Sentences with phrase «year experiment involves»

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There will probably be some kind of hardware involved (Dugan suggested it might be glasses, similar to Google's failed Google Glass experiment from a few years ago) and wearable tech has always been a dicey prospect.

This time, the experiments will involve H7N9, a new strain of avian influenza that infected 134 people in China this year, killing 43.

A string of such beautiful, interventionist mice experiments over the past several years has revealed specific circuit elements involved in a variety of normal and pathological behaviors: depression, behavioral conditioning, Parkinson's disease and cortical oscillations critical for attention, among others.

In one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma drug.

«Procedurally, it involved deliberations about how to facilitate both liberty and order, matters about which the individual states experimented considerably during the eleven years between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.»

The experiment could be explained by a mathematical model developed by the researchers over the past few years, which enabled them to produce a computer - generated movie of the motions of the atoms involved in the bond - breaking at the copper surface.

«The biochemical mechanisms of these proteins have been known for years from experiments involving purified protein and DNA, and that's very important, but in this new work we've clarified these proteins» roles in living cells,» said co-senior author Christopher P. Selby, PhD, research assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC.

Reexamining data from his 20 - year - old NASA experiment involving the repeated freezing and melting of high - purity materials in microgravity, Martin Glicksman, research professor in materials science and the Allen Henry Chair at Florida Institute of Technology, working with Kumar Ankit at the School of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University, discovered the way nature guides formation of complex patterns in materials that crystallize.

A U.K. project that is examining the feasibility of geoengineering the Earth's climate to reduce global warming will no longer involve an outdoor experiment that was scheduled to take place later this year.

And we understand that on the basis of direct observations, which have become very much better over the past five or 10 years and also as a result of theoretical investigations, particularly those involving sophisticated numerical computations; and here we are able to do the sort of experiments, with the computer if you like, that were not possible 10 or 15 years ago.

Furthermore, an experiment involving the same woman imaged over 8 years on different x-ray systems revealed varying results of breast density.

Almost a year after they announced it, leading influenza researchers are ending a voluntary moratorium on certain types of controversial experiments involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

In 1978, 10 years after the study's debut, Rosenthal and Rubin co-authored a report summarizing 345 experiments involving the influence of interpersonal expectations.

To address that, the researchers developed a field experiment involving 1,540 children, who were 5 years old on average and enrolled in 214 Indian preschools.

Tornabene is also actively involved with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (or HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)-- now celebrating its 10th [Earth] year anniversary in orbit.

Over the past five years, scientists have had some success with this approach, reporting that they had seen promising Majorana fermion signatures in experiments involving superconducting nanowires.

The CMIP5 modelling exercise involved many more experiments and many more model - years of simulation than previous CMIP projects, and has been referred to as «the moon - shot of climate modelling» by Gerry Meehl, a senior member of the international steering committee, WGCM.....»

Results of experiments in multiple laboratories over the last 20 years have shown that a large part of the cancer - inducing effect of estrogen involves the formation of agonistic metabolites of estrogen, especially 16 - alpha - hydroxyestrone.

The first complex TD experiment started in 2008 at the «Moise Nicoară» National College, from Arad, Romania and it was carried out as it is described in the book published in 2010.15 The project was carried out for two years, involving activities attended by high school students and teachers.

To give students, staff, and parents a break from the time and stress involved in creating typical science fair projects, teachers at Hollywood Elementary School in College Park, Maryland, decided four years ago to turn everyone into scientists for a day so they could try their hands at different experiments.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Earlier this year, during its annual conference, the American Industrial Arts Association unveiled an ambitious plan designed to shift the focus of industrial arts from hands - on skills and crafts projects to an applied - science approach involving laboratory experiments.

In the year 1955 a biological experiment took place in the CSSR involving the crossing of a German Shepherd Dog with a Carpathian wolf.

«The adventure has involved over 70 + countries (view the list here) on 6 continents, work as a Tour Manager on board cruise ships, two years in India, experiments with meditation, muse - creation, mountain - climbing and movie acting, volunteer work, an inappropriate amount of time on tropical islands and eating inappropriate amounts of street food, a two - day kidnapping, being placed on the US «terror watch list», teaching English in Asia and a fruitless search for a pair of sandals with sufficient arch-support for my flat feet, among others.»

Set aboard a space station called Talos I in the year 2032, you play a character involved in experiments meant to change humanity, but things GO →

The CMIP5 modelling exercise involved many more experiments and many more model - years of simulation than previous CMIP projects, and has been referred to as «the moon - shot of climate modelling» by Gerry Meehl, a senior member of the international steering committee, WGCM.....»

In fact, the only experiment I have heard about was run around 100 years ago, and involved to closed boxes, one covered with glass and one covered with a transparent salt compound.

The first phase involved the initial experiments in California's Mojave desert, where he noted some projects had recontracted after 25 years of operation and were heading for a total project life of 40 - 50 years.

Even a project at BP's maligned refinery in Texas City, Tex. — owner of the oil industry's worst safety record and site of a deadly 2005 explosion, as well as a benzene leak earlier this year — secured a waiver for the preliminary phase of a carbon capture and sequestration experiment involving two companies with past compliance problems.

This is an experiment and it involves a relatively small number of families each year (approx. 100).

This is the situation that WIRED writer Andy Greenberg found himself in last year, except that he was involved in a controlled experiment with hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek.