Sentences with phrase «nature studies form»

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Studies of expanding non-market sectors, productive techniques that respect the well - being of those who use them, and the organization and nature of work will help create more human forms of organization.

As Kenneth Cragg, an Anglican scholar who has spent a lifetime in the study of Islam, says, «The heart of the Christian revelation is the «event» of Jesus as the Christ, acknowledged as the disclosure in human form of the very nature of God.

A rigorous concept of form is developing around the study of emergent properties in nature and man - made systems.

At most, such study so interpreted shows us that one corner of nature is in some respects absolutely peculiar, revealing the introduction of unprecedented forms of reality not to be explained by anything found in the rest of nature.

Moving in tightly, using natural light to achieve a kind of luminescent quality, he now works with what might be called commonplace objects of nature, creating abstract studies of the form and fabric of lichens, ice crystals, seeds, wind - blasted wood, insect - eaten leaves.

However, a study recently published in Nature Communications by chemical engineers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering explains how metal nanoparticles form.

The study, published in the June 4 issue of the journal Nature, describes a system dominated by Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, which together form a «binary planet.»

The study, published in Nature Communications, found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.

This discovery forms part of a study that appears in this month's Nature Genetics journal, published by the UGA - led IPGI.

That observation led to the current study in Nature, which used a form of the heavy metal tungsten to inhibit the pathogen's metabolic tricks.

The study, published in Nature, highlights the real complexity of the genetic interactions that lead to adult organisms» phenotypes (physical forms), helps to explain how natural selection influences body form and leads towards much more realistic virtual experiments on evolution.

However, the animal kingdom is host to an incredible diversity of sperm forms, explains Scott Pitnick, the lead author of a new study in Nature and Weeden Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

This research could impact not only the study of biological development, and how similar patterns form in nature, but materials science as well.

In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Osaka University have added an unexpected piece to the developmental puzzle, showing that immune cells may play a key role in helping myelin to form around newly minted neurons.

The fat, eyeless cavefish harbor the same genetic mutation as people with an inherited form of severe diabetes and experience diabetes - like blood - sugar surges and crashes after eating, yet they are perfectly healthy, according to a study in Nature led by geneticists at Harvard Medical School.

The researchers stress that in its current form, the study uses a simplified version of biological data and has a «proof - of - principle nature.»

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

In a new study published in Nature Catalysis, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory reports a breakthrough in understanding the chemistry of the microscopically thin layer that forms at the interface between the liquid electrolyte and solid electrode.

In this study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the EMBL / CRG Systems Biology Research Unit at the CRG, went beyond individual networks and explored both computational and synthetic mechanisms for a complete set of 3 - node stripe - forming networks in Escherichia coli.

The work, published in Nature Communications today with a concurrent study on H. naledi's hands, provides insight into the skeletal form and function that may have characterized early members of our genus.

«Recognizing MMP - 20's function in biomineralization is one of the first steps to learning how dental enamel forms in nature,» said Qichao Ruan, lead author of the hydrogel study and a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology at USC.

In a study published in Nature, geneticist Andrés Bendesky of Harvard University and his colleagues worked with two kinds of mice that are genetically similar but differ in their pairing behavior: a subspecies of oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus) form monogamous pairs, whereas deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) mate with multiple partners.

Compare this, he says, with the teachings of the ancient Greeks, who believed that knowledge of the natural world could and should form the basis of human values and morality: that the study of nature reveals how we should live.

This, of course, relies on the nature of the computation that we've postulated, and, hence, the results of the study provide confirmation of a form that I find rather exciting.»

The study, which is published in the journal Nature Communications, was conducted on human tumour cells and on mice, and offers hope of a much improved therapy for a severe form of cancer.

Studying the brain can involve tackling some fundamental questions such as the nature of consciousness or how we form and retain memories.

In a study reported in Nature Neuroscience, they succeeded in shutting down a neuronal mechanism by which memories of fear are formed in the mouse brain.

Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago, according to a recent study in the journal Nature, but they think the recipe follows something like this:

The study, which was based on over seven billion DNA sequences and which is published in Nature Communications, found no genetic traces of viruses in these forms of cancer.

Another separate study, detailed in the May 21 issue of the journal Nature, looked at the question of how liquid water might have formed on early Mars.

«This is the first time that so many planets of this kind are formed around the same star,» Michaël Gillon, an astronomer at the Université de Liège and a co-author on the study published today in Nature, said in a press briefing.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

deCODE's landmark study in the genetics of stroke, identifying the first gene ever linked to common forms of the disease, has been published in the online edition of Nature Genetics.

According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of scientists has, for the first time ever, not only directly observed a planet being formed, but also captured a photograph of the process taking place around a star 450 light - years from Earth.

We know intuitively that the nature and form of natural selection changes with ecological context, but how it changes is rarely studied explicitly.

To remediate or regulate them, scientists must know how the particles form and behave, yet previous studies didn't account for nature's messier side, including ubiquitous coatings and differing particle sizes.

In fact, a subsequent study conducted by Liu et al. (2015) and published in Nature Communications, contrasts the CARES measurements with those obtained from the 2012 Clean Air for London (ClearfLo) campaign to show that aerosol coatings influence black carbon absorption and the form and structural details of the mixing state may be specific to the source and region where the mixing occurs.

«The types of clay minerals that formed in the shallow subsurface are all over Mars,» said John Mustard, professor at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Mustard is a co-author of the study in the journal Nature.

To study how this process affects immune response, Rajarathnam and his colleagues created two forms of IL - 8 not found in nature: one made of monomers unable to join into dimers, and the other of dimers unable to split into monomers.

The moon may have formed when a primordial planet with a chemical composition strikingly similar to that of Earth collided with our planet, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature.

Cyanobacteria are one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth, and coupled with the universal nature of the circadian clock, this study indicates that its fundamental function is to help schedule different metabolic activities.

Now, another study delivered by the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz delivers a study asserting that Carnitine, a compound found in red meats, appears to be cardioprotective in a systematic review — a finding that comes barely a week after a Nature Medicine study sounded an alarm about the heart risks of carnitine in the form of derivative TMAOs.

The American Society for Horticultural Science reviewed dozens of scientific studies and found that bringing a bit of Mother Nature indoors in the form of houseplants helps us feel more positive, combats tension and stress, and may even improve our physical health.

After studying this chapter, you will be able to: Explain the basic nature of a joint stock company as a form of business organisation and the various kinds of companies based on liability of their members Describe the types of shares issued by a company Explain the accounting treatment of shares issued at par, at premium and at discount including oversubsription Outline the accounting for forfeiture of shares and reissue of forfeited shares under varying situations Workout the amounts to be transferred to capital reserve when forfeited shares are reissued; and prepare share forfeited account State the meaning of debenture and explain the difference between debentures and shares Describe various types of debentures; Record the journal entries for the issue of debentures at par, at a discount and at premium Explain the concept of debentures issued for consideration other than cash and the accounting thereof Explain the concept of issue of debentures as a collateral security and the accounting thereof Show the items relating to issue of debentures in company's balance sheet Describe the methods of writing - off discount / loss on issue of debentures Explain the methods of redemption of debentures and the accounting thereof Explain the concept of sinking fund, its use for redemption of debentures and the accounting thereof Topic List Features of a Company Kinds of Companies Share Capital of a Company Nature and Classes of Shares Issue of Shares Accounting Treatment Forfeiture of Shares Meaning of Debentures Types of Debentures Issue of Debentures Over Subscription Terms of Issue of Debentures Interest on Debentures Writing - off Discount / Loss on Issue of Debentures Redemption of Debentures Redemption by Payment in Lump Sum Sinking Fund nature of a joint stock company as a form of business organisation and the various kinds of companies based on liability of their members Describe the types of shares issued by a company Explain the accounting treatment of shares issued at par, at premium and at discount including oversubsription Outline the accounting for forfeiture of shares and reissue of forfeited shares under varying situations Workout the amounts to be transferred to capital reserve when forfeited shares are reissued; and prepare share forfeited account State the meaning of debenture and explain the difference between debentures and shares Describe various types of debentures; Record the journal entries for the issue of debentures at par, at a discount and at premium Explain the concept of debentures issued for consideration other than cash and the accounting thereof Explain the concept of issue of debentures as a collateral security and the accounting thereof Show the items relating to issue of debentures in company's balance sheet Describe the methods of writing - off discount / loss on issue of debentures Explain the methods of redemption of debentures and the accounting thereof Explain the concept of sinking fund, its use for redemption of debentures and the accounting thereof Topic List Features of a Company Kinds of Companies Share Capital of a Company Nature and Classes of Shares Issue of Shares Accounting Treatment Forfeiture of Shares Meaning of Debentures Types of Debentures Issue of Debentures Over Subscription Terms of Issue of Debentures Interest on Debentures Writing - off Discount / Loss on Issue of Debentures Redemption of Debentures Redemption by Payment in Lump Sum Sinking Fund Nature and Classes of Shares Issue of Shares Accounting Treatment Forfeiture of Shares Meaning of Debentures Types of Debentures Issue of Debentures Over Subscription Terms of Issue of Debentures Interest on Debentures Writing - off Discount / Loss on Issue of Debentures Redemption of Debentures Redemption by Payment in Lump Sum Sinking Fund Method

Cobb et al. (2003) referred to the highly interventionist nature of the methodology as a feature of design research and stated, «The intent is to investigate the possibilities for educational improvement by bringing about new forms of learning in order to study them» (p. 10).

I have studied various forms of writing from poetry, manuscript writing, nature writing, creative writing, and magazine writing.

Currently, Cocker Spaniels have been trained to assist scientists and researchers in the study of cancer by sniffing out cancer proteins from different samples.Due to their small and compact size and friendly nature Cocker Spaniels are also trained to be service and therapy dogs.All forms of training for your Cocker Spaniel puppy should start at an early age.

Elucidating the aesthetic decisions that go into these works, the exhibition allows viewers to not only study the intricate forms Shotz has created, but to wonder how she produced them, and to imagine the degree of chance or nature in each.

Born in Moscow in 1983, he studied architecture for 6 years and thus his forms are very structural in nature.