Sentences with phrase «living laboratory environment»

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by Deborah McNamara on January 28, 2015 0 developing skills for future leaders International Sustainable Campus Network living laboratory environment for sustainability

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An intelligent life form (Scientist), developed an environment in which he added various subtances and matter (laboratory), and added some energy (electricity) and wahlah, the building blocks of life were formed.

Shedd Aquarium along with Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology and the United States Department of Agriculture started this project to explore the unique relationships between the countless unseen living organisms that share our exhibit environments with the animals that live there.

According to Professor James McKenna, director of the mother baby sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, «co-sleeping is a safe and even potentially life saving option, as long as parents provide a safe sleeping environment (see box).»

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.

«We can test how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in an environment that we know has the ingredients for life,» said lead investigator Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md..

This is probably because they live in a dirtier environment to us, says Peer Bork, whose team unravelled the detox genes at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg.

The researchers replicated real - life environments in the laboratory and found that the shape of the spaces and the flow of fluids through them affected bacterial growth and the formation of slimy surface layers called biofilms.

In the case of opiatemaking yeast, such rules might forbid developing strains to produce illicit drugs, such as heroin, and require scientists to build in genes that prevent the microbes from living outside of a controlled laboratory environment.

Rick Stevens is Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences.

They have received a joint degree from three universities as this programme is a unique collaboration between Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, in the environment of Science for Life Laboratory.

Other organisations that contributed to the report included British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Southwest Fisheries Science Centre, Universidad de las Gran Palmas Gran Canaria, Veterinary Laboratory Agency (Truro) and Wildlife Veterinary Investigation Centre in Cornwall.

The Science for Life Laboratory is a joint effort between four Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm University and Uppsala University, to build an infrastructure for high - throughput research in the areas of health and environment.

And so, what we've been going over here is, and the whole idea of this is to say, «Yeah, there's, our environment tries to break our body down, we have the ability to buffer, counteract that, and we want it to be in a good balance,» and that's the beauty about laboratory tests because you can see that, and you can make the changes in your life to help get that balance without just being simplistic and saying exercise equals good.

It's artificial without a hint of intentional façade: No home looks lived in and no conversation feels like it could have occurred outside of a laboratory environment.

The results that followed confirmed that BioCote protection is as effective in real life as it is in the laboratory there was a huge 96 per cent reduction in bacterial levels in the total environment.

But training a dog in a living environment is not the same as studying rats in a laboratory.

Through extended exposures, he has photographically bottled the hazy, dreamy light of ocean vistas and movie theaters, and he has worked in laboratory - like environments to freeze brilliant flashes of electricity on paper, pinning down its feathery substance almost like a biological specimen, and he has even used artificial lighting to bring to life Madame Tussauds's wax statues and the inhabitants of natural - history dioramas, like some combination of Tesla and Dr. Frankenstein.

The museum is also home to the Heinz Architectural Center, which enhances understanding of the built environment through its exhibitions, collections, and public programs, and the Hillman Photography Initiative, which serves as a living laboratory for exploring the rapidly changing field of photography.

Their report, released just last week, is focused on educating future leaders by full immersion in a «living laboratory» environment for sustainability.

The University of British Columbia in Vancouver has begun developing the Centre for Interactive Research for Sustainability (CIRS), a «living laboratory» where both sustainable research and studies on the building's effectiveness as a sustainable working environment will be conducted.

This tropical environment abounds with tigers, elephants, panthers, deer and numerous plant species, making it a living laboratory for environmental scientists.

Early this year, during the Aspen Environment Forum, I asked Ira Magaziner, a senior policy adviser to President Bill Clinton for six years, whether a new president, with that bully pulpit and all, could make a sustained «energy quest» — from the living room to the laboratory to the boardroom to the classroom — a prime goal for Americans.

The city's largest employer, who essentially defines both its economy and living environment, is the University of California, Berkeley followed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a federal nuclear sciences research center.

Also, our study is limited in its ecological validity because the activity of student groups was performed in laboratory, not in real life environment.