Scientists formed the organization to " initiate a critical and continuing examination of governmental policy in areas where science and technology are of actual or potential significance " and " devise means for turning research applications away from the present emphasis on military technology toward the solution of pressing environmental and social problems.

Kochladze's fearless tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and multinational industry interests has won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment and has forced a thorough examination of the project's environmental and health impact.

The mandatory 10th form maritime ecology, environmental chemistry and environmental biology practicals are usually held at the lake, involving bird observation, practical water chemistry and examination of samples, and environmental assay.

* Expedite a thorough examination of the environmental, humanitarian, economic, military, political, social, medical, and ethical implications of molecular manufacturing

Applying SEA to development co-operation provides the environmental evidence to support more informed decision making, and to identify new opportunities by encouraging a systematic and thorough examination of development options.

Among other things, Amazonia enables a detailed examination of the negative effects of productivism and of the different forms of environmental packaging it can hide behind, including ' sustainable development.

word ) is the archaeological term for a group of non-invasive studies, such as topographical evaluation, surface examination, aerial observation, spall measurement, fortification tracing, and environmental measurements.

Understanding of a broad array of phenomena is enhanced and deepened through examination of the cultures, languages, environmental situations, governments, political relations, religions, geography, and history of the world.

For example, students sometimes fail to recall diligently studied material when an examination room's environmental conditions differ significantly from the room or place where learning occurred.

Initial environmental examination for the Catholic Relief Service Food Transition Strategy Project in the Philippines.

Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions regarding religion, including the nature and existence of God, the examination of religious experience, analysis of religious language and texts, and the relationship of religion and science.

In the Republic of Ireland, religious education is a State examination subject.

r-selection – race-oriented pornography – radical feminism – ranch ( brothel ) – rape – rape during wartime – rape fantasy – rape pornography – rape rack – raphe – rapism – raptophilia – reach around – reach-around – reacharound – reading the banns – receptive partner – recovery from sexual assault – rectal examination – rectal foreign body – rectal foreign object – rectal prolapse – rectal sex – recto-vaginal fistula – rectocele – rectovaginal examination – rectovaginal fistula – rectum – red shower – red-light district – reductionism – reflex anal dilatation – refractory period – refusal skills – registered partnership – regulated prostitution – Wilhelm Reich – relationship – relationship counseling – relationship violence – relics – religion and homosexuality – religion and sexuality – religious aspects of marriage – religious prostitution – religious views on masturbation – religious views on sex – rent boy – reparative therapy – reproduction – reproductive biology – reproductive health – reproductive organs – reproductive rights – reproductive strategy – reproductive system – reproductive technology – reproductive tract – reproductive tract obstruction – resolution phase – retained menstruation – retarded ejaculation – rete testis – retifism – retrocopulation – retroejaculation – retrograde ejaculation – retroverted uterus – reverse cowgirl – reverse Prince Albert piercing – reverse prostitution sting operation – reversible hyposomatotropic dwarfism – RH – Rh factor – rhabdophilia – Rhythm Method – ridged band – rim-job – rimming – ring gag – ringbearer – ringing – ritual cleanliness – ritual purification – ritual sex – ritualistic sex act – ritualistic sexual act – ritualistic sexual behavior – roasting ( sexual act ) – robot fetishism – robotism – Roland Loomis – role-playing – Roman marriage – Roman showers – romance – romance novel – romance scam – romantic friendship – romantic love – romantic marriage – root of penis – rough sex – rough trade – round ligament of uterus – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – RU-486 – rubber – rubber clothing – rubber fetishism – rubberism – ruby shower-ruined orgasm –

Among the first to break free of religious meaning were Leonardo da Vinci, who created watercolor studies of fruit ( around 1495 ) as part of his restless examination of nature, and Albrecht Dürer who also made precise drawings of flora and fauna.

University applicants are required to pass an examination in Islamic theology, which limits the access of most religious minorities to higher education, although all public school students, including non-Muslims, must study Shia Islam.

* A more critical and diverse examination of religious texts, as well as traditional Islamic precedents.

Around 3000 BC ancient Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to practice the removal and examination of the internal organs of humans in the religious practice of mummification.

Scott insinuated that the U. S. disaster of the film was the result of bad advertising, which presented the film as an adventure with a love story rather than as an examination of religious conflict.

Both types of critique find expression in academic essays, policy position papers, trade journals, periodicals, political and religious leaflets, civic testimony, and judicial cross examination.

However, Shklovsky and Carl Sagan argued for serious consideration of " paleocontact " with extraterrestrials in the early historical era, and for examination of myths and religious lore for evidence of such contact.

This was illustrated by historian James Obelkevitch in his examination of nineteenth-century popular religion in the southern part of the Lincolnshire chalk hills, when he note that the three main cunning people of the area, whilst each holding to a Christian worldview, each had different particular religious attachment.

Its cover stories have ranged from examination of alleged UFOs in religious icons and theories of the likelihood of artificial intelligence, to tributes to luminaries such as Isaac Asimov and Ernst Mayr.

Its cover stories have ranged from examination of alleged UFOs in religious icons and theories of the likelihood of artificial intelligence to tributes to luminaries such as Isaac Asimov and Ernst Mayr.

Teachers collaborated loosely to subvert the racist curriculum and encourage critical examination of religious, military, political, and social circumstances in terms of spirit-friendly, humanist, and democratic ideologies.

A distinct characteristic of his writings is his honest examination of subjects, regardless of possible reactions from political, social or religious powers.

Militarily Leslie had the best of it in these affairs, but it was precisely this moment that the Kirk party chose to institute a searching three days ' examination of the political and religious sentiments of his army.

Individuals who wish to become members of the official clergy must attend official religious institutions ; a few, however, may prove their qualifications simply by taking an examination.

The criteria Hume lists in his examination of the validity of human testimony are roughly upheld in modern social psychology, under the rubric of the communication-persuasion paradigm.

Critical theory – examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities.

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the examination and the critique of society and culture, by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

All proposed systems also require correct functioning of some social linkage, as for instance the process of request for access, examination of request for ' legitimacy ' ( as by a court ), and granting of access by technical personnel charged with access control.

Over its history, LambdaMOO has been highly influential in the examination of virtual-world social issues.

This is representative of the social interpretation as a whole – an examination of the social conditions that brought about Enlightenment ideas rather than a study of the ideas themselves.

The starting point for most social contract theories is a heuristic examination of the human condition absent from any political order that Thomas Hobbes termed the “ state of nature ”.

Yet the potential of a widespread examination system was not fully realized until the Song Dynasty, where the merit-driven scholar official largely shed his aristocratic habits and defined his social status through the examination system.

Nahapiet and Ghoshal in their examination of the role of social capital in the creation of intellectual capital, suggest that social capital should be considered in terms of three clusters: structural, relational, and cognitive.

The civil service and examination system allowed for greater meritocracy, social mobility, and equality in competition for those wishing to attain an official seat in government.

Excluding the scholar-officials in office, this elite social class consisted of exam candidates, examination degree-holders not yet assigned to an official post, local tutors, and retired officials.

It can also be used when confounding factors are either limited or known well enough to analyze the data in light of them ( though this may be rare when social phenomena are under examination ).

A person who would never disrobe in the presence of a physician of the opposite sex in a social context might unquestioningly do so for a medical examination ; others might allow examination, but only by a person of the same sex.

In this climate, a boom in the writing of fiction occurred, especially after the 1905 abolition of the civil service examination when literati struggled to fill new social and cultural roles for themselves.

Like any sociological discipline, rural sociology involves the examination of statistical data, interviews, social theory, observation, survey research, and many other techniques.

The Vietnam War led to the rise of a revisionist school in the United States, which led many American historians such as Gabriel Kolko and William Appleman Williams to reject traditional diplomatic history in favor of a Primat der Innenpolitik approach that saw a widespread examination of the influence of American domestic politics together with various social, economic and cultural forces on foreign-policy making.

His paintings depict his fellow citizens in an unpretentious and plain manner, without idealising country life, but also without the critical examination of social conditions that can be found in the works of contemporaries such as Daumier, Courbet or Millet.

It works simultaneously as social history, as a love story, as an examination of several different kinds of film narrative, as satire and as parody.

An examination of its policies indicate that the DLP is opposed to libertarianism in the form of economic rationalism ( neo-liberalism ) and “ progressive ” social liberalism.

Katsav met the prison commander at the gate and was escorted inside where he underwent routine processing, meeting with the officer in charge of his cellblock and the prison social worker, and underwent a medical examination.