Sentences with phrase «scale field trial»
The effort has also become a large - scale field trial of using classroom video, to help teachers improve and to evaluate them remotely.
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Dr. Rocke is currently leading a large - scale field trial in 8 western states of the U.S. to determine if oral vaccination through consumption of vaccine - laden baits prevents plague in wild prairie dogs, thus reducing the risk of disease for the endangered black - footed ferret, other animals, and possibly humans.
This year, Rocke hopes to conduct larger - scale field trials to determine the levels of immunity required for success in a mass vaccination.
Roughly 250,000 of the wasps (Anagyrus lopezi) landed in Thailand's northeastern province of Khon Kaen on July 17 — after initial small - scale field trials proved effective.
Many scientists believe that small or medium scale field trials may be needed to understand the risks of large - scale geoengineering projects.
To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»
While Vogel acknowledges that it will be difficult to set up «large - scale field trials... particularly for an extended period of time in a large geographical area,» he believes the 540 % figure could be increased further with better land management and breeding techniques and with improvements in cellulosic ethanol production technologies.
She has been extensively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of several large - scale field trials of psychosocial stimulation — delivered via home visits and / or group sessions — and nutrition in Colombia and India.
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This is trial and error spending on an unprecedented scale — christ, if they can't put a decent team on the field now then Man U should pack it in and call it a day.
Though the field trials have been relatively small so far, the operationally similar Sterile Insect Technique has been successfully used to eliminate pests on various scales up to continent - wide.
«The Educational Value of Field Trips,» by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida, and Daniel H. Bowen, which appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, is the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum, this one in Bentonville, AR.
A study by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» was the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum.
New evidence has been collected from publicly funded voucher programs in Florida and Cleveland; new findings from randomized field trials conducted in New York City, Dayton, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C., are now available; and a growing body of evidence collected abroad provides a comparative perspective on the probable effects of large - scale choice initiatives.
She investigates these processes both in the laboratory and in large - scale, randomized controlled trials in the field.
Free - air concentration enrichment (FACE) technology has now facilitated large - scale trials of the major grain crops at elevated [CO2] under fully open - air field conditions.
The scale has adequate validity both as a screening tool for depression and as an outcome measure in clinical trials and has been applied successfully across a wide range of study fields.