Sentences with phrase «study the environment around»

Not exact matches

A new study ranked business environments around the world based on their friendliness to women entrepreneurs.

Drawing on PM2.5 data from five diplomatic posts in China, a 2015 study in Atmospheric Environment revealed previously unknown variations in PM2.5 levels; for instance, in Beijing the particles tended to peak around midnight and bottom out in spring, because of weather patterns.

Senior author, Professor Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL Earth Sciences), said: «Our findings refute those of other studies which overlooked the fossils of placental mammals present around the last mass extinction.

But scientists could piggyback on those journeys to study topics such as the plasma environment around the lunar poles, or to begin establishing a network of geophysical landers that would listen for moonquakes.

Jackson was studying microbial communities around the world, including in the Amazon, when he realized that the ecological balance in those environments was not so different from the balance present in a healthy human gut.

Alexandra Witze introduced her readers to the seismologists who work around the clock to pinpoint major earthquakes around the globe; to a brother and sister who have spent their lives studying Pluto; and to scientists and engineers involved in the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in Washington's Olympic Penninsula and the restoration of the environment behind the dams.

This makes it a perfect laboratory to study how many planets form in such a crowded environment, and whether they form mostly around more massive or less massive stars.»

These data, along with other measurements from researchers around the world, flow into models designed to study how carbon moves through the environment.

For example, recent studies show anti-shale gas advocacy groups base arguments around the 20 - year time horizon, while the pro-shale gas community emphasizes the 100 - year timescale, but both metrics are needed to truly understand the short - and long - term impacts shale gas has on the environment.

While policy - level discussions about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

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.

In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurs.

Generally shy and abundant only around the inhospitable southern continent, the dark bronze beasts — among the smallest baleen whales at roughly 5 to 10 tons each — have been difficult to study in their environment, so biologists know little about their behavior.

In their study, scientists around Prof. Olivier Pertz from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel gained novel insights into the regulation of directional cell migration: Using a special procedure, 20 micrometer wide lines were fabricated on glass thereby mimicking the connective tissue environment — creating a highway for cells.

In the study, published in Science of the Total Environment, the researchers estimate that overall, around 355 kilograms of cocaine was used in Europe every day during the week of the study.

Located in East Antarctica's Sør Rondane Mountains, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica welcomes scientists from around the world to conduct research in this little - studied and pristine environment.

While studying the magnetic environment around Jupiter, Galileo found that Europa didn't possess any internal magnetic field.

The study warns that, given no change in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, around 99 percent of the glaciers around the world's tallest mountain will melt, drastically changing the surrounding environment.

Dr Vassilis Koliatsos, from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, who worked on the study, said: «We were extremely surprised to see that the grafted stem cells were not negatively affected by the degenerating cells around them, as many feared introducing healthy cells into a diseased environment would only kill them.

The world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, welcomes scientists from around the world to conduct research in this little - studied and pristine environment, close to...

One way to get around the altered properties of the stranded cells is to populate mouse livers with human hepatocytes in the hope of creating a natural environment, which is exactly what researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies did.

In the first continent - wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing «pyrodiversity» boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.

«Here we have a rare opportunity to study a phenomenon that plays out over many decades and provides a window into the types of environments around stars that could represent planetary building blocks at the very end of a star system's life.»

«The Deep Carbon Observatory has played a key role in promoting studies around the world of carbon in Earth and in extreme environments,» remarked Hemley.

«Roughly 20 years ago we began finding genetically similar viruses occurring in very different environments around the globe,» says Curtis Suttle, senior author on the new study.

The world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, welcomes scientists from around the world to conduct research in this little - studied and pristine environment, close to East Antarctica's Sør Rondane Mountains.

Darren Logan at the Sanger Institute studies how our genes influence how we perceive the environment around us, and how our brains makes sense of our senses.

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.

Although originally studied primarily in two - dimensional in vitro assays, most cell migrations in vivo occur in complex three - dimensional tissue environments that are difficult to recapitulate in cell culture or ex vivo Further, it is now known that cells can mobilize a diverse repertoire of migration modes and subcellular structures to move through and around tissues.

Thorough analysis of interferometric data was performed to meas... ▽ More We aim at resolving the circumstellar environment around beta Pic in the near - infrared in order to study the inner planetary system (< 200 mas, i.e., ~ 4 AU).

Abstract: We aim at resolving the circumstellar environment around beta Pic in the near - infrared in order to study the inner planetary system (< 200 mas, i.e., ~ 4 AU).

Node Smith, ND A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that people raised in an urban environment without pets around have a less resilient immune system and may be at higher risk for mental illness.1 This research furthers the conversation of the «hygiene theory» into realm of mental health, connecting some -LSB-...]

The study includes some preliminary data around the relationship between social environment, social contact, bacterial transmission and hormonal changes, such as stress.

Studies have been around for 20 or 40 years about the fact that the liver has a very efficient way of handling toxins in the environment, and it goes through a two or three phase process to detoxify your body both through the liver and through the colon.

Writer / director Azazel Jacobs has a lot of fun maneuvering the frame around the characters and their environments, studying the geometries of how they're confined with each other.

Linked with this creative curriculum unit (based around oceans and the environment) we devised a survey on Global Warming and analysed the results, and studied the sinking of the Titanic.

At around 500,000 years old the later handaxe shows how early humans made versatile tools from the materials available in their environment and leads into a study of the lives of early people in Britain.

Based on what you learned in this study, what advice / tips do you wish to pass along to educators and parents around the world about making the ICT connection work better in the learning environment?

NatureMapping developed pre - and post-tests around field study of the environment, and had an outside evaluator — in this case, a graduate student — evaluate its program, assessing multiple grade levels and schools.

Most students around the world study in classrooms where experiential access is very limited, and they study in large classes giving them little interaction with a teacher, so supplementing the class with a relevant experiential environment must offer value.

Drawing on behavioural genetic research from around the world, including the UK - based Twins» Early Development Study (TEDS), one of the largest twin studies in the world, her research shows that genetic influence is not the same as genetic determinism and that the environment matters at least as much as genes.

According to NTSB spokesman Christopher O'Neil, the agency wants to study «how self - driving vehicles interact with their environment and the other human - driven vehicles around them.»

The cat cam study showed that cats actually interacted with their environment; seeking out sensory stimuli around the home.

I spend countless hours in nature, around animals, studying biology and behavior and every other nature related topic, and observing the environment.

Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic abstract gestural expressionism, such as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.

The CCA learning environment is highly interdisciplinary, offering students exposure to industrial and graphic design, architecture, visual culture studies, and conversations around sustainability in order to nurture and inform their developing practice.

Our learning environment is highly interdisciplinary, offering students exposure to industrial and graphic design, architecture, visual culture studies, and conversations around sustainability in order to foster and inform their developing practice.

The exhibition proposes an «archipelagic model» — defining the Caribbean from the perspective of its archipelago of islands, as distinct from the continental experience — to study issues around race, history, the legacy of colonialism, and the environment.

Our learning environment is highly interdisciplinary, offering students exposure to industrial and graphic design, architecture, visual culture studies, and conversations around sustainability in order to develop and inform their developing practice.