In general, the International System of Units only uses capital letters for the symbols of units which are named after individual scientists, while au or a. u.

In general rationalism is the predominant school of thought in the multi-national, cross-cultural Age of reason, which began in the century straddling 1600 as a conventional date, empiricism is the reliance on sensory data gathered in experimentation by scientists of any country, who, in the Age of Reason were rationalists.

In general, computational linguistics draws upon the involvement of linguists, computer scientists, experts in artificial intelligence, mathematicians, logicians, philosophers, cognitive scientists, cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, anthropologists and neuroscientists, among others.

Anthropologists Dan Sperber, Edwin Hutchins, Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer and Joseph Henrich have been involved in collaborative projects with cognitive and social psychologists, political scientists and evolutionary biologists in attempts to develop general theories of culture formation, religion and political association.

For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

Political scientists " see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works.

One was a general distrust of political scientists and institutions that were engaged in political science.

Engineers and scientists are often confused in the minds of the general public, with the former being closer to applied science.

While scientists explore nature in order to discover general principles, engineers apply established principles drawn from science in order to create new inventions and improve upon the old ones.

In keeping with a general increase in interest in spirituality and complementary and alternative treatments, prayer has garnered attention among some behavioral scientists.

Research on perceptions of science among the American public conclude that most religious groups see no general epistemological conflict with science and they have no differences with nonreligious groups in the propensity of seeking out scientific knowledge, although there may be epistemic or moral conflicts when scientists make counterclaims to religious tenets.

The intelligentsia in Russia had accepted the general phenomenon of evolution for several years before Darwin had published his theory, and scientists were quick to take it into account, although the Malthusian aspects were felt to be relatively unimportant.

The Third Culture is a 1995 book by John Brockman which discusses the work of several well-known scientists who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public.

In science, Occam's razor is used as a heuristic ( general guiding rule or an observation ) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models.

In the case of a general acceptance of one paradigm or another, Kuhn believed that it represented the consensus of the community of scientists.

In general, this money is used to fund the activities of the scientific societies that run such journals, or is invested in providing further scholarly resources for scientists ; thus, the money remains in and benefits the scientific sphere.

Research scientists are the primary audience for the journal, but summaries and accompanying articles are intended to make many of the most important papers understandable to scientists in other fields and the educated general public.

Towards the front of each issue are editorials, news and feature articles on issues of general interest to scientists, including current affairs, science funding, business, scientific ethics and research breakthroughs.

Strange then, as Cohen says, that philosophers and scientists alike refuse to acknowledge either Galileo in particular, or the thought experiment technique in general for its pivotal role in both science and philosophy.

Social scientists in general have lost interest in race as useful concept of study, with many other differences between population groups more significant.

He would be promoted to brigadier general, as it was felt that the title " general " would hold more sway with the academic scientists working on the Manhattan Project.

As a result, according to philosopher Steven Crowell, defining existentialism has been relatively difficult, and he argues that it is better understood as a general approach used to reject certain systematic philosophies rather than as a systematic philosophy in itself.

Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted by scientific understandings of strata formulation and the general development of the region, and that the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which is a relative dating technique rather than a reliable technique such as carbon dating.

Pacifists in general reject theories of Just War.

Pacifists in general usually reject theories of Just War.

This must be a general feature of all resolutions which reject the equivalence condition, since logically equivalent propositions must always have the same probability.

In 1930, he stated that " it is justified to consider Mach as the precursor of the general theory of relativity ", though Mach, before his death, would reject Einstein's theory.

In general, scientists reject the possibility that such mega-fauna cryptids exist, because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues make their survival in reported habitats unlikely.

Many people ( who presumably are unaware of the above result, misunderstand it, or incorrectly reject it ) have proposed methods of trisecting the general angle.

Naturists or nudists reject contemporary Western standards of modesty which discourage personal, family, and social nudity, and seek to create a social environment where people feel comfortable in the company of nude people, and being seen in the nude, either just by other nudists, or also by the general public.

Ultimately, on August 8, 1974, after the U. S. Supreme Court voted by 8 to 0 to reject Nixon's claims of executive privilege and release the tapes ( with then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist recusing himself because, as an assistant attorney general during Nixon's first term, he had taken part in internal executive-branch discussions of the scope of executive privilege ), Nixon announced his decision to resign as President.

Because the membership of the FoR included many members of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), who reject any form of written creed, it has always been stressed that the Basis is a statement of general agreement rather than a fixed form of words.

The existence of activists calling themselves the Revolutionary Cells or Animal Rights Militia ( ARM ), another name used to inflict violence, reflects a struggle within the Animal Liberation Front and the animal rights movement in general, between those who believe violence is justified, and those who insist the movement should reject it in favor of non-violent resistance.

Anarcho-primitivists and post-left anarchists reject left wing politics in general ( and theoretically by extension Marxist class analysis ) as they typically see left wing politics as corrupt and in the former case see civilization as unreformable.

However, it does not reject the concepts of global climate change or greenhouse theory ( or other well-established and widely accepted scientific theories or empirical studies ), in general attempting to engender itself as giving a well balanced and scientific view of the sources ( though often at a contrary expense of its perceived adversaries: the aforementioned alleged ' Global Warming Alarmists ').

But the general case of a partisan force co-operating with Protestant mobs to attack Catholic people is devoid of substance, and we reject it utterly.

He argues that all that we see in nature is framed so as to avoid and reject what is dangerous to the integrity of its constitution ; that the human race would be an anomaly in the world had it not for end its conservation in its best estate ; that benevolence of all to all is what in a rational view of the creation is alone accordant with its general plan ; that various peculiarities of man's body indicate that he has been made to co-operate with his fellow men and to maintain society ; and that certain faculties of his mind show the common good to be more essentially connected with his perfection than any pursuit of private advantage.

Marxists, such as the members of the U. S. Party for Socialism and Liberation, reject conspiracy theories in general and New World Order conspiracism in particular because it produces false consciousness and cultism.

In the 15th century some general sejmiks reserved the right to accept or reject national legislation.

George Khan ( played by Om Puri ), the father, expects his family to follow Pakistani ways, but his children, who were born and grew up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and reject Pakistani customs of dress, food, religion, and living in general, leading to a rise in tensions and conflicts in the whole family.

In general terms, Dembski proposes to view design inference as a statistical test to reject a chance hypothesis P on a space of outcomes Ω.

* 21 August: The New Zealand Labour Party appeals to voters to reject the politics of division and fear in its campaign launch for the general election.

Editors generally read all submissions, but in general most will automatically reject letters that include profanity, libelous statements, personal attacks against individuals or specific organizations, that are unreasonably long ( most publications suggest length limits ranging from 200 to 500 words ), or that are submitted anonymously.

Opinion shopping is a term used by external auditors and, after the Enron and Arthur Andersen accounting scandals, the media and general public refer to auditees who contract or reject auditors based on the type of opinion report they will issue on the auditee.

Anti-statist views may reject the state completely as well as rulership in general ( e. g., anarchism ), they may wish to reduce the size and scope of the state to a minimum ( e. g., minarchism ), or they may advocate a stateless society as a distant goal ( e. g., Marxism ).