The one-metre-long remote-controlled chopper allows Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse's team to take a sample without the whales being disturbed.
To do this, he and his team took a random sample from the corpus, checked what proportion were non-words and extrapolated that to the whole lot.
Over the course of two summer internships, I have worked on the Presidential Libraries team to collect a small sample of records related to Americans with disabilities.
There are also proposals to explore and sample Lake Ellsworth in west Antarctica by a team involving 14 UK universities and research institutions, plus scientists from Chile, the US, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand.
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The team is more concerned about getting its sample handling procedures right than making significant new discoveries.
The Knicks are 5-0 under Woodson and though it's a small sample size it's worth noting that no team has allowed fewer than 87.5 points per game this season.
In a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Lubinski and his team at Vanderbilt found that in a sample of academically gifted young adults, women became less career-oriented than men over time.
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This brief moment is all the time that the sensors inside will have to measure how the sample's electrical resistance changes, so Dr Brooks and his team have their work cut out to get good data.
Another experiment the team are carrying out involves taking a metre-deep soil sample, which co-researcher Rebecca Rowe describes as "quite unusual".
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The research team worked with 275 randomly selected people, showing them a sample of 82 ads for 30 brands in their homes or workplaces.
This week the team decided to use a scoop on the arm to dig up a sample of dirt and found it contained about 1 percent water ice, NASA researchers said.
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He suffered a key setback in recent years when several groups failed to find the right kinds of spherules or otherwise duplicate the results of his team's work and, worse, when a spherule sample from Younger Dryas rocks proved to be only 135 years old.
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Five games is not a minuscule sample, and to watch the Knicks in this past week is to witness a sad team transformed.
Sometimes the team executive puts too much faith in a player's college career or in a small sample of a young pro.
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