Sentences with phrase «effort by scientists»

A similar effort by scientists, in 2015, called on the museum to cut ties with Mr. Koch, then a trustee.

Finally, there needs to be a renewed effort by scientists and scientific societies to provide training and conduct more meetings on ethics.

Scientists are wise to explain and defend their science, and if this effort by these scientists * focuses on that, so much the better.

And this new effort by these scientists to grab attention for studies that have not yet been vetted by other, independent scientists is disturbing and unproductive.

The Human Cell Atlas project is a worldwide effort by scientists to map and characterize every type of cell in the healthy human body.

The results are published in the open access journal ZooKeys in a collaborative effort by scientists from Catholic University of Ecuador, the Peruvian Institute of Research of the Amazon, Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences, and Colorado State University, USA.

In their Commentary, the authors propose a concerted effort by scientists, food producers, policy makers, and regulatory groups to address the fiber gap.

Marin Carbon Project A joint effort by scientists and ranchers in California to study rangeland's potential to soak up carbon.

An ongoing, decadelong effort by scientists from more than 80 countries to fathom the contents of the global ocean will culminate next year in a definitive Census of Marine Life.

The research, published in the September issue of Immunity, is part of a broad reverse - engineering effort by scientists around the world to use antibodies isolated from HIV - infected people to guide the development of a successful vaccine.

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

«This study illustrates how a coordinated effort by scientists can bring about an important goal,» Dr. Mueller said.

This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising material.

These enviable features have made spider silk the frequent target of biomimetic efforts by scientists who hope to produce a synthetic version in large enough quantities for applications in industry, military technology (it's three times tougher than Kevlar), and medicine (as a super-strong, biodegradable suture material, for example).

Policymakers should support efforts by scientists and agencies to develop robust ways to collect these critical data.

Despite the best efforts by scientists

Not exact matches

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

«We're creating a lot of structure that wasn't there before, but it is by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.

Effective programs — the kind found on the National Registry — are usually created by psychologists and other social scientists who are better at research than marketing their efforts.

In an effort to build its relevance to the world outside traditional «Davos man» — the slightly scornful phrase used by political scientist Samuel Huntington to describe attendees, this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland is pushing to be a little more touchy - feely, for want of a better word.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

From Christ as workingman Faludi proceeds to a hasty and confused foray among authorities ranging from the twelfth - century churchman Bernard of Clairvaux to various feminists and social scientists in an effort to discover the psychological purposes served by the various images of Christ.

To overcome production constraints through collective research efforts, the first planning meeting of the Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) was organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Suwon, Korea, on 2 - 3 May 2007 with the participation of scientists from 12 temperate rice - growing countries.

The Crawford Scholar days and conference provided every one with a fantastic opportunity to learn about some current efforts by Australian scientists to improve the sustainability of agriculture systems.

India strengthened its rice production capacity through concerted efforts by India and IRRI to develop rice varieties with resistance to pests and diseases and stresses such as drought and flooding; to commercialize hybrid rice; to streamline production practices so they would be profitable, sustainable, and environment - friendly; and to extensively exchange information with Indian scientists and researchers along with capacity building.

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

1987: Francisco Ayala, Norman Newell, and Stanley Weinberg — This award was given jointly for the efforts of the awardees in alerting scientists and the public to the danger to the scientific enterprise and to sound scientific education posed by the creationist movement.

By highlighting and celebrating successful examples of public engagement, AAAS and our partners aim to communicate the importance of such efforts and create models for other scientists and engineers.

The Program carries out its mission by engaging individual scientists and scientific associations in human rights efforts; applying scientific tools and technologies to enhance human rights work; bringing human rights standards to the conduct of science; and promoting the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.»

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy.

The effort to get inside his head seems driven by a heartfelt sympathy, a sense of wonder about life on Earth shared across 2300 years, and by the modern scientist's urge to give credit where credit is due.

You can lend your support to our efforts on behalf of scientists, engineers, educators, and students everywhere by becoming a member.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

Efforts to rethink STEM education with a civic mindset date to the late 1990s, prompted by then - AAAS President Jane Lubchenco's urgent call for scientists to enter into «a new social contract» to devote their talents to society's most pressing problems and communicate what they know to others, Reilly said.

However, increased predation by recovering marine mammals may be offsetting reductions in recreational and commercial harvests, and «masking the success of coast - wide recovery efforts,» the scientists wrote.

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

An analysis by New Scientist finds scant evidence of data abuse, but does show persistent efforts to suppress work by climate sceptics.

The America COMPETES Act will help them do that by devoting more federal funding to research and development efforts at universities, creating hundreds of new opportunities for young scientists.

By formally tying all those efforts together, the Smithsonian hopes to «mobilize [its] internal troops» — about 100 scientists — to do even more, says John Kress, the Smithsonian's interim under secretary for science.»

Black - footed ferrets, a critically endangered species native to North America, have renewed hope for future survival thanks to successful efforts by a coalition of conservationists, including scientists at Lincoln Park Zoo, to reproduce genetically important offspring using frozen semen from a ferret who has been dead for approximately 20 years.

Led by Indonesian scientists and involving researchers from Griffith University's Research Centre of Human Evolution (RCHE) the team found problems with prior dating efforts at the cave site, Liang Bua.

These are the main conclusions of a three year mapping effort conducted by an international team of scientists affiliated with The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, six universities and an aerial sensor company.

The scientists, in collaboration with IBM, are launching the effort by building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat, a single circuit of about 10,000 cells, each of which is capable of thousands of connections.

To increase scientists» confidence, the result must be verified by other experiments and additional tests, says theoretical cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Several other efforts to detect the signal are already under way.

What about the years of effort lost by Matthew and other early - career scientists?

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

The Union of Concerned Scientists said the latest efforts by Cuccinelli were more «relentless rubbish.»

He reflected on the international effort fueled by Christiano's own disease — an effort that has brought scientists closer than ever before to finding the genetic basis of alopecia areata and its more extreme variants.

«Often, the invitation is presented under the guise of «editorial assistance» offered by another scientist with an advanced degree, so people can get fooled into thinking it's a collaborative effort,» she says.

The work is the fruit of the Innovative Genomics Initiative, a joint effort between UC Berkeley and UCSF that aims to correct DNA mutations that underlie human disease using CRISPR - Cas9, a pioneering technology co-developed by scientists at UC Berkeley that has made genome editing easier and more efficient than ever before.