Sentences with phrase «studied the process scientists»

While working as the board's science consultant, Newnham studied the process scientists use to conduct experiments.

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Studying behavioral trends like this one could be an obscure process that only data scientists could handle — but QuizUp used Amplitude's data analysis tools.
By studying the nature of the process, a scientist might argue that he can make sense out of the evolutionary process without the postulate of God.
This was tantamount to identifying God and evolution, which had the effect of insulating the man of faith from whatever dire effects might seem to follow from the scientist's study of the process in the immediate data at hand.
The study reinforced the idea that the processes of sleep and eating need to be studied together, explained the scientists, especially as a growing number of researchers investigate the relationship between sleep and metabolic disorders.
Starting in the mid-1990s, scientists began using GFP as a tracer for studying biochemical processes.
Along with the study's co-first authors, Drs. Aayoung Hong and Gatien Moriceau, Lo hypothesized that if they could identify the key tumor cell processes triggered by withdrawal of MAPK inhibitors, then scientists can exploit these process with existing or investigational drugs to trigger the maximal levels of tumor cell death immediately following cessation of the initial therapy.
Scientists have shifted from studying single molecules to investigating large complexes of interacting biological macromolecules involved in processes such as metabolic pathways, gene expression, and development of disease.
A study published June 1 by Nature Communications reports scientists identify a new gene essential to this process, shedding new light on possible new therapeutic strategies.
A team led by voice scientist Christian Herbst, now of the University of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, used the donated larynx of a dead elephant to study the process of vocalization, which he says opens new possibilities for researching oice projection problems in people.
According to the scientists, the study offers evidence neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the brain start processing information in anticipation of where we are going to look before we ever do it, suggesting that selective processing might be the mechanism for visual stability.
The human brain undergoes a remarkable transition in utero, but until recently scientists have had few tools to study how this process unfolds.
«High - speed «electron camera» films atomic nuclei in vibrating molecules: Method gives scientists new ways to study rapid nuclear motions in nature's light - dependent processes
New research by scientists in the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science is diving deeper into this relationship, showing that stiffness is not the only factor researchers should consider when studying this process.
By studying the same process in cultured cells, the scientists found that the light stimulated a molecular chain reaction that activated a normally dormant protein called TGF - beta 1.
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains this moon of Saturn's long - lived geysers.
«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.
«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.
«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.
«It's one of the clearest examples of how humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.
As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.
«We now have a way to study this process in real time at the scale it's occurring, which will help scientists better understand the process and possibly optimize it,» says David Shapiro, a physicist with the Advanced Light Source who helped Chueh develop the technique at the facility.
In a combined experimental and theoretical study on ultrafast excitation of atoms in intense short pulse laser fields scientists of the Max Born Institute succeeded to show that the prevailing and seemingly disparate intuitive pictures usually used to describe interaction of atoms with intense laser fields can be ascribed to a single nonlinear process.
Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.
The scientists could now show in their study that even seemingly «normal» diffusion processes in certain cases may violate ergodicity on surprisingly long time scales.
These include publicizing the contest; monitoring the electronic submission process; recruiting fellows and tenured / tenure - track scientists to sit on the study sections that judge the abstracts; presenting reports on FARE to the scientific directors; coordinating the award ceremony; and more.
Scientists are using a pioneering method of «caging» and cooling water molecules to study the change in orientation of the magnetic nuclei at the centre of each hydrogen atom — a process which transforms the molecule from one form of water to another.
By studying the brain's physical processes, scientists are seeking clues about how the subjective inner life of the mind arises
Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.
For years, scientists who study lung diseases like cystic fibrosis have tried to track this process in detail, from start to finish, in the hope that understanding how lungs form normally may help explain how things go wrong.
In the new study, the scientists were on a hunt for the kind of polarized light spawned by matter in a process called gravitational lensing, where the gravitational pull from knots of matter distorts the path of light.
«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.
Knowing these larvae respond to odors but not fully understanding the process by which they make decisions via olfactory cues, scientists at UC Santa Barbara are using this model organism to study brain function as it relates to behavior control.
This process and its underlying control mechanisms have been considered by many scientists to be solely mammalian but the present study questions this assumption.
«Studying science policy,» said Leitner «may make you somewhat more conversant with the language and process of policy - makers — something a scientist may have to actively struggle with and acquire on the job — but studying science makes you more familiar with the sociology of scientists and how science Studying science policy,» said Leitner «may make you somewhat more conversant with the language and process of policy - makers — something a scientist may have to actively struggle with and acquire on the job — but studying science makes you more familiar with the sociology of scientists and how science studying science makes you more familiar with the sociology of scientists and how science is done.
Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.
To help black scientists craft stronger proposals, NIH will make an effort to include minorities in a new program that allows early - career scientists to participate in study sections to learn about the process.
Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the key to ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.
A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, published June 26 in Nature Communications, explains what drives this global process and how the flow is sustained.
In a new study, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shed new light on these complex processes, showing that a particular protein plays a far more sophisticated role in neuron development than previously thought.
«This process may be making a lot of the stuff of life, without any help from things that are alive,» says John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology for NASA's Planetary Science Division, who was not involved in the study.
Since the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have studied how communities of bacteria that grew exponentially after the disaster helped to eat away at the vast range of chemicals there, but little was known about the genetic underpinnings of the process.
The scientists studied the molecular processes involved in these changes and discovered that the activation of the Ret receptor counteracts the muscle degeneration.
«Scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders: Study of flies suggests neurodegenerative disorders may speed up aging process
Johns Hopkins scientists say a previously known but little studied chemical compound targets and shuts down a common cancer process.
An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.
Although scientists are still in the early stages of trying to understand the relationships between slow slip events and earthquakes, Wallace said that the study results highlight additional linkages between these processes.
Scientists have produced hydrogen by accelerating a natural process found in rocks deep below the Earth's surface, a short - cut that may herald the wider use of what is a clean fuel, a study showed on Sunday.
It was a dispute, caused by social scientists studying how science is done and being critical of this process.
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