Sentences with phrase «after an experiment at»

This principle actually has something of a formal name: the Dunning - Kruger effect, named after an experiment at Cornell in 1999.

Not exact matches

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said at a press briefing on November 9 that the force expected to have a report on the experiment by the end of December, after which it would make decisions about the program and potential battlefield tests.

Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

After seven months at the helm of the television show made legendary by Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, O'Brien was given the choice to either move the show to a half hour later to make room for the return of Jay Leno, whose 10 p.m. experiment was a flop, or to hit the road.

That, at least, was the conclusion of communications researcher Zeynep Tufecki after an informal experiment described Saturday in the New York Times.

A team of researchers at UCI had been experimenting with nanowires for potential use in batteries, but found that over time the thin, fragile wires would break down and crack after too many charging cycles.

(Once before their mood was manipulated and once after, and again at the very end of the experiment.)

After attempting this experiment for a month and failing many times (what would YOU have done at the grocery checkout with four kids and a full cart only to realize you forgot cash??)

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

After all, if the official plan to address a «price inflation» problem involves fixing prices and distributing «Whip Inflation Now» buttons, and at the same time the central bank and the government are experimenting with Keynesian demand - boosting strategies, then there's only one way for economic confidence to go, and that's down.

After years of experimenting, we knew hopping an ale at five separate stages would produce something special.

After 15 years of failed experiments, a cloning breakthrough was accomplished by scientists at Oregon University recently.

(For this experiment to be reasonably conclusive, the person should be able to stop after one or two drinks for at least a month.)

You could also experiment with cooking at a higher temperature for a shorter amount of time, just keep checking after 15 min to make sure it does not burn.

I noticed it gave the dough an even more glutinous quality than straight flax, so I tried an experiment; after making the dough, I let it «rise» in the bowl for about 45 mins at 115 degrees in my convection oven.

After that I experimented with some sit - down Indian dining, on the first occasion of which, a friend instructed me to «Just pick anything at random off of the vegetarian menu.

After experimenting a bit with the coconut butter, I think that when it's added at the same time as ice, it can tend to freeze up and solidify and that's where it doesn't blend in well.

In a 1986 study conducted at the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, R.L. Edwards and F.J. Sundstrom extracted seed from red and orange pods of tabasco peppers harvested 150, 195, and 240 days after transplanting.

Wenger just does his rotation, from regular starter to team B. Bellerin is living after this season, wenger and his experimenting got everyone fed up... Boy is a left back, he plays him upper to do is back 5 new trick to don't lose instead to look for win... OX was left back and Bellerin playing above him at some point..

The 52 - year - old's reputation is in tatters after his failed spell at Manchester United, and an experiment gone wrong at Real Sociedad, but this is the same man who worked wonders at Everton for a decade.

Thomas had been the last pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, thrived for the Sacramento Kings anyway, was dealt by them after three seasons, came off the bench for the Phoenix Suns in a failed three - guard lineup experiment, and ultimately was traded for scraps at the deadline.

I still don't accept youth experiment is a failure.It had success at its level but couldn't reach the top, missing probably by one or two places.Who knows professor may try again after clinching a title to keep things calm.

Gareth Bale shouldn't see any more time at left back after this experiment.

After spending many an hour there, Ramsey should have found a way to make himself useful in the wings in a Mata - ish way or at least have the «stones» to take up the issue with Wenger and put an end to his idiotic experiment.

After a few months spent experimenting with the prospect of the United captain taking on a midfield role on a more permanent basis for club and country at Euro 2016, it remains to be seen how Mourinho will use Rooney next season.

At first I thought I was imagining it, but after doing a few experiments I had to admit that he really didn't want to be around me.

Experiment to find the best time to feed your baby solids, for example before, after, or at a separate time from formula or breastfeeding.

Babies start to experiment with solid foods between 4 and 6 months and begin to eat them at every meal after 6 months, depending on the interest of the baby.

So after a while, I kind of looked at it like a sociology experiment to see how «pregnant» and «twins» in the same sentence, could screw up a stranger's filter.»

After many kitchen science experiments, I have come up with low amine recipes that keep me fed and happy while keeping my swollen joints at bay.

Russia takes the lead on preventing drug law reform at the UN, after the US funds itself compromised by the Colorado cannabis experiment

Sally Davies said she had experimented with cannabis when studying medicine at Edinburgh University, but decided against further use after it made her hallucinate.

Almost two Britons in three (64 per cent) think it would matter if «he had experimented with more serious drugs» while at school or university and 71 per cent said it would matter if he used drugs «as an adult, after he started work».

So that she could continue to spend the time she wanted with her children after her parental leaves, McKendrick learned to focus on «getting the job done» — finishing experiments and writing papers — and became great at «zero time wasting,» she says.

One day I took a walk through our laboratories at Queen's and found lots of Aluminium foil waste so I did a little digging and after speaking to my colleagues, I ran my experiment and was astonished by the ultrapure single crystals — I didn't expect it to be 100 % pure.

In an experiment published two months after the mouse work, Vicki Chandler of the University of Arizona at Tucson found the same process at work in plants.

Last February, Danish biologist Lars Peter Nielsen stumbled on a possible explanation after his team at the University of Aarhus noticed activity in beakers of sludge set up for an experiment that had ended weeks earlier.

5) After you have experienced the joy of moments 1) to 4) your life will be relatively free of heartache, must - do experiments, and lab clutter, at least for the few days until you get stuck into your new project.

After starting her doctorate work in neurology in 2003 at the University of British Columbia, Lidstone led a rather odd brain - imaging experiment.

In 1978, rheumatologist Jon Levine and neurologist Howard Fields, both at the University of California, San Francisco, did a simple experiment with people in pain after dental surgery.

After trying many different approaches to help students become the best they could be, this is my advice to you: at the end of each year (sometime in December) have your students set goals for experiments / writing, career development exercises, conferences to attend, etc..

After completing his Ph.D., he attended a 3 - week genetics boot camp at Cold Spring Harbor, where he got his hands dirty with some wet lab experiments.

In one experiment at UCLA, reported in 2007, scientists rang a bell after 53 seconds of silence.

Now an upgraded, more sensitive experiment called XENON100, also at Gran Sasso, reports that after four full years of data, they see no evidence for a seasonal modulation (arxiv.org/abs/1701.00769).

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Maye spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, where she began conducting experiments on how babies learn.

However, after meeting co-authors Pete, Colin, Amy and Suzanna at the ACA meeting, we decided to perform these much more complicated experiments using the very light and inert gas — neon.

After recruiting a sample of 2150 undecided Indian voters, the researchers repeated the original experiment, replacing the Australian candidates with the three Indian politicians who were actually running at the time.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.