Sentences with phrase «of the leading scientists using»

Canup is one of the leading scientists using large - scale hydrodynamical simulations to model planet - scale collisions, including the prevailing Earth - Moon formation model.

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Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

MASIPAG is a farmer - led network of people's organizations, non-government organizations and scientists working towards the sustainable use and management of biodiversity through farmers» control of genetic and biological resources, agricultural production and associated knowledge.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

The OIST scientists used a single crystal of methylammonium lead bromide (CH3NH3PbBr3) to create topographic images of its surface with a scanning tunneling microscope.

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Scientists at Southern Methodist University, led by Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences Santosh D'Mello, have used RNA - Seq to conduct transcriptome profiling of gene expression changes in dying neurons.

A group of the nation's leading cancer research scientists and their Cuban counterparts are exploring how to advance cancer therapy, diagnosis, and prevention, including the use of immunotherapy to harness the body's immune systems to attack and eliminate cancer cells.

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

A team of ten scientists led by UFZ modelling experts Dr Thorsten Wiegand and Prof. Andreas Huth have spent the last five years using computer models to analyse ecosystems to explore the composition and dynamics of species - rich communities in tropical rainforests.

They know that they need to find a way to stand out in the sea of scientists or use the event to gain future exposure to the company with the idea of leading to a future job offer.

An Otago - led team of scientists using techniques from the field of dentistry is shedding new light on the evolution of walruses, fur seals and sea lions.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype, but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in clinical use or investigational compounds in development.

A team led by voice scientist Christian Herbst, now of the University of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, used the donated larynx of a dead elephant to study the process of vocalization, which he says opens new possibilities for researching oice projection problems in people.

To address this, scientists at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, led by chemist Jianghong Rao, have taken advantage of a naturally produced TB protein known as BlaC to create an efficient detection method that uses a simple fluorescent molecule.

How light of different colors is absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) can now be accurately predicted using new calculations developed by a UCL - led team of scientists.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

«As far as we are aware, this is the highest level of ionisation that has ever been achieved using light,» explains the co-author Robin Santra from the research team, who is a leading DESY scientist at the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL).

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

Last year, Discover presented a gallery of 6 images generated by scientists using supercomputers to do leading - edge research in various fields.

«Our results indicate that systematic testing for anti-androgenic activity of currently used pesticides is urgently required,» wrote the scientists from University of London's Centre for Toxicology, led by Professor Andreas Kortenkamp.

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

The study, led by scientists from the University of Chicago, uses a novel method to measure genetic predisposition for telomere length, rather than physiological measures which are confounded by factors such as age and lifestyle.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

«Poor adherence with the Canadian pregnancy prevention guidelines means that Canada, inadvertently, is using pregnancy termination rather than pregnancy prevention to manage fetal risk from isotretinoin,» states lead author Dr. David Henry, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

Using new types of experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that this century - old assumption regarding brain activity is mistaken.

«The system could also be adapted for use with other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

that eventually led to the discovery of green fluorescent protein, a biomarker now used by scientists around the world to tackle an inconceivable array of medical problems.

The scientists will attempt to use the material to regenerate the muscle of patients who have lost at least 40 percent of a particular muscle group, an amount so devastating to limb function that it often leads doctors to perform an amputation.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

Using new theoretical results and experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics and the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that the central assumption for nearly 70 years that learning occurs only in the synapses is mistaken.

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications, could enable scientists to use the enzyme in a plant to make large amounts of fuel - grade oil, according to Dr. Tim Devarenne, AgriLife Research biochemist in College Station and lead scientist on the team.

Scientists are aware of their biases, and use techniques such as blind trials to minimise them, but the pressure to get things done faster leads to some people skimping on experimental design, said Dr Head.

Now, scientists have shed light on how exactly one widely used group of motor oil additives prevents wear, a result that could lead to more rational design of new lubricants.

Using an innovative crystallization technique for studying three - dimensional structures of gene transcription machinery, an international team of researchers, led by scientists at Penn State, has revealed new insights into the long debated action of the «magic spot» — a molecule that controls gene expression in Eschericahia coli and many other bacteria when the bacteria are stressed.

From the leading scientists at Bologna, Cassini learned the importance of using high - quality instruments to make the most precise measurements possible.

Using a special profiling technique, scientists at Princeton have determined the mechanism of action of a potent antibiotic, known as tropodithietic acid (TDA), leading them to uncover its hidden ability as a potential anticancer agent.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

A team led by planetary scientist Philippe Lamy of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseilles, France, used the Hubble Space Telescope in March to measure the light reflected from the comet.

A team of scientists led by Joachim Saur of the University of Cologne in Germany came up with the idea of using Hubble to learn more about the inside of the moon.

A team of scientists led by Aarhus University mapped the migration patterns, centre of diversity and population structure of this aggressive fungus using microsatellite genotyping of worldwide representative samples.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

The largest rodent ever to have lived may have used its front teeth just like an elephant uses its tusks, a new study led by scientists at the University of York and The Hull York Medical School (HYMS) has found.

«The beauty of the deep - learning model we use is that it considers emotions and linguistic clues over time to predict the future,» says computer scientist Svitlana Volkova, who led the study, which was published last December in PLOS ONE.

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.