sci-, -science, -sciently, -scientific, -scientifically, -scient, -sciently +

1. Someone having expert knowledge of one or more sciences, especially a natural or physical science.
2. A person who has studied science, especially one who is active in a particular field of investigation.
3. Anyone who has expert knowledge of some branch of science (usually, of physical or natural science), and devotes himself or herself to its investigation.

An adherent or practitioner of Scientology; a member of the "Church of Scientology".

A system of beliefs based on the study of knowledge and claiming to develop the highest potentialities of its members; founded in 1951 by L. Ron Hubbard (b. 1911).

Britain examines its conscience on the slave trade (IHT by Alan Riding, March 22, 2007; page 28).

The way history has long been taught, Britain's abolition of the African slave trade on March 25, 1807, allowed it to claim the moral high ground in the struggle to end slavery in the New World.

Two centuries later, if a series of exhibitions planned for this year leave their mark, perceptions may be about to change.

Rather than dwelling on William Wilberforce, the feisty abolitionist who drove the reform through the British parliament, these show are highlighting a far uglier back story: Britain's deep engagement in the slave trade in earlier centuries and the fundamental role this played in forging the nation's wealth and power.

Penitence seems to weigh most heavily on the northwestern port city of Liverpool, which in 1800 controlled 80 percent of the British slave trade and more than 40 percent of the European slave trade.

The triangular trade, by which African slaves were bartered for sugar, cotton, and tobacco in the Americas, was the foundation of Liverpool's enormous prosperity.

The various exhibitions throughout Britain about its involvement with the slave trade also hope to draw attention to new forms of slavery, whether in remote parts of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East; or closer to home, where immigrant women are forced into prostitution.

The scientific study of the formation, properties, distribution, and classification of soil as a natural resource.

In a subconscious manner; with imperfect or feeble consciousness; in the region of subconsciousness.

Translational Scientific Research is generally described as the process of applying ideas, insights, and discoveries generated through basic scientific inquiry to the treatment or prevention of disease or injury.

Its value is usually determined on the basis of likelihood that completion of exploratory or developmental research objectives will move towards effective therapies.

The most important aspect of Translational Research is the clinical interface. It is bi-directional in nature, working from the laboratory to the clinic, and from the clinic back to the laboratory.

Translational Scientific Research is, therefore, an inherently collaborative and interdisciplinary area of medical research.

Special information about Transitional Scientific Research is available here.

1. A reference to people who have no conscience; not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous; unreasonably grasping, extortionate, harsh, etc.
2. Showing no regard for conscience; not in accordance with what is right or reasonable.

1. Not conscious or knowing within oneself; unaware, heedless.
2. Not characterized by, or endowed with, the faculty or presence of consciousness.
3. In psychology, applied to mental or psychic processes of which a person is not aware but which have a powerful effect on his attitudes and behavior; specifically, in Freud's psychoanalytic theory, processes activated by desires, fears, or memories that are unacceptable to the conscious mind and so repressed; also designating that part of the mind or psyche in which such processes operate.
4. Not realized or known as existing in oneself.
5. Etymology: "unaware, not marked by conscious thought" comes from un-, "not" + conscious, "knowing, aware". Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860.

1. A state lacking normal awareness of oneself or the environment.
2. An abnormal state of the lack of response to sensory stimuli, resulting from injury, illness, shock, or some other bodily disorder.

A brief loss of consciousness from which a person recovers spontaneously, or with slight help, is called syncope or faint. Deep, prolonged unconsciousness is known as a coma.

3. A physiological state in which the patient is incapable of responding to usual environmental stimuli.

It is an imprecise term, but it usually refers to impairment of consciousness less profound than a coma, in which no response can be elicited even at the reflex level.

1. Not adhering to the principles of science.
2. Not knowledgeable about science or the scientific method.

1. Not following, or compatible, with the methods and principles of science.
2. Not possessing knowledge about science and its methods and principles.

Truth/morals/knowledge.

Motto of East Texas Baptist College, Marshall, Texas, USA.