Sentences with phrase «natural processes she studies»

Prather says her current research may help identify better ways of seeding clouds based on the natural processes she studies.

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4Ford locates these debates in Process Studies, 1: 95 - 98; John B. Cobb, Jr., A Christian Natural Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965), pp. 89f; and D. Brown, R. F. James, Jr., and G. Reeves, eds., Process Philosophy and Christian Thought (Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1971), pp. 314 - 19.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

The study did not ask what brands of products were used on the infants and, interestingly, did not differentiate between such natural products as cornstarch and processed products such as talc.

I have studied birth stories and seen images and videos that depict the calm and natural process that I am searching for.

The Department of Environmental Conservation and the state Department of Health are finalizing a health - impact study of fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction process, and announced last week that three experts have been contracted to sort through the guidelines.

Documents obtained by a group opposed to hydrofracking in New York show that the Cuomo Administration is conducting a thorough and comprehensive health study on the controversial natural gas drilling process.

Documents obtained by a group opposed to hydrofracking show the Cuomo administration is conducting a thorough health study on the controversial natural gas drilling process.

It's not the fabled Atlantis, but it is tantalizing: Researchers studying the Mediterranean's Sicilian Channel, an area now underwater but partially exposed as recently as 9,000 years ago, found a 40 - foot - long monolith, broken in two, with uniform, regularly spaced holes that could not be explained through any natural process.

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Still, many argue the controversial results are a natural process within scientific study.

The new study «adds fuel to an active debate» about the role of accessory genes, says Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England — whether or not the collections of genetic add - ons that bacteria maintain are shaped by natural selection, the process that fuels evolution.

Furthermore Filipe Oliveira da Silva, the first author of the study, suggests that snake evolution and diversification was not a straightforward process but rather an interplay between natural selection and developmental processes.

The study, conducted using fruit fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes.

«There are some very extreme natural environments on our planet,» said Argonne's Paul Fenter, Interfacial Processes Group Leader and co-author of the study appearing today in the journal Science.

«Our study shows exactly how huge an effect European colonization and agriculture had on the landscape of North America,» says Dylan Rood, «humans scraped off the soil more than 100 times faster than other natural processes!»

In a study, reported in the January 21, 2016 issue of Nano Letters, the team demonstrated a new redox - responsive assembly method to synthesize hierarchically structured carbon - sheathed germanium nanowires (c - GeNWs) on a large scale by the use of self - catalytic growth process assisted by thermally decomposed natural gas.

In this study, Horney and colleagues focused on PAHs, which are a product of combustion from human activities such as petroleum consumption in transportation or natural processes such as wildfires.

Roth, whose research is focused on understanding the processes by which natural selection influences the use of space in animals, is taking the lead on studying the chickadees» neuroanatomy.

Fiez, who studies the neuroscience of reading, says those features may tap into how our eyes and brains process images: Neurons fire faster at the site of objects that display vertical symmetry — like human faces — and horizontal and vertical lines, which are common in natural landscapes.

Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the key to ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.

Jon Tilly, the director of the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has been studying genetically altered mice to better understand the process of apoptosis, or natural cell death.

Scientists have produced hydrogen by accelerating a natural process found in rocks deep below the Earth's surface, a short - cut that may herald the wider use of what is a clean fuel, a study showed on Sunday.

The study has excluded the possibility that the pattern could have been caused by animals or by natural weathering processes and shows that the «zigzag» pattern is the work of Homo erectus.

The systems have been used to study floods, landslides, snowpacks and just about anything else under the sun that can enhance understanding of the natural processes happening around us.

The most common and most studied method is introducing monoethanolamine, or MEA, into natural gas or post-combustion emissions, a process that can capture about 90 percent of CO2 from flue gas.

Thanks to the study of past mistakes, and of the results of natural and human - induced processes, we can better anticipate and understand the consequences of our actions, and exert more control.

«While previous molecular studies have provided simple snapshots of the gene transcript variations that are associated with the exposure of insects to natural and synthetic chemicals, the genomics approaches used in this study offer a significantly more complex perspective on the biochemical and physiological processes occurring in plant - insect interactions,» Schuler said.

Therefore, the walls of this cell could be studied without having to inhibit it from its natural processes.

The researchers hope this study will introduce the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes.

Co-author on the study Professor Jimmy Bell from the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre said: «It's exciting that we have started to really understand what lies behind fiber's natural ability to supress our appetite and identified acetate as essential to the process.

One of these T cell subsets is comprised of the CD1d - reactive invariant natural killer T cells, and over the years we have studied the development, homeostasis, activation and regulation of function of these cells, as well as their specificity and the pathways leading to the processing and presentation of antigens by CD1d.

Keeping the entire process of gene expression running smoothly is key to maintaining youthful health, and the researchers wanted to study the broad effects that might ripple out from the natural, age - related disturbances to the splicing process.

The Black Sea, bordered by Ukraine to its north and Turkey to its south, is the largest anoxic sea on Earth, making it an ideal natural laboratory for marine geochemists to study the processes of carbon transformations in the absence of oxygen.

Environmental Chemistry (ENV): The study of chemical species in the natural environment, including the effects of human activities, such as the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.

Included in the study is the timing of natural biological processes.

«Because of the short generation times of planktonic organisms and the rapid succession of different populations, it becomes possible to study adaptation processes in the natural environment.»

New palaeogenetic study based in Mainz and London sees development of lactase persistence as the result of a natural selection process

The validation process for new findings based on studies and analyses as described above is in no way limited to natural and engineering sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, medicine and health, machine engineering or aero and space engineering.

It also suggests that a diet rich in fruits can slow down the lung's natural aging process even if you have never smoked,» says Vanessa Garcia - Larsen, the study's lead author.

WCRP - JSC / CAS WGNE promotes co-ordinated numerical experimentation for validating model results, observed atmospheric properties, exploring the natural and forced variability and predictability of the atmosphere, (e.g. the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project, AMIP), as well as studies aimed at refining numerical techniques, and the formulation of atmospheric physics processes.

A study published in the journal Jama Neurology states that misalignment of the natural body clock or circadian system of healthy adults may contribute to dysfunctional brain processes that pinpoint to dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease.

Studies in my lab combine behavior, neurophysiology and acoustics to investigate the mechanisms of auditory, visual and somatosensory information processing, natural scene perception, spatial memory and navigation, acoustic communication, sensorimotor integration and flight control.

Many of the other reefs in the study are dissolving in fall and winter when ocean waters tend to be more acidic due to natural processes like seagrass dying off.

They're too slow to study natural three - dimensional (3D) cellular processes in real time and in detail (the sharpest views have been limited to isolated cells immobilized on glass slides).

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Scientists report in a new study that by imitating a natural process of cells, they prevented the formation of protein clumps associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

In an accompanying editorial, Francesco Celi, MD, of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md., notes that «taken together, these studies point to a potential «natural» intervention to stimulate energy expenditure: Turn down the heat and burn calories (and reduce the carbon footprint in the process).»

The mainstream media, by combining highly refined foods, such as sugars and processed flours, and natural carbs, such as vegetables, starches, and fruits together, is creating false alarms when they cover some new study.

A 2005 study in Antioxidants & Redox Signaling showed that curcumin was both an oxygen radical scavenger and a potent antioxidant, boosting the natural antioxidant processes of the body.