A group of sciences and technologies underlie the processing, storage, distribution, and marketing of agricultural commodities and by-products.
Another group of sciences aims at producing illuminating descriptions of irreducibly individual and unrepeatable occurrences (idiographic).
One group of sciences works by way of positing general laws and understanding its objects as examples of such general laws (nomo-thetic).
In combination, the six characteristics are sufficient to show that the technological sciences are neither branches nor applications of the natural sciences, but form a different group of sciences with specific characteristics of their own.
He further divides philosophy into speculative the name that designates a group of sciences constituted by physics, mathematics, and metaphysics—and another group classified under the heading 'about human things', that is, the results of human intentionality (QLIS 90, 286); it includes the active sciences and the sciences of language.
(Apparently, our government agrees: Mr. Williams is a member of Sigma, a group of science-fiction writers who advise the Department of Homeland Security).
Hefce proposes to split band B into high cost laboratory-based science and a lower cost group of science and engineering courses.
Months earlier I had traveled with a group of science writers on a weeklong junket through the nation's space centers.
Hefce has also abandoned proposals to split band B into high cost laboratory-based science and a lower cost group of science and engineering courses, which would have meant classroom subjects getting a bigger share of money.
In a speech in 1954 before a group of science writers, the head of America's Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, even declared that one day nuclear power would be "too cheap to meter".
