Sentences with phrase «decade of experiments»

More than a decade of experiments, however, failed to produce any major breakthroughs.

The experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small groups before that have convinced me that growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.

After decades of experimenting with eating only whole foods, vegetarianism, veganism, macrobiotics, raw foods (both with and without raw meat), paleo (including nuts), I have settled on a whole food, seedless, high - raw, paleo diet, cooking only with water (steaming, boiling, pressure cooking), and that has brought the greatest results, by far.

After 100 years of theory and decades of experiments, astronomers have detected gravitational waves directly for the first time.

After 100 years of theory and decades of experiments, astronomers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory have detected gravitational waves directly for the first time.

Quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, on the other hand, is backed by decades of experiments.

They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

After decades of experimenting with eating only whole foods, vegetarianism, veganism, macrobiotics, raw foods (both with and without raw meat), paleo (including nuts), I have settled on a whole food, seedless, high - raw, paleo diet, cooking only with water (steaming, boiling, pressure cooking), and that has brought the greatest results, by far.

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They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

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But while successful commercial energy from these projects could be decades away, assuming they succeed, Dr. Vogt believes General Fusion will likely be compared to the Cold Fusion experiments of the 1990s — science that was all hype with no validity.

If there were no trading costs — possible in a thought experiment but not in the real world — an excellent strategy over the last few decades would have been buying shares at the last possible moment during regular trading hours and selling them methodically at the opening bell every day, Professor Gulen of Purdue said.

It was theory decades ago, but has since been proven, in part by the existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but also by astronomical observations and by particle accelerator experiments.

That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.

Unfortunately, after decades of running the Reaganomics experiment we have found that the ultra-rich do not share their wealth — they hoard it.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

A decade ago many mainline churches were engaged in articulating the virtues of the sexual revolution, formulating significant and far - reaching theological pronouncements on the central issues of sexuality, and experimenting with some new and imaginative programs of sex education.

After just a few decades the fruits of thesecularist social experiment leave a great deal to be desired.

Featured were IRRI initiatives with heirloom rice farmers in the Cordilleras; conservation of rice genetic diversity; and the decades - long field experiment which recently yielded its 150th harvest.

Time of experimenting with youngstars is over... we did that and went almost a decade without a trophy!

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

The experiment is similar to work done decades ago by Harry Harlow, in that it utilizes maternally deprived juvenile monkeys to study the effects of early adversity on young primate brains.

Democrats also benefit from the growth of progressive nonprofit advocacy campaigns over the past decade: not only have advocacy groups experimented with just about every tool or tactic in the book, but the existence of so many independent groups clamoring for effective technology has created a vibrant market.

Ghannoushi has spent the past two decades distancing himself from the two contemporary — and rather disastrous — Islamic experiments: those of Iran and Sudan.

«We are about to undertake a grand experiment, to test whether or not we can set aside politics, to test whether we can shed our decades of old pessimism, an affinity for status quo, and instead embrace the innovative, big thinking, risk taking, progressive approach that defines the great cities of this world,» Walsh said.

Articles on Marconi's experiments appeared two decades before the advent of radio.

«That Jeff's UV - B - blast experiment — somewhat of a calculated long shot — produced pollen abnormalities in a modern conifer similar to abnormalities observed in 252 - million - year old microfossils was one of the most exciting things I've seen this decade,» Duijnstee said.

In 1897, French medical student Ernest Duchesne published the results of an elegant series of experiments; however, he did not publish further and his discovery lay neglected for decades thereafter.

In April, five post-doctoral fellowships were awarded for experiments using NASA's archive of more than a decade of microbes collected from the NASA modules of the space station.

Second, physicists had accumulated decades of experience building real machines that could manipulate and measure particles» spin; as far as thought experiments went, this one could be grounded on some well - earned confidence.

For more than a decade, Iranian specialists in nuclear fusion experimented on aging tokamaks and other devices in seclusion, cut off from the global fusion community because of Iran's status as a nuclear pariah.

The results of a decade - long experiment, published in June, indicate that biological diversity helps make ecosystems stable and productive.

were visionary and the book undoubtedly inspired some individuals who played a central role in 20th - century science, there are no direct links between Schrödinger's lectures and the experiments and theories that were part of the decades - long attempt to crack the genetic code, and historians and participants differ about the significance of Schrödinger's contribution.

A new theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago, reigniting hopes of a clean - energy breakthrough.

The headline on the cover of the September 10, 1965, issue of Life — alongside a hulking machine whose heavy arm nearly eclipsed the mother under examination — read Control of Life: Audacious Experiments Promise Decades of Added Life, Superbabies with Improved Minds and Bodies, and Even a Kind of Immortality.

After decades of a massive and uncontrollable continent - wide wild breeding experiment, the African - Italian hybrid has morphed into a totally new bee unlike either parent species.

And luckily for the researchers, the preferred diet of this little worm is the bug that for decades has been used in thousands of lab experiments — the bacterium E coli.

The value G is called the gravitational constant, and it has been ascertained through many decades of careful experiments.

For decades, scientists have experimented with using nerve grafts as a way of bridging the spinal cord injury site in an attempt to recover lost function following spinal cord injury.

Over the last decade, a handful of small experiments has indicated that a minuscule amount of pollen from engineered crops can spread up to a few hundred meters.

Despite decades of study, until these experiments scientists did not fully understand the molecular mechanisms that cells use to transduce information about environmental conditions to their replication machinery.

«There are libraries of information from decades of scientific experiments all over the world.

During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk.

And finally, after decades of work developing theoretical models and computer simulation techniques, along with laboratory experiments to reproduce new molecules, astrochemists are putting names to many of those unidentified lines.

Experiments over the past decade show that quantum computers (which process information using the quantum states of particles rather than transistors) really can work.

Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher - grade hydrocarbons.

Many of the experiments carried out by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's Curiosity rover were painstakingly planned by NASA scientists more than a decade ago.

It was these qualities, which allowed diverse groups of people from far - flung corners of the world to connect, experiment and invent, that were arguably the key elements of the explosive technological growth of the past two decades.

Results of their experiments, conducted over two decades, so far confirm this hypothesis.

When interest in N of 1 experiments began to rebound in the last decade, proponents had to deal with the same problems.