Sentences with phrase «of science in action»

More information, along with an inspiring video of a Science in Action — style project by one of last year's finalists, Harine Ravichandran of India, is at www.Scientific­American.com and at www.google.com/sciencefair.

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On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

«When Kant recognizes that there is a deep incompatibility between any account of action which recognizes the role of moral imperatives in governing action and any... mechanical type of explanation, he is compelled to the conclusion that actions obeying and embodying moral imperatives must be from the standpoint of science inexplicable and unintelligible.»

Your view is also one that science can not establish as correct, since science can not speak to the absence of divine action in an observed phenomenon.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

(Usually, in the science / religion context, this phrase designates a regulative principle that Artigas himself not only endorses but regards as «trivially» obvious: «You should not introduce divine action as an explanation in problems of physics or biology.»)

Their first concern is to find gaps in the explanatory competence of the sciences, inadequacies of theory that can not, in principle, be bridged without invoking God's «special» action to supplement the natural causes to which scientific inquiry is necessarily limited.

Wishful thinking of this sort is difficult to argue against, but it may be relevant to note briefly that the status of «action at a distance» is by no means so clear cut in contemporary philosophy of science as they seem to suppose.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

Provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 468 - 469).

Another example of a linguistic / conceptual difference between Aristotelian thought and modern science is that the former usually envisions the action of one thing upon another (for example fire heating iron), whereas in modern physics the physical world is explained in terms of mutual «interactions».

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

In addition to the phrasing of B.I.h, with its echo of the Shelley quotation, B.I.e, «General dynamics and the principle of least action,» reminds one, by anticipation, of the role Maupertius will play as hero of «victorious analysis» in Science and the Modern WorlIn addition to the phrasing of B.I.h, with its echo of the Shelley quotation, B.I.e, «General dynamics and the principle of least action,» reminds one, by anticipation, of the role Maupertius will play as hero of «victorious analysis» in Science and the Modern Worlin Science and the Modern World.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

There have been those in history that wanted to validate their version of science and were willing to also use it to justify their actions.

Methodologically, he continues, there are developments in the social sciences which make it possible now to gather and correlate great masses of data in such a way to provide relevant knowledge of the consequences of various courses of possible action.

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The effort to secure action by state legislatures to require the teaching of creationism as science along with evolutionary theories has already succeeded in two states.

He is attracted to Jürgen Habermas's model of «reconstructive science,» in which one derives certain «validity claims» from communicative action itself — claims that must be «redeemed» in a public discourse.

Action and use are a test of explanation, and explanation is the basis of action, but explanation is an end in itself and is the chief end of science and philoAction and use are a test of explanation, and explanation is the basis of action, but explanation is an end in itself and is the chief end of science and philoaction, but explanation is an end in itself and is the chief end of science and philosophy.

Perhaps there is a possible future in which art, science, and technology are more nearly one, in which rationality is explicitly informed by value and action shaped by a concern for the goods of those on whom it impinges.

My final conclusion is that there is real satisfaction in a philosophy which can bring under a common viewpoint the vast body of secondary but verifiable knowledge of the external world which constitutes science, with its necessarily deterministic and probabilistic interpretations, and the primary but private knowledge which each of us has of his own stream of consciousness, more or less continually directed toward the finding of an acceptable course through the difficulties of the external world by means of voluntary actions.

Nevertheless, just as in science there are some overarching governing rules of the universe which tend to be active in all situations and events, so also in trying to understand some of the bad things that happen in life, there seem to be some overarching rules which guide and govern these actions.

The Faith perspective sets human action within the context of an ecosystem, material (as used in the normal sense of the word by science) and spiritual (ignored or denied by western society).

Even more so than in individual actions is this evidenced by the great success of science, which is but intellect in macrocosmic proportions.

However, even if there is a God and He is supernatural, i.e. outside the purview of science, His actions in this world would leave evidence of those actions.

It is impossible to prove by science either that the world is fundamentally deterministic or indeterministic, and so science provides no way tosolve the problem of God's action in the world.

- This is adapted from a recipe in the January - February (paper copy only) Nutrition Action newsletter, a publication of the Centers for Science in the Public Interest.

Informed by cutting - edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life - changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

In 2010, she was asked to be part of an action group composed of leaders in the coconut industry spearheaded by the Philippine Department of Science and Technology to map out the future direction of the coconut industry in the PhilippineIn 2010, she was asked to be part of an action group composed of leaders in the coconut industry spearheaded by the Philippine Department of Science and Technology to map out the future direction of the coconut industry in the Philippinein the coconut industry spearheaded by the Philippine Department of Science and Technology to map out the future direction of the coconut industry in the Philippinein the Philippines.

This area of science clearly demonstrates the need for enabling technologies and ecosystem actions to be considered together in order to unlock the benefits for Australian businesses and consumers.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

«Dr. Johnston... developed this sudden and seemingly urgent interest in this issue not via a last minute clinical review of the scientific literature, or even after consulting with the AAP's own recognized lactation science experts... his concern came immediately after aggressive, personal lobbying by representatives of one of the AAP's biggest financial contributors, the $ 3 billion U.S. infant formula industry,» wrote lactivist Katie Allison Granju in «The Milky Way of Doing Business,» a rebuttal to the AAP's actions regarding the campaign.

The exhibit will present in an accessible way the fundamentals of weather and climate, the science behind climate change, and what actions people can take to reduce our own impact.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

Carol is a member of the Expecting More team that is creating state - of - the - science maternity care decision aids; co-author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.

Here are some ways you can keep advocating to support the role of science in guiding conservation action and environmental policy.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

Furthermore, Baby Milk Action does not wish to acknowledge the lack of verifiable «science» underlying its calls for total breastfeeding through 3 years of age, especially in Hong Kong where there are minimal concerns about unsanitary drinking water required for use of powdered follow - on formula.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy gaction» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy gAction Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.

Using the two - billion word Oxford English Corpus, a mind - bogglingly large electronic collection of various writings (newspapers, weblogs, science writing, etc.), Professor Culpeper found that actions likely to be described as rude or impolite included: «eavesdropping», «interrupting», «pointing», «ignoring», «smoking», «listening (in)» and «laughing».

'' (The) actions taken by the State of New York... are not based on science, technology or even conservation,» Morabito wrote in his Dec. 12 lawsuit.

Meanwhile, the report of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology on the need to avert another industrial action by unions in the institution, presented on Tuesday by Hon. Afeez Adeleke, (Iseyin / Itesiwaju) recommended to the house that the two governors of the states Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) «be urged to release the outstanding subventions due to the institution to pay salary arrears to workers of LAUTECH in order to prevent a looming strike, being proposed by the staff unions of the institution».

Addressing the gathering on the theme «Enough Rhetoric: Catalysing an Era of Concrete Action», the President stated that his administration has embarked on shifting the emphasis in education to ensure that science, technology, engineering and mathematics drive all sectors of the economy.

Learn about the science of chocolate, watch bungee jumpers in action or hear about the latest scientific research - there is something for everyone.

Nathan Kelly, an associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, said such actions on behalf of constituents have become a better measure of productivity in the 113th Congress.

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga, has said Ghana needs $ 22.6 billion in investments from domestic and international public and private sources to finance its 31 Programme of Action on climate mitigation and adaptation.