Sentences with phrase «scale experiment for»

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.

Not exact matches

The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

Shapiro got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.

Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.

However, there are elements of the philosophy that work quite well for those will to implement them, and in small scale experiments, where all the people involved are there voluntarily and of like mind, it has worked to the betterment of all involved.

Harmful geo - engineering experiments or large - scale land use for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

Of course, even if you can economize a specific policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare, in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).

Using neutron scattering experiments at the BER II research reactor, Manfred Reehuis and Michael Tovar were successful in determining the structural and magnetic properties for each of the mixed crystal specimens over quite a wide temperature range, from near the zero point of the Kelvin temperature scale to above 900 K.

The reason for that is that to define an S - matrix, you have to be able to look at what comes out of an experiment at arbitrarily large distance scales.

The experiment isn't just remarkable for its scale.

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

This paper represents the first large - scale data set for such an experiment to come out of the University of Illinois.

But the new cantilever experiment tests for wave function collapse occurring at different rate and length scales than those previous studies.

For projects costing more than $ 5,000, it is a lower commission and a sliding scale: we aren't going to charge $ 50,000 on a $ 1 - million experiment.

The U.K. accepted that statement, but the SPICE experiment does not violate any international agreements due to its small scale, says Jason Blackstock, a physicist at Canada's Center for International Governance Innovation.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

And not only does the LVE cut down on cost, it also allows users to print artificial human tissue on a larger scale and at higher resolution, opening doors for researchers, makers, and professionals to experiment with 3 - D printing biomaterials and fluids.

Another experiment carried out in 1990 at the South Pole by Phil Lubin of the University of California at Santa Barbara and his colleagues may have detected primordial ripples at angular scales of 1.5 degrees, though they are not yet convinced that they can rule out a galactic origin for their signal.

«This is the kind of experiment we can't do in the laboratory because of the time scales involved,» said APL's Elizabeth Turtle, principal investigator for the Dragonfly mission.

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.

We are surprised that Riegl and Purkis criticize our LV model for the potential hazards of applying it to management (something we don't do, or recommend), then argue for a global - scale biological introduction experiment based upon simulations from a single model (11).

«That made it possible for the first time to run a large - scale media experiment.»

BICEP2 has plenty of competition in searching for B - mode polarization in the CMB: other projects include the Atacama B - mode Search (ABS) led by Princeton University; the POLARBEAR experiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numeroexperiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numeroExperiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numerous others.

The $ 100 million is only enough for research, not to fund the full mission, which Milner says will be a decades - long, multibillion dollar project on the scale of the world's biggest scientific experiments, like the James Webb Space Telescope or the Large Hadron Collider.

Ian Hart, operations manager at the Anglian offices of the NRA, says there are five possible sites for a large - scale experiment but argues that managed retreat is at «the tentative hypothesis stage».

Huge experiments, of increasing scale and cost, continue to search for new particles and forces that might explain these phenomena.

Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.

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.

In the past, such relativistic experiments have involved either massive scales of distance or velocity, or else oscillations so fast that their ticks can not be reliably counted for timing purposes, says Holger Müller, an atomic physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.

The experiments support the Stockpile Stewardship Program, begun in 1995 to assure the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the need for full - scale nuclear testing.

For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experimenFor the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experimenfor ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experiments.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

The Pedal the Cause grants offer enough support for initial experiments, which will ideally lead to grants from federal sources and to large - scale studies.

«For example, if we can find conditions at which we can add the platinum at higher temperature on a larger scale than this experiment, then we would have more anchoring sites available.»

The scoring system for experiments two and three were developed by a replacement pathologist who preferred a scale of 0 to 3 which corresponded to a judgment of mild, moderate or severe (figure 4A).

In the vaccine comparison experiment, lung lesion scores for histopathology were graded for individual animals on a scale of 0 to 4 where 0 — 2 represented degree of cellular infiltration and 3 — 4 represented the degree of bronchiolar epithelial cell necrosis and airway cellular debris (figure 2A).

The recovery of the wildlife following these pressures will be monitored under the South Georgia Government's science strategy, but there may be opportunity for additional science to run alongside this monitoring and to better understand the impact that humans have in this environment and represents a unique large scale ecological experiment.

The team describes this experiment as proof - of - concept and has further refinements to make on the technique, but expects that the process can be scaled up for manufacturing.

March 14, 2018 New studies detail the design and deployment of biodegradable ocean drifter for large - scale sampling experiments MIAMI — Studying small - scale ocean currents is important to understand how pollutants like oil and micro-plastics, or tiny sea creatures like plankton, travel in the world's oceans.

The Mid-Scale Innovations Program that focused on small - to medium - scale experiments and facilities received second priority for the large ground projects.

In addition, producing a large number of cells is very costly, so it's difficult to scale up for big experiments.

For contributions to precision measurements of nonsequential double ionization, exploration of strong field interaction scaling properties from mid-infrared to X-ray and innovative experiments of time - resolved molecular imaging

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.

The high cost of building future experiments and prototype fusion facilities combined with the complexity of these systems and the advances expected in extreme - scale computing over the coming decade provide strong motivation for developing integrated simulation capabilities where all relevant physical processes are included in a self - consistent way.

In a large - scale field experiment, 53 scientists from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and the United States are investigating how ocean acidification influences important functions in an ecosystem representative for two - thirds of the world's oceans.

As with gene sequences, public databases house results from many large - scale array experiments that serve as useful comparative information for other researchers.

Right now, stem cell products are commonly produced on a very small scale to use in lab experiments, but we need to make them in much greater orders of magnitude for use in future human therapies.

«These experiments provide a deeper understanding of the fundamental physics of electron transport, while laying the groundwork for technological advances at the nanometer scale,» she said.

These endpoints, and our estimates of their timing with respect to viral - induced death, were arrived at from small - scale pilot experiments that determined the necessity for close monitoring because of the rapid onset of virus - induced death.