Sentences with phrase «which young scientists»

The book highlights international efforts to set legal and ethical rules for the protection of human subjects, which young scientists could then consult.

The proposed model would mitigate some of the pitfalls in the current funding system, which young scientists are particularly vulnerable to, Bollen writes in his e-mail.

Hollinsed recounted to me a conversation in which a young scientist told him she had been advised to send her proposal to PRF because, as her adviser put it, «PRF will fund anything.»

Indeed, this is one of the most pernicious aspects of the bullying and victimisation which younger scientists face if they stick their heads above the parapet.

Not exact matches

The scientists found a desolate chunk of space surrounding the center of our galaxy that is devoid of young stars, which contradicts recent work done on the region.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

Twenty - eight AAAS members, staff and Science & Technology Policy Fellows took part in several Meet the Scientist sessions, during which young visitors were encouraged to interview the scientists and engineers.

«Most young scientists are more cautious than that, which explains why we needed someone like Nenad to get the project under way.»

Of particular concern to young scientists is a possible decline in funding for research groups, which would affect yet another category of early - career researchers: postdocs.

Last Tuesday, the GYA released the first report in their «Global State of Young Scientists» (GloSYS) project, which looks at the working conditions and career development opportunities of early - career scientists Scientists» (GloSYS) project, which looks at the working conditions and career development opportunities of early - career scientists scientists worldwide.

«There are published clinical reports from multiple IVF clinics throughout the world which showed that using mitochondria from a younger woman's donor egg significantly improved IVF success,» OvaScience told New Scientist.

Next year, the ERC will launch its own young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for early career scientists.

Remains as old as the Spirit Cave Mummy are rare, but there are many younger remains that are not clearly affiliated to any tribe, and which might now be deemed Native American through ancient DNA sequencing and thus repatriated, scientists say.

Which, of course, begs the question: What would be the impact on the Dutch brain drain if all the brilliant young scientists were to move into management consultancy?

The scientists recommend that people with advanced - stage fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which mostly affects teenagers and young adults, receive regular neuroimaging scans because of the tumor's apparent ability to metastasize to the brain.

Schröder is one of many young scientists in a so - called «dual - career couple» situation in which both partners would like to benefit from their professional opportunities.

Young scientists are often at a stage in life when they could take the risk posed by working for a start - up company, which, in return for the risk and lots of hard work, offers opportunity for tremendous professional growth, as well as an exciting scientific atmosphere.

► Russia's Dynasty Foundation, which last year spent $ 10 million to support 20 projects by young Russian scientists, could be shuttered now that authorities have labeled the organization a «foreign agent.»

These annual telethons now help support four institutions: TIGEM, the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine; HSR - TIGET, the San Raffaele Telethon Institute of Gene Therapy; Tecnothon, the laboratories for the creation of new equipment for the disabled; and the Dulbecco Telethon Institute, which provides research facilities for excellent young Italian scientists.

Other new opportunities for young scientists are coming from corporations and nonprofits, which are not currently major funders of research and training.

Science Careers Contributing Editor Elisabeth Pain discusses funding opportunities for young scientists in or coming to Europe under the European - Commission funded FP7 program, which is to expire in 2013.

«Our very first estimates are for rings less massive than we originally thought, which would indeed point to a very young age,» says Linda Spilker, Cassini's project scientist at JPL.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

Women athletes and scientists today marked the 37th anniversary of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the gold.

The morning was devoted to talks from a lineup of speakers, which included scientists, science communicators — including Bill Nye and Michael Mann — and young students aspiring to become an astronaut, an engineer, and a clean energy researcher.

, in which 19 young scientists had a crack — often a first crack — at popularising their work for a wider audience.

At last month's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting — an annual gathering of laureates and young scientists — Nobel prize - winner Randy Schekman, founder of open - access journal eLife, insisted that researchers should be judged on the quality of their research, rather than the impact factor of the journal in which they publish or the reputation of their institution.

At present, the association provides an excellent environment for the exchange of information, discussion, and collective action on specific issues related to Marie Curie Fellows and on broader issues, such as careers in science, which concern the community of young European scientists.

The paper, published last week, attempts to explain why young Japanese have lost interest in science and technology, a trend which the STA believes could create a shortage of scientists and engineers in the future.

Some barriers still remain that will require political action — there is no equivalent to the American tenure system in Germany, which is a harsh limitation for the independence of young scientists, and the need for a further round of scientific qualification after the Ph.D., the so called habilitation, does not really stimulate didactic enthusiasm.

The Duke scientists first examined the retinas of young rats that were genetically predisposed to an eye disease which causes progressive blindness similar to a disorder called retinitis pigmentosa in humans.

Its measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe showed the Universe to be younger than its oldest stars, which is plainly impossible (New Scientist, Science, 29 October 1994).

«The younger generations of scientists are immersed in a technology and culture of sharing to which the «old guard» is oblivious.

Taken together, this more global approach to research and genuine international philosophy toward the interaction of scientists is one that EMBO promotes and one which will be increasingly relevant to younger scientists in the future.

But around the same time studies of very distant galaxies, which we see as they were when the Universe was very young, were setting constraints on the amount of baryonic matter in the Universe (New Scientist, Science, 30 April).

The Dutch are doing their best with the Impulse program (worth 600,000 euros over 5 years for young researchers to start their own labs) 9, but neighbour Germany has similar initiatives, such as the Humboldt Foundation's Kosmos program for young scientists, which is worth much more (up to $ 1.1 million / 1.19 million euros over 3 years) 10.

Many young scientists produce hundreds of statistical runs «and they don't know what variables they've changed, and they don't know which run was supposed to do what, and they get all confused.»

But in general, writes Harvard's Freeman, «the job market for young scientists and engineers has worsened... relative to... many other high level occupations, which discourages US students... [but] the rewards are sufficient to attract large immigrant flows, particularly from less developed countries,» in a study published by National Bureau of Economic Research.

It is named after the particle physicist Bernard Gregory, former director - general of both CERN and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, who set up the working group on career opportunities for young scientists which became ABG just before his death in 1977.

The limiting factor on young scientists» abilities to start academic research careers is thus the number of available faculty positions, which over recent decades has fallen farther and farther behind the number of scientists the system is producing.

The scientists looked at the part of the brain called the striatum — pronounced «strai - ay - tuhm» as the article explains to the young audience — which is represented as the reward / pleasure center of the brain.

But there's a way in which today's scientists are younger, not older: Research has become a common experience among undergraduates bound for grad school.

«Young binge drinkers show altered brain activity: Scientists have found distinctive changes in brain activity in binge - drinking college students, which may be an early marker of brain damage.»

Some paradigms which led scientists to think that mega-earthquakes occur only in certain geological environments — featuring young and fast tectonic plates — had to be revised or abandoned.

«Younger scientists currently benefit to a great extent of the possibilities which ESF offers through the Research Networking Programmes (RNPs), European Collaborative Research Programmes (EUROCORES) and the European Research Conferences,» the open letter says.

My laboratory colleagues were always helpful and patient with me as I learned new methods and techniques, which is very important to a young scientist.

But the research institutes are facing stiff competition from the private sector, which is more good news for young scientists.

One more skeptical voice came from graduate student Juan Pablo Ruiz of Bethesda, who asked whether NIH's abandonment of the GSI — which many young scientists supported — was a response to complaints from senior scientists.

Nine representatives of young scientists in the Netherlands, six from Italy and one each from Germany, Poland, and France, flew on Monday, 30 August, to attend the official opening of the Genomics Momentum 2004, which was attended by Dutch Minister Maria van der Hoeven of Education, Culture, and Science, mayor Ivo Opstelten of Rotterdam, and NGI director Peter Folstar, among others.