Sentences with phrase «elegant studies in»

Tim Radford, former science editor of The Guardian, called the Silver Award winner's work «a triptych of elegant studies in essay form.»

When coated with paint, the cheaply produced newsprint buckled, creased, and roiled in unpredictable ways, effecting a highly variegated, slightly shimmering surface that caught the shifting light and shadows of its environs and produced an elegant study in the interrelated categories of «structure, texture, and facture» 8 emphasized by Albers.

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Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

In 1985 he published Melville and the Gods (Scholars Press), a scholarly but elegant study that focuses on what Hamilton calls Melville's pilgrimage through «deconversion.»

It is a world of horses that run and jump in a green, rolling countryside, studied by members of a select coterie who are, more often than not, as elegant as the animals they follow.

«Many of the key players orchestrating DNA methylation had previously been characterized, but what we didn't fully realize before this study is that they all work together in an elegant way,» said Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., assistant professor at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and the study's senior author.

Dr. Cameron Carter, Editor of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, noted the study is «an elegant synthesis of task fMRI and structural MRI» that shows a unique relationship between structure and function in bipolar disorder.

Tabin used elegant techniques for studying development in the chick that involve slicing off the top of an eggshell so researchers can surgically or genetically interfere with the embryo and observe the effects on development.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

The study «proves in an elegant way that antidepressant medications and placebo have different actions in many cases,» says Andrew Leuchter, a depression researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not a part of the study.

«Simple physics models are elegant and can explain a lot,» says study coauthor Dan Zitterbart, a physicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

The recipe for this novel and elegant coating was developed by Anahita Azarpira in the course of her doctoral studies in a team headed by Assoc. Prof. Thomas Schedel - Niedrig.

In an accompanying editorial, Anna Alisi, PhD, of the Liver Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy, and Pietro Vajro, MD, of the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, «Scuola Medica Salernitana,» Unit of Pediatrics, University of Salerno, Baronissi (Sa), Italy, commented, «This elegant observational study by Ayonrinde and colleagues is the first epidemiological evidence for the connection between maternal obesity, breastfeeding, and NAFLD.»

Manji, who describes the study as elegant, is not ready to give up on NMDA receptors until the results have been borne out in human studies.

«Their work is very elegant and extremely rigorous,» says Radhika Atit, a skin biologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved in the new study.

These predictions were supported by a classic, elegant, and notable study conducted by Brewbaker and published in the American Journal of Botany in 1967.

The Maya studied astronomy, composed music and wrote scroll - like books, or «codices,» in elegant hieroglyphics, the most advanced writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.

«These are extremely well done, very elegant studies,» says neonatologist Shabih Hasan of the University of Calgary in Canada, a specialist in breathing disorders in newborns.

Calling Ooi's experiment «incredibly elegant,» psychologist Jack Loomis of the University of California, Santa Barbara, says, «it is a fairly pure measurement of perception,» adding that the prism test can be applied widely in perception studies, including virtual reality research.

The study is «very elegant,» and an important step toward identifying the brain regions that produce hallucinations — and keep them in check, says Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist at the University of Ottawa who was not involved with the work.

It's an «elegant study» and «a well - documented example of this fascinating interplay between ERVs and their host organism,» says Dixie Mager, a geneticist at British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada, who researches how genetic elements sometimes «jump» around genomes.

The elegant feedback system discovered in this study links the regulation of contraction to the shape and function of epithelial tubes via mechanical and biochemical signalling.

Although it isn't possible to make true mouse models of schizophrenia, the study is «elegant» and an «important new building block» toward a better understanding of the MD's role in schizophrenia's cognitive deficits, says psychiatrist John Krystal of Yale University.

«I thought it was quite elegant, a very nicely done study,» says Bryon Adinoff, a psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies drug and alcohol abuse.

«It's a very elegant study,» says immunologist Paul Thomas of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Pathologist George Stewart from Kansas State University in Manhattan calls the study «elegant.»

This paper by Urban and Richardson presents an elegant series of studies of how foraging rates have evolved in multiple populations of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) that coexist with different types of predators.

Elegant new studies are showing that the brain and liver are most important in regulating a person's blood sugar levels especially in type 2 or insulin resistant diabetes.

A drop in fecal butyrate and butyrate producing bacteria was demonstrated in an elegant study comparing diets of varying amounts of carbs.

The first new film in nearly three decades from Portuguese auteur Vitor Gonçalves is a rigorous, elegant study of emotional crisis

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES: Even in a bleak world going through upheaval, director Matt Reeves and company bring us this elegant, harrowing and immersive study of humanity.

Long, low, sleek, and just about the closest thing to the glory days of the brand's past as we've seen in recent decades, the Citroen Cxeprience concept is a study in elegant lines and futuristic details.

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A case study is an elegant representation of a real or imaginary situation that covers the complexities that one can come across in the workplace or real - world situation.

Whether slender and elegant, bold and athletic, or floppy and furry, a dog's trotters are a fascinating study in anatomy and adaptation.

Some very elegant behavioral studies have shown that dogs spayed after having a litter, versus those spayed before reaching puberty, have no significant differences in their behavior and loving temperament.

This elegant study, published in Integrative Veterinary Care Journal and American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association Journal, should be an incentive for vaccine companies to address this issue, because vaccines are not without risk; veterinarians should push for a broader study to confirm these findings in a larger population.

Tom Reimchen, a biologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, calls this an «elegant» study.

The architects have designed the property in hierarchy form, giving access from the elegant square courtyard depending on personal privacy status to the guest waiting room, guest toilet, the formal dining room, the grand salon, a large study, a morning room, kitchens and an elegant guest suite.

Spanning 913sqm, the three - bedroom, two - story Royal Suite is located in the central dome of the building, featuring a rooftop plunge pool, vast living room with an elegant dining room, study, lounge area and spacious majlis.

Located on the highest floors, and featuring delightful landscaped garden views, the three - bedroom Sir Winston Churchill Suite offers a vast living room with a formal 12 - seater dining area, an elegant study, a lounge area, a majestic in - room staircase that connects to the rooftop plunge pool and a generously sized majlis that is ideal for meetings.

Cool and elegant, these studies in relationships among form, color and space have become Judd's signature pieces.

In one room, Louise Bourgeois» elegant upright sculpture in pink marble Topiary (2005) was one of two sculptures shown here in the 2008 exhibition Nature Study, a presentation that examined Bourgeois» exploration of universal themes including growth, decay and regeneratioIn one room, Louise Bourgeois» elegant upright sculpture in pink marble Topiary (2005) was one of two sculptures shown here in the 2008 exhibition Nature Study, a presentation that examined Bourgeois» exploration of universal themes including growth, decay and regeneratioin pink marble Topiary (2005) was one of two sculptures shown here in the 2008 exhibition Nature Study, a presentation that examined Bourgeois» exploration of universal themes including growth, decay and regeneratioin the 2008 exhibition Nature Study, a presentation that examined Bourgeois» exploration of universal themes including growth, decay and regeneration.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

It seems to me that Loehle's elegant approach has the advantage of being less sensitive to the specifics of proxy selection (each component in the average has the same weight) and the method readily provides confidence intervals, which seem to be not present in the PCA studies.

Andreas Vieli, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (who was not involved in the study) said: ``... [T] his study offers a very elegant and plausible explanation for the glacier conundrum.

Elegant buildings clad in ivy and quaint cobbled courtyards have seen a procession of famous alumni — including Prince William choosing to study here.

Plant and colleagues, in a very interesting and elegant study (1), found that maternal depression during pregnancy was associated with: offspring depression in adulthood (OR 3.4), maternal depression during offspring's childhood (OR 4.8), and with offspring exposure to child maltreatment (OR 2.4).