Sentences with phrase «scientific areas on»

To better meet the dynamic needs of the plant biology community, ASPB is currently accepting proposals for meetings in important scientific areas on an ongoing basis.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, Beijing is «closely involved» in activities in the area like scientific research, resource exploration and exploitation, shipping and security.

A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.

As Pfizer recently announced, the company has increased investment in areas that will position us to deliver on some of the most promising scientific advances.

Just as citizens flocked to their cottages and launched their boats, the government of Stephen Harper pulled the plug on Canada's greatest freshwater defender and scientific achievement: the Experimental Lakes Area.

Careers attract careerists, in Feyerabend's words: «devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes «scientific progress» in many areas.»

By scientific method we mean all ways in which reliable, communicable knowledge based on experience in every area may be gained.

This has led to the attempt to extend the scientific method to all areas of inquiry and to the tendency to pattern inquiry in every area on that used in the exact sciences.

Anytime a scientific organization endorses sod, remember Gittings words: They are running scared.Pro - sod activists have learned that intimidation and strategic alliances work, and they are never hesitant about using intimidation and psyc manipulation to reach the goals of their radical agenda.Adopting terrorism as a means, pro-sod activists set their vicious sights on D.r. David Reuben, one of the best - known psyc in the area of human sxu in 1974.

However, the Association of Christian Teachers has described the move as a step too far, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», Chief Executive of ACT, Clive Ireson said: «from a Christian point of view they're aren't nurseries; of very many of them that would be teaching it as a scientific fact during their science curriculam, they'll be teaching it during their RE curriculam areas and those bible stories like creationism need to be taught during that time».

Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such as public engineering, economics, and regulation of public safety.

Our scientific expertise focuses on 3 major areas: the development of specific, often patented, industrial processes that account for the properties of each raw material; analytical research relying on specialized equipment and methods to standardize the various functionalities of our products; and finally, our formulation knowledge to adapt our ingredients to meet specific application requirements.

An expert consultation was convened to review the scientific evidence on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding, formulate recommendation for practice on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding and develop recommendation for research need in this area.

Britain's future economic success depends on making better use of its cutting - edge scientific research in areas such as genetic experimentation and stem cell research, Chancellor Gordon Brown today.

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The project evaluated the scientific underpinnings the forensic community relies on to support their practices and, where these fall short, recommended areas requiring further study.

To show how information builds up and flows among scientific disciplines, Columbia University computer scientist W. Bradford Paley, along with colleagues Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans, categorized about 800,000 scholarly papers into 776 areas of scientific study (shown as colored circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by other papers.

Club Biotech distributes information on scientific events in our area, gathers information on internships and research student jobs for undergraduate students who would like to gain some extra experience and get a step ahead in their scientific career by working in a lab during the year, and counsels young students on how to approach a scientific career.

It is my perception that most academic preparation focuses on preparation to work in a scientific specialty area.

Finding a «lead investor» early on, who invests an amount, however small, gives you enormous credibility, particularly if the investor is well known in the scientific area (e.g. a well known company).

Prof Frisoni: «This result shows us clearly the areas on which the scientific community must focus next in order to help Alzheimer patients better in the future.»

«Especially when it comes to areas ranging from scientific and engineering research to workforce education and skills, congressional leaders should declare the proposal «dead on arrival,»» said Stephen J. Ezell, vice president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) in Washington, D.C.

My dream to contribute to the dissemination of the scientific culture on energy became reality in 2003 when I got financial support from the AREA Science Park.

But the main focus of a program officer, whether for NIH or some other foundation or government agency, is on developing the scientific workforce in a particular area of science.

He has investigated people's conflicting views on climate change, new technologies and other areas where public perceptions trail scientific consensus.

But then as we looked at it more we realized it was such a big opportunity, a larger, much larger well to mine of what endings mean for us in various areas that Scientific American covers and obviously we do cover biology, and so there's an article on why, you know why can [«t] we live forever for instance?

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

On the scientific agenda are identifying molecular markers for resistance, which would simplify testing; accelerating the development of alternative drugs; and studying the effectiveness of mass screening and treatment to eliminate malaria in the areas where resistance occurs.

In addition to the magnitude of their computational demands, ECP projects are selected based on whether they meet specific strategic areas, ranging from energy and economic security to scientific discovery and healthcare.

To read more about the biggest scientific achievements of 2014, as well as the see the biggest breakdowns of the year, find out about exciting areas to watch in 2015, and judge us on last year's predictions, check out our full Breakthrough of the Year special issue.

He presented this advance in the journal Procedia Computer Science and, more recently, at an International scientific congress on the application of new technologies in the area of healthcare, the HCist, which was held in Portugal in October 2015.

To be fair, it was clearly never the author's intention to write a comprehensive «scientific» account of music (an area of study which from time to time has fallen foul of both phenomenology and common sense), but to some extent to shed light on the experience of music as «experienced».

In an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Baco - Taylor and her team document these reefs and discuss possible explanations for their appearance in areas considered impossibly hostile to reef - forming scleractinia, whose communities are formed by small, stony polyps that settle on the seabed and grow bony skeletons to protect their soft bodies.

«We have not yet seen the adoption of accessible formats and standards on the scale that we would like to see, particularly in the area of scientific and mathematical texts,» says Chris Danielsen, a spokesman for the US National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore, Maryland.

► Iran's agreement on Tuesday to «dismantle large pieces of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions... paves the way for a rapid expansion of scientific cooperation with Iran in areas as diverse as fusion, astrophysics, and cancer therapy using radioisotopes,» Richard Stone wrote that day at ScienceInsider.

Jessica Wyndham, Interim Director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of eScientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of escientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expression.

In addition to improving the scientific record, the USGS says the crowd - sourced data can also help emergency responders focus quickly on the hardest - hit areas to provide a rapid response.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

The group is internationally renowned for research on the biomechanics of the breast, and is responsible for more than half of all the scientific publications in the area.

The study, which is the first comprehensive assessment of protected areas coverage on marine life, appears in the international journal Scientific Reports.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

«I'm going to be very candid on this one,» says Lewis, while noting that the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding work in this area.

This summer, hundreds of Washington area elementary school children donned lab goggles and gathered scientific data to study the science of sports as part of a free, hands - on summer program.

Additional support was provided by the Max Planck Society in Germany, a Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas and the G - COE program for the field of Chemistry from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan, and by Creative Scientific Research from The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Even so, we need to ensure that the investigative techniques employed in this area are based on sound scientific principles by suitably qualified practitioners, for errors are devastating to all concerned.

Fellows provide much - needed in - house expertise in the areas of science, technology and engineering, helping Congress to legislate more effectively on public policy issues of a scientific and technical nature.

«This is an interesting study that touches on an area that has been controversial for decades,» says Trowell, a biochemist who is developing analytical devices for the detection of odors at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency, based in Canberra.

I have been able to move on to more interesting and often more challenging scientific texts, some even from areas of my immediate expertise.

At a constant level of funding, the restructured U.S. program will be able to focus on fusion's underlying scientific foundations and will enable the nation to take the lead in selected areas of expertise as part of the international effort to develop fusion energy.

DiChristina: Yeah, I mean I think one of the things we don't realize working on the insides of Scientific American all the time is that the editor is not just working with the scientists but also they're reporting and going out to meetings and doing other things; they're [scouring] the world for the best science that matters for readers, have a lot of expertise themselves and it just seemed to me that this would be the kind of thing that readers might really find fascinating — what the editors of Scientific American [are] thinking based on all their conversations with the experts of the day covering the various areas of science and technology and how it affects our lives; and this was the genesis of this story.