Sentences with phrase «small field experiments»

Currently testing the gliders in a large water tank and small field experiments, her team is closer to robotically mimicking the teamwork of a fish school.

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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.»

This new development paves the way for a new field of dynamical study in the position dependence of atomic vibration in small particles, and is also likely to benefit the catalytical study of particles.Richard Aveyard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at York, said: «Our work highlights the valuable contribution that computational simulations can have in the field of electron microscopy: the more details we can put into our simulations, the more details we can extract from experiments.»

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

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.

«4D - STEM experiments mean we no longer need to make a tradeoff between the smallest features we can resolve and the field - of - view that we are observing — we can analyze the atomic structure of the entire particle at once.»

Since the binding energies of the electrons are very small, the DC detector electric field used in the experiment was strong enough to ionize these Rydberg atoms, leading to the emission of low energy electrons.

In experiments conducted in small chambers with conductive walls that isolated the bees from external electrical fields, the researchers showed that a small, electrically charged wand brought close to a honey bee can cause its antennae to bend.

And in three field experiments, they poked and prodded eggs with a small stick, or squeezed them gently with their fingers to measure how sensitive the eggs were to the kinds of disturbances a predator, such as a snake, might cause.

Three of these quasiparticles, the Dirac, Majorana, and Weyl fermions, were discovered in such materials, despite the fact that the latter two had long been elusive in experiments, opening the path to simulate certain predictions of quantum field theory in relatively inexpensive and small - scale experiments carried out in these «condensed matter» crystals.

Using high - intensity lasers at the University of Rochester's OMEGA EP Facility focused on targets smaller than a pencil's eraser, they conducted experiments to create colliding jets of plasma knotted by plasma filaments and self - generated magnetic fields.

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION ™ sequencer is a small, portable, low cost device that is accessible to labs of all sizes and attractive for in - the - field sequencing experiments.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Unlike the self - publishing field, traditional publishers — big or small — are less likely to be tinkering / experimenting with the price, and they are unlikely to work with the author post-publication to change the price unless for a specific campaign (as described by Mike).

We received a large proportion of small - scale, laboratory studies, and while we definitely see value in these types of studies (given increased experimental control), we think it is important to balance these types of studies with large - scale field experiments.

Smaller, juicier paintings such as «Goldenrods» and «Field of Wildflowers» see Katz using motifs from nature to experiment with the «all - over» approach to composition, whereby no one part of the composition is allowed to prevail over the others.

Aerosol processes are among the most uncertain, and most studied, aspects of climate and these experiments (they bombarded a clean mixture of water, SO2, O3 and air with high energy UV and saw small H2SO4 droplets form) might be useful in adding to that field.

Instead in this feild, we have a relatively small amount of previous (some several years old) field experiments and a lot of the work being done is reprocessing, adding in more results, etc..

Small - scale mesocosm experiments, where field populations of marine Crenarcheaota are adapted to different temperatures, will be used to further calibrate the TEX86 - SST relationship.

Forget physical risk reduction, when it comes to research, these are the sort of outcomes that should be the primary goal of governance (most if not all field experiments that might be carried out over the next decade carry extremely low to negligible risk to the environment because of their small scale).

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite was able to record small changes to the gravitational field of Earth.

The NRC notes that «small - scale field experiments with controlled emissions [e.g. releasing reflecting aerosols into the atmosphere] may....

Field experiments show that the net flux is very small in comparison to the transport of LATENT heat by moist convection.