Sentences with phrase «which has practical applications»

That is why much more is spent on particle physics (which has no practical applications and hasn't made a significant discovery in decades), or string theory (which isn't even science) than on climatology or energy research.

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It would not take them long to understand at least the elementary principles of those things which they affect to despise, and even to have some clue to the rudiments might give them an inkling into the enormous skill, patience and ingenuity which lie behind the practical application of physical science.
Though much of his work in the practical applications of science are in large part correct, he often has accepted belief to be fact, which is where the flaws in his premises originate.
Optimizing your landing pages and testing your page headings isn't sexy, but it's the kind of practical, day - to - day application of testing and data analysis at which Democrats have begun to excel.
Therefore, preference will be given to research projects that have a clear practical application where results of which will be shared quickly with other qualified researchers.
«Now we have a recipe how to synthesize cubic shapes with high surface - to - volume ratio which opens the door for practical applications,» says Dr. Flyura Djurabekova from the University of Helsinki.
Gimzewski, a physicist at ibm's research laboratory in Zurich, made the device — which admittedly has no immediate practical application — to demonstrate the sophistication of the techniques he and his colleagues have developed for manipulating individual molecules.
Part of a provisional patent filed by UNH Innovation, which advocates for, manages, and promotes UNH's intellectual property, the technique has other practical applications.
But the application that has many researchers excited is quantum spintronics, which could lead to a practical quantum computer — capable of feats believed impossible for regular computers — and ultrasecure communication.
If the complex links between superconductivity, structure, and magnetism in these materials are unlocked, then iron arsenides could potentially be used to reveal superconductivity at much higher temperatures than previously seen, which would vastly increase the ease of practical applications for superconductivity.
Now, Sinova and his colleagues have shown that gallium - arsenide (GaAs), a very common and widely used semiconductor material, can be an as efficient spin - charge converter as platinum, even at room temperature, which is important for practical applications.
Phosphorescence from organic compounds has typically been observed at extremely low temperatures and in the absence of oxygen, which limits their scope for practical applications.
Signorelli had a long - standing interest in practical applications, and private - sector experience at both Siemens and General Electric, before he began his Ph.D. in MIT's Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES), which Schindall co-directs.
More than that, understanding the ways in which the baculum forms may have practical applications that extend beyond natural history.
He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical application of stem cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.
In terms of practical applications we nourish the most in RULER program, which has the support of Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and is widespread around the world with very good results.
In the post William talks about how he has used knowledge organisers in Maths and his post details the practical application of them (which can be applied across curriculum areas).
We understand their logic — though nowhere as sexy as the Lotus - based Dodge coupe (which was revamped for the 2009 Detroit auto show), it's the most practical application of Chrysler's hybrid technology we've seen to date.
There are a few criteria which you should use in determining the topic for your sociology thesis: feasibility (your topic has to have practical applications), significance (topic has to yield some relevant and significant results), relevance to the field of studies (your topic has to be somehow related to sociology) and, finally, topic has to be interesting to you.
That was unlikely to be a limitation on the application of UCT 1999 which was of any practical importance because it was difficult to suppose that any implied term would be other than reasonable, or other than fair (either generally or as defined in reg 5 (1)-RRB-.
The potential to use innovative corporate structuring techniques to further protect the interests of local and foreign investors is a specific practice area which has evolved significantly over the past decade, due to the licensing and structuring restrictions applicable under relevant UAE laws and regulations as well as their practical application.
[31] If I am right that the discovery of a new use for these compounds which is capable of practical application is an «invention» within the meaning of the definition, I can find nothing in the statute which would preclude a claim for these compositions.
Family law is uniquely suited to unbundling and Mosten and Scully have provided a practical and useful step by step guide to a wide range of applications which lend themselves to limited scope services.
Because of this there are monographs written for practitioners which focus on the practical application of the law and procedure and there are monographs which are written for students which will have a more theoretical focus.
I love the idea of being able to see extra information on the touchpad screen, which has more practical applications than something like Apple's TouchBar.
I have presented workshops at the ISST conferences in New York (2012), Istanbul (2014) and Vienna (2016) in which I have tried to present my understandings of how to deal with the conceptual and practical challenges raised by work with individual cases and how this leads to advanced applications of the mode model.
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