Sentences with phrase «on advancing our understanding»

Sabbagh received the Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development for his work on advancing the understanding, and enhancing the stability, of high - performance plasmas in fusion facilities called tokamaks.

Dr Peterson is well known for his clinical work, research and teaching in veterinary endocrinology — and, for more than 35 years, has focused most of his research on advancing understanding of endocrine disorders in dogs and cats.

Professor Meng's research is primarily in environmental and resource economics, with a focus on advancing our understanding of climate change impacts and policies.

Not exact matches

(In late September, five corporate AI leaders — Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft — formed the nonprofit Partnership on AI to advance public understanding of the subject and conduct research on ethics and best practices.)

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

«Gaia will greatly advance our understanding of the universe on all cosmic scales,» Timo Prusti, a Gaia project scientist at ESA, said in a news release announcing the discovery.

If you let people you're traveling with or meeting on the road know in advance that you're going to need time to get things done, they will be much more understanding when you have to bow out before that third round of drinks.

Joelle Renstrom, who teaches a seminar on robots and artificial intelligence at Boston University, says Andrist's research represents just one way that socially programmed robots have become more advanced in their understanding of people.

That's an impressive gain, to be sure, especially for a miner heavily reliant on coal, but to really understand that advance you have to go back to the middle of June, when the company updated its coal production guidance.

To understand portfolio insurance, you need advanced options knowledge, but basically it layered an imaginary short gamma position on a long portfolio.

For example, the folks on the FOMC don't seem to understand that low interest rates and artificially tight credit spreads retard private business investment and advances in productivity.

Even knowledge of the «hard» sciences advances over time; a unified theory of the investment world is similarly beyond our grasp — as is a full understanding of any one strategy, no matter the current pile of historical evidence.the research puzzle For more thoughts on the topic, see this posting on «decaying beliefs.»

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Mankind has indeed advanced in many ways, but has become void of virtues of love, compassion, justice and righteousness, and has becopem unnatural, twisted and abnormal... There are people here and on other blogs who ridicule what you and I say, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that what we're saying is obvious, and it's reality.

In every vibrant period of the Church's life, it has been understood that her message and mission are based on public events, are advanced by public argument, and invite public response.

On the other hand, the church rightly understands that sin can lead us to use scientific advances for extremely evil purposes.

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

How any of this constitutes an advance in moral reasoning or moral sensibility over the classic just war understanding» that the use of armed force can be noble or wicked, just or unjust, depending on who is using it, toward what ends, and how» is unclear to me.

Are we so advanced in this life, that we can only lean on our own understanding?

In the hands of St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle had been pressed into the service of Catholicism with great success in the thirteenth century, but the inadequacy of this static world picture, based on a pre-scientific understanding of the cosmos, to cope with new advances in the sciences over the last hundred years was, Holloway maintained, the principal cause of the chaos and rebellion in the decades following the Council.

As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its way.

I am just saying that usually, these sorts of disasters and catastrophes help spur the human race on toward a new level of understanding and unity, which make further advances easier.

Philosophy is understood as the self - correction of consciousness, which tries to integrate those elements of experience which consciousness, as it is developing itself and advancing selectively, leaves largely unconsidered in its focusing on a pragmatically arranged reality consisting of a world of things.

So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

The workshop featured presentations from invited speakers and discussions to highlight research findings that advance our understanding of the effects of maternal care services in different types of institutional settings on maternal labor, clinical and other birth procedures, and birth outcomes.

A bit of education in advance of your «on the job training» will enable you to better understand what to expect about breastfeeding / chestfeeding and your baby's behavior in the early days.

He reads and understands on a level that's advanced for his age.

«Building on a well - established knowledge base more than half a century in the making, recent advances in the science of early childhood development and its underlying biology provide a deeper understanding that can inform and improve existing policy and practice, as well as help generate new ways of thinking about solutions.

Other people on the team could be older children who may be present and need to understand and know what is going on in advance.

I understand your concern, but there's something you might not be aware of: Most c - sections in hospitals are performed on women with problems that are known in advance, or women with a prior history of c - section.

Our research advances our knowledge of the impact of management practices on microbial communities and adds to a growing understanding of their importance for animal and environmental health.

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

We focus on advanced research techniques as well as traditional on - line surveys and focus groups to better understand loyal base voters as well as swing, independent and persuadable Democrats and Republicans.

Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.

The article focuses on the team's effort to describe how students make progress in their understanding of 14 specific energy - related ideas at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of complexity.

The assessment instrument is designed to measure students» understanding of energy at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and draws on a bank of 372 multiple choice items targeting 14 different key ideas about energy forms, transformations, and transfers.

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

«Thanks to the newest NASA missions, such as Oceans Melting Greenland and Operation IceBridge, we have been able to make great advances in understanding the evolution of this very dynamic sector of Greenland and its impact on sea level rise now and in decades to come,» he said.

But a better understanding of the gut environment will be necessary to achieve the next level of advances in comprehending the disease and fashioning better interventions, researchers said last Wednesday at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.

«This paper details an approach that we feel capitalizes on the best aspects of both research techniques to advance our understanding of the behavior of large groups and advance the field,» says Ned Smith, an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, who is co-lead author of the paper.

The work, performed at the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will have a significant impact on our understanding of the lower mantle, scientists said.

«It's premature to abandon ESCs until we understand what's going on with iPSCs,» says Robert Lanza, chief scientist at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

Since the Program's creation, several dialogue meetings have been held to explore the spectrum of religious and scientific thinking on issues related to advances in our knowledge of genetics and to promote thoughtful dialogue and a search for common understanding of their ethical, theological, and social implications.

Additional studies in other adult populations would further advance understanding of the diet's influence on heart disease risk.

The discovery sheds new light on our understanding of the genetic complexity underpinning variations in human pigmentation, and could advance our knowledge of conditions linked to pigmentation, such as skin, testicular, prostate and ovarian cancers.

Kamerlingh Onnes was one of the first people to really understand that advances in low - temperature physics critically depended on having first - rate technicians, expert glassblowers and skilled craftspeople to build and maintain the delicate equipment.

The technology is advancing to the point in which we can have a much better understanding of how the brain works comprehensively, rather than just focusing on neurons because their electrical signals make them appear brighter when imaging the brain.»

The reported advances in understanding photoemission from solids became feasible based on recently developed attosecond laser techniques.