Sentences with phrase «which field scientists»

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Alongside field work the team, which included scientists from the WHRC and Boston University, used 12 years of satellite imagery, field measurements and laser remote sensing technology as part of its method.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

This may come as a shock to you — BUT - evolution could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court — if it is a «Law» of science and not a theory explain to me why Scientist in the same field have differing opinions theory has undergone massive changes since the 1850's when Darwin first came up with the THEORY — there are a lot of interesting similarities to true science which makes it sound so plausible, but it should sound good — After all the top scientist / humanists in the world promote it and they are all preScientist in the same field have differing opinions theory has undergone massive changes since the 1850's when Darwin first came up with the THEORY — there are a lot of interesting similarities to true science which makes it sound so plausible, but it should sound good — After all the top scientist / humanists in the world promote it and they are all prescientist / humanists in the world promote it and they are all pretty smart

In this day in which teams of scientists are devoting their skill to the problem of helping alcoholics and AA has achieved such impressive success in leading thousands to sobriety, the pastor examines his own meager success in the field and wonders whether he should leave such work to the scientists and to AA.

The striking progress of the physical scientists has also given them a degree of prestige which has invited admiration and emulation by workers in other fields.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

That's something Ralph Garvin, a Stanford - trained computer scientist and technology entrepreneur, discovered — to his anguish — during the 2008 election cycle, which he worked on as a deputy field director.

As mentioned above, some fields offer a physician - scientist track, which goes by many names.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

The ability of scientists - in - training (especially those who plan private sector careers) to plan for the future, and of venture capitalists to make money, depends on the success of scientific and economic prognostication: Which scientific fields, which technologies, will yield revenues and jobs in the future, with a sustained demand for resources, human and otherWhich scientific fields, which technologies, will yield revenues and jobs in the future, with a sustained demand for resources, human and otherwhich technologies, will yield revenues and jobs in the future, with a sustained demand for resources, human and otherwise?

Scientific careers were also explored at the Science Careers Workshop, which hosted scientists from the fields of technology transfer, science and technology policy, editing, K - 12 teaching, and forensics.

The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the result of shifting water, whether on the surface or deep beneath it.

Although there was a steep learning curve, I felt prepared for the job from the start and experienced a sense of achievement as I became acquainted with the issues and scientists in the fields for which I was primarily responsible.

This gorgeous book, which includes the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and recent surprising discoveries of field scientists, will convince you that the elephant is one of nature's greatest and most original works.

Speaking about the research, which enables scientists and engineers to quantify how transparent a 2D material is to an electrostatic field, Dr Elton Santos from the Atomistic Simulation Research Centre at Queen's, said: «In our paper we have developed a theoretical framework that predicts and quantifies the degree of «transparency» up to the limit of one - atom - thick, 2D materials, to an electrostatic field.

With a light - field synthesizer, a device which can manipulate the properties of visible light and nearby infrared and ultraviolet frequencies, the scientists were able to compose visible light pulses as short as 380 attoseconds.

The novice and seasoned geologists from the University of Rochester have gone out with the eye trackers about four times a day over their two - week field trip across California, which took them from San Francisco by the San Andreas Fault through the snowy Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park to the harshest area of the U.S. «Death Valley is a great place, where one can really see active geology firsthand — forces that are shaping the crust of the earth,» says geophysicist John A. Tarduno, another of the Rochester scientists.

Cristian Micheletti of SISSA, a pioneer scientist in this kind of research, has just published a systematic revision of all literature concerned with such new and promising field of research, which reveals the great potentialities of such an innovative methodology.

Second, by comparing the number of faculty in the field to the number doing a postdoc — which besides being a training phase also serves as a holding pattern for scientists waiting and hoping for faculty jobs — we can get an idea of whether Ph.D. scientists have access to other career options they deem acceptable.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

A new pesticide which some scientists have likened to DDT will not be registered in the United States for use on cotton fields, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday.

Only 24 percent had been given the opportunity to participate in a citizen science - type field campaign, which is defined as the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically in collaboration with professional scientists.

Some scientists found that the fields make cells divide more rapidly or produce abnormally large quantities of messenger RNAs — molecules which are the intermediate step between genes and proteins.

Yet it often succeeds in removing some of the best scientists from their chosen field of scholarship and placing them in an unfamiliar situation in which opportunism and political finesse are assets as important as intellectual ability.

To manipulate the foreign DNA, the scientists used optical tweezers, which essentially tweaks a laser beam whose electromagnetic field can grab hold of and transport a plasmid - coated particle.

But other scientists argue that this does not solve the problem, as the Sun's magnetic field becomes chaotic as it passes through the corona, which again should smear out any signature of the Sun's vibration.

«Most surprising is that the blast wave was still strong enough to cause significant effects in the atmosphere of Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from the sun and has a magnetic field much larger than Earth's,» says Ed Stone of Caltech, chief scientist of NASA's Voyager program.

Many scientists consider the notion dubious, but a tangible stare fits easily into Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance, which holds that perceptible fields bind every entity to one another and that the mind is not confined to the brain.

In highly technical fields like semiconductors, there's a very large pool of scientists and engineers to hire from, says Celia Merzbacher, vice president of innovative partnerships at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), which is based in Durham, North Carolina.

As a result, early - career scientists develop a reputation in the community more rapidly, which helps them make a mark in the field.

Engineers and scientists will also refine their measurements of Ceres» gravity field, which will help mission planners in designing Dawn's next orbit — its lowest — as well as the journey to get there.

Scientists usually get around this problem by studying electrons within certain neutral atoms and molecules, in which internal fields far stronger than any external field can be induced.

Doing a master's degree first is a good idea, he suggests, because it gives would - be Ph.D. scientists the opportunity to better inform themselves about fields in which they might want to specialize for their doctoral work.

Although computer models of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection of heritage materials, some scientists question their credibility, calling for these long - term trends be «ground truthed» in order to ensure that calculated rates of change reflect observed phenomena «in the field».

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

Shepard is part of a team of scientists from Columbia and IBM working under a $ 4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop field - effect transistors made of graphene, which is particularly good at amplifying weak signals at high frequencies.

«It's an opportunity for us to study changes in the Sun which will give us newer insights into the origin of the solar wind and its relation to the solar magnetic field,» says Ed Smith, NASA Ulysses project scientist.

Enrollees, all of whom held graduate degrees and many of whom were either working scientists or recent doctoral recipients in STEM fields, did an intensive 1 - year program of summer classes, where they were drilled in pedagogical theory, then two semesters of supervised teaching in a classroom and night classes where they caught up on math or science areas in which they weren't totally proficient.

I am a PhD student in sustainability, which is a field that really believes there is a need for more trans - disciplinary work (in this case perhaps science and art) as well as a need for scientists to engage and connect with people outside their field, especially general audiences and decision - makers.

The priority - setting effort comes as U.S. ocean scientists voice increasing concerns about the future of their field, which is struggling to sustain a robust research fleet and adapt to stagnating funding.

The scientists took quantum information theory, which is based on abstract mathematical systems, and applied it to condensed matter physics, a well - explored field with many known laws and experiments.

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.

Scientists analyzing this data have assumed that the polarization of photons in the CMB is not affected by the gravitational field in the universe, which is true only if electromagnetic symmetry exists.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

The new data should help scientists better model the movement of liquid iron in the outer core, which gives rise to Earth's magnetic field, says Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.

New volcano centres may form at other places, which the scientists explain by studying the stress field changes associated with the lateral collapse.

Physicists anticipate that LIGO will spark an entirely new field of astronomy, in which scientists survey the universe by feeling for its tremors.

Unlike the traditional expedition model, in which findings are often not published until months or years after the fieldwork has concluded, scientists began sharing their highlights while still in the field.

Carefully chosen detours allow scientists to make connections among fields in which the connection wasn't obvious previously.

To verify this bounty of planets, a research team co-led by Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., analyzed stars with more than one potential planet, all of which were detected in the first two years of Kepler's observations — May 2009 to March 2011.