Sentences with phrase «field experiments with»

For example, field experiments with factorial designs with vignettes embedded alongside standard survey instruments have proven successful [36].

The NRC notes that «small - scale field experiments with controlled emissions [e.g. releasing reflecting aerosols into the atmosphere] may....

Economist Esther Duflo combines «innovative field experiments with rigorous empirical analysis» to identify «linkages and causal relationships between policy, poverty, behavior, and socioeconomic status» in the developing world, focusing on the well - being of women and children.

An important part of his regulatory role is to read proposals for field experiments with GMOs or the use of GMOs for food.

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

In a field experiment with thousands of plots, the Phenocart is a quick way to evaluate plant health.

In a field experiment with 40,000 potential donors, we compared the overhead - free solution with other common uses of initial donations.

The field experiment with the KOSMOS mesocosms is conducted at Taliarte, Gran Canaria as a joint activity of the German research networks BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) and SOPRAN (Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene) between January and April 2014.

The field experiment with the KOSMOS mesocosms off Gran Canary now culminates in the simulation of deep - water upwelling — an event that can boost productivity in these nutrient - starving waters.

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EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»

When distiller Geoff Dillon wants to experiment with new recipes, boxes of pears and plums arrive at his Beamsville distillery from neighbouring fields.

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.

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.

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.

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....

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

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.

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.

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

Rather than trying to figure out ways to get as many attackers as he can on the field (experimenting with playing Dybala and Messi together, or playing two strikers ahead of Messi or other super attacking options) he's committed to playing with Messi and one striker.

Moose Hill Camp (Sharon, MA) offers weekly sessions where campers discover the sanctuary, get dirty in farm fields, catch frogs by the pond, experiment with science, dabble in art, connect with nature, and venture to new places.

Although I have been active in this field since 1970, and many have encouraged the U.S. to emulate Sweden, learning from the real - life experiment with doing this, it is only recently that U.S. families can obtain safety seats that are certified to 30 - 45 lbs.

Journalists, analysts, and campaigners dissected the potential electoral impact of projects with exotic names such as «Dreamcatcher,» «Narwhal,» «Optimizer,» and «Orca,» all while arguing about the importance of «A / B testing», web site «optimization», and field experiments.

This kit welcomes young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments and building projects.

Besides spending time with bivalves, I lead materials science experiments at local elementary schools with UCSB's Family Ultimate Science Experience, and help run a student group, Graduate Students for Diversity in Science, to promote inclusion within STEM fields.

In a project she is coordinating, farmers are experimenting with grassland restoration on fields they have been forced to retire because of groundwater depletions.

So I think it was a combination of by far the most influential person in the field pushing the idea very strongly, combined with the fact that there weren't any other good ideas around, and there wasn't anything from experiments telling us which way to go.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

«The Eliminate Dengue Program is doing field experiments to see, will we be able to replace wild - type, existing populations of mosquitoes with these Wolbachia - infected ones and does it block dengue transmission?»

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from field observations or working with a single trained subject, she conducted repeatable laboratory experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.

It is not currently possible to reproduce this distinctive turbulence either by laboratory experiments or by computer simulations.2 Until now, it was therefore impossible for geophysicists to determine its role with regard to the magnetic field.

Working closely with his colleague in Singapore, the team experimented with electric fields and temperature to see how charge flows through different molecular diodes.

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.

So why don't we all agree to put those kinds of experiments on hold until we can review this whole field to see how to deal with the potential risks?

With a randomized field experiment of 587 first - graders, we tested an educational intervention designed to promote interactions between children and parents relating to math.

In the lab, and in field experiments, female brown rats readily enter trap boxes baited with the male brown rat's sex pheromone.

An experiment to measure c might produce variations depending on how the setup was oriented with respect to one of those fields, variations far smaller than Michelson and Morley could have detected.

An independent experiment in boosting almond yields has mixed the wild blue orchard bee species with rented honeybees in California fields, says Theresa Pitts - Singer of the Department of Agriculture's Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah.

Nosek has been at the forefront of efforts to clean up his field — he and more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.

For example, contributors will not only tag their paper with the scientific field, but must also mark it as «New Results,» «Confirmatory Results,» or «Contradictory Results,» depending on whether it is an advance or confirms or contradicts previous experiments.

The recent study is one of the most extensive to date, and is based on experiments and computer simulations combined with field studies.

Based on an improved understanding of the photoemission process itself this will serve in future experiments to resolve variations of light fields with sub-atomic resolution, i.e. on a scale that was not accessible up to now.

Here Williams is experimenting with forbs — perennial and annual flowering plants — that could appeal to farmers who do not want to deal with the hassle of woody plants on their fields.

You'll advance your field and become an established and well - respected scientist, juggling innovative experiments with prolific publications while simultaneously nurturing the next generation of scientific scholars...

The field work was complemented with high - temperature high - pressure experiments in the laboratory to replicate the hydrothermal observations and to suggest mechanisms for the processes.

To learn more about the field performance, durability, and decomposition properties of biofabric, the researchers designed experiments to compare four experimental spunbond, nonwoven biofabrics with two commercially available bioplastic mulch films and a bare soil control.

Co-author Professor Eric Achterberg, from the University of Southampton, said: «The beauty of this approach is that with both field and laboratory experiments we were able to prove how the mechanisms operate for the removal of organic carbon in the deep ocean.»