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Whether they are helping shape national science and technology priorities or addressing closer-to-home problems of the environment, health care, education, energy, and economic development, states must have ways of gathering knowledge, of learning from one another, and of putting their ideas and priorities forward in national science and technology forums.
The science and technology advisor should serve on the governor's executive advisory team, as a trusted source of objective advice, integrating the views and knowledge of experts in academic institutions, industry, and elsewhere throughout the state and the nation.
Additional science and technology spending by states, on colleges and universities, on basic research, and on science and technology for regulatory and mission agencies may total in the hundreds of millions, but it is difficult to determine an exact figure.
www.carnegie.org /sub/pubs/science_tech/states.txt   (18936 words)

  
 Science Quotes - The Quotations Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1990): Chapter Six: Machines and science help farmers ...
Scarcely less important than machinery in the agricultural revolution was science.
In 1862, the Morrill Land-Grant College Act allotted public land to each state for the establishment of agricultural and industrial colleges.
Luther Burbank, in California, produced scores of new fruits and vegetables; in Wisconsin, Stephen Babcock devised a test for determining the butter-fat content of milk; at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the great fl scientist George Washington Carver found hundreds of new uses for the peanut, sweet potato, and soybean.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1990/ch6_p5.htm   (541 words)

  
 Biblio: Global Change
Labeyrie, Paleoclimate: Glacial climate instability, Science, 290, 1905, 2000.
Milne, Space-geodetic constraints on glacial isostatic adjustment in Fennoscandia, Science, 291, 2381, 2001.
Robock, Pinatubo eruption: The climatic aftermath, Science, 295, 1242, 2002.
www.columbia.edu /~vjd1/biblio_glob_ch.htm   (8107 words)

  
 Science in the 20th Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey (Detailed Description)
Science is a unity that encompasses the "hard" sciences of physics and chemistry, and the "soft" sciences, such as economics and sociology.
Many are less well known: Franz Boas was a major influence on all of the social sciences in the first half of the 20th century; John Maynard Keynes is arguably the Einstein of economics; and an American geologist named Harry Hess came up with the theory of seafloor spreading, which led to plate tectonics.
Science and society: A turning point in the growth of U.S. science came in 1862, when Congress passed the Merrill Land Grant Act, giving large tracts of federal land to any state that would create an engineering college.
www.teach12.com /ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/1220.asp   (1188 words)

  
 Science in the Twilight Zone
Once embraced by a science bureaucracy that had been shamed by Soviet achievements in space, libraries and the study of science communications are now excluded and neglected.
The National Science Foundation is marketing part of its program in computer science as "knowledge and distributed intelligence." Even high school students know that computers process data, not "knowledge" or "intelligence," with artificial logic.
I urge you to expand the scope of your examination to review the connection of science with the science libraries of universities which, according to Vannevar Bush, "are charged with the responsibility of conserving the knowledge accumulated by the past, imparting that knowledge to students, and contributing new knowledge of all kinds."
www.istl.org /98-fall/article1.html   (4726 words)

  
 05/05/02 - Christian Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
That testimony appears in the April 2002 issue of The Christian Science Journal and is available to be read on their website www.christianscience.com along with other testimonies of healings from allergies, tumors, diabetes, MS, fibromyalgia and heart problems.
The science of healing is at the very core of the group that we’re going to look at today.
In 1875, she published Science and Health, the “textbook” of Christian Science, and then in 1879 the Church of Christ, Scientist was incorporated with Mary Baker Eddy as pastor of the Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
www.valleyviewseek.org /teach/020505.htm   (2743 words)

  
 Science, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
ABC's of Nuclear Science introduces the object that contains almost all of the mass in the universe, the atomic nucleus.
Antimatter, beta rays, fission and fusion, the structure of the atomic nucleus, how elements on the earth were produced, how we use the nucleus in every day life, and the effects of radiation in the environment are among the topics.
Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center provides information on careers, training, and professional development; environmental programs in high schools and colleges; curricula for high school and associate degree programs; and instructional units on 5 topics: water quality, a hazardous materials accident, environmental risk assessment, infectious diseases, and environmental justice.
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 Mount Shasta Annotated Bibliography - Chapter 32
Keeler ends the Shasta chapter with a final sentence "The wilderness is theirs by natural right, and it is fitting that we yield to them something of the respect which is their due"  (p.
Keeler was the director of the California Academy of Science Museum and a noted California poet.     32.
Curators at the California Academy of Science positively identified the animal as an antelope.
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 Internet History of Science Sourcebook
From the late 17th century until the late 19th century that vision of the cosmos was developed and filled in by what we now call "classical science".
The achievements of this period have not been negated by the discoveries and theories of the late 19th and 20th centuries, but are now seen as accurate only with certain boundaries.
This is one of the most successful, and early, statements on Materialism stemming from the conclusions of the New Science.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/science/sciencesbook.html   (2786 words)

  
 1862 Online Research :: Information about 1862   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1862 in topic: Art 1862 in architecture - 1862 in art - 1862 in literature - 1862 in music Other topics 1862 in Canada - 1862 in rail transport - 1862 in science - South Africa - 1862 in sports
March 28 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate States of America invasion of New Mexico territory.
April 5 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown (1862) - The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
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 1862 in science -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The year 1862 in (A particular branch of scientific knowledge) science and (The practical application of science to commerce or industry) technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
February 7 - (French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862)) Prosper Meniere (b.
(Click link for more info and facts about 1799) 1799), (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences) scientist who first described the symptoms now known as (Click link for more info and facts about Ménière's disease) Ménière's disease.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1862_in_science.htm   (243 words)

  
 National Association of Biology Teachers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Seminars on Science provides six-week, online courses for K-12 educators that are co-authored and co-taught by leading scientists and educators of the
The courses cover the life, Earth, and physical sciences and are available for up to 4 graduate credits.
Since 1862, Ward’s Natural Science has provided teachers with the highest quality science education materials and superior customer support.
www.nabt.org /sup/resources/comlinks.asp   (438 words)

  
 Design After Darwin, 1860—1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This question was hotly debated by nineteenth-century scientists, philosophers and theologians and this new collection of British statements and correspondence displays the full diversity of Victorian opinion.
The material in these four volumes remains central to current discussions of the relations between science and religion, and allows a deeper historical understanding of the resurgence of the intelligent design question in the twenty-first century.
Charles Darwin, On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects (London: Murray, 1862), pp.
www.thoemmes.com /science/design.htm   (947 words)

  
 The puzzling Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec 13/14, 1999
Sky-watchers with clear skies should see at least that many this year if the Geminids continue to intensify.
After the discovery of the Geminids in 1862 astronomers began searching for the parent comet.
Most meteor showers result from debris that that boils off a comet's nucleus when it passes close to the sun.
science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast06dec99_1.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Helmholtz, Hermann von: Science and Culture
A pioneer of physiology and physics, he was also deeply concerned with the implications of science for philosophy and culture.
Among the subjects discussed are the origins of the planetary system, the relation of natural science to science in general, the aims and progress of the physical sciences, the problems of perception, and academic freedom in German universities.
Science and Culture makes available again Helmholtz's eloquent arguments on the usefulness, benefits, and, intellectual pleasures of understanding the natural world.
www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12907.ctl   (376 words)

  
 Research Problems
In Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; v.
The logic of the Goedel proof predicate, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v.713, pp.71-82, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
On the Complexity of the Reflected Logic of Proofs, Technial Report TR-2003006 in Computer Science, Graduate Center CUNY, 2003.
www.cs.gc.cuny.edu /~sartemov/research_problems.html   (2455 words)

  
 1862 - Want to know more about 1862?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
gacfa.org, your online resource for information, news, and resource for 1862.
Find the latest resources and information on 1862 on our website now.
Search for old photos, vintage ads, wedding announcements, obituaries and much more.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ANNALS OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE Bimonthly ISSN: 0003-4878 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE,KIDLINGTON, OXFORD, ENGLAND, OX5 1GB 451.
ANNALS OF SCIENCE Quarterly ISSN: 0003-3790 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 11 NEW FETTER LANE, LONDON, ENGLAND, EC4P 4EE 462.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Monthly ISSN: 0077-8923 NEW YORK ACAD SCIENCES, 2 EAST 63RD ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10021 470.
www.che.boun.edu.tr /sci-exp.html   (16213 words)

  
 The Quadrantids - American Meteor Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Even with its high strength, this shower was not recognized in the United States until the mid 1800's, when Edward C. Herrick of Yale recorded in the American Journal of Science (Vol.
33, 1862) that he had received a report from a lady in Connecticut, stating that she had observed an unusually large number of shooting stars early in the morning of January 2, 1862.
Herrick described her observations, and put out a call for observations to be made in the following year.
www.amsmeteors.org /quads.html   (631 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - 1861 in science
World War 1 and 2 - 1861 in science
The year 1861 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Ignaz Semmelweis publishes Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, a treatment of his theory on sanitary conditions during childbirth.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/1861_in_science   (58 words)

  
 Single-cell FRET imaging of phosphatase activity in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis system -- Vaknin and Berg 101 (49): ...
© 2004 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
Maddock, J. and Shapiro, L. Science 259, 1717–1723.
Niethammer, P., Bastiaens, P. and Karsenti, E. Science 303, 1862–1866.
www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/49/17072   (3476 words)

  
 African American Registry for Thursday November 10th 2005
African-Americans contribute much to the field of Science.
*This dates Registry is a brief look at the chosen work of science and chemistry in African-American history.
*Louise Cecelia Fleming was born on this date in 1862.
aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/9/business_medicine   (1966 words)

  
 Dinitrogen and Nitrous Oxide Formation in Beech Forest Floor and Mineral Soils -- Wolf and Brumme 67 (6): 1862 -- Soil ...
Dinitrogen and Nitrous Oxide Formation in Beech Forest Floor and Mineral Soils -- Wolf and Brumme 67 (6): 1862 -- Soil Science Society of America Journal
Net N-mineralization of ammonium, nitrate, and ammonium + nitrate (NNM) during 8 d of incubation at 20°C of the less acid mineral soil from Göttinger Wald (LAM), the acid forest floor (AFF), and the acid mineral soil from Solling (AM).
Copyright © 2003 by the Soil Science Society of America.
soil.scijournals.org /cgi/content/figsonly/67/6/1862   (206 words)

  
 Publisher's description for Library of Congress control number 99012267   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Publisher's description for Material faith : Thoreau on science / edited by Laura Dassow Walls ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.
He called for a science that would join man and nature-a "conscience," a moral knowledge founded on material faith.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Quotations, Science Quotations, maxims, etc, Quotations, American
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hm022/99012267.html   (103 words)

  
 Effectiveness of short-term feeding strategies for altering conjugated linoleic acid content of beef -- Griswold et al. ...
Effectiveness of short-term feeding strategies for altering conjugated linoleic acid content of beef -- Griswold et al.
Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901-4417
Copyright © 2003 by the American Society of Animal Science.
jas.fass.org /cgi/content/abstract/81/7/1862   (452 words)

  
 Effect of Immunosuppression on Gene Expression in the HSV-1 Latently Infected Mouse Trigeminal Ganglion -- Higaki et ...
Articles by Higaki, S. Articles by Hill, J. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.
Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.
To determine alterations in expression of genes in
www.iovs.org /cgi/content/abstract/43/6/1862   (417 words)

  
 WARD'S Natural Science: Your Source for Science Since 1862 - Education - Lab - Hobbies
WARD'S Natural Science: Your Source for Science Since 1862 - Education - Lab - Hobbies
WARD'S Natural Science has been meeting the needs of the science education community since 1862—from middle school and high school-level classroom and homeschool studies to college curriculum, lab experiments, science fairs and hobbies.
We’re your single source for the highest quality Biology, Biotechnology, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Forensics, Physical Science, and Chemistry science teaching supplies.
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