Sentences with phrase «only on biology»

It then identifies the limitations of the «ages and stages» model of childhood based only on biology.

A mother six times over, it quickly becomes clear that her point of view is based not only on biology and sound evidence — these practices have actually enriched her own family life and her latest book is a letter to other parents detailing how we too can strengthen our family's connection as well, when applied with practicality.

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And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

``... the future of Christian philosophy will therefore depend on the existence or absence of theologians equipped with scientific training, no doubt limited but genuine and, within its own limits, sufficient for them to follow with understanding such lofty dialogues not only in mathematics and physics but also in biology and wherever the knowledge of nature reaches the level of demonstration.»

Even if we never create life we have a pretty good grasp nowadays on biology and that will only improve.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

On the other side are «creationists,» who argue — against not only science but also those faiths that accept the compatibility of evolutionary biology and Sacred Writ — that the earth was created on or around Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c., a conclusion based on a sincere but discredited calculation by James Ussher in the seventeenth centurOn the other side are «creationists,» who argue — against not only science but also those faiths that accept the compatibility of evolutionary biology and Sacred Writ — that the earth was created on or around Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c., a conclusion based on a sincere but discredited calculation by James Ussher in the seventeenth centuron or around Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c., a conclusion based on a sincere but discredited calculation by James Ussher in the seventeenth centuron a sincere but discredited calculation by James Ussher in the seventeenth century.

I've been interacting a bit here over the past day, and I've only had ONE atheist / skeptic show a glimpse of knowledge on the subject - matter we were discussing (which happened to be biology).

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Atheist Terry Eagleton wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled «Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching» that began with the memorable quote: «Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.»

They can not be separated from organic life, as we only know of their presence in the latter, and they seem to be due to biology, instead of imposed on it by some outside influence.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

As regards bedsharing, an expanded version of its function and effects on the infant's biology helps us to understand not only why the bedsharing debate refuses to go away, but why the overwhelming majority of parents in the United States (over 50 % according to the most recent national survey) now sleep in bed for part or all of the night with their babies.

In February, the United Kingdom approved using the method on human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute in London, but only within a narrow capacity: Researchers can edit genes in non-viable human embryos for a limited period and only to study developmental biology related to in vitro fertilization.

Commenting on the results for ESMO, Dr Evandro de Azambuja, Head of the Medical Support Team, Academic Promoting Team, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, said: «This study shows that it's not only tumour size that is important for breast cancer patients but also tumour biology.

It was only in 2003 that the site inaugurated a section specifically for papers on quantitative biology, or «q - bio» for short.

These results not only show promise on a new targeted therapy to treat this malignancy, as PI3K inhibitors are already used in the clinical practice, but also unravel a new function of the PI3K kinase in cancer biology through its role in promoting metastasis.

As the lead computational scientist on the paper, Dr John Marioni at EMBL - EBI, said: «Making sense of the data generated in studies like this is only possible thanks to ongoing advances in computational biology.

Darwin, meanwhile, had established the guiding principle of biology, and Mendeleyev's periodic table — only a decade old — allowed chemistry to publish its foundations on a poster board.

It was perhaps unfortunate that the only physicist on this Working Group, Steve Koonin, has never published a paper in any field relating to biology.

A recent gossip item about Conservative Party chairman Brian Mawhinney stated: «He insists on being called doctor, though his doctorate relates only to a PhD in radiation biology...»

Of the 1,162 SEs for which they have found a molecular description, 446 can be explained solely on the basis of biology and 68 only on the basis of chemistry, while for 648 (56 %) both biological and chemical considerations are required.

«This work not only sheds new light on skeleton formation of animals, but also might inspire interdisciplinary studies in fields such as theoretical biology, bioengineering, robotics, and architectural engineering, utilizing mechanisms of self - constructing architectures that self - adjust to their environments, including remote environments such as the deep sea or space,» the researchers write.

Only 39 of these viral populations were similar to previously known viruses, said Matthew Sullivan, a senior author on one of the Tara papers and an associated professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

«From the perspective of evolutionary biology, scientists often focus only on the particular species that interest them,» said Jiang, who studies community ecology.

A particularly disappointing chapter on biology («The Meaning of Life») focuses on 19th century evolution, with only a few paragraphs for the life science of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.

I spend a considerable amount of time reading, not only newspapers and business - related magazines but anything that can stimulate my mind: physics, biology, mathematics, and so on.

Cronin is also trying to make living things from cells made of inorganic chemicals (so, chemicals without the atoms, hydrogen, and carbon) in order to show that biology isn't the only way life evolved on Earth.

We study naturally - occurring mutations in prohormone convertases which are associated with obesity, and have shown that inactivating mutations can lead to dominant - negative effects on peptide hormone biology in mice bearing only one mutant allele.

In 2012 he founded and is now Co-Director of the Concordia Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Canada's only research centre focused on synthetic biology, also home to The Genome Foundry, a unique technology platform that aspires to accelerate the design - build - test cycle of biological engineering.

Establishing a critical mass of scientists with a focus on regenerative biology is not only good for MDIBL, but is an opportunity for Maine to be a world leader in this rapidly emerging field.»

It covers not only biology, physics and chemistry, but also earth sciences, engineering and medicine, highlighting the best in teaching and cutting - edge research, and focusing on interdisciplinary work.

The direct linkages between life and planetary processes on the volcanically active, deep - sea, mid-ocean ridge system can only be understood through tightly integrated studies across a broad range of disciplines in geophysics, geology, chemistry, biology, and oceanography, according to the NSF.

Dr. Susan Golden, distinguished professor in the division of biological sciences, molecular biology section at the University of California San Diego, wrote in a support letter, «The fundamental research carried out by Ry's lab over the years underpins so much of modern phage biology that it's difficult to imagine what the state of the field would be in his absence — undoubtedly poorer and perhaps non-existent — as he persevered during years and even decades when phage biology was viewed by many as passe and only a few labs carried on.»

Being skeptical, and armed with only a biology degree, I needed something more to go on.

BOB isn't the only garden bus driving around: The Green Urban Lunch Box in Salt Lake City hosts summer camps on a bus to teach K — 3 students about plant biology and healthy eating, in partnership with the University of Utah and the local YMCA.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

For instance, principal Stephen Stoll says the biology course that had 70 labs a year ago now has only 30, because students need more time to learn the terms and concepts that will be on the Regents test.

Millburn Superintendent James Crisfield said he was initially concerned about the high school showing in the 68th percentile for «academic achievement,» until he saw that the mark was based only on the state's High School Proficiency Assessment and biology test results.

She worked hard to make that dream a reality: taking AP classes in High School, attending the summer college program at Harvard University, Graduating Magna Cumme Laude from LMU with a BS in biology in only three years and then being accepted to UC Davis Veterinary School on her first application.

Lembeh Resort offers unparalleled luxury accommodation in North Sulawesi and is the only dive resort in the Strait which offers a full time, on - site Photo Pro, two Marine Biologists, dedicated Photo Center and Camera Room AND photography and marine biology trained Dive Guides.

«And these are not only for art students, but biology students doing work on these endangered animals want to illustrate their own research.»

[Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University] is basing his conclusion on a preliminary analysis that includes not only the amount of carbon dioxide that comes out of a tailpipe when you burn diesel and natural gas, but also the impact of natural gas leaks.