Given the reasonable doubt raised by the experiment, the charges against Lewis were soon dropped.
Volunteer Gabriel Dean said he was far more worried about another future threat forecast by the experiment, that one day criminals might be able to replicate DNA and place some at the scene of a crime.
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What's more, he never managed to put words into sentences, and that was the criterion by which the experiment was to be judged a success.
That's one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week.
Countries considering changing their first-past-the post system had been alarmed by the results of the New Zealand experiment.
The Oregon experiment, led by the talented MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, is based on a situation in Oregon in 2008 when a limited number of Medicaid spots were given out by lottery.
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But it was not regarded as a great success by the players - and the experiment was dropped after one season after no decisions made by on-field umpires were reversed.
The scanning equipment weighed some 80kg and, for the most part, was being transported to the experiment sites by camel - a fitting mode of transport for such state-of-the-art kit.
This year, the researchers plan to expand the experiment by recruiting more participants over a larger area of Iowa, in order to see if they get better prediction data.
It would not start with the proposed test of the MIRACL laser against the third Miniature Sensor Technology Integration (MSTI-3) satellite. (For that matter, these assets were used in an inconclusive low-power laser test last April.) And it assuredly would not stop if the Clinton Administration chooses not to conduct the high-power experiment now being proposed by the Army.
Graduate students shuttled equipment across the country by car to avoid shipping them by airplanes, which would put the experiment closer to cosmic radiation.
Such brightening has been observed in the exhaust plumes of cargo ships for some time, but Lynn Russell, who ran the experiment, was still surprised by how much brightening the team saw.
Written by Oxford University scientists in collaboration with the ATLAS experiment at CERN, it is designed for use by experts and non-experts alike.
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In the first, they replicated the earlier experiment by having participants play a Japanese game similar to Operation.
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In an experiment popularized by the book of the same name, volunteers were told to keep track of how many times a basketball was passed between players.
In a large-scale experiment overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration , UPS is installing a computer navigation system on all 107 of its Boeing 757s and 767s that allows pilots to "see" other jets without radar.
Or how about the experiment suggested by Sir Peter Newsam, a former head of London University's Institute of Education, for initiative-free zones, where head teachers are left to run schools without constant meddling from local authorities and ministers?
The ideal solution is to counter fluctuations in wind power by changing demand, as in the Washington experiment, but it's a big job.
The Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, just west of the Pennsylvania border, serves as an experiment in private prison administration by the Ohio Department of Corrections.
To demonstrate this phenomenon, the researchers designed a classic two-by-two experiment in which students imagined choosing courses for the following semester and were told them that the courses would (or would not) count towards their major so that it was an important (or unimportant) decision.
As in the first experiment, participants rated how unnerved they were by the man on a five-point scale.
But unlike that, the watt-balance experiment can be performed by anyone at any time provided they possess the right equipment and expertise.
And, thirdly, it ought to be a system that can be treated by the royal commission as a working experiment in one form of permanent solution.
The experiment, conducted by a team from the Hamamatsu University of Medicine, found that the larvae of fruit flies hit with this electron rush were able to withstand an electron microscope's hostile vacuum unharmed and even grew to be healthy adults.
Though this application had been filed before SPICE was proposed, and Mr Davidson both declared his interest and recused himself from discussions on SPICE team when advising EPSRC, Matt Watson of Bristol university, SPICE's principle investigator, was sufficiently concerned about both the application and wider issues of the sort considered by the stakeholder committee that, this week, he cancelled the balloon experiment.
We should also not overlook the threat to economic freedom posed by even mild inflation, as the U.S. experiment with wage-price controls illustrated in the early 1970s.
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The year is 1764, and the women must experiment in secret if they are not to be dismissed by the scientific establishment.
However, if we change the net debt amount to zero and perform a similar experiment, the overall company value would increase by only 24%.
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More than 3, 000 scientists from 177 institutes in 38 countries work on the ATLAS experiment, as he puts it: "we work by discussions and consensus-building - people need to agree with and support the experiment's goals".
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