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Scientific and understanding
In a detailed letter published in the Scientific American in 1912, he remarked that `` loose statements '' about the case showed scant understanding of the facts.
The physical understanding of acoustical processes advanced rapidly during and after the Scientific Revolution.
To provide that input to the decision-making process, advances in understanding on these topics were assessed in 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2002 in a series of reports entitled Scientific assessment of ozone depletion.
Scientific understanding derives from observation, but the acceptance of scientific statements is dependent on the related theoretical background or paradigm as well as on observation.
Aykroyd also received a dubious honour in 1997, when the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal awarded him the Snuffed Candle award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.
Scientific understanding of Iguanodon has evolved over time as new information has been obtained from fossils.
It has been argued that a mechanism used for laypeople ’ s understanding, predicting, and explaining each other ’ s actions is inapplicable with regards to the requirements of the Scientific Method.
* Scientific: The Scientific teams are broadly cross-trained scientific and technical units that can cope with a wide range of situations — from complex medical care and epidemiology to understanding unusual hazards and dangerous creatures.
The Scientific Revolution changed humanity's understanding of the world and led to the Industrial Revolution, a major transformation of the world's economies.
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.
Scientific visualization is the transformation, selection, or representation of data from simulations or experiments, with an implicit or explicit geometric structure, to allow the exploration, analysis, and understanding of the data.
Partly for this reason, in 1997 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, awarded Aykroyd a " Snuffed Candle " award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.
Scientific socialism refers to a method for understanding and predicting social, economic and material phenomena by examining their historical trends through the use of the scientific method in order to derive probable outcomes and probable future developments.
* Scientific communism, the USSR curriculum requirements for understanding Soviet orthodoxy on the subject.
Scientific research for crop improvement and understanding the general biology of the genus is focused on Lotus japonicus which is currently the subject of a full genome sequencing project, and is considered a model organism.
Scientific understanding of the biochemistry and pharmacology of casomorphins is incomplete.
Folk science describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of rigorous methodologies ( see Scientific method ).
Scientific understanding of Earth's internal structure is based on observations of topography and bathymetry, observations of rock in outcrop, samples brought to the surface from greater depths by volcanic activity, analysis of the seismic waves that pass through the Earth, measurements of the gravity field of the Earth, and experiments with crystalline solids at pressures and temperatures characteristic of the Earth's deep interior.
Scientific drilling is a critical tool in understanding of Earth processes and structure.
In computer science, the Scientific Community Metaphor is a metaphor used to aid understanding scientific communities.
However, bridge strengthening and a better understanding of the impact of hammer blow on structures brought about by the work of the ' Bridge Stress Committee ' set up by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research led to the relaxation of these restrictions.

Scientific and process
In 1978 the magician and scientific sceptic James Randi and a team from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal examined the photographs, using a " computer enhancement process ".
* Scientific modelling, the process of generating abstract models for the iterative development of hypotheses as part of the scientific method
The only PDP-3 was built by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, MA to process radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in 1960.
In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn argues that the process of observation and evaluation take place within a paradigm.
# In Scientific experiments, the overall process ( tasks and data flow ) can be described as a Directed Acyclic Graph ( DAG ).
The process of designating a site as a Special Scientific Interest is called notification ; this is followed by consultation with the site's owners and occupiers, and the notification is then confirmed or withdrawn ( in whole or part ).
Scientific method in the form of data gathering, forming hypotheses, testing hypotheses, and measuring results, although not pursued as rigorously as in the laboratory, is nevertheless an integral part of the process.
Scientific method in the form of data gathering, forming hypotheses, testing hypotheses and measuring results, although not pursued as rigorously as in the laboratory, is nevertheless an integral part of the process.
This process avoids the use of potentially damaging, dusty and noisy blasting as the primary extraction method, thereby protecting the surrounding environment, which has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).
* Scientific theories are in a historical process of progress towards a true account of the physical world.
Explaining the process, Nassau County Police detective Thomas Kubic of the Scientific Investigation Unit explained that in all likelihood, the powder was probably “ Sneak Thief Powder ”, which he described as “ an almost foolproof tool in the fight against sticky fingered thieves ” because once a thief touches it, a glow on the thief ’ s hand will appear when placed under ultra-violet light.
Scientific management was one of the first attempts to systematically treat management and process improvement as a scientific problem.
This theory of management was a product of the strong opposition against “ the Scientific and universal management process theory of Taylor and Fayol .” This theory was a response to the way employees were treated in companies and how they were deprived of their needs and ambitions.
One of his main theses in The New Scientific Mind was that modern sciences had replaced the classical ontology of the substance with an " ontology of relations ", which could be assimilated to something as a process philosophy.
Draper did important research in photochemistry, made portrait photography possible by his improvements ( 1839 ) on Louis Daguerre's process, and published a textbook on Chemistry ( 1846 ), textbook on Natural Philosophy ( 1847 ), textbook on Physiology ( 1866 ), and Scientific Memoirs ( 1878 ) on radiant energy.
In his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn divided the process of doing science into two different endeavors, which he called normal science and extraordinary science ( which he sometimes also called " revolutionary science ").
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion stated in 1990 that there was not sufficient research to permit a consensus on the matter and that " one should not automatically equate the techniques involved in the process of physical coercion and control with those of nonphysical coercion and control ".
" Scientific observation has established that education is not what the teacher gives ; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.
This process of transformation has been heralded as one of the ten most significant achievements of Indian Science and Technology in the twentieth century, by eminent astrophysicist Prof. Jayant Narlikar, in his 2003 book, Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist from Vedic to Modern Times.
The peer review process is overseen by GreenFacts ' Scientific Board composed of independent scientists.
* Scientific and Engineering Award ( Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) to Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner " for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.
The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting.
Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation.

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