Sentences with phrase «field study involved»

Axford is in the process of preparing to leave for a field study in Greenland next week and recently became responsible for field studies involving students.

In addition, Think Through Math has been the focus of several critical field studies involving more than 30,000 students across seven different states.

A field study involving 224 dogs was conducted.

Participated in three high - profile field studies involving the implementation of new measuring and evaluation techniques.

The first was a field study involving the analysis of real pricing decisions of US homeowners in the market to sell their homes.

Not exact matches

As an inter-disciplinary field of study with an important complementary role to play to all existing fields of theological study, part of the task of missiology involves the drawing out of missiological themes and issues from those fields of study.

Although the field of Wesleyan studies was brought to life at mid-century by Methodists involved in the ecumenical movement (Cohn Williams, Frank Baker, Albert Outler, John Deschner and others), it now flourishes with the ever - increasing output of the thirtysomething generation of Methodist traditionalists.

Induction to Les Dames d'Escoffier is awarded to exceptional female applicants involved in the culinary or pastry arts, farming, beverage management, hospitality, agriculture or other related fields of study.

A study on the use of protective goggles, albeit in girl's field hockey and involving different protective equipment, for instance, found that their use did not increase concussion rates, despite fears that they would lead to more aggressive play and hence more concussions.

«It's good news for the mRNA delivery field and an important step,» says Kathryn Whitehead, a chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.

She has since gone on to establish herself in the field of weak gravitational lensing, which involves studying the subtle distortions in images of distant galaxies to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

«This is exactly the kind of research we have been waiting for in the field,» said Francis Chan, an associate professor in Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology, who was not involved in the study.

Although she wanted to be involved with science, her interests were in helping the environment and improving human health through studying viruses and bacteria in the medical field.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

The Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a not - for - profit organization funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, funds research by young and middle - level scholars in the field of Asian studies — which includes some social sciences — as well as work involving travel to other Asian countries.

«Variations over weeks or months don't really tell you anything about the 1,000 - year timescale that governs hydrogen,» notes Kevin Zahnle, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who was not involved in the study.

Understanding what shapes diversity will require a major interdisciplinary effort, involving paleontological interpretation, field studies, laboratory experimentation, genomic comparisons, and effective statistical analyses.

If you are interested in a career in research, getting involved in a research program over the summer is one of the best ways to truly get a taste of life at the bench, but depending on your field of study, your «bench» may be the dense foliage of the Amazon jungle (see» For the Love of Nature» by Dr. Emilio Bruna).

The paper comes at an «important juncture in the perspective of the field [of biomechanics],» says John Bertram, a comparative biomechanist at the University of Calgary in Canada who was not involved with the study.

University of Illinois anthropology professor Kate Clancy led a study of sexual harassment and assault on researchers involved in scientific field studies.

«A better understanding of individual susceptibility to dental disease and variation in treatment outcomes will allow the dental field to move forward,» says Alexandre Vieira, a researcher involved in the study.

«This is an important proof - of - principle that the test can really be used in a field setting,» says infectious disease doctor Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.

The rule provides a framework for potential licensure of medical products when definitive efficacy studies that would involve exposing healthy human volunteers are unethical and field trials after accidental human exposure are not feasible.

Although «genomic rearrangements have been associated with autism for awhile,» finding more of the novel changes is «quite exciting for the field,» says Simon Gregory, an associate professor of medical genetics at Duke University's Center for Human Genetics, who was not involved in the study.

Using agreements like the Iran nuclear deal as a case study of science diplomacy provided participants like Quarrington with a glimpse into a field in which they may want to become more involved.

The Field Museum was heavily involved with this study — the paper was co-authored by The Field Museum's Corine Vriesendorp and relied on data contributed by the Field's Robin Foster.

Earth's magnetic field may influence the spin of these free electrons, which birds could then detect, explains biophysicist Thorsten Ritz of the University of California at Irvine, who was not involved in the Heyers study.

At various times, he has been involved in fields as diverse as programming guidance systems for experimental medical robots and medical image processing and theoretical mathematical studies for physics.

Co-researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani said the ANU team's achievement was a big milestone in the field of nanophotonics, which involves the study of behaviour of light and interaction of objects with light at the nano - scale.

In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.

«These findings are groundbreaking for the field of atherosclerosis research,» says MacRae Linton, an endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in the study.

The analysis involved 204 college students between the ages of 18 and 25 years who participated in a 30 - day field study.

So, almost the entire time that he was in Cambridge, he was studying botany, which involved field trips, dissection of live plants.

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is studying a range of security challenges involving programmable logic devices — in particular, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Self - testing may involve flash cards, it may mean answering questions at the back of a book chapter or it may be fielding questions lobbed by a study buddy.

These new and unique observations of the jets and estimates of magnetic field of V404 Cygni involved studying the body at several different wavelengths.

Claire Gmachl, who was not involved in the research and is Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and a pioneer in the field of semiconductor lasers, said that because lasers, masers and other forms of coherent light sources are used in communications, sensing, medicine and many other aspects of modern life, the study is an important one.

The study is based on a complementary methods approach consisting of a quantitative analysis of bibliometric and publication data, a global survey of 1,200 researchers and three case studies including in - depth interviews with key individuals involved in data collection, analysis and deposition in the fields of soil science, human genetics and digital humanities.

The updated guidelines, developed over one year by a cadre of experts in the field, are based on analysis of 10,000 individuals involved in studies of prenatal alcohol exposure funded by NIAAA, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The study, titled «Ground - penetrating radar (GPR) detects fine roots of agricultural crops in the field,» also involved additional researchers from the Uvalde center, Texas A&M AgriLife centers in Amarillo and Weslaco, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma

In its Thursday - issued report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has given the go - ahead to research in the field of synthetic biology — technology which involves the creation of new organisms via the synthesis and manipulation of DNA.

Managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data involved in genomic studies are additional challenges for the field.

He said they also are conducting field - level gene flow studies involving different genetic backgrounds and will grow harvested hybrid seed to observe growth characteristics and fitness.

Urban evolution is a field that's «about to explode,» according to Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of a recent book on the evolving science of evolutionary biology, who was not involved in the study.

The program focuses on understanding the physiological mechanisms of crop performance under stress conditions, particularly under drought stress and typically involves 15 - 20 field and greenhouse studies each year.

With several human clinical trials involving the CRISPR gene - editing process moving forward, the original study resulted in a flurry of criticism from many scientists in the field.

«The range of applications of these low cost and light weight artificial muscles is really wide and involves different fields such as robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, and human assistive devices,» says Caterina Lamuta, an author of the study.

These field mapping studies are the starting point for more topical laboratory - based studies involving geochemical, paleontological, and geochronological techniques.

However, in a previous study involving Cluster, plasma turbulence was observed in the magnetosheath, the region between Earth's bow shock, where the solar wind meets the magnetic field of the Earth, and the magnetosphere — the magnetic bubble which surrounds it.

«It's not new to us in the nutrition field,» said Katherine Tallmadge, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, who was not involved in the study.