Sentences with phrase «by earlier scientists»

Although he may have been one of the first to suggest that dogs laugh, the idea that other animals laugh had already been suggested by earlier scientists.

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Scientists had a working flu vaccine by the 1940s, after the influenza virus was first discovered in the early 1930s.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

In 1998, a distinguished committee led by Princeton University's Shirley Tilghman warned that too many early - career life scientists faced diminishing and discouraging professional prospects.

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

As early as the 1930s, scientists were alarmed by the degradation and were worried about erosion and plants dying off.»

The avenues of thought explored by Ashley and others are reminiscent of the earlier work of the Jesuit theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of se - xual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

We both know that some of the earliest well - known scientists were not only religious but were funded by the church of their day.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

early arabs were by far the most advanced scientists and mathematicians of their time.

Shen Kua was perhaps the greatest of early Chinese scientists, but his writings have none of the conceptual integration of Aristotle or his Muslim and Christian successors: «Notices of the highest originality stand cheek - by - jowl with trivial didacticism, court anecdotes, and ephemeral curiosities.»

Early Domestication of Chile Peppers Confirmed By Dave DeWitt Scientists, including researcher Linda Perry, writing in the journal Science (February 16, 2007), have proven that chile peppers were domesticated in South America at least by 6,000 years agBy Dave DeWitt Scientists, including researcher Linda Perry, writing in the journal Science (February 16, 2007), have proven that chile peppers were domesticated in South America at least by 6,000 years agby 6,000 years ago.

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

It's really only by scientists performing some of this essential work on early human embryos that we are going to be able to understand why some embryos make it and some don't.

Into the wild by Rachel Bernstein, 10 March 2015 After finding out that his early successes wouldn't land him the tenure - track position he desired, Ethan Perlstein felt like he was «in the wilderness» for about a year before he reinvented himself, first as an independent scientist and then as a biotech startup founder.

The article «Breaking through the polycarbonate ceiling» highlighted programs led by AAAS that aimed at early - career support as well as professional advancement, for women scientists and engineers, including programs such as COACh (career - training and networking program) and WISC (Women's International Scientific Cooperation).

Expand Your Professional - Skills Training by Elisabeth Pain, 1 October 2010 Voluntary activities, such as helping to organize conferences, offer early career scientists opportunities to gain new skills and also broaden their horizons.

Janda is a psychologist and behavioural scientist who looks at ways to prevent cancer by raising awareness and at ways to catch it quickly using early detection.

Ever since the early days of QM scientists have acknowledged that neither idea by itself can explain electromagnetic radiation.

Its early members included Nicolás José Gutiérrez, the physician who introduced anesthesia in Cuba, Felipe Poey y Aloy, Latin America's most famous ichthyologist at the time, and the renowned physician and scientist, Carlos Finlay, who first determined that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.

Early - career scientists can prepare themselves by engaging with groups such as AAAS, which offers science communication training, opportunities for scientists and engineers to engage in policy and tools for catalyzing advocacy, Holt noted.

Second, I will work to further support LGBTQ scientists — whether students, early - career, or otherwise — for example by developing safe spaces by initiating diversity - focused conversations during weekly lab meetings and visible signage on my office.

• A lack of training opportunities was most strongly felt by early - career scientists in the MENA countries (55.8 %), but it was also a significant issue in Africa and Asia.

Just months earlier, he and Joshua Kalla, political scientists now at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, respectively, had exposed a study published by Science in 2014 as likely resting completely on fake data.

The study from the University of Bristol comes on the back of public health warnings issued earlier this year by scientists who voiced concerns about the increased risk of psychosis for vulnerable people who use the drug.

Duke scientists have shown that it's possible to pick out key changes in the genetic code between chimpanzees and humans and then visualize their respective contributions to early brain development by using mouse embryos.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

By the early 1700s, scientists had developed the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales.

In additional tests, the scientists found they could restore the norovirus infections by transplanting fecal material from untreated mice into mice that earlier had been treated with the antibiotics.

McCarthy expressed hope that the report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal Science — and written by a group of esteemed American climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent of climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on climate change.

With only a few observations to feed into their calculations, the early estimates by scientists of an asteroid's future orbit have huge uncertainties.

When Ahna Skop (pictured left) met the president of the United States in early November at a ceremony honoring the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spokearly November at a ceremony honoring the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spokEarly Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the presidentScientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the presidentscientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spoke to.

And more than 1,600 scientists — most of them early - career researchers at UK universities — wrote in a letter to The Times on July 22 that the government should protect scientists by acting to maintain access to EU funding and ensure the free movement of researchers.

In the early stages of farming more than 7,000 years ago, women engaged in a wide array of physically intense activities that were crucial to village life but have gone largely unnoticed by scientists, conclude biological anthropologist Alison Macintosh of the University of Cambridge and colleagues.

But the focus of the HHMI Professors program is not on research, per se; rather, the program aims to enhance the development of the next generation of biomedical scientists by drawing them into research and related activities at an early age.

Who We Are As Scientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem - cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues iScientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem - cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues iscientists organized an international conference on ethical issues in science.

But early this year, Princeton materials scientists Steven Atkinson, Frank Stillinger and Salvatore Torquato found significantly less dense configurations by pushing the pennies together as if they were on a shrinkable pad of rubber rather than a rigid table, until reaching the «no closer» point.

He is mindful to include both experienced professionals and early career scientists on his teams, because the knowledge that older workers possess is fortified by the inspiration of younger employees, and vice versa.

Ever since NASA's Magellan probe mapped Venus's surface in detail in the early 1990s, scientists have known that the landscape there is remarkably unblemished by impact craters but rich in apparently dormant volcanoes.

Duffy's work has been recognized by a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America, and by the Yentsch - Schindler Early Career Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

Without action to stave off climate change, some scientists believe that, at that rate, all of the year - round ice in the Arctic could be gone by as early as 2030.

Lim's team sits in the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and the faculty of engineering, and as he consults with biologists and clinicians as dictated by the nature of his various projects, he stresses the need for engineers and physical scientists to partner with medical doctors early and regularly in the innovation process.