Sentences with phrase «plays roles of scientist»

But as the label explains, Dion is a real artist, who plays roles of scientist, curator, archeologist, and scholar to create elaborate installations in the territory where Night at the Museum meets Borges.

Most recently, his work has shifted to encompass more elaborate installations, as when he and his studio completely appropriated the idea of space exploration in Space Program: Mars (2012), a massive installation that transformed the New York Armory into a 55,000 - square - foot demonstration of Sachs's warped vision of a mission to Mars — complete with his own imaginings of the equipment needed to live and work as part of such a mission and live performers who played the roles of scientists and explorers maneuvering within this imagined realm.

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Scientists note that «the use of light - emitting devices immediately before bedtime is a concern because of the extremely powerful effect that light has on the body's natural sleep / wake pattern and how that may play a role in perpetuating sleep deficiency.»

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Scientists like Hawking tell us: God has no place in any scientific equations, plays no role in any scientific explanations, can not be used to predict any events, does not describe anything or force that has yet been detected, and there are no models of the universe in which a god's presence is either required, productive, or useful.

These social scientists have not yet, to my knowledge, turned their attention to the role (s) played by theologians in helping to form the attitudes of clergy and laity.

Political scientists have long known that community in all its forms can play a key role in the distribution of power.

Scientists Elizabeth D. Prescott and David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco, announced they had identified a lipid molecule called PIP2 that plays a crucial role in controlling the strength of the burning sensation caused by capsaicin.

Skills and training continues to be a major focus for the food and drink sector, in recognition of the important role that the next generation of food scientists and technicians will play in driving innovation and meeting the key challenges of nutrition and public health.

As one of the authors (Barth) discusses in detail in an article in the latest volume of The Future of Children, developmental scientists have put together conclusive evidence that parenting plays a pivotal role in children's social, emotional, health, and intellectual development.

Scientists looking at the incidence of twins among the Yoruba believe genetics also may play a role.

Many doctors and scientists believe that team sports play an important role in the development of self - esteem.

These complex sugars are indigestible by the infant but appear to play a powerful role in shaping an infant's gut microbiome, the fine - tuned community of trillions of microbial cells that, again, scientists are only beginning to understand.

Non-cognitive skills, as social scientists call them (the rest of us call them personality traits)-- persistence, grit, curiosity, self - control, delayed gratification, conscientiousness — play a crucial role in life's outcomes.

Chesapeake Bay Program / Flickr CC BY - NC 2.0 Citizen scientists play a significant role in achieving scientific results, according to a panel of experts...

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

For recently minted Ph.D. scientists, having children and the choice of field to study play crucial roles in the very real gender pay gap, a new study finds.

«What they do is make sure that the work that human rights groups are doing is evidence - based,» said Theresa Harris, a project director in the SRHRL program who manages the newly - expanded On - call Scientists program, of the role participating scientists arScientists program, of the role participating scientists arscientists are playing.

The Independent, which serves Livermore, California — home to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — notes that «science plays a large role in the economy of the area» and is urging local scientists to «take a stand in favor of research; take part in the march.»

Turn It Up Scientists have suspected that the prefrontal cortex plays a key role in high - level cognition since the case of Phineas Gage.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play.

Citizen scientists play a significant role in achieving scientific results, according to a panel of experts who participated in the January installment of the AAAS Colloquium series, noting successful citizen science programs and offering suggestions to maximize citizen scientists» efforts.

Wyndham argues, among other things, that scientists and scientific associations should play a leading role in defining the right to the benefits of scientific progress by considering how this right applies to their work, research, training, and teaching.

Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component of soot known as black carbon — play in influencing the behavior of Himalayan glaciers.

Many authors are loath to exclude reviewers because it goes against their ideal vision of what science should be about, he says: «Scientists like to believe that personal factors shouldn't play a role in science.»

By combining each mouse's genome, phenome, proteome and metabolome, the scientists were able to identify a particular gene, located on their chromosome 2, and whose presence plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes «The mice with a high - fat diet are more or less likely to develop diabetes depending on whether this gene is active or not,» said Evan Williams, LISP PhD student and the article's co-first author.

In the second Cell paper, researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Cambridge, McGill University in Canada and several UK and European institutions to explore the role that epigenetics plays in the development and function of three major human immune cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T cells, from the genomes of 197 individuals.

Combining a student - centered approach with the teaching of system smarts can reduce the importance of the «random factor» — that serendipitous conversation or chance meeting in a hallway — that most scientists of color say played a major role in the earliest stages of their career.

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

In the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the scientists demonstrate that the protein ZEB1 plays a particularly important role: It limits the production of the binding proteins E-cadherin and Epcam — both in the fish embryo and in the tumor cell.

Saints: Foldit Gamers Players of the online game Foldit, created by University of Washington scientists Zoran Popović and David Baker, have unraveled the structure of a protein that plays a crucial role in how the AIDS virus reproduces.

Although these supporting players comprise fewer than 2 percent of the cells in the region, the scientists were surprised to discover that they play a disproportionately important role.

Large areas of the Earth's surface are experiencing rising maximum temperatures, which affect virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including ice sheets and tropical forests that play major roles in regulating the biosphere, scientists have reported.

Regional agencies such as FAPESP play a very important role in Brazil, says Wanderley de Souza, a biomedical scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.

A team of international scientists, including a researcher from Simon Fraser University, has isolated a gene thought to play a causal role in the development of Alzheimer's disease.

But a new study suggests that mature cells also play a key role in initiating cancer — a finding that could upend the way scientists think about the origins of the disease.

A small but growing cohort of scientists suspects that if this style of misfolding is a generic property of proteins, it's likely to play a role in normal biology.

This gallery highlights some of their discoveries, and shows what it takes for scientists to operate in one of the least hospitable places on Earth, which, as it turns out, played a key role in the evolution and migration of the planet's vertebrates, including mammals.

The CRG scientists Marina Marcet - Houben and Toni Gabaldón used advanced computational methods to study the origins of the whole genome duplication in yeast to gain a more thorough understanding of this phenomenon, which is thought to have played a key role the evolution and adaption of the species.

... I fully support her career and often use her as an example in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota on careers and the role (s) scientist [s] can play in affecting public policy and development.

Many early CubeSats tackled problems in space weather, but other areas of science are opening up, and some scientists think CubeSats can play a role far beyond low - Earth orbit.

«Science plays a big role in deepening our understanding of these iconic masterpieces,» said Francesca Casadio, A.W. Melon senior conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago, which is hosting a new exhibition, Van Gogh's Bedrooms.

Early - career scientists, however, generally play no role in formulating the policies of these organizations, and their interests often differ from those of established scientists.

However, in the past decade scientists realized that exosomes play important roles in many biological functions through capsuling and delivering molecular messages in the form of nucleic acids and proteins from the donor cells to affect the functions of nearby or distant cells.

This article will explore three dimensions in the professional lives of young LGBT scientists — mentoring, being a minority within a minority, and playing the role of leader versus activist — and how they are addressed in academia, industry, and professional societies.

Some scientists have dubbed this compilation of male disorders «testicular dysgenesis syndrome,» and suggested that hormone - disrupting environmental contaminants play a role.

Scientists knew that activity in the stratosphere 10 kilometers to 50 kilometers above Earth plays a role in what happens in the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere extending from the planet's surface to the stratosphere.

Now, Salk scientists have developed a highly sensitive, new method that enables them to detect fleeting protein interactions that play critical roles in the development of many diseases including cancer.

It's the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes.