Sentences with phrase «social scientists at»

I have also worked closely with other social scientists at NCAR [see for instance a book I put together for the Global Change Instruction Program: Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities].

In fact there are many other social scientists at NCAR and it is not fair to say that social science has been «removed».

Tiffany Morrison, Founding Director of the Environmental and Social Planning Research Group and Co-Founding Director of the Network of Environmental Social Scientists at the University of Queensland

According to a new study by social scientists at Cornell University, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Facebook, emotions can spread among users of online social networks.

Diederik Stapel and Siegwart Lindenberg, social scientists at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, asked subjects in messy or orderly everyday environments (a street and a railway station) to complete questionnaires that probed their judgments about certain social groups.

He says he gained this expertise early in his career by hobnobbing with social scientists at places like the Aspen Institute: «I taught them climate, they taught me economics.»

Toward that end, William Brennan, a social scientist at St. Louis University, has a new book...

Toward that end, William Brennan, a social scientist at St. Louis University, has a new book from Sapientia Press, Confronting the Language Empowering the Culture of Death.

Erzen is a social scientist at Ohio State University, and she reports on her year spent with participants in a California ministry called New Hope.

To get around this problem of homophily, Sinan Aral, a computational social scientist at MIT, decided to look at a single behavior — running.

Despite the challenges ahead, Michael Mascia, a senior social scientist at WWF and founder of the Social Science Working Group for the Society of Conservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human development promising.

But Raoni Rajão, a social scientist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, says that much of the work called for by the bid request is already being done by INPE, so hiring a contractor to replicate it is «basically a waste of money.»

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

The study is on «a phenomenally large scale,» says Brian Uzzi, a social scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Not exactly, but a social scientist at the SETI Institute is working on a way to explain spiritual principles to extraterrestrials, should the need arise.

Gene drive is so different from other technologies involving genetic modification that it requires a whole new way of thinking about how to evaluate and regulate it, says Jennifer Kuzma, a natural and social scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh who helped organize a February workshop there.

Committee member Jason Delborne, a social scientist at NCSU, agrees.

Ryan Kennedy, a social scientist at the University of Houston in Texas, and colleagues focused on a data set of presidential elections.

«But in some ways that is an easier problem,» says Taha Yasseri, a computational social scientist at the University of Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom.

Even projects that did not win funding profited from the initiative, says Helbing, a physicist and social scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

James Fowler, a social scientist at the University of California (UC), San Diego, says Dodd and Danforth's methods will enable scientists «to take the pulse of the whole world, assessing the mood of human society.»

It's not clear, however, that the agreements — which have spread to other Brazilian beef - producing states — can defeat deforestation, says Avery Cohn, a social scientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Nature asked Goel, a computational social scientist at Stanford University in California, how his work applies to #TheDress.

«We know prison education works, but we don't know which instructional models provide the best results or how much instruction and training inmates need to be successful,» said Robert Bozick, a report co-author and a social scientist at RAND.

«The internet offers limitless knowledge, but it doesn't solve the problem of our limited attention spans,» says the study's lead author, Taha Yasseri, a computational social scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

A former high school teacher, Barnett has worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive with the South Carolina Department of Education, and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina.

Barnett has taught in an urban high school, worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, led policy initiatives at a state education agency, and served as a professor of education.

The habit of packing scientific and technical jargon into long sentences drives any reader away, says Suraje Dessai, an environmental social scientist at the University of Leeds, UK, who has compared the readability of IPCC reports with that of news reports on climate science from general and scientific media.

Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist at the World Bank Research Group and lecturer at Harvard University, shares his thoughts on the importance of...

Not exact matches

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

The more time young adults spend on social media, the more likely they are to feel isolated, a report from scientists at the University of Pittsburgh reveals.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Followers of NASA's social - media channels have the opportunity to go behind - the - scenes at the agency's facilities and events and speak with astronauts, scientists and engineers.

Effective programs — the kind found on the National Registry — are usually created by psychologists and other social scientists who are better at research than marketing their efforts.

Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: «At some point every day, you have to say, «No more work.

We too analyze social behaviour, profiles and conversations, at scale, using data scientists, analysts and anthropologists, in order to unearth insights that can make communications and marketing activities more effective.

That having been said, however, social scientists who understand both the usefulness and limitations of their craft know that the religious phenomenon, at its heart and in its totality, escapes the nets of social theory and analysis.

A decade ago social scientists predicted the demise of civil religion at the hands of the seemingly more aggressive individualistic and materialistic orientations supported by utilitarianism.

The social gospel spawned ethicists who became social scientists, or at least read social science, in the interest of social transformation.

At the bishops» meeting, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput asked, given this research, what do most social scientists think about same - sex families and child well - being?

In the May 2007 issue of the University of California Press journal, Social Problems, the sociologists Elaine Ecklund (University at Buffalo) and Christopher Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University) have presented their findings on «Religion among Academic Scientists.»

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

A professor of education at Vanderbilt, Murphy is a social scientist, not an advocate, which makes his generally positive evaluation of homeschooling all the more significant.

Oh yes, and other social scientists have arrived at conclusions compatible with those of Regnerus.

She is an award - winning agricultural social systems scientist, and has been Professor of Value Chains at the University of Southern Queensland since February 2015.

But I've been reading «Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families,» a compilation of intriguing essays authored by social scientists and family law experts and edited by Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth S. Scott (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and among the many issues discussed is polygamy.

In a research project published in November 2014 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh studied the reaction of normally developing adolescent females to a recording of criticism from their own mothers.

It is something new, at least in the minds of most scientists, health workers, and social engineers — if there is such a thing.

I don't really put too much stock in academic authority of people in social sciences until they talk about testable predictions like real scientists do; or at the very least deal with # s. Without that, they're just people who have opinions that are no more nor less valid than anyone who isn't an academic social scientist.