Sentences with phrase «field experiments in»

Information, Switching Costs, and Consumer Choice: Evidence from Two Randomized Field Experiments in Swedish Primary Health Care

Before joining the S3 Lab, Gonzalo worked as an RA managing field experiments in the Peruvian Ministry of Education, and previously at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

The physiological effects of Shinrin - yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing): evidence from field experiments in 24 forests across Japan.

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.

Chris Curtis, an entomologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says laboratory and field experiments in Britain, the US and Canada have found no evidence that female mosquitoes are repelled or bite less within «earshot» of a wide range of frequencies tested.

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

The Oxford team has preliminary results from field experiments in Morocco that show that locusts in the desert behave like those in the lab.

Tiffany Davenport's friend - to - friend email study, «Unsubscribe: The Effects of Peer - to - Peer Email on Voter Turnout; Results from a Field Experiment in the June 6, 2006, California Primary Election,» shows even stronger results.

GREENHOUSE GASSED In a long - running field experiment in Minnesota, scientists are studying the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on plots of grassland.

Field experiment in tundra vegetation in Northern Sweden.

We used data from a field experiment in Northern Sweden, in which climate change was simulated with open top chambers to increase the air and soil temperature, and with addition of plant litter from willow and birch - shrubs.

To determine the effectiveness of numbers and traffic lights, the authors conducted a field experiment in which employees at Humana, a large health - care company, were asked to place lunch orders through an online platform designed especially for the study.

Fifty - one fusion researchers from across Europe signed a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry stating: «The Omega lasers... are the world's most productive facilities in fielding experiments in high energy density physics.

«Milk in the Data: Food Security Impacts from a Livestock Field Experiment in Zambia» appears in World Development.

The two - year project called VORTEX2 is the largest field experiment in history.

In «An Upbeat Crowd: Fast In - store Music Alleviates Negative Effects of High Social Density on Customers» Spending,» appearing in the September issue of The Journal of Retailing, the authors describe a six - week field experiment in 2014 that tested the interaction between manipulated music tempo and measured social density.

To better understand how the loss of key species affects these functions, Silliman and Hensel conducted a tightly controlled eight - month field experiment in a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Ga..

Fryer's study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, describes a two - year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

We present results from a randomized field experiment in which low - income individuals receiving tax preparation help were also offered immediate assistance and a streamlined process to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for themselves or their children.

Rational ignorance in education: A field experiment in student plagiarism.

Study 2, a field experiment in a «weed - out» biology course, tests the effects of a randomly assigned affirmation intervention on students» social networks and persistence in STEM.

On the RS list of speakers, I was pleased to see Don Perovich, who was my co-conspirator in the 1990's in planning the SHEBA field experiment in the Arctic Ocean.

Not exact matches

An obituary published in The New York Times Thursday recalls the early days of the company, when three friends from Brooklyn began experimenting with tea and juice — despite having little experience in the field:

The car - hailing service has already started dabbling in the field, with a messenger service in New York City; a household goods delivery experiment in Washington, D.C.; and a food - delivery test in Southern California.

For nearly 50 years, scientists from around the world have used 58 lakes in northern Ontario for real, in - the - field experiments.

We use a field experiment and find that entry by an NGO selling authentic drugs significantly reduced fake drugs among incumbents, with weaker effects in markets where consumer misconceptions were relatively pervasive.

There are about 2,000 different crowdfunding platforms worldwide, many of them specializing in specific fields: raising money for science experiments, for bands, or documentaries.

NIF will provide extraordinary opportunities for breakthrough experiments in a variety of fields.

However, the most important thing... is complete legality of the instrument, we can only experiment in the legal field.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

One of the areas where CNI could enter into some new experiments was in the field of development.

In play, one constructs his own space, providing himself with a field of freedom in which to experiment with meanings and to establish his identity..In play, one constructs his own space, providing himself with a field of freedom in which to experiment with meanings and to establish his identity..in which to experiment with meanings and to establish his identity....

A vast amount of further experiment and correlation of experience is needed in this field.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

i was raised in a very christian home, educated in 3 fields of scientific study, including experiments creating selective pressures to highlight evolution in insect populations, and am certainly atheist now.

[39] Falk was critical of Meyer's declaration of scientists, such as Michael Lynch, being wrong without Meyer conducting any experiments to falsify the established work in the field.

When they are researching in their chosen field, scientist take great care to make their experiments as accurate as possible, and they check and double check their own and other scientists» results.

The Golden Rice field site that was vandalized was located within the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 5's (DA - RFU5) Bicol Experiment Station in Pili, Camarinesfield site that was vandalized was located within the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 5's (DA - RFU5) Bicol Experiment Station in Pili, CamarinesField Unit 5's (DA - RFU5) Bicol Experiment Station in Pili, Camarines Sur.

This field experiment would have been one of the thirteen multilocational trials started in 2012 in different parts of the Philippines.

The National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month - old transplanted golden rice plants in Pili, Camarines Sur on 08 August 2013.

Featured were IRRI initiatives with heirloom rice farmers in the Cordilleras; conservation of rice genetic diversity; and the decades - long field experiment which recently yielded its 150th harvest.

Conduct a field experiment to determine water - use efficiency under alternate wetting and drying (AWD) and flood - irrigated conditions in farmers» field at key sites

Conduct field experiments with NARS to determine agronomic N - use efficiency under SSNM and farmers» N fertilizer practice in farmers» field at key sites

It spent a decade fine tuning GM techniques, experimenting with drought tolerant, nitrogen efficient and higher sugar producing plants in the lab and out in the field.

Heyward is likely moving to center field in Chicago, which should help mitigate the experiment / potential disaster of Kyle Schwarber in left.

There are no weak teams or easy games anymore, more so this mad season... the time for experimenting is well and truly over, personally I think we should field our best team in the league every game because we can not afford to lose any more ground, City are starting to purr and we will be severely punished for any slip ups....

I hope he can signal to us that he has learned his lessons from the ridiculous experiments over the last games and that he will field 3 CD and not play Monreal as middle CD and that he plays Laca in the center and Kolasinac as left wing - back and Bellerin as right Wingback, to start.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

A bigger issue is how he is feeling at the moment, I have seen that look before as players tire of Wengers on field experiments and leaves the team in a position to lose.