Sentences with phrase «pioneering experiments in»

is an American composer and media artist who has developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound.
This is the first exhibition to explore these prints not merely as personal documents, but as pioneering experiments in a new medium.
In the former approach, videos can serve as an initial model by allowing student teachers not only to dream and draw inspiration, but also to identify the proper teaching standards to be attained and to see image - based proofs that help them determine whether those standards are respected in simulated educational settings or in actual practice (e.g., the pioneering experiments in microteaching by Allen & Ryan, 1969).
Berkeley Lab was home to a pioneering experiment in 2004 that showed laser plasma acceleration can produce relatively narrow energy spread beams — reported in the so - called «Dream Beam» issue of the journal Nature — and in 2006 used a similar laser - driven acceleration technique to accelerate electrons to a then - record energy of 1 billion electron volts, or GeV.
Rich Soil has an interesting article on Hugelkultur, explaining how it is associated with Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer - a man who has also pioneered experiments in everything from aquaculture to perennial grain to irrigation - free farming.

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In a classic experiment, pioneer social psychologist Kurt Lewin found that different group climates could be created by varying the leadership from autocratic, to laissez faire, to democratic.
That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.
Historically, the San Francisco Archdiocese pioneered teleconferencing techniques for the entire nation, using a NASA satellite in their early experiments.
Founded in 1984, Kashi was a pioneer in natural food, experimenting with different whole grains and seeds to create nutritious breakfast items.
Among other things, The Experiments, broadcast in January by Swedish public television channel SVT, suggests that Macchiarini didn't fully inform his patients about the risks of his pioneering trachea implants.
He quickly discovered properties of folding that were absent in previous simulations,» says King, who pioneered «wet» laboratory experiments to uncover protein - misfolding mechanisms.
Together they will allow researchers to make observations over a wider energy range, capture detailed snapshots of rapid processes, probe delicate samples that are beyond the reach of other light sources and gather more data in less time, thus greatly increasing the number of experiments that can be performed at this pioneering facility.
«This is the first pioneering experiment that shows that this can be done,» says Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the work.
Storms have wrecked pioneering wave generators in Norway and Britain and badly damaged a European Union experiment in the Azores Islands of Portugal.
But in 1926 pioneering forestry scientists in the pay of the British colonial government started a grand experiment to reseed, and it's now the only place in the world where there is a very large tract of artificially seeded rainforest — one which has slowly been regenerating for nearly 90 years.
In one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druIn one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin resistance to a melanoma drug.
The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which is Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the Russian botanist and geneticist who pioneered the concept of seed banks as repositories of crop diversity in case of threats to food production.
Following a pioneer and a victim Samaras was the founder of a project called the Tactical Weather - Instrumented Sampling in / near Tornadoes EXperiment, or TWISTEX, which used different instruments to gather data on the elements that make up a tornado, including wind speeds and direction, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.
LIGO PIONEERS Rainer Weiss of MIT (left), and Kip Thorne (middle) and Barry Barish (right), both of Caltech, won the Nobel Prize in physics for their leadership roles in the LIGO experiment.
«Our results in this study represent an NMR signal enhancement equivalent to that achieved in the pioneering experiments of Lucio Frydman and coworkers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, but using microwave - induced dynamic nuclear hyperpolarization in diamonds without the need for precise control over magnetic field and crystal alignment,» Pines says.
Fisher and his colleagues are pioneering this approach and have already reported success in preclinical experiments utilizing UTMD technology and mda - 7 / IL - 24 gene therapy in prostate and colorectal cancer models.
Konza Prairie scientists pioneered the use of long - term, large - scale fire and grazing experiments to understand the ecological effects of fire and grazing in grasslands.
In their experiments, the team used a cloud of magnesium ions and magnesium hydride ions using methods pioneered in AarhuIn their experiments, the team used a cloud of magnesium ions and magnesium hydride ions using methods pioneered in Aarhuin Aarhus.
The exceptional scientific and technical abilities of the HRIBF staff and instrumentation enabled ground - breaking achievements including the first measurement with a reaccelerated unstable beam in North America, the first acceleration of neutron - rich fission fragments leading to the confirmation of the doubly magic nature of the heavy tin isotope 132Sn, pioneering experiments on the giant quadrupole resonance in nuclei, and dramatic new insights into numerous nuclear reactions that drive the evolution of the cosmos.
Döppner was one of the pioneers of indirect drive experiments on NIF when he published the first evidence of electron preheat in indirect - drive implosions on the laser.
Berkeley Lab was home to a pioneering experiment) in 2004 that showed laser plasma acceleration can produce relatively narrow energy spread beams - reported in the so - called «Dream Beam» issue of the journal Nature - and in 2006 used a similar laser - driven acceleration technique to accelerate electrons to a then - record energy of 1 billion electron volts, or GeV.
We integrate the latest findings with earlier pioneering work in this field, point out major questions and challenges, and suggest how new experiments could address them.
He joined ORNL as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow in 1983, after completing his Ph.D. studies at Penn State University, and has pioneered the use of hydrothermal experiments and neutron and x-ray scattering methods to address complex problems in geosciences and electrical energy storage.
In Edward Mellanby's pioneering experiments, he induced the disease by feeding dogs a diet of oats or wheat bread, and then cured it by adding cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D).
This practice was pioneered by Max Gerson, MD, about 100 years ago, and I personally have used it with astonishing results in my own detoxification experiments and working with 13,000 detoxers, over two decades.
Mills's live soundtrack for the 1966 cult movie Fantastic Voyage was part of a weekend of happenings at London's Barbican Centre this past summer that nodded to the pioneering DJ and producer's decades - long experiments in sound and image.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez — «The Stanford Prison Experiment» While it's the third feature film from Alvarez, «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a retelling of the infamous 1971 psychology experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap in terms of craft and directorial Experiment» While it's the third feature film from Alvarez, «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a retelling of the infamous 1971 psychology experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap in terms of craft and directorial Experiment,» a retelling of the infamous 1971 psychology experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap in terms of craft and directorial experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap in terms of craft and directorial authority.
Takeaway: Keep pushing in new directions, and do whatever is necessary to support colleagues as they experiment with and embrace the innovations and methods we're pioneering.
Mitch Pearlstein is director of a think tank in Minneapolis, the Center of the American Experiment, which he founded after a career working for University of Minnesota president C. Peter Magrath, for Minnesota governor Albert H. Quie, as an editorial writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and at the U.S. Department of Education with Chester Finn.
In his keynote speech for The Literary Consultancy's 2014 conference, author and renowned digital publishing pioneer Cory Doctorow talks about his creative experiments on and offline, and addresses head - on the thorny question of «Intellectual Property in a Digital Age»In his keynote speech for The Literary Consultancy's 2014 conference, author and renowned digital publishing pioneer Cory Doctorow talks about his creative experiments on and offline, and addresses head - on the thorny question of «Intellectual Property in a Digital Age»in a Digital Age».
These disturbing pieces — definitely not for the squeamish — refer to the infamous work of Dr. J. Marion Sims, who, in the mid-19th century, pioneered the field of gynecology by experimenting on black women without anesthesia.
A pioneer in the Southern California Light and Space movement, Turrell began using light as a sculptural medium in 1966, painting the windows of his studio in Santa Monica to seal off the natural light and experimenting with sunlight projected through shades and blinds.
A pioneer in what could be called photographic abstract expressionism, Nielsen audaciously experiments with photographic process, expressing her individual psyche while attempting to tap into universal sources of imagination.
Gail Pickering's exhibition Mirror Speech focused on a pioneering social experiment in community television that ended in a climate of widespread distrust about its political objectives - its participants disputed the image they had once collectively produced.
Liliane Lijn is a leading pioneer and exponent of kinetic art who in her work has experimented with light, movement, words, film, liquids and industrial materials.
The selected works range from the pioneering geometric abstraction of Rafael Soriano, Mario Carreño and José Mijares executed in Cuba in the 1950s, the concrete art of Carmen Herrera and constructive experiments of Zilia Sánchez produced in the diaspora, to the hard - edge abstraction of Fernando García from the 1980s and the more recent multi-dimensional installations by Cuban - Americans María Martínez - Cañas, Leyden Rodríguez Casanova, and Vanessa Díaz, to name only a few.
«Alex Katz's importance lies, certainly, in his experimentation with the form and structure of painting — his early experiments with shaped supports were revelatory and pioneering — but just as significant is his investigation into the mechanics of perception,» explains Kelly Baum, Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Art at the Met.
In the 1950s, a time when almost all art photographers worked in black and white, only a few pioneers dared to experiment with coloIn the 1950s, a time when almost all art photographers worked in black and white, only a few pioneers dared to experiment with coloin black and white, only a few pioneers dared to experiment with color.
Schiele was a pioneering force in Austrian modernism and this show traces his artistic development, from early experiments to his later celebrated figure studies.
The exhibition features documentary material that underscores Benglis's interest in exploring and subverting gender roles as well as pioneering video works which tackle themes of gender politics and experiment with the formal and performative potential of what was then a new medium.
A pioneer of the abstract art movement in the 1950s, Sandra Blow is best known for her monumental canvases experimenting with abstract form, rhythm, light, space, and texture.
In this exhibition, Robert Irwin, a pioneering artist of the «Light and Space» movement, continues his ongoing interest in the perceptual qualities of light, experimenting with rhythm, texture, densities, temperature and tonal relationshipIn this exhibition, Robert Irwin, a pioneering artist of the «Light and Space» movement, continues his ongoing interest in the perceptual qualities of light, experimenting with rhythm, texture, densities, temperature and tonal relationshipin the perceptual qualities of light, experimenting with rhythm, texture, densities, temperature and tonal relationships.
Statue of 19th - century gynaecologist removed from Central Park A statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th - century gynaecologist whose pioneering treatments were developed through medical experiments on enslaved women, was removed yesterday from its pedestal in Central Park in New York, reports The Times.
Laurie Spiegel is a pioneer in computer music and one of the first composers to experiment with concepts of visual music.
A fearless pioneer whose performances were fueled by feminist indignation of the vulnerable position of women in American society, her work has been a harbinger of experiments in social practice, new media, interactive and net - based art decades before technology and digital culture would re-shape our experience of reality.
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