Sentences with phrase «of scientific studies make»

The contradictory opinions and the varying designs of scientific studies make it very hard to weigh the ecological impact of our decisions.

Not exact matches

Scientific studies suggest that some of our neural pathways slow down at this time, which means it's tougher to evaluate problems and make good decisions.

As part of that commitment, he introduced the $ 1.5 - billion Oceans Protection Plan to further enhance marine response, complementing the Western Canada Marine Response Corporation,» CAPP said, adding that approval was made based on existing scientific evidence, and a commitment was made to continue studying the effects of spilled diluted bitumen on water.

I make this statement not on the basis of a scientific quantitative study but on the basis of qualitatively interviewing a few hundred buyers in the last few years.

[65] He sometimes retorted sharply, «I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God», [66] and at other times was more guarded, telling a young count studying with Haeckel that «Science has nothing to do with Christ; except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence.

The study of subatomic entities could not be made to fit with the existing scientific worldview.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

He followed his translation of the Qur» an with a work on the principles of Quranic exegesis, the first attempt made at the scientific study of the Qur» an.

The difference is I don't go around challenging the entire scope of the REAL scientific community making a fortune deceiving the willfully ignorant pretending I know more than they do about THEIR fields of research and study.

His charge that the intrusion of «theology» on religious studies has forced the abandonment of scientific ideals, making the AAR and its membership into a «religious mouthpiece» that confessionally endorses religion, is fundamentally mistaken.

Whether you remain in the dark ages of knowledge and truth and you die a god fearing and loving believer, in years to come, will make no difference in the arithmetic and scientific fields of current or future study.

Accordingly, if the world as it appears to scientific study is taken to be the actual world, we get a picture of the world as made of externally related, passive, aimless, valueless bits of stuff.

Being that Barns is making a statistical claim with no study to back it up, and Topher agrees with him, I suppose we can rule both of them out as «self - styled scientific types».

So after the fashion, the post-structuralists have answered Snow's complaint about the rift between the two cultures by demonstrating a way to make the study of literature just as scientific as the study of nuclear physics.

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

Second, American historians of religions must articulate their unique tradition of scholarship so as to make significant contributions to the world - wide co-operative inquiry in the religio - scientific study of religions.

Personally, I count it a mark in favor of the scientific approach that all the science textbooks I studied in college made their cases without having to resort to any variation on the phrase»... And if you don't believe this, you're an idiot.»

A few commenters on the Strollerderby post, They Say: Spanking Makes Your Kid Mean, a Bit Dumb, question how scientific this study was and if other variables could have played a role in the aggressiveness of the children.

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement an interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that --(1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on volume; (2) implements a sodium reduction target beyond Target I, the 2 - year target, specified in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, «Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs» (FNS — 2007 — 0038, RIN 0584 — AD59) until the Secretary certifies that the Department has reviewed and evaluated relevant scientific studies and data relevant to the relationship of sodium reductions to human health; and (3) establishes any whole grain requirement without defining «whole grain.»

I hope I made clear in the post that I'm not taking a position either way on PCRM's petition — I lack the scientific chops to evaluate the studies they submit in support of it.

So physicians began to become involved and tried to make infant feeding scientific, by studying the ingredients of human milk and trying to adapt animal milk to the needs of infants.

This article is questionable as it has no links or actual references to the studies it talks about, like someone above has mentioned also there is no information on how the diagnosis were made, and lastly it does not take into account that celiac disease is NOT an allergy, it is an auto immune disease where the body attacks its own cells confusing them with gluten proteins, it is not about tolerance, I would not be trusting this information, do lots of research on your own from legitimate scientific sources before making a decision.

When I finally did pick up a book on the topic I was affirmed by the scientific studies and the growing number of parents that support many of the decisions I've made.

Our moms may not have had the advantage of numerous scientific sleep studies to rely on, but they weren't just making up facts out of thin air when they insisted that kids need their sleep.

Next up, take a look at this exposé of a global warming skeptic's site that not only makes up fake scientific studies, it also fabricates the scientists and research institutions behind them.

A public health study with public participation and with transparency represents a higher level of scientific rigor and so should be supported by the Governor in his quest to make the decision on the basis of the best science available.

Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

The International Sweeteners Association (ISA) says it strongly refutes the claims made in the study: «There is a broad body of scientific evidence which clearly demonstrates that low - calorie sweeteners are not associated with an increased risk of obesity and diabetes as they do not have an effect on appetite, blood glucose levels or weight gain.

Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies.

Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

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.

In a new study published in the scientific journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers from the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University show that individuals with social phobia make too much serotonin.

But unlike most entomophobes, Lockwood has made a scientific career of studying grasshoppers.

You talk in the Scientific American Mind piece about what you would be thinking about in terms of how you would make a choice about what to study if you were starting now.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

Needing to write a thesis in the late 1970s for his doctorate in dentistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Szyf approached a young biochemistry professor named Aharon Razin, who had recently made a splash by publishing his first few studies in some of the world's top scientific journals.

His research focus at the UCL Institute of Making is animate matter, innovative manufacturing, and sensoaesthetic materials — the application of scientific methodology to the aesthetic, sensual, and emotional side of materials, an area of study he helped create.

In order to properly learn and apply the scientific method, «one has to develop a scientific mind: be curious, study hard, be healthily skeptical, don't be afraid to make mistakes, always rethink your steps, and never be too sure of anything, including your own assumptions,» Franco says.

Your report makes the statement that «Peer reviewers thus need not be scientific «competitors» of the applicant, or even be studying the same disease or organ system».

Larry Hjelmeland, a blind researcher at the University of California, Davis, who studies the biology of eye ageing, says that Apple's latest operating system has made it much easier for him to read everything from e-mails to scientific papers.

From a scientific point of view, food poisoning made for an unexpected — but not entirely unwelcome — variable in the study.

But this and other efforts should, at the very least, reduce the chances that the contributions made by the youngest participants of scientific studies will be lost.

However, this project was a spin - off from a NSF - funded study of ways to make scientific research more efficient.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

You will also hear case studies about how superresolution microscopy data has made the difference between acceptance and rejection of key papers by scientific journals.

In a study published Dec. 15 in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Washington looked at the abstracts from more than 700 scientific papers about climate change to find out what makes a paper influential in its field.

The American Meteorological Society's Policy Program intends to conduct a series of follow - on activities to continue the collaboration between the financial decision - making and scientific communities established by the study and to help put the report's recommendations into practice.

A Case Study of a Mom - Scientist: Canopy Meg 1 September 2006 Being a single mom makes starting out in a scientific career all the more challenging, but Margaret Dalzwell Lowman found a way to involve her two sons.

This makes it very difficult to accurately predict weather changes more than a few days in advance, though weather forecasters are continually working to extend this limit through the scientific study of weather, meteorology.