Sentences with phrase «with applied scientists»

Based from 2005 to 2009 in Accra, Ghana and in Kigali, Rwanda, he has worked on building up co-operation with applied scientists and policy makers in the Western and Eastern - African regions on the subject of climate change research and policy applications.

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In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

Collaboration with Earth scientists to identify the systems — from climate science, materials science, biology, and other areas — which can be codified to apply reinforcement learning for scientific progress and discovery is vital.

In order to maximize the productivity of scientists, there has to be some who do work in more theoretical fields with no obvious applications, and who are there to discuss with more applied scientists, teach them, validate or refute their ideas, etc..

This Communication Toolkit provides guidance for scientists to build skills to more effectively communicate and engage with public audiences, including ways to apply the fundamentals of communication to scientific topics.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

These changes will end the currently common, but antisocial, practice of pretending to employ young scientists at a different university after the termination of their temporary contract without providing them with the opportunity to apply for a permanent position.

Meredith: Well, a lot of young scientists have grown up with the Internet now, they know about Web sites, they know about blogs and Twitter and all that, but I don't think any of them have thought about how they apply these new tools to advance their work, to work to make their research reach out, to audiences with the research.

When I became aware that the Toxicology section of CFS in Toronto was hiring scientists, and after a positive telephone conversation with a member of the director?s office, I decided, with some trepidation, to jump ship and apply for a position.

Insect scientists, or entomologists, are being called upon with increasing frequency to apply their knowledge and expertise to criminal and civil proceedings.

It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.

With modern - day diseases becoming increasingly resistant to existing drugs, biological scientists and chemists at Leeds are now re-examining these old compounds, applying advances in science and technology to test more precisely whether they could still hold the key to a future drug.

One issue that scientists will have to grapple with in future is how far they are prepared to go to apply genetic knowledge to human disease.

Elevated miR - 182 expression already is associated with premature aging of the eye and, when MCG scientists mimic premature aging by applying hydrogen peroxide, miR - 182 levels increase.

The prospect of building a community of scientists with diverse backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented groups, is part of what drew Marcus Lambert to apply and win a position at this year's Leadership Institute.

Furthermore, the abstinence rates reported might apply only to those with less severe alcohol problems, because the scientists chose people who sought help for the first time, excluding others who had done so in the past.

She worked with Ganz for 3 years as a junior scientist, learning about cancer and chronic disease and charting a course in the relatively new field of psycho - oncology before applying for her own research funding.

Whether this applies to people no one knows, and scientists are quick to say that people with diabetes should still stick with their prescribed medicines.

And, he adds, that many scientists were adept at applying them, such as Gabor Somorjai, with whom he shared the 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for their work in surface science.

She left Virtual Text in 2001 when she was offered a communications role at the Hutchison / MRC Research Centre in Cambridge, U.K., a research institute that aims to bridge basic research with oncology, where she and her scientist husband had applied for jobs in parallel.

As part of a larger project on «Biological Design and Integrative Structures,» researchers at the Plant Biomechanics Group of the University of Freiburg have been working with civil engineers and material scientists to investigate how this specialised structure could be applied in architecture.

PNNL researchers are working with officials and scientists from Laos, Brazil, and Australia — areas where hydropower is booming — to apply lessons learned from experience in the Pacific Northwest, where salmon is king and water provides about two - thirds of the region's power.

It's very promising in that it's very rapid to apply — two to three minutes, compared to the 20 minutes required for surgical circumcision,» says Tim Farley, a scientist with WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research.»

The patch, which feels like a mosquito bite when applied, has already proved effective in mouse models with type 1 diabetes for up to 9 hours, scientists report online before print in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But the comprehensive study of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, with «all of the data in one pot,» Oddsson says, will give scientists an extraordinary opportunity to improve their understanding of how volcanoes work and apply it to other sites.

In addition, European scientists have the possibility of applying, with their Chinese collaborators, for funding under the 863s (applied research) and 973 (basic research) programmes funded by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.

When applying, scientists should be aware of the possibility that winning a grant may actually temporarily limit relocation opportunities due to the «potential costs associated with moving grants,» she suggests.

A SciDAC - sponsored conference in Reston, Va., brought applied mathematicians and computational scientists — the code writers and hardware developers — together with «applications» people — the folks who continually use and improve computer models.

Because the vaccine patch does not need to be kept cold and can be applied directly by the patient, scientists say it could help provide life - saving vaccines to areas with limited resources.

Specifically, the polymer scientists applied an electric field to a system with two liquids to overcome the weak force that stabilizes nanoparticle assemblies at interfaces.

I had the benefit of several mentors who encouraged me to explore other career options, and in 2013, I took a half - time appointment with a conservation - focused nonprofit as a scientist with an applied focus.

Beyond looking at the dynamics of creating the droplets and how ordered materials behave when the torus transforms into a sphere, Fernandez - Nieves and colleagues are also exploring potential biological applications, applying electrical fields to the droplets, and sharing the unique structures with scientists at other institutions.

As reported by Theodore Kotchen et al. and Howard Dickler et al. in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2004 and 2007, respectively, about 40 % of M.D.s with K08 (mentored clinical scientist development) awards do not even apply for a subsequent first independent (R01) grant.

The key to the discovery was applying the pure math concept of mean width, which is trickier to measure than its cousins — surface area and volume, says materials scientist David Srolovitz of Yeshiva University in New York City, who, along with mathematician Robert MacPherson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., published the finding online today in Nature.

Each scientist's lucrative compensation package is consistent with well - recognized metrics that have been applied to all Salk faculty in a nondiscriminatory manner.

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The problem with this representation is that it discounts the existence of applied scientists, and of theoretical engineers — both of which are real.

Boris Rubinsky, an engineer at the University of California at Berkeley, has worked with a number of scientists to apply the Storeys» findings to other animals, including humans.

They combined loners and extroverts, people with different personalities, as well as applied and fundamental scientists, and experimentalists and theorists.

In collaboration with elephant scientists from Cornell University, Save the Elephants, Trunks and Leaves, Disney's Animal Kingdom and University of Peradeniya the team now hope that beehive deterrents, used so successfully to ward off African elephants from rural farm lands, can be applied to prevent Asian elephant populations from raiding crops.

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.

If you are a biomedical scientist with a faculty position, you technically qualify to apply for an NIH research grant.

When the scientists applied nitroglycerin patches, which cause increased blood flow to the skin, to nine normal mice breathing air with adequate oxygen, EPO and red blood cell levels shot up, confirming that diverting blood into the skin drives the production of EPO.

«This research shows that by studying the amelogenin, discriminant functions can be created for a specific population, which can later be applied to other remains from that same population with a higher degree of reliability,» outlined the scientist.

For water quality control, the scientists apply a rather simple method: Users take a small water sample and mix it with an enzyme substrate, a nutrient that activates certain enterobacteria only.

Although Mauersberger and many other scientists apply business principles to their work, some doubt that a field associated with sales and profits has anything to offer them.

Many young scientists applying for their first job in a company wonder how they can discuss teamwork with an interviewer when they haven't had all that much experience working in teams.

Finally, scientists who plan to establish international scientific collaborations can apply for funding for Planning Visits and Workshops with international partners.

He is working on this project with Steve Sabbagh, a senior research scientist and adjunct professor of applied physics at Columbia who has collaborated with PPPL for almost three decades.

Until 1 June of this year, scientists with faculty appointments were invited to apply to NSF's International Office for funding to cover the incremental costs of international collaborations, like travel for consultation, research planning, paper drafting, and so on, as well as the costs of shipping equipment or samples.