Sentences with phrase «science at arm»

The very intellectual weakness of keeping science at arm's length invites the dominant dualistic mindset to interpret scientific as well as other observational data in a reductive manner, which leads to nominalism.

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Then, when Vogt was an undergrad studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, a friend found an abandoned safe in the basement of a campus building, and Vogt persuaded that friend to collaborate with him in making a one - armed bot programmed to turn the dial repeatedly, to crack its combination.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

[8] Thomas Charles Sannar, «Summary of the Spiritual Ideas from Sources of Science of Mind,» website of Emerson Institute — the educational arm of the Affiliated New Thought Network (ANTN) at < www.emersononlinestudies.org/Sources.htm >, accessed 30 March 2006.

As far as medical science can determine at this point, Angela probably will never walk or have complete arm and hand movement again.

People are still so up - in - arms over the religion tossing that stank up this last election, that they are wanting creationist to just stop talking... but at the same time, I don't think anyone REALLY thinks science knows the EXACT age of the Universe or the planet.

«In a forward - facing car seat during an accident, your child's arms and legs fly forward and are more likely to be injured,» says Ben Hoffman, a nationally recognized injury prevention specialist and pediatrician at the Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University.

At Mahoney's State of the County Address in March, Cuomo announced a $ 15 million state commitment to develop a nanotech research hub in DeWitt that would be an arm of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

Gottfried, currently a professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University, was honored by AAAS «for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.»

The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, which opened its doors here in 2008, has received a $ 1 million gift from Google.org — the software giant's philanthropic arm — to kick - start a network of eight similar centers around the globe.

At the core of this project is a cutting - edge robotic hand and arm developed in the BioRobotics Laboratory in FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Media have reported that Trump will request cuts of 40 % in science programs at EPA and 26 % to the main research arm of NOAA.

«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

Credit growing concerns about climate and computer advances that make it easier to fashion custom - shaped panels, says Sam Zelinka, head of building and fire sciences research at the Forest Products Laboratory, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Madison.

According to the project's press materials, clean energy experts from the two sides will work arm - in - arm at central China's Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where the ICARE faculty is located.

Christopher Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton University and a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences.

«In the ongoing arms race between white hats and black hats, researchers and developers are constantly coming up with new security extensions,» says Dr. William Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and a senior author of a paper describing the new framework.

«Using a robotic arm to immerse an object on an axis at various angles, and measuring the volume displacement of each dip, we combine each sequence and create a volumetric shape representation of an object,» says Prof. Andrei Scharf, of Ben - Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Computer Science.

Corden, a physicist, has worked with U.S. and international arms control agencies for four decades; he's currently a visiting scholar at the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy.

And in 2005, Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at the National Science Museum in Japan, used a high - definition video system to study the elusive Taningia danae, a huge, eight - armed, bioluminescent squid that exceeds seven feet in length.

2012 SCIENCE NEWS TOP 25: 2 Besieged by budget cuts and diminished by the end of the shuttle era, NASA got a welcome shot in the arm in August as mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., watched their latest interplanetary emissary guide itself to a safe landing on Mars.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

Staying at arm's length from Brussels will be crucial to ERC's success, says John Marks, director of science and strategy at the European Science Foundation, a group of national funding agscience and strategy at the European Science Foundation, a group of national funding agScience Foundation, a group of national funding agencies.

After painstakingly piecing together the genome of the extinct strain, a team led by virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, then at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., concluded in 2005 that the virus most closely resembled viruses of avian origin; the team suggested it had become transmissible between humans after a couple of key changes (Science, 7 October 2005, p. 28).

If the cuts are realized, «you will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health,» predicts William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution agencies around the country.

You will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health.

She is a science education fellow at BioInteractive, HHMI's educational media arm, where she works with other scientists and educators, as well as videographers and artists, to develop educational resources for classroom use.

«It's remarkable to be able to go back to data taken almost a quarter of a century before Cassini arrived and, armed with the discovery information from Cassini, produce this remarkable processed Voyager image which seems to reveal the plume at that time,» says Andrew Coates, a Cassini scientist at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK.

There, at the seat of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, a system of Big Science funding that marries politics with scientific objectives, allows little transparency and exercises insufficient control has enabled the mess that the HBP has become.

Working with Columbia Technology Ventures, a team of individuals ranging from professors at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to undergraduate students at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a device meant to improve arm function in patients with SMA.

Organized by the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM), the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, the 2013 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a three - day conference aimed at bringing together senior members of the regenerative medicine industry with the scientific research community to advance stem cell science into cures.

User Facility: The ARM Climate Research Facility at Manus for data, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) for computing resources, both BER user facilities sponsored by the DOE Office of Science.

Staff from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) were among those recognized at the 2008 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Science Team Meeting, which took place March 10 through 14, 2008 in Norfolk, Virginia.

Over the last six years Thorsten Storck has been heading the development of genetically optimized potatoes at BASF Plant Science, BASF's plant biotechnology arm.

The ARM Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG) coordinates ARM Climate Research Facility observations of aerosols and atmospheric trace gases with user needs to ensure advanced, well - characterized observational measurements and data products — at the spatial and temporal scales necessary — for improving climate science and model forScience Group (AMSG) coordinates ARM Climate Research Facility observations of aerosols and atmospheric trace gases with user needs to ensure advanced, well - characterized observational measurements and data products — at the spatial and temporal scales necessary — for improving climate science and model forscience and model forecasts.

He was a Science Fellow at the StanfordCenter for International Security and Arms Control, where he studied nuclear weapons safety issues.

In February, armed with props like peanut butter and jelly, David Malan, a senior lecturer on computer science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, proved he was worthy of the master teacher title.

Later that year, a team at Duke University published a paper in the journal Science — one of the top two scientific journals in the world — where they'd wired electrodes into the brain of a living rat and given it control over a robot arm.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

To clear up the frantic arm - waving and screeching of stay at home moms, I found some legitimate science for you.

Sen. Tim Kaine got schooled Monday at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science - a visit he says armed him in his mission to convince others in the U.S. Senate to continue funding critical research.

As a retired chemist with a career in a big corporation and some hands - on environmental science experience from my time in academia and industry, having some interesting first - hand experience on interplays of Government and Industry with environmental and health research, I was always following climate related discussions, at arm length.

My colleagues and I went to a meeting of the alliance of smaller states in Singapore at the end of 2008 armed with a bit more science that we'd done and said, «Well, maybe we could avoid some more impacts.»

They look back at older science armed with current information and come to the conclusion there was intent to deceive.

Science with social impact, or perceived impact, is tangled in the group deception / detection arms race because (at least):

When we spoke to him on the phone, Hulme cited as evidence the 2007 protests against Heathrow's third runway, where marchers made their case by waving a research paper at the TV cameras under a banner bearing the slogan «We are armed only with peer reviewed science».

Like the protesters at last year's Climate Camp who turned pages from a climate change study into gloves, and marched under the slogan «we are armed: only with peer - reviewed science `, the CCC seemingly wave science around to legitimise policies which will have far - reaching effects on society, and to justify the existence of a political elite which is increasingly estranged from the public.

I believe that I need to deal with the science community at arms length because of my position as the decision maker on public funded grants.

The second ARM Summer Training and Science Applications event takes place July 14 - 21, 2018, at ARM's Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory.