To the Editor: The American Association of University Women's recent reporton the underrepresentation of women in the sciences has focused attention on an issue that has troubled educators and women's advocates increasingly in recent years.
Laws are usually believed to stand in a tight conceptual relation to many important key concepts such as causation, explanation, confirmation, determinism, counterfactuals etc. Traditionally, philosophers of science have focused on physical laws, which were taken to be at least true, universal statements that support counterfactual claims.
Recently, many studies in medical science have focused on disseminated tumor cells present in patients' blood, known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which correlate with the risk of recurrence and metastasis in cancer patients.
As calcium is the predominant nutrient in bone, science has focused on it as the major player in prevention of osteoporosis.
As the research progresses, it could change public perceptions and government policy.Related topics Oxford Drought Meteorology California EuropeFor years, the central debate of climate science has focused on how much global mean surface temperatures would rise by 2100.
As the research progresses, it could change public perceptions and government policy.For years, the central debate of climate science has focused on how much global mean surface temperatures would rise by 2100.
Science has focused on types of treatments and their differential effects in achieving treatment outcomes.
The relation of the human being to the World is a very important part of experience, thus science has focused on the processes of physical sensation.
Recently, Mansbridge (2009) has gone further by suggesting that political science has focused too much on the sanctions model of accountability and that another model, what she calls the selection model, can be more effective at soliciting the desired behavior from representatives.
While the singular defense of Newtonian science had focused Voltaire's polemical energies in the 1730s and 1740s, after 1750 the program became the defense of philosophie tout court and the defeat of its perceived enemies within the ecclesiastical and aristo-monarchical establishment.
