Sentences with phrase «social scientist studying»

On 9 September, Cristian Dogaru, a Romanian health and social scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

Knowledge brokering is different in that it creates «an ongoing dialogue and exchange» between researchers and stakeholders, explains Christine Knight, a policy research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kingdom.

2006 «Why Are Social Scientists Studying the Development of Direct - Entry Midwifery in the US?

From ecologists, we learned cannibalism was often an important part of predation and foraging, while social scientists studied its relationship to courtship, mating and even parental care.

It was a dispute, caused by social scientists studying how science is done and being critical of this process.

If you compare the way social scientists study cultures — their writing and compiling of data and the creation of often difficult documentation that is great for research but not terribly accessible to the cultures they are studying — one can see the difference.

The physical and social scientists studying geoengineering know better.

Before then, social scientists studied orphaned children and mother and young child attachment.

Not exact matches

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies Franciscan University of Steubenville President, Society of Catholic Social Scientists

Survey social scientists with expertise in surveys and the study of religion to learn if they do or do not have confidence in polls about religion.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

the right persons [that is, social scientists] to undertake the study of moral influences... in the right spirit as a basis for the scientific control of the individual.

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

Abraham Ayrookuzhiel did study the dalit religiosity but had remained a social scientist and never attempted to allow Christian «god - talk» to dialogue with dalit cultural resources.5 V. Devasahayam in his «Outside the Camp» has made a deliberate attempt to utilize the cultural resources of dalits in interpreting the Biblical texts.6

Philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who formerly were fascinated by the comparative approach to the study of world religions have begun to question the validity of such an approach.

A group of social scientists who analyzed the NIMH study for the Public Opinion Quarterly stated: «We are convinced, in general, that the NIMH report presents a reasonable summary of current knowledge about television, its effects and its potential....

Social scientists have in recent decades developed a fairly standard way of studying the relations between religion and public affairs.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.

Elena Minina is a social scientist specialising in post-Soviet Russian studies and comparative education.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

Critics like Matt Browner - Hamlin, the SEIU's deputy director of new media, and Michael Cornfield, a political scientist and longtime analyst of online politics, have chimed in to dismiss the study's import, arguing that simply counting the presence of social media tools being deployed by an organization means little, or nothing.

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It supports the development and training of the UK's future social scientists and also funds major studies that provide the infrastructure for research.

Dr Fergal Monaghan, a data scientist at Adoreboard who led the study we referred to earlier (see 18:48 BST post), says social media played a critical role during the election.

Now, an Indiana University faculty member who studies the spread of misinformation online is joining prominent legal scholars, social scientists and researchers in a global «call to action» in the fight against it.

Though a seductive idea, it was finally killed off in the 1960s by the American social scientist Herbert Simon, who studied complex systems and concluded that it is in fact the simplest that tend to survive.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

By studying these disorders, scientists can learn a lot about human social cognition.

Social scientists have also used the Games to study diverse topics such as the relationships between athletes and coaches (R. A. Philippe and R. Seller Psychol.

In a separate activity, participants played the dictator game, which economists and other social scientists often use to study decision - making.

She reviewed the social media habits of an alternate population — scientists at UW Madison — because that group more closely resembles the one in the NSF study, in scientific disciplines and gender.

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

While Olesen looks at the technical potential of various technologies for utilizing crop residues and manure as bioenergy sources, social scientists and economists study social constraints on such mitigation measures, such as profitability and the mindset of farmers.

Now, a study by Facebook's in - house social scientists finds that this does indeed happen, though the effect is very small.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

Some social scientists say climate change could lead to escalating violence, and a new study is trying to quantify this increase.

In 1975, O'Neill spearheaded a ten - week - long study at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, working with engineers, social scientists, and other researchers, as well as architects, to see whether such structures were feasible.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

Then he came to realize that the storm ripped apart communities as well as schools and hospitals and that social scientists are working to study the impact and help residents recover.

Studies published earlier this year tackle that question, first with a survey of social scientists and then with an analysis of recently published papers.

«Estimating flu in specific, localized populations pushes the limits of what we thought we could do [with social media], and it opens the door to new possibilities,» says Mark Dredze, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in the new study.

While giving his testimony, Atran called on the U.S. government to engage social scientists more directly in open, peer - reviewed studies of terrorism, rather than relying on clandestine intelligence and antiterrorism technology.