To this end, Ms Kamarck talks enthusiastically of computer-focused teacher training and pilot programmes that may improve applications of existing science.
Prominent researchers from the STP community question why, when the government has invested considerable amounts of money into research and innovation, an applications-based science such as solar-terrestrial physics has been one of the first to be cut.
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This precipitous decline in the quantity of Earth science and applications observations from space undertaken by the United States reinforces the conclusion in the decadal survey and its predecessor, the 2005 interim report (NRC, 2005), which declared that the U.S. system of environmental satellites is at risk of collapse.
Not only do they tap into our lust for the technology of science fiction movies, but among other applications, can make a significant impact on the lives of those living with disabilities.
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For the first time, applications were invited in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Corrine Moss-Racusin and her fellow researchers conducted an experiment in which they gave student applications to science professors at a number of universities to evaluate for a lab manager position.
Systems integration company Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego offers a product called Open Source Monitoring that scans the Web, newsgroups, Listservs and any other public forums for names and trademarks.
The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).
For Victoria Fletcher (13), Rush Lyons (14), Thomas Shields (13) and their teammates, the experience of designing a product and marketing it to judges not only reinforced the value of teamwork, but demonstrated the applications that science and math can have on Earth and beyond.
They did really cool voice applications that take a lot of art as well as science.
To me, the best sci-fi is about extrapolation of the best science we have into potential applications, then seeing how our culture reacts to those applications.
No. 3 on the list is Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC), a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.
The practical part of the exercise involves proposing how Intel can target future products for these applications, which, upon conception, live only in the realm of science fiction, but which can be brought about in real life by focus and effort over, say, a decade.
These critics also seem even more disturbed that it will be up to these same cigarette firms to develop the science needed to support their own applications to FDA seeking approval of these new products.
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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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With a focus on key topical issues such as marine pollution, exploitation and hazards, chapters range from the history of ocean management to current advances in marine science, observation and management applications, and the international agencies active in co-ordinating this work.
Following up on my post about the Science of Tequila, I contacted Mexican botanist and author Ana Valenzuela Zapata on the broader applications for blue agave cultivation.
The UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme, organizer of the conference, was created in 1998 with the establishment of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) to generate ethical reflection on science and technology and its applications.
The county is dotted with military bases and intelligence sites such as CIA headquarters, and most of its biggest private-sector employers are defense contractors like General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Science Applications International.
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