Sentences with phrase «scientific capacity at»

provide technical support and training to help with breeding and development and build scientific capacity at the national level,

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To posit a subjective capacity to feel at the heart of all the moments that make up the cosmic process goes beyond the limits of scientific ways of thinking, but it is not a position that in any way conflicts with a coherent cosmology.

But it does lie within our capacity at least to challenge the dogmas of scientific materialism that rule out any point of contact between our myths of hope and the apparently unsympathetic world of nature that is often presented to us as the necessary consequent of a scientific approach to reality.

These main lessons arise at a time when pupils are developing a much stronger ability to perceive the world as being separate from them; this capacity is crucial for scientific inquiry.

Owoseni, on Wednesday, also spoke at a conference on security challenges in health institutions scientific Lagos University Teaching Hospital in his capacity as the Lagos police commissioner.

The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights honors Dr. Sessler's important legacy by supporting a variety of activities aimed at bridging the scientific, engineering and human rights communities; engaging young and aspiring scientists and engineers in human rights; and increasing the capacity of human rights practitioners to integrate scientific methods and technologies in their work.

In 2009, the American Psychiatric Association awarded Dr. Okin and Mental Disability Rights International their human rights award «to recognize an individual and an organization exemplifying the capacity of human beings to protect others from the damage related to the professional, scientific, and clinical dimensions of mental health, at the hands of other human beings.»

He said the researchers hope to expand scientific curricula at all levels of education, helping train the Malagasy scientists of the future and build scientific capacity in the country, all the while creating an appreciation among the local population of the need to understand and preserve lemurs and other species for the future.

By sequencing and analysing the largest genome in the world so far, we have shown that SciLifeLab has both technical and scientific capacity for research at the highest international level,» concludes Joakim Lundeberg.

He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and currently consulting professor at Montpellier SupAgro, France on a project for Capacity Building in Crop Modelling financed by the Agropolis Foundation and Labex Agro.

Our new discovery research strategy aims at enhancing our capacity for innovation and at encouraging scientific creativity for diseases with high unmet medical need.

The Adviser serves as an advocate for science - based policy at the State Department, helps to identify and evaluate emerging scientific and technical issues that affect U.S. strategic interests, brings scientific expertise to the Department, and helps to promote scientific and technological capacity - building and science - based policymaking internationally.

USAID's investments have been put to work by IAVI to enable both AIDS vaccine research and the cultivation of scientific and technical capacity at clinical research centers in developing countries that conduct vaccine trials in partnership with the organization.

South African researchers conducted a review on MCTs for performance enhancement in 1998 and concluded, «In the search for strategies to improve athletic performance, recent interest has focused on several nutritional procedures which may theoretically promote FA [fatty acid] oxidation, attenuate the rate of muscle glycogen depletion and improve exercise capacity... At present, there is insufficient scientific evidence to recommend that athletes either ingest fat, in the form of MCTs, during exercise...» 163

According to this 2003 analysis which tested the antioxidant capacity of common vegetables using three scientific assessments, spinach ranked at the top of all vegetables for two of the tests.

She meets Professor Norman and some colleagues of his who, despite their accumulated scientific wisdom, do nothing except gape at how awesome she is and then help her to take all the CPH4 in order to crank it up to 11 and achieve 100 percent cerebral capacity.

In being a scientist asked to testify at a Senate hearing (in your capacity as a «non-advocate,» of course, it would seem to me that you would have reason to do your best to be precise and scientific.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.

At its core, the crisis we now face arises from the clash between our extraordinary capacity to transform the Earth for our own material benefit and the rigidity of the institutions, and power structures they embody, to respond to the scientific evidence.

[38] The existence of testamentary capacity does not depend on scientific or medical definitions and medical opinions are not necessarily determinative: Field v James, 2001 BCCA 267 at para 77; Baker Estate v Myhre (1995), 168 AR 248 at para 39.