Their team
conducted field experiments to learn how the removal of a single pollinator species would affect the plant - pollinator relationship.
Dr van de Waal
conducted the field experiments at the Inkawu Vervet Project in the Mawana private game reserve in South Africa.
To determine the effectiveness of numbers and traffic lights, the authors
conducted a field experiment in which employees at Humana, a large health - care company, were asked to place lunch orders through an online platform designed especially for the study.
Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for
conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned.
To address this question, a team of researchers led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
conducted a field experiment using the KOSMOS (Kiel Off - Shore Mesocosms for Ocean Simulations) experimental platform.
«All the kids [in primary school] had learned, but they had learned [those concepts] equally,» says Duflo, who is a co-founder of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J - PAL), which
conducts field experiments, often in education, around the globe.
Looking ahead, Willer and his colleagues are
conducting field experiments on how the threat of gossip and exclusion affect behavior in real - world settings — in one study, for instance, they're calling car repair shops for estimates, with one group of callers stating they are active users of Yelp, the online review service that can make or break reputations.
To test whether buying time actually causes greater happiness, the researchers also
conducted a field experiment.
This data will prompt NASA and scientists in the community to
conduct field experiments to predict how carbon - absorbing systems respond to climate change.
Certain cabinet departments in the US will, from time to time,
conduct a field experiment to examine the outcomes of some program they manage, involving true random assignment of «clients» to various treatment or to non-treatment.
Not exact matches
[39] Falk was critical of Meyer's declaration of scientists, such as Michael Lynch, being wrong without Meyer
conducting any
experiments to falsify the established work in the
field.
Activities include learning about dinosaurs,
conducting science
experiments, building models, observing live specimens, artistic expression,
field trips, etc. * Ages: 6 - 12.
Experiments are
conducted in a greenhouse, at
field sites and a research garden northwest of Flagstaff.
The data enabled the researchers to show that turbulent motion increases the fluid's ability to
conduct electricity and therefore amplifies the magnetic
field, rather than reducing it as earlier
experiments had appeared to show.
And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from
field observations or working with a single trained subject, she
conducted repeatable laboratory
experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.
I wanted to
conduct some
experiments outside my
field, and realized that I needed an external provider.
But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the
conducting of a slew of space - based
experiments that contributed immensely to a range of
fields.
It is premature to
conduct such
field experiments, Robock says.
Faraday had a different idea: to explain the series of
experiments he
conducted on electricity and magnetism, he postulated that both phenomena are
fields which pervade space, change over time and can be detected by the forces they produce.
In the first of two studies designed to provide a clearer picture of neonicotinoid - specific effects, Pywell's team performed «perhaps the most ambitious
field experiment of neonicotinoid effects yet
conducted,» according to Kerr.
Guidelines exist for the appropriate design and
conduct of studies in some
fields, including animal research and microarray
experiments.
Glaum and Kessler generated the model using data from a series of
field experiments on the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes
conducted by Kessler and his collaborators using the wild tomato species Solanum peruvianum.
«Because we also
conducted an
experiment in the
field measuring evolution in real time, we gained information on how natural selection is pulling these populations apart.»
The researchers analyzed data from more than 300 different
experiments conducted in both marine and terrestrial environments, including coral reefs, savanna grasslands, tropical rainforests and managed agricultural
fields.
The researchers performed
field experiments and
conducted observations to arrive at their findings.
«It combines knowledge from the
field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological
experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we
conduct in laboratories.»
Field - scale
experiments with HTC reactor should be
conducted to confirm the assessments from this laboratory - scale study.»
In
experiments conducted in small chambers with conductive walls that isolated the bees from external electrical
fields, the researchers showed that a small, electrically charged wand brought close to a honey bee can cause its antennae to bend.
To better understand how the loss of key species affects these functions, Silliman and Hensel
conducted a tightly controlled eight - month
field experiment in a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Ga..
One result is that the number of GM
field experiments conducted in the European Union dropped from about 250 per year in the late 1990s to fewer than 50 in 2011, the researchers report.
This was found to be the case in both a plant manipulation
experiment conducted at the Lancaster University
Field Station, and at a large scale plot
experiment in Jena, Germany.
June 28, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have
conducted a series of laboratory and
field experiments that explore the effects of adding biochar, a porous charcoal that looks like black landscaping bark, to the soil to limit the cesium (Cs) uptake into foods grown in the Marshall...
Despite the strenuous efforts of anti-GM protestors, a
field experiment was
conducted, a clear result was obtained, and the scientists involved can now use this information to refine and improve their technical approaches to control aphids in crops without using insecticides.»
In collaboration with Ben Novak's dietary ecology research, Holland has
conducted several
field experiments to identify the necessary population densities of Passenger Pigeons and to gain insight regarding seed dispersal.
The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Bioengineering, or other closely related
field, and will have expertise in
conducting electrophysiology
experiments as well as analyzing electrophysiological signals from animal or human studies.
The ARM Facility
experimented with deploying UAS at Oliktok Point last year during Arctic Shield 2015, a
field campaign
conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Conoco Phillips.
Using high - intensity lasers at the University of Rochester's OMEGA EP Facility focused on targets smaller than a pencil's eraser, they
conducted experiments to create colliding jets of plasma knotted by plasma filaments and self - generated magnetic
fields.
The
field experiment with the KOSMOS mesocosms is
conducted at Taliarte, Gran Canaria as a joint activity of the German research networks BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) and SOPRAN (Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene) between January and April 2014.
Well - controlled laboratory as well as large - scale
field experiments were
conducted with keystone species and natural communities in a wide range of habitats in the North and Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, and off Papua New Guinea, among other places.
Earlier in 2014, myself and several members of our lab attended a conference in South Africa and then spent up to 4 weeks in the
field conducting experiments with the populations of great white sharks off the coast.
This theater
experiment follows on a study my colleagues, Brian Kisida and Dan Bowen, and I
conducted on the effects of
field trips to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
They
conduct experiments to learn the engineering principles behind bridge construction, read a biography of the project's
field engineer, Emily Roebling, and visit the bridge to record their observations.
After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including
conducting multiple
experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE
conducted a broader
field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.
This article presents a randomized
field experiment conducted in French middle schools located in a deprived educational district.
Those of us who appreciate the advancement of science owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who tirelessly are in the
field gathering data or in labs
conducting experiments and gathering data.
To support Rodale Institute's research, interns work with staff scientists to lay out experimental
field plots, assist with greenhouse plantings,
conduct lab
experiments, tend and maintain
experiments, collect and process samples from the
field, and enter data for statistical analysis and interpretation.
To
conduct their study, the researchers used a spatial model of marsh morphodynamics into which they incorporated recently published observations from
field experiments on marsh vegetation response to varying levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
No consensus has been achieved in science, society and politics even about the question whether in - depth research in the form of
field experiments on Climate Engineering should be
conducted.
Without the ability to
conduct global - scale
experiments in the lab or in the
field, models are the only tools they have.
The vast
field of science and biotechnology offers numerous career opportunities, most of which involve
conducting experiments and analyzing results.