Scientists are at a loss to explain how this happens.
Despite the good news of the find, sea snake numbers have been declining in several marine parks, and
scientists are at a loss to explain why.
Scientists were at a loss.
Scientists are at a loss to explain why mercury often takes months to exert its effects.
Scientists are at a loss in trying to explain the puzzling ineffectiveness of CO
Not exact matches
Kristin Goss, a political
scientist at Duke University and author of The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know, previously told me that it
's a sense of tangible
loss.
Goss, who
's also a political
scientist at Duke University, previously told me that it
's a sense of tangible
loss — gun owners feel like the government
is going to take their guns and rights.
Clifford B. Saper, professor of neurology and neuroscience
at the Harvard Medical School and chair of the Department of Neurology
at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said that «99 percent of
scientists agree — a
loss of sleep
is deleterious.»
The
scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
at McGill University, led by Peter McPherson, along with collaborators in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany, and
at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto, have discovered that a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy
is caused by recessive
loss - of - function mutations in the gene DENND5A.
«The sites that have
been excavated
are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could see Greenlandic
scientists targeting other ones, for example sites that
are at risk of
loss from climate change.»
Dr Bill Whitmer,
Scientist at MRC / CSO IHR added: «We
are very excited about this collaboration, applying our hearing - aid and hearing -
loss expertise to this project.
Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year)
was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the
scientists could explain,
at most, 15 percent of the water
loss in northwestern India.
«The goal
is to halt the rate of photoreceptor
loss,» says Robert Lanza, chief
scientist at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts, the company that has
been developing the treatment since first turning hESCs into RPEs in 2004.
The big thing you have in common, of course,
is that you both have careers as
scientists, so if you
're at a
loss for what to say, ask her about her work and career path.
The discovery in the 1980s of «high - temperature» superconductors that work
at warmer temperatures (though still not room temperature)
was a giant step forward, offering
scientists the hope that a complete understanding of what enables these materials to carry
loss - free current would help them design new materials for everyday applications.
Scientists are looking
at the link between the
loss of Arctic sea ice and how it affects weather in lower latitudes, but more research
is needed.
«The
loss of fully trained citizen
scientists from the research establishment
is occurring
at an increasing rate,» he says.
«Fasting blood sugar
is easily measured and our findings suggest that it could serve as a useful measure in advising some patients on the type of diet that
is most beneficial for their weight
loss,» said senior author Sai Krupa Das, Ph.D.,
scientist in the Energy Metabolism Laboratory
at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
at Tufts University in Boston.
Jedediah Brodie, a
scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research
is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic
are completely a result of ice
loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.
But the forest
loss wasn't the only concern for the Acre state government, said Foster Brown, a senior
scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center and a professor
at the Federal University of Acre in Rio Branco, the state capital.
Researchers in the Greenland GPS Network, led by Michael Bevis
at The Ohio State University, have discovered that the same hotspot that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has
been causing
scientists to underestimate ice
loss on Greenland.
These findings suggest that Greenland's glaciers have
been experiencing increasing ice
loss for
at least three decades — a result that may reinforce
scientists» concerns over the stability of the melting ice sheet.
In the report,
scientists identify five epigenetic biomarkers in adolescents that
were associated with a better weight
loss at the beginning of a weight
loss program.
The information from the study helps improve
scientists» understanding of the behavior of the ice sheet and what processes control the
loss of ice, Beata Csatho, a geophysicist
at the University of Buffalo in New York who
was not involved with the work, said in a commentary published in the same issue of Nature.
The findings also show that the
loss of ice from calving has remained more or less constant through the 20th century, says Dr Ruth Mottram, a climate
scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute who wasn't involved in the study.
«Controlling black carbon may
be the only way of preventing the
loss of the Arctic completely,» said Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric
scientist who researches air pollution and climate change
at Stanford University.
But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric
scientists this week, it became clear that there may
be more questions than answers
at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme
losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).
Scientists usually say Mars must have had a thicker atmosphere in the past that
was lost to space; NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft
is at the Red Planet looking
at atmospheric
loss.
«Human intestinal bacteria have
been linked to the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, and
scientists have started to investigate whether the intestinal bacteria can play a role in the treatment of
being overweight,» explained the study's author, professor Arne Astrup, head of the Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports
at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (he shared many of the findings of his remarkable weight -
loss research with mbg back in April).
Scientists at the University of Texas discovered that to some extent the
loss of brain volume
is balanced by larger numbers of connections between neurons.
My concern with this film
is that this
is a ship that
's supposed to
be filled with
scientists and engineers (as opposed to Alien where they
're essentially space truckers) and they seem to
be at a
loss with what to do.
While
scientists now understand the genetic basis for moderately complex traits such as coat color and pattern, research in other species suggests that there
is little or no significant genetic component to such indicators of performance as success in the show ring, The dog breeder, then,
is often
at a
loss for accurate sources of information about performance traits he
is interested in.
These arms
are modelled on the» Belgrade Hand», one of the first artificial hands created with a sense of touch invented in 1963 by the Serbian
scientist Rajko Tomović
at the University of Belgrade responding to the limb
loss of soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War.
The hockey stick discussion, and its elegant exposition recently notwithstanding, I
am at a
loss why social
scientists of a variety familiar to most universities have not addressed the implications of the climate record upon human (mostly European) bahaviour, since 1000.
Saleemul Huq, the
scientist whose work on
loss and damage helped put the issue of recompense on the conference agenda, said: «Discussions
were going well in a spirit of co-operation, but
at the end of the session on
loss and damage Australia put everything agreed into brackets, so the whole debate went to waste.»
Dr Laidre and other
scientists reported last year that all Arctic marine mammals could
be at risk because of habitat
loss.
Just yesterday we had an example of a
scientist who projected that Himalayan glaciers
were losing ice
at an an amazing rate correcting himself and cutting his own mass
loss estimate by 30 %.
Ultimately, this vicious cycle
is playing a major role in the growing
losses of snow and ice from the region, said coauthor Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric
scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
No research papers from
scientists in the field have predicted ice
loss at the rate it has
been happening.
If saving the planet
is deemed to
be a major project, then I
am at a
loss to understand why climate
scientists would wish to resist the red team / blue approach that
is mandatory in other disciplines for major projects, e.g., engineering.
Extreme weather causes crop production
losses, but until now,
scientists «did not know exactly how much global production
was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability
at the Liu Institute for Global Issues
at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study authors.
«One of the results that surprised us all
was the number of computer simulations that indicated a temporary halt to the
loss of the ice,» study researcher Jennifer Kay, a
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), said in a statement.
As for how international policy should treat
loss and damage, there
was little in the way of extra clarity, says Dr Dáithí Stone, a
scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab studying the changing risk to human and natural systems.
But look
at the evidence of those closest to bearing the real costs: private US insurers — those who place real bets indemnifying against property
loss — unlike the supposedly more serious
scientists —
are unmoved by ACW: «The American Insurance Association, which represents 400 property and casualty insurers, says the debate about global warming has not
been resolved.
But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric
scientists this week, it became clear that there may
be more questions than answers
at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme
losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).
in September, a first - of - its - kind analysis by an international team of 18 top
scientists found «less ice covers the Arctic today than
at any time in recent geologic history» and this ice
loss is «unexplainable by any of the known natural variabilities.»
They determined, however, that this volume had now increased by a further 3 cubic miles each year, prompted by an acceleration in the rate
at which the ice caps and glaciers
are melting.Unlike what many other
scientists have said — including, most prominently, NASA's James Hansen (who believes that a rise in 17 inches by 2100 will
be mainly precipitated by the melting of ice sheets)-- the authors of this study believe that the
loss of ice from glaciers and ice caps will account for the majority of the expected rise in sea levels.
Using Envisat radar altimeter data,
scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling
at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it had
been fairly constant until the record
loss of ice in the summer of 2007.
The guys
at NASA and the JPL proved this years ago: March 2, 2006 RELEASE: 06 - 085 NASA Mission Detects Significant Antarctic Ice Mass
Loss Scientists were able to conduct the first - ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet using data from the joint NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).