Sentences with phrase «confirmed their observations by»

The researchers confirmed their observations by studying tissue from lung cancer tumors.

The measurements confirm observations by another team of astronomers from the Netherlands, which detected the polarized bursts using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

To confirm this observation by another method we asked about the potency of these fractions to differentiate in EB aggregates.

Howell's overall findings indicate that RttT has had a substantial impact on education policy across the United States, confirming observations by many participating states.

He's the enthusiastic celebrity who appears in the at the top of this post, and it confirms an observation by the Kindle Culture blog.

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It makes predictions and is confirmed by observation.

The primary role of the inductive descent, «the renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7), is not to confirm, but rather to propel the process of speculative discovery forward to novel and unforeseen dimensions of experience.

The theory still holds sway because all the evidence since produced by observation and study in the field confirms it.

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

But this testimony of our own experience to the uniquely creative character of this ancient event is confirmed by our observation of the life of the church and by our study of its history.

A first flash of illumination, intuitively accepted despite the risk of error; and as the intuition was increasingly confirmed by observation and experiment, it came to be embodied in the inherited core of human consciousness.

They would need some robust prediction for an experiment or a possible observation that could be carried out which would confirm some prediction made by religion that can not be made in lieu of it.

[31] Also, Lemaitre's prediction that cosmic rays would include a and (3 particles in addition to photons is now confirmed by observation.

That observation was confirmed by Scott Cooley, an Odds Consultant for Bookmaker.eu.

Dark energy — a hidden type of energy embedded in empty space, whose existence is strongly confirmed by recent observations — is crucial because quantum physics says that any energy field will always yield random fluctuations.

Later observations suggested the star is also fading by about 4 percent per year (SN: 9/17/16, p. 12), which Meng's team confirmed in a paper posted online August 24 at arXiv.org.

Observations obtained a month later by members of the Planetary Sciences Group using the PlanetCam camera developed by this team and fitted to the 2.2 - m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería (Spain) enabled the speed of this atmospheric structure to be confirmed.

Many of the genes identified by Dr. Papapanou and his team are implicated in immune and inflammatory pathways, confirming laboratory and clinical observations of the development of periodontal disease.

These results agree with an anatomical observation that the researchers have confirmed using MRI: amusical individuals have an excess of grey matter in the inferior frontal cortex, accompanied by a deficit in white matter, one of whose essential constituents is myelin.

Astronomers dismissed her observations until four years later, when they were confirmed by a man.

The five «exoplanets» described today are Kepler's first finds, confirmed by ground - based telescopic observations of how the exoplanets gravitationally tug on their stars.

These candidate planets need to be confirmed by follow - up observations, but NASA researchers have estimated that at least 80 percent will end up being the real deal.

Another finding was that all the possible forms of the patterns directly matched to the array of patterns predicted by the famous Turing reaction - diffusion model published in 1952, what Russian scientists confirmed not by mere observation, but by mathematical modeling as well.

To confirm these observations, both studies disabled the ap2 - g gene by cutting it out of the genome to remove its function from the parasite and the manipulated parasites indeed lost the ability to generate sexual - stage parasites.

This observation has recently been confirmed empirically by University of Kent psychologists Michael J. Wood, Karen M. Douglas and Robbie M. Sutton in a paper entitled «Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories,» published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science this past January.

He notes one caveat: The analysis hinges on the assumption that space is «flat» — an assumption supported by observations, but not yet confirmed.

The existence of black holes tens of times more massive than our Sun was confirmed recently by the observation of gravitational waves, produced by the merger of pairs of massive black holes, with the LIGO interferometer.

It also made a number of testable predictions, which were then spectacularly confirmed by observations.

In one experiment, the researchers confirmed previous observations that moving fluids can repress quorum sensing by carrying away messenger molecules.

Timothy Morton, lead author of the study and a Princeton associate research scholar of astrophysical sciences, developed Vespa because the vast amount of data Kepler has gathered since its 2009 launch has made the traditional method of confirming planets by direct ground - based follow - up observation untenable, he said.

Other things can also cause brightness fluctuations, so all Kepler candidates must be confirmed either by other sorts of observations or more detailed statistical analysis of the Kepler data.

If Europa's vapor plumes are confirmed by more observations, «that would change the kinds of instruments you'd want to install on future probes to the moon,» Sotin continues.

The theoretical findings now need to be confirmed by analyzing observations of active solar regions.

It hasn't advanced very much, except for the fact that the theories we speculated about in the 1960s have been confirmed by observation.

And indeed, there have been observations of the grizzly / polar hybrid «grolar» bear confirmed by DNA analysis.

Intriguingly, Willer and colleagues suggest the same gene may also be involved in regulating lipid levels in the liver — a finding confirmed by the observations of a team led by Jonathan Cohen and Helen Hobbs, who propose a role for the gene in liver disease in the same issue of Nature Genetics.

«If this conclusion is confirmed by future observations, it would mean that the coastal ocean will become more and more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,» said Goulven Lurallue, the paper's lead author and a researcher with Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

The outward - sloping fault has been predicted by so - called «sandbox models,» but these are the most detailed observations to confirm that they happen in nature.

Trenberth says that the climate monitoring principles set by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellite data.

The permanence of specific form was a fact confirmed by all observation.

But a previous study, also conducted in a laboratory setting, found that Aedes mosquitoes can carry dengue and chikungunya simultaneously, an observation that was confirmed by the Colorado State research team.

The first Earth - sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory.

Ultimately, careful observations and analyses of the sun by Dicke, his students and colleagues could not confirm the idea.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

This observation was later confirmed by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider.

But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.

If future observations confirm that neutrinos are accelerated to high energies by activity at the galactic centre, the same source could explain high - energy cosmic rays — although it's still unclear exactly how the accelerator works.

The generality of this observation was further confirmed by examining the expression of miR - 7 in 2 different cell lines, CN34 and MCF7, and their metastatic variants, CN34BoM, CN34BrM, and MCF7BoM.

Tantalizingly, the authors identify a possible seventh planet that, if confirmed by further observation, could be the least massive exoplanet yet discovered anywhere in the galaxy.

«This study confirmed that ocean circulation physics and K. brevis biology are equally important and that both immediate and short term prediction may be achieved using a combination of circulation models supported by in situ observations of physical, biological and chemical variables and satellite imagery,» concluded the researchers.