Sentences with phrase «new objects of study»

Topics to be discussed include: the impact of new technologies on learning and teaching the humanities; how new objects of study create new teachers and students; engagement with texts across disciplines and contexts; and the potentials and challenges of «peripheral» academic positions.

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And as a new study published in Health Physics recently explored, everyday foods and objects (yes, even the beloved avocado) emit a very small dose of radiation every hour.

New Testament studies has had as its object the historical reconstruction of early Christianity.

The effect of the new method of philosophy instituted by Descartes and Locke was to make human mental operations and their contents the sole object of study, with the rest of nature the «unknown something» behind the veil of appearances.

The general point that has been made is that in the new conditions of the modern world the comparative study of religion has moved into a new phase — first, in that the object of inquiry has on a quite new scale been seen to be communities of persons.

We know that sleep is important for babies to grow healthy and strong, but a fascinating new study has found that sleep also has a powerful impact on infants» ability to remember the names of objects, form categories and sort new similar objects into learned groups.

«This is a very exciting step towards understanding this object,» says Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

But according to Takeshi Oka of the University of Chicago, «if the findings are confirmed, Brittain and Rettig have discovered a new astronomical object, opening up a new avenue for the study of the formation of giant planets.»

Rico had a «vocabulary» of 200 words and could identify new objects in a group of familiar objects by a process of elimination, according to a study published in 2004.

Clostridium difficile, a deadly bacterium spread by physical contact with objects or infected people, thrives in hospitals, causing 453,000 cases a year and 29,000 deaths in the United States, according to a 2015 study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The letter's authors — seven from Stanford University in California and one from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York — object and suggest that Benderly's article misrepresents the findings of the study.

The lake is the object of a years - long project to study its waters, which may house life forms new to science.

Holographic, phase contrast or differential interference contrast (DIC) miscroscopes have been implemented especially for making «visible,» otherwise «invisible,» transparent objects, opening a new pathway towards the study and characterization of relevant structures such as biological cells or protein layers.

The 4D printing approach here involves printing a 3D object with a hydrogel (water - containing gel) that changes shape over time when temperatures change, said Howon Lee, senior author of a new study and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University - New Brunswinew study and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University - New BrunswiNew Brunswick.

A new study has determined that mice that spent time running on wheels not only developed twice the normal number of new neurons, but also showed an increased ability to distinguish new objects from familiar objects.

A new study published in Annals of Botany shows that plants react to anesthetics similarly to the way animals and humans do, suggesting plants are ideal objects for testing anesthetics actions in future.

(1) However, while previous research on humans and other animals has shown that certain types of learning, like conditioning, can occur during sleep, (2) this study reveals that we can also memorize new representations and objects (here auditory «objects») while dozing.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Now, however, two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid have applied a new technique, less exposed to observational bias, to study a special type of trans - Neptunian objects: the extreme ones (ETNOs, located at average distances greater than 150 AU and that never cross Neptune's orbit).

Still mysterious, however, is how grid and place cells obtain the information that every GPS system requires: the angle and speed of an object's movement relative to a known starting point, says Edvard Moser, co-author of the new study along with May - Britt Moser, his spouse and collaborator.

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues.

Although the majority of those that use echolocation — emitting sound waves that bounce off objects — to hunt are usually lumped into one group, a new study suggests that some belong in a separate category.

Newer studies gauging the odds find that for «Oumuamua's detection to not be an astronomically unlikely fluke, there must be a sizeable population of such objects continuously passing through our solar system.

New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.

An unusual object about 90 million light - years from Earth might be a supermassive black hole kicked out of its home galaxy during a collision with another galaxy, a new study suggests.

The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.

Models of planetesimal dispersion predict that roughly 10 times as many objects wound up in the Oort Cloud as in the scattered disk, according to the new study.

A new series of studies by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London and at University of London College found that people who have social power are strongly influenced by internal body cues stemming from their motor system when making judgements about preferences of paintings, objects, movements or letter sequences.

Dogs create a mental representation of objects that they perceive through smell, a new study shows - and are surprised if what they find at the end of the trail differs from what they expected to find..»

The objects shown here are much closer to Earth than those used in the new study, but demonstrate the varied forms of these spectacular objects.

The scientists who conducted the new study strongly object to Lafeuillade's interpretation of their results.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

Now, two new studies of Kuiper belt objects presented October 5 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Pasadena, Calif., may reveal a crucial hole a prevailing model of the solar system's early history.

In a new study, University of Illinois professor of psychology Renée Baillargeon, right, and graduate student Peipei Setoh showed that infants expect objects they identify as animals to have insides.

«Usually when you think of two objects colliding, one of them leaves a big hole,» says Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who co-authored the new study with Martin Jutzi of the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Compare e.g. the article Galaxy's light pushes back dark ages of the universe with New record for Universe's most distant object; both talk about the same object and the same study, but nevertheless the first reports a distance of 15.5 billion light years, whereas the second says 13.6 billion light years!

The team analyzed the points» surface contours as they had done in the earlier study and also introduced a new method of analyzing digital models to assess the objects» three - dimensional asymmetry.

«One caveat with this new study is that it's only one object,» says team member David Harvey of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

For the first time ever, it was possible to study celestial objects thousands of time paler than anything recorded on even the most sensitive photographic plates, putting a whole new face on the Universe.

Other discoveries in the Milky Way detailed in the special edition include the sharpest image yet of a gamma ray source — a nearby supernova remnant — which will enable researchers to study this object at finer scale than before — and three new «gamma ray shells» that are possibly examples of a new type of supernova remnant.

«These course adjustments preserve the option of studying an even more distant object in the future, as New Horizons continues its remarkable journey.»

We tested memory both immediately after encoding and after a week delay; associative memory accuracy was determined by asking participants to indicate if object pairs were intact (a pair of objects studied together), rearranged (a pair of objects studied in different combinations), or new (at least one object was new).

A new study has found that one of the nearest brown dwarfs to our Solar System, designated SIMP J013656.5 +093347 (SIMP0136 for short), might actually be a planetary - mass object.

The new study marks an important development in our ability to assess the habitability of distant celestial objects, while setting the stage for future missions.

As a result of this study, HD 284149 ABb therefore becomes the latest addition to the (short) list of brown dwarfs on wide circumbinary orbits, providing new evidence to support recent claims that object in such configuration occur with a similar frequency to wide companions to single stars.

That led to a 2016 study formally introducing the object, which is nicknamed for Tabetha Boyajian, now at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, who was the lead author of the original paper and is a co-author of the new study.

These new studies of galaxy HATLAS J142935.3 - 002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the comparatively nearby pair of colliding galaxies collectively known as the Antennae.

She developed new ways to study groups of numbers or objects.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).