Sentence examples for scientific backdrop from inspiring English sources

It was against this scientific backdrop that Small and his colleagues explored how childcare centers broker social capital for mothers.

Despite the book's somber, scientific backdrop (and global warming here is little but that), "Solar" is Mr. McEwan's funniest novel yet — a novel that in tone and affect often reads more like something by Zoë Heller or David Lodge.

In Section 2 we describe the scientific backdrop and motivation for the data analysis implementations which we have tested.

Using the tools and trappings of the scientific method as a backdrop, Kannisto expands upon the almost futile efforts of science to catalog the chaos of the rainforest, creating scenes where nature is barely held at bay.

Against this backdrop, his scientific work is often assumed to have rendered other avenues of inquiry — the humanities in particular — superfluous, on the grounds that science's unique explanatory power can satisfy our greatest questions.

Using the tools and trappings of the scientific method as a backdrop, Kannisto expands upon the almost futile efforts of science to catalog the chaos of the rainforest, creating scenes where nature is barely held at bay. "One cannot adequately describe the various aspects of reality in a rainforest, or express them numerically or visually," Kannisto notes in her book "Fieldwork".

Lax's engrossing history captures the thrill of scientific progress against the backdrop of a global war: from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in his London laboratory in 1928 to the advancements made more than a decade later by the Oxford University team of Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley.

Against a backdrop of scientific studies, historic data, predictions gone awry and actual hurricane experience, he honed in on the challenge of how best to create an awareness of the impending dangers of hurricanes, without creating panic.

The main and sub-categories in this mind map were generated either inductively on the basis of the literature or deductively by own reasoning against the backdrop of scientific experience and theoretical knowledge.

The planning department had been set up against the backdrop of fresh scientific, political and also media interest in a "modern" and "rational" form of governance.

During the introduction section, the steps required to formulate a coherent backdrop for a scientific study are first stated during lecture and then emphasized through weekly assignments.