Sentences with phrase «called control experiments»

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These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief, controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members of a stereotyped group.

Before the mayor had even finished testifying in the four - hour hearing before a joint Senate and Assembly panel, Mr. Cuomo had said he opposed Mr. de Blasio's push for permanent control over schools, calling the arrangement an «experiment» and saying it should be renewed in three - year spurts.

He now calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension, but it wasn't that long ago that Cuomo hailed mayoral control of the NYC schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

To control for this we repeated the experiment three times using different dummy names — we tried calling the Corbynite party the «Radicals», the «People's Party» and «Momentum», and calling his opponents» party «Progress», the «Moderates» and the «Social Democrats».

He calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension — but it wasn't that long ago that Gov. Cuomo hailed mayoral control of schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

«Considering the significance of inherent controls in DNA expression experiments, there is no choice but to call this fabrication,» the statement concludes.

Numerous experiments with genetically altered mice and rats have shown that when natural brain compounds, called endocannabinoids, are missing or their receptors are blocked, the animals are more susceptible to pain, can not control their appetites, have trouble handling anxiety and are less able to cope with stress.

In the experiments one cockatoo group was allowed to observe Figaro skilfully employing a ready - made stick tool, while another could see what researchers called «ghost demonstrations» — either seeing the tools displacing the nuts by themselves, while being controlled by magnets hidden under a table, or seeing the nuts moving towards Figaro without his intervention, again using magnets to displace the food.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

In the study, Kwong's team successfully put their remote - control method through initial tests in mice with implanted tumors (so - called tumor phantoms, specially designed for certain experiments).

In 1993, while at the Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Rothman performed the key experiment that has forever linked his work to that of Thomas Südhof and Richard Scheller, by demonstrating that the same molecules that control this process in the nervous system, in the release of signaling molecules called neurotransmitters, are important to vesicle transport and fusion in all cell types.

Sabbagh next moved to the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), where he investigated ways to stabilize plasma at high beta by controlling phenomena called resistive wall mode instabilities.

While he was still in graduate school, Zarnstorff and physicist Stewart Prager, a former PPPL director who was then his thesis advisor, discovered a phenomenon called the «bootstrap current» that helps to control the plasma in fusion experiments.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

Secondly, we have an especially interesting individual study, where a scientist called Dr Laura A.G. Armas set out to compare the potency of D2 and D3 thorough a controlled experiment.

The plot — an evil, shady bio-engineering company called Energyne loses control of an illegal experiment that catches three unsuspecting animals in the crossfire and leads to a national disaster — is totally, utterly utilitarian, but it works for the movie's purposes just fine.

In a randomized - control experiment, community - college students were assigned to one of three conditions: to play the video game Civilization for as much as 15 hours over five weeks, to play Call of Duty for as much as 15 hours over five weeks, or to play no game.

Wilbur Rich, a professor emeritus of political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, said he wouldn't call any of the experiments with mayoral control a success - not until the gains are larger or sustained over a longer time.

«Built in Unity, the game will focus on competitive team based matches (up to six players) and features a single player mode called «The Experiment» for players who want to familiarise themselves with the controls and systems of Umbrella Corps.

If you remember the control issues of the bonus mode found in Tekken 3 called Tekken Force Mode then you know of two things: Namco's willingness to experiment with the series and their ability to fail miserably at said experiment.

After experimenting with Tachisme, a gestural form of abstract expressionist painting which he thought shallow, he developed another technique about 1950 - 1, which he called «controlled drops» (egoutture dirigee), as in his Composition (1950 - 1).

But then came the «high - flow experiment,» (HFE as the U.S. Department of the Interior calls it), a plan to release some of the sediment which the dams are retaining by means of controlled flooding.

You know, there's an experiment where they're trying that kind of approach to controlling power utilization: It's called Iraq.

This senseless name calling of the scientists on both sides of the political fence, and infighting over the details of the amount of the sensitivity of the climate will soon come to an end, as the experiment on the Earth is continued with out any possible controls by the IPCC policy makers, who only want it to proceed as is, with ADDITIONAL FUNDS taken from taxes paid by the developed world, to hasten to transfer of wealth to the third world, while weakening the Western government systems through self imposed bankruptcy.

The aim of the so - called stratospheric controlled perturbation experiment, or SCoPEx, is to see if sulphate ions would undermine measures to rebuild the ozone layer.

and went on to cover the ins and outs of his experiment building what he calls the Irrduino Project, which aimed to add remote control functionality to lawn sprinklers.

In on - premises servers you can make a mistake, you don't ever want to give your data to some third - party vendor, and so, the idea was to create kind of an environment for experimentation, software developers often call them sandboxes where people can mash up their legal data with third - party legal data, use AI tools to analyze it, see what works for them, see what kind of insights come out, maybe even make some mistakes, try some things that don't work, but in an environment that they control and that they get to experiment with.