Sentences with phrase «scientists studied data»

The scientists studied data from these GPS sites going back to 2006.

When more accurate observations reveal such errors, scientists study their data and make further observations to understand where they went wrong and what a better explanation would be.

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The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

Even with Theranos» proprietary technology in hand, however, the lack of peer - reviewed studies — the kind of data scientists traditionally use to assess a development in their field — has generated skepticism from experts outside the company.

Hinge's data scientists studied 5,000 Hinge users who exchanged phone numbers within 24 hours.

Much of that data is available on its website and is part of the toolkit scientists use to study the health, safety, and future of the planet.

While the asthma trial data is just one point, the study's results could go a long way in assuring scientists that information generated through the platform (at least for certain kinds of studies) is on point.

All the data will be public, so scientists and researchers can study.

Studying behavioral trends like this one could be an obscure process that only data scientists could handle — but QuizUp used Amplitude's data analysis tools.

Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self - censorship behavior collected from 5 million English - speaking Facebook users.

The world offers very few places where scientists can study whole ecosystems in a remote location aided by an excellent research facility as well as decades of baseline data, adds Elser.

June 2014 — Facebook data scientists publish a study detailing the results of an experiment on nearly 700,000 users to determine whether showing them more positive or negative sentiment posts in the News Feed would affect their happiness levels (as deduced by what they posted).

This was tantamount to identifying God and evolution, which had the effect of insulating the man of faith from whatever dire effects might seem to follow from the scientist's study of the process in the immediate data at hand.

Generally, credible scientists will base conclusions on what a significant portion of the evidence suggests, not based on the outlier data which is presented in evolutionary studies.

Understanding these complexities may take a lifetime of dedicated study, or it may take several lifetimes of huge groups of scientists to attain useful knowledge, but every datum collected slowly fills in the gaps.

It's a documentary that follows the careers of two scientists studying the effects of a plant - based diet on humans and sharing the comparative data from around the world.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer mostudy: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer moStudy co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

Dr Fergal Monaghan, a data scientist at Adoreboard who led the study we referred to earlier (see 18:48 BST post), says social media played a critical role during the election.

Once they land, scientists will begin analyzing data from the men to study changes that occurred in their bodies over an extended stay in space.

Just months earlier, he and Joshua Kalla, political scientists now at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, respectively, had exposed a study published by Science in 2014 as likely resting completely on fake data.

The study allowed the scientists to collect data for the first time on the status of North Korea's Mount Paektu, a potentially violent volcano that sits on its border with China.

Learning to deal with and respond to the media attention that a Wastebook mention can generate is valuable in and of itself, notes Tommy Blanchard, a data scientist at Fresenius Medical Care in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose graduate work studying rhesus macaques» decision - making made the cover of the 2014 Wastebook.

The case has gone through multiple hearings (details below), resulting in a court order that requires DEMS scientists to turn over all data related to DEMS, including drafts of scientific papers based on that data, to the mining coalition and to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, which claims jurisdiction over the study.

It's an «interesting paper,» says Pete Burnap, a computer scientist at Cardiff University who has studied crime data.

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

The data would be especially of value to scientists studying distinct subpopulations with unique health risks.

Pujitha Gunaratne, Ph.D., principal scientist for the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center, which operates across North America, was interested in the data and recommendations and thought the study should be taken further.

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have now published a new study in Nature Geoscience that identifies the changes to Alpine humus stocks based on data from 35 mountain forests and mountain pastures.

For their study the scientists evaluated data from six forest censuses conducted over the past decades on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal.

In one study that pooled numerous surveys of researchers in diverse fields, a third of scientists owned up to questionable research practices like cherry - picking data that yield positive results.

During the data - gathering, the scientists generally do three dives a day, and it took more than five full days of diving to collect the images for the sixteen plots used in this study.

The widget builds on work published 2 June in Current Biology (http://bit.ly/TAZQA8) in which the study's three authors — all early - career computational biologists — used PubMed data to study the influence of some 200 factors on academic scientists» career trajectories.

The efforts paid off: Under the revised legislation, scientists will have access to any data derived from patients and study subjects who give blanket consent for research.

In a series of six recently published papers, Wiedermann and von Eye illustrated the effectiveness of their approach by applying observational data from studies performed by other scientists.

«These data are counter to theory and what was previously assumed about patterns of dating and sexual behavior among U.S. singles,» said Garcia, an evolutionary biologist, research scientist at The Kinsey Institute and assistant professor of gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

Comprehensive genome analysis: more than 85,000 participants from 35 studies Under the direction of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the United States, the team of international scientists analyzed the data from a total of 85,170 participants from 35 study cohorts.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.

For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.

The University of Edinburgh scientists examined genomic and health data from over 52,000 male participants of the UK Biobank, performing a genome - wide association study of baldness.

«Alice did its job perfectly, taking over 70,000 spectra in two years, providing a gold mine of data for comet scientists to study for years to come,» says Dr. Alan Stern, Alice principal investigator and an associate vice president of SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division.

Some scientists studying the genetic makeup of the West African Ebola strain were slow to share their data with others, perhaps fearful that they would lose their right to publish their findings in a major scientific journal.

Patients with epilepsy often have ECoG arrays temporarily implanted in their brains to determine the location in the brain of epileptic seizures, so the scientists were able to study all the data collected from five such patients on healthy, seizure - free nights.

A recent study by the University of Delaware's Jessica Warren and colleagues at the University of Oxford and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, provides a new data set that scientists can use to understand this problem.

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.

«We wanted to provide these valuable data to scientists, and our hope is that this sequenced genome will stimulate new research in molecular studies of insects.»

To answer that last question in particular, «you have to fly between the planet and the rings,» says planetary scientist Matthew Hedman of the University of Idaho in Moscow, who uses Cassini data to study the rings.

Scientists have known about the beneficial effects of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much data available to explain what is going on,» says immunologist James George of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, an author of the new study.

But years of data from long - term studies by Doak and other scientists examining plants, birds, mammals and fungi in the field are showing the flaws in these assumptions.

For the new research, the scientists were able to tap databases from two well - known ongoing observational studies that collect data on diet and other lifestyle factors and various health outcomes.