Sentences with phrase «studying physical understanding»

They are actually studying physical understanding.

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There is no harm in trying to understand the forces that make our physical world function; as long as we keep in mind that we are studying the handiwork of our Creator.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

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.»

Not only does Whitehead call attention to Type VIII as a key to Type VI, that is Mathematics as a theory applicable to Beauty; but also to Mathematics as a key to Cosmic and Natural Harmony «Plato drew the conclusion that the key to the understanding of the natural world, and in particular of the physical elements, was the study of mathematics» (Adventures 149).

Physical education, it seems, connotes something too limited for a program of study that includes an «integrated understanding of the biology, psychology and sociology of exercise.»

Though you can not completely eliminate your teenager's chances for depression, consider whether your child participates in physical and extracurricular activities, maintains a positive social life and understands how to cope with stress, suggests John Curry, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention at Duke University in Durham.

A study from researchers at the University of Chicago found that young children that play with puzzles have better spatial skills (understanding the relationships between physical shapes and forms) than those who don't.

With all the studies and the clear physical benefits of carrying a baby upright on mother's chest it's hard to understand a pediatrician's ambivalence on the matter or outright scorn when his patients choose to do so.

Although the use of corporal punishment in children has been controversial, evidence continues to emerge highlighting the negative developmental impact of this form of discipline in children.21, 29 Moreover, this finding is particularly concerning given that children were only 1 year of age in our study, a developmental stage when children are unlikely to understand the connection between their behavior and subsequent punishment and when spanking is more likely to cause physical injury.30

We believe that it will also prompt new experiments focusing on the dynamical properties of the atoms at nanostructures, allowing us to understand the contribution of the previously little probed dynamical structure studies of atomic clusters, towards the physical properties such as catalytic relativities.»

Astronomers study the disk features as a way to better understand the physical properties of known planets and possibly uncover new ones.

Physical studies of ultracold atoms, carried out at the University of Kaiserslautern, now provide an understanding of diffusion in periodic structures, relevant for various complex systems.

While the study suggests both low and high levels of physical activity, compared to more moderate levels, could increase the risk of heart failure in men, study authors cautioned that the link between physical activity and heart disease is not fully understood.

Research studies on effective learning show that students lack ways to conceptualize chemical reactions, and NGSS calls for students to develop an understanding of energy principles that they can apply consistently across life and physical science.

THE HYBRID FACTOR To understand signs of interbreeding among humans, Neandertals and other ancient hominids, scientists are studying physical changes in the bodies of various animal hybrids.

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have now succeeded in studying the behaviour of a quantum physical multi-particle system in order to understand the emergence of statistical properties.

Nanomaterials have many interesting new physical and chemical properties that need to be studied, understood, evaluated for their commercial potential, and then commercialised.

Drawing on findings from other studies, the researchers suggest that possible reasons for the inequalities between those who did and did not seek help for infertility include not understanding or acknowledging that a problem exists, fear of being labelled infertile, concerns about the cost of treatment, the physical and psychological burden of treatment, or simply not wanting to get pregnant.

Although carbon has been subjected to far more study than all other elements put together, the buckminsterfullerene hollow - cage structure, recently proposed to account for the exceptional stability of the C60 cluster, has shed a totally new and revealing light on several important aspects of carbon's chemical and physical properties that were quite unsuspected and others that were not previously well understood.

At RHIC, scientists from around the world study what the universe may have looked like in the first microseconds after its birth, helping us to understand more about why the physical world works the way it does — from the smallest particles to the largest stars.

Gwen Rudie studies the chemical and physical properties of very distant galaxies and their surrounding gas in order to further our understanding of the processes that are central to the formation and development of galaxies.

«Although individual physical and behavioral factors associated with asthma have been examined before, people are often exposed to multiple risk factors so it's important we understand the combined impact,» said Dr. Jayadeep Patra, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital.

This theoretical scenario, involving a system with only one degree of freedom and assuming no friction, is important for better understanding cybernetical physics — the study of how to control a physical system, Fradkov explained.

These studies are aimed at understanding the physical mechanisms that govern star formation and how the evolution of the gaseous component of disks impacts the resulting planetary system architectures.

Challenges for future studies of tropics - midlatitude interactions and teleconnections include a need for a better understanding of the physical processes involved.

«By understanding the fundamentals of cluster synthesis through thermochemistry, we may control and exploit these processes to create superior materials for a variety of energy - related applications,» said Dr. Grant Johnson, a PNNL physical chemist who worked on the study.

Diagnostic modelling can be used to improve the understanding of the processes controlling the behaviour of a particular ice stream, or to study the importance of one or more physical process in an ice sheet in general.

We apply computational modelling and simulation techniques to understand the hetereogeneity of the GAG component and to study structural and physical characteristics of GAGs in the context of their interaction with their biological binding - partners.

«By understanding the fundamentals of cluster synthesis, we may control and exploit them to create these superior materials,» said Dr. Grant Johnson, a physical chemist at PNNL who led the study.

We observed and spatially resolved the disk around the ~ 10 Myr old protoplanetary disk HD 100453 in polarized scattered light with SPHERE / VLT at optical and near - infrared wavelengths, reaching an angular resolution of ~ 0.02», and an inner working angle... ▽ More Understanding the diversity of planets requires to study the morphology and the physical conditions in the protoplanetary disks in which they form.

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The studies of the solar system during the past several decades have proven that the understanding of our own planetary system can leap forward only with the combination of dynamical modeling and physical observations.

A new study in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness is helping us understand what happens to the body during half - marathons and marathons.

It's important to understand, for instance, that women who undergo CPM don't have a higher quality of life, on average, than those who choose less invasive treatment options — and they may even have lower levels of physical well - being, according to a study by Dr. Hwang, because the surgery itself has side effects that can cause long - lasting problems.

I took it beyond my formal studies, cultivating an understanding of the food we eat and the effect it has on our physical and emotional health.

Through the Pantone Color Institute, Pantone continues to study how color influences human thought processes, emotions and physical reactions, furthering its commitment to providing professionals with a greater understanding of color and to help them utilize color more effectively.

A 2009 study raises questions about children's abilities to fully understand what they have encountered; it found that about half of children who had experiences in virtual reality recalled them as if they had occurred in the physical world — a powerful but also troublesome finding.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

Our study, our understanding, our own practice, and our sharing with students of the Six Dimensions of Wellness (National Wellness Institute: intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual, physical, and occupational) offer us a clear formula for imparting the life - long practice and the great triumverate of mind - body - spirit well - being.

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and prograPhysical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and prographysical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and program level.

In recognition of the need for improved understanding of crude oil, and especially tight crude oil properties, the Sandia Study was designed to characterize tight and conventional crudes based on key chemical and physical properties and to identify properties that may contribute to increased likelihood and / or severity of combustion events that could arise during handling and transport.

Studies with climate models have noted that the ITCZ width depends on interactions between radiation and clouds (Voigt & Shaw 2015) and how the model represents sub-grid scale convection (Kang et al. 2009), but a physical understanding of why the ITCZ width is affected by these processes is lacking.

The US CLIVAR / OCB Southern Ocean Working Group was formed to identify critical observational targets and develop data / model metrics based on the currently available observational data, both physical and tracer, and the assimilative modeling (re) analyses, and evaluate and develop our understanding of the importance of mesoscale eddies in the heat and carbon uptake and of the response of the Southern Ocean to a changing climate, using high - resolution numerical studies and theory.

It is not a prediction — independent of the underlying physical causes of Pacific climate variability, an understanding of the PDO and ENSO as behaving like a complex and dynamic system in chaos theory emerged from a 2007 study by Tsonis et al..

The report also stresses the need for integrated research approaches to study change in the Arctic and to improve our understanding of the links between physical and biological phenomena and socioeconomic changes.

The Process Study and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel's mission is to reduce uncertainties in the general circulation models used for climate variability prediction and climate change projections through an improved understanding and representation of the physical processes governing climate and its variation.

The study of solar cycles and their climatic effect is hampered by a very short observational record (~ 400 years), an inadequate understanding of the physical causes that might produce centennial to millennial changes in solar activity, and an inadequate knowledge of how such changes produce their climatic effect.

to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities.

«Our confidence in our conclusion... is based on the fact that the results of the radiative - convective and heat - balance model studies can be understood in purely physical terms and are verified by the more complex GCM's.