Sentences with phrase «studies as an artifact»

They report in the Nov. 1 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine that genetic anticipation may not exist in BMPR2 - related HPAH and was likely detected in earlier studies as an artifact of incomplete time of observation.

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They all repudiated the idea that the Bible could be studied and understood with dispassionate objectivity, as a cold artifact from antiquity.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

But archaeologists doubted those results because there were no detailed descriptions of the artifacts and it was unclear whether the artifacts were the same age as the surrounding sediment, says study coauthor Zenobia Jacobs, an archaeologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

The collection includes stone tools and other artifacts, as well as fossilized bones of animals and ancient hominins, including the Neandertal bones that formed part of the sample used in three recent studies of Neandertal DNA.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

After calculating height and weight projections drawn from the impressions, as well as studying flint tools and other artifacts previously found nearby, the team believes the tracks were made by a small group of adult and juvenile members of the species Homo antecessor, known mostly from a handful of fossils in Spain.

Price and his colleagues intend to study burials, landscapes, and artifacts to see whether the need for a captive labor force and women helped propel Vikings out of Scandinavia and as far west as Canada and as far east as Baghdad.

Certainly, the new study is bound to prompt other researchers to reexamine other early iron artifacts, such as the small iron blades, headrest, and amulet discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen, who died around 1327 B.C.E.

Now a study has found that the artifact was far from alone as all iron tools dating back to the Bronze Age have otherworldly origins.

They play an important role in applied sciences as well as industrial and commercial research, with uses ranging from the measurement of stress in commercial airplane wings to the inspection of details inside valuable artifacts in archaeological studies.

But, as a general rule, researchers prefer to study reactions as they happen as exposure of surfaces to laboratory air can alter the structure of deposited molecules and introduce artifacts.

Some study participants noted that when yoga was initially introduced at EUSD, it included cultural artifacts, such as Sanskrit language, mandalas, Hindu stories, prayer mudra (i.e. bringing hands together at one's heart), and a poster that outlined the eight limbs of yoga from Patanjali's yoga sutras.

Instead, he takes to the mystic arts and during his studies, comes across an ancient artifact known as the Eye of Agamotto.

In the schools and districts studied, assessments of teachers were based on well - articulated standards of practice evaluated through evidence including observations of teaching along with teacher pre - and post-observation interviews and, sometimes, artifacts such as lesson plans, assignments, and samples of student work.

But as Pat Wolf, one of the authors of that study, noted — the score increase may well be just an artifact of private choice schools deciding to start prepping students for that high - stakes test now that they were required to take it.

Artifacts made by students in the first study were collected, as well as school documentation about ICT management, rationale, and use.

What will remain in book form will be books as objects of art, books as historical artifacts, books as keepsakes, books as collectibles, books as study guides, books as old friends, and, most important of all, books as non-electronic objects that won't crash, run out of battery power, go on the fritz, blow up, overheat, or generally do anything except be available to you any time you have enough available light to read.

After years of study and research as a Barkeologist (one who studies canine history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains), Indiana was certain that he was close to finding the lost Bark.

Build strong content knowledge By engaging students with art and artifacts spanning thousands of years, Museum visits build on classroom units of study with themes such as Archaeological Dig, Ancient Civilizations, Remembering the Holocaust, and The Immigrant Experience.

They facilitate use of the museum as a teaching resource and promote the study of art and artifacts in the museum's collection.

May 28 — August 1, 2010 Social Skin - the third in a biennial series of exhibitions collaboratively curated by VCUarts Museum Studies students - included an eclectic mix of artworks and objects that present, explore, and delight in the body as cultural artifact.

The Mimbre paintings perfectly interact with the portrait series, as they were inspired by the Mimbres: a tribe that lived in what is now the southwestern part of the United States during the 11th century and whose legacy, among other things, were several artifacts and pottery, which not a lot of people had studied.

There are obvious references to Abstract Expressionism in works such as The Fence (Lake Kickapoo, Texas) and Untitled (Reaper Drone), as well as specific references to the history of photography in the works Time study (Predator; Indian Springs, NV) and Artifacts (Anasazi Cliff Dwellings, Canyon de Chelly).

Garbology, the study of refuse and trash, is the act of opening the closed cell of a modern landfill and examining the contents as an archaeologist might and cataloging the artifacts.

And as for «wishful thinking», I'm not especially enamored of the «stadium wave» hypothesis; IMO the regularity they seem to find is probably an artifact of the short period under study, while it's much more probable that actual fluctuations are much more «random».

It put me on to University of Colorado Law Library Director Susan Nevelow Mart's study, «The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal -LCB- Re -RCB- Search.»