Sentences with phrase «pioneering study»

Both base their books on what they consider pioneering studies of American families, as well as on their own experience.

I am merely referring to the influence a group has by virtue of publishing pioneer studies in an emerging field, which then starts a citation chain reaction.

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

Interview: RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, critic and curator who pioneered the study of performance art.

Gill has played a key role in pioneering studies of the evaluation of school principals as well as teachers, including a study for the U.S. Department of Education to assess the validity of school principals» contributions to student achievement growth.

Pioneering studies by Dean Ornish, M.D., called the Lifestyle Heart Trial, combined a plant - based diet with exercise, stress reduction, yoga, social support and love, and cessation of smoking to reverse advanced heart disease.

Hermann Ebbinghaus, the German psychologist responsible for pioneering the study of memory, first described the learning curve in the late 19th century.

Inspired by the early impact of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School's new, state - of - the - art elementary wing, faculty researchers from PKY and the University of Florida are teaming up on pioneering studies into how school building design can influence and improve schooling for -LSB-...]

Following a path first charted by Kandel, whose pioneering studies with Aplysia helped earn him the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, Bailey studies how the animal's neurons change with learning.

is the 71st birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.

The 32 Tesla compact magnet will enable new discoveries and innovations in advanced materials and will fast track research and pioneering studies at the Nano scale.

He first saw it happen to the late Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, and then to Benjamin Santer, a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who wrote pioneering studies that identified the human fingerprint on the climate system.

Wildlife biologists AMY VEDDER and BILL WEBER, who married in 1972, conducted pioneering studies of Rwanda's gorillas and co-founded the Mountain Gorilla Project.

Without enough oxygen, the yeast may be unable to produce the metabolic changes scientists think are necessary to prolong life, say MIT molecular biologist Leonard Guarente, whose lab pioneered the study of caloric restriction in yeast.

We have pioneered studies demonstrating that low - yielding wild and exotic Oryza species harbor genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be used to enhance the performance of modern, high - yielding rice cultivars.

But not until the late 1800s did a German psychologist by the name of Hermann Ebbinghaus pioneer the study of memory in an experimental way.

Jaak Panskepp pioneered the study of animal emotions — a subject most neurobiologists considered off - limits.

But pioneering studies showed that molecular bric - a-brac could be added to DNA in adulthood, setting off a cascade of cellular changes resulting in cancer.

Two decades ago, scientists at Cornell University pioneered studies of treating dairy cattle with injections of natural bovine somatotropin (BST).

Bronzaft pioneered studies that show noise can impede children's learning.

«Novel mechanism behind schizophrenia uncovered: Pioneering study finds high - risk protein suppresses key neurotransmitter.»

Visionary applications Pioneering studies of thinking cells by Itzhak Fried and Christof Koch could help advance at least two technological endeavors.

The experiment that Dabiri — who has pioneered studying tiny swimmers» movements with lasers, making him some kind of futuristic marine pied piper — and his colleagues undertook mimics what happens in the ocean on a regular basis.

· 20 snow leopards have been collared to track their movements using GPS satellites, while several pioneering studies have been initiated to shed light on the ecology and behaviour of these elusive animals, and the economic, political and social dynamics surrounding their conservation.

Dozens of Pioneering Studies Dig into on personality types and their impact on our lives social attitudes, relationships, and much more.

Hovland pioneered the study of communication and its psychological influence leading to the art of persuasion (Saettler, 2004), while Schramm introduced mass communications education (Saettler, 2004).

Credited as the «father of the motion picture,» Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the study of motion in time - lapse photography that documented the dynamics of human and animal movement.

A prolific contributor to the Architectural Review, he illustrated pioneering studies of architecture in and around the Thames as well as of Britain's neglected industrial heritage.

«Pigovian» refers to the legendary British economist Alfred Pigou who early in the 20th Century pioneered the study of «externalities,» with environmental pollution as his prime case.

Swiss researcher and theoretician Jean Piaget notably pioneered the study of cognitive development, and other theorists, such as Russian Lev Vygotsky, have regarded social cognition, or knowledge about people and social processes, as fundamental to human development.

«In certain regions of the state, we observed a phenomenon we've termed the «Prius effect» — a positive correlation between the value of green home labels and environmental ideology, as measured by the rate of hybrid registrations,» says Nils Kok, visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped pioneer the study.

After graduating, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1967 to 1969 as an assistant professor, and then returned to Oxford to do lab - based graduate research with Nikolaas Tinbergen, the Dutch ethologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1973 for pioneering studies of animal behavior.

Botanic Garden Alpine and Woodland Supervisor, Paul Aston, and colleague Simon Wallis, are pioneering studies into the cellular - level structures of these alpine plants with Dr Wightman.

Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg, who pioneered the study of performance art with her groundbreaking book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present (1979), presents an authoritative introduction, addressing the changing role of performance in the twenty - first century as well as the biennial's unique emphasis on the city of New York.

A leading expert in neural movement control, Jessell, a U.K. native who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, conducted pioneering studies that identified mechanisms involved in the neural development and organization of the spinal cord.

Her lab pioneered the study of blood proteins in neurological diseases, showing that when these proteins leak into the brain, they damage brain cells and activate the brain's immune system, triggering inflammation and neuron death.

A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the development of several new materials have won the Kyoto Prize from the Japanese Inamori Foundation.

Pioneering Studies in Socionomics.

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.

A pioneering study in this field reported by Holden (1981) was done in Yorkshire in 1974 by a student of animal behavior.

However the publication of H. U. von Balthasar's pioneering study, Kosmiche Liturgie, in 1941, renewed interest in Maximus» thought in the LatinWest.

Dr. McKenna is best known for his pioneering studies of the differences between the physiology and behavior of solitary and co-sleeping mothers and infants - and the connection these data might have in addressing SIDS risks.

Dr. McKenna is best known for his pioneering studies of the differences between the physiology and behavior of solitary and co-sleeping mothers an infants - and the connection these data might have in addressing SIDS risks.

Less liver fat, cholesterol and weight — just some of the benefits that New Scientist staff enjoyed in a pioneering study into a month's alcohol abstinence

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, has published a pioneering study on the role of the chemical and petrochemical industry in reaching the EU climate targets.

In the 1980s Caroline and Robert Blanchard, working together at the University of Hawaii, carried out a pioneering study on the natural history of fear.