The experience was very effective in developing and employing soft skills within a simulated business environment.

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The scientists tethered the moth inside an arena that simulated the environment around the insect moving up and down.

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The simulated work environment, created by GM in 1999, is a way for workers to learn the concepts of continuous improvement, quality, workplace organization and standardized work processes.

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Stray-Gundersen worked for the Norwegian Olympic Committee from 1997-2002, sealing bedrooms of the country's top Nordic athletes and adjusting the oxygen and nitrogen content of the air, so they could sleep in a simulated high altitude environment (he was the scientist who developed the concept of living at high altitude to increase hemoglobin levels).

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The study took two sets of rats, both of who were subjected to an environment that simulated weightlessness.

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In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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