Thus, the development of rigorous models for materials structure, materials defects, microstructure evolution, and the behaviour of materials became a second thrust of materials science.
"The whole big thrust of Eye on Science is to motivate students to explore science and technology and to help them realize that they can do science at any age," says DeCoito.
It remains to be seen if the newer thrusts of basic science research, such as that reported by Harraca and colleagues in BMC Biology, will contribute new approaches to pest control, but certainly the reliance of bed bugs on chemical signalling [ 13- 15] is one avenue that needs to be explored further.
The upheavals of science thrust humility upon us.
The thrust of the original model of Science Fiction, which is the actual source of inspiration for transhumanist visions, is completely different.
Nanotechnology has been a revolutionary thrust in recent years of development of science and technology for its broad appeal for employing a novel idea for relevant technological applications in particular and for mass-scale production and marketing as common man commodity in general.
14), Gary Rosen seems sympathetic to the thrust of its argument -- that science sparked the Enlightenment and the rise of the liberal democracies, whose ethos consequently is experimental and empirical in character.
Reaction to the Soviet launch in October 1957 reinforced the national security, science, and technology thrust of the Corporation, while maintaining the policy dimensions.
This has been a source of both honest confusion and intentional obfuscation in discussions of science, especially with regard to evolution which has, with the full thrust of equivocation, been misleadingly labeled as "just a theory" by opponents for decades.
