And once people sign up, accepting risk but hoping for benefit, receiving free medical care and drugs, what do they owe to science, to future patients who may be helped by the research and to the company that may profit from it?
We find that computer science metaphors trade on both preexisting and emerging similarities between computational and traditional domains, but owing to computer science's peculiar status as a discipline that creates its own subject matter, the role of similarity in metaphorical attribution is multifaceted.
Speaking as a conservative and as someone who has been a professor for 25 years, I disagree with Paul Krugman's belief that the large margin of Democrats over Republicans in academia is owing to any anti-science stance of Republicans.
Underlying all the recommendations were fears that the U.K. may fall behind other countries in terms of progress in science, partly owing to recent increases in the U.S. science budget: "We will have a brain drain if we don't stay ahead of the game in this country," says committee member Brian Iddon MP.
The whole idea of regional climate prediction that has come to the fore mainly because of need/demand is not based on sound science owing to fundamental predictability issues.
Literary odds-making is surely a specious science, owing to the sphinx-like nature of the Nobel Committee — and, not inconsequentially, to most of our Anglo-centric knowledge of literature.
Among stem cells, human embryonic stem (ES) cells have been considered to hold greatest promises in biomedical science owing to their capability to differentiate into all the germ layer derivatives and given their potential as treatment in degenerative diseases.
Researchers say this may be owing to a scarcity of domestic science and engineering graduates.
"I am a rare example of a Republican scientist, but I am seriously thinking about changing affiliation owing to the Republicans' increasingly anti-science stance," he wrote in an e-mail.
Carbon nanotubes, and more specifically single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), possess unusual properties which are valuable for nanotechnology and other fields of materials science and technology, owing to their extraordinary thermal, electrical, and in particular mechanical properties.
