Sentences with phrase «include leading scientists»

Members of this group include leading scientists and educators, heads of departments, institute directors, university administrators, and CEOs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

In the bright - white passenger lounge area while seated on magenta - colored armchairs - a standardized and sterile waiting area amidst the advanced technology - Dr. Floyd speaks cordially with some Soviet scientists, including lead scientist Elena (Margaret Tyzack) and Smyslov (Leonard Rossiter).

We have hosted nine International Conferences on Climate Change attracting nearly 5,000 people including leading scientists, elected officials, and civic and business leaders from around the world.

The film shows Americans experiencing climate change impacts and includes leading scientists explaining these changes.

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The scientists applied light from various sources, including the sun and a lamp, to a solution containing the quantum dots, which led to the creation of free radical atoms and caused the solution's acrylate monomers to link.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV and Celgene Corporation, we have assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Celgene Corporation, FLX Bio has assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»

Curiously, though the discoveries of subatomic physics signal to some a breakdown of modern dualism, the implications of such discoveries have been slow to penetrate most people's consciousness (including that of many scientists), and they may in fact merely lead to another sort of dualism.

These articles include «Trans fats, but NOT saturated fats, are the problem», published August 2015, and «Saturated fats not so bad after all, say leading Australian scientists», published April 2016.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Localised teams made up of a range of experts including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions will undertake each of the seven projects.

To judge the prize, the Council will be joined by leading experts in related disciplines, including US food scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Remember the big hub - bub led by consumers and scientists about BPA in children's products back in the 2000s, including sippy cups and water bottles?

We started by engaging our own scientists and external experts, including Dr. Jodi Mindell (Saint Joseph's University and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), an internationally known, leading pediatric sleep expert.

The workshop features videos and research from world - leading professors and scientists including:

Thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations have signed up to a new statement calling for the extension of teaching of evolution in school science and firmer statutory guidance against the promotion of creationism.

In September, the BHA came together with thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations to launch «Teach evolution, not creationism!»

The article «Breaking through the polycarbonate ceiling» highlighted programs led by AAAS that aimed at early - career support as well as professional advancement, for women scientists and engineers, including programs such as COACh (career - training and networking program) and WISC (Women's International Scientific Cooperation).

A group of the nation's leading cancer research scientists and their Cuban counterparts are exploring how to advance cancer therapy, diagnosis, and prevention, including the use of immunotherapy to harness the body's immune systems to attack and eliminate cancer cells.

While being publicized in the mainstream media certainly makes researchers a target, being picked up in the skeptic blogosphere, which includes widely read blogs such asWatts Up With That, Climate Audit and Morano's Climate Depot, can also lead to scientists receiving email barrages, even when, as in Norgaard's case, the research has not received mainstream media attention.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

Author, newspaper columnist, and television personality El - Naggar is also a geologist whom many Egyptians, including a number of his fellow scientists, regard as a leading figure in their community.

This year like all others, scientists want to work at companies that keep innovation front and center, and the top 20 employers in 2015 include those biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms on the leading edge of these advances.

The lead authors are Clare Marsden, a UCLA assistant project scientist in Lohmueller's research group, and Diego Ortega - Del Vecchyo, a UCLA graduate student in Lohmueller's research group; co-authors include Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.

He also wants more inclusion of scientists from the continent: While most American - and European - led expeditions include team members from the host country, for example, few include researchers from elsewhere in Africa.

These and other changes in the industry have led to years of lower corporate earnings, massive layoffs (of scientists and other workers), and experiments in outsourcing all sorts of activities that once were done in - house, including early - stage research and development.

Canup is one of the leading scientists using large - scale hydrodynamical simulations to model planet - scale collisions, including the prevailing Earth - Moon formation model.

At least since World War I, scientists have tried to figure out why about 10 percent of adults» concussions — from any cause, including accidents, falls and sports injuries — lead to persistent psychological and physical complaints.

In 2004, Allison moved from Berkeley to Memorial Sloan Kettering to work with the scientists leading the study — including Sharon Belvin's oncologist, Jedd Wolchok.

A group of scientists led by Dr Kara Hoover of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and including Professor Matthew Cobb of The University of Manchester, has studied how our sense of smell has evolved, and has even reconstructed how a long - extinct human relative would have been able to smell.

Recently, four leading biomedical scientists called for more thoughtful training in their field, including giving students a broader range of skills to prepare for diverse careers, for example in industry, communications, law, or policy (scim.ag / 1x2XzNq).

New Mexico Senator Peter Wirth said on Friday that a Los Alamos scientist who appeared on Wednesday before the state legislature's Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee revealed that the drum that leaked radiation was improperly packaged at Los Alamos with chemically reactive contents that included a lead - lined glove.

They included: Bill Ghiorse, who led someEnvironmental Protection Agency research into subsurface bacteria thateat toxic waste; Duane Moser, a lab wizard and avid spelunker; SvetlanaKotelnikova, a Russian scientist working in Sweden; Mary DeFlaun ofEnvirogen; and Jim Fredrickson, who has isolated many deep - bacteriacultures while working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The study — by an international team of scientists that included John L. Gittleman, dean of the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology — was led by Stuart L. Pimm of Duke University and Clinton N. Jenkins of the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas in Brazil.

Some scientists, including Mike Rayner, the lead scientist on the team that generated the model, advocate a so - called fat tax that would make junk food harder to come by and subsidize healthy food in an effort to allow lower - income families to eat more healthfully.

Lead author, Capt. Leslie MacDonald, Sc.D., senior scientist in the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, of the Centers for Disease Control, suggests that employees consider taking small steps to improve their overall cardiovascular health, including: • Going for a walk during lunch or other breaks • Parking farther away from destinations • Taking the stairs instead of elevators • Managing stress through breathing exercises or meditation • Bringing healthy snacks to work such as fruits, nuts and yogurt • Drinking water throughout the day

The case led to a tightening of procedures for CGR, including a clearer separation of responsibilities: The scientists on CGR are supposed to analyze the seismicity in question, whereas civil protection officials at DPC communicate findings to the public and decide what action to take.

An international team of scientists led by the UK's John Innes Centre and including scientists from Australia, Portugal, China and Italy has perfected a way of watching genes move within a living plant cell.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

Other collaborators on the international project include Liqi Chen, the Chinese lead - PI and scientist with the Third Institute of Oceanography of State Oceanic Administration of China; and scientists at Xiamen University, China and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, among other institutions.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

The research team, led by scientists at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and including representatives from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Colorado, identified more than 5,600 lipids — or fats — in blood platelets and gained new insights into how these cells respond to aspirin.

The international team of researchers, led by the University of Southampton and including scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, the University of Western Australia, the University of South Florida, the Australian National University and the University of Seigen in Germany, analysed data from 10 long - term sea level monitoring stations located around the world.

The precarious state of those mammals is underscored in a multinational study led by a University of Washington scientist, published this week in Conservation Biology, assessing the status of all circumpolar species and subpopulations of Arctic marine mammals, including seals, whales and polar bears.

Now a research team led by scientists at MIT and including colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the University of Toronto, and elsewhere has developed an instrument that can rapidly and precisely analyze samples of environmental methane to determine how the gas was formed.