Sentences with phrase «good number of scientists»

One problem is that a good number of scientists are not accustomed to the ritualistic displays.

Indonesia's well - institutionalized seed production system, infrastructure, availability of a good number of scientists, and a core group of hybrid rice breeders, make this an ideal time to ramp up hybrid rice research and development efforts,» said Dr. Bruce Tolentino, IRRI's Deputy Director - General.

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But this latest bet is one of the best - funded, with a number of illustrious scientists already involved — and Illumina's backing may give it a crucial boost.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

Yet, to see the academy only from this monolithic view would overlook the significant numbers of scientists who do identify with some form of faith tradition (48 percent) as well as those who are interested in spirituality (about 68 percent).»

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

I personally know a good number of Christian scientists, none of them thinks evolution is false.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Despite the good news of the find, sea snake numbers have been declining in several marine parks, and scientists are at a loss to explain why.

Any number of other scientists that appreciate their work will keep them and their research projects well - funded.»

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

A number of your fellow young scientists are seeking career fields that are simply better suited to them than science

Laubenbacher should know; VBI just added one new research professor, bringing the number of permanent faculty to 15, as well as two visiting research scientists.

It also employs a large number of technicians and support scientists with bachelor's and master's degrees in science, as well as undergraduate students.

And the good news is that boosting the number of rocket scientists along with mathematicians, engineers and computer designers is not rocket science.

While this certainly sounds like good news, it is in fact «definitely misleading, for a number of reasons,» writes University of California, Davis, computer scientist Norman Matloff, who has written extensively about tech - industry employment, in his Upon Closer Inspection blog.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

The technique may help scientists better track population numbers of these penguins, which are threatened by warmer sea temperatures.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

, New Scientist, 9 October 1993), nicotine may also provide protection against a number of diseases, as well as providing pleasure.

She's in good, if unhappy, company: An apparently growing number of foreign scientists, despite having current, valid work permits, are being stranded outside the country while several U.S. agencies perform background checks.

Scientists have developed disease - resistant lines, though farmers typically cross a number of lines, some resistant, some not, for best production.

INSERM is hoping that a number of young scientists will decide to try their luck in France and seize the opportunity to develop an original project, with a good deal of freedom at an early stage of their research careers.

Some scientists suspect that NSI phenotypes are better at spreading from person to person, even when the transmitter is carrying a large number of SI variants.

There are a number of good research institutions and universities here, and a sprinkling of biotech companies, but you might find very few scientists actually working in your particular field, and those who exist might not encounter one another very often.

A number of scientists now argue that the battle against disease has left an indelible imprint on our minds as well.

Well, these competitions have increased in number and popularity over the last couple of years, and we've been finding that many scientists use them as launch pads for starting their businesses.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The institutions formed the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science in response to the focus of many new Ph.D. s. solely on a limited number of traditional faculty positions and to the lack of good marketplace information on training and career options for talented life scientists.

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

A better understanding of the warbler's migratory preferences may help the scientists keep its numbers from declining.

It has been noted that women tend to find physician - scientist careers less attractive than men do for a number of reasons: They (1) are concerned that it will be impossible to combine a successful medical research career with childbearing and family life; (2) feel that they have to be better than their male counterparts to be considered equal; (3) receive little encouragement to become physician - scientists; and (4) lack compelling role models.

«One big problem we have is that tens of thousands of human genome variants and phenotypes are spread throughout a number of databases, each one with their own organization and nomenclature that aren't easily accessible,» said Julia Wang, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor and a McNair Student Scholar in the Bellen lab, as well as first author on the publication.

But until now, the best they had come up with for more than three players was a procedure created in 1995 by political scientist Steven Brams of New York University and mathematician Alan Taylor of Union College in Schenectady, New York, which is guaranteed to produce an envy - free division, but it is «unbounded,» meaning that it might need to run for a million steps, or a billion, or any large number, depending on the players» cake preferences.

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

The scientists compared the numbers and locations of earthquakes with injection well locations and disposal rates.

Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee, has been tracking the progress of the world's best number - crunching machines since 1993.

(The United States, unlike Canada has a number of well - regarded journalism programs dedicated to science communication, as well as several fellowship programs in place to train scientists in media and media in science.)

But the best part for me, both at Science and at TREE, has been the privileged access to a wide range of new and fascinating research, and the opportunity to interact with a huge number of scientists across a range of disciplines.

Over the past decade, scientists in a number of cities have launched efforts to better understand rat behavior and evolution, and the role they play in spreading disease.

Tighter immigration restrictions, declining American prestige abroad, the rapidly growing strength of the scientific establishments in China and India, as well as the limited supply of H - 1B visas granted to foreign professionals (just 65,000 each year), contribute to the declining numbers of new foreign scientists entering the United States.

«A number of scientists I spoke with said, «What a good idea»,» Swan said.

The report notes, however, that «the historical record of forecasting the number of scientists and engineers needed to work in national security has been abysmal at best,» so problems could appear suddenly.

Holt, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years, brought his dual experience as a scientist and lawmaker to a number of discussions focused on the difficult question of how scientists can best help to inform policy.

«The centre has had an excellent start and has already attracted an impressive number of internationally recognised scientists, many of whom are expatriates who returned from abroad, as well as some foreigners,» highlights Graf.

Chen cites grant applications as another cause for concern, stating that too many resources go to a small number of good scientists.

Knowing an author's overall number of papers and total number of citations helps compute an approximated value of their h - index, which was named after the American physicist J.E. Hirsch in 2005 and measures the overall number of a scientist's publications as well as their quality and number of citations.

In a presentation of early clinical trial data to the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro - Oncology, physician scientists from the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center reported that a large number of study participants responded well to the drug combination.

It is well documented that the number of scientists has been growing at a fast pace over time [1], [2].

Using good quality data from a large number of people, the experienced scientists conducting this research found that people who took certain types of arthritis drugs had a lower risk of dementia than people not taking this treatment.