Sentences with phrase «studying human sciences»

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Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

Mal Harrison, founder of the Center for Erotic Intelligence and former advice columnist and resident sexologist for the Museum of Sex, studies human sexuality as a science and shares her findings with the world.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

Throughout the annals of the social sciences related to psychology, anthropology, and ethnography, many studies have shown human behavior tendency to reveal more to neutral parties.

Another suggestion is a «theological study in dialogue with the human sciences to develop a multi-faceted look at the phenomenon of homosexuality.»

Applied science is sometimes called technics, but since it covers also a vast range of studies affecting human life, as in nutrition and dietetics, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, pedagogy, geriatrics, social casework, penology, and the like, it is hardly accurate to classify all of these under the heading of technology.

Theology will continually look for new syntheses to incorporate the truth that we discover in the sciences and in other human studies into our understanding of all things, our understanding of God and his world and his purposes fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

His reading revealed that the field to which these works are assigned — variously designated «practical theology,» «church studies,» or «ministry studies» — is very diverse and imports much from the human sciences.

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

Studies in language, mathematics, science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely by recognizing and calling attention to the creative factors in these disciplines and in the human activities with which they deal.

For is not science concerned with the study of the invariant laws of nature, which are wholly beyond human determination?

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

The Penguin History of Economics defines economics as «a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World CrStudy of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World CrStudy of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crstudy of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

Just as studying an artist's painting or an architect's building tells us much about the human author, so too does the study of the natural sciences lead us to understand the Author.

They also argue for the inclusion, not in the science curriculum but in the humanities, of the comparative study of creation accounts in the history of the human race: various scientific understandings, various understandings in the Judeo - Christian - Islamic traditions, the Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Native American, and African traditions.

But for the sake both of truth and continued human progress, the integrity and independence of science ought to be preserved against those who would compel it to state, as scientific fact, that something exists outside of its sole field of study, which is nature.

It is understandable that science would try to carry this over to the study of living systems and of human beings, indeed already with a certain degree of success.

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

Like Whitehead prior to Science and the Modern World, he brackets out the human knower from the world he studies.

Psychology — the study of the mind or human behavior — is a secular science.

Certainly not those interested in the science of studying human belief and knowledge systems... or those who might respect God enough to see IT's logical evidence everywhere.

This reversal has never been practiced in a methodical manner, but a careful study of the history of human thought would show to it that we owe it the greatest accomplishments in the sciences, as well as whatever living quality there is in metaphysics.

I studied enough science up through my Masters degree and beyond to find out that I enjoy it, but to also appreciate how much it reflects the limits of our intellectual capacity as human beings.

In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types.

Dr. David Pearl, Chief of Behavioral Science, Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institute for Mental Health, had just conducted a 10 - year followup study on behalf of the Surgeon General «s office.

Interestingly — and somewhat frustratingly — a similar study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that while pre-workout whey does increase energy expenditure it also decreases levels of the muscle building human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone.

The study was conducted by Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA, and Jacob Wilson from the department of health sciences and human performance at University of Tampa.

The NBA will also benefit by gaining scientific expertise from the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI), which employs scientists who study how nutrition interacts with the human body before, during and after physical exercise.

Yes, there's an encyclopedia's worth of social studies and historical data (some of which might just surprise people), but there's also downright fascinating science in the form of biology and common human ancestry.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

Robert Larzelere, associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, conducted a meta - analysis of 26 studies on the subject, and found that, overall, spanking seemed more effective than 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary methods for getting a child to behave or do as asked.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies where she serves as co-coordinator of the Developmental Science concentration in the Psychology PhD program.

Kelly has a Masters Degree in School Counseling and a Liberal Science Degree in Family Studies and Human Development.

Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).

The researchers used next generation sequencing technology, RNA sequencing, to reveal «in exquisite detail» the blueprint for making milk in the human mammary gland, according to Laurie Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC, a scientist at Cincinnati Children's and corresponding author of the study, published online in PLOS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

A 1997 study carried out by the University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and a more recent UC Davis Study Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetastudy carried out by the University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and a more recent UC Davis Study Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetaStudy Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables.

It may seem that fathers who are better at this positive parenting behavior would be more engaged with their infants, but that is not always the case, said Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, lead author of the study and professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

Our programs offer flexibility, convenience, accessibility and affordability and academic credit for specific programs offered in life sciences, healthcare, human resources, technology, business and legal studies.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Biodiversity is essential for human health, economies, food production and cultures, notes Paul Ehrlich, co-author of the Science Advances study.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).

Apart from sharing breathtaking photos and serving as a human guinea pig, Kelly had a hand in many of the 400 science studies that were taking place on the ISS.

I continued working at the interface of science and epidemiology, first with Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, a New Haven - based pharmacogenomics company, where I was involved in the fascinating study of human genetic variation and population genetics.

«When we first began this study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,» said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).

«Study of the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific and Technological Progress and its Applications,» in Donder and Volodin, editors, Human Rights in Education, Science and Culture: Legal Developments and Challenges, UNESCO / Ashgate, pp 273 - 308.