Sentences with phrase «large field experiments»

As plant breeding becomes more sophisticated, so does measuring the results of large field experiments.

The two - year project called VORTEX2 is the largest field experiment in history.

Diederich, J. and Goeschl, T.: 2011b, Willingness to Pay for Individual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Evidence from a Large Field Experiment, University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series 517.

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EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»

To determine the effectiveness of numbers and traffic lights, the authors conducted a field experiment in which employees at Humana, a large health - care company, were asked to place lunch orders through an online platform designed especially for the study.

In lab experiments, scientists found that the longer it took the rock to cool, the larger the resulting crystals, allowing researchers to use crystal size to determine how long a rock was hot and its electrons susceptible to alignment by magnetic fields.

Currently testing the gliders in a large water tank and small field experiments, her team is closer to robotically mimicking the teamwork of a fish school.

The joking subsided in 1995 during the last days of a giant meteorological study called Vortex (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment), the largest tornado field project to date.

Once genetically modified mosquitoes resistant to dengue are developed, scientists would test them in large field cages to see how they compete with wild mosquitoes in very controlled experiments.

In search of a clearer picture, large teams of scientists from around the world have recently pooled their resources to perform major field experiments involving aircraft, ships, surface stations and balloons.

In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of wheat crop growth models with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational field trials.

The state's oldest, largest mine is home to the Soudan Underground Laboratory, host to a half - dozen physics experiments, including a 5400 metric ton detector to field neutrinos fired through the earth from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

In November of 2014, in a first, unexpected move for the field of particle physics, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment — one of the main detectors in the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider — released to the public an immense amount of data, through a website called the CERN Open Data Portal.

This was found to be the case in both a plant manipulation experiment conducted at the Lancaster University Field Station, and at a large scale plot experiment in Jena, Germany.

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In his ERC project, Professor Johannes Henn plans to develop new methods within quantum field theory for making predictions for experiments, such as those currently under way at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

In a large - scale field experiment, 53 scientists from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and the United States are investigating how ocean acidification influences important functions in an ecosystem representative for two - thirds of the world's oceans.

Well - controlled laboratory as well as large - scale field experiments were conducted with keystone species and natural communities in a wide range of habitats in the North and Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, and off Papua New Guinea, among other places.

«In one of the less appetizing but more brilliant experiments in the field of vitamin b12 metabolism in the 50's, Sheila Callender (7) in England delineated that human colon bacteria makes large amounts of vitamin B - 12.

It's true that I spent much of the last few years working on a large - scale experiment in which we assigned by lottery nearly 11,000 students to tour an art museum or serve in the control group to identify what students learn from field trips to art museums.

The variation in union strength identified in recent literature, the new policy experiments occurring in states across the country, and the sheer availability of large administrative datasets that link individual students to teachers in school across the country now allow a new field of highly focused questions that link educational outcomes to rules, regulations and conditions directly attributable to union efforts.

We received a large proportion of small - scale, laboratory studies, and while we definitely see value in these types of studies (given increased experimental control), we think it is important to balance these types of studies with large - scale field experiments.

That's why what I gather from the said experiment is what is already a known practice for building portfolios in my field — focus on the quality, not quantity, because large quantity will bore the viewer and confront them with works that are not top quality anyway, and none of this is desired.

Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923), best known for his large - scale, color field painting, first experimented with reductive geometry in paint and wood in 1949.

Dan Christensen, Serpens, 1968 Acrylic on canvas, 112 x 173.5 inches Courtesy of Spanierman Modern, NY May 15 — August 30, 2009 For more than forty years, American artist Dan Christensen — long associated with the Color Field movement — experimented with colors, shapes, and forms in his large - scale paintings.

The rapidly changing technology of acrylic permitted large expanses of color to be both intense and very thin, which allowed the Color Field painters to experiment with extremes of economy and clarity in their paint handling.

Putting in mind Mark Rothko's large, monochromatic fields of color, this magisterial painting by Barnaby Furnas presents a sweeping and audacious experiment in abstraction.

While 20th century experiments with the effects of pure color — particularly Color Field painting and abstract expressionism — often relied upon immersive force and the use of large canvases to envelop the viewer's entire body, Amm's work elicits sustained acts of seeing and a more consciously analytical stance.

It began as a large color field painting, an experiment with color.

The ARM Data Center supports the continuous operations and scientific field experiments of the ARM Facility by storing and distributing the large quantities of data collected.

We use advanced research methods, including large - scale field experiments, surveys, and institutional data, to learn applied lessons about how institutions can solve environmental problems.

Expanding on this work, a large - scale field experiment is being run to test when NGOs can be motivated to monitor the performance of international organizations.

Diederich, J. and Goeschl, T.: 2011a, Giving in a Large Economy: Price vs. Non-Price Effects in a Field Experiment, University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series 514.