Sentences with phrase «part of a scientific study»

I was lucky to be able to read the thermometer to within 1/2 degree F, but the log book only recorded temperature to the whole number, with no decimal, how could you possibly say those log book numbers are accurate to the extent possible to be part of a scientific study?

Any data that is collected as part of a scientific study is always kept as part of the «peer review» process so that it can be studied by other scientists.

Not exact matches

The scientific agency, which is part of the Commerce Department, studies changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

As part of that commitment, he introduced the $ 1.5 - billion Oceans Protection Plan to further enhance marine response, complementing the Western Canada Marine Response Corporation,» CAPP said, adding that approval was made based on existing scientific evidence, and a commitment was made to continue studying the effects of spilled diluted bitumen on water.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion, 1974).

Attached at the Heart is also doing its part in clarifying, raising awareness and informing parents and professionals about best practices that are supported by a wealth of scientific studies.

They are available only to women who have had or will have breast surgery for a medical condition or have other complications from existing implants, and only if they agree to be part of a scientific protocol, or study.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

«A person who studies scientific books with a view of knowing the real facts ought to turn himself into an opponent of everything that he studies; he should thoroughly assess its main as well as its margin parts, and oppose it from every point of view and in all its aspects.

SCIENCE IN ACTION The section of a Wikipedia page on the synthesis of hydrastine was part of a project that showed how Wikipedia topics might end up in scientific studies.

AAAS set the stage for the day - long symposium earlier this spring by inviting an advisor to Argentina's Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation, which is part of the Ministry of Science and serves as a scientific liaison between academia, policy and industry, to study AAAS» Science & Technology Policy FellowshiScientific Technological Articulation, which is part of the Ministry of Science and serves as a scientific liaison between academia, policy and industry, to study AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowshiscientific liaison between academia, policy and industry, to study AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowship program.

Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, spent the latter part of his career studying consciousness and in 1994 published a book about it, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The scientific search for the soul.

«This whole issue of emerging resistance of antibiotics is going to be a huge problem in the foreseeable future,» says James Hedrick, the IBM Research advanced organic materials scientist who led the study, published April 4 in Nature Chemistry (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).

The findings are part of a joint scientific study by the Saxon State Office of the Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS).

Yet, nobody ever evaluated this claim, and despite being occasionally mentioned in the scientific literature, they were never again examined in detail,» said Dr Wendy den Boer, who studied the fossils as part of her recently awarded PhD from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Scientists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) form part of the team which has just published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, studying for the first time the original fossil remains conserved of «Peking Man.»

The research project was carried out as part of an international scientific collaboration that is helping create and study paleontology collections in Morocco with the aim of conserving the country's rich fossil heritage.

Adam Schlosser from MIT is part of a scientific team whose recent study paints an alarming picture.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

In his study, recently published in the scientific journal «Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,» he concludes that the reintroduction of large animals in certain parts of the world could have a positive effect in regard to species diversity.

Large tsunamis could have carried sediment onto the land and obscured parts of the martian ocean's shoreline, according to a study published today in Scientific Reports.

The study — authored by Aroa Jiménez - Aranda, Gumersindo Fernández - Vázquez, Daniel Campos, Mohamed Tassi, Lourdes Velasco - Perez, Tx Tan, Russel J. Reiter and Ahmad Agil — has been part - financed and supported by the Granada Research of Excellence Initiative on BioHealth (GREIB), the University of Granada Vice-Rectorate for Scientific Policy and Research, and the regional government of Andalusia research group CTS - 109.

This summer, hundreds of Washington area elementary school children donned lab goggles and gathered scientific data to study the science of sports as part of a free, hands - on summer program.

People with prediabetes who took part in a comprehensive health program to improve nutrition, exercise, stress and sleep were able to revert to normal blood glucose metabolism, reducing their risk for developing diabetes — a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease — according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

In a study appearing May 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers report that two other little - known lemurs — Crossley's dwarf lemur and Sibree's dwarf lemur — burrow into the soft, spongy rainforest floor in the eastern part of Madagascar, curl up and spend the next three to seven months snoozing underground.

«We are troubled to learn that two months after ExxonMobil assured the House Committee on Science that the company did not direct scientific studies from the Center, the company began negotiating with Dr. Soon and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center, in part, for publication of scientific studies,» she wrote in her letter.

«I think this is an extremely important — and solid — paper,» says stem cell researcher Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Applied Cell Technology, a regenerative medicine company headquartered in Alameda, Calif., who did not take part in the study.

The findings of the study are part of a much larger, fiercer debate within the scientific community over the megafauna extinction.

A new study, published online Wednesday in Nature, aims to paint a clearer picture by uncovering the variable velocity of climate shifts across the globe (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).

«With this technology now cleared by the FDA, we will see expanded use in the community; studies such as the work of Dr. Forrest and her team will be a key part of developing scientific data on the physiological and psychological benefits from use of these technologies.»

We consider the release and maintenance of scientific software an integral part of scientific publishing, and we contribute to the Bioconductor Project, an open source software collaboration to provide tools for the analysis and study of high - throughput genomic data.

This search for protective rather than risk factors is part of a paradigm shift in Joslin's diabetes complications studies, says Dr. King, who also is Joslin's chief scientific officer and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Scott Doney, who studies acidification and nutrient loading at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and was not part of the study, said that while such work is important particularly for communicating with those outside the scientific community, «it's not the complete story.»

Yet the pace of HIV vaccine research is now growing so swiftly that the scientific goal of conducting and completing a clinical trial may be threatened by a higher ethical obligation — to inform those taking part in the study that the original scientific basis for the research may have been modified by later work.

PNNL scientists will use proteomics instruments developed at EMSL, a Department of Energy national scientific user facility at PNNL, to study the expressed proteins and their modified forms in tumors that have been analyzed as part of the NCI's Cancer Genome Atlas.

My go - to herbalist, author and American Herbalist Guild member David Winston of Broadway, New Jersey, says in his book, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach, that animal and test - tube studies are convincing enough to recommend eating maitake regularly as part of a treatment plan for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and even hepatitis B. (Placebo - controlled studies in people have yet to be conducted.)

As a physician who interviewed women who had survived breast cancer for my art project The Woman Inside and who studied patients who experienced spontaneous remissions from cancer as part of the research for my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, I discovered that those who had overcome cancer shared one remarkable thing in common.

While not part of this post, he has further concluded from independently - funded scientific studies that for optimum health our food intake should consist only of whole foods that are as unprocessed as possible.

As, stated before, there are several scientific studies showing the benefits of MCT's as part of a weight management regimen.

The best part is when the scientific study they used to prove their product works shows a dose of 5 grams is needed to be effective and their serving size / pill size is only 1 gram... AND they have 10 other ingredients listed as being in the pill.

So what the science tells us is that there truly is no real division between the body and the mind and emotions, it's all part of the same web, and we know this from the research studies that have been done, groups at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, a lot of the big, very reputable universities are now actually doing research on this, and there are even journals, scientific and medical journals exploring what we call psychosomatic medicine, in other words the placebo effect.

Yes, through scientific study we have become aware that certain macro and micro nutrients are essential parts of any diet because our cells require these nutrients to undertake physiological processes.

In this visually awe - inspiring sci - fi adventure, a psychic (Dennis Quaid) who uses his ESP abilities only for financial gain is hired to project himself into the dreams of scientific subjects as part of a groundbreaking clinical study.

The 1954 monster - horror Creature from the Black Lagoon was a huge influence: in that film, an aquatic monster known as Gill - Man becomes fascinated with a female character called Kay, who's part of a scientific expedition whose aim it is to capture or kill the monster and study its breathing.

Yatvin argues that this study is often interpreted as illustrating «the fact that human subjects who know they are part of a scientific experiment may sabotage the study in their eagerness to make it succeed.»

As a result, there is a noticeable tendency on the part of many in the education policy world to cull the scientific literature for studies that come to a desired result.

This innovative, engaging classroom project was just part of a multiweek lesson that combined the study of fairy tales with instruction in the scientific method — a journey of discovery that educators in Georgia's City Schools of Decatur call an «expedition.»

The study — being billed as the first scientific study in the U.S. of teacher performance pay — is only the latest blow to merit pay, which the Obama administration continues to advocate as part of its education reform strategy.

It is a routine part of lesson planning for Japanese teachers, but in Lesson Study it is done with an extra intensity, analogous to a literature review in scientific research.