Amid disagreement within the IWC Scientific Committee about the value of the research and its relevance to IWC objectives, no decision on the proposal was reached.

Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Evaluation of the Paranormal ( RSEP ), a fledgling group with objectives similar to those CSI would subsequently adopt.

Scientific objectives on this mission were not limited to furthering an understanding of the human body, but also to increase astronomical understanding with regards to the Sun, and how it affects life on Earth.

The Scientific Board discusses the University's long-term objectives.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO included the 400th anniversary of Ottoman traveler and scholar Evliya Celebi's birth to its timetable for celebration of anniversaries.

*: 1958: International Conference on Scientific Information Washington DC included consideration of IR systems as a solution to problems identified.

KSR's competitors included Thinking Machines, Meiko Scientific, and various old-line ( and still surviving ) companies like IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.

Scientific instruments included:

Scientific instruments included a Soil Mechanics tester, Solar X-ray experiment, an Astrophotometer to measure visible and Ultraviolet light levels, a Magnetometer deployed in front of the rover on the end of a 2. 5 m ( 8 ft 2 in ) boom, a Radiometer, a Photodetector ( Rubin-1 ) for laser detection experiments, and a French-supplied laser Corner Reflector.

Scientific instruments included a soil mechanics tester, solar X-ray experiment, an astrophotometer to measure visible and ultraviolet light levels, a magnetometer deployed in front of the rover on the end of a 2. 5 m ( 8 ft 2 in ) boom, a radiometer, a photodetector ( Rubin-1 ) for laser detection experiments, and a French-supplied laser corner reflector.

Scientific research into the genetic modification of B. oleracea crops, including cabbage, has included European Union and United States explorations of greater insect and herbicide resistance.

In 1995 other parties included the Belarusian Ecological Party, the National Democratic Party of Belarus, the Party of People's Accord, the All-Belarusian Party of Popular Unity and Accord, the Belarusian United Agrarian Democratic Party, the Belarusian Scientific Industrial Congress, the Belarusian Green Party, the Belarusian Humanitarian Party, the Belarusian Party of Labor, the Belarusian Party of Labor and Justice, the Belarusian Socialist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus, the Polish Democratic Union, and the Republican Party.

Later, and for many years, at the British science fiction convention Eastercon, he would deliver a humorous speech ( often part of his famous series known by the tongue-in-cheek label of " Serious Scientific Talks "); these were eventually collected in The Eastercon Speeches ( 1979 ) and A Load of Old Bosh ( 1995 ), which included a similar talk from the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, 37th World Science Fiction Convention.

Scientific instruments included a gamma-ray spectrometer for energies between 0. 3 — 3 MeV ( 50 – 500 pJ ), a triaxial magnetometer, a meteorite detector, instruments for solar-plasma studies, and devices for measuring infrared emissions from the Moon and radiation conditions of the lunar environment.

Scientific instruments were found in class X, and included electric telegraphs, microscopes, air pumps and barometers, as well as musical, horological and surgical instruments.

Major citations have included the APA Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge Award ( Norman Frederiksen, 1984 ), the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ( Frederic Lord, 1988 ); the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award ( William Turnbull, 1981 ; Frederic Lord, 1988 ; Samuel Messick, 1994 ; Paul Holland, 2000 ; Wendy Yen, 2008 ); the NCME Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Award ( Frederic Lord, 1990 ; Paul Holland, 2004 ; Neil Dorans, 2010 ); and the Jean Piaget Society's Lifetime Achievement Award ( Irving Sigel, 2002 ); among many other awards.

Scientific equipment on board would have included visible light imaging systems, infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, and an ultrastable oscillator ( USO ) for use in a radio occultation experiment.

In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War.

Scientific experiments carried on board Challenger included the environmental testing of new hardware and materials designed for future spacecraft, the study of biological materials in electric fields under microgravity, and research into space adaptation syndrome ( also known as " space sickness ").

Box Hill is a Special Area of Conservation and included in a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest, affording it a level of legislative protection against planning applications.

His other notable awards included the Rosenburger Medal, Alder Prize, Scott Award, and the AMA Scientific Achievement Award.

Two were major series of monographs, " The History of Civilisation " and " The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method "; the latter series included about 100 volumes after one decade.

Other payloads on the STS-88 mission included the IMAX Cargo Bay Camera ( ICBC ), the Argentine Scientific Applications Satellite-S ( SAC-A ), the MightySat 1 Hitchhiker payload, the Space Experiment Module ( SEM-07 ) and Getaway Special G-093 sponsored by the University of Michigan.

This journal was included by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the " 262 journals published between 1900-1944 ... identified as providing the most relevant significant and useful information of that era to today's researcher ".

His successes in this post ( and after promotions to permanent secretary ) included the establishment of the post of the Chemical Research Laboratory in Teddington, the appointment of a Director of Scientific Research to the Air Force ( H. E. Wimperis ) and finally the decision to leave to become the Rector of Imperial College, London, in 1929, a position he held until 1942.

In Windows 3. 0, a Scientific mode was added, which included exponents and roots, logarithms, factorial-based functions, trigonometry ( supports radian, degree and gradians angles ), base conversions ( 2, 8, 10, 16 ), logic operations, Statistic functions such as single variable statistics and linear regression.

The World Center for Ayurveda was founded in India in 1985 and other active organizations included the Institute For Social Rehabilitation and the International Center for Scientific Research.

The first several nodes included Scientific Centers and Poughkeepsie, New York lab sites.

* Scientific use and imaging:

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

by Sir Alan Walsh at the CSIRO ( Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization ), Division of Chemical Physics, in Melbourne, Australia.

13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.

One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.

Charles Sanders Peirce was a fallibilist and the most developed form of fallibilism can be traced to Karl Popper ( 1902 – 1994 ) whose first book Logik Der Forschung ( The Logic of Scientific Discovery ), 1934 introduced a " conjectural turn " into the philosophy of science and epistemology at large.

The latter two radio technologies used microwave transmission over the Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band at 2. 4 GHz.

In 1995, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, at the time the Chief Scientific Adviser to the British government, requested that the organizers no longer award Ig Nobel prizes to British scientists, claiming that the awards risked bringing genuine experiments into ridicule.

The documentary received international recognition winning the main prize at the International Vega Awards for Excellence in Scientific Broadcasting.

His engagement for the Lowell Institute lectures precipitated the establishment of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University in 1847 with him as its head.

Scientific research has found that these eye movements may correspond to the direction the dreamer " looks " at in the dreamscape.

A study at the Tulane School of Public Health conducted by James P. Carter and others reported significant improvement in cancer patient longevity ( 177 months compared to 91 months ) when patients practiced the macrobiotic diet, although an analysis stated about this paper, " Scientific evidence on the potential benefits of macrobiotic diets for patients with cancer is limited to two retrospective studies with serious methodologic flaws.

Scientific experiments have not yet pinpointed any definite evidence that this is the case, although they have placed upper bounds on the maximum possible relative change per year at very small amounts ( roughly 10 < sup >− 17 </ sup > per year for the fine structure constant α and 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > for the gravitational constant G ).

Scientific studies on sleep have shown that sleep stage at awakening is an important factor in amplifying sleep inertia.

* William Leslie Edison ( 1878 – 1937 ) Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.

He remained in Harvard's doctoral program for several years, taking time out for his musical career and to work as a researcher at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

* Berkeley Timesharing System at UC Berkeley Project Genie -> Scientific Data Systems SDS 940 ( Tymshare, BBN, SRI, Community Memory ) -> BCC 500 -> MAXC at PARC

With respect to the populations of Antarctic minke whales, as of January 2010, the IWC states that it is " unable to provide reliable estimates at the present time " and that a " major review is underway by the Scientific Committee.

He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.

Scientific discoveries, such as the theory of relativity and quantum physics, drastically changed the worldview of scientists, causing them to realize that the universe was fantastically more complex than previously believed, and dashing the strong hopes at the end of the 19th century that the last few details of scientific knowledge were about to be filled in.

Scientific realists claim that science aims at truth and that one ought to regard scientific theories as true, approximately true, or likely true.

Wimperis, Director of Scientific Research at the Air Ministry, asked Watson-Watt about the possibility of building their version of a death-ray, specifically to be used against aircraft.