Sentences with phrase «military research on»

The core science, the radiative transfer equations that determine the way increasing CO2 increases the temperatures gradient between the emission altitude and the surface, derived from military research on heat seeking missile and detection systems.

The work was inspired by extensive military research on aircraft pilots.

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She went on to lead a wide range of commercial and military aviation advancements over the next three decades, including research and development with NASA.

The research, which the US military helped pay for, found wave - driven overwash could devastate infrastructure and contaminate the «freshwater availability» on these islands with saltwater.

The U.S., France and the U.K. launched military strikes Friday night on what the Pentagon said were three Syrian chlorine and sarin gas research facilities in response to a suspected chemical attack by Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad.

«The limited research on the effects of foreign military policies indicates little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness,» the study said.

Cohen said he's working on a project to strengthen the US military that would be impossible without geoscience research of the sort that's threatened at NASA.

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If the White House follows through with plans to curtail Chinese scientists» involvement in intelligence and military - related research, there could be a chilling effect on US innovation.

Vice helped create short documentaries on private military contractors for Activision's Call of Duty, and another on Monkey Island, a refuge for apes used in medical research, to help promote the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

«The focus right now is definitely on a possible military strike against Syria,» said Commerzbank's head of commodity research, Eugen Weinberg.

While the attack did take out several military positions and research facilities linked to chemical weapons, it had little effect on degrading Assad's power to wage further war on rebel factions.

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

On May 1, 2007, the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a series of estimates on «the economic impact of the Iraq war and higher military spending.&raquOn May 1, 2007, the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a series of estimates on «the economic impact of the Iraq war and higher military spending.&raquon «the economic impact of the Iraq war and higher military spending.»

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

On the other hand, they serve the political, military and economic powers that be and operate as consultants to them as well as accepting invitations to generalize from scientific research to political and social philosophies — blinkered mandarins, speaking as if they were wise.

Most of them are linked to something called Internet Research Agency, a clandestine organization that U.S. military intelligence now believes is «a state - funded organization that blogs and tweets on behalf of the Kremlin.»

A Pew Research Center survey suggests evangelicals prefer the government spend on schools, the military, and police.

Lenovo employees in Research Triangle Park volunteered to help build bicycles and tricycles for children of military families serving on bases and ships in North Carolina.

Most research studies on teen boot camps that use a military - style approach show that they aren't all that effective.

Oquaye is a writer, who has researched and written extensively on good governance, conflicts, political education, decentralization and development, human rights, military intervention in politics, NGOs, rural development and gender issues.

Meanwhile a senior research fellow with the Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA), Dr. Ken Ahorsu, who also spoke the event revealed the covetous agenda of the world's super-powers to pursue the vast natural resources on the Africa continent hence the desire the establish a military base, urging government not to sign the deal.

The research will explain how diversity within political and military leadership in UN missions affects their effectiveness in protecting civilians, and how diversity between UN mission leadership and peacekeepers on the field influences a mission's capacity to protect civilians and stop fighting.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand challenged President Trump's ban on transgendered individuals in the military while research on transgender people's fitness remains incomplete.

Following on the heels of this trend, the US Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM, which is responsible for US military operations and military relations with all African nations excluding Egypt since its establishment in October of 2008) funded field research on combatant rape in the DRC.

Recent research found that media reports on women in the military are perpetuating male dominance.

By Frank V. Vernuccio [On Friday night, US and European allies launched airstrikes against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al - Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus last weekend that killed more than 40 people.

His research interests focus on brain and spinal cord injury, particularly that which is relevant to the military.

They found it was most likely caused inadvertently by the unregulated international trading of gibbons and laboratory work on viruses in US military and other medical research facilities.

But research by Bonanno and others on people who have been through ordeals such as spinal cord injuries, military deployment and the World Trade Center attack has revealed a surprising number of sunny results: The majority of people, he says, show no lasting signs of trauma.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Veterans thinking of graduate school leading to a Ph.D. and a research career could find a military background a career advantage, depending on the field they choose.

So, too, is the US military, according to Renee Wegrzyn, the DARPA programme officer leading its «Safe Genes» initiative, which supports research on restraining gene drives.

The US military — which part - funded this research — is keen on drones that flap like birds because they can be far stealthier than faster, fixed wing aircraft.

Despite 50 years of research on high - power microwaves, the U.S. military has yet to produce a usable weapon

That's not sufficient, some say: «I want the SCJ to clearly state that military research in academia is extremely inappropriate,» Satoru Ikeuchi, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, said at a 14 January symposium on the topic at Keio University's Yokohama campus.

A key tenet of Japan's stance on promoting peace, he believes, «is not to take part in military research at universities.»

And its Defense Sciences Office (DSO) has aligned with President Barack Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, calling for grant applications on projects to design therapeutic devices for neurological disorders and to repair brain damage in military service members.

The study by members of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences came after the U.S. Department of Defense asked for research to assess the future vulnerability of endangered and protected shorebirds on Panhandle military installations to rising sea levels and major storm surges.

In science news around the world, the European Commission proposes that the European Union consider funding military research, more investigations at Japanese universities cast doubts on claims for a leading hypertension drug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan a culling of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of saving the endangered northern spotted owl, and more.

The research dates back to the spring of 2014, when WPI was named the lead institution on a $ 7.4 million, multi-university award from the U.S. Army that supported the development of new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys to help the military build more effective and durable vehicles and systems.

But U.S. officials have long held that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea specifically allows military ships to conduct research cruises within a nation's EEZ (although civilian research cruises need to get permission from the host country).

That said, Hinde said their findings seem consistent with other research on harassment, which has focused more on experiences in other scientific setting like hospitals and college campuses, or in the military.

The paper, written by authors at King's College London and Baylor College of Medicine, reviews contraceptive devices available including those already used by military and aviation personnel, and calls for more research into the effect of hormone treatments on bone mineral loss in space.

The longstanding practice was designed to fund military research with commercial potential or allow institutions to build new research infrastructure with funding they had won from the European Commission but would only get on completion of the project, Andradas explains.

But Japan still perceives North Korea and Russia as a military threat, and is continuing to spend more on military research.

Nambu arrived at the University of Tokyo as a research assistant and lived for three years in a laboratory, sleeping on a straw mattress spread over his desk (and always dressed in military uniform for lack of other clothes).

Being located on the same base as AFRL would hurt AFOSR's culture and thus its basic research, they argue, at a time when the military has already had to cut research and development funding.

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

The Department of Defense (DoD) funded the study through their SERDP - ESTCP program, which funds environmental research on military bases.