Sentences with phrase «number of the leading scientists»

We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

A number of leading scientists, for instance, Paul Crutzen, who had won a Nobel Prize for his work on atmospheric ozone chemistry, told Jim that he had put together just the sort of comprehensive and convincing presentation that was needed.

[1], [2] Rucker's strong belief in the «power of the market combined with the applications of safe technologies,» to «offer humanity practical solutions to many of the world's pressing concerns,» resulted in «a number of leading scientists, academics, and policy leaders» joining Rucker in his CFACT efforts, according to CFACT's «About» page.

Within the last two years, a number of leading scientists — including Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), British ecologist James Lovelock, and NASA scientist James Hansen — have all declared that humanity is about to pass or already has passed a «tipping point» in terms of global warming.

No critique, no expressed rationale, no intellectual basis, no legal requirement, no principled accounting for the abrupt and cavalier dismissal of the work of a large number of leading scientists.

Not exact matches

As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

A number of world - leading science and technology professionals, young scientists and engineers, and innovation teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi said.

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.

The United States leads China in private investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and in the number and experience of its scientists.

«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).

Author, newspaper columnist, and television personality El - Naggar is also a geologist whom many Egyptians, including a number of his fellow scientists, regard as a leading figure in their community.

It became common to staff projects with postdocs and technicians, leading to an explosion in the number of young scientists employed on short - term contracts.

«Manufactured diamonds have a number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science leading the research group.

His concerns about the 1991 paper are shared by a number of leading climate scientists.

Scientists found that culling older, larger prey fish can lead to more small fish for predators to dine on, even though the overall number of prey decline

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

Kingsbury pointed out that an increase in the number of researchers handling select agents would «inevitably» lead to an amplification of the insider threat: the risk of an attack masterminded by a scientist working at a biocontainment facility.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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.

By identifying the tag number of each condor and describing its behavior, citizen scientists will help researchers understand condor social networks and other factors that may be related to lead poisoning.

«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.

A large enough number of such roofs could «completely offset warming due to urban expansion and even offset a percentage of future greenhouse warming over large regional scales,» says sustainability scientist Matei Georgescu at Arizona State University, who lead the research.

The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative.

But new research led by University of Pennsylvania scientists suggests that mutations in an X chromosome gene called TEX11 are responsible for a significant number of cases of infertility — an estimated 1 percent of cases of non-obstructive azoospermia.

Research led by scientists at the University of Birmingham shows more precisely how G protein - coupled receptors, which are the key target of a large number of drugs, work.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

«Some family members with the same number of repeats experience the onset of symptoms at different ages,» shared Julia Kaye, PhD, a staff research scientist at Gladstone who will help lead the scientific efforts.

In a recent study, scientists found that climate change will decrease the number of seasonal flowers, leading to an overall decrease in the number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source of energy - no destruction required.

The huge number of free - floating planets at our current observational limit is giving me hope that we will discover a wealth of smaller Earth - sized planets with the E-ELT,» lead scientist Holger Drass from Germany's Astronomisches Institut said in the statement.

Results: The number of days of extreme fire risk in California might be six times the current number by the end of the century, according to a study led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

A team of scientists led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory atmospheric researcher Dr. Susannah Burrows and collaborator Daniel McCoy, who studies clouds and climate at the University of Washington, reveal how tiny natural particles given off by marine organisms — airborne droplets and solid particles called aerosols — nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the summer, which boosts the amount of sunlight reflected back to space.

Here's a biggie uncovered by scientists led by Samuel L. Pfaff of the Salk Institute: A small number of human...

The projects were led by a large number of scientists from 11 Swedish universities and government agencies and have led to many high - impact publications.

Their influential report led to the appointment of a science adviser to the Secretary of State and a more than fifteen-fold increase in the number of Ph.D. scientists receiving fellowships to work in the State Department or USAID.

«The sophisticated gene analysis that led to this finding was only possible because of the large number of ALS samples available,» said ALS Association chief scientist Lucie Bruijn, PhD, in a press release.

``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that dietary fat, especially of the saturated kind (due to its effect on cholesterol), was to blame.

While the need for STEM experts is growing, the Office of the Chief Scientist reports that the number of students studying STEM disciplines in senior secondary school has been declining in Australia, leading to fewer students pursuing post-secondary study in STEM fields.

«Because all breeds are susceptible to genetic disease, rare breeds, such as the Drents, have fewer numbers of available breeding dogs and are therefore more susceptible to inherited conditions simply because of population constraints», said Lisa G Shaffer, PhD, CEO of Paw Print Genetics and the lead scientist on the study.

Sea Hero Quest VR was developed in partnership with a number of world - leading dementia scientists, spatial navigation consultants and data security specialists.

But, I'm a bit confused: After all, aren't a large majority of scientists, and a compelling number of leading scientific organizations, and the national academies of sciences of many countries, telling us that we need to quickly transition to forms of energy that don't spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

For example, a number of leading wind companies and other industry players are partners in the American Wind Wildlife Institute, which the Union of Concerned Scientists helped launch in 2008.

May sully the reputations of a number of working scientists leads to a story on Examiner.com New York by a writer named Thomas Fuller, who refuses to go into detail because the e-mails are private and would almost certainly «prove embarrassing to those concerned, especially if... published in snippets and without context.»

I could point to many journal articles supporting my stance, or climate scientists that share my opinion, or give you any number of criticisms of pro-CAGW arguments that you could then weigh yourself for validity (not that you've proven able or willing to do so, leading me to «trust» you wouldn't want to do that here).

In a recent study, scientists found that climate change will decrease the number of seasonal flowers, leading to an overall decrease in the number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source of energy - no destruction required.

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

«There has never been a pause in global warming unless you try to create one by looking at an insufficiently large number of data points,» said lead author Stephan Lewandowsky, a social scientist and professor of psychology at the University of Bristol in the U.K..

The lead scientist was from the University of Florida, while a large number of other US universities, and institutions in Germany, France, Mexico, Australia and China were also involved.

Perhaps the kind of RICO action Whitehouse has in mind is similar to the one proposed to President Obama a few months ago by a number of key climate scientists, led by one Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University.

Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), explained, «If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even.»

There are a number of interesting presentations and videos to watch of leading scientists discussing the issues at the meeting website.