Sentences with phrase «model experiment conducted»

Heat waves like the one that punished the central United States in July 2012 may be more common and longer - lasting by the time today's children are raising their own families, according to results from a high - resolution climate model experiment conducted by scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting experiments with human cells, ANT - OAR techniques would need to be rigorously tested in animal models to establish a procedure that guarantees with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.

The researchers posited that there's often a downward spiral between punishment and misbehavior: When a teacher responds harshly to a student's misbehavior, it hurts the relationship between them, provoking more misbehavior from the student and confirming the teacher's belief that the student is a troublemaker, which triggers more harsh discipline... Okonofua and his colleagues conducted three experiments providing evidence that supports this model.

Activities include learning about dinosaurs, conducting science experiments, building models, observing live specimens, artistic expression, field trips, etc. * Ages: 6 - 12.

To learn more about acetate's role, Shulman, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a team of Yale researchers conducted a series of experiments in rodent models of obesity.

Once experiments were conducted in those models, the findings could be applied to other species.

To conduct good experiments, scientists needed models — stand - ins that had some characteristic they needed to know about, whether that was, say, genetics, heart function or behavior.

The so - called «human challenge model» has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners.

As for the animal model, the researchers hope to now conduct experiments in monkeys or other species that more closely resemble humans.

Allen's team analyzed IPCC AR5 (5th Assessment Report) climate models, several observational and reanalysis data sets, and conducted their own climate model experiments to quantify tropical widening, and to isolate the main cause.

Researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, publishing online Sept. 19 in the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, developed a mathematical model and conducted experiments suggesting these small spills may be a larger issue than previously thought.

In laboratory studies, the researchers conducted a series of experiments involving 3,5 di - tert - butylcatechol, or DTBC, a compound that is used as a model substance for tracking the chemistry of oxidation.

Like anatomical models that allow medical students to practice costly surgical techniques without hurting anyone, Day's model allowed him to conduct an inexpensive — and victimless — funding experiment.

The experiments, including studies conducted in a bioengineered 3 - D model of lung tissue seeded with relevant cells, showed that CHI3L1 regulates a pathway that recruits cells such as macrophages and fibroblasts that produce the scarring, or fibrosis.

Finally, the team conducted extensive cell experiments to confirm the computer - generated signaling pathway model.

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have now conducted experiments that raise doubts about this well - established model of electrical impulses along the nerve pathway.

Glaum and Kessler generated the model using data from a series of field experiments on the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes conducted by Kessler and his collaborators using the wild tomato species Solanum peruvianum.

The research team conducted experiments on the roots of Arabidopsis, a plant often used as a «model organism» in plant biology and had its genome fully sequenced in 2000.

The group hopes other scientists will conduct similar experiments using different models to help hone in on a more reliable measure of climate sensitivity.

A main point in conducting the experiments was to show that climate models contain a bias that could be corrected.

Using the sophisticated UK Met Office climate model, Dr Screen conducted computer experiments to study the effects of Arctic sea - ice loss on the NAO and on Northern European winter temperatures.

Bensmaia and his team validated the output of the model against data from a wide variety of experiments conducted by other research teams, and show that it matches their output with millisecond precision.

We conducted surface colonization experiments using V. cholerae, a model organism for biofilm formation on a broad range of surfaces.

And, in those areas to which we commit, we assemble the best scientists in the world, give them sufficient resources to take chances and conduct the hard experiments, create the best infrastructure to support their research, and explore creative models to help discoveries get one step closer to improving human lives.

They also plan to conduct similar experiments in a mouse model that more closely approximates what would happen in humans.

This experiment was conducted to verify the findings in the initial experiment of a hypersensitivity immunopathologic - like reaction after SARS - CoV challenge of vaccinated animals, to determine if a higher dosage of the S protein vaccine (SV) would suppress infection and still exhibit a similar reaction, and whether the original β propiolactone inactivated whole virus vaccine (BPV) that had shown an immunopathologic - like reaction after challenge of vaccinated ferrets and nonhuman primates exhibited a similar immunopathologic reaction in the mouse model [13], [14].

For the work of the Montana Climate Assessment, we employed an ensemble from the fifth iteration of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), which includes up to 42 GCMs depending on the experiment conducted (CMIP5 undated).

The program get teams out of their comfort zone of the lab to conduct discovery interviews across key stakeholders to understand needs and test hypotheses, develop and validate value propositions and business models, define «killer» questions and experiments, and create pitches to target funders.

In each group, before the experiment began the chimpanzees could observe both models A and B simultaneously perform their trained solution to the task during 20 - minute sessions, with one session per day, conducted over 10 days (Fig. 2).

To model the disease architecture of T2D, the authors conducted an elegant experiment.

Methods: In these experiments, the research team conducted large ensembles of simulations with two state - of - the - art atmospheric general circulation models by abruptly switching the sea - surface temperature warming on from January 1st to focus on the wintertime circulation adjustment.

Expertise in conducting behavioral neuroscience experiments in rodent models, as well as in vivo imaging and / or optogenetics techniques, is desired.

A team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University, Peking University, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted an experiment that, for the first time, confirms the accuracy of a simple, longstanding model of how ions behave at the interface of oil and water.

The dual appointment allows him to conduct experiments that compare genetic programming in the highly regenerative animals used as models at the MDI Biological Laboratory with genetic programming in neonatal and adult mice.

Leading up to the experiment, LLNL researchers conducted a series of supercomputer simulations using LLNL's stockpile safety models to predict what would happen as the mock materials reacted to a high - explosive blast.

By conducting colony - founding experiments and additively incorporating relevant socio - environmental factors into our genomic imprinting model, we show the relative importance of genomic imprinting and environmental factors in caste determination.

The challenge facing biologists now, say many Hutch scientists, is the need for new statistical models to extract useful information - a need that has not kept pace with the overwhelming number of experiments conducted using microarray technology.

For older education researchers, all calls to conduct formal experiments probably have a «déjà vu» quality, reminding them of a battle they thought they had won long ago — the battle against a «positivist» view of science that privileges the randomized experiment and its related research and development model whose origins lie in agriculture, health, public health, marketing, or even studies of the military.

Performance tasks may require students to present supporting evidence in an argument, conduct a controlled experiment, solve a complex problem, or build a model.

Performance tasks may require students to make an argument with supporting evidence, conduct a controlled experiment, solve a complex problem, or build a model.

«Numerous experiments have been conducted using climate models to determine the likely causes of the 20th - century climate change.

If you take the view that a model is an «in silico» experiment, you want to conduct many such experiments and look for convergence or divergence.

With good mathematical models that accurately represent the radiative interactions of atmospheric interest, we can conduct virtual experiments to determine the radiative contribution of each individual gas within the context of current atmospheric structure.

The researchers, from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre of Southampton, sought to investigate the long - term fate of carbon that reaches the deep ocean, employing an ocean general circulation model to conduct particle - tracking experiments.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.

The model was limited by the scope of forest practices conducted in the Beaver Creek watershed experiments [20], [30]--[32].

Finally, the authors conduct sensitivity experiments using a comprehensive coupled climate model wherein they impose a sea ice reduction comparable to the observed since the 1980s.

The climate fingerprints in response to different forcing factors are typically estimated with computer models, which can be used to perform the controlled experiments that we can not conduct in the real world.

As for whether or not using models to conduct such a study constitutes an experiment?