Sentences with phrase «of experimental support»

But, you see, quantum mechanics has a lot of experimental support, so you've got to go along with a lot of it.

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«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain areas.

But the markets were spooked nonetheless on May 22, when Fed officials began sending signals of their intention to taper their experimental support for markets and the economy.

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

A scientific theory is a possible explanation of natural phenomenon supported by experimental data.

Science continues to compile more and more experimental data to support evolution, genetic modification, and the big bang theory of the universe.

Mulgrew launched his attack against education reformers while discussing his support for the creation of 200 experimental public schools to rival charter schools.

NASA Aeronautics would decline by an overall 5.4 percent, but receive continued support for the New Aviation Horizons initiative, which is carrying out a series of experimental X-Plane demonstration activities.

He went on to gain wet lab skills during a 2 - year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

For experimental and technical problems, our first line of support is usually our immediate senior.

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

«There is lack of technical support for the setting up of experimental rig.

Although scientists have used a whole array of experimental techniques in the past to investigate the atomic scale details of surface diffusion, they have generally studied the surfaces of traditional three - dimensional materials and have supported the notion that diffusion involves a simple random walk on the surface.

Out here in postdoc land, we're in career limbo — semi-independent but still in need of collaborators at or above our current level who can provide stimulating conversation and / or experimental techniques that broaden and support the scope of our inquiry.

But fruit flies have now distinguished between two molecules with identical shapes, providing the first experimental evidence to support a controversial theory that the sense of smell can operate by detecting molecular vibrations.

Flap running was over 10 times more energy efficient than flying, the team reports online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology, creating just enough aerodynamic force to push the birds» bodies upward while also supporting some of their body weight.

The research, published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science, found that those who saw positive comments or «likes» had a more favorable perception of the candidate and were more likely to support him, while those who saw the negative comments had more unfavorable perceptions.

Supported by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office, the research was published online December 18, 2014, in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

While the existence of an «intermediate state» that accelerates battery charge and discharge reactions has been suggested, there was no firm experimental evidence to support its existence and previous research had suggested that the short lifetime of the intermediate state would render a systematic investigation of its properties impossible.

This week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it inked a contract with the makers of ZMapp — the experimental Ebola drug administered to a limited number of patients — to support their work.

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) called upon the government to do more to support the careers of «physician - scientists,» who provide a key link between the lab and the clinic, the FASEB group said.

Sure enough, there is as yet no experimental evidence to support this view — indeed, the improbability of ever reproducing black holes or big bangs in the laboratory has caused some researchers to wonder whether there will ever be any evidence.

He will also review the extent of Europe's participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project and support a plan to develop a patent that would be valid across the EU.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as CareSupport for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Caresupport special activities such as Career Day.

And many people found interesting the hypothesis we put forth, which now seems to have even more experimental support: that the nervous system forms by a kind of default mechanism.

Previous models typically focused on individual components of the reaction, Grabow said, making this project the first to pull all of the facets together in a single model that fully supports the Trinity chemists» experimental observations.

Further, Drs. Levin and Straat evaluate the «non-biological hypotheses» to explain the Viking results, which many scientists support, but the authors conclude that the experimental evidence supports a biological explanation and the likelihood that microorganisms were able to evolve and adapt to be able to survive in the harsh conditions of the Martian environment.

The work was supported by USDA NIFA, South Dakota State University Experimental Station, and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.

The study, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, assigned each cluster to one of three experimental options: a control group (meaning no treatment); a basic cleanup; or a «cleaning and greening» treatment, including a lawn, a few trees and a low perimeter fence — «to show that the lot was cared for and to deter illegal dumping.»

He also describes in some detail a series of experimental studies on lizards and fish that provide support for the centrality of convergent evolution, and thus for Conway Morris's view.

Pure mathematics Despite new ideas and experimental activity, it is possible that none of these tests will find any support for string theory.

In the 1990s James Gilardi, executive director of the World Parrot Trust, found support for the detoxification hypothesis in one of the few experimental studies on geophagia.

«In this exciting new study, the authors provide support for a new experimental treatment approach that works by helping nerve cells digest toxic proteins that might otherwise cause cell death,» said John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

This has been supported by some experimental studies, whereas others suggest a lack of benefit.

In addition to Affymetrix, another California company, Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto (a sponsor of ScienceNOW), has begun distributing its own human genome array as an experimental prototype, and since June, NimbleGen Systems Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, has been using yet another whole - genome setup to support a DNA - scanning service at a lab in Iceland.

The oat crown rust study was supported by the USDA - ARS - The University of Minnesota Standard Cooperative Agreement (3002 -11031-00053115), The University of Minnesota Experimental Station USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Funds (project MIN -22-058) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the USDA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2017 -67012-26117), a CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Australian Grains Research Development Corporation (grant #US00067) and the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.

Supported by their colleagues from the Department of Theoretical Physics I and the University of Zurich, the experimental physicists were able to shed light on the origin of these new electronic states.

This emphasizes the downsides of not integrating all data sources, and reveals a situation perhaps akin to that of astronomy and experimental physics in the pursuit of cosmology: Together, palaeontology and development can come much closer to telling the whole story of evolution — this integrative approach resolves previous disparities that have challenged the support for the dinosaur - bird link and reveals previously undetected processes, including loss of bones, fusion of bones, and re-evolution of a transiently lost bone.

Rauno Alatalo and Johanna Mappes, evolutionary biologists at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, have recently provided some experimental support for this idea.

The $ 338 million upgrade entails adding ten new acceleration modules and support equipment to CEBAF, as well as construction of a fourth experimental hall, upgrades to instrumentation in the existing halls, and other upgrade components.

He proposes a system of rating published research based on the rigor of its experimental design, sample size and amount of supporting research.

«This is the first experimental evidence» to support NF - κB's role linking inflammation to cancer, says Lisa Coussens, a cancer biologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

However, experimental support for theoretical modelling of the van der Waals interactions that hold these materials» layers together has been wanting.

The Obama administration has asked Congress to pass a continuing resolution that will give $ 30 million more dollars to CDC to use through 11 December, and $ 58 million to the Department of Health and Human Services to support development of experimental vaccines and treatments.

To support his argument that we and other animals don't have an evolved capacity for number per se, Nunez cites several different strands of research in the current literature, including experimental work with humans from non-industrialized cultures, which suggests an imprecise approach to quantity.

«We are now at a stage where a large enough number of these simulations can be run to map out large parts of the phase diagram of materials under extreme conditions in sufficient detail to effectively support experimental efforts.»

With more than 50 scientific publications and meeting presentations, an adjunct professorship, and a busy schedule of experimental work, he has spent 2 decades simultaneously «at the vanguard of a brand - new science» and at the helm of a small corporation lucrative enough to support overseas mountaineering trips and a handsome home in an upscale neighborhood.

The experimental study required participants to respond to persuasive political policy statements such as «You should support stronger gun control laws,» «You should support deportation of illegal immigrants,» or «You should support same - sex marriage,» delivered with different pitched voices.

CRI establishes its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the Institute's oldest formal grant program and the first program of its kind in the world, «for the support of qualified individuals who wish to receive training and experience in experimental or clinical cancer immunology.»