Boys in England out-performed girls in the way they applied their science knowledge, officials say.
The spread between science knowledge and sports knowledge is one of the reasons why sports organizations have an outsize impact when they go green.
To make the machine commercial strength and add depth to his materials science knowledge, he brought in Weinberg, his onetime chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology.
FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.
Highly regarded by Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez for his sports science knowledge, Brabin made it clear that golf and early finishes at training were a thing of the past.
The first part of the report examines the nature of traditional knowledge and the triangular relationship between science, traditional knowledge and pseudo-science.
This publication was launched during the Plenary Thematic Session ' Indigenous Knowledge and Science: From Recognition to Knowledge Co-production' on 13 June 2012 during the five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro.
These include recommendations that ICSU support societies that are keepers and developers of traditional knowledge, that it foster training which equips young scientists and indigenous people to carry out research on traditional knowledge and that it organize an international symposium on science and traditional knowledge.
The report recommends the creation of an ad hoc working group on science and traditional knowledge.
Although the demarcation between science and pseudo-science is difficult, they note, the demarcation between pseudo-science and traditional knowledge is fairly straightforward.
Published in March of this year, the report makes a number of recommendations for strengthening ties between modern science and traditional knowledge.
He remarks that the Western civilization is the first one to construct a science, a knowledge and description of nature that negates the sacred altogether.
True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering.
Science fiction writing can only be valuable to us if it is written by someone who has some knowledge of science.
BBC: NEWS | Technology | Conversations with a science visionary
In this context, inclusiveness means creative inclusive policy integrating the vision of people in science, including traditional knowledge systems in scientific processes while participation refers to creating opportunities for people to be involved in science and to participate in decision making in science.
Finally, it is dysfunctional because it is way too slow in translating new knowledge and science into helping human beings, at a time when we're going to have an enormous explosion in scientific knowledge.
Without leaving his scientific footing, Simon developed a bias for optimism about man, knowledge, science, technological progress and the future.
The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
FORBES: The Six Classes That Will Make Any College Grad Employable
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy S sporting Gorilla Glass to protect that precious AMOLED
As a first step, the Study Group recommends that ICSU actively promote cooperation between traditional knowledge and science at the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (South Africa) in August 2002.
Good knowledge of science development agencies.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Senior Programme Specialist (24/5/2011) (SC 433 - (P5))
In this context, Princess Sumaya presented the objectives of El Hassan Science City to foster scientific knowledge and research.
And we are discovering more and more that what we might anticipate from our knowledge of basic science does not always pan out when we study what happens to patients.
The report was commissioned by ICSU's General Assembly in September 1999 to make a 'critical study' of the paragraphs in the Declaration and Science Agenda referring to traditional knowledge systems.
By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its values, functioning, status and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are improved, widely shared and transferred, and applied.
One of UNESCO's main mandates is to promote the free flow of all forms of knowledge in education, science, culture and communication.
The UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC) draws on this knowledge to promote environmental science, help build scientific capacity in developing countries, improve access to scientific information globally and encourage gender equity in science.
One solution, proposed by Matt Ridley, a British commentator on the social consequences of genetic knowledge (and former science editor of The Economist), might be the creation of medical-treatment funds, similar to pension funds.
They lack the specialists, up-to-the-minute knowledge about cutting-edge science, and the scale to become the low-cost player in the industry.
FORBES: Genetic Testing, Electric Cars, and Powerful Intermediaries
Popularizing science includes all activities that communicate scientific knowledge and scientific methods to the public, outside the formal setting of classrooms.
It tested students on how much they knew about science and their ability to use scientific knowledge to address questions in daily life.
应用推荐