Sentences with phrase «of scientific effort»

They used the very best of scientific effort in its development.
As the AX Division Leader, Verdon was responsible for the management of a scientific effort that is at the core of the Secondary Nuclear Design Program and the scientific grand challenge effort of achieving ignition at the National Ignition Facility.
All of this scientific effort is being driven by Dr. Mahalingam's quest for reliable, scientific computerized fire prediction.
Especially in the case of rediscovered species, avoiding're - extinction» should be the primary ethical constraint of any scientific effort to verify a species» welcome return from the dead.»
«Outcomes will include a collaborative culture in the program, effective reporting, evaluation, support and rigorous monitoring of scientific effort to promote high quality targeted research to meet the objectives of the program,» the tender document says.
The history of scientific efforts to explain human behavior provides many examples, and some aspects of cosmology, such as its Anthropic Principle, invite the label «cosmo - theology.»
This committee was asked to describe and assess the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for the Earth over approximately the last 2,000 years.
JCAP is organized to successfully enable integration of scientific efforts across its sites and research areas.
In response to a request from Congress, Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years assesses the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for Earth during approximately the last 2,000 years and the implications of these efforts for our understanding of global climate change.
Produced in response to a request from Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R - NY), the report examined «the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for the Earth over approximately the last 2,000 years and the implications of these efforts for our understanding of global climate change.»

Not exact matches

Scientific research managers coordinate the efforts of other scientists to achieve larger goals, and handle things like human resources, budgeting, and the other managerial tasks necessary to keep a lab — or a bunch of labs — running smoothly.
«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Their efforts remind me of how important innovation is in America, whether it's literary or scientific in nature.
At the center of his efforts is a Roosevelt - era law called the Antiquities Act which allows presidents to designate «objects of historic or scientific interest» as National Monuments.
Of course it takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlOf course it takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlof time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the worlof a more scientific word, stick - to - itiveness, to make any real progress in the world.
Richard manned Soyuz TMA - 13 to the International Space Station, where he conducted a series of scientific experiments in an effort to expand commercial uses of space.
While AI can decipher almost any emotion from your face or speech, we haven't yet put a lot of effort in scientific study of emotionally intelligent AIs.
«NIH's unprecedented effort will lay the scientific foundation for a new era of personalized, highly effective health care.
This theological perspective has a profound implications for the correction of the scientific epistemology, which tends to regard as the objective and objectifying process, although nowadays there are efforts to correct this situation among the scientists and philosophers of science.
The conviction that this something must be both subject to empirical scientific examination, and workable in the sense of allowing and demanding human effort, was stronger in the last period than in the earlier years, very certainly because of the awesome advances in science, and especially in the arts of war.
They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.
The linearity of contemporary optimism, often deemed the logical consequence of modern scientific thinking, can actually be sourced independently or alternatively in our passionate efforts to escape the destructive exhaustion of our souls or psyches, and seek repose without God.
This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.
In many cases, therefore, the first efforts ever at a scientific understanding of the language, by native or foreigner, came from Christian missionaries.
It has withstood all efforts to destroy it, it has survived the scientific study of its pages, and by its enduring truth it has confounded its critics and stands today more historically credible and more spiritually indispensable than ever before.
It's frustrating to hear people - when their loved has been saved or improved by generations of scientific research and technology along with the knowldege and efforts of an expert medical staff — who say «thank you, Jesus!»
A review of the scientific literature by an American Psychological Association task force concluded that sexual orientation change efforts are unlikely to succeed and indeed can be harmful.»
It pains me to see how many people - in this day and age of scientific enlightenment and understanding - still cling stubbornly to outdated beliefs that originated through * lack * of understanding; through appeal to the pack nature of humankind, in yearning for kinship and to «belong» to something greater; and through efforts to control, suppress, and subjugate the masses.
The Christian myths of creation and of the last things can then be dismissed as primitive cosmology, while all talk of miracles can be treated as a misguided effort at scientific explanation.
At least the scientific community employs detached and objective standards that undermine our efforts to take refuge in the slanted judgments of shared faith.
Humanists should acknowledge their membership in the contemporary world, seek to understand it in its own terms (which means making a serious effort to gain authentic scientific insight), assimilate its ideas into their world of composing, building, and analyzing, and assume responsibility for guiding the course of its further development.
And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all human knowledge has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be modeled upon it has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»
Students of seventeenth century British natural philosophy know that Locke was one of many in his day who saw their task as continuous with the efforts of «natural philosophers» — their scientific colleagues.
But there is a process of automatic co-ordination which, as Polanyi has pointed out, 4 does not endanger freedom because it is the scientific tradition which governs individual efforts.
Without the sphere of unconscious and lifeless chunks of matter delineated by dualism such a methodological ideal (which animates current efforts especially in biology to find the physico - chemical «secret» of life) could hardly have taken hold in modern scientific thought.
First, the rise of Darwinian evolutionary theory for almost the first time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was committed.
In either case, the power of Whitehead's influence is evident here in Wieman's thoughts on value, his efforts to define the Something, and his early efforts to expand the range of experience open to a yet - to - be-developed scientific method of interpreting religious experience.
Indeed, it was precisely his effort to incorporate the cosmic vision of Whitehead (especially the idea of experiencing all of reality as a single complex datum) into his own interpretation of religious experience that created such tension in his efforts to effect a union between religious experience and scientific method; for the task of science is to «prune down the objects [of experience] to the limits of its own powers of definition and minute examination,» while «religion must deal with the total concrete fact...» (RESM 53).
As a NeoPagan — Polytheist, I routinely offer my thought - prayers to a pantheon of Deities... I have NO physical / other scientifically quantifiable «proof», as such, that any deity actually exists but I am left with the supposition / fact that IF a Deity / deities exist, it is more - than - conceivable that for whatever reason (s), such a deity might choose to make themselves remote from scientific / other investigative efforts!
In the light of repeated efforts in Western culture to deny this, the biblical assertion is really an ally of scientific work.
Through the corporate efforts of various modern scientific disciplines such as philosophy, ethnology, prehistory and history, archeology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, the methods of the science of religion have become increasingly broadened and refined.
Those are the efforts and discoveries of scientific inquiry and discovery.
By funding scientific research, conservation programs and community outreach efforts, its mission is to protect the waters and its vast marine wildlife, ensuring that The Bahamas will remain a haven for a myriad of one - of - a-kind, rare and endangered species for generations to come.
Efforts include: Advance producers» awareness of emerging animal welfare issues; Provide information and education to improve animal care skills; support scientific research to enhance animal well - being; provide information for greater public understanding and awareness about producers commitment to providing humane care.
«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.
Viteri notes that Acme has developed research alliances with Cornell University, University of Delaware, major ingredients suppliers and industry trade associations, which enables Acme Smoked Fish to include the latest scientific advances in its quality and safety efforts.
Compiling this vast library of scientific resources and references is an ongoing effort.
NAST regrets very much that the anti-GMO elements who destroyed the plants have caused the needless waste of time, effort, and materials in a lawfully - conducted scientific inquiry.
The discovery of novel health effects of bioactive compounds will provide the scientific basis for future efforts to use biotechnology to modify / fortify foods and food components as a means to improve public health.
My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.
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