Sentences with phrase «among life scientists»

Among life scientists, the unemployment rate doubled between 2001 and 2013, from 1.1 % to 2.2 % — not very encouraging considering that SDR counts postdoctoral appointments (which have also grown) as employment.

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Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent of techies are religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject matter is taboo among most modern scientists; it's not something we talk about in our daily working lives.

This «orthogenetic» view of animal evolution is gradually becoming common ground among scientists; but it only achieves full validity, in terms of my argument, to the extent that it implies a continuous psychic «chain» going back to the beginning of life.

Karl Popper, second to none among living (now, 1996, no longer) philosophers of science, defends indeterminism, as do Dirac and Wheeler, among the more creative of living scientists, including some biologists.

Among them are the special alliterations of which he was fond, such as «modern man, that poor proud plaything of the volcanic energies of his own unleashing»; and «Christ gives the Divinity of God to be the food and life of the sin - soiled souls of men»; as well as saying that scientists «can summon seven devils to the service of sin».

We may assert today that there is almost complete unanimity among scientists regarding the central position of Life in the Universe, and of Man in Life.

[2] He also states that»... «anthropic» reasoning fails to distinguish between minimally biophilic universes, in which life is permitted, but only marginally possible, and optimally biophilic universes, in which life flourishes because biogenesis occurs frequently...» [2] Among scientists who find the evidence persuasive, a variety of natural explanations have been proposed, e.g., the anthropic principle along with multiple universes.

If Leopold and other scientists are correct, if the land is indeed one organism and there is a total and critical interdependence among all living things, then the deliberate poisoning of vast areas of the U.S. will have been a long stride toward the end of life as it is known on the North American continent.

The discussion focused on the Ph.D. career crisis more as a structural issue of «overproduction» than as a calamity for tens of thousands of talented and dedicated aspiring scientists who have invested crucial years of their lives in the hope of taking their place among those advancing the nation's scientific enterprise.

Among them are thousands of scientists and researchers, many fleeing with little more than a USB flash drive or the password to a Dropbox account containing what they could salvage of their life's work.

The curious phenomenon of the cicada's periodical life cycle is the subject of much debate among scientists, who are limited to no small extent by the infrequency of the insect's visits to the surface.

Disproportionately, the scientists say, recently discovered species live in fragmented, fragile habitats — and therefore they, too, may number among those that are most threatened.

Micheletti and his research group have been among the first to work in that respect and are an authoritative voice in the field, so much that the Physics of Life Reviews has chosen to ask the scientist himself this review.

«Donor Fatigue,» page 26 «Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Life After XMRV,» published June 3 in the online version of the journal Nature, discusses doubts among scientists that the XMRV virus causes chronic fatigue syndrome.

Milner, a tech start - up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars

The study is expected to generate interest in the age research field among scientists studying rapamycin and its analogs as they look for ways to forestall late - life diseases.

While ANSMET spends time searching mountain ice, other scientists are examining Antarctica's Dry Valleys — among the coldest, driest places in the world — for signs of life.

The Diversity of Life, due out in Britain in March as a paperback, deserves a huge readership among scientists.

WASHINGTON — You are where you live, scientists who study genetic variations among people from different geographic regions are finding.

As of April 21, some 15,817 life scientists from 138 countries had signed the letter, among them several Nobel laureates.

Science sampled Twitter usage among 50 randomly chosen living scientists from the Scholarometer list.

By adding fundamentals of biology to their computer science training, more than a few native computer scientists are contributing — and preparing themselves to contribute — to the advancement of the life sciences (among other fields), laying foundations for new branches of study.

I'm immensely proud of British scientists, who really are among the world's best, as demonstrated by the strong showing in the recent international space life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a statement.

Stories on the potential impact of climate change in two localities and on the secret lives of scientists and engineers are among the winners of the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

Should scientists remove seismic databases from public view to prevent panic among civilians living in hazardous areas?

The Wisconsin scientists began to see diabetes among the control animals while they were still in the prime of life, within six months after beginning their study.

Scientists believe lichens were among the first living things to try their luck on dry land some 600 million years ago, 200 million years before the first plants arrived.

And mice are among a group of short - lived animals, which includesworms, lizards, and fruit flies, that scientists have traditionallyused to study aging.

The scientists» analysis of more than 25,000 bones and 170,000 live animals showed that the distribution of species among the bones corresponded well to the living community, even through periods of rapid ecological change.

Research by UCLA life scientists and 50 colleagues sheds new light on the biological differences among more than 150 species of monkeys in South America, many of which are endangered.

«We found that living in areas with greater mixed land use (residential, commercial, industrial, recreational) was associated with poorer perceived health among people with SCI in New Jersey» said Dr. Botticello, senior research scientist in Outcomes & Assessment Research at Kessler Foundation.

This estimate is 11 percent lower than the current assessment of the IUCN, supporting the call for the upgrading of cheetahs from «Vulnerable» to «Endangered»,» says lead author Florian Weise, scientist at the Community Living Among Wildlife Sustainability Conservancy (CLAWS), USA.

Calvert Island, in particular, is among the few places worldwide with a sea level that has remained relatively stable since the last ice age, a boon for scientists looking to study how people have lived for the past 15,000 years.

Whitehead Institute Founding Member Robert Weinberg is among 11 scientists to receive the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, intended to recognize excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human lLife Sciences, intended to recognize excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human lifelife.

Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist for the study.

The name largely derives from the hypothesized explosion of diversity of life that occurred very rapidly, but that this actually occurred is not a consensus among scientists.

Figure 2 shows that a faculty position with focus on research is among the most attractive careers for over 50 % of life scientists and physicists, while a research position in an established firm is among the most attractive options for over 50 % of chemists.

Our data show that a faculty research career is the career path most often considered «extremely attractive» and ranks among the most desirable careers for over 50 % of life scientists and physicists.

When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked a renaissance in involvement among scientists in K - 12 science instruction.

Krull's conversational narrative brings a giant among scientists and her work to life.

The conclusion among participating scientists: Less food in the bowl adds more — and healthier — years to dogs» lives.

A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»

Climate looks at the averages of weather, and climate scientists don't claim to know what will happen in any given time and place in the months and years ahead, just like actuaries don't know what will happen to any individual, but they've studied the average of things like life expectancies among various large groups.

What is not really in dispute among scientists is the fact that life as we know it is in serious peril.

The demand for internal communications associated with their research places a burden on NOAA scientists, imposes a chilling effect on future communication among scientists, and potentially disrupts NOAA's critical efforts to protect life and property.

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

For example, the constant refrain about how «the consensus» was wrong about plate tectonics is useful for «skeptics» to exploit - and then argue that the existence of a «consensus» on climate change isn't meaningful - when they don't also consider just how pervasively we all trust the product of scientists» work, and by extension the power of shared opinion among experts, as we live our daily lives.

Giordano Bruno, the wandering monk who influenced Spinoza and Liebniz, was burned in 1600 as a heretic, for (among other things) speculating about life on other planets, much like scientists do today.

But when scientists resolved a problem the deniers fastened on a newer one, while the old disproved arguments stubbornly lived on among the Web's countless niches.