Sentences with phrase «by the scientists as»

Miraculous healings have always been part of the supernaturalist stock in trade, and have always been dismissed by the scientist as figments of the imagination.

While transparency, openness and reproducibility are readily recognized as vital features of science and embraced by scientists as a norm and value in their work, a growing body of evidence suggests that those qualities are not necessarily evident today.

Contrary to their portrayal in popular films, dinosaurs are now widely accepted by scientists as having been covered in feathers, possibly in a range of colors, much like the colorful plumage of modern birds, which are a living dinosaur lineage.

According to Anthony Grafton, a historian at Princeton University and the president of the American Historical Association, many humanities scholars consider this disciplinary encroachment by scientists as «the coming of the antichrist.»

lncRNAs are non-coding RNA molecules that until recently were dismissed by scientists as non-functional noise in the genome.

This divergence between the two forms of malaria was used by the scientists as a kind of molecular clock.

Researchers at The Ohio State University examined blood from pregnant women to evaluate the length of telomeres — structures at the end of chromosomes that are used by scientists as a measure of biological (as opposed to chronological) age.

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

They interfered with ACC activities by administering a compound known as soraphen A. Originally isolated from slime bacteria, soraphen A has been used by scientists as an ACC inhibitor for some time.

This difficult task is often the stark reality faced by scientists as they work tirelessly to understand what happens to individual cells that become ravaged by disease.

ME - 3 is considered by scientists as a «complete glutathione system» due to its ability to produce glutathione in the human body via three different mechanisms.

If this sugar is in the form of fructose, it gets shuttled to our liver where it will be metabolized, but if our liver is overloaded, it can turn those incoming sugars into triglycerides, which is essentially fat in the blood.3, 4, 5 This is why sugar is now being considered by some scientists as a chronic liver toxin, potentially leading to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic diseases.6, 7

Hyperactivity in dogs (sometimes referred to by scientists as hyperkinesis in dogs, and by pet owners as ADHD in dogs) is characterized by several factors, either isolated instances or a combination of:

The elusive night parrot, a species thought to be extinct for about 100 years, has finally been captured and tagged by scientists as part of a pioneering project to safeguard the remaining ground - dwelling birds.

These decisions were made by policy makers taking science into account, but they were not dictated by any of the science, nor by the scientists as a whole (obviously individual scientists have personal policy preferences like everyone else).

Reducing emissions of the short - lived climate forcers black carbon and tropospheric ozone — soot and smog — has been identified by scientists as the most effective strategy to slow Arctic warming and melting in the near term, forestalling potentially irreversible tipping points such as the melting, while the world works to reduce emissions of GHGs.

Billed by some scientists as the most important conference the world has ever seen, the event will draw around 34,000 attendees to the Danish capital over the coming two weeks.

The decision was based on the safety concerns faced by scientists as the severe ice conditions turned out to be worse than anticipated.

Thanks in part to warming ocean waters, an increasing prevalence of the strongest categories of storms has long been theorized by scientists as a result of climate change.

By the way, monsoon cyclones are mostly seen by scientists as unaffected by climate change, which has so far not caused perceptible long - term increases in their frequency or intensity.

Again you may go back to scientific papers of past decades when the issue of land based observations was studied by the scientists as there was not yet much knowledge on the suitability of the available data for calculating averages of the temperature change.

I don't mean to put down Spencer's work by pointing this out — this kind of «zero - dimensional» climate model is very commonly used by scientists as a first - order approximation of how the system behaves, at least in situations where they aren't bothering to look at the spatial distribution of climate effects.

(14) This was only one passage in a thick doctoral thesis that few people read, and sounded much like Brooks's speculations on cataclysmic changes, long since dismissed by scientists as altogether implausible.

It is entirely appropriate that it is Schneider who should be resurrecting a diagram that was considered by scientists as «too vague or subjective» for AR4, but which nevertheless «vividly shows» how close to disaster we are.

Half a century ago, a science journalist discovered that anything less than reverential reporting was interpreted by scientists as hostility.

Nowadays, Global warming is accepted by scientists as a fact.

These are just a few of the incredibly endangered primates listed by scientists as being in need of immediate attention, lest they be lost forever.

Whilst a few simpletons may be swayed by your argument, I predict that this latest example of extreme variablity in our weather patterns, even predicted by some scientists as a consequence of global warming, will not shift the near unanimous body of opinion of the world's scientists that global warming is real and that it is here now.

The program «prohibits specific pesticides that have been identified by scientists as high risk but are commonly used in conventional agriculture today.»

Growing local produce could cut carbon emissions, seen by scientists as a key cause of global warming, by reducing the need for trucks to deliver vegetables from long distances.

Not exact matches

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

A movement by scientists to march on Washington as a protest against the Trump White House's treatment of science has gained traction, with more than 115,000 supporters joining a Facebook (fb) group for the cause.

«As it makes these five dips into Saturn, followed by its final plunge, Cassini will become the first Saturn atmospheric probe,» Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, said in a press release.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

So, IBM's strategy is to use Watson, armed with its super-computing abilities and artificial intelligence, to help give doctors and scientists in the research process an informed «second opinion» by scouring the available data, as Rhee puts it.

McKinsey predicts that by 2018, the United States my face a shortage of up to 190,000 data scientists as well as 1.5 million managers with the skills to translate data science into business decisions.

Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.

This Boston - based company, started by a team of MIT scientists and launched out of Y Combinator, has developed a technology that uses yeast as a base to make all kinds of substances, including perfumes, cosmetics and sweeteners, from microbugs.

Applying what I've learned from behavioral scientists such as B.J. Fogg, Daniel Kahneman and Charles Duhigg, I've found that by simply breaking habits down into their chain of actions, I can identify and target key moments to rewire behavioral tendencies — for my users and hopefully for myself.

(DST CEO Yuri Milner is a scientist by training and it seems he views Facebook as a catalyst he'd like his portfolio companies to touch.)

«The Master» stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a disillusioned scientist and writer who decides to create his own religion and help an unstable drifter played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Take an incredible new suicide prevention tool dreamed up by Colin Walsh, a data scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and described by Quartz's Olivia Goldhill recently as an example.

Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover's harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as «Seven Minutes of Terror.»

«Our sole objective was to hire the most talented scientists and engineers to help lead the company and our cities to a driverless future,» he said in a statement (as reported by the Times.)

High - end guitar pedal maker Dr. Scientist is beloved by bands like the Black Keys, who appreciate the unique sounds they can craft with the company's hand - crafted pedals, such as the Frazz Dazzler and the Cosmichorus.

Scientists are learning to custom - design matter by assembling molecules into microscopic structures such as spheres, tubes, and lattices.

While it will initially combine existing NCI datasets, the hope is that it will grow by as much as several petabytes of information annually as more scientists contribute to it.