Sentences with phrase «large scale experiment»

Do you understand the implications of the fact that we've already performed a very large scale experiment, testing the effect of CO2 level on the rate of sea - level rise — and found no effect at all?

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

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It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

Shapiro got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.

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.»

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

Not only did the Zero Lower Bound turn out to be not so debilitating as all that — rather than work their will via interest rates, central banks took to injecting money directly into the economy via large - scale asset purchases — but it does not even seem to be the lower bound: central banks, notably in Europe, have successfully experimented with negative interest rates.

Despite Subramanian's announcement, Indian leaders have previously experimented with the nation's economy on a large scale.

Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.

Chuck has experimented with smoke - drying pods on a large scale with jalapeños grown near Toledo, Ohio.

Harmful geo - engineering experiments or large - scale land use for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

That required the development of space - age greenhouses where astronaut farmers could experiment with harvesting large - scale food crops.

(And the unions will try to prevent any such large - scale experiment.)

Then, to ensure their results in the lab weren't a fluke, researchers released a smartphone app that simulated the lab experiment cheaply and on a larger scale.

By smashing together nuclei of lead — the largest particles the LHC can handle (pdf)-- the ALICE experiment will create a quantum - scale fireball 100,000 times the temperature of the core of the sun.

The data from those experiments can then be fed into a model, allowing researchers to predict how this behavior would manifest itself on a larger scale.

US researchers investigated this effect towards the end of the 1990s in a large - scale experiment on forest land in the vicinity of the Brazilian town of Manaus.

Calorie labeling is soon going national — it's signed into the health reform act — so we will be able to conduct that experiment on a much larger scale quite soon.

The reason for that is that to define an S - matrix, you have to be able to look at what comes out of an experiment at arbitrarily large distance scales.

The knowledge is needed for future, large - scale experiments and provides hope when it comes to solving difficult problems.

So he wants to run his experiment on a much larger scale and prove that he can reliably and repeatedly predict solar storms before they occur.

A biochemistry major, Gazzaley had planned to put a chunk of sodium metal into a lake behind campus to make it fizz — a large - scale version of the classic junior high school lab experiment in which adding a pinch of potassium to water creates a spark as the chemical reaction releases energy.

This paper represents the first large - scale data set for such an experiment to come out of the University of Illinois.

«There are a lot of small experiments going on but no large - scale data gathering.»

However, one quickly reaches the bounds of today's available computing power when large - scale experiments need to be modeled numerically while retaining all important physical effects, and exhaustive simulations of fusion reactor plasmas as a whole are still not feasible.

Scientific knowledge always depends upon particular conditions, but risk regulation often naively assumes that large - scale institutions can be controlled as simply as an experiment in a laboratory.

The time I spent on the audit team taught me a lot about research design and data management, which was very helpful because my background research experience didn't include the design of large - scale experiments.

In Garching, IPP has two large - scale experiments: the Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment (ASDEX) Upgrade tokamak and the WENDELSTEIN 7 - AS stellarator.

And not only does the LVE cut down on cost, it also allows users to print artificial human tissue on a larger scale and at higher resolution, opening doors for researchers, makers, and professionals to experiment with 3 - D printing biomaterials and fluids.

The new model allows researchers to run large - scale experiments in conditions that are much more like the actual places where the bacteria colonize, without requiring researchers to collect countless specimens of actual mucus, called sputum, from humans.

The ultimate objective of the collaboration is to establish a suite of tools that includes X-ray imaging and small laboratory experiments, computer - based analysis and simulation tools, as well as large - scale high - heat and wind - tunnel tests.

The next step was to develop a theory to explain how the right kind of irregularities might arise, and to design experiments to measure them on the largest possible scales.

Instead, it's part of a story involving a large - scale unplanned chemistry experiment, a sometimes - stinky lake, and ducks — in which the mercury did not disappear.

The DEMONSTRATOR was designed to lay the groundwork for a ton - scale experiment by demonstrating that backgrounds can be low enough to justify building a larger detector.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.

Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory) is a large - scale physics experiment designed to directly detect gravitational waves of cosmic origin.

«That made it possible for the first time to run a large - scale media experiment.»

BICEP2 has plenty of competition in searching for B - mode polarization in the CMB: other projects include the Atacama B - mode Search (ABS) led by Princeton University; the POLARBEAR experiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numeroexperiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numeroExperiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numerous others.

Moreover, many large - scale experiments have been carried out at Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the rest of the project group.

Large - scale experiments where scientists spray iron into the waters, literally fertilizing phytoplankton, have created huge human - made algal blooms.

The new approach, which moves solutions around in computationally prescribed patterns, could enable experiments to be conducted more efficiently, cost - effectively, and at larger scales.

The $ 100 million is only enough for research, not to fund the full mission, which Milner says will be a decades - long, multibillion dollar project on the scale of the world's biggest scientific experiments, like the James Webb Space Telescope or the Large Hadron Collider.

Ian Hart, operations manager at the Anglian offices of the NRA, says there are five possible sites for a large - scale experiment but argues that managed retreat is at «the tentative hypothesis stage».

The data in OmniPath are primarily based on small - scale experiments, but its Pypath software makes it possible to add datasets obtained from large screening experiments or converted from reactions.

But while most research on impending environmental disaster relied on computer models, Biosphere 2 represented a fascinating alternative mode in which large - scale analog experiments employed real organisms, soil, seawater, and air.

Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, was so disturbed by the possibility of quantum weirdness on the large scale that he proposed his famous «Schrödinger's cat» thought experiment.

The project is good news for British researchers who lost a chance to carry out large - scale experiments when the Science and Engineering Research Council pulled out of a similar joint project with Germany.

If experiments progress to a larger scale, a second problem arises: which nations should decide whether a proposal has proved safe enough to implement?

They are also discussing how to conduct larger experiments, on the scale of a hectare, and measure methane emissions more comprehensively.

But when you think about it, nature has been doing a similar experiment on a very large scale as species evolve.