Sentences with phrase «laboratories for studying»

There's enormous untapped potential to use schools as laboratories for studying energy, the handling of waste and water, and much more.

«The bow shocks are new laboratories for studying massive stars and answering questions about the fate and evolution of these stars,» he says.

Apr. 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light - years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity.

«We can use Mars, a planet that we know a lot about, as a laboratory for studying rocky planets outside our solar system, which we don't know much about yet.»

The European researchers — Christophe Joachim of the CNRS Laboratory for the Study of Materials and Structures in Toulouse, France, and James Gimzewski of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory — essentially trapped a spherical 60 - carbon fullerene, or buckyball, in a vise wired up to conduct electricity.

Located 1,350 light - years away, the Orion Nebula is a relatively nearby laboratory for studying the star formation process across a wide range, from opulent giant stars to diminutive red dwarf stars and elusive, faint brown dwarfs.

They offer a unique natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs respond to frequent ocean heat waves.

Cassini has revealed massive churning storms that rage for decades, rings that may be the best laboratory for studying how planets form and details of some of Saturn's more than 60 moons.

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place there provides the only planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before life arose.

«This pulsar is becoming a fascinating laboratory for studying astrophysics and nuclear physics,» Thorsett said.

McLean Hospital Title: Associate Director, Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development Harvard Medical School Title: Lecturer on Psychiatry, Part - Time

Hubble Space Telescope observing time was devoted to making this panorama because the nebula is a vast laboratory for studying the processes which gave birth to our own Sun and solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

«We think it provides us with a good laboratory for studying the process,» Kurtz said.

As recent experiments such as the hugely successful WMAP satellite have demonstrated, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a clean laboratory for studying the physics of the early Universe.

According to Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, director of the Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development at McLean Hospital, «Research has proven that borderline personality disorder is a valid psychiatric disorder and not a catch - all category for...

Laboratory for Study Design and Statistical Analysis, Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061.

However, Antarctica, unlike the other continents has no higher plants and therefore acts as a perfect natural laboratory for studying microbial DOM.

Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines erupted the next year, providing a natural laboratory for studying aerosols» impact.

Head Start programs offer an ideal laboratory for the study of effective child development and learning.

While we would not suggest that our numerical estimates can be applied directly to the general population, there are nevertheless good reasons to think that the Stanford housing market provides a valid laboratory for studying the effects of interest.»

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«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

The Northern Miner, Monday, March 31, 2008 Hiring for key roles: 4 pitfalls to avoid By Andrew Pollard Special To The Northern Miner Throughout my experience working as a headhunter at the executive level and helping companies improve their overall hiring processes, I have had a unique laboratory to study the effectiveness — or lack -LSB-...]

Mark graduated from Princeton University with a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering, performed post-doctoral research in the Center for Non-Linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

We need to know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which was also a federally run and endowed study, where African American men — mostly illiterate and impoverished — were experimented upon like laboratory animals for 40 years.

The bacterium which has been the chief vector, or vehicle, for DNA research is Escherichia Coli (E Coli), genetically and biochemically the most completely analyzed organism on earth, having been grown and studied in laboratories for more than 50 years.

God never intended for us study Him or His Word in a laboratory, but to experience Him with all five senses.

There is the silo argument, for maintaining the existence of all those organisms useful to us; the laboratory argument for maintaining those organisms needed for experimental studies; the gymnasium argument of nature for leisure; and the cathedral argument of nature for aesthetic pleasure.

I have done a little work on developing model behavioral assay procedures for studying the experiences of laboratory rats.

The laboratory study, conducted by NSF International under the direction of Maryann Sanders, senior regulatory specialist and microbiologist at Haley & Aldrich, Inc. and sponsored by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA), evaluated both temperature and time to determine if typical corrugated manufacturing processes, which combine a fluted or arched layer of paper sandwiched between two smooth layers, were sufficient for sanitization.

Additional laboratories for trials and feasibility studies are being established at different sites around the world.

The study was conducted in the Centre for Advanced Sensory Sciences laboratory at Deakin University, Australia.

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

Alarmed by DMSO's sudden popularity and worried about misuse of it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the substance for medical use in 1965, citing a study that suggested it caused eye damage in laboratory rats.

«For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.

Pressure to play needs to be taken off kids in order for them to feel comfortable reporting their signs and symptoms of a possible concussion,» says Tamara Valovich McLeod,, PhD, ATC, FNATA, Professor in the Athletic Training Program and Directors of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory and Athletic Training Practice - Based Research Network in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, co-author of the attitude study, and lead author of an earlier study [3] on attitudes on concussions among high school students.

In laboratory studies where kids thought they were being watched by peers while they performed a task, the stress hormone cortisol spiked for girls at 13 and remained high for both boys and girls at 15.

For their initial study, McKenna and Mosko recruited a group of Hispanic mothers living around Irvine who normally slept with their babies (the practice is common in Hispanic households) and had them do so in a special sleep laboratory.

Each year for the last decade, students have planted more than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.

They don't learn to say, okay, this is an appropriate portion size for me,» said Brent McBride, director of the U of I Child Development Laboratory and lead author of the study.

Two Shedd Aquarium researchers published a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory.

Janet Stout, director of Special Pathogens Laboratory in Pittsburgh and an associate professor of research at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has studied Legionnaires» disease for 30 years and called the idea of legislation from the state and the pending City Council legislation «unprecedented.»

She leads a research laboratory that is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study risk factors for psychosis and other serious mental illnesses.

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

«It suggests that the interbreeding event may have happened in the Middle East, and that lineage then migrated east» without additional contact with Europe, says Adam Siepel, a quantitative biologist at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a co-team leader for the study.

«These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,» says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study.

To that end, another member of the Ja Laboratory, Graduate Student Keith Murphy, has developed a new open - source, customizable technique for jointly studying multiple fly behaviors.

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When I returned to my studies, I converted my Ph.D. project into a master's thesis, as it was not feasible for me to go back into the field to collect more samples and perform laboratory work.

This study, coordinated by researchers from the GET (IRD, OMP, CNRS, CNES, UPS) and EPOC laboratories (OASU, CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1) and published in the journal Nature, changes the order for global carbon footprints.