Sentences with phrase «in natural history studies»

SMA Foundation Patient Advisory Board member Amelie Gubitz finished the discussion by suggesting these issues be followed in natural history studies.

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Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

Many who have come to accept history in this sense trace their conversion, first, to a breakdown of natural structure that began with Charles Darwin, was magnified by quantum physics, and is still unfolding in the philosophies of the sciences; and, second, to a breakdown of cultural structure that began with Friederich Nietzsche in Europe and William James in America, was magnified by the chaos and brutality of twentieth century politics and warfare, and is still unfolding in postmodern studies.

My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.»

More broadly, updated longitudinal studies of the natural history of hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are needed, because the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that we used in our model are somewhat dated.

The history of adoption if you study it in depth demonstrates that the real story is all about the adopters with little or no genuine consideration for the children and their natural parents.

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

«The goal was to identify which soil characteristics have a greater effect on the persistent presence of chronic wasting disease in the five counties,» says Sheena Dorak, lead author of the study and research associate with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

It has now been documented in 23 species in the eastern and midwestern United States, says study coauthor Frank Burbrink, a herpetologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

In order to reconstruct climate history, it is necessary to study natural climate archives since, in terms of Earth's history, humankind has only very recently begun measuring the planeIn order to reconstruct climate history, it is necessary to study natural climate archives since, in terms of Earth's history, humankind has only very recently begun measuring the planein terms of Earth's history, humankind has only very recently begun measuring the planet.

He hopes that studying animals housed in natural history museum collections might help answer that question.

In the 1980s Caroline and Robert Blanchard, working together at the University of Hawaii, carried out a pioneering study on the natural history of fear.

But according to a new study from scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), extravagant investments in reproduction also have their costs.

«This discovery of a previously unknown species in relatively well - studied rocks underscores that we still have many more new species of dinosaurs to left to find,» said co-author Dr. Mark Loewen, research associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

A team of researchers studied this specimen and others in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to better understand the role of sexual selection in extinction.

The study suggests that the two African elephants split at least 2.5 million years ago, and possibly much earlier, although Pascal Tassy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, warns that looking at historical genetic divergence does not give the final word on separating species.

The value of this information is illustrated by the results of a study published May 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Oster's group, working with colleagues from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge titled «Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India.»

A new giraffid species from Spain may extend the range and timespan of the ancestors of giraffes, according to a study published November 1, 2017 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by María Ríos from the National Museum of Natural History, Spain, and colleagues.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

Prof Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, first excavated at Gough's Cave 30 years ago, said: «I first studied «Cheddar Man» more than 40 years ago, but could never have believed that we would one day have his whole genome — the oldest British one to date!

The study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, was produced by a group of scientists including The Natural History Museum, London, the University of Leicester and Yunnan University in China.

Therese Sallstedt and colleagues from University of Southern Denmark, Swedish Museum of Natural History and Stockholm University studied fossilized sediments from India, and they found round spheres in the microbial mats.

Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.

Miller's «departure from the field will have serious ramifications for many on - going archaeological projects throughout» the Near East, where she studies plant remains to better understand agricultural economies, wrote Melinda Zeder, director of the archaeobiology program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., in a letter sent last weekend to Richard Hodges, the museum's director.

Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

A study released in February says early farmers and cooks were spiking their food with chilies about 6,000 years ago: «Probably the earliest spice plant found thus far in the Americas,» says Linda Perry, an archaeobiologist working with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «It would have made a diet of roots, tubers, and corn taste a little better.»

In his capacity as president of the Batavian Society, dedicated to the study of Java's natural history, Raffles frequently toured the island and recorded his observations of geological phenomena.

The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports and led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, finds that the inner ear of modern cheetahs is unique and likely evolved relatively recently.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $ 17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six - year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

«This is the first time anybody has described the ecological succession in the Mesozoic equivalent of a whale fall in detail,» says Richard Twitchett of the Natural History Museum in London, who led the study.

«This new specimen is important because it is so complete,» says Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who found the skeleton in 2003 but was not involved in the new study.

«We discovered this new fossil in marine rocks, and many of the features of its skull and jaws point to it having been a marine inhabitant, like modern oceanic dolphins,» said the study's lead author Nicholas D. Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

«There's been a dogma that RNA is a weak, unstable molecule,» says Tom Gilbert, a geneticist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen who has studied postmortem genetics.

The authors examined the natural history of eczema using self - reported data from a group of 7,157 children enrolled in the Pediatric Eczema Elective Registry (PEER) study to evaluate the prevalence of symptoms over time.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuttle.

Since 1998, Kennewick has been stored out of view, but available for study, at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington.

«It's remarkable, using a lowly house mouse to monitor a major milestone in human history,» says Melinda Zeder, curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with thehistory,» says Melinda Zeder, curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with theHistory in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with the study.

The fossils used in the study derive from the collections of a number of Natural history museums among them the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

But past efforts to glean ancient DNA from Kennewick Man failed, notes Eske Willerslev, a palaeogenomicist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who led the current study.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, led by the University of Exeter and the Natural History Museum, describes the molecular methods used to test frog tadpoles for a newly identified infectious agent.

It doesn't matter if you're a snake or a bird, it probably makes it hard to live there,» said Frank Burbrink, an associate curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Herpetology and lead author of the study.

But the new study, which includes anatomical data extinct species preserved in the fossil record, narrows that window considerably, says Joel Cracraft, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«In lieu of finding a bell around its neck, this is about as solid evidence as one can have that cats held a special place in the lives and afterlives of residents of this site,» says zooarchaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the studIn lieu of finding a bell around its neck, this is about as solid evidence as one can have that cats held a special place in the lives and afterlives of residents of this site,» says zooarchaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the studin the lives and afterlives of residents of this site,» says zooarchaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the studin Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the study.

«Bioluminescence is quite common in the deep sea, and many fishes inhabiting this region exhibit complex, species - specific patterns of light - producing structures,» said John Sparks, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Ichthyology and one of the co-authors on the study.

The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to a study published May 17, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Peter Leimgruber from Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, United States of America; Ned Horning from American Museum of Natural History, United States of America; and colleagues.

«This is one of the most comprehensive studies that attempts to date when these evolutionary divergences happened,» says Luis Chiappe, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, who wasn't involved in the new research.

«The Natural History Museum's beetle collection is one of the most important and extensive in the world, so I'm delighted that it has played such a fundamental part in this study that uses a novel approach to estimating how many species of beetle exist,» says Professor Owens.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.