Sentences with phrase «include building scientists»

Workshop goals include building scientists» communication skill and confidence in engaging with public audiences and providing best practices for use of different communication methods and mechanisms.

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That includes funding awards to boost entrepreneurship in communities, the Business Smart Toolkit from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Association for Government Guaranteed Lenders — which will assist new entrepreneurs in building a credit - ready business — and the expansion of the The Innovation Corps program, which provides entrepreneurship training for scientists and engineers.

This Communication Toolkit provides guidance for scientists to build skills to more effectively communicate and engage with public audiences, including ways to apply the fundamentals of communication to scientific topics.

This includes monitoring the spread of the pathogenic fungus, building amphibian breeding stations and developing probiotic treatments, say the scientists, writing in Scientific Reports, the acclaimed open - access journal from the publishers of Nature.

«We decided to build the plant here after considering a number of sites worldwide,» says Meehan, adding that key considerations included government collaboration, access to top scientists, and a proven track record in Ballydine.

Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world's first «molecular robot» that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules.

With the aid of several online tools including smart maps built from government transportation data and other online health statistics, and mobile phone apps that collect patient information, scientists and researchers can cull the material for insights about symptoms, dates, times, location of infections, Brownstein said.

These strategies may include support for global and regional scientific research, actively engaging Chinese scientists in large collaborative projects, further opening up some big state - level S&T bases and projects, drawing foreign S&T institutions and scientists into our basic and high - technology research projects, building up a well - functioning and resource - sharing information network, perfecting our talent - training mechanism, and encouraging the exchange or flow of talents.

Julian's correspondence in the Rice University collection includes more than 350 letters to or from Solly Zuckerman and more than 250 to or from Max Nicholson, the two outstanding examples of his generation of scientists with, respectively, institutional clout and bridge - building expertise between amateur and professional.

Trump's hard - line positions on immigration — including a pledge to bar Muslims from entering the United States, and a plan to build a wall along the US border with Mexico — have worried research advocates who say such stances could dissuade talented foreign scientists from working or studying at US institutions.

Although reducing funding to three government councils that provide grants to scientists, the budget includes $ 1.62 billion over 2 years to retrofit aging academic buildings as part of a $ 10 billion investment in all manner of infrastructure.

We have to build global consortiums in all disciplines to ensure the availability of equipment and data to all researchers, including citizen scientists, who perform investigations of significance.

The researchers partnered with Zooniverse to build the web site, which includes information about condors and the science behind the project, as well as guidelines for citizen scientists.

The work is highly collaborative and built alongside the efforts of their co-authors, including doctoral students Srinivas Kannan and Vagarshak Begoyan, research scientist?

To get around this problem, scientists have come up with all sorts of human - powered alternatives, including simple machines built from egg beaters and salad spinners.

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

Scientists will be able to use the powerful and flexible technique to build metamaterials — materials not found in nature — for a range of applications including sensors for medical and environmental uses.

The WHOI cruise, he adds, which includes researchers from the International Atomic Energy Agency and multiple nations, «can build public confidence in data quality» and build a «broad, common data set» that will be extremely useful for marine scientists studying radiation in the future.

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

In September, German scientist Gangolf Jobb announced on his website that researchers in eight European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, were no longer allowed to use Treefinder, which builds phylogenetic trees from sequence data.

Sessions include «Human Rights 101 for Scientists,» «Human Rights and the Mobility of Scientists: Acting on Visa Restrictions,» and «Getting Your Association Involved: A Workshop on Clarifying Commitment and Building Capacity.»

This issue of the monthly newsletter includes articles on the 2017 celebration of National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week; ways in which scientists can give back to their local communities; developing communication and self - advocacy skills; and building a postdoc seminar series.

Convened by Senator Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa (left), who chairs the spending subcommittee that funds the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the hearing in the hoary Dirksen Senate Office Building included Francis Collins, the NIH director, and George Daley, a stem cell scientist at Boston Children's Hospital among others.

Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

In a cohort of studies spanning the past forty years, scientists have found that deficient magnesium levels are linked with all known cardiovascular risk factors including high blood pressure, arterial plaque build - up, calcification of soft tissues, excess cholesterol levels and hardening of the arteries.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Youth engaged in relationship - building activities, including game nights, career tours, and movie nights (shout - out to those who saw Hidden Figures and met a female NASA scientist who knew the women from the movie!).

Created by a premier educational software company and an organization built to further students in the sciences, both Kno and Sally Ride Science bring their expertise to this series of books, which include video of scientists and engineers in action, as well as simulations for the readers.

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have built and tested a modular electric vehicle designed for the mobility needs of rural populations, including carrying heavy loads and off - road driving.

Please bear in mind, Monty, that this kind of attitude is one of the factors that helps convince sceptics that not all scientists aren't actually interested in the truth for its own sake.I'm not saying that includes you, but please, take a step back and reflect on how what you say, whilst perhaps meaning to build bridges, is in fact demolishing them.

There is an increasingly strong case to build into any future regime the ability for an «emergency» response to deal with catastrophic climate change, including the abrupt changes in climate now attracting the attentio n of scientists.

I do not believe it is just the present US Administration driving this but includes scientists who have left, or been rejected by, the «consensus» and who are increasingly reaching out, building a consensus of their own.

The Bay Area's waterfront building frenzy includes at least $ 21B in housing and commercial construction in low - lying areas that climate scientists say could flood by the end of the century.

«I am pleased that with this publication we have been able to build on over a decade of Winrock's leadership and expertise in this area working with a number of recognized organizations including the Clean Development Mechanism, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, International Tropical Timber Organization, Voluntary Carbon Standard and California Climate Action Registry,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock's Chief Scientist, whose team developed the standard.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

Dr. Straube's leadership as a building scientist and an educator has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in Building Science Education from the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and the Professional Leadership Award from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association building scientist and an educator has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in Building Science Education from the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and the Professional Leadership Award from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Building Science Education from the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and the Professional Leadership Award from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).

Some examples of initiatives funded in 2008 include research by Stanford scientists into adapting agriculture for a warmer climate and work by a Wang Lan, a materials scientist at the China Building Materials Academy in Beijing, on reducing greenhouse - gas emissions from cement production.

The project scientists hope that their museum DNA fragments will include some unique sequences that play important roles in producing passenger pigeons — whether they help build the bird's distinctive wedge - shaped tail, its red breast, or its ultra-social behavior.

Climate scientists built this reconstruction with a series of «proxies», including tree rings and ice core samples, which (they hope) exhibit properties that are strongly correlated with historical temperatures.

A team including data scientists, technicians, and basketball enthusiasts was assembled, and Google built a data processing workflow using Google Cloud Platform and technologies like BigQuery and Cloud Datalab.

Work activities one can expect as a Data Scientist include conducting research, mining data, enhancing data collection procedures, cleaning and verifying the integrity of data, creating data visualization graphs, developing automated data anomaly detectors, building algorithms and using machine learning tools.