Sentences with phrase «said system scientist»

«It's a really cool piece of work,» said system scientist Charles «Chick» Macal, who was, however, not involved with the study.

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Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

We need to revise our economies «to reduce wealth inequality and ensure that prices, taxation, and incentive systems take into account the real costs which consumption patterns impose on our environment,» the scientists said, adding: «We must recognize, in our day - to - day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.»

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

The system has been challenging for women with demanding careers, says Martin, who recalls hearing female scientists share their concerns at a conference.

Secret to terroir may lie in bacteria, say scientists: Researchers in the U.S. have published a study suggesting that the characteristics associated with terroir could have more to do with microbes found around the root system of a vine, than the soil that it grows in...

Indonesia's well - institutionalized seed production system, infrastructure, availability of a good number of scientists, and a core group of hybrid rice breeders, make this an ideal time to ramp up hybrid rice research and development efforts,» said Dr. Bruce Tolentino, IRRI's Deputy Director - General.

Compounds produced in the digestive system have been linked to autistic - type behaviour in laboratory settings, potentially demonstrating that what autistic children eat can alter their brain function, say scientists from the University of Western Ontario.

It is safe to say that all developmental scientists encourage emotional responsiveness on the part of caregivers: The back - and - forth, or serve - and - return, is crucial to brain development, cognitive and emotional development, the stress regulation system, and just authentic human connection.

A forensic scientist and hacker says he has identified serious security weaknesses in Apple's iOS operating system, reports Sara Zaske for ZDNet.

Blaming excess nitrogen in area waters for causing harmful algal blooms, fish kills and beach closures, a panel of scientists and experts said Suffolk County should upgrade septic systems, launch buoys to monitor water quality and use imaging to predict problem spots.

Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.

«We owe the young scientists who are coming into the system, from the moment they start in a Ph.D. program until they finally get to the point that they're in faculty positions... a responsibility to give them clear information and good support in making effective, sound decisions that comport with their abilities and career aspirations,» Daniels said at a briefing on the report.

Crepp says that until the mid-1990s, scientists believed that gas giants like Jupiter would be found far from the stars they orbit, much like Jupiter in our solar system.

«By studying those rings up close and personal, you could draw analogies to how solar systems might form and evolve,» says Scott G. Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist.

The legacy of communist times — in particular, the traditional underfunding of science and inefficient research system — puts Eastern European scientists on unequal footing with Western groups, Pál says.

Chang said that understanding more about the microbiome in an unhealthy state can help scientists begin to learn how to promote the development of a microbiome that sets the stage for a healthy immune system.

«The regulatory system lacks checks and balances, and there is a price to be paid for scientists who speak out,» Edwards said.

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy.

In contrast to adults, acceptance of evolution in schoolchildren in the UK is linked to their scientific aptitude rather than conflicts with belief systems, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.

Coronaviruses don't make bats sick, so studying bats» immune systems, Frieman says, could give scientists clues about how to fight the illness.

Revving up the immune system to combat a wide variety of tumor types may take cancer therapy in a new direction, says Khaled Barakat, a computational scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

But money is only part of what makes a EURYI award useful, says Brian O'Neill, a climate scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, who was one of the first EURYI winners 3 years ago.

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

«For a long time, comet missions did not have pizzazz,» says Benton Clark, chief scientist for space exploration systems at Lockheed Martin, near Denver.

But scientists say it is physical, and if a new study is correct, that goes for quantum systems, too.

Reduced rainfall forecast in coming decades could cause the breakdown of the transport system in trees that takes water up from soil to the leaves, scientists say.

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

If we are trying to manage the climate system to control it and engineer it, we have to be able to measure what we are doing to it,» said Dian Seidel, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory.

«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

«The ability to repeatedly and non-destructively measure root systems in the mini-Horhizotron can provide valuable insight into the process of root growth and development and the factors that influence it,» the scientists said.

Gamboa says that not enough scientists have adopted the system to make it possible to require an ORCID for each reviewer.

Potocnik says he is empathetic, and he is already advocating a two - tier application system that would allow scientists to submit an outline or abstract of a project for initial evaluation.

«We can now start with a pretty simple disk, pretty simple physics, and reproduce the outer solar system — and that's never been done before,» says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

«Our findings help us understand how the nervous system is communicating with the immune system, and the consequences of it,» said co-senior author Vijay Kuchroo, PhD, senior scientist at BWH, and an associate member of the Broad Institute.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

«We would warmly encourage scientists to [come to China], because China's science system is becoming increasingly interesting and offers a growing number of opportunities,» says the center's German director Armin Krawisch.

The features would be the first large ice volcanoes in the solar system, says Jeff Moore, a New Horizons scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, though the team is not yet willing to say the discovery is definite.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

«Potential impacts of planned Andean Amazon dams outweigh benefits, scientists say: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river systscientists say: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river systScientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system.»

Post-surgical matching is even harder for obvious reasons, says Kevin Bowyer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, whose team developed the new system: «If someone has plastic surgery, they're trying to change the appearance of one or more parts of their face.»

IN THE REARVIEW WINDOW A final image of Saturn's moon Titan (like one shown here from the Cassini spacecraft's last distant flyby September 11) will be among the «final picture postcards of the Saturn system... to put in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 13.

«Interdisciplinary programs that encourage scientists to straddle traditional disciplinary boundaries or devote significant professional attention to real - world applications also challenges universities» reward systems,» says NSF's Karsten.

«We're actually changing and continuing to change how the Earth system functions and leaving markers that could still be found in a million years time,» says Earth scientist Karen Bacon of the University of Leeds in England.

Weiss says that if the solar nebula was around in the first 4 million years of solar system formation, this would give support to the core accretion scenario, which is generally favored among scientists.