Sentences with phrase «more scientific understanding»

The project, funded through a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, includes original research into how Jacksonville residents currently think and talk about children's issues, and how the public conversation might be reframed to include a more scientific understanding of the social determinants of child wellbeing.

The integration of animal and human literature will lead to a better comprehension of maternal response and behaviour and will afford us more scientific understanding of its distinct and common expression in all species that engage in it.

The Greek philosopher Thales is invoked in these works for his belief that water is the originating principle of nature, thereby moving humanity away from mythological explanations of nature and change toward a more scientific understanding of self and the soul.

It can help them develop a more scientific understanding of how to help their clients lose fat, gain muscle, and achieve their fitness goals.

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Those findings might be more scientific than the old»em o kids are dark» stereotypes, but honestly they're not all that far from the common understanding.

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

The fact that scientific * understanding * changes indicates that we are * learning * more about our world — it does not indicate that the world itself is going through some slow metamorphoses to keep up with scientific theories.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

these ideas are not usually considered rigid as the more people research the more is understood about scientific theory.

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

Why would you expect more than half the population to understand this scientific theory any more than you would expect half the population to undersand the Theory of General Relativity?

atheists are given a very significant role in this dialectical process in the evolution towards Panthrotheism, the belief that God give to humanity the privilige or responsibilty of charting human history.since you are not indoctrinated to specific dogma and doctrines, your open mindedness enables you percieve a deeper understanding of reality, simple logic but more profound scientific knowlege will lead you to God.religious humanism through science is your guiding spirit.

True — I don't understand how the latest scientific findings regarding the universe help make the Flintstones more like a documentary.

At present scientific understanding of the universe is more mysterious than it has ever been before in the history of scientific thought.

When one appeals to «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» as the common basis for understanding man and his world, do we not have to be more definitive and discriminating within scientific imagery itself than either Bultmann or Ogden appear to be?

Let them blend new sciences and theories and the understanding of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and the teaching of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace with scientific knowledge and with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»

As we learn and understand more, the more «scientific evidence» changes to fact.

Nature is in fact always much richer and more complex than our imaginative and mathematical models, and we unduly shrivel our understanding of the cosmos if we equate it in a simple way with our scientific schemes.

This popular scientific author goes on to say that physicists will eventually understand the basic laws of the universe, and then, «the existence of the universe will hold no more mystery for those who choose to understand it than the existence of the sun.»

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

Pantheism, public opinion, and pop scientific materialism (or «new atheism») understand ME to be nothing more than one of an infinite number of specks in a homogeneous whole.

A dozen or more scientific disciplines have focused their research eyes on the problem, bringing new understanding.

That is to say, the more one is aware of one's own involvement in a scientific enterprise, the more one understands it as participation in a mystery, rather than as a conquest of exterior and objective territory.

-LSB-... I recall] the words addressed to you by my predecessor Pope John Paul II in November 2003: «scientific truth, which is itself a participation in divine Truth, can help philosophy and theology to understand ever more fully the human person and God's Revelation about man, a Revelation that is completed and perfected in Jesus Christ.

Another door might be opened by the discovery of phenomena that do not fit neatly into the ordinary scientific scheme and can more easily be understood in terms of process concepts.

There are many reasons for this including the progression of scientific technology, more prenatal and postnatal education for the pregnant mother, as well as a better understanding of infant nutrition, toddler nutrition and overall child safety.

These are skills that will lay the foundation for them to understand more complex scientific concepts in the future.

«The ABM Mother Supporter course bolstered my experience - based understanding of breastfeeding with scientific evidence and showed me how much more I have to learn!

But rather than wishing the public understood and calling for more education, scientific organizations and individual scientists must take a more personal and proactive interest in reaching out to the public, he said.

Scientists doing dual use research — beneficial work that may be misapplied for malicious purposes in the wrong hands — need more tools to help them understand the scientific, ethical and legal issues surrounding their work, according to a AAAS - sponsored workshop report.

Research is systematic study directed toward more complete scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied.

«Patients deserve a more informed scientific understanding of spectrum disorders.

Scientific methods and technological tools can be employed to document, investigate, and ultimately understand heritage loss in order to create more effective humanitarian and policy responses and to develop preventative measures.

Our goal is that presenting science to the public in an entertaining, system - based way, rather than bogging them down with a series of scattered facts, it will help more people understand it and feel that they can contribute to the scientific conversation.

Helping to communicate the latest scientific research to the media to facilitate the public's understanding of science has been more rewarding to me than any amount of time I spent at the research bench.

As Scientific American reported earlier this year, more than half of the current cancer clinical trials do incorporate some form of immunotherapy but still oncologists are often only in the early stages of understanding how to use such treatment on a larger scale.

We're really in the middle of several overlapping scientific revolutions where our ability to learn things is skyrocketing and our understanding of how we should use that knowledge is developing more slowly.

Yeh said the team's approach could also be used to study how four or more pharmaceuticals interact, and a similar mathematical framework could be used to better understand climate change (for example, to understand how temperature, rainfall, humidity and acidity of the oceans interact) and other scientific questions that have three or more key factors.

In his remarks, Leshner, who was chairman of the committee that developed the Communicating Science Effectively report and one of four organizers of the colloquium, noted that policymakers never make decisions based solely on the science, but that the scientific community can try to better understand the factors involved and how to give their information more weight.

«It brought me closer to the scientific basis of disease — you look down the microscope at the diversity of cancer and it makes you want to understand more.

«It would be really nice if there were more discussion between people that understand science and the scientific method and those that don't,» said Dennis Gallagher, another marcher who described himself as a private citizen scientist.

A professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Maryland, he has been engaged for more than a decade in a wide - ranging intellectual pursuit that has taken him from the play of young chimpanzees to the history of American sitcoms — all in search of a scientific understanding of that most unscientific of human customs: laughter.

It will also allow for easier identification of genes that contribute to the bacteria's spread from patient to patient, and more meaningful scientific experiments to understand the bug's resistance to antibiotics or identify new antimicrobial compounds that target specific genes necessary for maintaining these persistent infections.

Professor Birgit Lane, Executive Director of IMB, said, «Having successfully identified two more hormones crucial for blood vessel formation, the team's findings have illuminated the scientific community's understanding of the formation process.

As the study of personality moves to a more scientific footing, we are starting to understand the underlying neurobiology, and to see that each personality trait is beneficial in certain circumstances and costly in others.

Following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, she says, it took about two years for the first scientific papers to emerge and more than a decade for ecologists to synthesize that new knowledge into a comprehensive understanding of the environmental impact.

Dr Greene said: «Increasing scientific and public understanding of the causes of false memory is an important goal, particularly in light of some of the more negative consequences associated with the phenomenon, including faulty eyewitness accounts and the controversies surrounding false memories of traumatic childhood events.

Over the past few decades, the scientific community has struggled to understand why more than one guidance cue would be necessary for axons to reach the proper target.

Holdren helped the president understand the integral role of science in economic recovery, Holt added, noting that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than more than $ 20 billion for scientific research.