Sentences with phrase «scientific communication efforts»

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Members interested in this area of work aim to strengthen communication between the scientific, engineering and health communities and human rights organizations to identify human rights efforts that could benefit from scientific approaches, tools and technologies, and then assist in making these accessible to human rights practitioners.

This effort has been discussed on several occasions in the Public Engagement with Science Group on Trellis, the AAAS online communication platform for the scientific community (request to join here).

Panelists contend, however, that societies and scientific mentors must invest greater effort to develop community - wide integrity codes so to better moderate research communications.

Editor's note (11/16/15): Following the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 and the ensuing debate about counterterrorism efforts and encrypted communications, Scientific American is republishing the following article.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

One major constraint when it comes to adaptation is poorly institutionalized communications efforts that can disseminate scientific information to ensure that developing country policy - making is based on evidence.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].