Sentences with phrase «seen as laboratories»

Other high - performing charters were seen as laboratories of educational practices as they competed with neighborhood schools.

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

If the Mitchell Center is seen as the laboratory for artistic experimentation, these residencies are for the reagents, the new catalysts introduced into the mixture.

In the spirit of Harald Szeemann's «Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit» (Agency for Spiritual Migrant Work), Savvy Contemporary sees itself as a laboratory of intellectual, artistic, and cultural development and exchange.

Lakehead should be seen as a laboratory for a different kind of law school.

Not exact matches

Wasson had long wanted to improve the retail part of Walgreens stores (two - thirds of sales came from the pharmacy), and he saw Boots, which did more than half its business in retail, as the ideal laboratory.

The 1970s - era shopping centre in Montreal's Saint - Laurent suburb has seen better days but, in at least one way, it's cutting - edge: unbeknownst to the diners, this food court serves as a laboratory for MTY Food Group, where it develops and perfects its new fast - food concepts.

«We're really trying to find ways to use the resources of the university to improve quality of life,» he explained, adding that, as he sees it, «It's really a unique laboratory in America.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

As Etienne Gilson once observed, history is the only laboratory we have in which to see the consequences of thought.

In terms of pedagogy and the classroom, I have always seen my classrooms as laboratories.

But there can be no such thing as «laboratory conditions» for investigating the realm of the human spirit unless it can be seen that the «laboratory conditions» are in fact human life itself.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Goalies have been known to go halfheartedly at practice, but Giguere sees those sessions as essential laboratories for skill development.

According to Professor James McKenna, director of the mother baby sleep laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, «co-sleeping is a safe and even potentially life saving option, as long as parents provide a safe sleeping environment (see box).»

Contrary to the latter, Gaudot sees the EU as a «laboratory for the democracy of tomorrow», as evidenced by the Occupy movement, and other grassroots campaigns across Europe.

Food - testing mobile laboratories and mobile workshops have been seen as well as large containers with seed - processing equipment.

Apart from the teaching labs, there is little laboratory space, and lab equipment is rudimentary (with important exceptions, as we will see).

The new model «came out of left field, but it's very original,» says materials scientist Graham Hubler of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who saw ball lightning as a teenager during a thunderstorm in upstate New York 40 years ago.

«We should be encouraging those scientists who see their perspective as broader than the laboratory to get into the Foreign Service.»

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

His opposition to animal research began in 1995, when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies on pigs and witnessed experiments he saw as cruel.

Both documents thus highlight an essential reality of laboratory life: Professors with lucrative grants enjoy great power to run their fiefdoms as they see fit, regardless of what rules and agreements say.

Silvia Ferrari, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls, sees the emergence of neuromorphic computer chips as a way to shrink a robot's payload.

«The ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these: first identifying the puzzling seasonal streaks and now making a big step towards explaining what they are,» said Rich Zurek, MRO project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Research mentors see you in the laboratory at your best and at your worst and tend to write the most comprehensive assessments of your potential as a scientist.

I'll spare you as many of the details as I can, but what appears to have happened is that said researchers assembled a crowd of typical Dutch shoppers — sending home, one would imagine, the ones whose shoulder - slung panpipes and Caucasian dreadlocks marked them as liable to freak out in a laboratory setting — and put them through a series of tests to see how they make buying decisions.

As a prospective physician, I saw my biology courses as the foundation of my future career and my literature courses as an important balance to the hours spent in laboratories and giant lecture hallAs a prospective physician, I saw my biology courses as the foundation of my future career and my literature courses as an important balance to the hours spent in laboratories and giant lecture hallas the foundation of my future career and my literature courses as an important balance to the hours spent in laboratories and giant lecture hallas an important balance to the hours spent in laboratories and giant lecture halls.

I knew that heme, the oxygen - carrying molecule in hemoglobin, contained an iron atom within a porphyrin ring (for more information on porphyrin chemistry see this site at Washburn University), but Dr. Datta - Gupta and his laboratory technician attempted to chemically add different metals such as copper, magnesium, or manganese to porphyrins using column chromatography.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

«When we realized that her laboratory was generating potent anti-tumor T cells that expressed CD103, we saw this as a unique opportunity to combine efforts.»

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

As of now, they still have to undergo a laboratory analysis to see which chemicals show up.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

Working then as a fusion physicist at the Draper Laboratory at MIT, he saw this achievement as just another step toward the goal that consumed him still: a career as an astronaut.

Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory - generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells.

«Those who see themselves as they truly are — not so funny, a bad driver, overweight — have a greater chance of being diagnosed with clinical depression,» says Julian Paul Keenan, director of the cognitive neuroimaging laboratory and professor of psychology at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

Raker believes that CRG will be equivalent to other top institutes she has seen, such as EMBL or the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

Moffitt saw the population as a readymade laboratory to explore some of her ideas about early childhood and the roots of criminality.

Using a powerful microscope that lets researchers see the formation of crystals in real time, a team led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that negatively charged molecules — such as carbohydrates found in the shells of mollusks — control where, when, and how calcium carbonate forms.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and East China Normal University devised and tested a thin - about as thin as the skin of a soap bubble - film composed of a special type of molecules called peptoids that can repair itself, similar to the self - repair seen in cells of living organisms.

Using cell culture and laboratory mouse experiments, the researchers showed that the enzyme, aldose reductase, is essential to a process known as goblet cell metaplasia that is seen in both asthma and COPD.

As a postdoc, Taylor developed an innovative laboratory technique using metallic additives and magnets to test experimental vaccines to see which B cells bind to them.

As a physician / scientist I both run a basic research laboratory focused on breast cancer biology and see patients in the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center.

New Horizons provides the highest resolution image of Pluto ever seen as presented in a NASA press conference on July 15, 2015, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.