In the experiment, the chosen person who has the least ability puts in extra effort that compensates for his failings.
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Probably the most significant question was Mr Ancram's on the alleged chaos and even fraud in the experiment on postal voting for the elections.
The explanation appears to be that the beneficial changes that happened early in the experiment, when the viruses were least well-suited to their environment, had bigger effects than those that happened later, when they were well adapted.
In the first experiment the researchers established that, after viewing an image of an airplane flying into one of the World Trade Center towers, liberals and conservatives held opposing attitudes toward the ground zero mosque and community center.
Their total engagement in the experiment was evident in the many questions that they asked.
In the third phase of the experiment a male was placed in the cage over the box where the female had once been, and the amount of aggression towards this male from the nesting male was measured.
The real test of the metapopulation hypothesis came in the second part of the experiment.
In the experiment at Bonn, the researchers fired two lasers in sequence at a single atom of cesium, moving it to the left or right.
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He and his family obtained Bahraini nationality in 2001 under political reforms instituted by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, who also cleared the way for parliamentary elections in Bahrain - seen as the main democratic experiment in the Gulf.
In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
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Like the mice in the lab experiment, managers and employees were anxious about the consequences of failure and felt it more prudent to continue doing what they had always done.
In the third experiment, the participants were given a test designed to see how focused they were.
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In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an organizational identity group, and a control group.
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Why did they then in the first experiment assign the lowest value to those companies with a CEO of a prestigious company who is black?
To further study the reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab.
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Last August, ACT unveiled a technique that might allow the creation of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos--but drew fire when critics said Lanza had not been clear enough that the embryos in the experiment were destroyed.
During a recent test, Daniel Weissman, the neuroscientist in charge of the experiment, explained that a man lying inside the scanner would be performing different tasks, depending on the color of two numbers he sees on a screen.
Of the 240 participants in the experiment, 84% punished at least once and around 9% punished more than ten times.
They also failed to pick the cheapest fund, and in a survey after the experiment listed fees as the fifth most important factor in making their decision, behind performance.
After the experiment in the Cambridge cafe, the owners switched to a higher level of encryption for their network, making it impossible to use Firesheep.
Before the experiment in the hanger could begin, researchers calculated the pressures the house would experience in a small-scale study conducted at the University's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory -- which has over 40 years of expertise testing high-rise buildings and bridges.
Over the eight-week period of the experiment the mice in the first and third groups gained almost 50% more weight than those exposed to the natural light-dark cycle.
The polarised photons were able to take the place of the particle and the antiparticle in Dr Hardy's thought experiment because they obey the same quantum-mechanical rules.
Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
In the experiment, a sizable minority of the principals, 30%, choose the less qualified person.
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What Milgram discovered is that the majority of participants in the experiment all ordinary people were willing to inflict pain and harm on another person because an authority figure (the experimenter) told them to do so.
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Radioactivity came to light a century after the discovery of uranium when Henri Becquerel used uranium salts and photographic plates in the same experiment and found that one fogged the other.
Chicago was home of the Gautreaux housing settlement in the 1970s, a social experiment on the value of breaking up dysfunctional neighborhoods and dispersing inhabitants to communities with intact families, intact schools, intact employment opportunities.
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