Sentences with phrase «studied the environment like»

If I didn't feel the need for caution and studied the environment like I did, it's likely I would have missed out on the subtle cues that spurred me downward on my descent.

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

After reading this study, I'm wondering if perhaps women entrepreneurs face very different social environments than the men do, even outside of tech enclaves like Silicon Valley.

Reporting on the recent Barna study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director of cultural engagement at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»

Are children playing outside less?Results of new studies show that less than 10 % of children today spend time outdoors in a natural environment like woodland, coastline or farmland.

This study compared birth centre care - characterised by comprehensive antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, on the same premises with a home - like environment and the same team of midwives - to the standard obstetric care divided into antenatal care at neighbourhood antenatal clinics, intrapartum care in hospital delivery wards, and postpartum care in hospital postpartum wards.

She's learned the ropes from people like John Matsui, BSP's director, who says that a generation of studies has identified the key elements of a successful program: relevant and timely academic advice, a community environment, strong mentoring, and early involvement in research.

In a study published in the journal Environment & Behaviour, a team of researchers at the Universities of Plymouth, Exeter and Birmingham worked with Torrington Dental Practice in Devon to find out whether experiences like these could improve the patient's experience during routine dental procedures, such as fillings and tooth extractions.

«Interactomes like this one make the whole debate of genes versus the environment a lot more sophisticated,» adds Vidal, who was not involved in the current study and who mapped a network involved in breast cancer susceptibility in 2007.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

Florida Department of Transportation officials supported UF scientists in the study and appreciate the results because they want to create an environment that fosters biodiversity and conserves critical ecosystem services like pollination, Daniels said.

Saikawa, a specialist in atmospheric chemistry, is also studying levels of black carbon emissions in the outdoor environment generated by the burning of biomass fuels like yak dung.

Preferably, however, researchers would like to do the opposite, and bring the laboratory to the seabed, where the reef can be studied in its own environment.

Accompanied by the monitors, volunteers entered «an aesthetic living - room - like environment designed specifically for the study» with a couch, Persian rug, abstract art on the walls, classical music, and eyeshades and took an unidentified blue capsule that contained either psilocybin or Ritalin.

The study reveals that the Milky Way's bulge is a dynamic environment of variously aged stars zipping around at different speeds, like travelers bustling about a busy airport.

The Gemini Planet Imager GPI is an advanced instrument designed to observe the environments close to bright stars to detect and study Jupiter - like exoplanets (planets around other stars) and see protostellar material (disk, rings) that might be lurking next to the star.

Specifically, Geden takes aim at studies like the U.N. Environment Programme's (UNEP) «gap» report that each year looks at the space between what nations are doing to cut emissions, what they say they have plans to do, and what is actually needed in order to stay within 2 degrees.

In their publication in Nature, the researchers studied how mice use their facial whiskers to explore their environment, much like we do in the dark with our hands and fingers.

And better yet, the employees liked the environment more than they had expected, according to questionnaires distributed before and after the study.

That discovery electrified the team working on a proposed Europa Clipper mission designed to take a closer look — though, like Curiosity, the spacecraft would focus on studying the local environment, not on finding microbial E.T.

Scientists have been studying the near - Earth environment for the better part of a century, but many mysteries — like where the energetic particles that pervade the area originate and become energized — still remain.

For the study, researchers traveled to Panama to collect a reef core, and then used the corals within the core to reconstruct what the environment was like as far back as 6,750 years ago.

We learned that Liao, like the fish he studies, is remarkably well adapted for his chosen environment.

Yet studies suggesting that astronauts who spent time in space developed diabetes - like symptoms link microgravity with metabolism and point toward the liver, the major organ of metabolism, as a possible target of the space environment.

On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes lived in an environment that favored a gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.

«We've got a long way to go, studying how eukaryotes [multicelled creatures] can live in extreme environments, like acidic environments, which brings up big questions like life in space,» Sogin says, leaning back in his chair.

«The crabs that we studied are like living measuring instruments — their occurrence and expansion are reactions to a changing environment,» concludes Türkay.

The archaea, single - celled organisms confused with bacteria until Dr. Woese's discovery, are of interest to biologists studying the origin of life because they have certain primitive features and a liking for extreme environments, like the boiling springs of Yellowstone National Park and the superheated waters that swirl from deep - sea volcanoes.

«It's amazing that something we now take for granted, cooking, was such a transformational technology which gave us the big brains that have made us the only species to study ourselves and to generate knowledge that transcends what was observed firsthand; to tamper with itself, fixing imperfections with the likes of glasses, implants and surgery and thus changing the odds of natural selection; and to modify its environment so extensively (for better and for worse), extending its habitat to improbable locations.»

Interbreeding with Neanderthals and other groups like Denisovans, on the other hand, was shown by a different study — also authored by Akey — to have been gainful encounters, such as the emergence of strong immune systems (for surviving in hard environments) and skin pigmentation.

Studies like this one «help us understand how animals overcome a wider range of environments.

By studying the microscopic structure of the eggs, Dr. Varricchio and I were able to determine that the animal buried its eggs in a vegetation mound or nested in a humid environment - more like some reptiles than most open - nesting modern birds.

«Worms are very short - lived, so perhaps they are transmitting memories of past conditions to help their descendants predict what their environment might be like in the future,» the study's co-lead author Tanya Vavouri from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute in Spain, said in the statement.

Recent studies indicated that autoimmune diseases like Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) are induced by genetic or environment - induced alterations of immune regulatory pathways whose function is to avoid or limit the activation / expansion of self - reactive T lymphocytes.

According to the study, that would ensure that Earth would be re-seeded with life, following big, cataclysmic events like the Late Heavy Bombardment which happened approximately 4 billion years ago when the space environment around the Earth was dominated by untold numbers of big asteroids in the aftermath of its formation.

«There are important links between the environment and infectious disease risk, not only in low - income countries, like places with a lot of malaria, but in high - income countries like the U.S. and Canada, too,» said study lead author Dr. David Fisman.

Then study leader Dr. John Finley's team had the cocoa pass through a colon - like environment, created using real fecal samples.

When we don't sleep enough, our internal environment shifts to make us less effective at fighting off a virus, he explains; studies have shown that important immune cells are increased in the blood, meaning they're not where we really need them to be — in the immune organs like the lymph nodes — to effectively fight off viruses.

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

The only data they have are anecdotal stories, like the ones presented below, or the few small - scale reports, like Matthew Chingos and Guido Schwerdt's study of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which found no evidence that quality is poorer in the online environment.

When it comes to study advice, you probably feel like you've heard it all before, from tips like «choose a quiet place to study» to «clear away the clutter from your learning environment.»

At the very least, states with fully online schools should adopt a policy like the one in Ohio, which requires such schools to offer an orientation course — the perfect occasion to set high expectations for students as they enter and let them know what would help them thrive in an online learning environment (e.g., a quiet place to study, a dedicated amount of time to devote to academics).

Mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology, as well as studies on such topics as school turnaround implementation, shows that an academically challenging yet supportive and safe learning environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.

What parents like about grammar schools and what pupils cherish in those schools is exactly the point made by my hon. Friend Helen Whately — high quality teaching, high standards, zero tolerance of bad behaviour and the cultivation of an environment where studying is valued and confidence is engendered.

Thanks to the exquisite looking leather and shiny metal the inside of the Speed 6e looks like a much more appealing place to be than the clinical environment of most modern cars; it's the automotive equivalent of a wood panelled study in a grand stately home.

While future markets will throw new and unexpected challenges at us, studies like this help to demonstrate how simple systems can adapt to almost any market environment to deliver more consistent and robust returns than «Buy and Hold», and with substantially less risk.

When it comes to individual stock picking outside the environment of large institutional investors that focus on a small segment of a market, like mutual funds, most empirical studies have shown that security selection techniques add little value.

Africans are adopting eco-solutions as a way to show their appreciation and respect for their environment, like Rethaka — a South African female - owned company that produces re-purposed school bags; solar - powered backpacks that double as study lamps at night.

The gameplay resembles recent games like What Remains of Edith Finch where players will be taking their time in each room, studying the environment, looking for clues, secrets, solving puzzles and understanding your findings, according to the game's page, the game relies on visual cues rather than being fed the story like in conventional games, players will have to go a step further and actually invest time in understanding whatever data they find.

The study adds that some smarter subsidies, like targeted tax breaks, financial incentives or other market mechanisms could generate benefits for the economy and environment.