Sentences with phrase «studying how»

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

Meaney pursued the question of individual differences by studying how the rearing habits of mother rats caused lifelong changes in their offspring.

In his silver fire suit, Edwards stood next to a lava bank, took its temperature — roughly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit — and got to work studying how the flowing molten mass and snow do their dance.

This kind of wiring, described in the current issue of Science, may be present in higher vertebrates, including humans — and if so, it might provide insights for scientists studying how to treat paralysis from spinal cord injuries.

Orians was studying how blackbirds choose where to live when he noticed that humans also select their habitat according to specific criteria, like the presence of water, large trees, open space, and distant views — criteria evoking the savanna where humans evolved.

Researchers are studying how butterflies erect these nanostructures during development and how the insects modify the growth process to vary color across the wing or between species.

The answer is not clear, but, Wood explains, studying how animals evolve in modern day OMZs may shed some light.

The research looks at the causes for these changes by studying how families have split up work time in the United States over the past three decades.

Gaab's interest in working at the intersection of basic, clinical, and education research was piqued when she was doing her doctoral work in neuroscience, studying how auditory or musical training affects the brain.

But studying how a supernova works is exceedingly difficult because the brilliant nuclear flash that destroys the star obscures the underlying details.

That is certainly how things seemed in the early 1900s, when scientists began studying how we come to be scared of things.

He is now studying how word - of - mouth phenomena like fads and rumors flow through groups of people, hoping to apply this knowledge to processes such as political mobilization.

And the work of imaging keeps taking big, new steps in studying how the nervous systems work in animals and humans.

Psychologists studying how we think about money are revealing why many of us have such fraught relationships with our cash

But soil scientists have been studying how water moves across or through soil for decades.

The second process, known as anaerobic ammonia oxidation, or anammox, was discovered by Dutch researchers studying how nitrogen is removed in sewage treatment plants.

They are also studying how structures that enable blood - brain barrier crossing might differ from one animal species to another.

He always thought of himself as more of a botanist and a nematode guy, studying how parasitic soil - dwelling worms interact with crop plants.

As for the Lund researchers, the method provides a tool for studying how neurons cooperate inside a healthy brain and in animal models with different neurological diseases.

Read about a team studying how the sun interacts with Earth's magnetic field and the particles trapped in it, and how this type of interaction produces the northern and southern lights.

Smith had been studying how plants adapted to stress.

Using techniques drawn from the analysis of music, astronomers have been studying how galaxies form into progressively larger groupings

Like a kindergartner fumbling with shoelaces, studying how to tie spins up in knots is a learning process.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

Studying how our bodies metabolize lipids such as fatty acids, triglycerides, and cholesterol can teach us about cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other health problems, as well as reveal basic cellular functions.

Skinner was studying how a commonly used agricultural fungicide, when introduced to pregnant mother rats, affected the development of the testes of fetal rats.

More than a boon to squeamish students, the see - through frog could aid biologists studying how organs develop and respond to tumors or toxins.

Researchers are also studying how mammals would go about reproducing by parthenogenesis.

This year, Summit's list of long - term visitors includes Brandon Strellis, an environmental engineering graduate student from the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how aerosols influence how much energy is reflected and absorbed by Greenland's ice — and where those particles are coming from.

Neurobiologist Samantha Brooks at Uppsala Biomedical Center in Sweden is studying how anorexics control their desire to eat.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Since finishing his Ph.D., Cinner has been working with McClanahan, studying how climate change affects coral reefs and the people who live with them.

Over the past few years, Mason has been studying how to optimize the on - court mobility of rugby, basketball, and tennis athletes through better wheelchair configuration.

«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»

By studying how the lens warps the light from background galaxies, researchers have calculated that there's a fifth road for the light to travel along.

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand - in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn's icy moons

The pair is currently studying how religious students in the classroom perceive the topic of evolution and religion.

He is also studying how children learn to ascribe meaning to the many arbitrary symbols that litter math textbooks; without this ability, children quickly fall behind in math, and educators may fail to recognize why.

The gamma ray measurements are just one method for studying how cosmic ray particles propagate through space.

They also began studying how the ability to think visually is learned, employing wearable cameras to track the attention of study subjects as they figured out how to construct colorful patterns out of the component pieces of those patterns, for example.

A source said Gov. Cuomo is studying how to get a similar program done in New York, with the Justice Department raising complex issues.

On Margaret Thatcher's thirtieth anniversary: I asked if he would be marking the anniversary in any way and if he was studying how she prepared for government... As Mr Cameron started to answer a military band started playing and marched past the window... Mr Cameron credited Andy Coulson with arranging the march past!

Calling the tax overhaul an «economic civil war,» he said he's studying how to revamp the state's tax structure to convert the income tax into a payroll tax.

Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that «at least two» US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

Rebell and Weingarten were chosen by Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve on the 25 - member Education Reform Commission, a group he tasked in April 2012 with studying how to improve student performance in the state.

«Studying how the economy shapes voting using new «big data» and the British Election Study» This is a CASE award in conjunction with the...

What can humans learn by studying how living things survive throughout the seasons?

Michigan State University Extension says that within the academic world, experts are studying how parents can establish healthy relationships with their children at an early age, using the concept of responsive parenting as a foundation for their relationship with their growing child.

Turns out there's a lot of it, because by studying how and when children lie, psychologists can glean new insights into psychological development.

After weeks of studying how to do the folding properly — so that the inserts held baby poop in and didn't allow it to leak out the side — I had days and more days of failure.