Sentences with phrase «nature studies provided»

Cityscapes from his studio window and nature studies provided the counterpoint to his cerebral portraiture.

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Apr. 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light - years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity.
That which ultimately makes a theological school theological and provides the criteria of its excellence as a school is not the structure of its curriculum, nor the types of pedagogical methods it employs, nor the dynamics of its common life, nor the structure of its polity, nor even the «sacred» subject matters it studies; rather it is the nature of its overarching end and the degree to which that end governs all that comprises its common life.
In sum, even without making explicit reference to liturgical orientation, Pope Benedict's study of the Holy Week mysteries provides evidence for and confirmation of his insistence upon the essential nature of the ad orientem position during the Eucharistic liturgy.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).
Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.
Porter is unpersuasive in her repeated claims that the figures under study tended to use the theological framework provided by Scripture, nature, and reason merely to legitimate the prevailing but often unquestioned views of their culture.
Waldorf education respects the restorative benefits of the natural world and provides our students with a full gardening curriculum, which includes studies in farming, botany and meteorology, rich curricular field trips in nature, and lots of inviting outdoor space for joy - filled recess.
And in taking it, the author retraces Aristotle's footsteps to Kalloni lagoon on the island of Lesbos, where the philosopher studied nature, providing charming vignettes from his visits there.
And, like all the other books in the Scientists in the Field series, it provides an intimate and realistic portrait of the researchers who have devoted their professional lives to studying nature.
The device, described in a study published June 23 in Nature Communications, could provide a renewable source of clean - burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry.
The synthetic peptide provides opportunities for new approaches to the study of the nature of protein - DNA interaction.
The study appears in the current issue of the journal Nature, and provides important information on the predictability of long - term climate fluctuations.
The study provides important information for analysing biomolecules using X-ray lasers, as the scientists report in the journal Nature.
Such a digital re-creation that matches all the behaviors and structures of a biological brain would provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the fundamental nature of cognition and of disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.
He adds that more studies like this one «will provide a key component of our attempts to understand the nature of the dark universe that has recently been revealed to us.»
But a new study in Nature Communications provides a new hypothesis based on the character of the impurities on the ice surface itself.
Our study is a critical step in that direction and provides tools for creating proteins that haven't been seen before in nature
Their study, published online today in the journal Nature, provides fresh insight into how citalopram and paroxetine, two of the most widely prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, interact with and inhibit serotonin transport.
Studies comparing the mouse and human sequences that accompany the mouse genome in the journal Nature suggest it provides plenty of new leads in biology and disease.
The collection of studies in the theme issue provides a rallying point for broader discussions of how human influences shape evolution and how that evolution, in turn, influences species traits, biodiversity, and «ecosystem services» — the benefits that nature provides to humans, such as food, water and clean air.
A new study in the journal Genetics in Medicine, published by Springer Nature, now shows that up to 40 percent of direct - to - consumer (DTC) genetic tests provide incorrect readings in the raw data.
Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, are thought to provide a refuge for wildlife, but according to a new study, many of these areas are not safe from light pollution.
A new study in Nature Communications by Luis Ossa, Jorge Mpodozis and Alexander Vargas, from the University of Chile, provides a careful re-examination of ankle development in 6 different major groups of birds, selected specifically to clarify conditions in their last common ancestor.
The study, published in Nature Genetics, offers the possibility that targeting these processes, instead of single genes, may provide new opportunities for treatment of Wilms tumor.
In a recent study appearing in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, the researchers focused on the properties of schreibersite and conducted experiments with the mineral to better understand how — in a chemical reaction with the corrosive effects of water called «phosphorylation» — schreibersite could have provided the phosphate important to the emergence of early biological life.
The proof - of - concept study, published online today in the journal Nature, demonstrates that a gene called PGC1 alpha provides kidneys with protection by working through nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a molecule involved in metabolism thought to be key to the aging process.
Their study provides important insights into minimizing the risks of drug residues in nature.
The new scale provides opportunities for future research to study the nature of empathic anger, its development, and it journey across time.»
The work, published in Nature Communications today with a concurrent study on H. naledi's hands, provides insight into the skeletal form and function that may have characterized early members of our genus.
The study, published September 7 in Nature Medicine, provides promise for a new therapeutic approach to treating the millions of people suffering from muscle diseases, including those with muscular dystrophies and muscle wasting associated with cancer and aging.
This, of course, relies on the nature of the computation that we've postulated, and, hence, the results of the study provide confirmation of a form that I find rather exciting.»
In a new study, published online June 6 in Nature, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, together with colleagues at Keio University, the University of Nebraska and Ionis Pharmaceuticals describe an innovative new model that not only allowed them to track drug resistance in vivo, but also revealed a new therapeutic target, which early testing suggests could provide a strategy to arrest pancreatic cancer growth.
This review provides important information characterizing the issue of cyberbullying that will help inform prevention and management strategies, including attributes of the recipients and perpetrators, reasons for and the nature of bullying behaviors, and how recipients currently react to and manage bullying behaviors,» the study concludes.
In a new study, published in Nature this week, an international research group led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a group of microbes that provide new insights as to how complex cellular life emerged.
The scalable nature of the bioreactor system provides engineering options to increase yields of platelets in ongoing studies.
The study, published by Nature Genetics, was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) using detailed genetic data provided by UK Biobank and data provided by other countries, and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
We also provide the nasty invader with hundreds of our own proteins to help it enter our cells and copy itself, as a new study in Nature and two in Cell show.
A study published online 10 October in Nature Genetics provides the strongest evidence yet for the starting gun theory by showing that mutations in a gene involved in ensuring proper numbers of chromosomes result in childhood cancer.
The study in Nature Communications provides another answer to the question of how bacteria harm plants and how plants react to this threat.
«The results of our study speak to the evolutionary origins of obesity and provide new targets to understand the polygenic nature of obesity in a unique model system,» according to the study, «Genome - Wide Analysis of Starvation - Selected Drosophila melanogaster — A Genetic Model of Obesity.»
While the long - term future of studying exoplanet atmospheres surely rests in the next generation of telescopes and instruments that will enable us to directly image smaller and cooler exoplanets, transiting exoplanets like the ACCESS targets are the cosmic lighthouses that are providing the first insights into the natures of other worlds.
These studies, coupled with new genetic screens, may provide new candidates and methods for understanding the molecular nature of disorders involving regulation of impulsive motor behaviors due to altered attentional or arousal states.
Corollary studies focused on the mechanisms that regulate brain endocannabinoid signaling have provided critical in vivo evidence of an «on demand,» activity - dependent nature of endocannabinoid influence.
In a paper published in the March 25, 2010 issue of Nature, researchers working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB) identified a fish heart cell population that is the source of this astonishing healing feat, a finding that could provide insight into how mammalian hearts might be coaxed into repairing themselves after injury brought on by heart attack.
This census, published in Nature, comprises a first - draft atlas of the small intestine's cellular composition, providing a reference for studying the biology of a host of conditions affecting or involving the gut, such as inflammatory bowel disease, cancers of the small intestine, celiac disease, and food allergies.
«Nature has provided a way for mature cells to begin dividing again,» Mills says, «and that process is the same in every tissue we've studied
While the lack of chlorophyll in OpenSource diets provides convincing evidence for their use for in vivo imaging studies, the very nature of OpenSource purified diets argues for their use in all lab animal research.
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