Sentences with phrase «new scientific understandings»

Also, «new scientific understanding of spray - applied fire - resistive materials had to be developed,» Sunder says.
This edition focuses on how PNNL uses supercomputers, computational science and mathematics to build new scientific understanding that could help address significant national challenges in energy, the environment, national security and fundamental science.
«This Center takes a critical next step — creating new scientific understanding about health, learning, and behavior in the early years of a child's life and using that understanding to help strengthen individual life outcomes and improve society in the process.»

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Of course, the numbers don't imply a scientific correlation to election success, but they're certainly helpful in understanding the relative new - media influence of candidates.
First, I would like to illustrate from recent times the effect of new scientific developments on the understanding of God in process theology.
Scientific understanding, humane appreciation, existentialist self - awareness, history as cumulative experience, psychological insight, and respectful regard for what religious people have to tell us about their experience — all are needed for and capable of inclusion in this new perspective.
The understanding is clear for those who believe and when God says I will wipe away every tear and create a new heaven and earth we will see that the missing limb had a purpose greater than what is observable in the physical or measurable by earthly standards (scientific method).
We must continually look again at our presuppositions and intellectual commitments as new scientific findings or theological insights emerge — not to reject one side or the other, but to gain a better understanding and appreciation of creation and the role of humanity in it.
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.»
McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time when once again we are seeking a new understanding of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our sense of order, and our self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.
This paper reviews a novel approach to the scientific understanding of the origin of life — and to development of biological order and diversity in general — and explores, in a preliminary way, possible relationship between this new approach and some contemporary philosophical theologies of creation.
Some within the church have viewed scientific advancements and new understandings about how the world operates, as threats to conventional «biblical» truth.
Instead there is much in scientific discovery and speculation that may help us to understand religion in a new and adventurous way.
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.
So, even a scientific law like gravitation, is still being subjected to new studies which modify our understanding of gravity without radically changing its core tenants.
We sought out industry experts who can provide an understanding of the regulatory, supply, scientific, labeling, retail and standards issues surrounding the market so you'll have new intelligence to help inform your next steps as a supplier, manufacturer or retailer of hemp - derived CBD products.
And we're not talking about mixing up a few new ingredients here and there; we delved into the scientific process of baking — the chemical properties and interactions that turn ingredients into delicious food — so that we could understand how to make flour combinations and baking mixes that would work this well.
«Just like gluten - free back in 2001, many people say inflammation faces several challenges: consumers don't understand it, it doesn't have strong scientific support, and you can not immediately feel the benefit of anti-inflammatory foods,» explained Julian Mellentin, author of a new report 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2017.
Our new compression and vibration technology is rooted in scientific understanding of breast physiology, clinical data supporting the importance of hands on pumping and vibration as well as hundreds of hours of testing for a diverse group of volunteer testers.
Her highest priority is to encourage scientific critical thinking by using the farm as a living laboratory to understand sustainability, climate change, and ecological issues throughout New England.
However, the prime minister stressed the public at large must understand and accept new scientific developments such as the MMR vaccination, stem cell research and GM foods.
With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.
Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.
5 December 2008 Postdocs» prospects are dimmed by the new Administration's many competing priorities and a lack of understanding at the highest levels of the scientific work - force glut.
This finding at the dawn of World War II was the start of a scientific and military race to understand and use this new atomic source of power.
The finding that fission releases huge amounts of energy launched a scientific and military race to understand and use this new atomic source of power
Postdocs» prospects are dimmed by the new Administration's many competing priorities and a lack of understanding at the highest levels of the scientific work - force glut
New policies will have a positive effect on health and welfare only if they are grounded in a solid understanding of scientific, legal, and policy - analysis systems.
In 1755, long before global seismograph networks or tsunami warning systems, a powerful earthquake hit Portugal, devastating the cosmopolitan city but also inspiring a new, scientific approach to understanding Earth's shudders.
New advances in our scientific understanding of aging promise longer, healthier lives.
«This new USGS research complements ongoing initiatives to conserve the Bay - Delta by providing sound scientific understanding for managing this valuable system such that it continues to provide the services we need in the face of climate uncertainty.»
«Pharmacometric analysis is key to understanding the relationship between exposure and response, and this critical knowledge will help companies avoid late - stage failures,» says Jill fielder - Kelly, vice president of pharmacometric services and chief scientific officer of Buffalo, New York — based Cognigen Corporation, a contract research organization (CRO).
Before undergoing heart imaging procedures involving radiation, healthcare providers should help patients understand why the procedure is needed and its potential benefits and risks, including risks related to radiation exposure, according to a new scientific statement in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.
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.
The findings, published in the scientific journal Behavioural Processes, shine new light on our understanding of the emotional world of dogs.
«Thanks to this new research, scientific efforts to discover the vibrational and sound - producing properties of fossilised wings will be significantly improved, so that we can better understand the acoustic world in which now extinct species once lived.»
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.
The new findings enhance scientific understanding of where infectious prion diseases might take hold in the brain and provide possible targets for treatment.
This work is deeply satisfying and I look forward to making new contributions to human welfare, education, and the role of scientific knowledge in understanding human nature.
In his latest (and seventh) book, Scientific American editor Lemonick introduces readers to Lonni Sue Johnson, an important new character in the ongoing quest to understand how our brain forms memories.
«Although this is basic scientific research using animal models, these studies are shedding light on the molecular mechanisms that control male fertility, and are helping us to better understand the causes of many cases of infertility and enabling new horizons to be opened up in the development of therapeutic targets and strategies to combat it,» explained Dr Subirán.
A new federal report strengthens our understanding of global climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on Friday.
These findings, published in Scientific Reports on 11 September 2014, open new perspectives to understand the effects of probiotics on our health.
New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple rovers exploring the surface of Mars, the Cassini spacecraft that has revolutionized our understanding of Saturn and the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
By building this selective set of compounds and making it freely available, UNC - Chapel Hill and its partners are offering the scientific community a better understanding of the roles the kinome plays in human disease and the ability to collaborate on the discovery and advancement of new therapies.
New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.
Much like a forensic team recreates a scene to determine how a crime was committed, researchers at the University of New Hampshire are using scientific sleuthing to better understand the journey of magma, or molten rock, in one of Europe's largest and most active volcanoes, Mount Etna.
Donald Hayes of Cornell University, New York, has found that all the leading scientific journals have grown steadily harder to understand since the turn of the century.
He adds that a collaboration with scientists at Schrödinger, Inc., a scientific software and solutions company based in New York, also played a key role in helping the UMass Amherst scientists to understand the origins of the observed high energy storage densities.
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