Sentences with phrase «experiment at a research»

«I am a chemist at heart,» di Costanzo says, and he sometimes misses handling lab equipment and running late - night experiments at research facilities.

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Lee's research team experiments with technology for creating objects in an «additive» manner like Carbon3D's machines as opposed to a «subtractive» manner in which objects are created by cutting away at large hunks of materials.
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.
It's packed with the results of experiments Cialdini conducted at Arizona State University, but it's surprisingly accessible for such a research - intensive tome.
The disruption of experiments at Geneva's Large Hadron Collider — by a piece of baguette, no less — has temporarily set back research into the nature's most elusive element: a hypothetical subatomic particle called Higgs boson.
The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.
Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).
Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the NurembeResearch: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberesearch conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.
Organic Valley is also supporting all of Rodale 2012 public events at the Institute, and the two organizations are partnering on a side - by - side soils experiment to more deeply understand the impacts of three organically approved soil amendment techniques, among other on - farm initiatives and aforementioned research being conducted on the Burkholder herd.
Through his work at the experiment station, García was credited with having added to the economic value of New Mexico agriculture, particularly with his research and development of chile, sweet potatoes, pecans, yellow and white Grain onions, and improved varieties of cotton.
At IRRI, all of our research that involves GM is overseen by an Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) that is responsible for ensuring that we comply with local and international regulations and guidelines in the conduct of our experiments.
Not every chip complements every cheese, as I've discovered through extensive research including multiple bodega runs, last - minute Hail Mary's at my local cheese shop, and a career experimenting with artisan cheeses.
The comparison experiment was conducted in 2005 at a plant science research facility close to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Our Research and Development Team at Gold Coast Ingredients takes pleasure in experimenting with flavors in protein beverages, supplements, nutrition bars, energy drinks, vitamins and more.
Ranjit Kadan, a food technologist at the US government's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), experimented until he found the best rice cultivar and flour particle size for the wholegrain bread.
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.
He also mentioned helping to fund agricultural research at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva.
«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.
This new development paves the way for a new field of dynamical study in the position dependence of atomic vibration in small particles, and is also likely to benefit the catalytical study of particles.Richard Aveyard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at York, said: «Our work highlights the valuable contribution that computational simulations can have in the field of electron microscopy: the more details we can put into our simulations, the more details we can extract from experiments
Using neutron scattering experiments at the BER II research reactor, Manfred Reehuis and Michael Tovar were successful in determining the structural and magnetic properties for each of the mixed crystal specimens over quite a wide temperature range, from near the zero point of the Kelvin temperature scale to above 900 K.
Two of the world's most respected entomologists — Pettis, then research leader at the USDA's Beltsville Bee Laboratory, and vanEngelsdorp, then at Penn State — there revealed the early results of an experiment they'd just completed.
«At face value, it looks very interesting,» says Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who hopes that other teams will soon repeat the experimentAt face value, it looks very interesting,» says Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who hopes that other teams will soon repeat the experimentat the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who hopes that other teams will soon repeat the experiments.
Experiments are conducted in a greenhouse, at field sites and a research garden northwest of Flagstaff.
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, has already bought seats on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo for two of its scientists at $ 200,000 a pop, allowing them to carry out trial experiments in microgravity.
In the second study, James Horne and colleagues at the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre in England devised an experiment to test this question.
«The implications for mouse experiments are profound, and could help us cut through some persistent sources of confusion,» in genetic research, said Dr. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, an immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a co-author of the new study.
Touch and go The N.C. State researchers are experimenting with two different approaches they hope will cut the costs and energy requirements of Braille displays in the future, and presented their latest research at the International Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices in San Diego last month.
The Czech - born psychiatrist conducted dozens of government - sanctioned LSD experiments in the»50s,»60s, and early»70s on heroin addicts, alcoholics, and terminal cancer patients in his native Prague and later at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, a mental health facility in Catonsville, Maryland, where he was chief of psychiatric rResearch Center, a mental health facility in Catonsville, Maryland, where he was chief of psychiatric researchresearch.
Further experiments are currently underway at the research center to explore this pattern and determine optimal distances between bomas.
At the end of the day, though, it is students themselves who must overcome the common obstacles of research training, such as experiments that refuse to cooperate, communicating with all sorts of people, and learning to present and justify our research in public.
Tristan Bekinschtein at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, says he has tried to do the same experiment on adults, but failed, as they woke up.
In order to establish the physicochemical properties of the most efficient bioadhesive polymers to be used as ocular inserts in order to administer said antibiotic, during research, the CEU UCH team has performed moxifloxacin diffusion ex vivo experiments through rabbit corneas preserved at different temperatures.
Through hypervelocity impact experiments performed using the Vertical Gun Range at the NASA Ames Research Center, Schultz was able to show that those grooves were likely formed by chunks of the impactor that sheared off on initial contact with the surface.
In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).
Despite resistance from Navy skeptics, Bond began a series of experiments at the Navy's submarine base at New London, Connecticut, where he was in charge of the medical research lab.
Dr Alexandre Courtiol, co-first author of this study, and a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, comments, «Our findings suggest that males evolve to divest from the construction of powerful bodies and the demonstration of spectacular feats when females do not use these characteristics to discriminate (e.g. in our experiments, they were prevented to do so).»
Collins's research looks at how desert ecosystems respond to climate variability, and he also has experiments simulating droughts that are predicted under global warming.
Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.
Miho Sato and her colleagues at The Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University in Japan did experiments in mice and tissue cultures to show, for the first time, that increases in insulin affect circadian rhythms.
She worked on the experiments as an undergraduate psychology major, through the Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) program, and is now a medical student at the University of Massachusetts.
Russell got interested in ion engines in 1992, when he met Scott Benson, an engineer at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland (now the Glenn Research Center), who had recently begun experimenting with ion propulsion.
The research team, Heller says, has already begun experiments to further explore the implications of these results, which include looking at differences in this pathway between cells taken from allergic and healthy individuals, and testing the efficacy of an inhalable drug that mimics the function of GRB1 and p70S6K to shut off the development of M2 macrophages in the lungs of mice.
Now 6 years into her postdoctoral research, Alireza is beginning to make waves in the physics community with her experiments on the effects of high pressure at a quantum level.
At almost the same time, he stumbled across what would later become his research field: the first observations of gene silencing, which had started to trickle through via transgenic plant experiments.
Researchers Shannon Young, Thomas Wobby and Providence Ryan measure plants in a controlled experiment at the La Selva research lab in Costa Rica.
Doug Dluzen, currently a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University, says that he works in a fairly large lab where there are outlets to discuss research problems, and strategies, and «generally there is someone who has stumbled upon a problem before — being able to discuss my issues can be very helpful when troubleshooting an assay or transfection in the early stages of the experiments
Using new theoretical results and experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics and the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that the central assumption for nearly 70 years that learning occurs only in the synapses is mistaken.
In the summer of 2013, Ballantyne and his former adviser, White at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, ran a «what if» experiment.
During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the latest experiment, Christoph Düllmann at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, and his team created four atoms of 117.
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