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...lion that existed before my voyage. Added to this is the fact that medical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people... ...orld clamor to be allowed to work in either country to find the cures that science will uncover. For more than 15 years stem cells have been harveste... ...ion planners are making promises they can‟t keep. The advances in medical science are so great that people are not wearing out as early as they used ... ... has at least one robot. Among other things they teach the children math, science and English. We use their robotics technology extensively.” ... ...ed for IQ, if high they can be trained in high level areas, like computer science or medicine. They get the same pay for the same work as our citize... ... than today. Therefore the percent of wages taken as taxes for education, environmental control, anti-social activities, et cetera, would be much les... ...xygen regenerating green belts, and animal feed. You will see many of our environmental advances on your visit. “Like our electrical power ... .... “We are not ready to declare that being ethical is genetically or environmentally determined. We know that in your country studies have show...

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...d Indus are tugging us backward at the same time that Indian business and science are leaping into the future. 60% of all Indians are below the age ... ... but we must be able to see as much of the whole as possible. We need the sciences to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and sm... ...to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and small, but science is not the only achievement of the human mind. As Nietzsche pointe... ...No modern democracy has voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other areas tha... ...voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other areas that concern a government. O... ...he closets are opening and the practice has been spreading. ―As science has researched the sociological, psychological and physiological as...

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...oncern by so many of my fellow citizens had soured me on the potentials of science and the hope of technology in delivering a utopian society to us. ... ...ledge of mental and physical health. We study the psychological and social sciences, particularly history. And we study mathematics and the natural ... ...0arbequed can harm both adults and children. The combination of genetic and environmental problems are responsible for a large number of children‘s p... ...tic surgery, psychiatry or pep pills, you search for a better self through science—not self discipline. That goes against the basic tenets for our pe... ... something is wrong, a drug or surgery will fix it. But so often it is the environmental factors that are far more effective. Regular exercise, stop... ... will have to be raised. Just as births have to be reduced. And as medical science keeps us living longer, the adjustments will have to be ‗adjusted... ...ore prevalent because forests have been chopped down. ―So our major environmental tasks have been to reduce the continuation of global warming... ...or resistance. If the county gets permission to cut down a tree, given its environmental importance, someone may chain themselves to that tree. If ho... ...verty. Today‘s globalized world needs leaders who can help us head off the environmental and economic Armageddon that will engulf us if we deal only...

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........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ...be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential cure is more likely to ... ...alues to see whether or not we should use it. Our values often trump what science indicates. Commander?‖ -- ―That‘s certainly true Wanda. We alw... ...mary in their thinking. Religion is an emotional decision based on faith, science is an intellectual decision based on empirical evidence. In either... ...ear to us, so ingrained in us, that we don‘t question them. Whether it is science, philosophy or religion --we start with assumptions that we can‘t p... ...s and librarians were cut. Parks went without maintenance or were closed. Environmental programs we cut back. Health insurance subsidies have vanish...

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...m and water is considered as the most vital item in the world due to reduction of water resources in most regions. In this condition, role of water science researchers and hydraulic experts is more important than ever. If a hydraulic engineer student is not educated well, he/she will not solve problems of hydraulic sciences in future. Many engineer students learn all n...

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...ne technical experiments, which gradually give way to contextual works, development experiences and holistic appreciation of the role of agricultural science. Half of the chapters include a personal reflective comment, which becomes integrated with the research itself as the thesis develops, until it culminates in an embracing final observation of the real outcomes of four...

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...ture Overview 49 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 5 50 Discussion 51 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 61 Re-Cultivating Agricultural Science: 40 Years of Professional Life – Lindsay Falvey x Chapter 6 - Agricultural Education Overview 65 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 6 66 Discussion 66 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 80 Chapter 7 - I...

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...ad set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I lo... ...ocal people, what do they lose and what gain instead? This book represents environmental anthropology, but I do not consider as fundamental the adapta... ...l states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary dev... ...e coped together, like self-sufficient agrarian villages everywhere. Local environmental systems created a culture that included shared events of the ... ...mercial production farming is based on scientific-technological knowledge, environmental knowledge and farming skill are produced elsewhere, outside l... ... will grow without artificial fertilizers and so-called plant protectants, environmental poisons. Interviewees from Ban Srii Muod Klao are already pes... ...mmals and birds die of poisoned grain, and man himself is not untouched by environmental pollution. Various allergies have increased dramatically, par... ... complex genetic and chemical programs only understood by state-of-the-art science. Postlocal experiences of nature will be produced by the consciousn... ...lopment. (25 Civilization is scientific knowledge and technological skill, science and art. The opposite of a civilized citizen is a person who lacks ...

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...bility, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, ...

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...Contents Page Introduction 1 Chapter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Ou...

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...ity. The major challenge for the future, as he points out, is for agricultural education to explore and fully comprehend the complex interactions of science, people, and the environment; to strengthen its relevance by grappling with the scientific issues, both national and international, that affect the continued transformation of agriculture and the protection of the nat...

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... Food Production 42 Sustainability and Image 45 People and Agriculture 47 Towards an Alternative Approach 51 Chapter 3. UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION: ENVIRONMENTAL EMPATHY 55 Awareness 55 Bread Baskets of the World 58 The Global Need 59 The Imperative of Education 60 Public Environmental Education 63 Changes in Agricultural Education 66 Information or Knowledge 70 Chapte...

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...ogram. The Varanoides were basically ectotherm beings with a certain span of poikilothermic sustainability. They could live within a certain range of environmental and body temperatures. Apart from that, their scales, and their colour, they had eyes resembling those of cats and very strong hands and feet with claws. The extremities were extremely muscular and rather short....

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... best model for consideration of the ideal of sustainability. From ancient Asian wisdom through modern global forces and technology to the central environmental issue of food production, we have identified some necessary conditions for sustainability. Yet, our approaches to care of the natural environment seem to be based on erroneous assumptions. We seem to assume the ...

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...s ix Author’s Foreword xi Chapter 1 Stepping Back to Survey the Landscape 1 Chapter 2 The Unacknowledged Debt to Asia: A Different Agricultural and Environmental Reality 13 Agriculture’s Legacy 14 Agricultural Origins 15 Contact with the West 23 Religion, Nature and Agriculture 26 ‘Indianised’ Agriculture 31 Secular Approaches 34 Common Heritage 38 Chapter 3 Global Dev...

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...ive us better control over our own lives. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can control our own destinies. This is what much of scienc... ...n control our own destinies. This is what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate scienc... ...e our minds to be able to conjure up so many absolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start with evidence, like any scienc... ...dating, but often forget it when the ‗I do‘ eventually becomes ‗I don‘t.‘ ―I wonder if Freud would have taken the same approach to his scienc... ...e ability to actually think, rather than just rationalizing what we do, we should be able to get a better idea of how to use the knowledge of scienc... ...seem to double the chance that a particular stressor will develop depressive symptoms in a person. But while heredity can be a major factor, enviro... ... 115 the disease the other twin's chance is 50 to 60% of developing it. However it seems to be the enviro...

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...laimants to highest rank and power. The cultural dominance of hawaii was doubtless a consequence of size, richness of forests and soils, diversity of environmental conditions and hence variety and quantity of population. The dynamic temperament of the old polynesian stock of the “big island,” as it is affectionately called today, was probably partly a consequence of the gr...

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...Space Force Grunts is a Science Fiction novel playing several generations into the future. After the human race has invented hyperspace flight, thousands of planets are colonised. Those new societies maintain their independence until the human race ...

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...nes these were - humans were by no means un-affected by the war. They would be shot at and bombed, too. They were suffering from all the unhospitable environmental conditions, too. Sometimes, humans would survive longer. Radioactivity could often obfuscate optical lenses of cameras fast then it destroyed the human eye and electronic equipment can suffer from the same fate....

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...mental development. Increasing dairy production is a major challenge for those engaged in international livestock development. Moreover, there are environmental concerns about livestock production in fragile landscapes, so increasing milk supply should be done in an environmentally sustainable manner. Research can help meet this challenge. Meeting the growing demand ...

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... issues Institutional support for smallholder dairy development activities Projects Summary and conclusions References Chapter 4: Climatic and environmental factors affecting dairy productivity J. E. Vercoe Background Introduction Thermal equilibrium Heat load Heat dissipation Reducing heat load Enhancing heat dissipation Effects of heat stress Other en...

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...uding social benefits which have now caused agriculture to be treated as both a social and financial sector in planning, with increased cognisance of environmental and cultural values. Unique elements of Thai agriculture include: irrigation technologies which spanned a millennium; administrative structures which originated with agricultural water control; its global leade...

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... Chapter 3 - Arrival of Tai Agriculture Chinese Tai Muang F Integrating Technologies Tai Agriculturists Migrating Farmers Tai in Thailand Tai Traits Environmental Traditions Tai and Buddhist Environments Summary Chapter 4 - Expansion of Thai Agriculture from 1200 C Agricultural Organisation Agricultural Administration Integrating Irrigation Systems Agricultural Dominati...

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...s of Disaster Risk Reduction and Natural Resource Management are integrated to consider the outcomes of actions taken in response to the cyclone. The environmental, social and biophysical elements of the setting are examined and the impact of the cyclone on the Delta environment and its communities discussed. The analysis revealed that the background ‘slow acting’ disaster...

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...able Groups 183 Disaster Risk Management 186 Environmental Management 187 Chapter 12 – What Worked, What Did Not – Why 189 Physical Capital 190 Financial Capi...

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...most significant discoveries in chemistry and physics are presented chronologically to illustrate their contributions to the creation of the chemical sciences during the last 21 centuries....

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...ine pleasure and challenge for me to try to express the full extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply stating that it has been a labor of love that transcended the written word becaus...

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...ss Physician and Alchemist 41 Contributed to modernize chemistry and medicine. MORE ABOUT THE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF ALCHEMY 43   THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE 46 THE ADVENT OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION DURING THE AGE OF REASON 46 THE PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE 47 FRANCIS BACON, RENE DESCARTES, BENEDICTUS SPINOZA, ...