Sentences with phrase «number of scientists studying»

They include those items ignored, glossed over, or deliberately misrepresented; projections are consistently wrong; the science has not advanced, a 2007 paper in Science by Roe and Baker concludes; «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem»; and claims of impending disasters that simply do not make scientific sense.

These symptoms have been observed and documented by a limited number of scientists studying small groups of people, and the scientific community hasn't concluded whether wind - turbine syndrome exists.

By Dr. Tim Ball It is not surprising that Roe and Baker explained in a 2007 Science paper that, «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem.»

TURIN, ITALY — The 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic kept scores of virologists busy, but it also attracted interest from the growing number of scientists studying how people move and interact with one another.

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That's in part due to the dwindling number of companies providing defined benefits; lack of pensions have caused many to hang in longer, said Amanda Sonnega, an associate research scientist with the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study.

Are you aware that in every study and poll for the past 90 years — the first one done in 1916, the most recent in 2006 — the number of scientists who believe in God (i.e., specifically a God that one can «interact» with) has not budged?

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In recent studies, scientists reported that the number of baths commonly given to babies is too high and can lead to skin conditions like eczema.

Along with colleague John Polga - Hecimovich, the Dartmouth College political scientist studied about 90 elections and 900 candidates in Latin America, where a growing number of political parties have started to elect leaders through open primaries.

This dearth of evidence has a number of explanations: serious lingering reactions, if they exist, occur after prolonged use, rarely after a single dose; marijuana has no known medical use, unlike LSD, so scientists have had little reason to study the drug......

The study reinforced the idea that the processes of sleep and eating need to be studied together, explained the scientists, especially as a growing number of researchers investigate the relationship between sleep and metabolic disorders.

But the number of regulatory labs has decreased, leaving more chemical inputs in the environment and far fewer scientists to study them.

In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.

One new twist came in comments regarding the growing numbers of foreign scientists and engineers studying and working in the U.S., which some speakers felt complicates efforts to address domestic workforce diversity.

«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the number of known Zika infections,» says study lead author Matthew Aliota, a research scientist in the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).

A number of studies have convincingly demonstrated that oxytocin is what scientists call a down regulator of the body's stress - axis system, which creates the bleak, gut - tightening feeling you experience when you get the news that the promotion didn't come through.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

Since then, a spate of similar studies have come out, with scientists writing code to infer keystrokes on number and letter keyboards on different kinds of phones.

Scientists studying Forster's terns in San Francisco Bay may have found an answer: They discovered that a colony's sound, which is much easier to gather, is enough to compare the number of nests between colonies and across years.

Scientists say the study is significant because of the large number of strains analyzed, including two species of yaws found in isolated inhabitants of Guyana in South America.

In 1969, when the AAAS Board first suggested creating a special committee to draw up a statement concerning the freedom and responsibilities of scientists, association leaders, along with a number of other scientific societies, were looking into allegations that the Public Health Service was rejecting the appointment of scientists to study sections based upon the candidates» political views and affiliations.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

But Korea has yet to see the influx of trained scientists that China is enjoying, and increasing numbers of students are opting to study abroad, particularly in the US, and may not return to Korea.

The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for «comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America» and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

Studying laboratory rats, Rutgers scientists found, however, that within a month after experimental brain injury, the number of new brain cells declined dramatically, below the numbers of new neurons that would have been detected if an injury had not occurred.

For this study, waterbird data were drawn from the Bureau of Land Management and the East Cascades Audubon Society surveys, which used the time and efforts of dozens of community scientists to document changing bird numbers at Lake Abert.

«Results also identified mechanisms regulating the numbers and phenotype of macrophages in the tiny air sacs of the lungs (called alveoli) in health and disease,» said Takuji Suzuki, MD, PhD, the study's first author and a scientist in the Division of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

Tjønna says while the results look promising, the number of study participants was small, which limits the scientists» ability to extrapolate their findings.

Though dredging work will resume on Saturday, scientists say environmental studies underestimated the number and kinds of corals living near the channel.

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

As we've reported what seems like countless times, numerous reports and studies on postdocs» plight have called for raising their pay to the neighborhood of $ 50,000 and reducing their numbers (while creating more staff scientist positions).

He notes a number of collaborative bird studies by Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian scientists and a recent project to use barn owls to catch rodents on Israeli and Palestinian farm.

And although the study's first author stands by the conclusions, a number of scientists are criticizing the paper and even calling on the authors to retract it.

«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.

To determine the length of time it likely took for the study patients» cancers to form, the scientists used multiple statistical models that took into account the patient's age when they were diagnosed and the total number of mutations in each patient's cancer.

After counting up tree species from 1170 research sites studied by hundreds of scientists, a team extrapolated the number likely to exist across the entire region.

Bismuth is a historically interesting element for scientists, as a number of important discoveries in the metal physics world were made while studying it, including important observations about the effect of magnetic fields on electrical conductivity.

The report itself did not recommend imposing any ceiling on graduate training, however, and report co-chair Sally Rockey, NIH deputy director for extramural research, said yesterday that «we did not say we should reduce the numbers» of scientists being trained because that would require a modeling study.

For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.

They have been arriving in growing numbers to feed on belugas, seals and narwhals, according to a recent study by scientists from the University of Manitoba.

The three other populations that the researchers studied are also losing genetic variation — and they didn't have much to begin with, because each was founded by a small number of Kapiti birds, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In a new study of data collected in the months after the spill, scientists report that the numbers of methane - munching microbes plummeted while the gas was still abundant.

In a presentation of early clinical trial data to the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro - Oncology, physician scientists from the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center reported that a large number of study participants responded well to the drug combination.