Sentences with phrase «field of research called»

Since then, psychologists have continued to probe the link between feeling good and being well in a new field of research called «positive psychology».
The team's work is part of a relatively new field of research called topological spintronics.
Dr. Guo and his team utilized a relatively new field of research called metabolomics to examine the bone marrow.
At the Wyss Institute, we leverage recent insights into how Nature builds, controls and manufactures to develop new engineering innovations - a new field of research we call Biologically Inspired Engineering.
«Creating a high - output reaction in a MagLIF plasma at Z should demonstrate the promise of the broader field of research we call magneto - inertial fusion — a potentially inexpensive form of fusion,» said project lead and Sandia manager Dan Sinars.

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He resisted it because the field hit a major slump in the 1980s as experts moved to more promising areas of research — an AI winter, Schmidt called it.
The Angel Resource Institute (ARI), formerly called formerly called the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF), is a charitable organization devoted to education and research in the field of angel investing, a growing driver of our entrepreneurial economy.
In the early days bioethics focused on such larger issues, but the field was in time overtaken by an interest in what can be called regulatory bioethics: the protection of research subjects, the advancement of patient rights, and the devising of procedural guidelines for end - of - life care, for instance.
However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.
Menczer's work, which is also supported by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and by the private James S. McDonnell Foundation, is part of a growing field that examines what are called complex, nonlinear feedback systems.
Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.
Edward Goolish, science projects manager for NAI at its central offices at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, calls the research fellows «ambassadors who communicate between teams of scientists and the publicResearch Center in Moffett Field, California, calls the research fellows «ambassadors who communicate between teams of scientists and the publicresearch fellows «ambassadors who communicate between teams of scientists and the public.»
The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.
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.
Bob had tried to accent his collections management experience and field experience in both his description of his thesis research AND in a separate section called Collections Management.
«It really now calls upon the research field to start focusing on this area,» he says, «to look at drug effects in this area, to look at the types of changes that go on during addiction in this area, to understand what the basic function of this area is and why it would be important in this kind of context.»
Shaul Mukamel, a chemistry professor at the University of California - Irvine, said that the Princeton research is a step forward in an important and active research field called coherent control, in which light can be manipulated to control behavior at the molecular level.
The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really need to know about biodiversity,» says avian systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.»
► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fieldsresearch vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fieldsResearch V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields
To forestall future threats and to handle emerging medical problems, an international research commission yesterday called for the creation of a new field of medicine: planetary health.
Hehlmann is a strong supporter of his friend's cancer research, calling him the «father of oncogenes» and a genius in the field.
We launched a new effort on the diagnostic side, called the research domain criteria, or RDOC, which has awakened the field to the need to bring biology — and for that matter cognitive science and social science — into the process of diagnosis.
I had the opportunity to undertake this Marie Curie fellowship as part of my doctorate research and got the chance to work with international experts in my field and be part of what I like to call «a scientific world club.»
Her research is part of a new field of study, called aeroecology, that looks at the interactions between flying animals and their airspace.
He immediately alienated many of the 500 scientists under his purview with calls to reorganize research programs and threats to close a zoological field station and a lab for materials science research and education (Science, 13 July 2001, p. 194).
In May 2001, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) started the exploratory phase of a new interdisciplinary research fieldResearch (BMBF) started the exploratory phase of a new interdisciplinary research fieldresearch field called?
«You've got to know what your quantities are,» says Mariana Figueiro, a professor at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Speaking in March at a conference on circadian disruption by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Figueiro called on the field to step up its game.
To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»
David Hughes, of Global Sustainability Research Inc., pointed out that production from tight oil fields like North Dakota's Bakken and Texas» Eagle Ford plays quickly reach what he called «middle age,» when production begins to fall off.
Ripple, an affable outdoorsman in his midfifties, is particularly interested in the rebirth of the aspens; it is the result, he contends, of the wolves» effect on elk and the elk's on plants — a domino effect that Ripple, his research partner Robert Beschta, and others in the field call a trophic cascade.
The material — known as 1T» - WTe2 — bridges two flourishing fields of research: that of so - called 2 - D materials, which include monolayer materials such as graphene that behave in different ways than their thicker forms; and topological materials, in which electrons can zip around in predictable ways with next to no resistance and regardless of defects that would ordinarily impede their movement.
Gregory Stephanopoulos, an MIT chemical engineering professor who was not involved with Princeton's research, called it a turning point in the field of metabolic engineering.
Because different fields vary in research costs, instead of tallying an investigator's total grant dollars, NIH staff will calculate what it's calling a Grant Support Index (GSI).
Helena Kraemer, a biostatistician at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was responsible for field trials of diagnostic categories proposed for DSM - 5, says that Insel is right that the NIMH's new program, called Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is «the direction we have to go.»
The researchers, led by John Pickett of Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, issued a public appeal to the activists earlier this month asking them to call off their planned destruction of the field on 27 May.
But the terms of the agreement with the original trust required the society to honor the provisions in the fund's founding document, which called on the fund «to advance science education and research in the petroleum field
«This effect is famous for puzzling some of the deepest thinkers in the field, including Albert Einstein, who called it «spooky action at a distance»,» said Professor Andrea Morello, of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at UNSW and Program Manager in the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, who led the research.
In a review article published April 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientist Andrew Feinberg, M.D., calls for more integration between two fields of DNA - based research: genetics and epigenetics.
Such beneficial bugs, called probiotics, are the focus of a booming field of medical research.
MAP - 21 called for a field study to be completed to expand upon the results of lab studies conducted by the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center in 2009 and 2010.
Jim Thomas of the Ottawa - based ETC Group said the U.S. military's substantial funding of gene drive research «raises alarming question about this entire field,» and he called the technology «powerful and dangerous,» warning that it «could have disastrous impacts on peace, food security, and the environment.»
The merging of research in these various fields coalesced into a new discipline that we now call cognitive neuroscience.
The Irish Research Council is pleased to announce that the call for the nomination of Irish - based researchers, working in the fields of physiology and medicine, to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is now open.
Meave Leakey, Director of Field Research at TBI and research professor at Stony Brook University's Department of Anthropology, received the 2016 Hubbard Medal, named for the first president of the National Geographic Society, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, often called National Geographic's highesResearch at TBI and research professor at Stony Brook University's Department of Anthropology, received the 2016 Hubbard Medal, named for the first president of the National Geographic Society, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, often called National Geographic's highesresearch professor at Stony Brook University's Department of Anthropology, received the 2016 Hubbard Medal, named for the first president of the National Geographic Society, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, often called National Geographic's highest honor.
Dr. Yamanaka's Nobel prize - winning discovery of a way to turn adult skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) that act like embryonic stem cells has radically advanced the fields of cell biology and stem - cell research.
That call was made based on the evidence arising from many fields of medical research, and from a considered perspective of aging as a process of damage accumulation, one that can be most effectively treated by repair of that damage.
However, while calling the research into proteins «a burgeoning field,» Petraglia urged «caution» about getting too far ahead of hard science, which is still in its very early stages.
5/19/2008 Mystery Solved: The Ashwell Receptor Reduces Mortality During Bacterial Infection In research that solves the longest - standing mystery in glycobiology — a field that studies complex sugar chains called glycans — researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a molecule in the liver o...
These have garnered more than 600 citations advancing our understanding of what the research field calls secondary organic aerosols — or SOA for short — and how the carbon - containing aerosol particles mix in the atmosphere.
Scientists of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F) have now responded to calls for integration, and provide a concept for linking data of both researchResearch Centre (BiK - F) have now responded to calls for integration, and provide a concept for linking data of both researchresearch fields.
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