Sentences with phrase «science studies centre»

Harry Collins is director of the Science Studies Centre at the University of Bath, and co-author of The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science (Cambridge University Press).

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Jennifer Lavers, of Australia's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in the University of Tasmania, and Alexander Bond, of the United Kingdom's Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, walked two beaches, methodically counting, collecting, and categorizing the garbage.

A body that calls itself the CIES Football Observatory (part of the International Centre for Sports Studies) have come up with what they say is a science based algorithm -LRB-!)

Professor Ransford Gyampo, Director of the Centre for European Studies and a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, has asked the Convention People's Party (CPP) to shift attention from the personality of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and focus on the principles of the party.

They will be joined by David Kester, chief executive of the Design Council; Jeremy Myerson, professor of design studies at Royal College of Art; Gloria Laycock, director of UCL centre for security and crime science; Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins; and David Kester, chief executive of the Design Cocentre for security and crime science; Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins; and David Kester, chief executive of the Design CoCentre at Central St Martins; and David Kester, chief executive of the Design Council.

Guests will be welcomed by Kelvin Hopkins MP - chair of the All Party Group for Social Science and Policy - with other panel members including Paul Johnson - Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - and Professor Gloria Laycock from the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction.

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, has published a pioneering study on the role of the chemical and petrochemical industry in reaching the EU climate targets.

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton, Will Jennings, recently presented the findings in full at an event at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

Dr Andreas Hermann, of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, said: «This study helps us better predict what is inside icy planets like Neptune.

Researchers studied the effect in mice of consuming feed enriched with oil from glasshouse - grown genetically engineered Camelina sativa, developed at the agricultural science centre Rothamsted Research.

Nynke van der Laan of University Medical Centre Utrecht will replicate a study published in Science in 2009 that provided the first explanation for the neural basis of successful self - control in humans.

«While not a clinical trial, this study, in stark contrast to prevailing attitudes that views these drugs as harmful, speaks to the public health potential of psychedelic medicine,» says Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh, the co-director for UBC Okanagan's Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law.

The study by academics at the university's Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science compared children with dyslexia to youngsters who had a history of repeated ear infections to see if they had a similar pattern of literacy difficulties.

The study subsidised by the science fund FWF was conducted by the Dutch Institute for Neurosciences in Amsterdam in the context of a cooperation project between various clinics and centres of the MedUni Vienna and the brain researcher Dick F. Swaab.

At the Umeå Plant Science Centre, UPSC, Umeå University, the researchers thereafter studied where in the plant the protein was located.

The study, led by researchers at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown and the University of California at Berkeley, was published today in Science.

Dr Anna Scaife, Head of the Interferometry Centre of Excellence at The University of Manchester and one of the study's authors, said: «From sitting in a converted train carriage in the frozen north of Finnish Lapland repurposing the KAIRA telescope to crunching data through IONONEST, we have used the technology in new and innovative ways that can really push this science forward.

The study was funded by the Flemish Government: Research Foundation — Flanders (FWO), Flanders» Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), iMinds and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.

«The electro - chemical stability of the electrolyte we are using here can withstand three volts, whereas many solid electrolytes previously studied are damaged at the same voltage,» says Arndt Remhof, a researcher at Empa and leader of the project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research on Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER - HaE).

«The tropics will be the overall losers,» says William Cheung, associate professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre and co-author of this study, published today in ICES Journal of Marine Science.

In a paper published in Science today, researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU) and the University of Queensland (UQ), as well as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigated what this warming pattern means for GBR coral bleaching events into the future.

As a result of a research study conducted by researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Technology of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Materials Science and the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), all in collaboration with the Mahou and Createch Co., have developed biocompatible materials to be used as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly bagasse (residue) from beer brewing.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

Sheila Lawlor, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, the right - wing think - tank, says that older children should be free to drop science.

Co-author Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «This study demonstrates the value of a citizen science approach for tracking an invasive alien species in both space and time and understanding how environmental conditions may exacerbate spread.»

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The study, which also involved researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and University College London, was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship to Dr O'Dea and a Royal Society Research Fellowship to Dr Gibbs, Senior Research Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, with additional support by the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme.

«The decomposers have the same function in the forest as the waste collection service in our cities,» explains study director Ulrich Brose, head of the research group Theory in Biodiversity Science at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany).

The study by the UW Physics theorists, funded by grants from Poland's National Science Centre, has yielded another interesting conclusion.

The report, «Open Data: The Researcher Perspective,» is the result of a year - long, co-conducted study between Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), part of Leiden University, the Nethescience and health, and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), part of Leiden University, the NetheScience and Technology Studies (CWTS), part of Leiden University, the Netherlands.

CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science developed the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) model used in this study in partnership.

«These world - first results will have significant impact on the development of climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science at UNSW.

Other study contributors include scientists from the Institute for Molecular Science at the Laser Research Centre in Japan and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Iowa State University in the United States.

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

He is postdoctoral researcher at the University in Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway, and lead - author of a new study published in Quaternary Science Reviews.

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The study was led by Director of Science at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) Federica Di Palma.

Dubai - October 2017 - the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies, a division of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical sciences, published the 5th edition of the Genetics Made Easy series entitled «Neurological Brain Disorders».

Professor Terry Hughes, the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, which is headquartered at JCU, was awarded his second five - year Federation Fellowship by the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, Julie Bishop yesterday.

«It's important not to interpret this study as an argument against vaccination of our children against flu or any other disease,» Peter Openshaw, president of the British Society for Immunology and Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London (who wasn't involved in the study) told the Science Media Centre.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), and Western Australian Marine Science Institution have examined the impact of the 2016 mass bleaching event on reefs in Western Australia (WA).

«In the future, [the findings] could apply to vaccines that we hope will be developed against generally lethal viruses (e.g. HIV, Ebola), encouraging scientists to strive towards «perfect vaccines» for them,» Michael Skinner, a virologist from Imperial College London who wasn't part of the study, told the Science Media Centre.

The European Pencil Community, an active and ever - expanding network The resource centre conducted a motivation study amongst the youngsters participating in PENCIL to identify the elements that make the change in their attitude towards science thanks to the project.

In a paper in the latest edition of the journal Science, Dr Jodie Rummer of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and colleagues from the University of British Columbia report a groundbreaking discovery about how fish manage to survive in hostile water conditions.

A study of the ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in cooperation with the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 looks at the role played by the personality of researchers within this social dilemma and which individual barriers and incentives should be taken into account.

Also an author of the new study, he works at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Weymouth, England.

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Georgina earned her BSc in Marine Science from the University of Tasmania and recently finished her PhD at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow.