Sentences with phrase «group of academic scientists»

Founded by a small international group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.

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No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

Fang is among a small yet tenacious group of scientists who study the culture of academic science alongside their other lines of research.

The group, which now has more than 100 members (including Hatzikirou), was officially launched in June 2016 after an initial meeting of seven Greek researchers and academics, including scientists as well as legal scholars, economists, and strategic communication specialists.

The first report, Fire Investigation, was authored by a working group consisting of a fire investigator, and four academic scientists.

The Group's members include academic scientists, ethicists, and theologians, religious leaders of different faiths, and representatives from consumer and patient advocacy groups, government, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

A team of scientists and doctors from the SingHealth Duke - NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has uncovered a new group of regulatory T (Treg) cells and DNA features associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), the most common form of arthritis among children under the age of 16.

On 25 February 2002, a group of prominent academic and industrial scientists, funders, and journal editors gathered at the National Academy of Sciences headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss the sharing of scientific data and materials.

The survey, conducted by a health - policy group led by David Blumenthal at the Massachusetts General Hospital, found that almost 20 % of the 2167 academic life scientists who responded to a questionnaire said they had delayed publication of data by more than 6 months.

For 40 years, a high - prestige, low - profile group of about 40 academic scientists has advised the U.S. government on some of the most sensitive technical issues of the day.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

Since then, I'm helping to start a science advocacy group on campus in hopes of improving public trust in scientists and opening conversations between academic researchers and the local community.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

Last year's judges — a group of journalists, computer scientists, philosophy professors, and other academics — each sat at a computer screen split down the middle, with one chat on each side.

The group of close to 30 scientists continue to push forward the frontiers of perovskite solar cell research, with regular generation of new IP and academic publications.

A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.

The Quantlab team includes a stellar group of scientists and technologists, many of them from non-financial backgrounds — academics from major institutions, software developers from top tech companies, and engineers from leading hardware providers.

Vaijayanti has been a part of the Strand team for close to a decade as a genomics scientist, working on key projects ranging from genomics products such as GeneSpring, pharma consulting, and collaborative research with academic groups in India and abroad.

Since its founding in 1981, DFA has continued to be guided by a group of leading scientists, professors, and nobel laureates; and adjust their processes as academic research sheds new light on the science of investing.

If you were to put a group of rocket scientists, academics, and researchers in a jail cell for 10 years with nothing but historical stock market data and a dry erase board, you'd come up with a fund company like IndexIQ.

The authors, a mix of academic researchers and scientists for environmental groups, recommended that a moratorium on new oil exploration or development projects within the park, which sits atop substantial reserves.

Turkey's «Scientist of the Year,» as selected by a consortium of media groups, is no ivory - tower academic.

«The fundamental principle is academic freedom... In this case, a group of scientists [i.e. the Friends of Science] holds a particular viewpoint and have advanced it publicly, with funding support from the external community.

A group of key figures from the Green Blob — academics, professional activists, lawyers, scientists, PR agency heads — have gathered to discuss the heist of the century.

Despite this documented dearth of credibility, Berman continues to work through a variety of research - for - hire front groups to remain relevant by creating a façade of academic respectability for extreme policies that many mainstream companies, scientists, and voters have rejected.

The goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeOf Rome (Consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeOf Rome (Environmental consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeOf Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left uncheckeof finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

In defense of academic freedom against denialist FOIA inquisition tactics [Letter to University of Virginia President Sullivan from American Association of University professors, Virginia ACLU, Union of Concerned Scientists, and nine other groups, including Climate Science Watch]

When business realized how responsive the public was to her logic, they went after her with extraordinary vengeance, perfecting techniques that are used to this day, like greenwashing — the creation of industry front groups funded by corporations, the use of paid scientists to attack academic scientists, the manipulation of the media to sow doubt in people's minds about complex issues.