Sentences with phrase «more applied scientists»

Although CERN has tackled its legendary budgetary problems in part by cutting back on the number of its own employees, the LHC project, which started in 1991, is employing 31 % more applied scientists and engineers now than it was then.

In order to maximize the productivity of scientists, there has to be some who do work in more theoretical fields with no obvious applications, and who are there to discuss with more applied scientists, teach them, validate or refute their ideas, etc..

Not exact matches

The pipeline's owners, Plains Midstream Canada, said that loose soil and a bad weld were to blame for the spill, but now that the company has applied to reopen the pipe, scientists are looking for more information.

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

Scientists were quick to point out that more research is needed in this area before they're able to apply their findings to new developments or treatments.

Furthermore, industry would be reorganised to apply the intellectual fruits of these scientists more effectively.

This Communication Toolkit provides guidance for scientists to build skills to more effectively communicate and engage with public audiences, including ways to apply the fundamentals of communication to scientific topics.

«After years of puzzling over how its grant - review process might be shortchanging younger scientists, the National Institutes of Health appears to have figured out a more fundamental truth: There just aren't enough of them applying,» reporter Paul Basken writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Scientists have found that they can apply their skills in a whole range of jobs, and you can find out more about what those are, and how people have moved into them, by browsing Next Wave's Career Transitions section.

With modern - day diseases becoming increasingly resistant to existing drugs, biological scientists and chemists at Leeds are now re-examining these old compounds, applying advances in science and technology to test more precisely whether they could still hold the key to a future drug.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

While most money will go to applied research projects, FP7 allocates more than $ 7 billion to another agency for which scientists have fought hard: the European Research Council (ERC), an agency akin to the US National Science Foundation.

It takes more than just a Ph.D. «Good games people are creative problem solvers, thinkers, and visionaries who can communicate well, understand difficult concepts, and apply them to real and fantasy scenarios,» says Steve Collins, a computer scientist and founder of Telekinesys.

That emphasis on «commercial research» has some scientists concerned that funding for basic science will suffer as Ireland's research portfolio becomes even more focused and applied.

More than 150 scientists applied for the boot camp.

By encouraging universities, predoctoral students, postdocs, and early career scientists to apply for NRSAs, the committee hopes to foster a workforce that is more capable of bridging multiple disciplines.

It means that women somehow have less of a tendency to apply, even if they are at an adequate level of qualification — and this is the case for both younger and more established scientists.

Such activities offer academic scientists great opportunities to apply their expertise to real - world challenges, impacting human health more directly, learning how business works, and even improving their financial situations.

The scientists discovered that walking in high heels applied on average 23 % more force on knee joints than walking barefoot.

«The more I learn, the more I do research in this field, the more exciting it gets, especially in the applied aspects,» said lead author Zareen Khan, a UW research scientist in environmental and forest sciences.

But scientists have struggled for more than a decade to apply the principles of this theory to a special kind of superconductor.

Understand these half - dozen traits, integrate them into your work life, apply passion liberally, and the result will be that someday you will see significantly more career opportunities as others begin to consider you as a highly recruitable scientist in your own right.

«There is no doubt that Slovenia has... been behind on investment and in search of more modern and efficient solutions both in science and in technology,» says Jadran Lenarčič, who heads the Jožef Stefan Institute, a center for basic and applied science in Ljubljana that employs some 850 scientists.

So scientists have been applying ever more powerful and sensitive instruments to get to the bottom of the mystery.

More importantly, the scientists call for conservation measures to be applied to the new serpent's habitat.

Now, scientists have a statistical technique that can be applied to many planets at once when they are found in systems that harbor more than one planet around the same star.

To get extra income in China, many scientists are busy attending various meetings, establishing or maintaining close relations (guanxi) with government officials, indiscriminately applying for grants from different government agencies, and anxiously producing more and more papers....

«And I take some of the responsibility because I didn't realize the downside [of addressing applied problems], which was that it has diverted many scientists from pursuing more important, basic challenges.

And more broadly speaking, the Copernican principle, as scientists have applied [it] ever since, is that when we are trying to understand how the universe works, it is good to assume that there is nothing special about the Earth and where it sits; that we're not in a particularly privileged space and that's why things work the way that they do.

This can allow scientists to conduct research in standard, easy - to - use cell lines that can then be applied to more challenging cell types.

Scientists have applied the full battery of modern instrumentation to studying Earth in ways that have not yet been possible for the other planets; thus, much more is known about its structure and composition.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Applying their model to known short - period binary star systems, the scientists found that this stellar - tidal evolution of binary stars removes at least one planet in 87 % of multi-planet systems, and often more.

Following a pilot phase carried out during FP7, institutions in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia will be able to apply for support (up to $ 2.5 million for up to 5 years) to establish European Research Area Chairs and appoint professors - level scientists, employ people to join their team, and improve research conditions more broadly within their institutions.

The new information may give scientists more confidence in applying the «Born potential» to some of the complicated challenges in predicting ion transport near and through chemical and biological systems.

Young scientists studying or performing research in a country where the meetings have one or more official academic partners and who can not get nominated because of their nationality (so - called ex-pats) may apply via «Open Application».

But with modern - day diseases becoming increasingly resistant to those drugs, biological scientists and chemists at Leeds are now re-examining old compounds, applying advances in science and technology to test more precisely whether they could still hold the key to a future medicine.

Approach could also be applied to reversing aging and age - related diseases such as hearing loss and macular degeneration Salk scientists have created a new version of the CRISPR / Cas9 genome... Read more

was based upon my impressions of a declining quality of modern science, large wastage of time by researchers struggling to get more and more research grants, conversion of university research into a business entity where money is everything, de-emphasis on basic research and corresponding increased emphasis on applied research, and, increasing corruption by professional scientists.

For example, as Clayton Christensen, Jason Hwang, and Jerome Grossman wrote in The Innovator's Prescription, as the understanding of quantum mechanics and molecular physics has become better understood and applied, the codification of how to create new synthetic materials in computer modeling software has allowed many more people without the expertise of the top scientists and engineers in the world to participate in this industry.

As one of 20 leading social scientists appointed as a visiting scholar for the 2008 - 2009 academic year, Yoshikawa will have an opportunity to pursue research and writing projects that reflect the foundation's commitment to strengthening the social sciences and applying research more effectively to important social problems.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

Scientists found that dogs with malignant lymphoma were 70 percent more likely to live in a home where professionally applied lawn pesticides had been used.

It seems to me that Cooks focus has been on «educating / supporting» providing tools for active climate scientists to understand and apply, and more broadly academic students and those engaged in the topic, including media journos PR folks etc., and for people like you and other regular users of websites like RC here.

Scientists of various disciplines and even applied statisticians may be more inclined to use plug & play canned statistical tools.

I try and apply this to both sides; climate scientists are usually fine, but the more committed environmentalists frequently appear to hear only what they want to.

But I'm sure more than a few of the scientists, engineers and tinkerers who applied would be willing to post at least their basic concepts here, with links to supporting background.

«It's more robust when applied to larger regions», Ingolf Kühn coordinator of the EU - project MACIS and senior scientist at the department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle, Germany, tells youris.com.

Archaeologists and other scientists, who are more interested in the radiocarbon dating tool per se, quantify the MRE in their study region and apply the correction in the calibration of marine radiocarbon ages from that particular place.