These transformative studies have reshaped our understanding of how microbes and their environments interact and co-evolve, yet very few studies have yet to investigate how these interactions change dynamically over Earth's history or across its biogeochemically diverse ecosystems.
There is a need for transformative studies that can lead to knowledge and be translated into innovation, but the process of obtaining funding can be a significant barrier to transformative research.
Woody Allen's latter-day mediocrity came to a dramatic, albeit brief, halt with his transformative character study of a woman drinking and sweating her way towards a breakdown.
As this was a transformative mixed method study, the qualitative data was transformed into quantitative data so that it was integrated at the analysis stage.
Said's works proved influential in the humanities, especially in literary theory, and had a transformative impact on Middle Eastern studies, whose practitioners began to study how they examine, describe, and define Middle Eastern cultures.
We ignore part-time study's transformative power for individuals and society at our peril.
A systematic understanding of the genetic and molecular determinants of cancers has already begun to have a transformative effect on the study and treatment of cancer, particularly through the identification of a range of genetic alterations in protein kinase genes, which are highly associated with the disease.
Because the capacity of HELF cells for arsenite biomethylation is unknown, the transformative agent in this study could have been inorganic arsenite, a methylated metabolite, or a combination of inorganic and methylated metabolites.
This transformative idea arose from studying the interaction of refrigeration and a heat engine and the transfer of the heat, Q, between the two.
In the context of Mbekweni, this unique blend of economic and cultural transformative process challenges prior studies that have viewed transactional sex as primarily a means for basic subsistence and survival.
"This is a transformative piece of work," says neurologist David Borsook of Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.
