Sentences with phrase «small experiment on»

A musician conducted a very small experiment on patients in a veterinary hospital, and her results showed harp music significantly reduced the heart rate of hospitalized patients.

Just did a small experiment on my discount broker.

Tried a small experiment on a dating website last week.

«I think we need to try it on a very small scale as a small experiment on the most clear - cut case out there.

In spite of its name, ALICE is one of the two smaller experiments on the ring.

In one example, teachers were asked to conduct a series of small experiments on gravity, including a replication of Galileo's famous experiment dropping two objects of different masses to prove that gravity exerts an equal force on all objects.

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Not only will these experiments provide you with valuable feedback on whether you'll really enjoy that new life you're eyeing for yourself, but they're also mercifully small and doable — it's hard to tie yourself up in knots of fear and procrastination when the initial step is so tiny.

The bottom line seems to be the same whatever the change you want to make — be it a huge career about - face, a new wellness routine, or an update of a stale product offering — don't focus on the end goal, but instead on the small experiments that will start you on the the journey there.

Still, small businesses shouldn't rest on their laurels, advises Constant Contact, but use the slower months of summer to try a new platform or experiment with one they're already on.

With customary flair, Stack ended the experiment by gathering up all the rating sheets and setting them on fire in a small picnic area in back of the plant.

Start on a small scale if necessary with various experiments to get you more comfortable with a new way of operating.

To determine the effect of small acts of rule breaking on perceptions of power, the research team conducted a series of experiments that asked volunteers to evaluate the personal power of people in imagined or videotaped situations (a visitor to an office who helps himself to coffee or a cafe patron who puts a foot up on a chair, for example) and in role plays.

EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»

We had an experience early on that taught us a lot, where we did a very small experiment with some pop - up in - store demos at a few retail stores in Canada, just to test the in - store sales model for a weekend.

Since then the project has continued to make waves with «big picture» science that often reveals consequences and impacts on pollution on ecosystems that small scale experiments can't.

In a mix of franchising and entrepreneurship, Hsieh's Downtown Project has 300 projects going on simultaneously, from new restaurants to tech startups to social science experiments — his small business founders make a salary and then 50 percent of the profit after paying their loans back to him.

Though the verdict is still out on how well unorthodox payment choices, like bitcoin or barter, can benefit a company, some small business owners are experimenting with nontraditional offerings to build a customer base and forge relationships with vendors.

The experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small groups before that have convinced me that growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.

Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.

The reason is that, unlike the rest of physics, we can not do experiments on the whole universe; also, the observational data obtained comes from such a very small part of the universe's history, rendering it difficult to extrapolate backward or forward in time with any certainty.

If I ever get my hands on a smaller pie pan I will experiment with this using fructose rather than sugar.

I'll definitely be experimenting with other fruits (in fact, right now, I'm using pear and apple cores and peels to put on top of small pear and apple tarts I'm making.)

«We are excited by small experiments and other companies who have robotic engineers on staff,» he added.

In her juicing experiments published on Fiery Foods & BBQ Central, here, Food Editor Emeritus Nancy Gerlach wrote: «I do think juicing works well with the smaller, fleshy, superhot chiles such as habaneros and rocotos.

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Kids Activities Blog experiments with a paper airplane design to see what effect a small change will have on the direction of flight.

Some police forces have experimented with the use of GPS tracking on a voluntary basis with «persistent and priority offenders» but the numbers are very small and the tracking is part of a holistic package that includes housing and intensive personal support.

Already, Armstrong and her group have had some success creating small - scale versions of the protocell reef in the lab, and they're moving on to experiments in controlled natural areas.

Their experiment relies on a small piece of lithium tantalate, a material that generates a voltage when it is heated or cooled.

Laboring in a small, simple lab on the top floor of his family's home, Perkin decided to experiment with toluene, a toxic component of coal tar that would later play a major role in Toms River.

Vivek Sharma, Higgs search coordinator at the CMS collaboration, agrees that the two experiments have a small discrepancy on what the supposed Higgs mass would be, and that tantalizing hints of new physics from other experiments have often turned out to be statistical anomalies.

Now, KamLAND - Zen is embarking on a new incarnation of the experiment, using about twice as much xenon, which will reach down to even smaller masses, and even rarer decays.

Also in this issue, how single - person medical experiments, alternatives to big clinical trials, are leading to breakthroughs on a small scale.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

«There are a lot of small experiments going on but no large - scale data gathering.»

A small experiment that could eventually make a big difference for the climate is taking place on farmer Myron Ortner's land in central Michigan.

(CDMS I, a smaller version of the experiment, was built 150 feet underground on the campus of Stanford University.)

Boeing has experimented with them in smaller aircraft, in anticipation of using them on its 787 - 8, the current state - of - the - art electric airplane.

In the intervening 17 years between discovery and distribution, Fleming continued to experiment with small batches of penicillin on several bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus.

An experiment to measure c might produce variations depending on how the setup was oriented with respect to one of those fields, variations far smaller than Michelson and Morley could have detected.

The role of short stretches of RNA, which range in length from 21 to 28 nucleotides, had gone unnoticed until recently, in part because researchers, focused on the familiar larger RNA molecules, tossed out the crucial small ones during experiments.

Chib and his co-authors devised an experiment, held at the California Institute of Technology, in which 20 participants performed a task and were paid a small amount of money contingent on how well they did.

The group plans to deploy a small proof - of - concept experiment on the ISS, with a small, 20 - centimeter version of the EUSO telescope and a laser with 100 fibers.

In a series of experiments, they presented bees with different combinations of safe and dangerous feeders — depending on their association with the larger or smaller hornets — containing varying concentrations of sucrose.

He says, however, because they are small and easy to keep in captivity — unlike wild mice, which are notoriously difficult to maintain in cages — wall lizards would make a good model species for experiments designed to determine the effects of toxins on mortality, reproduction and growth.

«On the small scale of our experiment, this wouldn't amount to a hill of beans,» says Harte.

The data in OmniPath are primarily based on small - scale experiments, but its Pypath software makes it possible to add datasets obtained from large screening experiments or converted from reactions.

Experiments and simulations showed that a water droplet on a repellent surface will freeze upward into a microscopic six - armed formation that resembles an idealized snowflake, with only a small portion of its base adhering to the surface.

So far, Davidson has experimented with small arrays of gold nano - spirals on a glass substrate made using scanning electron - beam lithography.