Sentences with phrase «on volunteer scientist»

During the rest of the cycle it relies mostly on volunteer scientist authors and reviewers.

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Simmons stopped working with Physicians for Human Rights in 1999, and when she heard that AAAS was looking for volunteers to participate in the original On - call Scientists program, she saw it as another opportunity to get involved.

To respond to these and similarly urgent requests, we have created an On - call Scientists Hotline made up of especially experienced On - call Scientist volunteers each with an exemplary record of contributing to human rights questions in a wide breadth of fields.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

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Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

And of course, it is not lost on Markovic — and certainly not on his wife, he says — that this promising line of inquiry might never have been explored, had that female colleague not been working as a medical research scientist at the Mayo clinic eight years back; had she not volunteered to donate her blood for Markovic's research; and had she not continued to work — and donate — after becoming pregnant.

Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out The British scientists injected either a harmless saltwater concoction (a placebo) or two milligrams of psilocybin directly into the veins of 30 volunteers while they were lying inside a magnetic scanner.

Some scientists have designed invasive apps and tested them on volunteers to shine a light on what smartphones can reveal about their owners.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

«Our goal was to obtain a more comprehensive view of the current state of knowledge on the benefits of volunteering among older adults,» said Dr. Anderson, a senior scientist with Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and associate professor, University of Toronto.

Moreover, the volunteers recorded poorer sleep on a survey around the full moon, the scientists report online today in Current Biology.

AAAS On - call Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

On - call Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

Hamm performed his own chromosome squash with six juvenile monarchs — real ones given to him by Kansas - based Monarch Watch, a network of scientists, teachers, and volunteers that supports research on the butterfly.

Once the scientists had crafted Anti-Dan and Anti-Jim, they began showing them on a computer monitor to volunteers without prosopagnosia.

«I was so proud of our volunteers as I saw the data on this new cold world coming in,» said Jackie Faherty, a senior scientist in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics and one of Backyard World's researchers.

Scientists created stinglike discomfort on the surfaces of volunteers» bodies using two lasers.

Their app, Cachalot, is available for free on the iPad and was created with the help of volunteers: marine scientists wrote it without charge from lecture notes, a computer science class designed it, and institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, donated images and video.

The Royal Society is looking for volunteers create or enhance entries on female scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

We called on veteran judges and members of the Managing Committee — all of them senior science journalists — to help winnow the huge number of entries prior to submitting them to review for scientific accuracy by the Washington - area scientists who volunteer to help out.

Human challenge trials like this one are an extremely efficient way for scientists to tell whether a particular vaccine is effective, but they are rarely conducted because of the ethical dilemma of the risk it places on volunteers who are purposely exposed to a virus.

A volunteer Advisory Board, consisting of scientists, general assignment and science reporters, and communications professionals regularly advises SciLine on strategy, development, and operations issues and to help ensure accuracy, quality, and impartiality.

This ambitious initiative builds on a half century of tortoise research and conservation carried out by the Charles Darwin Research Station, the GNPD, and numerous visiting scientists and volunteers.

Scientist and test on low carb and high fat diet has indeed tested a lot of volunteer weight loss patients for a extended period of time and tests clearly show that this diet does 1.

«While President Kennedy's life was tragically cut short, his vision lives on in the generations he inspired — volunteers who serve as ambassadors for peace in distant corners of the globe, scientists and engineers who reach for new heights in the face of impossible odds, innovators who set their sights on the new frontiers of our time.»

They're recruiting «scientists who are willing to volunteer to advise on curricula, answer a classroom's questions, or visit a school — for instance, to do a lab or to talk about what you do.»

Consider job shadowing with veterinarians, scientists, working on a farm or volunteering at an animal shelter.

For over thirty years, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory's 300 + team of volunteer scientists have counted and banded raptors on fall migration.

Led by more than 320 volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.

Field interns split their time evenly between the banding and hawkwatch programs, and can expect to work with a large and dedicated group of volunteer citizen scientists on a daily basis.

In a 24 - hour period — from noon on Friday, March 28 to noon on Saturday, March 29 — volunteers will join team up with naturalists and scientists to tally the plants, mammals, birds, fish, fungi, and other species they observe.

Dr. Cervino volunteered to study the potential effect of the Bakers Bay development on the island's coral reef - he is the second of three independent coral scientists to do so.

The program relies on «citizen scientist» volunteers to do the counting.

To overcome this difficulty, governments and the broader society have established assessment mechanisms in which the full range of scientists, volunteering in the public eye for the public good, provide up - to - date information on what is solid, what speculative, and what silly.

Both of these gangly, adolescent whooping cranes were shot and killed in Louisiana on Monday, and though two alleged shooters have been identified, the world of whooping crane scientists, managers, caretakers, volunteers and birders is in mourning — once again.

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The 97 % consensus on human - caused global warming is a robust result using two independent methods (volunteer abstract ratings and scientist self - ratings) and consistent with similar previous surveys.

The fact that the scientists who work on the reports do so on a volunteer basis «lends credibility and dignity to the effort,» said Michael Mann, an IPCC author and climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

In real science, it doesn't matter whether a scientist is on the payroll of the American Cancer Society or a tobacco company, whether he is a Communist, or a Jew or a Baptist, or whether she beats her spouse, or whether he volunteers at a soup kitchen or steals from the church poor box.

«Non peer - reviewed, unknown contributor, unwarranted attack on hard - working climate scientists, failed to grasp the essential points, unworthy of discussion, Big Oil funded denier blogs, already been debunked, no credibility, thousands of volunteer climate scientists, voodoo science.................»

We had an unprecedented number of approximately 3,000 nominations of outstanding scientists who volunteered to work on the AR5.

Greens of course won't be jumping to volunteer for another Bush campaign, especially after eight tumultuous years battling Jeb's brother on air and water pollution policies and complaints that the last White House muzzled climate scientists.

Also, as with the so - called scandal of the CRU emails and FOI requests, no allowance is made for the facts that (a) climate science isn't getting adequate funding, reducing the number of scientists who can afford to do it full time and not work on other projects and (b) involvement in the IPCC is on a volunteer basis, so it's extra, unpaid work that not even every working full - time climate scientist can afford.