Sentences with phrase «volunteer scientists in»

It is the practice of the ad hoc volunteer scientists in the working groups who are supposed to work to the IPPC Principles.

IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network — a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.

The passage cites a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that includes more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and nearly 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.

Not exact matches

Ahlborn assembled a team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each week.

Gaining the correct experience that will help you develop your career in sustainable agriculture requires dedication, knowledge and sometimes volunteering, but above all else, a group of colleagues and mentors from a variety of different disciplines and sectors is crucial to growing as a researcher and scientist.

As prominent scientists wrote to the home secretary last week, a researcher who develops a new substance which could help combat depression will currently be in contravention of the law if they do volunteer trials.

Varnum and colleagues asked about 500 online volunteers — all in the United States — to describe how they would react if they learned scientists had discovered alien microbes.

In these articles, Science Careers talks to two scientists about what made them decide to volunteer for an international nonprofit, what the experience was like, and how it impacted their personal and professional lives.

Simmons stopped working with Physicians for Human Rights in 1999, and when she heard that AAAS was looking for volunteers to participate in the original On - call Scientists program, she saw it as another opportunity to get involved.

There's a variety of reasons why scientists might choose to dedicate a few weeks, a summer, or even a couple of years to volunteering in a developing country.

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

To respond to these and similarly urgent requests, we have created an On - call Scientists Hotline made up of especially experienced On - call Scientist volunteers each with an exemplary record of contributing to human rights questions in a wide breadth of fields.

Connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

In addition to the scientist, engineer, and health professional volunteers - who now number over 1,200 in 65 countries — human rights practitioners can now consult with a vanguard team of scientists and engineers who are available to answer one - off questions quickly, in real timIn addition to the scientist, engineer, and health professional volunteers - who now number over 1,200 in 65 countries — human rights practitioners can now consult with a vanguard team of scientists and engineers who are available to answer one - off questions quickly, in real timin 65 countries — human rights practitioners can now consult with a vanguard team of scientists and engineers who are available to answer one - off questions quickly, in real timin real time.

Are you a scientist, engineer, or health professional interested in learning more about how you can volunteer your time and expertise to support human rights projects?

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

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In May we invited scientists, engineers, mathematicians, doctors and others to volunteer to visit classrooms as part of our three - year (that's the 1,000 days) Change the Equation program.

Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

Scientists who volunteer to take part in the scheme are paired with an MP, usually from the scientist's area.

Bioinformaticist Andrew Su (center front) has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to find game - changing links in biomedical literature by using volunteer «citizen scientists.»

Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out The British scientists injected either a harmless saltwater concoction (a placebo) or two milligrams of psilocybin directly into the veins of 30 volunteers while they were lying inside a magnetic scanner.

She also encourages early - career scientists to volunteer in the local school system or science museum — another way of finding out if you like this kind of work.

Take a recent experiment in which French and English scientists had volunteers play a simple game while undergoing a brain scan.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

Volunteers can help scientists collect data, but researchers must be diligent in keeping them informed and motivated.

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

Next, to explore the potential role of handshakes in communicating odors, the scientists used covert cameras to film some 280 volunteers before and after they were greeted by an experimenter, who either shook their hand or didn't.

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

Dr Cox said that it is important to understand the motivations of citizen scientists due to the possibility of increased competition to recruit and retain such volunteers in the future.

The volunteers, using a total of 200,000 computers, were assigned potential primes to test as part of an international project started by American computer scientist George Woltman in 1996.

Moreover, the volunteers recorded poorer sleep on a survey around the full moon, the scientists report online today in Current Biology.

He asked scientists to volunteer their time so that he could meet his goal of having «the very best reviewers in the country.»

At the moment, a survey of 300 Arctic scientists revealed, many researchers who participate in international research collaborations «do so as a volunteer activity,» Pfirman said.

Scientists are one step closer to understanding how a clinical trial in France killed one volunteer and led to the hospitalization of five others in January 2016.

It also offers to put interested scientists in touch with the organizers of media training courses, and to add volunteers to a database of researchers willing to respond to press queries.

In future crises, scientists may censor or avoid deliberations, and more importantly, be reluctant to volunteer valuable expertise and technology that emergency responders don't possess.

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine developed by scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results.

In the study, Point Blue scientists, Audubon California, and a host of volunteers studied the curlews for three years.

Back in the Netherlands, scientists gave both the twelve trained subjetcs and twelve healthy non-trained volunteers an injection containing endotoxin, a component from the cell - wall of bacteria that elicits a response from the immune system.

In testing volunteers, scientists at Northwestern University used odor molecules that have the same chemical formula but are structured to be mirror opposites, like left and right hands.

AAAS On - call Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

The scientists recruited 10 volunteers with obesity to live in BIDMC's Clinical Research Center (CRC) for two five - day sessions.

On - call Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

So vision scientist Teng Leng Ooi at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, and colleagues had volunteers wear prism glasses, which makes everything appear lower in the field of view.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

To figure out if tropical milkweed is increasing OE infections among monarchs, Satterfield enlisted scientists and volunteers to help her sample thousands of butterflies at breeding sites in the United States, as well as in their winter habitat in Mexico.

To do so, scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recruited 10 volunteers and asked them to wash with mild soap for 1 week.