Sentences with phrase «nature study about»

Ryan Carney is a PhD candidate in evolutionary biology at Brown University, and the lead author of a Nature study about Archaeopteryx feather color.

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«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

«Colonization of the islands could have been possible thanks to natural rafts such as floating mangroves that typhoons occasionally break off the coast,» said Thomas Ingicco, the lead author of a study about the archeological site published in the journal Nature.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

It limits the divine nature of Scripture to some non-existent manuscripts, and restricts the accurate understanding of Scripture to a few scholarly elites who study Greek and Hebrew while shut away from the rest of the world, and then tell all of us who are out in the world, how wrong and ignorant we are about what the Bible really means.

In the nature of the case every school has some concrete identity and ethos, and in the nature of the case that identity will be one of the contingencies shaping decisions about the content of the course of study.

One would hardly expect a discussion either of the life or of the significance of Jesus of Nazareth in such philosophically oriented studies of nature and history, or even in what little about human nature they have written.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Whitehead came to his view about the nature of eternal objects from his study of logic and mathematics.

Between 1933 and 1936 Collingwood wrote in the manuscripts «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «The Nature of Metaphysical Study,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Realism and Idealism,» that metaphysics was an attempt to find out what we can about the general nature of reNature of Metaphysical Study,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Realism and Idealism,» that metaphysics was an attempt to find out what we can about the general nature of renature of reality.

So it should be possible to study nature without the Bible and learn something about God, and it shouldn't be in conflict with what God explicitly tells us.

As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

In recent issues of Process Studies there has been a spirited discussion among several contributors about whether or not God can be prehended by finite actual entities either in terms of the divine consequent nature or in virtue of a somewhat revised understanding of the divine primordial nature.

Biblical studies oriented to theological questions about the nature and criteria of adequacy of congregations» common life are central to study of congregations as characterized by distinctive social space.

The central «positive» moral about how best to negotiate between these two models is this: Focus on the nature of the basic movement of theological study as a theological question, not as a question about the psychology of learning, nor even as a question about the logical relations among various subjects studied in theological education.

In it, Enns focuses on three specific problems / questions raised by the modern study of the Old Testament and uses those specific problems / questions to engage in a broader conversation about the nature of Scripture.

But the more I studied Augustine, and began to cut my teeth on Aquinas, the more I wondered whether Christian theology could afford a metaphysically lean grammatical approach to truths about divine and human nature.

Studies have shown the rejuvenating power of nature, and being outside allows children to ask questions about the world, which improves their critical thinking skills.

From studies about physical recovery to mental health, scientists have proven that spending time in nature is good for us.

Guys from very yong age educate themselves about woman in order to learn how to gain their interest but sadly we don't see many women study men sexual nature or over all behavior since guys chase after them anyways and they don't feel the need and this is source of many problems.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

Studies show that half of your baby's blood lies in the main umbilical center at the time of birth and think about it as Nature's of slowly transitioning your baby into breathing and surviving on its own outside the womb.

Tips on toddler nature study to make memories with your toddler that will fill their memory banks with wonderful things to think about.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

A recent and exhaustive meta - analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students.

Serious doubts about the nature of neutrinos first emerged from studies of the Sun.

This study relates to the long - standing debate about the nature of the superfluid state in Fermi systems.

The results, published online November 9 in Nature Neuroscience, highlight how little is known about how these drugs actually work, says study coauthor Marc Aurel Busche of Technical University Munich.

Studying El Niño and people's reactions to it has also taught Philander about human nature.

Pharmaceuticals company Bayer, for example, recently revealed that it fails to replicate about two - thirds of published studies identifying possible drug targets (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, vol 10, p 712).

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

In their study, published online this week in Nature Nanotechnology, Mirkin and colleagues report using an array of 15,000 tips to pattern 15,000 replicas of the Chicago skyline, each consisting of 182 dots, each dot about 450 nanometers across.

«It is interesting to see that what people state in the interviews they value about nature, is also what they actually post about when visiting the park,» says post-doctoral researcher Anna Hausmann, who has been studying the preferences and sense of place of people in African national parks.

The other study in Nature — led by Joerg Schaefer of Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University, and colleagues — looked at a small sample of bedrock from one location beneath the middle of the existing ice sheet and came to what appears to be a different conclusion: Greenland was nearly ice - free for at least 280,000 years during the middle Pleistocene — about 1.1 million years ago.

The results of the study, published today in the journal Nature, show that over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are moving poleward at a rate of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.

At the Washington, D.C., summit, for instance, «discussion split into two camps: scientific experts explored technical issues, whereas scholars who study science and society addressed questions about the possible disruption to social norms,» Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Benjamin Hurlbut of Arizona State University in Tempe wrote last week in a commentary in Nature.

The Nature study also adds to what is known about how genes are transferred from one species to another when individuals from two closely related species mate.

In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI, and other institutes present a cucumber genomic variation map that includes about 3.6 million variants revealed by deep resequencing of 115 cucumbers worldwide.

Lee's study results, which appear in the July 16, 2015 issue of Nature Communications, revealed new understanding about how 14 -3-3 sigma — a cell cycle «controller» - regulates cancer metabolic programming, thus protecting healthy cells from turning into tumor - producing factories.

What could that study tell you about the nature of autism?

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

The psychologists studied two sets of sixth - graders from a Southern California public school: 51 who lived together for five days at the Pali Institute, a nature and science camp about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and 54 others from the same school.

The Nature Climate Change study estimates the Clean Power Plan accounts for about half of emissions cuts from the U.S.'s current and proposed policies.

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

The research is valuable because it shows how studying the formation of the first stars can help scientists learn more about the nature of dark matter, says astronomer Volker Bromm of the University of Texas, Austin.

(It said the same about a similar study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin in Madison submitted to Nature around the same time.)

«We don't know much» about the event that produced GRB 090423, says Bing Zhang, an astrophysicist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who wrote a commentary for Nature accompanying the new studies.