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.
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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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.
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.
As a student in Singapore studying engineering, Vivek decided to combine his interest in nanotechnology with his passion for the environment to attempt to turn carbon emissions from industrial plants and automobiles into carbon nanotubes, which are used for composites, nano-electronics, optics, energy storage, and other science applications.
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According to the Graduate Teacher Training Registry, applications for maths are up 30% and for science 12% from last year, with all secondary applications up by 8%.
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She said: "In the past year we have had vacancies in science and English where we received no Manx applications whatsoever".
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The most aggressive players at present seem to be Raytheon, Science Applications International, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin, but other players like BAE Systems and Boeing are rapidly bulking up.
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Data gathering and number crunching for the two-year study was done by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a big government contractor, with input from academics and oil companies like Shell, BP, Marathon Energy.
The Mozilla Ignite Challenge is a multi-stage competition in which Mozilla and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite designers, developers and everyday people to brainstorm and build applications for the faster, smarter Internet of the future.
"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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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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To this end, Ms Kamarck talks enthusiastically of computer-focused teacher training and pilot programmes that may improve applications of existing science.
Disease foundations provide a critical patient perspective and encourage a crisp focus on translating basic science into urgent clinical applications for patients in need.
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For the first time, applications were invited in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
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).
Stern also chairs the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group and is a former NASA associate administrator for science.
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.
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.
As a result of this flexibility and additional capabilities direct attached storage (DAS) used to build big enterprise storage systems that serve applications from big science to cloud computing will be able to offer faster performance and data protection and allowing faster data processing and content generation.
The UK Science Minister David Willetts says the next Catapult technology and innovation centre will be dedicated to developing new space applications.
No. 3 on the list is Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC), a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Artificial intelligence as a branch of computer science enjoyed a surge of interest and attention in the mid-1980s and there was a corresponding surge of medical applications.
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