Sentences with phrase «by biologists on»

While documenting that new species, a second new species of pillbug originally collected 142 years ago by biologists on a wooden sailing ship in Alaska was discovered in a collection room at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) by researchers Adam Wall and Dr. Regina Wetzer.

Not exact matches

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

It emphasises that science and technology must be «at the service of the human person» (DV 2) and the language is quite strong: «Science without conscience can only lead to man's ruin» (DV 2); and «No biologist or doctor can reasonably claim, by virtue of his scientific competence, to be able to decide on people's rights and destiny» (DV 3).

I vividly recall the great importance he attached to a genuine recognition of chance and accident by his response to one of the clearest statements on the subject ever made by a biologist.

By its implicit demand that teleology display itself on the level of molecular mechanisms, this Harvard biologist's statement exhibits the difficulty many scientists have today with hierarchical thinking.

Most research on the inner functioning of the cell has been carried out by biologists chiefly influenced by the mechanical model, but what has been learned appears to fit the ecological model better.

An eminent biologist explains why anglers should not be penalized by needless regulations on the largemouth bass and offers reliable fishing tips

Much like a 2012 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where educational biologist Wendy Middlemiss and her team tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they attempted a five - day sleep training program that focused on the cry it out method.

More Than a Thousand «Experience a Revolution» With Rob Stewart and BurlingtonGreen, by Jackie Prime Rob Stewart, award - winning biologist, conservationist, photographer and creator of acclaimed films Sharkwater and Revolution, took the stage for two inspirational events at the Performing Arts Centre on October 21st, 2014.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.

Researchers have long explored this idea by observing animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants, but biologist Natalia Borrego of South Africa's University of KwaZulu - Natal focuses on big cats.

Crona began thinking about rank orders while working with biologist Miriam Barlow on the problem of antibiotic cycling, by which hospital doctors rotate different antibiotics to thwart patient infections.

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

Using a star - recognition algorithm developed by NASA, volunteers Jason Holmberg and Zaven Arzoumanian, and marine biologist Brad Norman from Murdoch University in Australia, have developed software that can assign a whale shark a «digital fingerprint» based on a photograph of the pattern of spots on its back.

On the Organic Law of Change is a facsimile of the notebook with transcriptions and annotations by evolutionary biologist James Costa.

They focused on a mustard green called Arabidopsis, the reference organism used by plant biologists in their research.

Late in September 2006, Nobel Prize — winning molecular biologist Richard Roberts was thumbing through the journal Nature when he read an article by one of their senior reporters, Declan Butler, about a group of foreign medics on death row in Libya.

Biologists and clergy are being radicalized by the same shared belief, a sign that we find ourselves on the brink of committing irrevocable acts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The cloning of an adult sheep by Scottish biologists was on every legislator's mind when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appeared to defend his budget request on Capitol Hill today.

They kill by being able to sneak up on things,» says Paul Houghtaling, the team's primary field biologist.

A true magnum opus, by the Scottish biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form has inspired many biologists with its mathematical analysis of physical and structural forces underlying the diversity of shapes and forms in the biological world.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

However, instead of consensus, a new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

Systems biologists interviewed by Next Wave recommend the International Conference on Systems Biology, which will be held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2006.

A new study by a Florida State University biologist shows that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

Washington State University molecular biologist Michael Skinner had previously shown that sperm abnormalities induced by vinclozolin, a toxic fungicide used on wine grapes, strawberries, and other fruits, can pass from father to son for four generations in rats.

Biologists have shown that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

Meanwhile, attention may shift to a lawsuit filed against Cobb County on 21 August in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the March agreement on textbook inserts unconstitutional, says biologist Sarah Pallas of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

Biologists studying great right whales (such as Roger Payne in Argentine Patagonia) recognize individuals by the unique patterns of whitish growths, called callosities, on the whales» heads.

Described by a spokesperson from NASA's Astrobiology Institute as «a revolution that will require its own revolution,» astrobiology draws on the expertise of astronomers and biologists, physicists, chemists, and geologists to understand the development of life in the universe.

Matkin and other biologists say there is no compelling historical evidence that large numbers of killer whales were ever dependent on the great whales wiped out by industrial whaling.

«The salinity at one buoy on the reef dropped from 36 to 32 on Sept. 28, but it rebounded to 36 by Oct. 4, and it has been between 35 and 36 since then,» said Rice marine biologist Adrienne Correa, one of the expedition scientists.

Researchers led by biologist Gabriele Gentile of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have discovered a new species of land iguana living in the Galápagos that Darwin missed but may shed light on evolution.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Lukas Dow, a cancer biologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and colleagues investigated Apc's role by genetically engineering mice with a kind of Apc on / off switch.

By 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel CarsoBy 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carsoby the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.

Scientific study of the microbial world was placed on a firmer footing at the end of the 19th century by the French biologist Louis Pasteur.

It builds on the established principle of convergent evolution, a widely - supported theory — although one still disputed by some biologists — that different species will independently evolve similar features.

On 18 January, a week before the official procedure ended, the French government named Petit interim president of CNRS, a position that had been held by cell biologist Anne Peyroche since Fuchs's departure.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

The team, led by biologists Jung - Joon Min and Joon Haeng Rhee, then set out to test the effects of the modified Salmonella on cancer.

So researchers led by Graham Slater, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Samantha Price, an evolutionary biologist at UC Davis, focused on body size instead of fossils or molecules.

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

To find out if birds share this ability, Biro and Oxford biologist Takao Sasaki strapped GPS devices on homing pigeons and divided them into three groups: birds homing by themselves, birds flying with the same partner, and birds that switched up their partner every half dozen flights or so.