Sentences with phrase «researchers from trying»

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«It's like recalling unsafe foods without preventing new food from being contaminated and sold — or towing away crashed cars without trying to make new cars safer,» the researchers wrote.

At the University of Hawaii, researchers are trying to breed corals resilient to bleaching by studying specimens that have bounced back from stresses that killed other corals.

Researchers compared students» responses to those from the 1980s on things like «I have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me» and «I try to understand my friends by imagining how things look from their perspective.»

To try to figure this out, the researchers looked at two massive data sets - one from an ongoing study that tracks teens» screen time usage in eighth, tenth and twelfth grade and another from the CDC on risky teen behaviors.

It consisted of dozens of questions often used by psychology researchers to assess personality, such as whether the respondent prefers to be alone, tries to lead others and loves large parties (the answer choices range from «disagree strongly» to «agree strongly»).

What's important, from our standpoint, is that the monkeys didn't try to predict which researcher would give them the better deal in each particular instance, but instead focused on average outcomes.

It's a question that has tantalized many researchers, both public and private, as they try to glean insights from an ever - expanding and unruly stash of molecular and clinical information.

one of the funniest bits about attempting to throw up climategate is that — the perpetrators (the guys who tried to filter comments from researchers and then take them out of context in order to posit a conspiracy)-- were thwarted.

After that, try to imagine a researcher in the next millenium or so trying to translate «gay», «bad», «cool» or «awesome» from twentieth century texts.

I am not a scientist or doctor, but have found these podcast interviews of researchers interesting - I find it motivating to know why exercise and nutrition is important based on the physiology of the body and to hear it from people are doing cutting edge research and aren't trying to sell something.

We will try to draw contributions from these researchers and activists in an attempt to promote and learn from an international debate.

At the Festival of Social Science event, the general public will be able to try out some of the things that researchers from the Institute will demonstrate.

Columbia University is trying to hide information about millions of dollars in donations it took from a mesothelioma law firm, which received patient referrals from a Columbia researcher involved in...

The researchers tried three different spacer designs and found that a meshlike spacer prevented liquid crystal from flowing when their LCD was bent or hit.

But researchers barely tried to protect Lacks» identity, treating her cells as no different from a sample collected from a lab rat.

To get a handle on the problem, researchers have conducted experiments in which actors play out a crime, and subjects try to correctly identify the perpetrator from a lineup.

Researchers from Tohoku University have been trying to find out how the plasma flow is influenced by its environment via laboratory experiments.

As an observer and a theorist, respectively, the researchers approached the work from very different perspectives — Brown as someone who looks at the sky and tries to anchor everything in the context of what can be seen, and Batygin as someone who puts himself within the context of dynamics, considering how things might work from a physics standpoint.

Professor Jose Valderas, one of the lead researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: «When you're trying to diagnose cancer, other illnesses can be a distraction either because they also require attention or because they can mask what would otherwise be flagged as a possible sign of cancer.

Marie - Ève Maillé worries that companies will try to deter researchers from testifying if the current ruling stands.

Other researchers have tried changing cell behavior by creating protein switches from scratch, but Lim's approach — mixing and matching naturally existing proteins — may be more versatile and practical: «It can be useful as a biotechnology device or for repairing cells in humans.

Researchers looked at brain activity from EEG sensors and saw that older participants wandered into a brief «mental time travel» when trying to recall details.

The researchers, from the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) in Durham and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wanted to try sonar because its wide view can look at entire swaths of ocean at the same time.

For instance, researchers had tried to distinguish a male from a female based on the shape of a creature's body or the size of its head crest.

If a civilised discussion with your supervisor fails to resolve the problem, you should try to get objective advice from someone else, says Janet Metcalfe, head of Vitae, an organisation devoted to advancing the careers of research staff and doctoral researchers.

For this reason, researchers from the fields of agriculture and forestry have been trying to understand the workings of this growth hormone and harness their findings for scientific applications for ages.

That allowed researchers to record electrical brain activity from individual neurons while the participants moved or tried to move their fingers and wrists, which were equipped with sensors to record physical movement.

The Pacific Ocean jellyfish Aequorea victoria, it appears, produces just the sort of light that researchers try to coax from crystalline semiconductors such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

Ocean chemist Philip Boyd of the University of Otago in New Zealand says many other researchers have tried to link an infusion of iron from volcanic ash or even dust storms to plankton blooms, but this study is the first to «verify such a massive event.»

Standard licenses, like one from Creative Commons, can help you avoid the ambiguity created when researchers try to write their own sharing agreements.

The researchers also looked at deviations of daily temperatures from seasonal averages in trying to determine the effect of anomalies on crime rates.

Whereas previous research had analyzed samples of emissions from sites across the county, this time researchers focused on the risk to one small, well - defined area, trying to assess the potential of risk increasing over time.

In their study model, the researchers predict, perhaps counterintuitively, that when individuals believe others are acting positively toward them due to envy, they will actually try to retreat from the relationship because they fear they are being used by the other person.

Try doing this on your iPhone: Researchers have developed a prototype «supercamera» that stitches together images from 98 individual cameras (each with a 14 - megapixel sensor) to create a 960 - million - pixel image with enough resolution to spot a 3.8 - centimeter - wide object 1 kilometer away.

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

When technology researchers at the University of Turku were designing new solutions together with cardiologists of Turku University Hospital back in 2011, they decided to try whether it is possible to reliably detect atrial fibrillation from the micromovements in the chest with small accelerometers.

He was trying to account for something that has baffled lunar researchers since the early 1960s, when Soviet probes radioed back the first pictures of the moon's farside, which faces perpetually away from Earth.

Just as flu season swings into full gear, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Texas at Austin have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the human immune system tries to battle the influenza A virus.

Researchers who hope to create synthetic life are now trying to build this simple bacterium from scratch.

Researchers suspected that the tits (Parus major) were trying to mask their nests from the prying eyes of their competitors, pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca).

Standing in a payphone in the village of San Pedro, Chile, about 100 km from the base of Volcano Lascar, volcano researcher Tamsin Mather and colleagues are trying desperately to get through to the manufacturer of their remote sensing device in the U.S. Equipment failure is the bane of any scientist's life, but when it happens in remote terrain, a hitch like this can toll the death knell for further data collection on a precious field trip.

If they do get infected, researchers will try to pin down if they got the bug from the original subject, or someone else.

Now a Brigham Young University researcher is trying to nail down how to get kids to eat from them.

Researchers are trying to extract DNA from skeletons buried in the ancient Philistine cemetery of Ashkelon, in what is now Israel.

Now, a small group of researchers and organizations including AAAS and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU), are trying to help break the knowledge their respective communities have free from such constraints.

The researchers will then use the students» contacts to try to figure out how infections spread from person to person.

Basically 75 percent of all the emerging diseases come from animals, and the seminar which brought together a group of diverse researchers, tried to look at what we can do to better contain or spot potential outbreaks.

Although researchers can only speculate on what prehistoric artists were trying to express, hypotheses range from shamanistic and ritualistic activities to attempts to capture the spirit of horses and other animals that ancient humans hunted.

Two recent articles from researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Shinshu University in Japan and Yale University in the US try to do precisely that.