Sentences with phrase «study materials like»

They can create study material like a presentation to share with their peers.

Not exact matches

One study discovered that people who spent their money on experiences like trips and classes, rather than material items, were happier and more satisfied with how they spent their money.

In addition to study materials and instructors, edX provides unique learning tools like game - like labs and 3D virtual molecule builders for hands - on learning.

Astronomers who studied these images eventually realized that the nascent solar system had twisted inner and outer disks, not just one flat disk, and the moving material was causing the shadows, much like a bird flying in front of a lighthouse's lamp.

The straightforward study simply invited 39 adults to make art for 45 minutes in any way they pleased, using simple materials like markers, modeling clay and collage supplies.

But are classes like «The Material Culture in the Victorian Novel» or «The Power of Ornament: Roman Imperial Imagery and Its Reception» really more practical than studying gender politics through our cultural reaction to the VMAs?

Of the creation of C S Lewis material there seems to be no end, but some of it is excellent, like the Journal of Inklings Studies, edited by Judith and B N Wolfe, both teaching at Oxford.

Can you Redhead fathom the moorings (I am not securing any vessels at the time, although I am sure my uncles fishing boat is pulled up on the beach) of absolute nothingness (yes, I am currently studying dark matter but that is not nothingness) where from all material meanderings (to meander is to be in a constant change of path (like religions) currently are, I am not religious and I do not meander as I see it as a waste of time when traveling from one place to the next.)

Men like al - Farabi (died 339; A.D. 950) and Ibn Sina (died 429; A.D. 1037), who is known in the West as Avicenna, wholeheartedly devoted themselves to the study of those materials, and generations of men toiled and managed, sometimes by sheer brainpower, to reject nonsense and falsehood.

The stark fact that complicates incentive studies like Fryer's is that for children who grow up in difficult circumstances, there already exists a powerful set of material incentives to get a good education.

The Ti Amo team studies design trends like styles, materials and finishes in the adult furniture industry and translates them to nursery furniture.

So we will want to remain a part of agencies like Euratom, regulating nuclear materials in energy and health sectors and programmes like Erasmus that give students opportunities to study across Europe, because they serve our interests.

She has spent decades studying the crystalline structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

So in the new study, Ko and colleagues started with a thin, flexible material with ridges and grooves much like natural fingerprints.

Supported by a U.S. Department of Defense grant, the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, Barker and his team have created what they call platelet - like particles, or PLPs, according to a study published in Nature Materials.

In a new study due this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Rice University theoretical physicist Qimiao Si and colleagues at the Rice Center for Quantum Materials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature supercoMaterials in Houston and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria make predictions that could help experimental physicists create what the authors have coined a «Weyl - Kondo semimetal,» a quantum material with an assorted collection of properties seen in disparate materials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature supercomaterials like topological insulators, heavy fermion metals and high - temperature superconductors.

«In solid - state materials like copper oxides, there are many different effects and impurities that make these materials difficult to study.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

«For low - density materials like plastics, polymers, foams and other encapsulants, this phase signal can be a thousand times bigger than the absorption signal (of conventional X-ray),» said principal investigator Amber Dagel, who studies physics - based microsystems.

By systematically varying the ratio of lithium to a transition metal, like trying different amounts of ingredients in a new cookie recipe, the research team was able to study the relationship between the surface and interior structure and to measure the electrochemical performance of the material.

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.

The funnel - like net, originally designed to study plankton, collects microfibers and other materials in the water while being towed behind a boat.

That's something that materials scientists would like to be able to do better, so this study helps show them the way.

Studies like these are the best current way to determine the shape, scale and distribution of this invisible material.

In the future, the team would like to study this coupling in other materials and ideally demonstrate that one can artificially convert phonons into magnons and vice versa.

In the future, the team would like to study other 2D transition metal materials, going beyond the 2D Ising spin model.

In topological insulators and the new class of materials the Princeton researchers studied, the unique properties of the atoms combine to create quantum effects that coax electrons into acting similar to a light wave instead of like individual particles.

A study published in the July 24 Nature reveals that electrons coursing through the materials known as topological insulators can manipulate magnetic components like the ones in computer memory.

«Surprisingly, we found that we could create all sorts of biogenic - like materials that have the right shape, structure and chemistry to match natural materials we assume are produced biologically,» said Associate Professor Alexis Templeton of CU Boulder's Department of Geological Sciences and senior author of the new study.

«We're very interested in bilayer graphene because of the number of states we are detecting and because we have these mechanisms — like tuning the electric field — to study how these states are interrelated, and what happens when the material changes from one state to another.»

In a study scheduled to appear this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, they report that materials like soil and sand actually get stronger when they are struck harder.

«Now a facility like this, if some catastrophic thing happened, and we happen to lose an animal or a species, at least we have some genetic material» to study.

The group led by Martín Olazar, researcher in the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country's Department of Chemical Engineering, is studying the development of sustainable refineries where it is possible to produce fuels and raw materials providing an alternative to petroleum by using biomass and other waste materials like plastics, tires, etc..

«Migration decisions, like all livelihood decisions, are about much more than material quality of life,» argues geographer Edward Carr of the University of South Carolina, who studies human migration in countries such as Ghana and was not involved in the Mexico emigration research.

A typical bachelor?s degree programme from a foreign university could work like this: At the start of each subject, course materials are distributed to students for self - study.

«After looking at hydrogenases, we wanted to check if we could make artificial molecules that mimics these enzymes using the same type of common materials, like iron and manganese,» explained Dr. Abhishek Dubey, the first author of this study.

The study, featured on the cover of Advanced Electronic Materials, shows that a single crystal complex oxide material, when confined to micro - and nanoscales, can act like a multi-component electrical circuit.

A neutron source is like a large microscope that researchers can use to study the inner properties of materials.

Study shows that radioactive material acts like a salt, a nuance that could benefit nuclear detectors and reactors

Like a group of undecided voters, certain materials can be swayed by their neighbors to become magnetic, according to a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

This upcoming study and others like it are needed to unravel the mysteries of self - assembly and allow scientists to control material synthesis.

In 2015, a team led by the University of Michigan's Sharon Glotzer used high - performance computing at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] to study melting in two - dimensional (2 - D) systems, a problem that could yield insights into surface interactions in materials important to technologies like solar panels, as well as into the mechanism behind three - dimensional melting.

Over time biointerfaces made out of these particles will also degrade, unlike alternative materials like gold and carbon, said study co-author Yuanwen Jiang, a graduate student in the Tian group.

«Our simulated voltage curves respond like those seen in real experimental situation,» said Dr. Maria Sushko, the materials scientist at PNNL who led the study.

The New Worlds Technology Development Program, which lays the scientific groundwork for a future mission to study nearby Earth - like planets, and the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, which would provide short - wavelength radio surveys to study dusty material associated with galaxies and stars, are ranked the highest priority for midsize space - and ground - based programs, respectively.

Combining supercomputer simulation and X-ray characterization, Argonne scientists studied a non-living material that, like the human brain, «forgets» old information to focus on the new.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

... The study's insights could pave the way to improvements in materials like polarization - sensitive satellites.

A spectrograph operates like a spectroscope except that the small telescope is replaced by a detector that can record the spectrum of the material being studied.