Sentences with phrase «role as an experiment»

It has played a vital role as an experiment in providing a credible compass on an evolving body of diverse science while avoiding pitfalls.

i.e.: dinosaur fossils are being discovered at a large enough rate that they essentially serve the same role as experiments in terms of falsifiability.

Not exact matches

In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

For example, experiment in role - playing with various ways in which a couple might handle a breakdown of communication on a subject such as disciplining children.

Senses is normally the hearing (listening), seeing (reading), touching (feeling), tasting, smelling and those have a role in creating ones back mind to think and come out with a conclusion of an idea through which he becomes to find out and work out a way to personalize as your own experiment or experience.

I said experiment because I am not sure how their chemistry would work out on the pitch as we do not see them everyday in training... for example I am not sure if Neny can play the defensive role as effectively as Coq, but since Coq is not performing at the level we usually expect of him anyway, I would pun for Neny there for now... Based on what I have seen so far, I would say Neny defensive game would be based on covering and interceptions rather than going in strongly for tackles like Coq but the plus is he runs and covers more ground than Flamini, and his movement and ball distribution is definitely better than both Flamini and Coq.

I would like to see Ozil learn to defend more if he isn't going to find his scoring boots, learn from Cazorla... It would be an interesting experiment to do, play Cazorla and Ozil as 2 creative B2B players but I do nt think it will trump Cazorla in a deep lying playmaker role and Ozil in the ACM role.

Oklahoma City would be smart to carve out secondary scoring roles for Anthony, like punishing post mismatches and experimenting with him as a roll man, something he hasn't done much the past two seasons.

Kinda makes sense though, the only reason people are asking for another CDM is because we all fear the possibility of injury to coquelin and know flamini is usless, beilick is inexperienced so it begs the question what happens if an injury where to occur, but wîth how many midfielders we have in the squad i think it could allow us to change a tactical approach and potentially experiment with people like Ramsey and Wishere potentially playing a deeper role??? But the striker is a must as i mentioned earlier Giroud went 8 games without scoring a goal and none of the other strikers stepped up to the plate, we cant have a drought of goals when your the quest for titles...

That doesn't mean he won't use the system, as one role Allegri has employed throughout his career is the No. 10 position, which could also see him experiment with the 4 -3-1-2 formation.

After experimenting with Rooney in a midfield role last season, most notably as part of his unconvincing and unpopular attempts to bring a back three - based system to Old Trafford, the Dutchman has returned the conundrum that neither Sir Alex Ferguson nor David Moyes were able to solve.

Guardiola once again continued with his experiment of using Keita as a holding midfield player, a role in which Keita has been found wanting in recent matches.

The natural gender roles were not created in the 1950s as a social experiment, they go back to the beginnings of the family unit.

We re-constructed the experiment with a group of local parents here in the Twin Cities about ten years ago, and it serves as a catalyst for important conversations about the role that self - discipline plays in our children's success and happiness...

They especially enjoy imitating the adults in their lives as they experiment with gender roles and develop their own identities.

BO plays a role in mate selection among mice, and some experiments have suggested its importance for human mate selection as well (ScienceNOW, 18 June 2004).

Unpublished follow - up experiments conducted by Leuner's team also point to a role for oxytocin, a hormone that spikes with the birth of a baby as estrogen and progesterone fall.

As the project's principal investigator, I designed the experiment that randomly assigned normal, healthy, intelligent college students to enact the roles of either guards or prisoners in a realistically simulated prison setting where they were to live and work for several weeks.

In preclinical experiments using human prostate cancer cell lines, Fu's team showed that increased PLK1 expression activated an oncogene known as c - RAF, which has previously been shown to play a role in regulating cell growth and division.

Experiments done in rats hint that specific chemical messengers in the brain, such as dopamine and endocannabinoids, may have a role in the pleasure of play.

In a series of in vitro experiments, the researchers demonstrated that C / EBPα indeed works as a tumor suppressant by restraining the expression of another molecule known to play a role in triggering and maintaining tumor growth.

Simulations play a role that is unique, as experiments are still not very reproducible and we can't really diagnose what's happening in a few femtoseconds.»

Experiments to date have not yielded evidence of stress - caused expansion, leading some scientists to rule out friction as playing a significant role in shear thickening.

In addition to serving as the U.S. host laboratory for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, Brookhaven National Laboratory plays multiple roles in this massive international undertaking, ranging from construction and project management to data storage and distribution.

The key experiments included for replication were selected because they examine the induction of POSTN expression in the pulmonary stromal fibroblasts and test the role of POSTN in primary tumor formation and metastatic efficiency, which are relevant as the role of POSTN as a possible prognostic marker and target for anticancer therapies is explored (Xu et al., 2012; Nuzzo et al., 2014).

And not only that, as Oscar Versolato from the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, who played an important role in the experiments, explains: «With our methods we can choose and set a rotational temperature between about seven and 60 Kelvin, and are able to accurately measure this temperature in our experiments.»

Experience might also play a role here, he adds, as his Mainz research group has been performing experiments on board of the M55 Geophysika for 21 years.

Laboratory experiments also demonstrate that atomic addition reactions — similar to those assumed to occur in interstellar clouds — play a role in synthesizing complex molecules by subjecting ices containing simpler molecules such as water, carbon dioxide, and methanol to ionizing radiation dosages.

To illuminate the physiological role of TRIP - Br2 on fat storage and metabolism, the scientists conducted experiments on mice genetically engineered not to produce TRIP - Br2, known as KO (knock out) mice, which were fed either a low - fat diet or a high - fat diet.

Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.

The researchers performed a series of experiments to identify the role of these fat cells as major mediators of ovarian cancer metastasis.

BDSM can be something as simple as role playing or experimenting with restraints or blindfolds.

Experiments indicate a role for boron as an ultratrace element in animals, but its role in animal physiology is unknown.

As I started experimenting with different recipes, it became apparent that each ingredient played a unique role in nourishing my body.

But earlier this year, the British brand changed course on its high - risk experiment to give Christopher Bailey the dual role of chief executive and chief creative officer, appointing ex-Céline chief Marco Gobbetti as the company's new CEO and moving Bailey into the role of president and chief creative officer.

Kuzyk made her feature debut in 1984's He's Hired, She's Fired, but went on to spend the bulk of her career playing supporting roles and occasional leads in television movies such as Family Sins (1987) and The Lifeforce Experiment (1995).

The role marked another important turning point in Murphy's genesis as a comedic actor: It was the first time that he really began to experiment with makeup and prosthetics in the creation of multiple personae on screen.

Their story is told in mostly flashback as Marston is interviewed (or more aptly, interrogated) by a psychologist (Connie Britton) and executives at National Periodicals, the publisher of Wonder Woman, which Marston used to subvert preconceived notions, put forth his pet theories of behavioral psychology, and occasionally tease the bondage, role play, and BDSM with which he, Elizabeth, and Olive experiment.

Similarly, the lead performers who inhabit the characters in their somewhat hermetically sealed environs generally deliver competent performances: In particular Cooke, looking somewhat like a hybrid of Christina Ricci and Chloe Grace Moretz concocted in a Tim Burton lab experiment, fares well shifting gears effectively between the vulnerable, victimized Jane and the menacing, malevolent Evey; Richards gives her otherwise = underdeveloped role real pop, as smartly sex - kittenish as they come; and Harris utterly dominates the proceedings with his intuitive ability to shift Coupland from sympathetic to suspicion on a dime.

Rob Corddry has landed his first starring role, a part in «Project A,» an action comedy from Ben Stiller's production company about a man trained by the U.S. government as a Cold War experiment to become the world's biggest jerk.

Alvarez cleverly starts his film with comedy with the participants seeing the experiment as a game / role - play and an easy way to make $ 15 a day.

Fassbender's story is by far the more exciting as he tracks down the Nazi doctor who experimented on him 20 years ago to exploit his super powers, he's charismatic, very impressive in the fights, and fits easily into the cynical outsider role played by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the earlier movies.

Releasing the film as two separate entities allows the audience to choose whose side to see first; a fascinating experiment into the nature of belief, human understanding and the role memory plays in forming us into the people we are.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Car chases, a keg party, science experiments and the prom all play a role, as do white tuxedos and one of the oddest shootouts ever filmed.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

Instead of doing a science fair with a potato battery powering a light bulb (a project that gets reimagined in Portal 2 as punishment for the AI character GLaDOS), I thrust the students into the role of game designers, where they took control of implementing all aspects of an experiment from start to finish.

«Structured learning experiences» refers to activities that are specifically intended to develop the knowledge and skills of participants, such as lectures, conducting experiments, role - playing, practicing implementation of new instructional materials, and reviewing research.

Instead of paying teachers based on seniority, North Carolina is experimenting with alternative models — such as paying teachers more based on student test scores or for agreeing to accept additional duties or leadership roles.