scientific discipline

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scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics"

natural history - the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals

scientific theory - a theory that explains scientific observations; "scientific theories must be falsifiable"

discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

scientific knowledge - knowledge accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles; "mathematics is the basis for much scientific knowledge"

natural science - the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena

math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

agronomy, scientific agriculture - the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production

agrobiology - the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield

agrology - science of soils in relation to crops

architectonics, tectonics - the science of architecture

metallurgy - the science and technology of metals

metrology - the scientific study of measurement

nutrition - the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life

informatics, information processing, information science, IP - the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

cognitive science - the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind

social science - the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

strategics - the science or art of strategy

systematics - the science of systematic classification

thanatology - the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)

cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology - the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

linguistics - the scientific study of language

idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer - someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

verify, control - check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard; "Are you controlling for the temperature?"

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The first part defines the international economic relations theory as a scientific discipline, including its interaction with the general microeconomics and macroeconomics.

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College, London) believes that the remarkable continuity between late antique and modern scholarship regarding the life of Jesus can be fruitfully exploited to shed new light on the history of chronology as a scientific discipline. He examines the different attempts to find the precise date of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, as they were produced in Christian scholarship up to the end of the 16th century, when the work of a number of scholars--the most celebrated being Joseph Justus Scaliger--transformed historical chronology into a fully fledged discipline.

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Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has selected to award the Prize for Science & Technology in the category of "Institutions having achieved outstanding contribution on a given scientific discipline" to the National Institute of Science and Biotechnology (NIGEB) of Iran.

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In the 1980s the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) acknowledged that parapsychology was a legitimate scientific discipline. Although the AAAS did not comment on the findings of parapsychology, it found its methods to be scientifically rigorous.

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If the law of large numbers exists and the primary concern of underwriting is profitability, underwriting should be conducted as a scientific discipline.

Underwriting discipline evolved from art to science

Breakthroughs often happen when known science from a different scientific discipline is applied to the problem at hand.

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The author, a patron of Seven Stories, warned his audience that it was a writer's prerogative to crash from one scientific discipline to another, taking bits that appealed to him.