Sentences with phrase «scale experimenting of»

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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.

And when the proposed test is done, the population of aegypti is expected to rebound to its previous level — at least until and unless the test is deemed so successful, safe, and necessary that Oxitec is permitted to move from experiment to full - scale release.

Start on a small scale if necessary with various experiments to get you more comfortable with a new way of operating.

It involves finding your right - of - way — the space where you can innovate; finding a partner to help you do the things you can't do alone; experimenting to learn; and then scaling.

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

From sensors and robots to 3D printing and green technology, global companies are experimenting with a variety of methods to streamline, scale, and sustain their business.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

Time - resolved measurements of the hot - electron population in ignition - scale experiments on the National Ignition Facility

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.

Named after the British physicist, Peter Higgs, in the 1960s, it remains a «missing link,» as yet undetected in experiments and yet crucial to much of the current theoretical understanding of the fundamental properties of matter on the quantum scale.

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.

You said, «To remove God from society as you promote and move forward with a godless society is an experiment of grand scale that would be undertaken without any evidence or proof whatsoever that such a model is workable.

by Dave DeWitt In 1989, with the help of Dr. Ben Villalon of the Texas A&M Agricultural Experiment Station and Dr. Paul W. Bosland of New Mexico State University's Department of Plant and Environmental Science, I compiled and published the first chile heat scale in Chile Pepper magazine.

In 1989, with the help of Dr. Ben Villalon of the Texas A&M Agricultural Experiment Station and Dr. Paul W. Bosland of New Mexico State University's Department of Plant and Environmental Science, I compiled and published the first chile heat scale in Chile Pepper magazine.

That required the development of space - age greenhouses where astronaut farmers could experiment with harvesting large - scale food crops.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

The children are now 2.5 and I feel like we are some kind of odd, small scale social experiment.

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 experimentOf 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 experimentof 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 experimentof 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).

Instead of speculating on the impact of proposed policies such as basic income and environmental taxes Finland will now experiment, measure and scale

Fascinated with the idea of building better AI systems by incorporating visual intelligence, Kunda and her graduate students set about identifying the building blocks of visual thinking, experimenting with object rotation, scaling and combining.

The satellite is the foundation of the $ 100 million Quantum Experiments at Space Scale program, one of several missions that China hopes will make it a space science power on par with the United States and Europe.

Such research would also define the smallest scale of intervention experiments that would yield meaningful scientific understanding.»

In these experiments, the researchers manipulated three variables while growing the willow oaks: temperature, water and the presence of scale insects.

One near - term step researchers could take, it says, «is defining the scale and scope of observations and modeling capabilities necessary to detect the signal of any future field experiments» of geoengineering techniques, and ways «to evaluate their consequences.

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.

By smashing together nuclei of lead — the largest particles the LHC can handle (pdf)-- the ALICE experiment will create a quantum - scale fireball 100,000 times the temperature of the core of the sun.

Blatt and Wineland plan to scale up their experiments to perform teleportation through arrays of more interconnected atoms, taking one more step toward a practical quantum computer.

According to Laepple: «We are in the middle of an experiment that we can not reverse, but which we still don't understand well enough to make clear statements at the regional level on longer time scales.

Greg Rau, a scientist at LLNL and the University of California, Santa Cruz, conducted a series of small - scale lab experiments that found seawater and calcium can be used to remove carbon dioxide from a gas - fired plant.

Already, Armstrong and her group have had some success creating small - scale versions of the protocell reef in the lab, and they're moving on to experiments in controlled natural areas.

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).

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

«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.

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.

One of the missions that has yielded early results — and garnered worldwide attention — is the $ 100 - million Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) mission.

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.

Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has outlined how a small - scale «stratospheric perturbation experiment» could work.

But isolated climate relicts that are distributed across landscapes create «natural experiments» that help to overcome these problems of scale.

Third, documented demonstration projects and careful experiments, working hand in hand, have improved the rigor and success of malaria policies, and those successes should now be taken to full scale.

A biochemistry major, Gazzaley had planned to put a chunk of sodium metal into a lake behind campus to make it fizz — a large - scale version of the classic junior high school lab experiment in which adding a pinch of potassium to water creates a spark as the chemical reaction releases energy.

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

Besides relativity, the scales of the experiment can boggle the mind.

All the loose speculation provoked by roborats is ironic considering that the experiment was just a small - scale replay of a major media event that occurred almost 45 years ago.

One theory from the teaspoon experiments involves the cornstarch grains bunching together into clusters, and its author, John Brady of the California Institute of Technology, thinks that the process at work in the new experiments could simply be that theory scaled up hundreds of thousands of times.

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.

«There are a lot of small experiments going on but no large - scale data gathering.»

The study, «Effectiveness of a Scaled Up Physical Activity Intervention in Brazil: A Natural Experiment,» recently was published in Preventive Medicine, an international journal devoted to the science and practice of disease prevention, health promotion and public health policymaking.

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.

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.