Sentences with phrase «whose early experiments»

We are spectacularly lucky that the people whose early experiments turned into the Internet conceived of an optimistic open design that happened to get locked in.

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Churchill, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University, is doing an experiment to see if a spear thrown by an early modern human might have killed Shanidar 3, a roughly 40 - year - old Neanderthal male whose remains were uncovered in the 1950s in Shanidar Cave in northeastern Iraq.

But experiments in rodents, done in the early 1950s, showed that bone marrow transplants can rebuild new blood in animals whose own marrow was destroyed, raising hopes that a similar approach might also work in man to treat leukemia or radiation damage.

This early hint that age - related changes in EP2 action in microglia might be promoting some of the neuropathological features implicated in Alzheimer's was borne out in subsequent experiments for which Andreasson's team used mice genetically predisposed to get the mouse equivalent of Alzheimer's, as well as otherwise normal mice into whose brains the scientists injected either A-beta or a control solution.

Charlemagne Palestine is a pianist and composer whose experiments with many religious and ceremonial musical styles is rooted in his formal training as a cantor, as well as early experiences with carillon bells and electronic tone generators.

Edward Clark's abstract expressionist tondo The Big Egg (1968) establishes the artist among the earliest American painters to experiment with oval forms (later explored by artists like Jasper Johns), while works by the 1970s black artist collective AfriCOBRA — who operated loosely as the visual arts arm of the Black Arts Movement, and whose influence can be found in the work of Kerry James Marshall and David Hammons — are given prominence.

Published in 1973 by the New York — based group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), this print portfolio brings together lithographs and screen prints by 30 internationally known artists whose work largely defined the New York art scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Like several other shows from the early 1990s, including Jeffrey Deitch's Post Human (1992), Kelley's experiment took its cue from the rise of «mannequin art,» a term he coined to describe artists like Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Jonathan Borofsky, whose life - size sculptures — not, in fact, all mannequins — evoked anxieties about the role of the human body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnology.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107