Sentences with phrase «large body of scientists»

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we're talking about a large population of scientists from a diverse span of disciplines — and fyi: large bodies of individuals can't keep secrets - and scientists can't wait to find something wrong with the data.

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

In the study, scientists documented a lemon shark's ability to expel a large metal fish stringer out of its body cavity over the course of 435 days.

This week in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists proposes a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why animal species tend to evolve toward larger body sizes.

Take a look at the services offered by your own professional body or any of the larger ones — they cover all aspects relating to the life of practicing scientists, so if you have an interest in developing your subject away from the bench, they may offer some interesting career opportunities.

Scientists greeted the report with cautious enthusiasm, praising the increased budget and the plans to launch the long - desired European Research Council (ERC), a Europe - wide grantmaking body that will fund individual scientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous FrameworkScientists greeted the report with cautious enthusiasm, praising the increased budget and the plans to launch the long - desired European Research Council (ERC), a Europe - wide grantmaking body that will fund individual scientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous Frameworkscientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous Framework programs.

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.

Scientists have long debated what caused all these large - bodied critters to go extinct while many of their smaller counterparts survived.

Scientists have a better way to study human proteins — large molecules that are part of every cell in the body — thanks to a new technology developed by University of Toronto researchers.

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

Reporting in the current issue of PLOS ONE, functional morphologist Duncan J. Irschick, polymer scientist Alfred J. Crosby and colleagues show that geckos have a spring - like mechanism in their bodies to enhance adhesion as they become larger.

Although scientists suspect that the extended atmospheres of young giant planets can capture passing bodies, «the origin of these moons is still a mystery,» says Luu, who was not a member of the discovery team, «But [the large number of moons] is an important clue that tells us the process must have been very efficient,» says Luu.

Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to create replacements for worn out organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.

Now, scientists working with the largest - ever sample of Tibetan genomes have discovered seven new ways in which Tibetan genes have been tweaked to cope with high altitude, resulting in higher body mass index (BMI) and a boost in the body's production of the vitamin folate.

This, says NIST materials scientist Carl Simon, has led to a large and rapidly expanding collection of possible 3D scaffolds, ranging from relatively simple gels made of collagen, the body's natural structural matrix, to structured or unstructured arrangements of polymer fibers, hydrogels and many more.

STONY BROOK, NY, July 14, 2014 — Research findings from an international team of scientists including Alan Turner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, uncovers details on how a new species of a feathered raptorial dinosaur found in China provides evidence on how large - bodied dinosaurs took to the air.

Capturing the creation of this type of large, short - lived star body is extremely rare — the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds, said the scientists, who relied primarily on data from Keck Observatory's NIRC2 fitted with the laser guide star adaptive optics (LGSAO) system.

He pioneered body fluid proteomics technologies and research in his role as a Staff Scientist and later as a Director of Protein Chemistry at Large Scale Biology Corporation from 1999 - 2003.

Planetary body 2014 UZ224, also known as DeeDee (short for «distant dwarf»), has been getting a lot of attention from a team of scientists who've observed it using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.

This hormone actually tells our bodies to ignore feelings of pain and fatigue while enhancing blood flow to large muscles,» says Sabrena Jo, senior exercise scientist at the American Council on Exercise.

Some scientists have begun research into this «Cocktail effect» - Professor Kortenkamp of the Centre for Toxicology, University of London noted recently (4) that «Certain chemicals do not act in isolation in a woman's body, but in concert with natural oestrogens and a large number of other hormonally active chemicals and carcinogens.

Although there is no definitive research showing the benefits or risks of ingesting large amount of dietary Methylglyoxal, scientist generally agree that more research should been done to specifically understand how Methylglyoxal works and effects the body - both positively and negatively - as a naturally - occurring compound in food.

If scientists want to create the early signs of heart disease in animals, they need to feed them doses of cholesterol much larger than the total capacity of the body to make cholesterol.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

With new knowledge about the pigments and techniques used in the painting, art historians, scientists, and conservators from the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Museum, along with a distinguished group of invited scholars, consider how these findings modify an understanding of Pollock's process and larger body of work.

As a medical scientist, his interests center around issues of the sensate body and in the ways that the physical self experiences and knows the world through the senses; as a cultural worker, his interests lie in examining the dynamics of subcultures nesting within larger cultures.

This is particularly germane this week, as a couple thousand scientists and others focused on polar change have gathered in Montreal for a large conference (Twitter feed here) reviewing the enormous body of work produced under the recent International Polar Year initiative.

And they have influenced a much larger body of climate scientists (and other scientists) into going along with them, because they are brought into this by working to fight the good fight against the war on science by the dark forces.

In any case, you of all people should understand why people would be skeptical of a paper that seems to contradict a large body of work by a large number of top notch scientists including apparently Hansen and AR5.

Lazar, trust me, the body of climate scientists is much larger than the people you are exposed to in the blogosphere.

If Andrew Neil knew more about the science he might understand 1) how biased a perspective his chosen lines of questioning sometimes give on AGW, 2) that the IPCC's (AR4) suggested range for climate sensitivity is in line with the large body of evidence on the subject, and 2) how out on a limb scientists such as Judith Curry and Roy Spencer are from the mainstream evidence - based consensus.

But there is another viewpoint, a substantial viewpoint from a body of reputable scientists, and that viewpoint has really not been made available to a large majority,» Klappa told The New York Times in a telephone interview.

But there is another viewpoint, a substantial viewpoint from a body of reputable scientists, and that viewpoint has really not been made available to a large majority,» Klappa said.

Once again, IPCC had a golden opportunity to explain itself to a large body of technically savvy and interested non-climate scientists by explaining on this blog site the reasoning behind their secrecy in regards to early drafts of AR5.