English students scored almost as well in science as their Japanese counterparts.
This state of confusion is astonishing, considering that economists have transformed the study of firms' other pricing decisions almost into an exact science.
Today, large streams of data, coupled with statistical analysis and sophisticated algorithms, are rapidly gaining importance in almost every field of science, politics, journalism, and much more.
To bring more educators into the classroom, the National Math and Science Initiative is working with Texas Instruments and the Dell Foundation to prepare almost 5, 000 new math and science teachers in the next five years -- through a program that allows young people to earn teaching certificates and science degrees at the same time.
It might make sense to a judge or a lawyer, but it is almost the antithesis of what science is all about.
To get out ahead of nature, the WOF will, to begin with, offer instant access to almost every environmental variable that science can measure, from points scattered all across the face of the planet.
As is almost always true in forensic-science laboratories, these examiners knew what the case was about.
But without thinking in advance and making use of modern science, authorities in almost all countries in the East as well as in the West burry waste in soil.
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"The science is far beyond almost all of the other nutritional supplements on the market, " says University of South Carolina professor Mark Davis, who has consulted for the FRS Company.
One group, those with advanced degrees in math and science, found the abstracts almost equally credible, with slightly less than half (46%) favoring the bogus equation version.
At this late stage, the documents are almost totally bereft of any reference to science, despite the fact that science is a prolific producer and user of information and knowledge.
The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, an aluminium canister loaded with almost five tonnes of equipment, systems and science racks for transfer to Destiny, will be attached to the ISS early next week.
That is a lot to worry about, and Mr Yergin's book, which includes almost 100 pages on the history of climate science and politics, should be required reading for all those in warming denial.
Top-50 instructor Michael Hebron now teaches almost entirely in light of the latest brain-science research.
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Instantly, here is an area of science education that grasps the attention of almost everyone because it applies to them.
In correspondence, the new science passed back and forth through Europe, almost as fluidly as it does in the e-mail era.
Freidman was attending the Intel Science Awards finals in Washington, DC where almost every finalist was an immigrant or from an immigrant family.
Almost everywhere you look, in the arts, science, politics, justice, music and entertainment, the modest video web sharing site that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen began in 2005 has shaped how we tell stories, and how we see and hear each other.
China's universities churn out legions of science and technology graduates who specialise in subjects that have almost been forgotten in the West, such as mining or heavy engineering.
In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.
Nobody could have foreseen that almost 200 years after its birth, the United States would fulfill the science-fiction fantasies of little boys everywhere and put a man on the moon.
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Lives extended, cancers (and a menagerie of other diseases) cured is almost like sci-fi medical technology come true (there may be more science fiction references as you read onward).
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However, once licensed, our clients got almost no traction selling downloads because their users needed the equivalent of a computer science degree to figure out how to acquire a track and transfer it onto one of the handful of compatible portable music devices in the market.
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The authors Alison Fromme, Jennifer Cutraro and Katherine Schulten (who have no expertise in this area and little combined science reporting experience) make the prejudicial choice of focusing almost exclusively on the controversy rather than on the broad issue in all its glory and warts adopting, as did Ian Urbina, the narrative of the shale gas critics.
Almost everyone agrees to encouraging STEM immigrants, that is, foreign graduates of American universities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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The hobbyists who indulge in this pastime are a diverse, if almost entirely male, crowd--imagine a high-school reunion consisting of gearheads, science geeks and a sprinkling of stoners.
While the political stakes are even higher in arena of climate science, there are literally thousands of scientists in scores of different fields working in almost every country on this topic.
In "Eternal Sunshine, " Mr. Kaufman rides his hobby horses -- whimsical surrealism, acrobatic or elastic time, science or psychology reshaped by blithe fantasy -- to a photo finish in which almost everything is worked out elegantly.
The percentage of 14 year olds achieving the expected level was almost in line with statistical neighbours and was better than the national average for English, mathematics and science.
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