We experimented with surveys in which separate prompts asked students to describe scientist characteristics versus scientist names, but we found that combining the instructions into a single prompt stimulated richer responses than the sum of two separate prompts.
We found that the creation of evaluation tools helped hold projects accountable for outcomes and highlighted to project managers and scientists the characteristics of projects that lead to improved outcomes.
Franciscus Sylvius, Dutch physician and scientist, identified characteristic changes in the lungs caused by consumption, rampant at the time.
The chaotic aspect of climate describes the inherent unpredictability present in the behavior of complex natural systems (Merriam-Webster n.d).. Climate scientists understand this characteristic of the systems they study.
One of the disorder's most intriguing characteristics, scientists now say, is that a child exhibits no signs of the disorder until it strikes, usually when talking becomes more complicated.
It was in analyzing those problems and in creating rules for action that scientists developed the characteristics of this new, algorithmic or rule-bound, rationality.
The scientists quantified the characteristics of stripes on zebras at 16 sites across the animals' range and examined 29 environmental factors, including temperature, predation, and biting flies, searching for an association.
During that trial, social scientists used demographic characteristics to identify biases in favor of conviction.
"So, at the present time, I seem to be thinking rationally in the style that is characteristic of scientists," he wrote.
Reacting to speed limits on roads is the result of birds adapting to what they consider a "habitat characteristic", the scientists suggest.
