Sentences with phrase «researchers are in a race»

Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of quantum computers, as cryptographers Tanja Lange (Eindhoven University of Technology) and... Read more

As new evolving viruses becoming more dangerous, local researchers are in a race against time to discover the mutations and protect the human race.

Not exact matches

Big smartphone brands, special materials start - ups and university researchers are locked in a race to discover unbreakable glass — or something like it.

Where the «MAD» acronym — mutually assured destruction — characterized the nuclear arms race, that acronym stands for «mutually assured doubt» in the cyber arms race, according to one researcher, because you can never be sure what attack will occur.

When the researchers accounted for a number of variables — like mothers» weight and education, family income and race — bottle - feeding itself was still linked to lesser self - regulation later on in infancy.

We don't know exactly why race plays a role in having a low - birthweight baby; researchers are working to learn more about it.

Thanks to powerful gene - sequencing techniques developed in the past two decades during the race to decode the human genome, researchers are beginning to reconstruct what our ancestors» microbiomes looked like, potentially going back thousands of years.

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

Labs raced to study the virus, researchers coordinated their efforts, and a national pandemic strategy was announced in the United States.

Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.

As researchers have been uncovering a growing number of differences between the semen - based virus and blood - borne populations — and the number of people with the virus continues to rise rapidly — the race to piece together a better understanding of the virus's makeup and behavior in the male genital tract has grown ever more urgent.

As efforts to contain it mount, researchers are racing to find out what is driving this year's surge in cases and deaths.

Robots already exist that bear a striking likeness to humans, with hyper - realistic skin, hair and facial expressions, while companies are racing to develop ever more natural voice generation software — two elements that researchers argue are necessary if people are ever to fall in love with bots.

When the Moon's shadow races across the continental United States on August 21, researchers will be waiting — in planes, on mountaintops and at other carefully chosen vantage points along the roughly 110 - kilometre - wide path of totality.

In this case, researchers fed the system information about 1,000 death row prisoners, including their sex, age, race, highest year of school completed, the state in which they were incarcerated, and whether they were ultimately executed or spareIn this case, researchers fed the system information about 1,000 death row prisoners, including their sex, age, race, highest year of school completed, the state in which they were incarcerated, and whether they were ultimately executed or sparein which they were incarcerated, and whether they were ultimately executed or spared.

And that, researchers report July 7 in Science, may be when wheat started to lose an arms race with blast fungus (Pyricularia oryzae, also known as...

The researchers, from Texas A&M University — Texarkana and Loyola University New Orleans, report in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, that neither the severity of the crime nor race — the latter of which is often cited as a key factor in convictions — are reliable forecasters of a prisoner's fate.

In a group of healthy children of many races, the researchers found that CC types had higher BMI scores and percentage of body fat when compared to CT or TT types, who were similar to each other.

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

The results held up after the researchers took into account other differences in the study population, including employment status, whether they were married, race, education and age.

«In the ongoing arms race between white hats and black hats, researchers and developers are constantly coming up with new security extensions,» says Dr. William Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and a senior author of a paper describing the new framework.

Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the «exceptionally high... undervote rate» in the Florida's 13th District race «was almost certainly caused by» a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.

According to researchers in California, African Americans» participation in colorectal cancer screening is low and the use of colonoscopy infrequent despite similar access to care across races in a Veterans Affairs healthcare system.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as age, education and occupational status, the researchers found that not only was there a 30 % increased risk of any arrhythmia with the highest number of races completed and the fastest finishing time, but also the risk increased by 10 % between each category for the number of races completed, i.e. there was a 10 % increased risk from the least exposed group of participants (those who completed only one race) to the next group (two races), another 10 % increase in risk to the next group (three - four races) and another 10 % to the most exposed group (five or more races).

However, the Nobel prizewinners worked mainly with large numbers of molecules in solution, Joachim says, whereas the researchers in this race are focusing on the interactions between single molecules and solid surfaces.

That parameter, along with data about the sprinter's position (collected by lasers every 0.1 second during the race), suggests that Bolt's time sans wind assistance would have been 9.68 seconds, the researchers report today in the European Journal of Physics.

The smaller sample was drawn from the Southwest Baltimore site of the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) study, an ongoing study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions of race disparities within communities where approximately equal numbers of both African Americans and non-Hispanic whites live and where median incomes are similar.

For years, researchers have known that race is a factor in cancer survival.

What's more, in a follow - up experiment, the researchers found that simply having to specify their race before taking the test was enough to drastically worsen a black student's performance, while when white students did this, their performance actually increased.

Now an international team of researchers suggests that one way to reduce racial bias in young children is by teaching them to distinguish among faces of a different race.

That rapid improvement in performance is promising, and researchers are racing to start using perovskite cells in commercial products.

Researchers with the Human Genome Project and various commercial ventures are racing to sequence the genomes of organisms in an effort to catalog all their genes.

In the race to build a computer that mimics the massive computational power of the human brain, researchers are increasingly turning to memristors, which...

Researchers studied 50 freshman American - style football players from two Division I programs, Georgia Tech and Harvard, in the pre-season and compared them with 50 healthy Emory undergraduates, who were selected to roughly match their counterparts in age and race.

As health agencies around the world race to pinpoint the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), researchers are reporting success in developing a new theoretical model that shows how the...

After the researchers adjusted for age, gender, race, and BMI, they found that women who scored in the top half for weight - bias internalization were three times more likely to have metabolic syndrome that those in the bottom half.

The science is exploding and researchers are racing to measure and modify the rate at which our cells slow in function...

In a study analyzing the effect of caffeine on sport - specific endurance performances, researchers found that caffeine increased race times by an average of 3 % which is equivalent to 2 minutes an hour.

Closely monitoring several markers of cell damage (including creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, prostaglandin - E and tumor necrosis factor - alpha) in their sample of 18 male athletes (who used 20 grams of creatine monohydrate per day for five days, mixed with 60 grams of maltodextrine), the researchers found levels of these markers were reduced after the race, compared to 16 control subjects who took only the maltodextrine.

Odds Favor White Men, Asian Women On Dating App: Code Switch Researchers recently took data from the Facebook app Are You Interested and found that not only is race a factor in our online dating interests, but particular races get disproportionately high — and low — amounts of interest.

In the book, she issues a dire warning that researchers are repackaging outmoded notions of race by hiding behind benign - sounding euphemisms like «geographic ancestry» when they should really be disposing of such baseless categorizations entirely.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

I am an education policy researcher who's taken a few detours into policy jobs — once in the Office of Data and Accountability of DC Public Schools, and once as the Deputy of Educator Preparation for the State of Delaware under its Race - to - the - Top efforts.

Researchers seeking to understand how much of the race gap in student discipline may be attributable to discrimination face a more complex version of this challenge.

The most convincing evidence of discrimination in other contexts, like labor and housing markets, tends to come from experimental methodologies in which researchers can manufacture identical cases to compare, differing only along the dimension being examined for potential discrimination, such as race or gender.

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

STANFORD — As states catch their breath after rushing to meet the January 19 deadline for submitting applications for the first round of Race to the Top grants, education researcher Andy Smarick of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute warns that the administration must take steps to ensure that Race to the Top funds are spent in ways that promote reform.

H. Richard Milner is a professor, noted researcher, and expert on race in education at the University of Pittsburgh.

This is the focus of a new report [published in the Australian Journal of Education] from researchers at the University of New England, which looks at different types of potential bias in grading including gender, race and physical attractiveness.