Sentences with phrase «universities designed the system»

Academic ability has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities designed the system in their image.

Not exact matches

While studying systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Baker noticed something peculiar about the dot - com boom then underway.

Curtin University has announced a collaboration agreement with Victora - based Gekko Systems to commercialise new technology designed to make gold processing more efficient.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

But Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University's school of public health, offers a heretical question: What if we were to design a healthcare system that actually gave us what we want?

The Ameren Accelerator is an innovative partnership with the University of Missouri System, UMSL Accelerate and Capital Innovators designed to invest, mentor, and accelerate the growth of next - generation energy technologies.

Specifically, the systems in many Western provinces are largely designed to provide a gateway to four - year university programs, whereas the systems in the Atlantic provinces are focused on traditional vocational education.

CBExpo received support from a wide variety of sponsors and organizations including: Moonshine University, CF Napa, Farwell Rashkis, LLP, Amorim Cork America, Sonoma State University, Atlas Copco Compressors, Franke Beverage Systems, Dagmar Branding, Innovative Media Design, Prospero, Verso Corporation, WINERAM Productions LLC, Rotor Collective, Thinfilm Electronics Inc., WineAmerica, UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, Family Winemakers of California, California Artisanal Distillers Guild, California Cider Association, California Craft Brewers Association and ebev Series.

2017 Student / Executive Dialogue Dinner On February, 22, the evening before ICPF's Teleconference on The Business of Corrugated Packaging & Displays and its Career Opportunities, 19 select students, from Michigan State Packaging, Bowling Green State University Graphic Design & Packaging, Clemson University Packaging Science, Clemson University Graphic Communications and Virginia Tech Packaging Systems and Design, joined Teleconference speakers and local industry executives for dinner to learn more about corrugated packaging & displays industry careers.

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

The Whole Systems Design client list includes The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Cape Eleuthera Island School, Bahamas; Vermont State Prison Farm; and a significant installation at Teal Farm / LivingFuture in Vermont.

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At a speech given at Hofstra University, Cuomo announced a proposal for a new, less generous pension system for future state, local and school employees that is designed to save taxpayers $ 93 billion over 30 years, according to two officials briefed on the plan.

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«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Adam Gazzaley, professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and executive director of Neuroscape, has developed video games designed to improve memory, attention and learning that adjust to a player's performance and focus on different cognitive systems.

Now, a University of Huddersfield researcher has made a breakthrough by designing a new system and constructing a prototype that is ready for real - world testing.

In the second article, Grégory Batt, head of the InBio unit and co-last author with Pascal Hersen (CNRS) of the Laboratoire Matière et systèmes complexes (CNRS / Paris Diderot University), explains how they managed to place a cellular system in an unstable configuration: «We designed a computer program which aims to force the cells to take binary decisions randomly.

Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.

While at the University of Chicago, Handa began working for ABN AMRO on a part - time basis doing some programming to design a trading system and got a foot in the door.

Their software system, designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asks new customers to enter their energy preferences — how they want their energy generated, and the prices they are willing to pay.

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have developed software that greatly expands the types of multi-scale QM / MM (mixed quantum and molecular mechanical) simulations of complex chemical systems that scientists can use to design new drugs, better chemicals, or improved enzymes for biofuels production.

«David [Baulcombe]'s group developed a number of very interesting gene silencing systems at the time and Olivier was very good at seeing connections between these and designing elegant experiments to test them,» Hamilton, today a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, writes in an e-mail.

The University of Birmingham played a leading role in the detector construction for NA62, built the readout system for the KTAG (kaon tagger detector that identifies kaons in the beam line), designed and implemented the high - level (offline) trigger system of the experiment, and part of the (online) L0 trigger, designed and implemented the experiment control system (Run Control), and has given crucial contributions to the experiment commissioning and operation, to the calibration and data quality assurance systems.

For example, University of Maryland electrical engineering researcher Mehdi Kalantari is designing a wireless early warning system made up of tiny sensors that can monitor a bridge's structural integrity and transmit that data to a central computer for analysis.

Researchers at India's Amrita University use a landslide simulator to help design early warning systems.

Chris Atkeson, a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says that such bespoke control systems require expertise to design.

The success of this design will depend on how well the beetle - sized system scales up, says Julian Vincent, who studies biomimetic engineering at the University of Bath, U.K..

Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.

«Typically, our respiratory system is designed to handle whatever is in the environment,» says Kent Pinkerton, director of the University of California, Davis, Center for Health and the Environment.

He designed the system with colleagues at the University of Madison - Wisconsin and LIMSI, a French research lab near Paris.

Postdoctoral researcher Aaron Becker designed a new control algorithm that allows swarms of r - one robots from Rice University's Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory to complete complex tasks — including spelling out Rice's trademark R.

FRANCINE GEMPERLE directs the Interaction Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, where she focuses on finding intuitive ways for people to work with technology.

«This tool is designed to help us evaluate a fishery system's performance toward achieving economic, community and ecological sustainability — the «triple bottom line,»» said co-author James Anderson, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Florida.

Richmond, a U.S. science envoy as well as presidential chair and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, gave some examples of research and commercialization that led to products such as heart valve replacements, medications, voice recognition systems, and automobile airbags that «fell short for women» because they were designed mostly with men in mind.

Now, research by a University of Huddersfield scientist has led to the development of mathematical models that can ensure new pipeline systems are designed to be as economic and efficient as possible.

First, you must recognize that the current structure of medical schools and universities, with their anachronistic, rigid «up or out» promotion and tenure systems, were designed to accommodate the male physician - scientist of earlier generations whose career ambitions were supported by stay - at - home wives who assumed all household and child - rearing responsibilities.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.

Backed by millions of euros from the European Union and designed by a group of higher education research centers, a new system to grade the world's universities is being billed as less simplistic and more reliable than existing university rankings.

Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley designed a system based on the structure of ion channels in neurons, which allow a single ion to pass at a time.

The EPRI project to design a prototype smart grid, called the Complex Interactive Networks / Systems Initiative, was conducted from 1998 to 2002 and involved six university research consortia, two power companies and the U.S. Department of Defense.

«The vocal learning system is embedded within [an] ancient pathway»» designed to handle motor function that, in birds, controls their wings and legs, says study co-author Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University.

In a laboratory at Tohoku University, researchers Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles, Rod W Boswell and Akira Ando have performed a specially designed experiment, which allows the electric field - trapping electrons in the system to be removed resulting in the electrons solely interacting with the expanding magnetic field.

Christine Silberhorn at the University of Paderborn in Germany and her colleagues have designed such a system (arxiv.org/abs/1610.08326v1).

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Eastern Finland have developed new «sensing skin» technology designed to serve as an early warning system for concrete structures, allowing authorities to respond quickly to damage in everything from nuclear facilities to bridges.

Last year Facebook rolled out a new «social authentication» system designed to block suspicious logins, but computer scientist Hyoungshick Kim and colleagues at the University of Cambridge have discovered some flaws.

They previously collaborated in designing an X-ray crystal spectrometer, and evaluated one of the precision spherically bent crystals to be used in the spectrometer, for the OMEGA - EP laser system at the University of Rochester, which supports inertial confinement research.

Dr Whyborn obtained a Ph.D. in Radio Astronomy Instrumentation at the Chalmers University of Technology and his technical interests are in the areas of front - end design, system engineering and testing.

As an example of how practical and basic research can work together, Moss described work in the U.S. involving water utilities, university scientists, and private firms to pilot use of climate models and water utility modeling to design resilient water systems.