Word: yielding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unmentioned fact that many significant scientific discoveries occur as a result of an experiment performed for an entirely different purpose. In the absence of a human scientist with the capability to adjust experimental conditions at moment's notice, experiments might have to be repeated several times to yield results, or worse, abandoned due to their excessive costliness, against which Andorsky rails. To cite a historical example, would Alexander Fleming have isolated penicillin if he had to conduct his research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final rebuttal on admittedly risky ground: what Andorsky dubs that "nice sentiment" about...
...structure "will yield a more decentralized program, where there is more accountability for performance, more customization for both faculty and students and a higher degree of choice," according to a written statement...
...judging from the traffic on the Usenet newsgroup called alt.fan.bill-gates (but hardly a fan club), the last person in the world to whom Internet users would willingly yield control is the chairman of Microsoft. "The Net has a culture," says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Everyone who goes there takes on some of it. And that culture has a strong immune response to Bill Gates and Microsoft...
...those inspections rarely yield a surprising or dangerous appliance, according to Levesque and O'Connor. Neither could remember the last time an appliance caused a safety problem...
...research in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that some blind people have a way of sensing light, even though they cannot see it. The discovery may yield clues on how the brain keeps time. Many blind people suffer from insomnia; unable to sense light, their bodies fall behind real time by about a half hour each day. Yet a third of the 1 million Americans who are completely blind do not experience the problem. Dr. Charles Czeisler, a member of the team that conducted the research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, speculates that removing...