Sentences with phrase «as small experiments»

Charter schools were initially envisioned as small experiments to test different kinds of education.

«I think we need to try it on a very small scale as a small experiment on the most clear - cut case out there.

The game began as a small experiment into open - world exploration and nonlinear chills.

«What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing 10 million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story since it was launched in July 2013.

But what began as a small experiment — eight paintings shown this summer at a gallery in Washington, D.C. — gathered momentum in ways the artist never Read More...

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This might encourage you, as a small business owner, to experiment with some of these more generous PTO policies.

These days, Reimer is experimenting with a small string of FXR retail stores as a way of further extending the brand and finding new customers.

In a blog post detailing the new experiment, Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan writes that «gyrometers in phones can measure small movements, while GPS and accelerometers show how often a vehicle starts and stops, as well as its overall speed.»

Brian Lang is the founder of Small Business Ideas Blog, where he shares business tips as well as experiments with digital and content marketing techniques.

Even a small experiment like skipping one meal is enough to demonstrate to most of us the degree to which we have become addicted to food, not only as our bodies require and enjoy it, but also for organizing our days.

I mentioned my experiment to a small group at my church, and as I spoke I remembered that there were three women in the room who were recovering from anorexia.

In her juicing experiments published on Fiery Foods & BBQ Central, here, Food Editor Emeritus Nancy Gerlach wrote: «I do think juicing works well with the smaller, fleshy, superhot chiles such as habaneros and rocotos.

You can try making the recipe as I have it written, then divide it into smaller batches and add your protein powder and then experiment with adding puree or coconut oil and see which one turns out best!

I didn't want to risk ruining my whole batch of almond butter if my experiment went poorly, so I started with just 1/2 cup and added small amounts of cocoa and sweetener as I went.

I think we should stop behaving like a small team and just buy who we need now rather than try to unearth gems who in the long run end up as very expensive failed experiments.

If your baby is truly ready for solids he will be able to experiment with feeding himself with very small chunks of soft foods, as well as any mashed or pureed foods you will feed him.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.

Programming a molecular biology experiment can be similar to playing Sudoku; both are simple if you're working with only a few molecules or a small grid, but they explode in complexity as they grow.

Researchers design and conduct experiments aimed at addressing a behavioral question, such as how a small group tries to solve a particular problem.

Now, KamLAND - Zen is embarking on a new incarnation of the experiment, using about twice as much xenon, which will reach down to even smaller masses, and even rarer decays.

By experimenting with different forms of acoustic signals, he found that a large pulse followed by a small one could reflect sound waves in such a way as to allow fish and bubbles to be easily distinguished.

In either case, the believer will often take the uncertainty of a big, genuinely mysterious question like consciousness as license to believe in something smaller like astrology, which can be disproved by experiment.

Ringer adds that even though the experiments produced only laboratory quantities of the superstrength alloy, the process could quickly be adapted to produce small components that require high strength but low weight, such as biomedical implants.

This optimistic assessment makes sense only so long as God is a truly big idea, not an idea small enough to be threatened by the results of experiments; not a «God of the gaps» but a God that is bigger than the cosmos.

Then, in a classic experiment known as the dictator game, subjects were asked to divide a small sum of money between themselves and a stranger.

That day and in several later experiments, gaseous carbon dioxide from the thawing ice maintained a lubricating layer under the slab and also pushed sand aside into small levees as the slabs glided down even low - angle slopes.

In experiments, the developed system was able to clearly detect a steel ball with a diameter as small as 0.3 mm.

The ultimate objective of the collaboration is to establish a suite of tools that includes X-ray imaging and small laboratory experiments, computer - based analysis and simulation tools, as well as large - scale high - heat and wind - tunnel tests.

Experiments with this DNA origami positioning device showed that it could be capable of precisely placing molecules, adjusting the distance between them in steps as small as the radius of a hydrogen atom.

We conducted a series of observations and experiments to test whether weta form mutualistic partnerships with fleshy - fruited plants as seed dispersers, similar to small mammals elsewhere in the world.

Buildings such as the one at Oberlin College [the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies], which was an experiment — a tremendous amount of ambition for a really small project.

Instead, in a series of animal and synthetic experiments, they suggest that the bodies of geckos act much like a spring, and that as geckos become larger, they also become stiffer, thus enabling them to climb as well as small geckos.

To answer this question, you first need to do some experiments with a small, square plate, made from the same material as your shovel.

In experiments with lab mice, she discovered how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.

And in three field experiments, they poked and prodded eggs with a small stick, or squeezed them gently with their fingers to measure how sensitive the eggs were to the kinds of disturbances a predator, such as a snake, might cause.

The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the sky to produce high resolution maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the leading theoretical model of the universe, known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model.

In their new Journal of Experimental Social Psychology study, the researchers conducted a series of experiments that included male and female university undergraduates as well as a set of subjects recruited using Amazon's «Mechanical Turk,» a tool in which individuals are compensated for completing small tasks and is frequently used in running behavioral science studies.

The replication crisis refers to a growing concern in experimental psychology — and the larger scientific community — about the drop in studies able to confirm previous work with experiments that achieve the same results using the same methods, as well as the increased risk of data manipulation in studies with small sample sizes.

In a separate experiment, Ozcan's team also detected nanoparticles — specially marked fluorescent beads made of polystyrene — as small as 90 - 100 nanometers.

Just as the idea that there might be hotspots of OMG particles seemed left for dead, a fresh hotspot in the Northern Hemisphere was detected by a smaller, Japanese - led experiment in Utah called the Telescope Array.

The U.S. continued to launch animals for scientific experiments but increasingly concentrated on smaller creatures such as mice and insects, which are easier to care for and take up much less space (although two squirrel monkeys did ride on the space shuttle Challenger's STS -51-B mission in April - May 1985.)

For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experiments.

In a separate experiment, Ozcan's team also detected nanoparticles — specially marked fluorescent beads made of polystyrene — as small as 90 — 100 nanometers.

Proving their hunch, the researchers found ascarosides in the secretions of every nematode they examined, and a few subsequent experiments showed that the small compounds also acted as signaling molecules in the species» they investigated.

MRO's HiRISE camera (short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) can distinguish Martian objects as small as a dinner table, allowing researchers to study the planet's surface features more completely than ever before.

They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

As part of the NASA - funded experiment, a crew of six scientists lived in a small dome with limited access to resources to simulate life on the red planet.

As the Ukrainian experiments have shown, with small amounts of energy, significant fusion (and fission) can occur in 10 - 8 second with a self - focused (Z - pinched) electron beam in a high - density plasma.116