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He called for research into the physical causes of mental illness, and started to establish the foundations of the modern classification system for mental disorders.
Geotechnical engineering uses principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics to investigate subsurface conditions and materials ; determine the relevant physical / mechanical and chemical properties of these materials ; evaluate stability of natural slopes and man-made soil deposits ; assess risks posed by site conditions ; design earthworks and structure foundations ; and monitor site conditions, earthwork and foundation construction.
Geotechnical engineers perform geotechnical investigations to obtain information on the physical properties of soil and rock underlying ( and sometimes adjacent to ) a site to design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures, and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions.
In 1544, he published the De ortu et causis subterraneorum, in which he laid the first foundations of a physical geology, and criticized the theories of the ancients.
* Yuri N. Obukhov On physical foundations and observational effects of cosmic rotation ( 2000 )
Also included are the predictions of cosmology, the results of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the foundations of statistical mechanics, causality, determinism, and the nature of physical laws.
These were collected as a long monograph titled " On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances ," which is now deemed to be one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 19th century and one of the foundations of both physical chemistry and statistical mechanics.
" Mill's low reputation as a philosopher of logic, and the low estate of empiricism in the century and a half following him, derives from this failed attempt to link abstract thoughts to the physical world, when it is obvious that abstraction consists precisely of separating the thought from its physical foundations.
His other notable university teachers were Christian Philipp Karl Snell ( 1806 – 1886 ) ( subjects: use of infinitesimal analysis in geometry analytical geometry of planes, analytical mechanics, optics, physical foundations of mechanics ); Hermann Karl Julius Traugott Schaeffer ( 1824 – 1900 ) ( analytical geometry, applied physics, algebraic analysis, on the telegraph and other electronic machines ); and the famous philosopher Kuno Fischer ( 1824 – 1907 ) ( Kantian and critical philosophy ).
Then mathematics developed very rapidly and successfully in physical applications, but with little attention to logical foundations.
" Thomson and Tait ," as it is familiarly called (" T and T " was the authors ' own formula ), was planned soon after Lord Kelvin became acquainted with Tait, on the latter's appointment to his professorship in Edinburgh, and it was intended to be an all-comprehensive treatise on physical science, the foundations being laid in kinematics and dynamics, and the structure completed with the properties of matter, heat, light, electricity and magnetism.
The school offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in early childhood, elementary and secondary education and physical education ; bilingual / bicultural education ; social and cultural foundations in education ; curriculum studies ; educational leadership ; human services and counseling ; and a program in language, literacy and specialized instruction.
The investigations on the foundations of geometry suggest the problem: To treat in the same manner, by means of axioms, those physical sciences in which already today mathematics plays an important part ; in the first rank are the theory of probabilities and mechanics.
His notable research and development throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s laid the foundations for much of the physical metallurgy of high strength, low alloy steels.
* The Maury Project ( a comprehensive national program of teacher enhancement based on studies of the physical foundations of oceanography )
Świętosławski was Vice-Chairman of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) and created the foundations for a new branch of physical chemistry: polyazeotropy.
The mission of the school is " To enhance Midshipman Candidates ' moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the United States Naval Academy ".
* President George W. Bush, on June 12, 2002, honored him with the National Medal of Science, the highest award in U. S. in the scientific field, as a " prophet of new age " with the citation, " for his pioneering contributions to the foundations of statistical theory and multivariate statistical methodology and their applications, enriching the physical, biological, mathematical, economic and engineering sciences.
Perhaps the main questions concern the nature of space and time, atoms and atomism, cosmogony, the interpretation of the results of quantum mechanics, the foundations of statistical mechanics, causality, determinism, and the nature of physical laws.
He established physical, financial, and education foundations of the institution.

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Also, " the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences ", and the method for this science assumes " experience and observation " as the foundations of a logical argument.
Natural historians, such as Humbolt, James Hutton and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( among others ) laid the foundations of the modern ecological sciences.
Later on, Pierre Gassendi represented the materialist tradition, in opposition to René Descartes ' attempts to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations.
Roger Bacon wrote " If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
Descartes thought that only knowledge of eternal truths including the truths of mathematics, and the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of the sciences could be attained by reason alone ; other knowledge, the knowledge of physics, required experience of the world, aided by the scientific method.
Quasi-empiricism in mathematics is the attempt in the philosophy of mathematics to direct philosophers ' attention to mathematical practice, in particular, relations with physics, social sciences, and computational mathematics, rather than solely to issues in the foundations of mathematics.
Its high level of technical sophistication inspired many philosophers to conjecture that it can serve as a model or pattern for the foundations of other sciences.
In his 1837 Wissenschaftslehre Bolzano attempted to provide logical foundations for all sciences, building on abstractions like part-relation, abstract objects, attributes, sentence-shapes, ideas and propositions in themselves, sums and sets, collections, substances, adherences, subjective ideas, judgments, and sentence-occurrences.
Boyle's biographers, in their emphasis that he laid the foundations of modern chemistry, neglect how steadily he clung to the scholastic sciences in theory, practice and doctrine.
# Mastering the foundations of social sciences,
It aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations that are applicable in a variety of areas, such as engineering, biology, medicine, and social sciences.
According to River Forest Thomism, also called Aristotelian-Thomism, the natural sciences are epistemologically prior to metaphysics, preferably called Metascience. This approach emphasizes the Aristotelian foundations of Aquinas ’ s philosophy, and in particular the idea that the construction of a sound metaphysics must be preceded by a sound understanding of natural science, as interpreted in light of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature.
Some of the most important activities include supporting and expanding existing educational centres, creating new educational centres, using new technology in developing educational activities, exploiting creditable educational national and international experiences, creating the foundations for all social classes to benefit from educational possibilities, the development of applied sciences regionally, and the promotion of university education levels through holding courses with creditable universities home and abroad.
Although he died before he could fully study his specimens, Péron made a major contribution to the foundations of the natural sciences in Australia and was a prescient ecological thinker.
Research in the learning sciences traditionally focuses on cognitive-psychological, social-psychological, and cultural-psychological foundations of human learning, as well as on the design of learning environments.
It has a fourfold purpose: ( 1 ) to support and pursue research in the history and conceptual foundations of the natural and social sciences ; ( 2 ) to study the impact of contemporary science on the humanities and the arts ; ( 3 ) to be an active participant in the growing dialogue between science and religion ; and ( 4 ) to pursue the mathematical development and empirical application of design-theoretic concepts in the natural sciences.
In 2005 his work on the philosophical foundations of the modern natural sciences was published by Peter Lang Publishers – Paradigmen in Mathematik, Physik und Biologie und ihre philosophische Wurzeln ( 216 pp. ) ( Frankfurt am main ).
Historically, the term ' Kosmobiologie ' was used by the German medical astrologer Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense " to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences ".
Due to Ebertin's work, he is sometimes considered the founder of modern Cosmobiology as the term is generally used today ( working largely with the midpoint / dial paradigms of Witte ), although the term ' Kosmobiologie ' had been previously used by Dr Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense " to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences ".
The program condenses studies of mathematics and computer sciences into one degree, placing special emphasis on the mathematical foundations of computer science and computer-based tools for mathematics.
As a cross-program initiative, and in cooperation with other foundations and organizations, the Corporation instituted a scholars program, offering support to individual scholars, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, in the independent states of the former Soviet Union.

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