Experiments were made on an electric arc applying a porous graphite anode cooled by a transpiring gas ( Argon ).

Experiments have shown that two fungal strains ( Aspergillus niger, Penicillium simplicissimum ) were able to mobilize Cu and Sn by 65 %, and Al, Ni, Pb, and Zn by more than 95 %. Aspergillus niger can produce some organic acids such as citric acid.

A methodology for designing experiments was proposed by Ronald A. Fisher, in his innovative books: " The Arrangement of Field Experiments " ( 1926 ) and The Design of Experiments ( 1935 ).

Conceptually different experiments that also attempted to detect the motion of the aether were the Trouton-Noble experiment ( 1903 ) to detect torsion effects caused by electrostatic fields, and the Experiments of Rayleigh and Brace ( 1902, 1904 ) to detect double refraction in various media.

* The Human Behavior Experiments is a 2006 documentary by Alex Gibney about major experiments in social psychology, shown along with modern incidents highlighting the principles discussed.

Experiments in 1911 by Otto Hahn, and by James Chadwick in 1914 discovered that the beta decay spectrum was continuous rather than discrete.

Experiments were also to be conducted on the transmission of sound by light, which resulted in the selenium-celled Photophone.

Experiments have been performed confirming the accuracy of quantum mechanics, thereby demonstrating that the physical world cannot be described by any local realistic theory.

* Cheese Yield Experiments and Proteolysis by Milk-Clotting Enzymes

Ryder used the term again in an essay, " Experiments on Animals ," in Animals, Men and Morals ( 1971 ), a collection of essays on animal rights edited by three other members of the Oxford Group, philosophy graduate students Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch, and John Harris.

Experiments by Cross et al.

Experiments by Frederick Zugibe have, however, revealed that, when suspended with arms at 60 ° to 70 ° from the vertical, test subjects had no difficulty breathing.

The anime series Serial Experiments Lain was influenced by NextStep and Mac OS, references may be found throughout the show and its affiliated media.

This book came to the attention of Robert Boyle who, stimulated by it, embarked on his own experiments on air pressure and the vacuum, and in 1660 published New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring of Air and its Effects.

Experiments done in Africa ( Uganda and Tanzania ) and Srilanka on hundreds of households have shown that a bicycle can increase the income of a poor family by as much as 35 %

The resulting investigation was undertaken by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and it uncovered much of the material included in The Plutonium Files.

Experiments have repeatedly found that people tend to test hypotheses in a one-sided way, by searching for evidence consistent with the hypothesis they hold at a given time.

Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.

Experiments can vary from personal and informal ( e. g. tasting a range of chocolates to find a favourite ), to highly controlled ( e. g. tests requiring complex apparatus overseen by many scientists hoping to discover information about subatomic particles ).

Experiments to ascertain whether the solar spectrum contained the same bright line in the orange as that produced by the light of fire led him to the discovery of the 574 dark fixed lines in the solar spectrum.

Experiments were performed by the Cornish scientist Humphry Davy.

Awarded every year, the medal is the oldest Royal Society medal still being awarded, having first been given in 1731 to Stephen Gray, who received it for " his new Electrical Experiments: – as an encouragement to him for the readiness he has always shown in obliging the Society with his discoveries and improvements in this part of Natural Knowledge ".

Experiments conducted later showed that the other RNA and DNA nucleobases could be obtained through simulated prebiotic chemistry with a reducing atmosphere.

Experiments in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s ( including outdoor CCTV in Bournemouth in 1985 ), led to several larger trial programs later that decade.

Experiments have shown that administration of stress hormones to mice immediately after they learn something enhances their retention when they are tested two days later.

, born April 4, 1961 ) is a Japanese writer and scenarist best known for Serial Experiments Lain, and later for the Digimon season, Digimon Tamers.

* Chemical Amusement, a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry Which Are Easily Performed and Unattended by Danger, London 1817, Second edition 1817, Third edition 1818, fourth reprint 1819 ; German Chemische Unterhaltungen: eine Sammlung merkwürdiger und lehrreicher Erzeugnisse der Erfahrungschemie, Kopenhagen 1819, entitled Chemische Belustigungen Nürnberg 1824 ; second American edition based on the third English edition with additions by Thomas Cooper, Philadelphia 1818 ; French translation by V. Riffault Manual de Chimie Amusante ; ou nouvelles recreations chimiques, contenant une suite d ’ experiences d ’ une execution facile et sans danger, ainsi qu ’ un grand nombre de faits curieux et instructifs, 1827, Second edition 1829 later reprinted by A. D. Vergnaud, final and sixth reprinting Paris 1854 ; two volume Italian translation Divertimento chimico contenente esperienze curiose, Milan 1820, second expanded edition by Pozzi La Chimica dilettevole o serie di sperienze curiose e instruttive di chimica chi si esequiscono con facilità e sicurezza, Milan 1854

He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1838, and later published Hexametrical Experiments, or, A version of four of Virgil's pastorals ... with hints to explain the method of reading, and a slight essay on the laws of metre that year.

The experiments of JB Francis ( Lowell Hydraulic Experiments, Boston, Mass., 1855 ) led him to propose variations in the accepted formulae for the discharge over weirs, and a generation later a very complete investigation of this subject was carried out by H Bazin.

Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym " Emanuel Morgan ", and Arthur Davison Ficke, who wrote as " Anne Knish.

Experiments carried out over long periods of time in order to allow establishment of a steady state have shown that the onset of contraction and its completion are confined to an interval of several degrees Centigrade and to a concentration range of only several per cent.

Experiments have been carried out using naïve undergraduates to match images of fingerprints.

Experiments were carried out on the Earl's Court to High Street Kensington section, and a jointly-owned train of six coaches began passenger service in 1900.

Experiments with trains as long as 38 tubs were carried out, but the difficulty of splitting the train to pass through the locks meant that 19 was the usual maximum.

Experiments with the skirt design demonstrated a problem ; it was originally expected that pressure applied to the outside of the skirt would bend it inward, and the now-displaced airflow would cause it to pop back out.

Experiments were carried out on insects, and experiments on varying the work schedule were carried out.

Experiments carried out in the USSR used crossings of broodstocks to increase genetic diversity and then selected the species for traits like growth rate, exterior traits and viability, and / or adaptation to environmental conditions like variations in temperature.

Experiments were carried out to find the optimum size for a stable channel, and the result was one that was only deep.

Experiments with high explosives carried out on the shingle wastes around 1888 led to the invention of the explosive Lyddite.

Experiments on human gene function can often be carried out on other species if a homolog to a human gene can be found in the genome of that species, but only if the homolog is orthologous.

Experiments were carried out involving replacing the existing Bedford engine with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine salvaged from an Irish Air Corps Seafire aircraft.

Experiments testing Bell-type inequalities in situations analogous to EPR's thought experiments have been consistent with the predictions of quantum mechanics, suggesting that local hidden variables theories can be ruled out.

Experiments with the boat were carried out on the river Seine, it having been fitted with stem and stern air cases, was able to remain afloat when filled with water, and could also right itself promptly when overturned.

This benefit of the TTST condition was not apparently different for final retrieval after 5 min or after 24 h. Experiments 3 and 4 ruled out two artifactual explanations of the TTST advantage observed in the first two experiments.

Experiments using electrorefining to process spent nuclear fuel have been carried out.

Experiments would be done to find out whether camelina was capable of extracting radioactive caesium from the soil.

Experiments have been carried out to pump Antarctic krill, while still in water, from the cod end of the net through a large tube on board.

Experiments with reconstructions have been disappointing in that such barriers are not strong, as the symmetry of the stakes makes them easy to pull out of the ground.

Experiments on this cycle implementation were carried out on board submarines of Series XII M-92 ( S-92, R-1 ).