Sentences with phrase «design research experiments»

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Research published in April 2016 in the Harvard Business Review looked at three experiments designed to help participants learn about unconscious bias in the hiring process.

This campaign is also an experiment designed to see how I can collaborate with all of you as part of the research process for my next book (working title: The Startup Way).

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

The University of Washington (UW), Seattle, undergraduates are inside a KC - 135 microgravity research airplane, running a self - designed experiment in a lab that flies in a sinusoidal wave pattern to mimic the weightlessness of space.

On a day - to - day basis, my primary responsibilities are to make my research program flourish, garner funding, find and mentor talented research staff to work with me, design and execute experiments, and publish papers — not unlike a tenure - track job.

Beginning in the summer of 1977, we worked together nearly every day for more than four years, designing experiments and chatting about literature, philosophy, and the latest research.

We carry smartphones in our pockets, the streets are dotted with semi-autonomous cars, but in the research laboratory experiments are still being designed by people.

To test this theory, the research team designed an experiment to see if increased LPA signaling led to schizophrenia - like symptoms in animal models.

To test that assumption, Tranel and his research team designed a simple, if time - consuming, experiment.

The time I spent on the audit team taught me a lot about research design and data management, which was very helpful because my background research experience didn't include the design of large - scale experiments.

Guidelines exist for the appropriate design and conduct of studies in some fields, including animal research and microarray experiments.

Another experiment, one designed by students, will observe fruit flies as a research model for learning how diseases work at the cellular and molecular levels.

As a novice to arctic research, I spent hours absorbing literature on previous studies so that I'd be ready to design impromptu experiments and compose educated data interpretations without the convenience of a library.

The robot is designed to perform repetitive tasks and free up astronauts» time for science experiments and other research.

For this latest research, they wanted to design an experiment that would mimic the tiny channels in which bacteria thrive in nature.

TSRI Research Associate Giordano de Guglielmo, who was the study's first author, spearheaded the experiment in rat models of alcohol dependence, which were designed to express a special protein to distinguish only the neurons activated by alcohol.

They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories» contexts, and put a new twist on a centuries - old psychological research technique of having subjects memorize and recall a list of unrelated words.

* Correction, 1 April, 8:55 a.m.: Satoshi Nakashima designed the current experiments as part of his postdoctoral research, not as part of his doctoral research, as was previously reported.

It's my job to help the customer figure out what products will best suit their research needs, and in many cases, we work hand - in - hand with the researcher to design experiments that reduce time and cost.

He designed the current experiments as part of his postdoctoral research.

In collaboration with doctoral candidate Paul Phamduy and NYU - Poly research scholar Giovanni Polverino, Porfiri designed an experiment to examine the interplay of visual cues and flow cues — changes in the water current as a result of tail - beat frequency — in triggering a live golden shiner fish to either approach or ignore a robotic fish.

For the experiments he took a constructive design research approach, which means that he engaged in the making of toolkit and product prototypes.

Targeting scientific pursuits closer to home, Microsoft Research developed software designed to help oceanographers at the University of Washington in Seattle, along with other oceanography organizations with their North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, or NEPTUNE program.

Designed with a 100 % guarantee to work in validated applications to ensure that you spend less time re-doing experiments and more time researching.

He has helped design South Korea's Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device, ran simulations for Germany's Axial Symmetric Divertor Experiment (ASDEX), and has been a consultant on the design for ITER.

After doing his background research, Andrew used the Science Buddies Project Idea to help design an experiment that would let him observe and evaluate different forms of distraction and how they influence a driver's ability to drive safely within a driving - style video game.

Through a program called IISME, or Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education, 12 high school science teachers from throughout the Bay Area spent part of their summer working with Berkeley Lab scientists on ongoing research projects, conducting and designing experiments and helping to collect and analyze data.

NanoRacks is committed to helping stimulate the market demand across all orbiting platforms by creating a commercial climate conducive to allowing new users, from students to researchers, from government space agencies to individuals, to conduct research, design experiments, tinker, make mistakes, and maybe realize wonderful breakthroughs in low - earth orbit and beyond.

The system is available in the multi-mode FLEX configuration, which is designed to meet the needs of high - complexity clinical laboratories seeking a single platform with the flexibility to run the Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay and, when operated in the «Life Sciences» mode, process translational research experiments and multiplexed assays developed by the laboratory.

His research combines laboratory experiments and mathematical models to more fully understand how head and neck cancers form and how to better design treatments for these cancers.

Students who successfully complete this course will have a deeper understanding of the nature of original scientific research, including project planning, formulating hypotheses, designing effective experiments, maintaining a detailed laboratory notebook, data interpretation, and conventions of scientific communication of conclusions resulting from these studies.

Our track record shows that NeuroGLIA members are at the forefront of glial cell research, and can thus be reasonably expected to be in a privileged position to formulate hypotheses and design new experiments that will increase our comprehension of the role of astroglia in the brain.

The National Science Education Standards and education research literature emphasize that students need to be engaged in the «process» of science — asking questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions.

In a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, physicist Ibo Matthews and his team are experimenting with a new research - based metal 3D printer, one of only four of its kind in the world, using a customized software platform capable of unprecedented design Research and Development (LDRD) program, physicist Ibo Matthews and his team are experimenting with a new research - based metal 3D printer, one of only four of its kind in the world, using a customized software platform capable of unprecedented design research - based metal 3D printer, one of only four of its kind in the world, using a customized software platform capable of unprecedented design control.

Two grants: $ 700,000 (3 years); $ 750,000 (3 years) «Computational Research & Development for Rapid Sequencing Nanotechnology» «Experimental Research & Development for Rapid Sequencing Nanotechnology» This group will develop computational modeling to guide the fabrication of a novel nanotechnology sequencing device, as well as design electronic control and detection experiments.

These pages in our Project Guide present the Scientific Method and Engineering Design Process (sometimes called the Engineering Method) each as a series of actionable steps that may help guide an experiment or research project.

The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists and plasmid lovers and serves as an introduction to plasmids, allowing you to spend less time researching plasmid basic features and spend more time developing the clever experiments and innovative solutions necessary for advancing the field.

PLSMG designed research studies, conducted experiments, acquired data, analyzed data, and wrote the manuscript.

Addressing the common problems that researchers encounter when designing and analysing animal experiments will improve the reliability of in vivo research.

RGL designed the research studies, conducted experiments, and acquired data.

Supports discovery in mouse research studies by providing experiment design / implementation input, protocol writing guidance, and hands - on assistance to JAX - GM research personnel.

Though thousands of miles away from colleagues at NASA's Ames Research Center in California providing designs and advice, Peru was in many ways an apt location to experiment with growing potatoes on Mars.

This is not to dispute the importance of additional research to investigate the particular settings in and populations with which nudge strategies are most effective, or the mechanisms through which nudges affect students» decisions, but rather to observe that, in fact, multiple researchers have demonstrated, through well - designed experiments, positive impacts from nudge strategies.

In large part because randomized trials are considered the gold standard of research design and are used in medical research, many contend that the only way to truly professionalize education research is to demand the use of randomized trials or «true experiments.»

«But to be out there examining the data, designing an experiment that would be immediately put into effect, and then having the ability to see the resulting impact of the research on lives motivates and excites me.»

Studies have evaluated several reforms using random - assignment research designs, also used in most medical experiments, in which subjects are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups.

The inquiries came flooding fast and furiously as we learned more and more about how people lived way back then through hands on technology experiments, design experiments, research, communication and much, much more.

Because a lottery had been used to award vouchers, the evaluation of their impact took the form of a randomized experiment, the gold standard research design.

In the research section, Caroline Hoxby and Jonah Rockoff use a randomized experiment research design to evaluate three Chicago charter schools.