Sentences with phrase «uncertainties of modern»

There are few better introductions to the complexities and uncertainties of modern genetics than allowing people to access their own DNA.

The problem with the original post is that it drips with all the uncertainty of modern textual criticism without any expressed regard for the active work of the Holy Spirit in the preservation and transmission of God's Word, nor His role as teacher and enlightener of the scriptures to the human heart.

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I wholeheartedly believe uncertainty and discomfort are vital in the modern workplace, and in order to grow, these are exactly the kind of stretch opportunities that we need.

Citing modern issues, such as monetization of data by tech giants — like Google and Facebook — as well as widespread fake news, Blank said that graduates are entering into a world of uncertainties, where computers might even start creating videos with fake information.

The quest for foundationalist certainty, with which we are all familiar, is a distinctly modern project, one launched as a response to the instabilities and uncertainties of early - modern Europe.

The ethical and emotional crises that we experience today in relation to the thresholds of birth and death, the uncertainty as to where «personal» value may be located and anchored, and the resultant confusion in the realm of public policy and law are symptoms of the fundamental intellectual crisis of modern humanity.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

Modern vagueness in thought about the ministry appears in the uncertainty of the churches, the ministers themselves, of boards and schools about the nature of the call.

The confusion in modern Christendom about the meaning of the ministry makes itself evident in uncertainty about pastoral authority as well as in the vagueness present in thought about pastoral functions.

The fact that there is relatively so little concern for manners in modern American society is not a consequence of democratic commitment but a sign of uncertainty and indecision concerning our values.

Another sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up with the times.

It is this combination of pluralism and uncertainty that does in the attempt to solve the modern problematic by fundamentalist retrenchment.

Even Karl Marx, according to Marshall Berman's puzzlingly rhapsodic celebration of life in modernism's «maelstrom,» confessed that modern experiences are characterized by «everlasting uncertainty»: «All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned» (All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity).

Modern critics have made us aware of the difficulty of identifying in the Gospels the primitive and presumably authentic reports of Jesus» words and of the uncertainty which must attach to any particular finding even when the most expert and careful scholarship.

Fundamentalism is the modern phenomenon by which people, perhaps afraid of the uncertainties of the future, and certainly distrustful of the modern world, have raised their Holy Scripture into a tangible idol.

So, by that, compounded with problems such as Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the observer's effect, and the like — the modern day human lacks sufficient qualification to ascertain a good part of their knowledge as being absolute.

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

The emergence of industrial civilization, in other words, called forth a federal apparatus sufficient to the need to regulate the private sector in the public interest, to provide macroeconomic stability amidst the uncertainties of the business cycle, and to offer the nation's citizens welfare and security programs appropriate to the vicissitudes of modern life.

«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

Given ongoing uncertainty surrounding the human fossil record, palaeoanthropologists have come to rely on the results of genetic sequencing of samples from living populations to reconstruct the origins of modern humans in East Asia.

This environment, designated the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA), incorporates science - based models, state - of - the - art numerical methods, modern computational science and engineering practices, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) and validation against data from operating pressurized water reactors (PWRs), single - effect experiments, and integral tests.

This tale of enforced intimacy and primal bonding between couples who are both expecting babies speaks to a whole slew of modern anxieties as it unfolds a story of mental deterioration, unspeakable tragedy, and the uncertainty of paranoia.

• Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle X 2: In Up in the Air, a modern - day Flying Dutchman contemplates a screen - spanning airport monitor listing dozens of destinations, arrival and departure times; in A Serious Man, Larry Gopnik chalks his mathematical proof that nothing is for sure over every inch of a wall - sized blackboard....

It's hard to imagine now: with the benefit of hindsight (and, more importantly, repeat viewings), The Thing has emerged as one of our most potent modern terrors, combining the icy - cold chill of suspicion and uncertainty with those magnificently imaginative, pre-CG effects blowouts.

It is a frightening unraveling of female passivity and innocence in a modern era set in a small Zambian community where colonial and western indoctrination creates confusion and uncertainty.

It's as if the stoic / pragmatic spirit of that earlier time, also to be found in English literature (think of Ford Madox Ford's World War I — era Parade's End), had survived the transposition to modern cinema, specifically the strain initiated by Alain Resnais with the somber uncertainties and temporal splintering of Hiroshima mon amour (1959).

In a time of stress, uncertainty, rampant consumerism, and divisive politics, one could easily succumb to the modern dog - eat - dog mentality.

Ironically, because of the continued illegality of abortion in most states, the difficulty in justifying a legal hospital abortion in others, and the fear, expense and uncertainty of procuring a good illegal abortion, modern woman has often had to turn to primitive methods of selfinduced abortion despite the sophistication of modern medicine.

The puzzle factor and the added uncertainty of the multivitamins made the game the most popular iteration of Tetris - like games since Jewels, and would go on to influence games into the modern era in such titles as Candy Crush.

Works from the series were first exhibited in «Romance in the Age of Uncertainty» at White Cube, Hoxton Square, London in 2003, in a suite of thirteen paintings called «The Cancer Chronicles», each titled after modern diseases.

As he explained to My Modern Met in an email, «Theres so much beauty in our world but theres always constant reminders of uncertainty, evil and fear.

Maybe the ultimate long - term success of the Turner Prize (with its accompanying PR) has been to enable Tate Britain to punch above its weight: to remain an international destination, and a venue for dynamic uncertainties in spite of the creation of Tate Modern.

How art ages MARTa Herford Museum, Herford Royal Awards for Painting 2011 Royal Palace, Amsterdam ILLUMInations The 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue) Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully Kunstfort Asperen, Langedijk (catalogue) Image to be projected until it vanishes Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano (curated by Mihnea Mircan) Radical Autonomy Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst Inside Installations Collectietentoonstelling S.M.A.K (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent (catalogue) Falten, Searching for White, Rise above Reason Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam 2010 Taking Place Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Invisible Shadows, Images of Uncertainty MARTa Herford Museum, Herford (catalogue) Benefit Exhibition Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen Starter Arter, Istanbul (curated by Rene Block)(catalogue) History of Art David Roberts Art Foundation, London Performative Attitudes Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus Up to You Stroom, The Hague 2009 The Knight's Tour De Hallen Museum, Haarlem (catalogue) Sculptural - Collection S.M.A.K (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent Broken English Seiler + Mosseri - Marlio Galerie, Zurich 2008 Modern Museum of Arnhem Portfolio 1 Plan B, Berlin (catalogue) Schilders DCR, The Hague Geoair residency in Georgia, Tbilisi Mariakapel, Hoorn 2007 Billy town Rijswijk INSIDEOUT Moira Gallery, Utrecht Voorstel voor DCR Project Space, The Hague Drawing the line somewhere duomodern and contemporary art, Bolzano (curated by Mihnea Mircan) Radical Autonomy Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst Inside Installations Collectietentoonstelling S.M.A.K (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent (catalogue) Falten, Searching for White, Rise above Reason Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam 2010 Taking Place Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Invisible Shadows, Images of Uncertainty MARTa Herford Museum, Herford (catalogue) Benefit Exhibition Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen Starter Arter, Istanbul (curated by Rene Block)(catalogue) History of Art David Roberts Art Foundation, London Performative Attitudes Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus Up to You Stroom, The Hague 2009 The Knight's Tour De Hallen Museum, Haarlem (catalogue) Sculptural - Collection S.M.A.K (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent Broken English Seiler + Mosseri - Marlio Galerie, Zurich 2008 Modern Museum of Arnhem Portfolio 1 Plan B, Berlin (catalogue) Schilders DCR, The Hague Geoair residency in Georgia, Tbilisi Mariakapel, Hoorn 2007 Billy town Rijswijk INSIDEOUT Moira Gallery, Utrecht Voorstel voor DCR Project Space, The Hague Drawing the line somewhere duoModern Museum of Arnhem Portfolio 1 Plan B, Berlin (catalogue) Schilders DCR, The Hague Geoair residency in Georgia, Tbilisi Mariakapel, Hoorn 2007 Billy town Rijswijk INSIDEOUT Moira Gallery, Utrecht Voorstel voor DCR Project Space, The Hague Drawing the line somewhere duo, Ned.

The sale highlighted the uncertainty attaching to the mission of the Albright - Knox, and its decision to deaccession a number of works which were deemed to fall outside the institution's historical core function of exhibiting modern era art.

Same for triangulation networks and even modern GPS networks: the prior uncertainty of the observations is never the whole story.

Standard error involves both natural variability (including that not well understood because it operates on long time scales, and therefore has not been observed during the period of modern technology) as well as measurement error (or error / uncertainty in the proxies).

If you pick a modern ear baseline where you have more data and a better handle on forcings you end up with about 0.8 C — 2.0 C «sensitivity» and an uncertainty range of about + / -0.3 C degrees.

The goal is a more explicit treatment of the processes that mediate low cloud - climate feedback, one of the largest uncertainties in modern climate science.

Parker, W. S. (2010) «Predicting weather and climate: Uncertainty, ensembles and probability», Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

Building Knowledge to Reduce Uncertainties — Landscape - scale restoration projects like 4FRI present the opportunity to learn about the influence of accelerated thinning on forest water budgets and resilience using modern forestry techniques and under a changing and variable climate.

Considering the uncertainties in the modern record, considering the uncertainties in the historical record, considering the methodological uncertainties in reconstructing the past, considering the lack of global coverage in past proxies, nothing can be concluded with scientifically acceptable levels of confidence about the relative warmth between the MWP and today.

Within the given uncertainties, our result is compatible with a HMF increase from 4.87 - 0.30 +0.24 nT in 1766 to 6.83 - 0.11 +0.13 nT in 2001, thus implying an overall average increment of 1.96 - 0.35 +0.43 nT over 235 years since 1766 reflecting the modern Grand maximum.

An error - free laboratory measurement of modern fraction does not imply that the problem collapses into a deterministic look - up from the calibration curve — even if the curve is monotonic over the relevant calendar interval — because the curve itself carries uncertainty in the form of the variance related to the conditional probability of RC age for a given calendar date.

I think there are enough uncertainties, including the magnitude of the forcing, response, and other boundary conditions, on top of the dubious relevance to the modern system, that it is hard to use directly.

The amount of hubris it takes to deny any uncertainty in models given their departure from actual temperatures, and being willing to bet with that amount of other people's money seems unparalleled in modern times.

Of course, we have in, our own work provided detailed calibration and verification statistics that establish the skill in our reconsruction in capturing the details of both the modern instrumental record, and independent, withheld earlier instrumental data (19th century and, more sparsely, 18th century), and we publish uncertainties that are based on rigorous analysis of the calibration and cross-validation residualOf course, we have in, our own work provided detailed calibration and verification statistics that establish the skill in our reconsruction in capturing the details of both the modern instrumental record, and independent, withheld earlier instrumental data (19th century and, more sparsely, 18th century), and we publish uncertainties that are based on rigorous analysis of the calibration and cross-validation residualof both the modern instrumental record, and independent, withheld earlier instrumental data (19th century and, more sparsely, 18th century), and we publish uncertainties that are based on rigorous analysis of the calibration and cross-validation residualof the calibration and cross-validation residuals.

The combination of non-standard instrumentation and sparseness of observations prior to 1910 make it impossible to construct a national mean temperature that is comparable to that derived from the modern network, and not subject to very large uncertainties.

The modern rate is also unprecedented for the Ray and Douglas data although there is some overlap of the uncertainty ranges (if you consider both ranges).

The key thing you learn from it is that the modern science of climate is well founded on basic sciences, and the uncertainties are no greater than any application of a range of sciences to a complex real - world problem.

In 2004 some teams pointed out that the huge gaps and uncertainties in the pre-19th century data, and the methods used to average the data, could conceal changes of temperature in the past that might have been as large and abrupt as anything seen in modern times.