Sentences with phrase «research challenges the idea»

New research challenges the idea that changes in the Earth's orbit triggered Sahara desertification.»

Current research challenges the idea of the alpha dog.

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The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Modern research, however, has challenged this idea.

This virtual issue provides a unique opportunity to exchange research knowledge, ideas and innovations, and develop an understanding of how primary industries can tackle the challenge of a changing climate.

The book The Invisible Gorilla uses research on how the mind works to challenge our ideas about attention, perception and reasoning.

I don't accept that there is a zero - sum choice between our own discussions and public facing discussions, but I think the greater challenge (eg in our recent research) is about value - based public advocacy which connects to and translates political ideas, like equality.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The idea was to generate a dynamic research environment full of challenges, while promoting harmonisation between the administrative requirements of the two countries and universities, and even between the differing expectations of my supervisors!

Such a move offers many obvious advantages: State - of - the - art facilities would allow me to carry out high - level engine testing, exposure to different research methods would enhance my own research skills, new challenges would emerge, and I welcomed the idea of working as part of a well - known research group and interacting with members of a team.

The research has not only encouraged new treatment ideas, but challenged long held notions that being fat, or not, is a matter of free will.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Through its Asteroid Grand Challenge, NASA is reaching out to any and all who may have the next pioneering idea in asteroid research.

A January 2014 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service does an excellent job of summarizing the history of the idea, including the work of an interagency panel, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.

New research challenges the much - touted idea that eating a low - calorie diet can extend your life span.

For more than 20 years, her research has insistently challenged the idea that humans alone are capable of real thought and real language.

Because his grad school research had gone so easily, he says, he had little idea of the challenges involved in doing good science and had been «too immature» to understand that he required further seasoning: «Chaikoff was right to tell me I needed more training, and I was certainly wrong to end - run him.

In this symposium, the participants shared the current status of various radio telescope projects such as ALMA, the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) under discussion in the U.S., and SKA which will be constructed in Australia and Africa, as well as the presentations given by young and senior researchers on the progress and challenges of their researches and ideas of new projects.

Washington, D.C. — May 13, 2016 — In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

The research ideas you develop at the workshop should: • Lead to the significant advancement of our understanding of sensor technologies suitable for liquid biopsy • Consider the practical challenges of low volume liquid usually taken for analysis and the inconsistency of sample preparation across point of care sites • Prioritise biomarkers with high specificity for cancer or even for multiple cancer types, including markers specific to cancers that will become aggressive as opposed to non-lethal disease

According to Dr. Pan, «The three - day symposium will bring together the scientific community working on various aspects of research and development in TEM to encourage the exchange of ideas for the advancement and challenges in atomic scale imaging and spectroscopy.

This Ideas Challenge was created to foster an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research.

«Three major life sciences organizations, ASM, ACS and APS, came together to provide scientists with the unique opportunity of bringing together experts from different research areas to move this very exciting field forward,» said Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, ASM, «The Kavli Ideas Challenge allowed for the collaboration between different scientific communities that span computational biology, physics and analytical chemistry to develop important new research tools.»

This Ideas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectIdeas Challenge recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to microbiome research and invites the scientific community — including microbiologists, ecologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, material scientists, nanoscientists, computational scientists and others — to submit their ideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectideas for novel experimental tools and methods aimed at understanding microbial interactions and function from new perspectives.

In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

Washington, DC — May 8, 2017 — Three teams of researchers will be the recipients of the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge that supports novel, cross-cutting tools and methods in the field of microbiome research.

The focus of the Microbiome Ideas Challenge is the development of new tools and methods that will help transition the field of microbiome research from correlative studies — i.e., genomics - driven microbial censusing efforts — to causal understanding of microbial function.

The research provides the first evidence for what scientists describe as the «cognitive buffer» hypothesis - the idea that having a large brain enables animals to have more flexible behaviours and survive environmental challenges.

Three teams of researchers will be the recipients of the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge that supports novel, cross-cutting tools and methods in the field of microbiome research.

There are lots of technical challenges to making this approach work, and some issues about whether it's really a good idea to release lots of extra toads to control local populations, and so forth - but we suspect that it's worth following up this kind of research.

In support of a National Microbiome Initiative launched by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to accelerate discovery in the field of microbiome research, The Kavli Foundation has committed $ 1 million to a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge supporting development of next generation scientific tools for investigating life on a microbial scale.

New studies adding to the mounting body of research into the health benefits of a high protein diet have both challenged the idea that consu

New research is challenging old conventional wisdom that says rebound relationships are a bad idea if you're still pining... (read more)

Theos stimulates the debate about the place of religion in society, challenging and changing ideas through research, commentary and events.

Drawing on the latest knowledge in the areas of research, policy, and practice, the volume provides insight into contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and failed strategies while offering solutions and ideas for policymakers and educators.

As well as appealing to young people's desire to create a bright future, The Bright Ideas Challenge also puts an onus on young people to demonstrate that their ideas are backed up by robust STEM research, that they've been able to work as a team, that they've had the resilience to overcome obstacles and that they're able to powerfully communicate their iIdeas Challenge also puts an onus on young people to demonstrate that their ideas are backed up by robust STEM research, that they've been able to work as a team, that they've had the resilience to overcome obstacles and that they're able to powerfully communicate their iideas are backed up by robust STEM research, that they've been able to work as a team, that they've had the resilience to overcome obstacles and that they're able to powerfully communicate their ideasideas.

Tim Oates, research director at Cambridge Assessment, told TES: «Really interesting questions which — put to children — encourage them to think hard, to integrate things, to understand things and challenge their ideas a bit, are really important.

Ahead of the award ceremony, ACER's Australian STEM Video Game Challenge Project Director, Liam Hensel told Research Developments that any student with an idea can make a game, but there are specific skills that help students create a good game.

Professional development days held throughout the year offered a chance to discuss ideas, explore research perspectives and share project progress, including the challenges.

«The research in Diversity Challenged shows that affirmative action policies have major benefits not only in overcoming the history of exclusion of minorities, but also in creating a richer educational experience for all students and injecting new ideas and understandings into discussions, debates and research on campus,» said Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

However, new understandings in developmental and neuroscience research have challenged popular ideas about trauma and brain development during childhood.

Following her presentation at ACER's Research Conference last year, Bendikson sat down with Teacher editor Jo Earp to talk more about courageous leadership, particularly when faced with the challenge of resisting a new program or idea.

However, research strongly supports the idea that external challenge and support is absolutely vital if you want to raise standards as well as reduce variation.

Collaboration and creative thinking both play significant roles in this process, challenging students to come up with ideas and research environmental factors which may influence their design.

In a very interesting and ambitious project, last year Forbes magazine challenged experts in business and education philanthropy to single out five big ideas over the next 20 years that could make American students the most highly achieving in the world and had research and modeling specialists with no stake in the outcome analyze the -LSB-...]

A social studies teacher may participate in a moderated #sschat on historical thinking, use the #FergusonSyllabus hashtag to research how to talk with students about systemic race issues, exchange ideas with digital colleagues, challenge local or federal policy by contacting legislators or informing the public, or organize a face - to - face Edcamp unconference in the community (see Swanson, et al., 2014, and Carpenter, 2015b, for more).

The research has shown that engaging students in academic discourse provides students opportunities to build and challenge ideas, to practice using academic vocabulary and to process what they are learning.

Learn how to rephrase the performance objectives of college and career ready standards in history and social studies into into good questions that will challenge students to read, research, reflect upon, and respond to historical and social ideas, incidents, individuals, information, and issues.

By joining this vibrant and generous community of peers, you will exchange ideas, discuss common challenges, leverage valuable research and tools, and identify effective and sustainable solutions for your school.