Sentences with phrase «life research environment»

Summer employment at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, gives students the opportunity to complement their studies with hands - on experience in a real - life research environment.

Not exact matches

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

She has dedicated her life to teaching people how to leverage research - based mindfulness and compassion insights to create outstanding leaders and thriving work environments.

According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather - related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

We stalk and kill nature even as we know what contemporary ecological research makes plain: that we are enfolded in a living, terrestrial environment in which all living and non-living things are so mutually implicated and interrelated that no distinct line separates life from non-life (LL Chap.

Under our # 978,236 Nutrition for Life Innovate UK research project, we gained a full scientific understanding of the unique Steam Infusion processing environment.

Pew works to protect our shared environment, encourage responsive government, support scientific research, and improve civic life.

I spent months researching this idea and a great deal of time and energy this spring and summer creating a more nurturing environment for the child in me and for the children in my life.

Many things look great in research environment but are difficult to implement in real life.

Six years on from the first study, the research highlights the crucial role the built environment has to play in terms of improving the lives of older people.

The research finds that the built environment has a crucial role to play in terms of improving the lives of older people through measures designed to enhance the accessibility and liveability of buildings.

Brauman's research integrates hydrology and land use with economics and policy to better understand how water use affects the environment and our ability to live well in it.

The first phase of Sêr Cymru committed up to # 50 million (US$ 66.2 million) to bring prestigious research chairs to Welsh universities and also to support national research networks in three «grand challenge» areas: life sciences and health; low carbon, energy, and environment; and advanced engineering and materials.

At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.

Working in an industrial environment appeared more attractive to me than working for the government at that time, so I started my working life at Oce Nederland B.V., conducting research on digital photocopying machines.

NAI Fellow Yanan Shen, whose research base is with an NAI team at Harvard, is interested in the relationship between life and the various environments that have existed as the Earth was formed and developed.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impaLife - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impalife cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.

The Congressional briefing, «Living at the Extremes: Geoscience Research at the Coolest Places on Earth,» planned by AAAS in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in celebration of National Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national security.

And research on extreme organisms on Earth, which eke out existence in the most challenging of environments, suggests that life could survive in even more unlikely places.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Research dating back to the 1950s had shown that rats handled by humans for as little as five to 15 minutes per day during their first three weeks of life grew up to be calmer and less reactive to stressful environments compared with their non-handled littermates.

Tori Hoehler, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, studies how living things on Earth create detectable changes in their environments.

«Denmark has a well - educated population, a number of leading life science companies, and an international research environment,» says Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Karl Stetter has won the Leeuwenhoek Medal for his research on life in extreme environments.

The monkeys lived in social groups in a setting that is closer to a free - living environment than traditional research housing, following and exceeding European guidelines for space per monkey.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

«We're living in the lap of luxury here,» says Nick Cox, manager of the team in Ny - Ålesund sponsored by the British Natural Environment Research Council.

The Living Lab Bus joint project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and launched at the beginning of 2016, uses the Finnish electric buses acquired by Helsinki Region Transport as concrete development and testing platforms for businesses to validate their solutions in a real use environment.

Those funds will in part support three existing RWJF organizations — Active Living by Design, Active Living Research and Leadership for Healthy Communities — that seek to change policy, the environment and behavior to boost physical activity.

After testing StimDust on the benchtop, the research team implanted it in a live rodent to test it in a realistic environment.

The research findings add further support to the possibility water can be delivered to Earth - like planets via such bodies to create a suitable environment for the formation of life.

She liked the research environment, but «toward the end of my Ph.D.,» she says, «I wanted to find something that felt... existentially meaningful, something that connected me to the really important, big issues in life.»

The research team, which includes Dr Oscar Martinez Mozos, a specialist in machine learning and quality of life technologies, and Dr Grzegorz Cielniak, who works in mobile robotics and machine perception, aim to develop a system that will recognise visual clues in the environment.

«We're interested in examining how we take the kind of continuous environment that we all live in and break it into pieces that we can understand and remember,» says Chris Baldassano (@ChrisBaldassano), a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the study's first author.

The study was financed by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas), the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte), the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, Stockholm County Council and the European Commission.

As noted in the study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»

«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.

Species living in coastal regions could face a significant future threat from reduced levels of oxygen in the marine environment, according to research published in Scientific Reports.

At ROSE she benefited from working in an international research environment and the bonus of experiencing life in Italy.

The research team stresses that the regime should not be attempted beyond the controlled environment of a hospital until it has been developed further, but those who took part in the trial say it has transformed their lives.

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.

«The ingredients for life are plentiful, and we now know that habitable environments are plentiful,» said Associate Professor Lineweaver, from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences.

A real - life (but alas, only perceptual) version of beaming is currently under development by Mel Slater, a professor of virtual environments at the ICREA research institute at the University of Barcelona.

Researchers Michael Tobler, associate professor of biology, and Zach Culumber, former university postdoctoral research associate and current postdoctoral researcher at Florida State University, studied 112 species of live - bearing fish and found that males and females evolve differently: Female evolution is influenced more strongly by natural selection and the environment, while male evolution is influenced more strongly by sexual selection, which involves characteristics that females find desirable or that make them superior competitors for females.

Your article «Game of life» featured our research into game transfer phenomena (GTP), by which players of video games sometimes react to the world as they would to a gaming environment (24/31 December 2011, p 76).

«They don't have conclusive evidence,» says Rocco Mancinelli, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, who studies life in extreme environments.

Ames Research Center's open forum in the «Second Life» web - based graphical environment, known as Co-Lab, provides one such model for participation.

Research efforts are aimed at enhancing the quality of life for animals and people, improving the productivity of poultry and livestock, and preserving a healthy interface between wildlife and people in the environment they share.

About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative and creative environment.