Sentences with phrase «scientific knowledge of the situation»

On one hand it says that «scientific knowledge of the situation and the possible ways of social transformation are the basic for an efficient action, capable of obtaining the goals that have been determined.9

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The world is reaching a situation in which the present type and level of resource depletion and environmental pollution can not be continued indefinitely or for long without disastrous environmental hazards and resource shortage, according to present scientific knowledge.

Science itself is incapable of making moral judgments and it is not really too wild a step of the imagination to think of a situation where scientific knowledge is valued more highly than human lives.

«It's not that you require a scientific breakthrough to solve these situations — in developed countries the knowledge and technical tools have been available to women for many, many years,» says Ana Langer, coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

She had always felt a natural curiosity toward people and the different ways they handle challenging situations, and she liked the idea of broadening her focus and applying her scientific knowledge to the clinic.

The report shows that between one - quarter and one - third of Australian students did not achieve the TIMSS Intermediate international benchmark to apply basic mathematical and scientific knowledge in simple situations in Year 4 and apply basic mathematical and scientific knowledge in a variety of situations in Year 8.

This principle allows policy makers to make discretionary decisions in situations where there is the possibility of harm from taking a particular course or making a certain decision when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking.

In order to perform the risk assessment, the domestic court needs to determine the epidemiological situation in France, and in particular to ascertain «in light of current medical, scientific and epidemiological knowledge» whether data on the high number of HIV transmissions among MSM population is reliable and relevant (para. 44).

The «practice of clinical social work» is defined as the use of scientific and applied knowledge, theories, and methods for the purpose of describing, preventing, evaluating, and treating individual, couple, marital, family, or group behavior, based on the person - in - situation perspective of psychosocial development, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, environmental stress, differential assessment, differential planning, and data gathering.