Sentences with word «polarization»

The current climate of polarization in American politics wouldn't feel out of place in one of Nolan's Batman movies with Donald Trump being a classic Batman villain.

Beyond the oft - noted political polarization of the country, they impart a profound loss of connection and community.

«We find that the groups least likely to use the internet experienced larger changes in polarization between 1996 and 2016 than the groups most likely to use the internet,» the authors wrote.

Yet, we find that consensus - messaging does not increase political polarization on the issue (perhaps partly due to the neutral scientific character of the message) and shifts the opinions of both Democrats and Republicans in directions consistent with the conclusions of climate science.

And they involve difficult trade - offs related to preserving the incentives to invest while also avoiding increased polarization of income.

The result was that, overall, more scientific literacy and mathematical ability led to greater political polarization over climate change — which, of course, is precisely what we see in the polls.

More than a decade ago, Caltech astrophysicist Jamie Bock, one of the lead scientists on the BICEP2 collaboration, came up with the idea for a telescope to search only for B - mode polarization from gravitational waves.

Averaging over some 350 high - galactic - latitude patches of sky similar in size to the region observed by BICEP2, Puget reported that polarization from interstellar dust grains plays a significant role and might account for much of the BICEP2 signal that had been attributed to inflation - generated gravitational waves.

Tables of the essential properties for polarization measurement of all the ACS filters are presented.

This apparent lack of partisan polarization in Canada may at first give rise to smugness about the appointments process in Canada; after all, our process appears to have successfully sidestepped the politicization associated with the US nomination and confirmation system.

«This leaves unbound electrons in the center between the nitrogen atom and a vacancy that give rise to unique and well - defined electron spin polarization states.»

«Bats use polarized light to navigate: First mammal known to use polarization patterns in the sky to navigate.»

Dan Kahan of Yale University and four colleagues have just published an article in Annals of the AAPS titled: Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization Testing a Two - Channel Model of Science Communication that investigates the effect on study participants» attitudes to climate change after reading an article about geoengineering.

Any explanation identifying political polarization as an outgrowth of internet or social media use, Shapiro notes, would have to account for the rapid increase in partisanship among those with limited internet use and negligible use of social media.

«The SMA's unique capability to measure polarization at high angular resolution allowed access to the magnetic fields at the smallest spatial scales,» said SMA director Ray Blundell (CfA).

Recent theoretical studies have shown that the size of dust grains can be estimated more precisely with polarization observations.

More recently, another HDAC inhibitor, ITF2357, was shown to modulate IL - 6 — dependent CD4 + T cell polarization into Th17 cells through targeting the IL - 6 / STAT3 / IL -17 pathway, and it reduced the severity of experimental colitis (49).

The authors report the observation of a bulk nuclear spin polarization of six - percent, which is an NMR signal enhancement of approximately 170,000 times over thermal equilibrium.

The real payoff could come with a space - based telescope that could measure polarization for x-ray light.

The B - mode polarization signal provides a way for astronomers to calculate neutrino masses, as well as to chase a class of «primordial» B - modes that could be used to confirm inflation

From this image, the scientists were able to track the dependence of the rate of tunneling ionization on the orientation of the molecule with respect to the laser polarization direction.

U.S. and European researchers are proposing to launch in the next decade x-ray telescopes capable of making such polarization measurements, Heyl says.

Dabbar toured the laboratory's Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance lab, where cutting - edge spectroscopy techniques allow researchers to explore how materials are constructed atom - by - atom.

I saw that work as invaluable because it illustrated that a focus on deep polarization over the level of risk posed by global warming could be distracting from the prospect of taking widely - supported steps that could be taken to address it.

«This is the first time we've made these kinds of measurements using CMB polarization data,» said Chang Feng, the lead author of the paper and a physics graduate student at UC San Diego who conducted his study with Brian Keating, an associate professor of physics at the university and a co-leader of the POLARBEAR experiment.

Usually the seminary years and the period shortly thereafter is the time when there is greater polarization around flexibility.

«Each nanofin has different, precisely controllable polarization properties,» said Noah Rubin, co-first author of the paper and graduate student in the Capasso Lab.

So I think that the concern I have is that continuing trend — and it's on both sides, but you're asking me about my party — is causing polarization of the party, turn off of the electorate.

«This is not just a nice, smooth process,» said Henry E. Siu, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, who helped write the recent study about polarization and the business cycle.

«This counter-movement produced messages aimed, at the very least, at creating ideological polarization through politicized tactics, and at the very most, at overtly refuting current scientific consensus with scientific findings of their own.»

According to the present study, astronomers obtain these «microscopic» features through polarization observations.

Advisors to Obama say the rhetorical distinction was overdrawn and that the thrust of the president's strategy is to make progress without causing further polarization.

The false colors represent different polarizations in the image.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

† I indicated August before, that would be the very earliest possible, it could take up to one to two years to match the results of several instruments set out to detect the Gravitational Waves with BICEP2, BICEP — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, the one stationed in the South Pole that made this discovery.

Anyone eager to understand, and move past, the deep political polarization around global warming would do well to explore the findings in «Solution aversion: On the relation between ideology and motivated disbelief,» published in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

He worked so hard to pass redistricting reform, which would reduce polarization in the House.

(Note that this type of wave - twisting is fundamentally different from the better - known circular polarization of light.)

At best, I see polarization in which rule of law quickly becomes a conversation killer with rule of law fundamentalists who don't want to change anything on one hand and those that are ready to easily discard some of its key tenets in face of threats or opportunities.

Income inequality has emerged as a major issue in the 2013 New York City mayoral campaign, and media coverage has frequently included mention of FPI's research on income polarization.

Divisive political battles mimic courtrooms where polarization is part of the game.

Arguably the most exciting future CMB results will come from measurements of the CMB polarization signal.

But because calculating exactly how electrons move requires too much computing power, they don't take electronic polarization into account.

Scattering signatures at 85 GHz (TbV (85) ≤ 250 K) are associated with polarization differences ≥ 6 K ∼ 50 % of the time over ocean and ∼ 40 % over land.