The most well-known disaccharide is sucrose, ordinary sugar ( in scientific contexts, called table sugar or cane sugar to differentiate it from other sugars ).

In scientific contexts the Btu has largely been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule, though it may be used as a measure of agricultural energy production ( Btu / kg ).

When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie ; it is often encountered in experimental calorimetry, and commonly used to specify bond and conformational energies in molecular modeling.

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

While imprecise language is not desirable in various scientific fields, it may be helpful, illustrative or discussion-stimulative in other contexts.

However, when decimal representation is used for the rational or real numbers, such numbers in general have an infinite number of representations, for example 2. 31 can also be written as 2. 310, 2. 3100000, 2. 309999999 …, etc., all of which have the same meaning except for some scientific and other contexts where greater precision is implied by a larger number of figures shown.

This usage is common in some scientific contexts as well as in many programming languages.

Pharmacology developed in the 19th century as a biomedical science that applied the principles of scientific experimentation to therapeutic contexts.

These are used in various contexts, particularly those dealing with information that encompasses a limited and defined domain, and where sharing data is a common necessity, such as scientific research or data exchange among businesses.

So customary units are still widely used on consumer products and in industrial manufacturing ; only in military, medical, and scientific contexts are SI units generally the norm.

Other eras are also used to enumerate the years in different cultural, religious or scientific contexts.

The term convection may have slightly different but related usages in different scientific or engineering contexts or applications.

Samples of deposits from contexts are sometimes also taken, for later environmental analysis or for scientific dating.

Ironically, breeders tend to use the more formal " cavy " to describe the animal, while in scientific and laboratory contexts it is far more commonly referred to by the more colloquial " guinea pig ".

This usage applies equally in contexts where science might not apply, such as when the topic is perceived to be beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, and in contexts where there is insufficient empirical evidence to justify a scientific conclusion.

Food calories, or the " Calorie " units used often in nutritional contexts, measure amounts of energy 1000 times greater than the units in scientific contexts known also as calories, or gram calories (" cal ").

* The Health Report: appealing to " both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts " and hosted by Dr Norman Swan ( Mondays 08: 30, repeated Tuesdays 00: 30 )

Volcanic rock ( often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts ) is a rock formed from magma erupted from a volcano.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Astrologia later passed into meaning ' star-divination ' with astronomia used for the scientific term.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

Consciousness has not yet become a scientific term that can be defined in this way.

Karl Popper pioneered the use of the term " conjecture " in scientific philosophy.

In the reworked version of the book in 1955, Philip Hershkovitz and Hartley Jackson led him to drop Thos both as an available scientific term and as a viable subgenus of Canis.

Similar objects found later were often called " QB1-o's ", or " cubewanos ", after this object, though the term " classical " is much more frequently used in the scientific literature.

While the term has remained in use amongst scientific authors when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory.

The term provides the conceptual framework used to demonstrate that different laboratories do not share the same " scientific " knowledge production model, but rather each is endowed with a different epistemic culture prescribing what is adequate knowledge and how it is obtained.

Evolutionary linguistics is a cover term for the scientific study of both the origins and development of language as well as the cultural evolution of languages.

In scientific use the term empirical refers to the gathering of data using only evidence that is observable by the senses or in some cases using calibrated scientific instruments.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

In modern times, the term evolution is widely used, but the terms evolutionism and evolutionist are seldom used in the scientific community to refer to the biological discipline as the term is considered both redundant and anachronistic, though it has been used by creationists in discussing the creation-evolution controversy.

NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material samples and deploy scientific experiments.

The term semi-empirical is sometimes used to describe theoretical methods that make use of basic axioms, established scientific laws, and previous experimental results in order to engage in reasoned model building and theoretical inquiry.

The term " Golgi apparatus " was used in 1910 and first appeared in scientific literature in 1913.

Because Anghiera's literary work was translated into English and French in a short period of time, the name " Hispaniola " is the most frequently used term in English-speaking countries for the island in scientific and cartographic works.

Today the term " Soft Science Fiction " is often used to refer to science fiction stories which lack a scientific focus or rigorous adherence to known science.

Indeed, scientific consensus is that the breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.

Since most BME-related professions involve scientific research, such as in pharmaceutical and medical device development, graduate education is almost a requirement ( as undergraduate degrees typically do not involve sufficient research training and experience ).

Most early vector CPUs, such as the Cray-1, were associated almost exclusively with scientific research and cryptography applications.

Owing to the small amounts of produced einsteinium and the short half-life of its most easily produced isotope, there are currently almost no practical applications for it outside of basic scientific research.

Yearly, the Eindhoven University of Technology produces almost 3000 scientific publications, 140 PhD-awards, and 40 patents.

Ptolemy's model, like those of his predecessors, was geocentric and was almost universally accepted until the appearance of simpler heliocentric models during the scientific revolution.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

" " Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists " Sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and appears continuously in the world's top scientific journals such as Nature and Science. The more general term behavioral ecology is commonly used as substitute for the term sociobiology in order to avoid the public controversy.

He added that some parts of Origin are dense, but other parts are almost lyrical, and the case studies and observations are presented in a narrative style unusual in serious scientific books, which broadened its audience.

Its proponents made full use of a surge in the publication of review journals, and it was given more popular attention than almost any other scientific work, though it failed to match the continuing sales of Vestiges.

The possibilities in medicine, biology, pathology, nuclear physics, and other scientific disciplines should a reliable way to accurately model the final tertiary or quaternary structure of human proteins are almost limitless.

The theory was almost entirely unsuccessful in the scientific community.

By 2006, almost all scientific journals have, while retaining their peer-review process, established electronic versions ; a number have moved entirely to electronic publication.

Georg Cantor's grand meta-narrative, Set Theory, created by him almost singlehandedly in the span of about fifteen years, resembles a piece of high art more than a scientific theory.

He wrote to the palaeontologist Gideon Mantell on 5 March that year to say that the sale was " for the benefit of the poor woman and her son and daughter at Lyme, who have in truth found almost all the fine things which have been submitted to scientific investigation ...

As such it is more a correction of the earlier scientific record, almost requiring a certain pragmatism in comparing alternative politicized institutional structures.

He directed almost every penny he could spare, after procuring the bare necessaries of existence, to the acquisition of philological, as well as scientific and philosophical tomes-and with an income that never till the last few years, we believe, exceeding £ 50, collected a library of rare and profound works, valued, by competent judges at from £ 1300 to £ 1500.

From the 1950s through the present, Berkeley Lab has maintained its status as a major international center for physics research, and has also diversified its research program into almost every realm of scientific investigation.

There is much debate within Judaism, as well as by outside scholars, about the exact relationship between measurements in the system and those in other measurement systems, such as the International Standard Units system used in almost all parts of world except the USA, and in modern scientific writing.

Like almost any theist, I reject unguided evolution ; but the contemporary scientific theory of evolution just as such — apart from philosophical or theological add-ons — doesn't say that evolution is unguided.

Quotes from Mao were either bold-faced or highlighted in red, and almost all writing, including scientific essays, had to quote Mao.

Astronomical photography is one of the earliest types of scientific photography and almost from its inception it diversified into subdisciplines that each have a specific goal including star cartography, astrometry, stellar classification, photometry, spectroscopy, polarimetry, and the discovery of astronomical objects such as asteroids, meteors, comets, variable stars, novae, and even unknown planets.

For instance in 2007, almost 500 refereed scientific papers were published based on VLT data.

They were without adventure, almost without incident, but he achieved so much distinction that at his death in 1558 he had the highest scientific and literary reputation of any man in Europe.