The Christmas lectures continue to this day, forming part of the RI's attempts at "diffusing science for the common purposes of life".
The Foundation represents an expansion and consolidation of more diffuse explorations of science and religion, but is best understood as part of the ongoing commitment of the Church to engage with science on its own terms.
In 1799, 58 gentlemen including Sir Joseph Banks, Count Rumford and Henry Cavendish invested 50 guineas each (a very substantial sum) to establish an institution that would introduce new technologies, diffuse knowledge and apply science to the "common purposes of life".
The NCCCP was a pilot program implemented on a relatively small scale (in 16 hospitals) to test the feasibility of the concept of the NCCCP as a public-private partnership to more quickly diffuse the rapidly changing science around cancer care into community settings.
The selection ranges from the 16th to the 19th century, many of the volumes given added lustre by their connection to an institution founded in 1799 for "diffusing the knowledge" of science and technology.
We demonstrate with this research that both biological and economic factors need to be carefully investigated to "begin the essential task of transforming the study of invasions from a diffuse anecdotal subject to a predictive science" [32].
Still, astronomers stuck to the idea, because even NASA's keen-eyed Chandra X-ray Observatory couldn't resolve the diffuse x-ray glow into point sources (Science, 31 August 2001, p.1633).
Others also argue that science is practised in a diffuse and unbounded social context - an 'agora' [ 7] - that is an open market place or network, 'with many different actors, political and economic interests and competing scientific knowledge claims' [ 8].
In exchange, he provides some measure of scientific edification, which is mainly diffused through a blog that documents the science behind his underwater act (newly developed contact lenses, specially-calculated water salinity) and invites readers to suggest things for him to do underwater in the show.
Phase-field is a diffuse interface approach, used extensively in the materials science community for modeling microstructural evolution during phase transitions (e.g., review articles Chen 2002; Boettinger et al. 2002; Moelans et al. 2008; Nestler and Choudhury 2011).
