Sentences with phrase «scientific areas so»

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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.»

In this scientific age some highbrow circles are so obsessed by the restricted notion of truth as the mere mating of intelligence with facts that they think of intelligence as in itself a sufficient implement for the discovery of truth, whereas the fact is that the areas where we can get at truth by intelligence alone are few.

So here are four innovators in scientific areas who feel that Whitehead's early vision just might provide them with a philosophical base, and two experts to guide them.

But so far, the Danger Islands are unaffected by warming temperatures and should be designated a marine protected area as a safe haven for these and other penguins, the researchers write in Scientific Reports.

Survey respondents also explored why scientific advances in the areas of health care and clean water, are so important.

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?

According to Spohrer, postdocs are more likely than doctoral students to match the company's ideal employee hiring profile: a so - called «T - shaped» professional, with both depth of training in one area and a breadth of experience, such as having worked in different countries or having both scientific and business skills.

«That then led me to a whole set of research areas that told me how you construct the ways that decisions are made so that people will understand the quality of the scientific information that's coming in.

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.

This means that your grant must be written so that any competent scientist working in your general scientific area can evaluate (favorably!)

The scientific community now must step up and actively help governments identify what is need for their future protected area estates so they can achieve great conservation outcomes.»

The way that these units are defined doesn't matter so much for weighing vegetables, say, but many scientific experiments require precise measurement, especially in areas like fundamental physics.

The quest for cancer blood tests — known as liquid biopsies — is one of the hottest areas in oncology, notes Otis Brawley, chief medical and scientific officer at the American Cancer Society, but there's a long way to go: «The tests reported so far have really terrible specificity.»

He works to balance the scientific disciplines represented on his staff, so openings will usually be in a particular disciplinary area.

So I think that the whole scientific underpinning of pandemic preparedness is both incredibly interesting and another area where everybody's got their «I'm a good guy or a good gal, I want to help» hat on, which is really something that I'm happy to see.

Research development officers often cover a wide range of topics, so you need to be comfortable working in scientific fields outside your own: Joanna Downer, associate dean of research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, chemistry.

I can't be superman and think through every scientific aspect of every project myself so I do get frustrated occasionally, particularly when I am really passionate about an area and not convinced the work is being done properly.

«Every material interacts with the world through its surface,» Carpick said, «so understanding and manipulating surface properties — friction, adhesion, interactions with water, catalysis — are major, ongoing areas of scientific research.

Asana and pranayama probably improve immune function, but, so far, meditation has the strongest scientific support in this area.

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So convinced of the Valley's uniqueness and it's scientific significance, Griggs and the National Geographic Society lobbied to protect the area.

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

Wow, that's an interesting scientific approach to a new phenomenon, assuming that it's unique (there are now two other examples, by the way) assuming that the emissions were of gaseous methane under pressure rather than solid methane hydrate continuing to dissociate, assuming no methane flows in from surrounding areas, and so on.

Just as it is the responsibility of individual researchers to be able to provide scientific evidence to back research papers or public statements that they issue in their area of expertise, so it is no less incumbent on academic institutions such as the Smithsonian not to misrepresent the scientific conclusions of its researchers.

So before we all have to talk about a topic on which there is near total scientific agreement, I thought it might be fascinating to examine a real area of dispute in the field.

There are many people who have expertise in this area and familiarity with the scientific issues who I am sure would be willing to join you (I would be happy to do so).

Following a judgment by a Dutch court that the government must step up the fight against climate change, a prominent international lawyer recently proposed that the International Court of Justice rule on climate science so that the scientific disputes in this area can be settled.

So, I suppose it was then that I began to see that it was an important area that was really beginning to move, not just into a really important area of scientific endeavour, but had real practical application.

So there were various public lectures given and I remember one or two of those [which] talked about the early emergence of climate change as a scientific study area.

The politicization of climate science (due in part to having Gore as the public face for so long) is one of the primary reasons why there is so great public doubt even over the basics (leaving out areas like sensitivity where there are large and real scientific uncertainties).

Energy audits use a smart, scientific approach to determine areas of your home that can be improved so that less energy is used and more is conserved.

«There's such a general consensus in the scientific community that climate change is real, but then in so many other areas it's kind of split, so we were curious to see how Twitter responded to the issue,» says Emily Cody, lead author of the study.

Not only that, it's clearly incorrect to draw a bright line of scientific demarcation that would exclude so many areas of science.

You wrote, «Not only that, it's clearly incorrect to draw a bright line of scientific demarcation that would exclude so many areas of science.»

Governments inclined to do so should fund their own research efforts in this area, or just have their scientists follow the only form of scientific discourse acceptable: peer reviewed publications in reputable, professional journals.

So people are dealing with it, not as a theory, not as a concept, not as a scientific paper, but as a problem in their area.

Every scientific forward - looking estimate or scenario is a guestimate, so, yes, I do, because I've looked at this issue for years and only call it a guestimate only because I don't have the exact carbon sequestration numbers for trees, etc., across different areas, or even trees in general.

So, his very «incompetance» and lack of the relevant, formal, qualifications, means that one can't really expect him to produce proper «scientific» work, and this kind of absolves him from the charge of malign and blatent dishonesty, because his understanding of the area of study, climate change and global warming, is just so lackinSo, his very «incompetance» and lack of the relevant, formal, qualifications, means that one can't really expect him to produce proper «scientific» work, and this kind of absolves him from the charge of malign and blatent dishonesty, because his understanding of the area of study, climate change and global warming, is just so lackinso lacking.

While I have my own area of technical knowledge, including some basic physics and biology, it does not extend to the core science of AGW, and so I make no direct comment on it, other than to say it has been one of the most intensely studied and debated scientific issues in history and I find it difficult to believe that the vast majority of climate scientists have got it completely wrong.

These so - called climate sceptics are, IMHO, false sceptics because they took ownership of a term which has a well established meaning in all research areas that involve reasoning and a scientific mind if not a full scientific method due to it being impossible to apply due to ethical considerations (eg economics).

In doing so the Court recognized biomechanics as an «accepted area of scientific and academic expertise ``.