Sentences with phrase «world of scientific study»

Long the domain of poets, artists, and philosophers, love is a fairly new topic in the world of scientific study.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

eh huh, if you did not know, study says «the Muslim world produces a disproportionately small amount of scientific output, and much of it relatively low in quality.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

And this is what the Catechism teaches: The question about the origins of the world and of man has been the object of many scientific studies which have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life - forms and the appearance of man.

Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.

To suppose that the scientific study of nature is a natural by - product of a certain stage of cultural development simply does not fit the facts of world history.

The Maharishi holds a degree in physics from the University of Allahabad, but as a young man he abandoned scientific study of the material world to begin his pilgrimage toward spiritual understanding.

The scientific pursuits of devout Christians, including clergymen, have been motivated by the belief that in studying the natural world, they would know more deeply the author of Creation.

Accordingly, if the world as it appears to scientific study is taken to be the actual world, we get a picture of the world as made of externally related, passive, aimless, valueless bits of stuff.

Scientific and technical studies should also be presented in the light of their essential contribution to the creation of a single world, in the annihilation of space and time effected by machines for transporting and communicating.

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

Second, American historians of religions must articulate their unique tradition of scholarship so as to make significant contributions to the world - wide co-operative inquiry in the religio - scientific study of religions.

This second edition of The World's Healthiest Foods provides you with extensively updated information derived from review of over 10,000 new scientific studies about the health - promoting benefits of The World's Healthiest Foods and why eating these nutrient - rich foods can be the key to avoiding nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition, because most health problems come from nutrient deficiencies.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now at risk because of increasing consumption, evaporation and pollution.

The results of the study, funded by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), are published in one of the world's leading medical journals The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and show that adding high doses of ivermectin, an endectocide class of drug, to the antimalarial dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) had a major and prolonged effect on mosquito mortality.

He and a group of researcher colleagues have together studied thousands of research articles and other scientific documentation written about different treatments of urinary and fecal incontinence in adults around the world, published between 2005 and 2015.

Needing to write a thesis in the late 1970s for his doctorate in dentistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Szyf approached a young biochemistry professor named Aharon Razin, who had recently made a splash by publishing his first few studies in some of the world's top scientific journals.

Now, to crack the mystery of why and how people around the world came to believe in moralizing gods, researchers are using a novel tool in religious studies: the scientific method.

Whether studying deep in space among the stars or deep below the surface of the Earth, the collaboration between supercomputing centres and researchers will play an increasingly important role in solving the world's toughest scientific challenges.

«After years of collaboration with some of the world's leading prostate cancer researchers and medical institutions who have studied the scientific and clinical benefits of phi, we are pleased that the test is now available to help physicians and patients with an elevated PSA test result, more accurately detect prostate cancer2,» said John Blackwood, senior vice president, Chemistry / Immunoassay Business Unit, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics.

The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing,» published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S. - based authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even as funding and personnel increased.

Numerous recent reports by high - level study groups have examined why the United States is losing ground to foreign competitors who are poised, say the studies» authors, to wrest away the undisputed scientific preeminence it has enjoyed since the end of World War II.

Lucretius» only known work, On the Nature of Things, is remarkable for its foreshadowing of Darwinism, humans as higher primates, the study of atoms and the scientific method — all contemplated in a geocentric world ruled by eccentric gods.

In his study, recently published in the scientific journal «Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,» he concludes that the reintroduction of large animals in certain parts of the world could have a positive effect in regard to species diversity.

Given the definitive results and objective design of the study, the scientific world at last considers the XMRV case closed.

Scientific study of the microbial world was placed on a firmer footing at the end of the 19th century by the French biologist Louis Pasteur.

Until now, most scientific studies have looked at pesticides one at a time, rather than investigating the effects of multiple real - world pesticide exposures within a colony.

The study, which appears in the May 10 issue of the journal Scientific Reports, also offers the World Health Organization and public - health agencies» insight into viral strains that should raise red flags if detected.

Despite this trend, U.S. ecological journals, meetings and funding sources still devote less than two percent of their pages, talks and dollars to studies on these chemicals, creating a disconnect between real - world needs and scientific focus.

Israeli scientists Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni discovered THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, in 1964, kick - starting the scientific study of the plant and its chemical constituents around the world.

As a cofounder of ORCA, devoted to scientific inquiry about the health of the world's oceans, she recognizes that time is of the essence for studying as much of the deep - sea ecosystem as she can right now.

Klahr and Burt conducted a statistical analysis of 56 scientific studies from around the world on the origins of parenting behavior, including some of their own.

In such a makeshift cosmos, the fine details of the microscopic world and the farthest stars might only be filled in by the programmers on the rare occasions that people study them with scientific equipment.

Nevertheless, Physica, Aristotle's treatise on the nature of motion, change, and time, stands out because in it he presented a systematic way of studying the natural world — one that held sway for two millennia and led to modern scientific method.

The case study also recounts and assesses post-disaster monitoring efforts, recent scientific findings from the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), and explores the implications of these experiences for ongoing and future environmental disaster response.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

«Hundreds of scientific studies now show that organic ag should play a role in feeding the world» said Reganold, lead author of the study.

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But if Kinshasa has become less charmingly urban, Makuwa remains entranced by the nanoscale world of viruses, scanning the scientific literature each morning for relevant studies and new data.

All the scientific studies in the world of this one mysterious star have so far ruled out every theory except one, and it's the wildest one.

His lab and lab members have and continue to work on some of the most important microbiome studies around the world — their research appears regularly in leading scientific journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, PLOS and so forth.

Childhood Solid Tumor Network offers the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of scientific resources for studying pediatric solid tumors

This statement stands in stark opposition to the actual findings of the world scientific community (e.g. the various National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-RRB-, and the vast majority of actual peer - reviewed scientific studies.

They include a scientific code that physicist Seung - Hoe Ku runs on two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to study turbulence at the volatile edge of fusion plasmas.

With the help of Liva Harinantenaina, a research scientist working with Kingston, the team honed in on an ethanol extract of Mallotus oppositfolius, a West African tropical flowering plant often used as a chewing stick in Nigeria but not fully studied in the scientific world.

Based on a recent, special compilation of 12 reports published in the scientific journal Cereal Foods World during 2014 - 2017, eating whole grains is actually beneficial for brain health and associated with reduced risk of diverse types of cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and overall mortality.EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- A new, exhaustive review of recent scientific studies on cereal grains and health has shown that gluten - or wheat - free diets are not inherently healthier for the general populace and may actually put individuals at risk of dietary deficiencies.

In a new study headed by scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Cornell University, computer simulations have been run to figure out the possible characteristics of the small rocky world that was discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.