Slocombe and Zuberbuhler's study is the first experiment to show that vocal sound can carry meaning for chimpanzees.
That makes them see Cyprus not as a failure of the Euro-experiment, but a fascinating case study for policies.
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But Sandborn considers Smarr a scientist conducting an experiment on himself, and the pilot study is ongoing.
The Alpha experiment's main task is to study the energy levels within antihydrogen, to spot any differences between it and the hydrogen that physicists know to extraordinary precision.
Scientists with the ALPHA Experiment couldn't tell, according to study published in Nature Communications.
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Whatever the mechanism, though, this study provides what no previous study ever has: evidence from a controlled experiment that keystone species really exist.
Another example, in a study published last year: Students in an experiment where they were given the same information about a fictitious company and asked to estimate its value.
The Oregon Health Experiment, with its results posted today, is just the latest study to show the same result.
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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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Seventy French university students were recruited for the study and told they would be participating in a three-day experiment testing the effects of brightness of video games on visual perception.
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They put in something with tools on it for future missions, and they also set up a science experiment which is going to look--how materials--look at--study materials in outer space, and it'll radio back its results.
There's a careful study of the Mariel boatlift, for example, which was a kind of natural experiment where a large number of Cuban immigrants were, if you will, dumped on the shores of Southern Florida all of a sudden in effort to try to find in the years after whether there was any negative effect on workers and black workers of this unexpected influx.
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.
In a separate experiment, the researchers demonstrated that they could induce a promotion or prevention focus simply by phrasing the goals of the study in two different ways.
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