Sentences with phrase «scientists focused their study»

The international team of scientists focused their study around Aira caldera — a large, submerged crater caused by the violent explosion and subsequent collapse of a voluminous magma reservoir.

The scientists focused their study on four large glaciers in Nepal's Dudh Kosi river basin, which holds 400 square kilometres of glacial ice.

Not exact matches

Hall's coral studies focus on the effects of heat, acidification, and disease, which help scientists find and breed particularly resilient candidates for replanting on reefs.

But we shouldn't take as our paradigm of knowing the most technical and rigorous kinds of focusing — like what scientists do when they're studying a virus.

As a research - driven organization led by nutrition scientists, the McCormick Science Institute is focused on advancing the scientific study of the health and wellness properties of spices and herbs, with all research teams required to submit their findings to reputable, peer - reviewed scientific journals for publication.

An initial focus group study that engaged U.S. - based scientists added clarity regarding the broad benefits of scientific progress relevant to the right and gave rise to a new conceptual framework for considering «access to science» in the context of Article 15.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

These records are arranged into five series, focusing on general files and correspondence, Out of School Programs in Science, the Resource Directory of Handicapped Scientists, the Coping Strategies Study and staff files.

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

The study focuses on an area bordering the Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage site made up of about 50 islands that, the scientists note, were cleared over time and embanked as part of an effort to boost food production.

National Institutes of Health scientists have published several preliminary studies showing that nicotine — yes, the same chemical found in cigarettes — has the ability to focus attention.

«Many scientists, including us, had focused mostly on the mosquito antennae» for sensing human odors outside of exhaled carbon dioxide, says senior study author Anandasankar Ray, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside.

Patterson, one of the few scientists who began studying the role of immune molecules in neurons before Shatz, has long focused on cytokines, messenger molecules that regulate inflammation in the body and (as Patterson eventually discovered) act as growth factors in the developing brain.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

For now, scientists tend to focus their multi-omic studies on a particular disease or question.

Soil nitrogen expert Eric Davidson, a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Mass., who was not involved in the study, said the finding is important because it focuses scientists, policymakers and farmers on making reductions where they will make the most difference.

Scientists also still need to gain a better understanding of when the magma overpressure — the main focus of the study — will signal an eruption in the real world.

In a report published in this week's issue of Nature, scientists argue that the FTO gene, discovered back in 2007 and the focus of hundreds of studies since then, exerts its effects through an entirely different gene called IRX3.

Jens Hainmueller, lead author of the study and a political scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues looked at the childrens» medical records, focusing on two distinct types of psychiatric diagnosis.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Most scientists who study the transport of materials within a cell have focused on the drivers of that transport — namely, molecular motors, a family of biological agents that actively convert a cell's energy into mechanical work to move cargo across a cell.

A Yale - led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world.

In most previous studies of how these connections evolve, scientists have focused on the role of the postsynaptic neurons.

As a clinician - scientist with a translational research focus, Dr. Deininger is heading an extramurally funded research laboratory that is dedicated to the study of signaling pathways, drug resistance, and new molecular therapies in leukemia.

Rather than focus solely on IQ, as many previous studies had, the scientists analyzed 83 different traits, which had been reported on questionnaires that the twins, at age 16, and their parents filled out.

The work also has implications for whether scientists who study eye contact should focus on social brain regions rather than those involved in fear and anxiety.

Scientists have focused less on the presynaptic neuron's role in plasticity, in part because it is more difficult to study, Littleton says.

While the study focused on lithium - ion batteries, the scientists say the observed phenomenon may also occur in other high - performance battery chemistries.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.

Scientists studying which species will be able to colonise new areas commonly focus on how well an individual can move long distances.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

And although the study didn't focus on endangered species, all the scientists worry that the virus may be causing them further harm.

«From the perspective of evolutionary biology, scientists often focus only on the particular species that interest them,» said Jiang, who studies community ecology.

The initial findings of the study nevertheless suggest that this enzyme may have other, as yet unknown, functions, so the scientists focused on the consequences of a deregulation of MOCOS synthesis.

Manuel Graeber, a neuropathologist at the University of Sydney who did not take part in the study but has worked extensively with microglia, believes these findings will also play an important role in focusing scientists» attention on these cells» function.

The study findings, published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, Jan. 31, may have important implications for scientists focused on understanding the global carbon budget.

Nobumichi Tamura, an ALS staff scientist, said the X-ray beamline where the Roman concrete samples were studied can produce beams focused to about 1 micron, or 1 thousandth of an inch, «which is useful for identifying each mineral species and mapping their distribution.»

In the new study, scientists focused on temperature - sensitive ion channels that open when they become hot enough.

«For years, for all of the time that [protamines] have been studied,» he says, scientists focused on other roles of protamines like DNA compaction, ignoring the final sperm shape.

AESEDA - Global Opportunities for Minority Earth Scientists by A. Sasso, 25 November 2005 Penn State's AESEDA program focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students in the study of earth sciences.

«Loss of motivation is a core feature of schizophrenia that we need to investigate with increased focus,» said Dr. Gary Remington, senior scientist with the CAMH Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute who served as the senior investigator on the study team.

Some scientists have criticized TCGA for focusing on gene sequencing while diverting funds from functional studies that can determine which of the hundreds of mutations are most important.

That associate is likely to study attendance lists from meetings of the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology or American Chemical Society, to read the blogs of dozens of scientists who come from that sector, and to participate in narrowly focused LinkedIn groups.

«Most studies focus on one or the other,» said Alexandra Schneider, a senior scientist and team leader at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a federal health research institution in Germany.

Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology and related disciplines.

The scientists focused on the group which nobody had studied in detail for more than 60 years.