"The scientific goal is to understand how our emotions are reflected in our speech," Dr. Jurafsky said.
THREE decades ago, the United States went to the Moon with a lofty scientific goal: gathering rocks and soil to gain insight into the origins of the solar system.
"His scientific goal was to do research relevant to the living human being," said Dr. Naomi K. Fukagawa, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Vermont, who was Dr. Young's student before joining him as a collaborator.
The work also supplies highly trained personnel for the wider workforce, and is an inspirational technological and scientific goal on the scale of the moon landings or the Large Hadron Collider.
The journey they embarked upon will, it is hoped, lead to a novel scientific goal: an understanding of the ultimate abstract art form music.There are many ways to approach this goal.
Those few astronomers who have searched for optical transients have either focused narrowly on a particular scientific goal, such as planet-hunting, or a particular patch of sky, such as the centre of the Milky Way.
Although much is not known about life in the depths of the rocks and the sea, determination of the total range and mass (biomass) of the biota, the sum of all life in the biosphere, is a reasonable scientific goal.
After Allergan reviewed the results of that first study, the company changed the primary end point — the scientific goal post — on a second study so that it would focus on the drug's effect on the number of headache days rather than the number of headache episodes that a person experienced each month.
But it also had a scientific goal.
Mars Sample Return (MSR) represents an important scientific goal in space exploration.
MiniSTEP is the least expensive mission proposed to date that still achieves STEP's basic scientific goal.
