Sentences with phrase «field populations of»

Small - scale mesocosm experiments, where field populations of marine Crenarcheaota are adapted to different temperatures, will be used to further calibrate the TEX86 - SST relationship.

Suppression of a field population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by sustained release of transgenic male mosquitoes.

Not exact matches

The mosquitoes are being released into two neighborhoods in Fresno, California, as part of a field study for the Debug Project, an initiative that aims to decimate certain mosquito populations.

For example, when trying to decide how to feed the population, the group at first quickly gravitates to the obvious solution: distribute the large store of their own field rations, known as meals ready to eat, or MREs.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

Expand entrepreneurship education into ever younger populations, and rethink educational programming - especially in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)- to increase our global competitiveness

Here are the names of a few civilizational disasters where populations were disarmed to «protect» life; Nazi Germany, Maoist China, Soviet Russia, the killing fields of Pol Pot's Cambodia.

And secondly, Stephen Barr's point seems to be a real solution: that theologians need to learn the language of science - not just absorbing the factual evidence of recent discoveries, but also the methodologies and modes of thought that scientists, whether quantum physicists or population geneticists, employ in their day - to - day grappling with problems in their fields.

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.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

This field, it is widely believed, has advanced sufficiently to permit meaningful predictions of the impact of population changes on the social and economic development of both rich and poor societies.

In origin this is a material force, that of terrestrial compression acting on a rapidly growing population composed of elements whose field of action grows even more rapidly.

In some smaller fields the whole population has been completely gathered into the Christian fellowship that no non-Christian community remains outside, and in some the early relation of mother and daughter Church has practically merged into that of sisterhood, the younger Church being now no longer dependant for the maintenance of its activities on the older.

«NuMex Joe E. Parker» originated as a single plant selection from a field planted to an openpollinated population of» New Mexico 6 - 4.»

With half of the global population now living in urban areas, he said there were opportunities for retailers and foodservice operators in this emerging field.

There's also a large segment of the betting population that believes that home - field advantage is enhanced in conference rivalries since the excitement of playing a familiar rival leads to louder, more raucous crowds.

It makes the field more diverse and is a worthwhile effort of trying to «grow the game» in different populations around the world.

By comparison, northwest suburban Buffalo Grove, population 41,496, has more than 400 acres of parks, playgrounds, sports fields, bicycle trails and picnic areas.

She brings knowledge to the field including real - world examples on how to generalize behavior from clinic to community, and the discipline to identify needs and create meaningful action in service of the SM population.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Created in honor of the theater's founder, the Mary Churchill Memorial Fund allows Puppet Showplace to welcome low - income and under - served student populations on field trips.

There are no long - term research studies on the outcome of children with Selective Mutism as they grow into adulthood, and therefore much of what we believe occurs in adulthood for this population is conjecture by experts with experience in the field.

With neurological disorders affecting approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms largely abandoning their R&D efforts in neuroscience, the work of academic research institutions such as CSHL is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.»

As neurological disorders affect approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms are largely abandoning their research and development efforts in neuroscience, the work of academic research institutions is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.

Many political operatives and party leaders, assessing the field of potential GOP candidates, have given Kolb short shift because he lacks funds and name recognition in the state's population centers.

The field study is to consider the population dynamics in the respective regions, the geographical or physical features of the areas, their economic viability, as well as ethnic and community interests.

They discussed his history of tackling questions outside his field, the fundamental laws that govern cities, and his belief that population overload is draining global resources, steering us toward socioeconomic collapse.

Researchers at the University of York mapped population data for 62 wild bee species sprinkled across the United Kingdom along with neonicotinoid treatment in local oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields over 18 years.

«Certainly anytime we have a situation like that where there's such overwhelming media attention, it's going to leave a memory in the population,» says George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who fielded 30 to 40 media calls a day that summer.

Building on his field studies of African herbivores, Owen - Smith develops a new modeling approach for studying the population dynamics of large mammals.

«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?»

The researchers believe this model better reflects the complexities of social species — in comparison to other models that do not consider the social organization of populations — and thus allows field biologist to test specific predictions about the effects of sociality.

What has been called the modern synthesis of the two fields emerged in the 1940s with the idea that the sorts of genetic differences you could observe in populations, right out your window, when compounded and extrapolated over vast periods of time, could account for the large - scale changes we see in the fossil record.

Increase the visibility of the earth and space sciences and foster awareness of career opportunities in these fields for underrepresented populations.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

The Society for Conservation Biology, founded in 1985, became one of the fastest - growing scientific organizations of its time, bringing together diverse specialties from ecology and population genetics to sustainable agriculture and forestry, revolutionizing the once sleepy field of natural history.

About 10 % of the general population suffers from exercise - induced bronchoconstriction, but among some fields of competitive winter sports the prevalence can be up to 50 %.

In a study of New Jersey pine - oak forest, Winfree was surprised to find that bee populations are more abundant and diverse near sites of human disturbance — where backyard gardens or farm fields add to the range of blossoms available.

The local population must be made aware of the tremendous opportunities that exist for those individuals with an education, especially with an education in an MSE field.

Producing good - quality minority undergraduate students in the MSE fields will lead to an increased minority graduate population and eventually to a larger pool of minority potential faculty members to choose from.

Scientists in the CTE field say that much more research is now needed, including prospective studies to determine the incidence and prevalence of CTE both in football players and the wider population.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

The ability of the mucus samples to kill the fungal disease was related to how prevalent the infections were among the frog population in the field as well as the survival rate of frogs raised in the laboratory that were exposed to the disease.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

Part of the growth of the field is fueled by the aging of the world's population.

They then compared their predictions with field studies of more than 1000 lizard populations on four different continents.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In a study published in 2013, Palumbi and his colleagues, including Daniel Barshis, a marine biologist at Stanford, compared two populations of the reef - building coral Acropora hyacinthus at their field site off Ofu Island in American Samoa.