Sentences with phrase «scale experiment»

Without the ability to conduct global - scale experiments in the lab or in the field, models are the only tools they have.

Since then the project has continued to make waves with «big picture» science that often reveals consequences and impacts on pollution on ecosystems that small scale experiments can't.

We conducted a small - scale experiment with students in a teacher education program that compared these two interactive video methods to each other and to a no - video control group.

Additionally, it is hard to contemplate what an appropriate scaled experiment might be in this endeavor.

These small scale experiments were run by a friend's husband who just happens to be a scientist / biologist.

According to Savin, the researchers are motivated in their work by the fact that the manufacturing technology players are major corporations in the industry, which allows for immediate large - scale experimenting of new ideas and improvement methods in collaboration with the partner corporations.

The DEMONSTRATOR was designed to lay the groundwork for a ton - scale experiment by demonstrating that backgrounds can be low enough to justify building a larger detector.

But the food versus fuel conundrum is emblematic of the problem with geoengineering: these are global scale experiments with unclear results and unintended consequences.

Some of the best evidence so far comes from the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, which obligingly conducted a large - scale experiment for us on the effect of injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere.

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

«You don't get the chance to do these huge - scale experiments very often,» Goodwell said.

Specifically, they found that as the light was transmitted through the material, the wave rotated a specific amount, which is related to physical constants that are usually only measureable in atomic scale experiments.

However, one quickly reaches the bounds of today's available computing power when large - scale experiments need to be modeled numerically while retaining all important physical effects, and exhaustive simulations of fusion reactor plasmas as a whole are still not feasible.

Large - scale experiments where scientists spray iron into the waters, literally fertilizing phytoplankton, have created huge human - made algal blooms.

The project is good news for British researchers who lost a chance to carry out large - scale experiments when the Science and Engineering Research Council pulled out of a similar joint project with Germany.

Three of these quasiparticles, the Dirac, Majorana, and Weyl fermions, were discovered in such materials, despite the fact that the latter two had long been elusive in experiments, opening the path to simulate certain predictions of quantum field theory in relatively inexpensive and small - scale experiments carried out in these «condensed matter» crystals.

This valuable commodity is used in medical scanners and large - scale experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Derenzo and his colleague wrote that despite overwhelming evidence for dark matter, recent large - scale experiments designed to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter particles with masses of WIMPs have not yet seen a definitive signal.

Hilfiger's first in - season runway extravaganza, staged at New York City's South Street Seaport last September, was a large - scale experiment involving intense effort and coordination across the company's production, marketing and retail teams.

More than two decades ago, the Massachusetts Legislature authorized a series of small - scale experiments called «charter schools.»

Kawasaki plans to speed up its technological development efforts for the project before conducting a full - scale experiment at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland, the world's leading site for ocean energy development.

Former science minister Gerry Goodyear defended the closure by arguing that whole - lake experiments like those performed at ELA could be replaced by smaller scale experiments in labs where they would not jeopardize the entire lake.

«This is the first large - scale experiment of its kind,» says Xue - Xian Zhang, a microbial ecologist at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Similar but smaller - scale experiments by others have shown that toxic effects from vaping are nevertheless low (but not zero) and very much lower than smoking.

Of course, we're already unwittingly running such a global scale experiment.

Field - scale experiments with HTC reactor should be conducted to confirm the assessments from this laboratory - scale study.»

Scientists uniformly agree that whole - lake research offers the best evidence to guide policy, Blais wrote, while «small - scale experiments are inadequate to address issues related to ecosystem services, food web structure, land - water interactions, air - water interactions, shoreline communities, and migratory species.»

And when Google senior vice president for Android, Chrome, and Google Apps Sundar Pichai introduced Google's wireless plans in Barcelona, Spain last month, he said the service was going to be a small - scale experiment that is intended to explore new pricing strategies and encourage carriers to follow suit.

(And the unions will try to prevent any such large - scale experiment.)

Perhaps they manage international interdisciplinary projects or develop effective and efficient ways of handling the enormous quantities of data generated from large - scale experiments, leaving the research scientists more time to get on with the business of analyzing that data.

When Mayuresh V. Kothare, chairman of the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Lehigh University, his collaborator, adjunct professor Shivaji Sircar, and their postdoc Vemula Rama Rao realized they had a patentable result based on their bench - scale experiments, they immediately filed an invention disclosure with Lehigh's Office of Technology Transfer (OTT).

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

I don't really know anything about running a lab, even though I've had some experience organizing a very small - scale experiment.

US researchers investigated this effect towards the end of the 1990s in a large - scale experiment on forest land in the vicinity of the Brazilian town of Manaus.

Better still, a 100 - millisecond ink - jet burst dissipates fast, at least in the team's small - scale experiment.

The knowledge is needed for future, large - scale experiments and provides hope when it comes to solving difficult problems.

The time I spent on the audit team taught me a lot about research design and data management, which was very helpful because my background research experience didn't include the design of large - scale experiments.

In Garching, IPP has two large - scale experiments: the Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment (ASDEX) Upgrade tokamak and the WENDELSTEIN 7 - AS stellarator.

To find that out, he says, future longer, larger - scale experiments, perhaps using natural dust, are required.

After years of searching for these particles in high - energy accelerators and other large - scale experiments, researchers found that they can detect these elusive fermions in table - top laboratory experiments on crystals.