Sentences with phrase «first proposed»

That may be true, remarks Sascha Caron, a physicist from the University of Freiburg in Germany, but nonetheless much of the particle physics community has warmed to the idea of global searches since Knuteson first proposed it early in this decade.

«The bill was first proposed because the Ministry of Health and Welfare was worried about the growing shortage of landfill sites.

The results, published in the journal Science, verify and extend a 2016 Nature Materials study in which the team of researchers from ORNL, University of Tennessee, Max Planck Institute and Cambridge University first proposed this unusual behavior in the material.

The data supports a theory, first proposed in the late 1970s, that has been bolstered by increasing evidence over the past 10 to 15 years — that birds collect magnetic - field information through specialized receptors in the eye.

first proposed the award when the late Senator William Proxmire (D - Wis.)

There is a hypothesis in physics called complementarity, which was first proposed by Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind in 1993.

Endel Tulving, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, first proposed a link between memory and foresight in 1985.

Though disappointing, it does address a question that has remained unanswered since progesterone was first proposed as a treatment back in 1953.

But for all their perceived advantages, magnesium batteries have proven too good to be true since they were first proposed in the 1990s and essentially sidelined by a variety of problems; primarily, the lack of a suitable cathode, or positive electrode — otherwise known as the part of a battery where the magnesium ions enter during discharge of the battery to power an electronic device and then exit during charging.

According to the first theory, the seeds which gave rise to the present day structure in the Universe are quantum fluctuations, minute variations on a subatomic scale that were expanded by more than 60 orders of magnitude as the Universe went through an «inflationary phase» — a period of extremely rapid expansion — first proposed by Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects.

«It seems like a lifetime's ambition coming true,» says Morgan, who first proposed a scientifically cored well to the IODP in 1998.

People have been thinking about this hypothetical scenario — pondering the motion of mass inside Earth — since Robert Hooke first proposed an earlier, pre-train version of it to Isaac Newton in the 17th century, says Purdue University mathematician Alexandre Eremenko.

Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will announce in a Physical Review Letters (PRL) paper accepted for publication that their process, known as magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) and first proposed 2 years ago, has passed the first of three tests, putting it on track for an attempt at the coveted break - even.

The fusion theory was first proposed in the early 1900s.

Nicholas Humphrey, a retired psychologist formerly at the London School of Economics, first proposed this idea a decade ago, but only now has evidence to support it emerged from a computer model designed by Trimmer and his colleagues.

The finding is the «final piece of evidence that during an infection, a virus can bring about autoimmune disease [by molecular mimicry],» says viral immunologist Michael Oldstone of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who first proposed the hypothesis in 1982.

The findings, published today in the journal Current Biology, are a further example of sexual selection say the researchers — a theory first proposed by Charles Darwin in 1871 — and in particular the evolutionary trade - off between «pre - and post-copulatory reproductive strategies»: traits that help males compete for access to mates versus those that help males compete to fertilise eggs.

«There is absolutely no doubt that fairy circles are a product of ecosystem engineering achieved by soil - living termites,» says Norbert Jürgens, an ecologist at the University of Hamburg in Germany, who first proposed in 2013 termites were responsible and thinks this paper fully supports that idea.

Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues analyzed the satellite imagery of the ice shelf's demise and found substantial observational proof for a theory of ice disintegration first proposed more than two decades ago.

This solves the puzzle of how T. rex could be so aggressive with this kind of flexible skull, says Gregory Erickson, a paleontologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee who first proposed that T. rex used the puncture — pull approach.

Ken Nordtvedt, a member of the Seattle team, first proposed the equivalence - principle violation, known as the Nordtvedt Effect, that Murphy seeks to measure.

When the idea was first proposed mathematically in 1994 it required a vast amount of negative vacuum energy which made the idea seem impossible.

First proposed in 2003, the city got the ball rolling on the UV disinfection project shortly after the EPA in 2006 tightened restrictions on microbial pathogens allowed in drinking water.

For now, the researchers are planning to test the 51 - atom system as a quantum simulator, specifically on path - planning optimization problems that can be solved using adiabatic quantum computing — a form of quantum computing first proposed by Edward Farhi, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT.

When it was first proposed, the Cornell project did encounter some initial resistance from a group of Ithaca inhabitants who were concerned enough about the added heat's potential effects on the lake's ecosystem to file a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the project.

Researchers have attempted to build practical «photonic band gap structures» since the idea was first proposed in 1987 by Eli Yablonovitch, now a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Stern first proposed a NASA mission to Pluto in 1990.

Written off when first proposed, they turn out to be not only true but world - changing.

Although being phylogenetically and ecologically distinct from insects, it turns out that the evolution of eusociality in snapping shrimps follows the so - called «subsocial route» first proposed for insects nearly 50 years ago.

Harnessing the power of the Yangtze has been a goal since Nationalist leader Sun Yat - sen first proposed the idea in 1919.

The classical evolutionary theory of aging, first proposed by the famous evolutionary biologist George C. Williams over 50 years ago, gives an answer.

And with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune - system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint.

For his Ph.D., Franco has been researching the application of the «three R's» of animal experimentation — ethical principles first proposed in 1959 that include, where possible, «replacement» of the use of animals, «reduction» in the numbers of animals used, and «refinement» of animal husbandry and experimental procedures so that they are less painful and distressful to the animals.

Despite the fact that X is much larger than the tiny Y, it seems that both evolved from a pair of conventional chromosomes in early mammals sometime in the past 300 million years — an idea first proposed in 1967.

Borucki and Koch first proposed their mission to NASA in 1994; they called it FRESIP, for «Frequency of Earth - Size Inner Planets.»

A signature characteristic of «Weyl fermions,» elusive quantum particles first proposed by Hermann Weyl more than 80 years ago, is that they have zero mass.

The ABC conjecture was first proposed in the 1980s and concerns a fundamental property of numbers, based around the simple equation a + b = c. For a long time, mathematicians believe that the conjecture was true, but nobody had ever been able to prove it.

In fact, teosinte looks so different from maize that scientists questioned the link, first proposed in the 1930s, until genetics could prove it more than half a century later.

To create a system with a range of negative temperatures, Schneider and his colleagues used moving atoms, following a recipe first proposed in 2005.

Yes, the fact that the immune system could be used to treat cancer was first proposed in 1909 by Paul Ehrlich and he had the idea about antibodies.

«No one believed we could build this machine when we first proposed it,» says Dorfan.

The existence of a fifth giant gas planet at the time of the Solar System's formation — in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune that we know of today — was first proposed in 2011.

Zoos and conservationists worldwide marked 2008 as the «Year of the Frog» in hopes of raising both awareness and funding, which has proved difficult to come by since the project was first proposed in 2006.

The idea — minus the ships to accomplish it — was first proposed by Latham in 1990 and has popped up with new details every couple of years since.

First proposed 6 years ago, this notion maintains that tiny galaxies, not massive ones, should arise last because it takes gravity so long to assemble the sparse bits of matter in voids.

Inflation theory, first proposed in the early 1980s, predicts that a pattern of tiny temperature differences should exist in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the big bang.

The court ruling, won by the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York, commits the FDA to reconsider a ban first proposed in 1977 on the non-therapeutic farmyard use of penicillin and two other types of antibiotics called tetracyclines in animal feed.

First proposed more than 40 years ago, antibody - dependent enhancement (ADE) has won over many doubters but still has impassioned skeptics.

«When I first proposed [racetrack memories] many years ago, I think people were very skeptical,» says Parkin, now at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany.