Sentences with phrase «challenged the way scientists»

A few feminists have challenged the way scientists do this.

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START Hack is an entrepreneurial hackathon, a coding competition where over 350 computer scientists, engineers and programmers yearly find their way to St. Gallen to work on challenges provided by corporate and start - up partners.

@Chad — The problem is Chad, that if YOU want to dissprove evolution, then by all means, gain the education to do so, and challenge the scientists who bust their hump trying to figure things out the hard way.

Whether you are faced with the tough decision of which ingredients to include or need help with formulation challenges, our in - house Certified Food Scientists will be there every step of the way.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

It has transformed the professional lives of scientists, inspiring them to tackle new biological problems and throwing up some acute new challenges along the way.

Until recently, the only way to look at human plaques was by analyzing the brains of people who died from the disease — a challenge one scientist compared to looking at a car wreck and trying to puzzle out the accident's cause.

CHALLENGES: Scientists have more data and better models, but the best forecasts still rely on getting that info to the public in a way that compels action.

One hears a bit of goading in the way some scientists and technologists, including Steven Pinker, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, and others, have tried to challenge the notion that individuals are too special to be understood like any other phenomena.

Now, scientists from Harvard and MIT have found a way around this challenge.

The survey results highlight the division between scientists and farmers over climate change and the challenges in communicating climate data and trends in non-polarizing ways, Prokopy said.

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University together with their colleagues from USA and Japan have proposed a novel way to address the most important and fundamental challenge of organic chemistry, i.e. breaking a bond between carbon and hydrogen atoms to form new organic substances.

In response to repeated calls for an integrated and coordinated emergency and trauma care system in the U.S., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists and UPMC physicians rose to the challenge and divided the nation into hundreds of referral regions that describe how patients access advanced care, in a way that respects geopolitical borders.

One way to turn the challenge into opportunity is to encourage young scientists to cooperate globally, provide the necessary resources (funds), and enable them time to build the collaboration.

Scientists say that while replanting forests remains an effective way to counter the effects of climate change, their latest findings show that this may prove to be challenging.

A Case Study of a Mom - Scientist: Canopy Meg 1 September 2006 Being a single mom makes starting out in a scientific career all the more challenging, but Margaret Dalzwell Lowman found a way to involve her two sons.

Much has been written recently about different ways that scientists can contribute away from the bench, of course on Next Wave but also in various other publications, * and I have met many scientists who have sought new challenges at different points in their careers.

Speakers and participants discussed such issues as the preparation of young scientists with training suitable to global challenges, the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities to gather insights and innovations that might otherwise be missed, supporting scientists everywhere throughout the world, and ensuring that scientists can do science in a globally connected way without serious obstacles due to differences in standards or ethics.

Through crowdsourcing — an open call for voluntary assistance from a large group of individuals — Americans can study and tackle complex challenges by conducting research at large geographic scales and over long periods of time in ways that professional scientists working alone can not easily duplicate.

«We solved a 25 - year challenge in building diamond lattices in a rational way via self - assembly,» said Oleg Gang, a physicist who led this research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab in collaboration with scientists from Stony Brook University, Wesleyan University, and Nagoya University in Japan.

Human challenge trials like this one are an extremely efficient way for scientists to tell whether a particular vaccine is effective, but they are rarely conducted because of the ethical dilemma of the risk it places on volunteers who are purposely exposed to a virus.

«Americans should be proud of and confident that their scientists will address the biomedical, bioethical, religious, and political challenges of treating and curing disease in creative ways.

Three Foundation researchers — Senior Research Scientists, James Sumowski, Ph.D., and Karen Nolan, Ph.D., as well as Assistant Director of Engineering Research Peter Barrance, Ph.D. — will be working with physicians and other clinical experts at Children's Specialized Hospital, where they will together investigate ways to improve mobility and cognition — thinking, learning and memory — in children with various challenges, including brain and spinal cord injuries.

One way that we're addressing these challenges is by building informatics systems and web - based tools that enable clinicians and scientists around the world to analyse and share data generated through large - scale collaborations.

«The Presidential Early Career Awards are an important way for the President of the United States to recognize the central role that outstanding scientists and engineers play in advancing the Nation's goals, tackling grand challenges, and contributing to the American economy,» said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos.

The vast majority of scientists participating in the #SciFund Challenge are based at universities (and by the way scientists, sign up here for #SciFund).

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

Through his books, Michael Crichton served as an inspiration to students of all ages, challenged scientists in many fields, and illuminated the mysteries of the world in a way we could all understand.

Figuring out how to tackle each enemy and hunting down each scientist will certainly challenge you, but you will also have a lot of fun whilst making your way through the three worlds and many stages that Nova - 111 throws at you!

Scientists always want to find ways to reduce the uncertainty in findings, but — in the heated arena where climate research meets climate decisions — they have not always been quick to state clearly when they are certain that some aspects of the climate challenge won't be easily clarified any time soon.

I'm on my way to a meeting in Sicily where several dozen scientists from a variety of disciplines and countries will be exploring the influence of climate change on insect - and tick - borne diseases, the spreading challenge of Internet security, the longstanding challenge of finding safe ways to handle and store nuclear waste and a heap of other pressing subjects.

The Flame Challenge is an international contest started by Alan Alda that asks scientists to communicate complex science in ways that would interest and enlighten an 11 - year - old.

I'm in no way a climate scientist, merely an electrical engineer for the last 30 years, so certainly I'm not trying to challenge anyone here...

But that response was immediately challenged in a playful, but serious, way by Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University, who said:

The consensus has power precisely because scientists are challenging or have continually challenged it in various ways, and yet it has stood.

Collaborating with scientists and cultural informers in confronting the facts of global climate change, the artists participating in the Carbon 14: Climate is Culture exhibition respond to various aspects of the climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately human ways.

By the way, an multi-disciplinary online course on «Climate change: challenges and solutions» by scientists from Exeter University and the Met Office starts next week.

Stephen Chu, at the height of Climategate, challenged the civilization threatening insanity of the attitude of many in the media who report what deniers concoct as if their statements are in some way equal to the opinions of legitimate scientists, as if there were two poles in a «debate».

Through his books, Michael Crichton served as an inspiration to students of all ages, challenged scientists in many fields, and illuminated the mysteries of the world in a way we could all understand.

Many scientists challenge the idea that the only way to face climate change is to reduce CO2 emissions, arguing instead for adaptation.

The subhead, Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict, is even worse as it tars current scientists with the same brush, yet the article doesn't address current prediction challenges in any useful way.

People have responded successfully to other major environmental challenges such as acid rain and the ozone hole with benefits greater than costs, and scientists working with economists believe there are ways to manage the risks of climate change while balancing current and future economic prosperity.

Well folks, the theme for Discovery's Young Scientist Challenge this year was a green one; and what an incredible opportunity it was for 40 of the top young scientists in the nation who made their way to the finals in Washington D.C. last week.

Because unlike the psychopharm industry, which sells its products on the basis of supposed scientific support (much challenged these days, by the way), therapists by and large don't really like science, don't believe it's particularly relevant to their work, and in fact, often seem to regard research and therapy as antagonistic entities — as if you can be a good therapist or a good scientist, but not both.