Sentences with phrase «different field studies»

The meta - analysis allowed us to look at different field studies from around the globe to determine the overall effect.

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We've partnered with industry leaders and certified instructors to create mobile test prep apps for more than 20 different fields of study, from standardized tests to highly - specialized certifications.»

Mixed findings in this field of research may relate to various operationalisations of long working hours, that is, in some studies the cut - point has been 40 [12] or 45 hours [14] or «more than one hour weekly overtime work» versus less [13] and possibly to the different work cultures in which these studies were carried out.

Please, I have read about scientists from different faiths (or no faith) make important contributions to the fields of different studies in science.

Differences in the understanding of mission and the contrariety between the different renditions of the field of study have placed missiology in a state of confusion, thereby preventing it from occupying its proper place in theological academia.

That different fields of study operate with different assumptions is perfectly acceptable.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

It provided a unique opportunity to learn from leaders in different fields of study, allowing me to separate myself from the tunnel vision of my degree, and enjoy different standpoints on what other people find truly important in food waste, and what needs to be done to prevent it.

A study on the use of protective goggles, albeit in girl's field hockey and involving different protective equipment, for instance, found that their use did not increase concussion rates, despite fears that they would lead to more aggressive play and hence more concussions.

Finally, given that fatherhood is an emerging field of research, more prospective studies need to be conducted on the quality of fathering experiences, the types of effective interventions for fathers, and the different needs of fathers across cultures.

These films documented Academy field studies, local natural areas, and different species, as well as travel by Academy staff and Board members to conduct research for exhibits.

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

Heber - Katz says it was hard to get funding to study something new, especially because her background was in a different field.

How often, when you listen to a scientist being introduced before a keynote lecture, do you hear that the person started out studying something quite different from his or her current field?

Since we can now call up papers relevant to a specific topic with a simple search, the habit of popping down to the library to flip through the table of contents of all the week's new journals is being lost, and with it, the chance to be drawn into reading an absorbing study in a different field.

«A common fallacy is that schizophrenia can be treated as a single disease,» says NYU Langone psychiatrist and lead study author Dolores Malaspina, MD. «Our biologically driven study begins to answer longstanding questions in the field about why any two people diagnosed with schizophrenia may have drastically different symptoms.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

It is an intensely studied material that displays interesting properties in different fields.

For trainees with interest in Ebola, including Esther Ndungo, a fifth - year graduate student in Chandran's lab, more researchers in the field could mean more opportunities to study different aspects of the virus.

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

At the present time, nanomaterials are studied to be employed in many different fields, including the nuclear one.

They then compared their predictions with field studies of more than 1000 lizard populations on four different continents.

As terrestrial dust devils act very similarly to those on Mars, Raack and colleagues have carried out multiple field campaigns over the past five years to study dust devils in three different deserts on Earth, in China, Morocco and the USA.

In the current study, researchers have looked closer at the zebra finches» ability to utilise the Earth's magnetic field and the different properties of this built - in compass.

* This technique, known as integral field spectroscopy, allows astronomers to simultaneously study the properties of different parts of an object such as a galaxy to see how it is rotating and to measure its mass.

NMR works by placing the sample of the protein to be studied inside a device with a strong magnetic field, and observing how they respond to different radio frequencies.

We need to rely on conceptual models of the system we're studying and it's no different in any other field of science.

He also explained that this will allow scientists to study how plant growth adjusts to different environmental conditions, adding that «this is a fascinating field of research in the era of climate change.»

Above all, Randall says, the ongoing study of dark matter is a precious exercise in «exploring connections» — not just between different fields of science, but also between humans and the cosmos.

«I love science, but I'm also interested in other fields, and this allows me to explore some things beyond science and also how science influences and affects many different fields of study,» he adds.

«This study not only represents a longstanding collaboration between the University of Utah and UCSF but also is a reflection of the transition in research from single investigators working on their own to highly collaborative studies with experts in many fields from different institutions,» says Mulvihill, who is also a pancreatic cancer surgeon and an investigator with the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute.

«To me, what is most interesting about our results is that we are now able to start putting different pieces of our larger project together to better understand the response of Greater Prairie - Chickens to wind energy development at our field site,» says study co-author Virginia Winder.

Even within the field of psychology, the topic of humor has been studied using many different approaches, and although the last two decades have seen an upswing of the application of quantum models to the study of psychological phenomena, this is the first time that a quantum theory approach has been suggested as a way to better understand the complexity of humor.

First author Dr Luigi La Spada also from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «The study and manipulation of surface waves is the key to develop technological and industrial solutions in the design of real - life platforms, for different application fields.

The project stretches across 20 states and into Canada, providing precisely the range of different field conditions that is required to tease apart the different contributions of the genomes and environments to the final traits of corn that were used in the new study.

Various studies have identified different problems associated with moderate peripheral visual field loss from glaucoma.

For Francisco and Lohmann it took three field expeditions to different states of the Brazilian Amazon, combined with deep morphological and molecular studies, to set straight uncertainties in the complex taxonomic history of Pachyptera lianas.

Within our fields, we do very different things, but to an outsider our interests probably appear more or less identical: We both study evolutionary biology, using mathematical tools to shed light on evolutionary processes.

In the study, the researchers systematically tested 30 different wheat crop models against field experiments in which growing season mean temperatures ranged from 15 °C to 26 °C.

During a 3 - month - long, first - of - its - kind field study at a breeding colony in the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, researchers taped tiny, 100 - gram GPS receivers between the wings of nesting birds, gathering 36 days» worth of flight data from 16 different birds.

These new and unique observations of the jets and estimates of magnetic field of V404 Cygni involved studying the body at several different wavelengths.

Since at least the 1980s researchers in many different fields — including psychology, computer engineering, and library and information science — have investigated such questions in more than one hundred published studies.

Field studies of extreme environments, such as the martianlike Atacama Desert in Chile or the Arctic waters, might turn up organisms with a biochemistry vastly different from our own.

For example, checking citations to scientific papers can provide insights to the development of new fields of study or show overlap between different academic disciplines.

Most of the mothers lived near fields treated with several different pesticides over their pregnancies, so it's difficult to tease apart the potential risk of individual chemicals, said epidemiologist Janie Shelton, the lead study author.

The target group of the study consisted of first and second year vocational school students and their teachers from different fields.

Walkowicz studies the magnetic fields of stars, how these fields change over time and the different characteristics of the stars.

While past research has tended to focus only on specific sports or genders, this study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.

«The recorded images map the unique interaction between the different vibrational modes of the molecule and the varying enhanced electric fields sustained at different positions of the microscope's tip,» said Dr. Wayne P. Hess, a PNNL chemical physicist and co-author of the study.

The study is the result of one the first collaborations from the Microbiome Center, a joint effort by the University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to support scientists at all three institutions who are developing new applications and tools to understand and harness the capabilities of microbial systems across different fields.