Sentences with phrase «lower than scientists»

The image showed that the amount of sea ice around the poles is dramatically lower than scientists would have predicted.

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When the scientists modeled disease transmission, they found that while an «infected person's 11 nearest neighbors faced a greater than 80 percent chance of infection,» Wired reports, «all the remaining passengers, however, had a lower than 3 percent risk.»

(In 2011, Cenovus Energy let on that output from two of its in situ oilsands projects could meet the standard, which mandates that crude oil imported to the state have lower wells - to - wheels emissions than the average of all crudes sold in the U.S.) «Yes, I think that's feasible,» says George Hoberg, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in environmental conflict.

This is why scientists can not «prove» the evolutionary development of the eye (and we know that the real chance of finding fossil evidence is much lower than 50 %).

In 2006, scientists evaluated the effects of vitamin D on the mental health of 80 elderly patients and found those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 11 times more prone to be depressed than those who received healthy doses.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.

In Drosophila sechellia, scientists found much lower levels of the precursor compound needed for dopamine biosynthesis than was found in other Drosophila species.

Biology postdocs generally receive stipends that are tens of thousands of dollars lower than those of computer scientists, he explained.

Scientists have found the halogen levels in the meteorites that formed the Earth billions of years ago are much lower than previously thought.

Women who used the ring had a 27 percent lower risk of HIV infection than women who received a placebo, scientists reported February 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

But the scientists found that 30 percent more high - risk cancers — those that doctors want to detect — were diagnosed through targeted biopsy than standard biopsy (173 vs. 122 cases) and 17 percent fewer low - risk cancers — those that are often over-diagnosed and over-treated (213 vs. 258).

You might think that postdocs, with their low salaries, poor job security, and often poor working conditions, would be less happy than most other scientists.

Scientists who rated their geographic location «not satisfactory» were three - and - a-half times more likely than other respondents to suffer from low job satisfaction.

Reason number one: Ph.D. scientists have long had unemployment rates lower than the national average, so it would be news only if that were no longer true.

The salaries of MD&D scientists tend to be lower than those of their pharmaceutical and biotechnology counterparts.

«Risk of psychosis from cannabis use lower than originally thought, say scientists.»

Touching off a megaflap, Centers for Disease Control scientists reported in April that mildly overweight people had a lower risk of premature death than those of normal size.

The detected concentrations are much lower than the Canadian safety limit for cesium levels in drinking water, said John Smith, a research scientist at Canada's Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

And it is incorrect to believe that the quality of students taking A-level sciences is lower than for other subjects; A-level scientists have higher GCSE scores than A-level students of other fields.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

Based on earlier research, scientists expected to find lower rates of CDA and celiac disease in the United States and Germany than in Sweden.

As Dawn continues the final phase of its mission, in which it will descend to lower altitudes than ever before, scientists will continue learning about the origins of the bright material on Ceres and what gave rise to the enigmatic features in Occator.

The cooler - than - usual temperatures are represented by the big blue blob on the world map below (that's Florida peeking out at the lower right of the blob), provided by atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, using NOAA data.

«They reduced the amount of acetylene in ethylene down to less than 2 parts per million (ppm), which is lower than the 5 ppm that polyethylene manufacturing requires,» said NIST materials scientist Wei Zhou.

It is easier to achieve the target ratio in rectal tissue than in cervical and vaginal tissues, according to the scientists, because the concentration of DNA molecules is lower and of tenofovir is higher in rectal tissue than in the female genital tract.

Natural methane hydrates were first discovered by Russian scientists in the late 1960s in Siberian permafrost — where the ground is so cold that hydrates can form at shallower depths and at lower pressures than under the sea — and then, in the 1970s, at the bottom of the Black Sea.

People with high science knowledge are more likely than those low in science knowledge to trust medical scientists and their research.

The lower left image shows new molecules — created by scientists at the University of Utah and two German universities — that are shaped like wagon - wheel or rotelle pasta and emit light more efficiently than the spaghetti - shape polymers.

In some directions, the hot, low density area stretches more than 1000 light years (New Scientist, Science, 16 February 1991).

The gap was large: A black scientist's chance of winning NIH funding was 10 percentage points lower than that of a white scientist.

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

Further, it alerts scientists that earthquake clustering may not only characterise shallow faulting and smaller - sized earthquakes with magnitudes lower than M7 but it is a property of large subduction earthquakes.

The scientists begin by assuming that particles with lower energies take longer to travel through turbulent magnetic fields, much like a lazy moth takes longer to cross a windy valley than a quick bee.

The results for antibiotics were mixed: The scientists found that the concentration of tetracyclines, the most - used antibiotics in animal agriculture, was lower in the liquid fertilizer than in the original raw manure.

Despite furious resistance from scientists, Spain's parliament approved a long - delayed draft bill in June that lowers this year's national funding for science to $ 6.39 billion, about 26 % less than the 2011 budget, according to the COSCE report.

The industrial scientists, furthermore, generally belong to professional societies — though also at a lower rate than the academics.

Blood founder cells showed a much lower propensity for aberrant methylation than did other founder cells, which could explain why in the past scientists attributed the founder cell to the effectiveness of differentiating iPS cells to the hematopoietic lineage.

For years, scientists have considered sodium - ion batteries a safer and lower - cost candidate for large - scale energy storage than lithium - ion.

Scientists are now worse off than ever and government spending on basic research is lower than in any comparable industrialised nation (O. 24 per cent of GDP in the UK, against 0.33 per cent in France and O. 4 per cent in the US).

As a result, scientists typically ignore satellite data for altitudes lower than 15 kilometers, Ridley says.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

When fishing rates were high, the scientists found, populations collapsed to levels six times lower than they would have been otherwise.

«The viral loads in the saliva in general are low, but there are also anti-microbial components in saliva making that low level of virus even less infectious than it might be in another medium,» says Christina Newman, co-first author of the study with Dudley and also a scientist with the UW - Madison Zika Experimental Science Team.

The measurement was low - resolution but revealed enough to establish that the protein structure is more simply put together than previously believed, and that surprised the scientists.

In fact, because the testing is fairly extensive and the quantities of transgenic proteins in an engineered organism are typically so low, many scientists argue that it's easier to detect a potential allergen in a GM crop than in a conventional crop.

And at some institutions, even though the national pool of young women scientists continues to expand (see lower graph), the numbers are moving down rather than up.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

The scientists have since tested the water and riverbed along the Red River near Hanoi and discovered dangerously high concentrations of dissolved arsenic, far higher than expected, but they also found clear patterns of contamination that may be able to help farmers and communities locate lower - risk sites for wells.

The study is one of two NIH - funded projects — the other strips previous applications of all identifying characteristics before subjecting them to a new round of reviews — now underway that were spawned by a 2011 finding that black scientists have a much lower chance of receiving an NIH grant than their white counterparts.

Genetic investigation of a Malaysian tribe may tell scientists why East Asians have light skin, but lower skin cancer rates than Europeans, according to a team of international researchers.