Sentences with phrase «in a series of experiments»

In that series of experiments, fully two - thirds of experimental subjects — volunteers from various walks of life — demonstrated that they were willing to administer a lethal dose of electricity to a stranger, just because an authority figure in a white lab coat told them to.

In a series of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University used brain scanners and EEG sensors to study neural activity in a number of participants tasked with solving complex word puzzles.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

In a series of experiments, researchers found that infants experienced slower heart rates, reduced body movement, and reduced crying when they were held by an adult who was walking from place to place (Esposito et al 2013).

In a series of experiments, Harlow demonstrated how such bonds emerge and the powerful impact they have on behavior and functioning.

In a series of experiments, the investigators showed participants photographs of celebrities and non-celebrities who were smiling or inexpressive, and their results call into question common assumptions about what makes someone cool.

In a series of experiments using mice, the researchers showed in detail how those movements are learned over time.

In a series of experiments beginning in 1998, Sweeney and his team at the University of Pennsylvania injected IGF - 1 genes into the muscles of mice and rats and watched in wonder as damaged tissue repaired itself.

In a series of experiments, she and colleagues show that whites who imagined seeking a job were negatively affected by pro-diversity messages and performed more poorly in potential job interviews.

In a series of experiments, the researchers found that 95 % of mice vaccinated with the investigational cocktail were protected against a lethal challenge with eight different influenza strains expressing seven different influenza A subtypes, compared to only 5 % of mice who received mock vaccinations.

In a series of experiments, the team found that this happens whether the protein tethering the cell to the matrix is tight, loose or nonexistent.

He entered orbit not as a tourist but rather as a civilian astronaut whose to - do list included snapping nearly 500 pictures of Earth and participating in a series of experiments to test spaceflight's impact on his immune system, sleep patterns and eyes.

So in another series of experiments, T5 performed the calibration task with each of five additional modes of attempted motion after starting out with the joystick imagery that he chose.

In a series of experiments, the researchers demonstrated that in addition to its main role, Rho could also assume the behavioral characteristics of a prion maker.

In a series of experiments, the researchers first identified a set of 19 transcription factors that were expressed at significantly greater levels in cultured human glioblastoma stem cells capable of tumor propagation than in differentiated tumor cells.

In a series of experiments by Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan and University of Exeter professor Jason Reifler, the researchers identify a related factor they call the backfire effect «in which corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.»

In a series of experiments using mouse and rat models of depression reported today in Nature, Hu and her colleagues found that ketamine did affect the lateral habenula — but it was the pattern of firing, rather than the overall amount of activity, that proved crucial.

In a series of experiments, with more than 3,000 participants, the team demonstrated that video game concepts do not «prime» players to behave in certain ways and that increasing the realism of violent video games does not necessarily increase aggression in game players.

In a series of experiments sparked by fruit flies that couldn't sleep, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a mutant gene — dubbed «Wide Awake» — that sabotages how the biological clock sets the timing for sleep.

In 2008 and 2009, four species of coral guard - crabs known to protect coral from predator sea stars were studied in a series of experiments to examine the effectiveness of different species and various sizes of crabs at repelling multiple corallivores.

In a series of experiments reported in PLOS ONE in August, the Tufts researchers showed that exosomes from PC12 cells (neuron - like progenitor cells derived from rats) at various stages of their own differentiation could, in turn, cause hMSCs to become neuron - like cells.

In a series of experiments that founded the modern field of neuroscience, Cajal mastered the intricacies of Golgi's staining technique and established the basic anatomy of the neuron and its part in the nervous system.

In another series of experiments, Anderson and colleagues demonstrated an even more definitive link between UBE3A and CBLN1.

In a series of experiments beginning in 1998, Sweeney and his team at Penn injected IGF - I genes into mice and rats and watched in wonder as damaged muscle tissue repaired itself.

In a series of experiments carried out over a year and ending in March, the Z - machine worked exactly as planned.

In a series of experiments at MIT, Belcher, working with a team of about 30 students and postdocs, has successfully programmed viruses to incorporate, then grow, a variety of inorganic materials, including nanoscale semiconductors, solar cells, and magnetic storage materials.

In a series of experiments, Langus, Nespor and colleagues tested whether the preferred rhythm of the subjects» mother tongues also transferred to non-linguistic sounds (musical tones), or even to visual stimuli.

In a series of experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the animals» brains to musical notes, so that when one group of neurons switched on, a corresponding musical note played.

In another series of experiments, they inserted a green fluorescent protein into the tissues that give rise to blood and lymph vessels in embryonic zebrafish.

In a series of experiments, the researchers cooked corn flour and eggs biofortified with carotenoids in various ways.

In a series of experiments published in 2014, Argentinian biologists grew young Arabidopsis thaliana (yes, scientists really like that plant) in rows of pots.

In a series of experiments, Kubodera's camera system was suspended from ships near Chichijima Island in the North Pacific and recorded video at various depths, down to 3,100 feet.

In a series of experiments, Green gave groups of about 70 volunteers a battery of psychological tests that measured their mental performance in areas such as vigilance, speed of reaction, mental processing capacity and memory.

In a series of experiments with middle school and high school students, Blikstein is trying to understand the best ways to teach math and science by going beyond relatively primitive tools like multiple - choice tests to assess students» knowledge.

In a series of experiments, the team fired an unspeakably brief, extremely ultraviolet laser pulse at a helium atom to start exciting its pair of electrons.

In a series of experiments, they presented bees with different combinations of safe and dangerous feeders — depending on their association with the larger or smaller hornets — containing varying concentrations of sucrose.

They compared her with 20 healthy subjects in a series of experiments.

Late 1960s In a series of experiments, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrate the downside of the way humans make decisions, identifying several unconscious, systemic biases that consistently distort human judgment.

The Asian - Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE - Asia), which took place during last year's dust storms, is the third in a series of experiments designed to investigate different aspects of aerosol behavior in different locales around the world.

The loss was bad for the vaccine: In a series of experiments Hensley and his colleagues showed antibodies from humans and ferrets (a good animal model for influenza A studies) that had been exposed to the egg - grown vaccine did not effectively kill the circulating sugar - adorned viruses.

Yasuhiko Kawakami, at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, has further cemented the link between Wnt and limb regeneration in a series of experiments in chickens and frogs.

In a series of experiments, each involving hundreds of participants, the researchers sought to examine whether the power status of a person who has committed a transgression influences trust in that person and the ability to forgive them.

In a series of experiments, they used light to control genetically - modified yeast and increase its output of commercially valuable chemicals.

In a series of experiments described in the September 24 issue of Science, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., registered differences in the passage of time between two high - precision optical atomic clocks when one was elevated by just a third of a meter or when one was set in motion at speeds of less than 10 meters per second.

In a series of experiments, Michael Tymianski and colleagues at Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario, Canada, replicated the effects of stroke in macaques before intravenously administering a PSD - 95 inhibitor, or a placebo.

In series of experiments, the researchers confirmed the importance of methyl tagging, finding high levels of it near all types of unprocessed microRNAs, suggesting it is a generic mark associated with these molecules.

Then, in a series of experiments, the researchers looked at how the highest and lowest rated power songs affected both people's sense of power and three previously identified psychological and behavioral consequences of power: the tendency to see the forest instead of the trees (thought abstraction), perceived control over social events (illusion of control), and the desire to move first in competitive interactions.

With this goal in mind, Dr. Divangahi's team vaccinated mice with BCG and in a series of experiments observed that in the bone marrow BCG was able to reprogram or «educate» the stem cells to proliferate and generate TB slaying macrophages.

In a series of experiments, researchers broadcast male calls to female túngaras.

In a series of experiments, the authors of the current study tracked the eye movements of individuals with ASD.