Sentences with phrase «by field scientists»

Dong also envisions that these lenses could be used by doctors in underdeveloped areas for diagnostic imaging or by field scientists as portable microscopes.

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U.S. - born computer science employees are hurt by the influx of foreign workers in the field, but for the American computer scientists who make up 1.7 % of the workforce, wages were depressed by just 1.5 % in 2010, according to Khanna.

In the field, Melnyk figured out how scientists, by inputting data on their laptops, could improve their productivity and speed up the fossilized process of garnering grants.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

In the field of biology, evolution may be «just» a theory (as some politicians painfully point out), but it is the theory subscribed to, for good reason, by every real scientist in every established university in the Western world.

The striking progress of the physical scientists has also given them a degree of prestige which has invited admiration and emulation by workers in other fields.

In studying any particular field the scientist theoretically commences by accepting nothing as known with certainty.

Both can be carried on by solitary individuals — the farmer in the field, the carpenter in his shop, the scientist in his laboratory.

Along with many other researchers in the field, Gould's works were sometimes deliberately taken out of context by creationists as «proof» that scientists no longer understood how organisms evolved.

Two major physiological hypotheses — the endocrinological and the nutri tional — have been advanced by scientists in the alcoholism field.

Los Baños, Laguna — Farmer - scientist group MASIPAG's call to revoke the application to field and feed test Golden Rice is validated after Testbiotech made an analysis on risk assessment made by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) on Golden Rice.

1941: GMA creates the Nutrition Foundation, led by top scientists around the country, to award grants in numerous fields that influence the food and consumer products industry.

It highlighted to me that this field of work is not always about a scientific breakthrough, but it is about having a moral compass and growing as a person by putting yourself out there to be of use to the world, and that this is achievable for young scientists to get involved and make a difference.

In addition, attending the conference had allowed me to meet up with some leading experts in different fields of research, as far as food security is concerned, as well as young researchers and the discussions provoked during the different presentations by leading scientists like Professor Louise Fresco were really interesting.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

«Many types of important research could potentially be affected by the bill, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where substances with psychoactive properties are important tools in helping scientists to understand a variety of phenomena, including consciousness, memory, addiction and mental illness,» the letter reads.

It will bring together expert social, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

(Scientists will have to wait for improved instruments and another eclipse to see how these wavelengths are distorted by the magnetic field.)

I saw presentations in many fields by renowned visiting scientists and scientists from my uni that had recently been awarded tenure.Lunch was not crazy, just some simple sandwiches, juices and fruit.

By exploring my options, I have discovered opportunities for scientists in fields including computational biology, regulatory affairs, business marketing, sales, technical support and development, public policy, science writing, and journalism to name a few.

Previous work by Zhao and Brian Reid, project scientist at the UC Davis Department of Dermatology, showed that electric fields are associated with healing damage to the cornea, the transparent outer layer of the eye.

Scientists, regardless of their field of research, need to be creative to come up with new ways to understand the intricacies of the world (e.g., chemists have to be creative in the way that they mix molecules to create new chemical matter; biochemists can create enzymes with new functions by manipulating DNA, etc.).

Scientists have much to contribute to the work being undertaken by human rights organizations, national human rights institutions, and United Nations field offices throughout the world.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

As mentioned above, some fields offer a physician - scientist track, which goes by many names.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

By contrast, scientists in terrestrial laboratories often see the magnetic field decreased by the plasma due to its diamagnetisBy contrast, scientists in terrestrial laboratories often see the magnetic field decreased by the plasma due to its diamagnetisby the plasma due to its diamagnetism.

Scientists need to learn more about our protective field to understand many natural processes, from those occurring deep inside the planet, to weather in space caused by solar activity.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during «town halls» with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

He argues the prize punishes collaboration by rewarding at most three scientists for each discovery and concentrates already limited scientific funding into fields favored by laureates.

The money is good — «better than a starting professor, but not as good as a heavy - weight scientist in the field» — and, even more important, the work is satisfying: «I enjoy the short - term challenges we face when I am assembling the new instruments, as there are often new and different applications by many of the customers.

Biomaterials scientists have traditionally gained their multidisciplinary training by getting a first degree, a Ph.D., and a postdoc, each in a different field.

Leaving crop residue in the field can reduce moisture loss by the equivalent of an inch or more of rainfall annually, scientists say.

Traffic was conceived as a journal that would be operated by active scientists to serve the broader community working in the field of intracellular transport.

The annual gathering features significant discoveries or «breakthroughs» by 20 of the world's leading scientists and social leaders across a wide range of fields.

The project was funded by the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM) at UC San Diego and brought together experts from multiple fields, including neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and experts in systems integration.

For female scientists, cracking the glass ceiling in these fields requires not just dogged passion and dedication but also a refusal to be cowed by long odds.

This once - per - decade report is assembled over many years by groups of scientists who evaluate the state of these fields and make recommendations for the types of missions (or specific missions) that NASA should pursue.

Rudnicki's current top priority is to recruit the best scientists in the field; a task he hopes will be made easier by the strength of the centre's funding.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

In a separate experiment in anesthetized mice, the scientists «steered» the target area of the TI, without moving the electrodes on the animals» scalps, by altering the relative amount of current in each of the two high - frequency fields.

Planetary scientist Margaret Kivelson of the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues found that Ganymede's internal field shuddered on its axis by 3.6 angular degrees as Jupiter's field rocked back and forth.

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While many life scientists react to the growing complexity of the field by focusing narrowly, tenOever is an example of how doing creative science means finding new connections outside your original research niche, says Maniatis, who is now the incoming chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Nearly all the activity scientists see on the sun's surface — sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections — is governed by mysterious twists and turns in the field.

Like many young scientists these days, after embarking on a research career, I realised that although I was fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.

Learning to lead 9 April 2015 A conference organized by students and postdocs introduces young scientists to the culture of biotech and the challenges of working in the field.

Ever since scientists generated the first global model of Earth's magnetic field nearly 180 years ago, its strength has decreased by some 10 percent.

Last year, Discover presented a gallery of 6 images generated by scientists using supercomputers to do leading - edge research in various fields.