Sentences with phrase «science as an instrument»

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Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Please remember too that many of us do recognize science as being an instrument for understanding and describing the nature of the material plane, how it grows, changes, evolves etc..

If they put in only what they could imagine or perceive with just their senses then the Bible doesn't impress as a source of information that trumps modern science, with our advanced instruments, computers and dedicated professionals all investigating how the universe actually works.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

Science kits teach them the process of research and exploration while simple musical instruments such as xylophones allow them to get in touch with their music ability and rhythm.

BOX 14, I -1-4; 30188578 / 734260 Slides Plus Audiotape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstips, AAAS, «The Integrated Process», Filmstrip 4, 1974 SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «Measuring», Filmstrip 3, 1974 Plus Audiotape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «Teaching Strategies», Filmstrip 3, 1974 Plus Transcript of orientation tape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «The Basic Processes of Science», Filmstrip 2, 1974 «Laboratory Exercises for Use in a College Science Course for Non-Science Majors» - by James Wallace Cox, 1970 «A Process Approach to Learning, Supplementary Manual», based on SAPA developed by AAAS, by Ruth M. White, 1970 «Science Process Instrument, Experimental Edition», COSE, 1970 «Preservice Science Education of Elementary School Teachers - Guidelines, Standards and Recommendations for Research and Development» report, Feb. 1969 (4 Folders) «Preservice Science Education of Elementary School Teachers - Preliminary Report», Feb. 1969 «An Evaluation of Elementary Science Study as SAPA» by Robert B. Nicodemus, Sept. 1968 «SAPA - Purposes, Accomplishments, Expectations», COSE, AAAS (Brochure reported in Nov. 1968, 1970), 1967 (3 Folders) «The Psychological Bases of SAPA», COSE, 1965 «Guidelines and Standards for the Education of Secondary School Teachers of Sciecne and Mathematics» bookley, AAAS and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification «Career Opportunites in the Sciences» brochure, compiled by the Office of Opportunites in Science Slides and documentation - «Animal Eyes» and «Meterological Instruments», Fernbank Science Center, «An Integral Part of the DeKalb County School System» Slides and documentation - «Building Terrariums» and «What is my Age?»

My team's role is to develop the initial science requirements and instrument requirements, to ensure that the science requirements are met for the instrument throughout the manufacturing phase, that data is disseminated appropriately once in operation, as well as maintain the links to NASA.

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

In astronomy as in many other sciences, advancements are made every time a more sensitive instrument is built.

Among these opportunities are the American Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), to be launched by NASA in 2009, where the XRS and the drilling mole that was onboard Beagle 2 will be integrated into a single instrument, allowing scientists to determine geochemistry as the mole goes underground.

It serves as the model for collaboration among disciplines and nations in planetary science, with its instrument teams featuring balanced rosters of U.S. and European scientists.

Rieke is the principal investigator of Webb's NIRCam instrument, as well as the co-chair of the National Academies» Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a body that along with NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Academies» Space Studies Board helps plan the decadal surveys.

Just a few days later, on Sept. 5, members of the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team made an audio recording of radio waves in the belts, at a frequency audible to humans, known as «chorus.»

«As Fermi opens its second act, both the spacecraft and its instruments remain in top - notch condition and the mission is delivering outstanding science,» said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division in Washington.

Grotzinger likens Curiosity to a car with a 10,000 - page user manual that was still being written as the science team tested its instruments.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

During the International Heliophysical Year in 2007, they received funding from the United Nations, NASA and the Swiss National Science Foundation, and began distributing CALLISTO instruments around the world, trying to cover as many longitudes as possible.

Galluzzi: Well, we are excited because the collection we have the privilege to preserve [is] certainly the most important collection, in as far as instruments of ancient mathematical science and physics are about around the world, so this is very exciting itself.

What was on show to the public at the exhibitions was state - of - the - art science, in the form of instruments such as the telephone and the phonograph.

The CA will frame the development of a graphene flagship that is aimed to serve as a sustainable incubator of new branches of ICTs applications, rooted on European scientific excellence and interdisciplinarity (merging physics and chemistry with engineering communities), and providing Europe a strategic instrument and infrastructure for innovation in ICT - related science and applications.

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

Junocam was originally selected as a Education / Public Outreach (E / PO) instrument, not a science camera.

Such instruments utilise a wide range of state - of - the - art technology such as sensors, detectors and pick - up electrodes, ultra-high vacuum, precision mechanics, optics, electronics for conditioning, treatment, acquisition and control of signals, and computer science.

Four student teams will define the scientific objectives of a space mission and will provide a preliminary end - to - end design of spacecraft, scientific instruments as well as mission and science operations that will meet their stated objectives.

«Despite those constraints, we took it as a challenge to build the most capable science instrument we could», said Mike Ravine, Junocam Instrumeninstrument we could», said Mike Ravine, Junocam InstrumentInstrument Manager.

After this brief science instrument demonstration period, which also serves as a test for relaying this data back to Earth, along with data from NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the focus turns back to operations and the preparations required to for aerobraking next year.

The second instrument is the Intergrated Science Investigation of the Sun which will measure energetic electrons, protons and heavy ions as they are accelerated in the corona.

He has been involved as a participant or leader in well over a dozen large multi-agency aircraft campaigns and has served on the Science Teams for two NASA satellite instruments.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

As with other consortia involved in the SKA, SKADS is building demonstrators in order to get a new type of instrument functional and to demonstrate the required cost factor will be very substantial contribution to radio science.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

The university provided science instruments and leads science operations, as well as education and public outreach, for the mission.

NASA airborne science instruments such as the JPL - managed Airborne Snow Observatory and the SnowEx field campaign in the western United States, which includes JPL participation, seek to better understand and better measure how much water is held in snow cover, a critical fact for this region where one in six people rely on snowpack for water.

The committee recommends that the National Science Foundation budget for any new capital project include funding for operations, new instrumentation development, and research grants associated with the new facility, as well as for construction and the initial complement of instruments.

Mandatory Demand as a Policy Instrument: The Case of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program, Jay Kesan, Timothy Slating, Hsiao - Shan Yang, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No.

When New Horizons arrives at the Pluto system, onboard science instruments such as Alice, a sensitive ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, will reveal even more about the composition and structure of the dwarf planet's dynamic atmosphere.

ZIB celebrated this historic breakthrough by organizing a series of public events in which the computer as an instrument, computing, and digital science in general were presented in many of their fascinating aspects.

If you require access to observations from these instruments for a science project and can not find enough information in the archive, we would suggest you contact us and we will endevour to help you as available effort allows.

The MAVEN science team includes three LASP scientists heading up instrument teams — Nick Schneider, Frank Eparvier, and Robert Ergun — as well as a large supporting team of scientists, engineers and missions operations specialists.

In fact, additional stats, such as distance, speed, and calories burned tend to be inaccurate no matter how much a pedometer costs (unless it's equipped with additional instruments such as a heart rate monitor or GPS) Â — so don't be swayed by expensive devices that promise these extra numbers without the science to back it up.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world.

The exhibition presents a nexus between art and science that recalls such sources as Galileo's astronomical instruments, Leonardo da Vinci's diagrams on perpetual motion, John Cage's artistic philosophy of chance, and Jean Tinguely's concept of meta - mechanics.

As one example of no science, why not just use the satellites and their instruments that are up there and measure the «greenhouse effect» — Simple answer, they did that, and there is absolutelky no signature in the atmoshpere of the CO2 greenhouse effect.

If climate science had the same rules and standards as the securities and financial instruments industry, the SEC would have hauled the IPCC insiders to court long ago.

If we forgive those who deceived us for the past sixty - nine years (2014 — 1945 = 69 yrs), then government science may again be a tool to benefit society as a whole rather than an instrument of our political leaders.

Maybe we should rethink our green strategies and stop using questionable science as a blunt instrument of change.

Science is seen less as a valuable tool with which to improve humanity's lot and open our minds, and becoming a blunt instrument with which to beat the opposition.

Participants considered each NPOESS - measured parameter, starting with ones in jeopardy of not meeting Integrated Operational Requirements Document (IORD) specifications, commenting on the relevance of the parameter to climate science and / or long - term climate records, the importance of maintaining the IORD - level value (and potential consequences if it is not met), and noting any additional considerations required to make the NPOESS program's environmental data records (EDRs) more relevant to GCOS ECV climate parameters and to the climate community as a whole (e.g., additional instrument characterization, calibration, overlap requirements).