Sentences with phrase «successful than scientists»

Yet they've done just that, and the new study suggests that they've been even more successful than scientists imagined.

Not exact matches

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

It found that very successful scientists are about 5 times as likely to have no current religious affiliation (it's arguable if that equates more to atheism or agnosticism) than the general population.

In a TED talk a few years ago, political scientist Erica Chenoweth talked about her research comparing nonviolent and violent campaigns, and she said that while she used to believe that violent resistance was more successful than nonviolent resistance, the data she collected blew her away and changed her mind forever.

But experienced male scientists submit more R01 applications and they are more successful at renewing these grants than women.

It has been noted that women tend to find physician - scientist careers less attractive than men do for a number of reasons: They (1) are concerned that it will be impossible to combine a successful medical research career with childbearing and family life; (2) feel that they have to be better than their male counterparts to be considered equal; (3) receive little encouragement to become physician - scientists; and (4) lack compelling role models.

But experts have argued that the Thousand Talents program is more successful at recruiting top - notch businesspeople than scientists, and the Chinese government hasn't revealed how many scientists who do come are on part - time posts.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.

But rather than look down on the process of politics, the successful scientists and engineers of the future will find ways of understanding and participating in «politics» while not losing sight of the higher ideals of their scientific community.

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

Computers are better than humans at predicting which embryos will result in successful IVF, scientists have discovered.

One study of the progress of junior LTSA scientists, however, indicated that this goal has not, in fact, been achieved: 5 Junior LTSA scientists have been substantially less successful in obtaining tenure - track faculty positions than their peers with named fellowships, such as the Hubble fellowships.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

That statistic, more than any other, shows how successful the forces of confusion have been: 85 % of Americans, apparently, can console themselves with the thought that a substantial minority of climate scientists doubts anthropogenic climate change.