Sentences with phrase «of confidence in the science»

Your question «Do you you prefer the high levels of confidence in the science cited by the IPCC» is an odd one.

The process of science is to to test it's conclusions and continually refine models in order to determine the level of confidence in the science.

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If participants know what the expected hypothesis is — that playing brain science games improves your memory or that standing in a power pose improves your confidence — they're more likely to skew the results in the favor of that hypothesis.

«Additional research is required to have confidence in generalizations, but there are reasons to suspect that the broad findings are not unique to academic science,» said Ajay Agrawal, professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto and one of the paper's authors.

A number of Christians in academia share McGrath's confidence that only yokels think science can discredit religion.

The modern age, born of assurance in the transcendental reach of science and reason, has now crumbled into a heap of blasted hopes, eroded confidences and not - so - self - evident truths.

The more sophisticated reader also finds the impact of science (in virtually all disciplines) to be eroding confidence in the Bible.

The «up» with which he concludes is a high degree of confidence regarding the fundamental commitments of the Christian faith, commitments that in his view are completely compatible with the truths pursued in the field of science.

That the confidence in an orderly universe and the impulse to venture on the unexplored which lay back of them, as of the science and the geographic expansion of the age, were to some extent from the Christian faith appears clear.

Simultaneously, large and vocal elements within the secular academy have begun to lose confidence in the Enlightenment conceptions of rationality, objectivity and science that have given intellectual inquiry coherence and vitality.

With advances in the natural sciences and mathematics, the eighteenth century saw a new confidence in human reason and a rejection of what was considered superstitious.

Here, in the social sciences, is a radical «yes» to this century, an invitation to face, and a confidence that we can solve, some of our most difficult problems.

Lord Gifford's bequest to the Scottish universities was given in the confidence that a Christianity interpreted as the expression of Spinoza's metaphysics was compatible with science.

What you're basically claiming is that science can't really tell us anything that we can't see personally happening for ourselves which is utterly ridiculous considering that we convict people of murder often on the confidence we have in forensic science.

However it is possible, given the insights of modern science, that by slavishly binding oneself tothe letter of St. Thomas's thought - who did after all live in the thirteenth century - one might run the risk of betraying the spirit of openness to, and confidence in, the truth which inspired him.

Perhaps, very few scientists today make such a claim so unambiguously, yet this confidence in science and technology and the instrumental, manipulative use of nature, is very much present in modern culture.

If the body of divinely revealed knowledge contained in the Bible and guarded by the church was the basis of the Christian era, so the body of knowledge being accumulated by science was seen to be the foundation of modernity, fueling human confidence in an ever better future.

She continued: «We signalled our willingness to work with MPI to ensure its proposed science definition is robust in meeting shared objectives around consumer confidence and authenticity, and will be making a detailed submission on behalf of industry.

It is change like what is happening with baby courts that shows society's increasing awareness of and confidence in attachment science.

This project will bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from analytical sciences, predictive modelling, law, criminology and business studies, and will contribute to consumer confidence and trust in UK food supply chains.

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Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The House of Lords science and technology committee said the government is doing too little to improve security on the internet and risks undermining public confidence in the service.

Commenting on the announcement by Ofqual around issues related to GCSE Computer Science, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union, said: «The NASUWT recognises that Ofqual has a critical responsibility to establish and maintain public and professional confidence in the qualification system.

It gave me a certain level of confidence that the public is: A, underserved in science programming; and B, has an appetite that previously was never recognized.

The Communicating Science program also seeks to increase scientists» confidence in communication effectiveness of specific methods, including in - person interactions, social media, and news media.

Sullivan said she is most concerned about the «apparent decline in society's confidence in science as an enterprise of special value to society and of scientists as respected and trustworthy people.»

These examples are the low - hanging fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so it is easy for both science and religion to pluck the ripe ones and declare with confidence that such acts as, say, lying, adultery and stealing are wrong because they destroy trust in human relationships that depend on truth telling, fidelity and respect for property.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

Although it is not the 4.2 % increase that the Obama administration proposed in February, «it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup.»

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

The members of one group, mainly women, lacked confidence because their previous experiences in learning science were limited or far from satisfying.

«These beautiful measurements from the South Pole Telescope and Herschel strengthen our confidence in our current model of the universe,» said Olivier Doré, a member of the U.S. Planck science team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «However, this model does not tell us how big the primordial signal itself should be.

Hamilton concludes by noting that the varied combinations of self - confidence and knowledge found in these surveys suggest that different science - communication strategies are needed to reach different groups; simply providing more information is only likely to work for some people.

«Its existence was predicted by the standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual models of the way the world or the universe works and test those models against the observations and see the extent to which they can predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the models.

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

But he expressed confidence in the firm commitment of most federal employees to science - based policy - making.

Many black women suffer from low self - confidence, have gaps in their knowledge from attending schools where science wasn't taught well or are influenced by stereotypes such as «only men do hard sciences» or «people of colour are not as smart».

Confidence in the progress of science and technology was never higher than at the time of the first journeys to the Moon; afterwards came the first «Earth Day,» the crisis of confidence, and the environmentalist reConfidence in the progress of science and technology was never higher than at the time of the first journeys to the Moon; afterwards came the first «Earth Day,» the crisis of confidence, and the environmentalist reconfidence, and the environmentalist renaissance.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

It was... a «people and data» problem that required maturity and commercial confidence,» which Hope had plenty of even back when he was an undergraduate, writes O'Keefe, who today supervises postgraduate research students jointly with Hope, in an email to Science Careers.

I was concerned about the kind of reaction I would receive, but in every case my science colleagues were enthusiastic, and surprisingly some even shared a confidence that they were also planning a new career outside science.

Opposing such confidence, he sees a blindness of science to the awkward and anomalous «noise» of the moral and religious world views of cultures that are radically different from ours in the industrialised West.

In the interview, Moedas expressed confidence that investing in science will boost Europe's economies; he said that he has the ear of President Jean - Claude Juncker and explained the need for a European Innovation Council.&raquIn the interview, Moedas expressed confidence that investing in science will boost Europe's economies; he said that he has the ear of President Jean - Claude Juncker and explained the need for a European Innovation Council.&raquin science will boost Europe's economies; he said that he has the ear of President Jean - Claude Juncker and explained the need for a European Innovation Council.»

Inspired by what he had seen abroad, he decided to set up on his own, and found the confidence to do so through the master's degree in science & technology management and commercialisation, a course run jointly by the Technical University of Lisbon and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.

The AAAS must, first of all, serve scientists and science in such a way as to command the confidence and backing of the scientists of this country.

Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

Fellows» «confidence, networks, and knowledge of the sector may not be what they once were, but the guided, supportive application process is a crucial part of the preparation necessary to re-enter academic research,» Daphne Jackson Trust Chief Executive Katie Perry writes in an email to Science Careers.