Sentences with phrase «lives of scientists studying»

Science Careers got a peek into the professional lives of scientists studying healthy aging from the perspectives of genetics, sociology and psychology, engineering, and neurology.

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We all live only so many years... there is no way each of us can study all of the science we need... scientists (Complexity - Chaos - Systems) tell us that computers can not even predict the future given the known laws of physics, etc...

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

«99 percent of women in a recent study showed a deficiency of vitamin D. Scientists had previously found high rates of vitamin D deficiency in Arab and East Indian women living in the United Arab Emirates.

The Strategy of the Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology of God: A Scientist's Study of Man the Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.

Objectivity is needed — but even a scientist driven to a life of objectivity must get up close and personal with the specimens of study.

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

SARASOTA — Scientist Carl Luer has spent most of his life studying an animal humans inherently fear: sharks.The predators of the sea have been the villains of thriller tales since the 1974 novel, Jaws They've invaded the streets of Los Angeles in the...

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

They identified 452 eminent academic life scientists whose deaths were premature — defined as happening before the scientist entered pre-retirement or took on a predominantly administrative role — and studied how these demises affected the «vitality (measured by publication rates and funding flows) of the [scientists»] subfields.»

Field expeditions to learn about and describe biological and cultural diversity and the history of life and civilization generally require museum scientists engage on a global scale with their counterparts to gain access to field sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

And, like all the other books in the Scientists in the Field series, it provides an intimate and realistic portrait of the researchers who have devoted their professional lives to studying nature.

The scientists studied 24 men and women (11 of whom were in their 20s and 13 of whom were in their 60s) who lived for more than three weeks in an environment with no time cues other than a weak cycle of light and dark that was artificially set at 28 hours and that gave the subjects their signals for bedtime.

This finding is startling to scientists who study cetaceans and other marine life, as it is becoming clearer that whales rely heavily on the integrity of their acoustic habitat.

Team scientists then estimate how many forms of life have yet to be discovered in each realm based on how well it has been studied and how many species have been discovered there so far.

It helps lay a foundation that scientists can apply to make predictions about what would allow life to alter exoplanets» atmospheres, and may inspire deeper studies, here on Earth, of how oceanic - atmospheric chemistry drives climate instability and influences the rise and fall of life through the ages.

Scientists studying the effects of tsunamis have now shed light on what could be the earliest record of a person killed in a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific.

At the University of Virginia Health System's Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, scientists are studying an array of anomalous phenomena, including near - death experiences, out - of - body experiences, and memories of past lives.

Scientists hope that studying asteroids might reveal more about the evolution of the solar system, as well as the origin of life on Earth.

«It's easy to get [these features] when you're essentially swallowing a symbiont,» says Hyman Hartman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies the origin of life.

In a huge study of female rhesus macaques, a scientist from the University of Exeter found those with many close female relatives have better life expectancy.

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

I never knew his name, though, thanks to the absolute insistence of Brenda Milner and Suzanne Corkin, the scientists who studied him for five decades, that he remain anonymous while he lived.

Cristian Micheletti, a scientist of the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA), has published in Physics of Life Reviews a review on an innovative instrument for protein analysis.

In the new study, published today in Nature Geoscience, the scientists also report the atmospheric abundance of one of these «very short - lived substances» (VSLS) is growing rapidly.

Scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains this moon of Saturn's long - lived geysers.

Alexandra Witze introduced her readers to the seismologists who work around the clock to pinpoint major earthquakes around the globe; to a brother and sister who have spent their lives studying Pluto; and to scientists and engineers involved in the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in Washington's Olympic Penninsula and the restoration of the environment behind the dams.

A study by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds New York City house mice carry bacteria responsible for mild to life - threatening gastroenteritis in people, and some of these bacteria may be resistant to antibiotics.

«In the second paper, we created a spatial map of alpha - synuclein, cataloging all the proteins in living neurons that were in close proximity to the protein,» explained Chee Yeun Chung, former Whitehead Institute Senior Research Scientist, who co-led both studies with Khurana.

«These results suggest that the rich and poor do not simply have different attitudes about how wealth should be distributed across society; rather, they subjectively experience living in different societies,» adds psychological scientist Rael Dawtry at the University of Kent, the study's lead author.

Stanford University scientists have found a new middle ground with the development of a genome - editing toolkit to study aging in the naturally short - lived African turquoise killifish.

Scientists at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, have found another secret of longevity in the tissues of the longest - lived rodent, the naked mole rat.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

Scientists were intrigued but found it was too difficult to study in detail the unwieldy mass of short - lived bubbles.

Studies of the organisms that lived there — and may still — will provide insight into life during the ice ages and on other planets, scientists say.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

With each swish of a tail, scientists now have a tool that could study the movements of fish throughout their entire lives.

The study team — which also included Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego — used public records to reconstruct the careers of 10,004 elite life scientists in the United States from the moment they earned their first independent position until 2006.

The study shows that «all plants seem to be living on the edge», says Yadvinder Malhi, an ecosystems scientist at the University of Oxford.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

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.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

By studying the brain's physical processes, scientists are seeking clues about how the subjective inner life of the mind arises

An aquatic scientist describes the challenges of studying creatures that live deep under the sea

The authors are anthropologists and practitioners of cultural studies of science, and what they offer their readers is a series of moments in the lives of scientists.

To conduct the study, scientists asked residents of about 1200 homes scattered across the continental United States to swab dust that had accumulated in two places: their main external doorframe and an internal door frame in their home's main living space.