Sentences with phrase «scale field experiments»

The NRC notes that «small - scale field experiments with controlled emissions [e.g. releasing reflecting aerosols into the atmosphere] may....
We use advanced research methods, including large - scale field experiments, surveys, and institutional data, to learn applied lessons about how institutions can solve environmental problems.
We received a large proportion of small - scale, laboratory studies, and while we definitely see value in these types of studies (given increased experimental control), we think it is important to balance these types of studies with large - scale field experiments.
Well - controlled laboratory as well as large - scale field experiments were conducted with keystone species and natural communities in a wide range of habitats in the North and Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, and off Papua New Guinea, among other places.
EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»
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.
Expanding on this work, a large - scale field experiment is being run to test when NGOs can be motivated to monitor the performance of international organizations.

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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.
Field experiments have shown that these applications work in principle; the challenge now, says Stamets, is making them practical on an industrial scale.
Based on an improved understanding of the photoemission process itself this will serve in future experiments to resolve variations of light fields with sub-atomic resolution, i.e. on a scale that was not accessible up to now.
«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»
Field - scale experiments with HTC reactor should be conducted to confirm the assessments from this laboratory - scale study.»
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 was found to be the case in both a plant manipulation experiment conducted at the Lancaster University Field Station, and at a large scale plot experiment in Jena, Germany.
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
The work will take place on several parallel tracks: performing scaled - down MagLIF experiments at the LLE Omega facility; improving performance of full - scale MagLIF experiments on Z through optimized laser pre-heating and improved axial magnetic field hardware; and validating simulations against experiments.
It's true that I spent much of the last few years working on a large - scale experiment in which we assigned by lottery nearly 11,000 students to tour an art museum or serve in the control group to identify what students learn from field trips to art museums.
Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923), best known for his large - scale, color field painting, first experimented with reductive geometry in paint and wood in 1949.
Dan Christensen, Serpens, 1968 Acrylic on canvas, 112 x 173.5 inches Courtesy of Spanierman Modern, NY May 15 — August 30, 2009 For more than forty years, American artist Dan Christensen — long associated with the Color Field movement — experimented with colors, shapes, and forms in his large - scale paintings.
I do realize that this is largely due to your inability to set up a well controlled experiment in this field, most data are eroded, undersampled, underesolved, and wide open to interpretations, time scales are way beyond the life of an observer, etc..
Small - scale mesocosm experiments, where field populations of marine Crenarcheaota are adapted to different temperatures, will be used to further calibrate the TEX86 - SST relationship.
Forget physical risk reduction, when it comes to research, these are the sort of outcomes that should be the primary goal of governance (most if not all field experiments that might be carried out over the next decade carry extremely low to negligible risk to the environment because of their small scale).
Without the ability to conduct global - scale experiments in the lab or in the field, models are the only tools they have.
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