Dr Bugnyar was conducting an experiment designed to see what ravens learn from each other while foraging.
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Imagine an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that science can be funny.
It almost felt like a sociological experiment designed to prove the obvious: that readers are herd animals, that heat begets heat.
In the fall of 2005, thousands of Forbes readers participated in an unusual experiment designed to test the limits of long distance communication.
Then Roger took a deep breath, and designed one final experiment.
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Professors Maurice Schweitzer for the University of Pennsylvania, Lisa Ordonez from the University of Arizona, and Bambi Douma from the University of Montana designed a clever experiment.
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The project, which we called an "E-mail Time Capsule, " was part of our special report on Communicating and was designed as an experiment to allow readers to communicate with their future selves.
An experiment designed to test perceptions of affirmative action found that independent observers rated companies significantly lower when they were told the top executives were African-American graduates of prestigious universities, instead of white.
The MIT smartphone experiment is designed to delve as deeply as possible into daily life.
Because the experiment was designed to test the ability of current networks to carry high-bandwidth data, no explicit QoS support was employed.
The experiment was designed to test whether people who had normal levels of bad cholesterol but high CRP could be helped by statin therapy.
Though Dr Russell's experiment had been designed mainly to look at how clouds form naturally, it paves the way for future work on geoengineering.
Because the numbers are small and come from combining trials that were not designed as part of one experiment, those conclusions are not ironclad.
Ms. Anthony says she hopes to experiment more with novels designed for digital devices.
The IPCC was an overly optimistic experiment in international governance designed for a world that never materialized.
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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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.
One change now being considered is an experiment with larger balls, which are designed to slow down the game on quick playing surfaces like Wimbledon's grass.
In the third experiment, the participants were given a test designed to see how focused they were.
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Ministers were worried that the experiment might have been illegal under international laws designed to protect marine wildlife, although they eventually gave the go-ahead.
This year, the league has a new Chief Marketing Officer in Michael Hand, who will run the point on an experiment called the MiLB Project Brand initiative, which is designed to enhance franchise values and create significant integrated sponsorship platforms by unleashing the combined, previously untapped power of all 160 affiliated MiLB clubs.
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