opinion piece on the complexities of genomic identifiability, which appears in the same issue of Science.

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program (SHRP) calls attention to human rights abuses involving scientists and scientific communities through the circulation of Action Alerts issued by professional associations on behalf of their colleagues or by human rights organizations.

When greed is involved, when the issue is extremely contentious, or when passion about the issue is high, manipulation of the facts and bad science are even more likely.

The problems are authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data.

Extending from that work, we have developed other multimedia case studies for use with preservice and in - service teachers.1 This paper is focused on the development of one case involving issues of team teaching and integrating mathematics and science through a design project, including the following: (a) the development of the case, (b) lessons learned by the teachers and teacher educators through the development and use of the case, and (c) ways this case fits into the larger picture of what we have learned about the use of multimedia case studies.

As forensic science and veterinary medical professionals, members of the IVFSA who are not involved in wildlife conservation issues should cultivate extensive relationships with conservation officers, and other veterinary medical professionals involved in the tireless campaign to protect wildlife.

As a former professor, senior civil servant and current CEO, I know that solving large problems involves the thoughtful, careful application of science, but I have come to respect the fact — a word I don't use lightly — that there are often a multitude of non-science issues that keep possible solutions from ever leaving the computer or test bench....

This issue involves U.S. bilateral and multilateral relations, domestic science and technology policy and an array of other security issues.

The main issue here is how politics and culture have affected the norms of science; my explanation is multi-factorial and involves several inter-related, and each other reinforcing factors: the science - technology link, the rise of social sciences, science's social norms, victimhood culture, and, importantly, the political use of science.

The Decadal Climate Prediction Project addresses a range of scientific issues involving the ability of the climate system to be predicted on annual to decadal timescales, the skill that is currently and potentially available, the mechanisms involved in long timescale variability, and the production of forecasts of benefit to both science and society

Most global warming predictions are based on fluctuations in CO2 levels and temperature that happened between a relatively recent series of ice ages, said DePaolo, who was not involved in the new study, which will appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.

Whenever activist scientists on either side of a issue are involved, remember Feynman's «Cargo Cult Science»: «The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

A recent study involving a first - ever national survey of public school science teachers found that about 75 percent of instructors surveyed were teaching the issue, but only half were correctly explaining that humans are driving climate change.

I understand why they do not want to get involved with the actual science because it has become an emotionally charged issue.