Sentences with phrase «study tools making»

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In big markets in the United States, LTE's median speeds have dropped by as much as 50 % in the last year, according to a study done by TwinPrime, a startup that makes tools to speed up mobile apps.
On the average day, 39 percent of millennials interact more with their smartphone than anything or anyone else so it makes sense to use this tool to help them with their finances, a Bank of America study found.
In a study of CMOs, nearly a third of respondents said the «black box» nature of many analytical tools, which makes it difficult for marketers to understand the results they generate, were a primary limitation on their marketing efficacy.
However, we do hope that this study provides a tool to help guide future decision making.
Currency CFD brokers have made the process slightly easier by providing interactive charts, tools for technical studies and indicators.
Apply the tools of learning normally reserved for studying a foreign language to this vernacular form of expression, and make this study a recognized, sanctioned part of the curriculum.
Over the years, SportsInsights has made advances in tools and techniques to study «market action» in the sports investing arena.
I am very excited to finally be able to make this valuable course available online, as a home - study course, so more parents and teachers can access these tools.
Studies support the fact that e-books can be a useful tool to helping toddlers learn vocabulary, keeping their attention, and making reading a fun and desirable activity.
Studies show the art of being grateful makes people happy; it's a well - being tool.
To test this, Shelby Putt, an anthropologist at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, compared the brains of modern people making Oldowan and Acheulean tools in a study published earlier this year in Nature Human Behavior.
In a 2017 study, anthropologist Shelby Putt monitored the brain activity of volunteers trained to make stone tools.
The tools were studied by Dr. Harmand and her colleague Hélène Roche — world experts in lithic analysis, the study of stone artifacts from the various Stone Age periods in which they were made — to interpret physical features and reconstruct the manufacturing techniques used at the prehistoric site, including experimental replication of the tools.
«Economics made simple with physics models: Snapshot of the study of economic phenomena using the tools of physics.»
A new study concludes that the art of conversation may have arisen early in human evolution, because it made it easier for our ancestors to teach each other how to make stone tools — a skill that was crucial for the spectacular success of our lineage.
Authors of the ancient butchery papers agree that bone marks made by crocodiles deserve closer study and careful comparison with proposed stone - tool marks.
Another contribution of the study is a tool that managers can use to identify if add - on pricing will make or lose money for a firm.
This makes the origin of these behaviours difficult to study, especially when you consider that the record of hominin stone tool use stretches back more than 3 million years.
JPL research scientist James Williams made the new studies using an old tool: a set of silica reflectors left on the surface of the moon by Apollo astronauts more than 30 years ago.
The newly developed method, which saves time and money, will first be used to study obsidian tools made by early humans, including Neanderthals and Homo erectus, tens of thousands of years ago.
But cognitive studies suggest primates use tools mainly by trial and error, whereas humans understand the principles at work — such as gravity and force — and exploit them to make novel tools.
In an attempt to inject some realism into the study of rationality, Gerd Gigerenzer and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are investigating the idea that evolution has endowed us with a set of mental shortcuts — tools for making quick decisions.
«Gene knockout using new CRISPR tool makes mosquitoes highly resistant to malaria parasite: Study highlights the potential of mosquito gene - modification to combat malaria.»
«Invasive species not best conservation tool, study shows: Make matters worse for native mollusks.»
«DNA sequencing is a powerful tool, but it is still quite expensive and has several technological and functional limitations that make it difficult to map large areas of the genome efficiently and accurately,» says Jason Reed, Ph.D., principal investigator on the study.
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.
Using just scraps of wood and hot embers, our evolutionary cousins figured out how to make tar, a revolutionary adhesive that they used to make formidable spears, chopping tools and other implements by attaching sharp - edged stones to handles, a new study suggests.
Wouldn't it be neat to know when human ancestors first started making stone tools or to study past pandemics and their sources with crystal - clear clarity?
I'm not the guy making these new materials — I'm trying to make tools that people can use to study how these things really work, so maybe we as a community can invent new materials that can do these things even more efficiently.
For example, there is a lot of interest on collaborative team science, study registration, stronger study designs and statistical tools, and better peer review, along with making scientific data, analyses and protocols widely available so that others can replicate experiments, thereby fostering trust in the conclusions of those studies.
But within a few months of beginning her study of chimpanzees in 1960, insinuating herself into their lives in the forests of Africa, she made a shocking discovery: Chimpanzees construct tools.
But recent studies by other authors found that hominins had larger brains before chewing teeth became smaller, and they made and used stone tools when brains were still quite small, which challenges this relationship.
The study suggested ways in which a modified policy could ensure patient comprehension, including improved readability of the consent form and decision - support tools to ensure that women are making fully informed decisions.
It also is an ability that is consistently impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and for University of Iowa neurologist Nandakumar Narayanan that makes «timing» an ideal tool to study cognitive problems in PD.
Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the InteTools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Intetools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Intetools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.
Goffin's cockatoos can learn how to make and use wooden tools from each other, a new study has found.
The predictable luminosity of Type Ia supernovae means that astronomers can use them as cosmic standard candles to measure their distances, making them useful tools in studying the cosmos.
This has made their discovery and the understanding of their properties elusive, but it has also made them a useful tool in the study of particles and their interactions.
Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, another precursor to modern humans, was using more advanced tool - making methods 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.
«This study shows that the unique bill contributes to the birds» ability to use and probably make tools,» he said.
A study in the journal Science suggests that early humans were fire - treating stone more than 70,000 years ago to make better stone tools.
Conducted at the University of Iowa, this is the first neuroimaging study to use a cutting - edge technique — functional near - infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-- to enable researchers to track real time changes in brain activity as participants made these two types of stone tools.
The development of methods to remove pigmentation from planarians could have significant impacts on tool development in that field, and the connection to human porphyrias makes a compelling case for additional studies of this system.
But that investment has paid off in scientific discoveries, says Roffman, including his recent study that described Kanzi's ability to make his own stone tools.
«Our studies show how data can be used to optimize the whole manufacturing process — from simulating the process, making molds and coating tools to shaping parts and quality testing the finished optics.»
TKF: The National Microbiome Initiative and the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge make it clear that to study the microbiome thoroughly, researchers need new tools to determine the what, why, and where Tim's after.
The rational is to make the most of the key properties of disease - specific hPSCs as versatile and highly relevant tools and biological substrates to study HD.
The variable pitch of the reactor and ease of access to the core, along with the reactor's associated counting facilities, make ZED - 2 an ideal tool for performing reactor physics measurements and fuel studies.
These South Pacific birds build tools out of twigs and leaves that they use to root out food, and they're the only non-humans that make hooked tools in the wild, write the authors of a study published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.
«The fact that these pulsars were never before detected in this highly studied area of the Galaxy shows that the GBT has outstanding capabilities and will be an important tool for astronomers to make very precise, very sensitive observations of the Universe.
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