Sentences with phrase «scientist by background»

A vast opportunity now exists, through cyberspace, one not solely for me as a scientist by background, nor for you as some peripheral specialist in a remote discipline, but for everyone.

A political scientist by background, Barbara has published widely on the societal, regulatory, and ethical dimensions of biomedicine and bioscience.

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It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.

In order to evaluate the assessment of the low emission zone, the scientists determined the reduction of tailpipe emissions of black carbon and ultrafine particles at a street - site by taking into account the concentrations measured in the urban background.

This allowed the scientists to accurately compare both the adult birds, and their eggs, to their chosen backgrounds, as well as monitor which nests had been found by predators such as banded mongooses, birds, and vervet monkeys — and even in one case hungry children.

For more than 50 years, scientists knew that the background voltage is maintained by other channels, which allow only potassium to slowly leak out.

Unlike filters made by other companies, these quarter - sized filters don't glow themselves, which allows scientists to pick out the faint virus spots from a dark background.

Although they can not be seen individually, «the total light produced by these stray stars is about equal to the background light we get from counting up individual galaxies,» says Bock, also a senior research scientist at JPL.

Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell Lab scientists made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997 by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping atoms with lasers.

Lomborg, a Danish political scientist with a background in statistics, argues in his text that claims made by environmentalists about global warming, overpopulation, energy, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, and a variety of other issues are exaggerations unsupported by a proper analysis of environmental data.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.

By targeting scientists with disadvantaged backgrounds, the NCMHD hopes to increase the diversity of the medical - research workforce — a principle goal of NCMHD.

These talks are a great opportunity to showcase scientists of varied backgrounds and experiences — but if not planned with enough care, they can have the opposite effect by creating a monolithic vision of who can be a scientist.

The answer to the problem, as so often, has to be a compromise: to introduce better linguistic training for scientists, in order to reduce the amount of translation necessary by enabling scientists to read source or background material for themselves; and improve the scientific understanding of professional translators to give them a better grasp of the various subjects they have to deal with.

We in the scientific community must make active efforts to ensure that graduate students of all backgrounds have similar opportunities to visualize themselves as scientists by making sure they have access to people they can relate to.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the use of background checks by the government on scientists and other workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Scientists in Sweden have shown that beaver ponds can cause levels of methylmercury — a particularly toxic form of mercury — to rise in downstream waters by as much as 3.5 times the background levels during summer months.

According to Shvartzvald, Yee and their colleagues, OGLE -2016-BLG-1195Lb is the lowest mass world ever discovered through microlensing, a technique in which light from a star that passes in front of a bright background object causes the latter to appear brighter, thus allowing scientists to detect anomalies created by a planet orbiting in the foreground.

It is this background warming from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases that actually accounts for most of the predictability in future temperature change, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State.

I was not only inspired by the research of young scientists, I also found it exciting to meet people from different countries and cultural backgrounds because in this one week I learned a lot from different parts of the world and I had the pleasure to talk about life itself, not only science.

With my unique background as a surgeon - scientist, my vision is to translate the latest discoveries from the Roswell Park laboratories to patients whose cancer can not be controlled by the standard treatments.

By plotting the strength of the B - mode signal as a function of frequency, the scientists could have determined whether the curve resembled the shallow rise of the cosmic microwave background or the steeper rise of dust light.

Particle physics and cosmology make up the big topics of interest for many young scientists at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, with lectures by the pioneering researchers who won Nobel Prizes for their work in the cosmic microwave background radiation, neutrino mass, and the accelerating expansion of the universe.

The press releases in this issue are condensed versions of press releases that were prepared by the APS with the assistance of the scientists quoted and with background material written by John Greenwald and Jeanne Jackson DeVoe.

Scientists can take advantage of the warping effect by measuring the light of distant stars, looking for a brightening that might be caused by a massive object, such as a planet, that passes between a telescope and a distant background star.

This dichromatic scheme created by production designer Damian LaFranche and cinematographer Tom Richmond is fascinating and more than a little unsettling: the white - clad scientists and orderlies blend in with background, with only their heads clearly visible, and the somewhat grotesque makeup of multicolored, poorly stitched together Lazarus (created by effects whiz Tom Savini, who also has a bit part) just stands out even more against the plain backdrop.

Massimo Marino comes from a scientist background: He spent years at CERN and The Lawrence Berkeley Lab followed by lead positions with Apple, Inc. and the World Economic Forum.

Here's more background on the contest from Stony Brook, including video statements by Alda directed at scientists as well as 11 - year - old students (and their teachers) who might want to participate in the judging:

I reached out by e-mail to Noah Besser, the artist who created the animation, and Gerald Meehl, the climate scientist who provides the background and main narrative voice, along with another climate scientist, Anthony Broccoli of Rutgers University, whose earlier use of the steroids metaphor caught Meehl's attention.

(Of course there was even less merit in the pretzel - logic «leaving science to the scientists» criticism of Francis used by presidential long - shot Rick Santorum earlier this month, only partly because the pope has a chemistry background *.)

I'd love to see these thousands of scientists (at least ones with background in fields like geology or climatology that are relevant) who disagree with the consensus that has been illustrated by the likes of the National Academies and IPCC.

The purveying of propositions like these by a few scientists who do or should know better — and their parroting by amateur skeptics who lack the scientific background or the motivation to figure out what's wrong with them — are what I was inveighing against in the op - ed and will continue to inveigh against.

Any reader — even without technical or information - systems background — is invited to click on the link in my post above and see immediately with his or her own eyes that HARRY READ ME is a three - year diary involving a very wide range of activities, transactions and programs involving more than a dozen countries and encompassing collection and processing of major portions of the raw temperature data which underlie more than two of the principal databases used by «climate change scientists».

And here we have a brilliant scientist, tying past climate changes to one factor alone: human CO2 emissions, by statistically eliminating all other known possible factors as «background noise».

Part 1 provides background to the scenarios used by climate scientists.

It began as an anti-coal movement by environmentalists who roped in «scientists» like Keeling who was willing to fiddle the data by measuring his, I think his, invention the mythical «pristine well - mixed background» from the top of the world's largest active volcano surrounded by active volcanoes producing loads of carbon dioxide indistinguishable from man made from fossil fuels.

The letter, signed by 250 scientists from varied backgrounds, disciplines and institutions, emphsizes that existing data shows elephant populations are in major trouble.

[Image 1] A survey conducted in 2007 by George Mason University of U.S. scientists who have expertise in climate science (not just a scientific background) what they think.

By helping to create a pretty nasty environment in which global warming is discussed you are really not doing anyone a favour, and perhaps, just perhaps, it is because you don't have the rigourous background as the scientists against which you rally.

As a research chemist (and global warming does have a lot of chemistry involved), I am frequently derided by those with no scientific degree or background (or even a college education for that matter) as being the «wrong kind of scientist».

By way of background (just a tiny bit), the occasion for the query is the «here we go again» exasperated response to the new study that corroborates years and years of previous studies finding that there is a scientific consensus — consistently calculated by a variety of methods as 97 % of scientists, peer - reviewed articles, etc. — that human activity is the cause of climate changBy way of background (just a tiny bit), the occasion for the query is the «here we go again» exasperated response to the new study that corroborates years and years of previous studies finding that there is a scientific consensus — consistently calculated by a variety of methods as 97 % of scientists, peer - reviewed articles, etc. — that human activity is the cause of climate changby a variety of methods as 97 % of scientists, peer - reviewed articles, etc. — that human activity is the cause of climate change.

Presumably the intention is to exclude opinions by non-physical scientists who are not only not necessarilly expert in a particular area of climate science, but do not necessarilly have the scientific background to assess the evidence adduced by the IPCC in support of the concensus position.

A perfect example of this comes from a study conducted by scientists who created several groups containing three people of different racial backgrounds.