Included are sciences such as mineralogy, geodesy, and stratigraphy.
MacDonald, the report pointedly noted, had "no formal educational background in natural sciences, such as biology".
The percentage of students taking other sciences, such as geology and electronics, declined slightly, from 1.6% of the total age group to 1.4%.
In contrast, academic numbers in traditional sciences such as chemistry, biology and physics have increased by just 3%, 9% and 12% respectively over the same period.
Social sciences may be surrounded by the "paraphernalia" of the natural sciences, such as technical terminology, mathematical equations, empirical data and even carefully designed experiments.
Mayo's work broadened scientific management by drawing the new behavioral sciences, such as social psychology, into questions concerning work and labour-management relationships.
Biology is a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from historical sciences such as paleontology to engineering sciences such as biotechnology.
SAMT has been designed to integrate models from different sciences such as economics and ecology.
As with other omic sciences, such as genomics and proteomics, metabolomics can be challenging.
An interpretation of partial reductions for sciences such as biology has been developed in Schaffner (2006).
These strategies were found in specific, experimental sciences, such as neuroscience and molecular biology.
