Sentences with phrase «to get at this question»

We've built a lab at the museum that is able to get at these questions by measuring very, very small quantities of material.

«It doesn't get at the question of, «Are we losing lots of effective teachers and keeping ineffective teachers?»»

The description of tropical shifts you include in this note doesn't get at the question of the resulting global (or regional) mix of positive and negative influences on the planet's energy balance from such shifts in cloud patterns.

[Response: Getting at your question in a slightly different way, one thing that is peculiar about eddies embedded in the western boundary currents (there are analogies for the atmosphere too, e.g. the jet stream), is that they exhibit the property of «negative viscosity».

Our colleague Karen Sloan of The National Law Journal gets at a question we've been wondering about for a while now: What are the early returns on those apprenticeship programs at Howrey, Drinker Biddle & Reath, and Frost Brown Todd going?

Müller said he and his colleagues might try to get at that question by testing «hand - raised» wolves at the Wolf Science Center in Austria.

Similarly, it would be ideal to understand the intensity of use of blended learning in schools — for what percentage of the day are students in blended - learning environments or how many classes on average do students take that are blended — but the survey didn't get at these questions.

We get at this question by looking at the relation between size and systemic importance from several perspectives.

One way to get at these questions is through examining the word «unique.»

«Our work can get at questions about mechanism and questions about the functional properties of emotion states, but we can not get at the question of whether or not flies have feelings,» Gibson says.

As a psychologist, I'm interested in the techniques we use to get at these questions: Can other creatures share, cooperate, punish cheaters, show empathy, and act altruistically?

To get at this question, Eisenberg turned to the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, which has tracked the health of over 3,000 infants born in 1983 - 1984 in Cebu City in the Philippines.

To get at that question, they recruited an additional 81 children ages 4 and 5.

To get at this question, the researchers will need more data from brainwaves and MRI imagery to see where the brains of gamers have been trained to perform differently on visual tasks.

To get at this question, he and his colleagues performed MRI scans to assess the cortical thickness of 98 schizophrenia patients at various stages of illness.

What we really want to do with In the Dark is to get at questions we.

First, we know that in the instruction of world languages, there are not enough teachers, so using technology to give students access to teachers proficient in other areas and other disciplines will be one way we get at the question, particularly in rural communities, on how we teach these subjects to all children.

But to get at your question, I will claim the high ground and say curating the Biennial does not compromise my position.

«It gets at the question of who is a shareholder,» said Miller, whose initial real focus was retail.