Although the ultimate outcomes of the low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets in the experiments were the same, in that people lost similar amounts of weight over the course of a whole year, this is unlikely to deter the hordes of Atkins aficionados who swear by the diet.
The information they yield will be combined and analysed by scientists involved in all the experiments.
Merzenich first realized how malleable the brain is in a series of experiments in the mid-1980s.
This is because its findings can influence the settings run in the Sam experiments.
In the latest experiments, the nanofiber gel appeared to strengthen these weak areas of the heart.
As in the other experiments, the sellers had a much greater sense of fairness when they dealt with the high-status buyers.
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"We've never seen an elementary particle with spin zero, " said Tony Weidberg, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford who is also involved in the CERN experiments.
"Currently, there are no approved therapies in regenerative medicine for heart failure, " said Karen Christman, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, who wasn't involved in the latest experiments.
It is therefore something of a mystery why researchers concerned about mouse contamination did not engage in a literature search to establish whether the primers used in their experiments were in fact specific to XMRV sequences which are unique to the virus.
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In this context, UNESCO organized a workshop on the Global Microscience Experiments in partnership with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and in collaboration with the Guri Vie Meilleure Foundation, founded by the First Lady of Niger.
They believe that the use of animals in experiments and the slaughtering of animals as food for humans are all right as long as these activities are conducted in a humane way.
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People with impulse disorders had reduced activity in the bottom front of the brain (as seen in previous experiments), but the people with sexual disorders had reduced activity at the top front of the brain, indicating that something different was going on.
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High school students will demonstrate the Global Microscience and Chemistry experiments in the Open UNESCO space in the morning.
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In return, the graduate students let him borrow genetics textbooks and participate in experiments, including the sequencing of the cucumber genome.
By 1948 the Nuremberg Code, inspired by revelations of experiments in the Nazi death camps, set standards for medical studies on human subjects.
This is usually not possible in the way scientific experiments are communicated by the traditional publication process.
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In my mind, the more interesting experiments in online education are coming from platforms that are not tied to traditional institutions.
It turns out that idiosyncrasies in the way the experiments were conducted may have led to misleading interpretations of what happened.
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Mr. NYHAN: Well, the backfire effect we're talking about in the series of experiments that we did, we only found among conservatives.
In the first two experiments, the researchers took to the sidewalks near Berkeley and investigated the relationship between car type -- a reliable, if crude, measure of status -- and driver behavior.
The results of the experiments, reported in the journal Science, show that the modified plant can thrive even when salt levels are twice the amount that would kill a normal crop of corn.
In October 1995, Mr Clinton formally said sorry for radiation experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.
Her role in the mission will be to run the medical experiments in orbit.
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Technical analysis is the pseudo-art that has all us alchemists staring at our experiments in the hope of finding gold.
Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.
They would also like to push other stem-cell types, such as those found in the intestine, to the limit in their embryo experiments.
But Celebration also proposes a model for a sustainable pattern of American life in the future, with recycling programmes and Internet infrastucture built in, and educational experiments at the local schools.
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In addition to testing the system to detect fingerprints, the research team did a series of experiments in which they tested the same fingerprint on the same surface every day for 14 days.
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