Sentences with phrase «scientific capacity of»

Some NGO employees, for example, work to expand the scientific capacity of less well - off regions.

«Is this another assault on the scientific capacity of the nation to address emerging environmental problems, or is this truly a step forward in organization and accountability and independence of science?»

A greater understanding of the scientific capacity of North Korea will enable South Korea and the international community to devise plans for exchanges.

It would damage the overall European economy for the same reason, and by the reason of the own industrial and scientific capacity of Catalonia, the most developed region in Spain in many indicators.

Not exact matches

GFI builds the capacity of the animal advocacy movement by recruiting scientists and entrepreneurs to work in cellular agriculture and plant - based technology and by doing scientific research.

Science Even Mass (missa) as practiced by Catholics has baryonic matter that can be observed and measured but that part where transformation of the matter occurs is not subject to mans scientific capacity to record or measure.

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

Added are the new forms of violence being heaped on women by the colonizing of our wombs by bio-technology and other scientific methodology, controlling the reproductive choices and capacities of women — threatening the «very foundations of life itself.»

It is not impossible that a faith community's enthusiastic, internal story of its own recovery of vision has the capacity to retrieve aspects of salvific occurrences that a more scientific account will leave out.

2 The scientific definition of power as the capacity either to produce or to undergo an effect seems to be an exception to this general practice.

In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total human challenge, and to deal with it as human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.

Buoyed by a self - confidence that, paradoxically, can only be justified by the theistic premise of man's capacity to transcend nature, these scientists began subjecting man himself to an increasing amount of scientific study.

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.

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

When priests questioned a scientific theory, which they often did in their capacity as amateur scientists, their scientific skepticism was held up as an example of religious obstruction.

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.

Defra's Chief Scientific Advisor recommended moving away from further investment in incineration capacity, warning increased capacity could actually sustain the flow of residual waste and lead to lower recycling rates.

These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.

To continue building my capacity in the field of plant pathology so I can provide farmers with practical scientific solutions to reducing in - crop and post-harvest losses, thereby contributing to sustainable food production, increased financial stability and food security.

Both live and deceased animals are used for commercial or scientific research or educational purposes in a range of capacities.

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.»

In addition to guiding all aspects of NISC Secretariat operations, Jamie is currently providing the leadership necessary to develop an Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species programs.

The purpose of the Starter Kit is to build the commitment and capacity of scientific associations to engage meaningfully in human rights advocacy, including the application of their discipline's tools and techniques to the realization of human rights.

In an Oct. 17 letter to President Trump, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and dozens of prominent scientific and engineering societies said the president's Sept. 24 proclamation on visa and immigration policies poses «serious implications for diplomatic, humanitarian and national security interests in part because it weakens our U.S. science and engineering capacity.»

She joined the Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) in 2009 with 14 years of experience managing international scientific capacity building initiatives.

Lyons main job, as she sees it, is to collect and disseminate information of all sorts: on the capacity and potential of scientific resources in the region; the logistics of getting research done in a particular country or locale; emerging technologies that promise to assist NSF researchers working in sub-Saharan Africa; and which scientists are doing what where in the region.

Proposals are reviewed by an independent group of experts according to not only scientific merit and relevance but also to capacity - building potential.

Yet programs that augment the nation's capacity to train the next generations of scientists, scientific leaders, and teachers are essential.

In addition to the economic and social development challenges that face individual countries, regional disparities in the capacity for scientific advancement and research and in the quality of education continue to plague the development of a strong, unified research community.

«The marine calcifiers that live in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification, a progress which is reducing their mineralization capacity and forming calcium carbonate (CaCO3) skeletons used as a protective and supporting structure against predators» says Blanca Figuerola, main author of the scientific study.

«While one may think of science diplomacy as the domain of rich countries with advanced scientific capacities,» Holt said, «in fact, the intersection of science and diplomacy may be even more important in developing regions.

The plan emphasizes the need to share knowledge and scientific capacity, and establishes a new type of conservation partnership.

Although Lieberman has elucidated «tons of features» supporting our capacity to run and be active — among them springy Achilles tendons, muscular buttocks, big knees and myriad sweat glands — where was the scientific evidence for the evolution of human relaxation?

Other scientific challenges in terms of funding, infrastructure and human capacities were also examined.

Brad provides scientific and programmatic leadership for NHLBI's Hypertension Outcomes for T4 REsearch within Lower Middle - Income Countries and T4 Translation Research Capacity Building Initiative in Low Income Countries programs, as well as institutional oversight of the Fogarty Global Health Training Program.

Yet those behaviors don't remotely approach the complexity and nuance of human behaviors, and in my opinion there's not the tiniest bit of scientific evidence that chimps have aesthetics, spirituality, or a capacity for irony or poignancy.

Dr. Kuebler chose to publish his method in a video format because of its capacity to communicate scientific procedures better than text.

AAAS also sponsored joint symposiums with foreign scientific associations, including the 1985 symposium on «Strengthening of Science and Technology Capacity in Bangladesh,» co-sponsored by the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science.

When grasslands feature a wide array of plant species, they provide a variety of benefits for humans and animals, including enhanced carbon storage capacity that can be quantified economically, according to a new scientific paper co-written by a University of Wyoming researcher.

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.

«The Assyrians can be «excused» to some extent for focusing on short - term economic or political goals which increased their risk of being negatively impacted by climate change, given their technological capacity and their level of scientific understanding about how the natural world worked,» adds Selim Adalı.

Capacity and consent: The protection of human subjects is a vital aspect of scientific responsibility and obtaining informed consent is a key ethical laboratory practice.

(2) that prior to the submission of an application for PHS support for a research project on which the Respondent's participation is proposed and prior to Respondent's participation in any capacity on PHS - supported research, Respondent shall ensure that a plan for supervision of Respondent's duties is submitted to ORI for approval; the supervision plan must be designed to ensure the scientific integrity of Respondent's research contribution; Respondent agreed that he shall not participate in any PHS - supported research until such a supervision plan is submitted to and approved by ORI; Respondent agreed to maintain responsibility for compliance with the agreed upon supervision plan;

He has been very active in international scientific programs: Chair (1988 - 94), World Climate Research Programme; Chair, Planning / Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program (2005 - 2011); and President (2009 - 15) of START International (environmental capacity enhancement in Africa and Asia).

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.

To assure the vitality and continued productivity of the research enterprise, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) provides leadership in training the next generation of scientists, in enhancing the diversity of the scientific workforce and in developing research capacities throughout the country.

In addition, I help administer limited submission competitions for the University, and maintain a number of communications capacities, including authoring articles on interdisciplinary scientific research for The Record, Columbia's largest internal newspaper, and producing my office's semiannual newsletter.

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are working together to attract talented early - career researchers, scientists, engineers and other professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields such as climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics research.