Sentences with phrase «biological research system»
To restrict the experimental variables to gravity, NASA developed something called the Advanced Biological Research System, or ABRS.
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«I knew this research would be contentious,» said Adam Liska, the lead author and an assistant professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
It's this kind of research that led Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and her colleague Gary Sandefur to write that if they we were to design a family, the «two - parent ideal... [would ensure] that children had access to the time and money of two adults... would provide a system of checks and balances that promoted quality parenting... [and the] fact that both parents have a biological connection to the child would increase the likelihood that the parents would identify with the child and be willing to sacrifice for that child, and it would reduce the likelihood that either parent would abuse the child.»
The Organic Farmers Fair is a good momentum for suppliers in seeds and seedlings, fertilizers, composting technology, biological pest control, weed control systems, GPS systems, soil cultivation, greenhouse horticulture, research and advice.
In addition to experimental research on cancer, there are over 1000 peer reviewed, published papers showing other harmful biological effects from microwave radiation exposure such as damage to sperm, pregnancy and nervous systems.»
Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;
Unsurprisingly given its past focus on climate, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) would receive the largest relative reduction of any SC program area, with its environmental research branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems SciencesResearch (BER) would receive the largest relative reduction of any SC program area, with its environmental research branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems Sciencesresearch branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences.»
In a study supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Atmospheric System Research program, scientists used the Community Atmosphere Model version 4 to examine the relative importance of heating at different altitudes to the MJO.
However NASA, as both a funding and research institution, has realized the importance of research intended to provide a description of the «big picture» for chemical and biological systems.
How does a company ensure predictability to satisfy the commercial component when biological systems and research can often be unpredictable?
These concerns push immunology — the biological system of defense — to the forefront of today's basic research and applied technology.
Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.
It has become a very effective group in parliament, according to Adams, meeting regularly with advocates for postsecondary and research interests (such as the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences) and assisting them in communicating their views within the federal system.
The groundbreaking research, to be published Dec. 22 in the journal Nature, Scientific Reports, has found a biological marker in the auditory system that could take the ambiguity and controversy out of diagnosing concussions and tracking recovery.
According to Heinz Valtin, a retired professor of physiology from Dartmouth Medical School who specialized in kidney research and spent 45 years studying the biological system that keeps the water in our bodies in balance, the answer is no.
The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Engineering and Biological Systems Committee.
We think that this type of interdisciplinary research can be very powerful to understand biological systems.»
«The retina is a very complex device, enabling our visual system to adjust to tremendous changes in light intensity,» says Thomas Serre, a neuroscientist at M.I.T.'s McGovern Institute for Brain Research's Center for Biological and Computational Learning.
Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
The Council, which includes academics from King's, has today published the first findings of its review looking at the potential impact of recent advances in genome editing such as the CRISPR - Cas9 system across many areas of biological research.
Ibáñez considers that «this result confirms the need to dedicate more resources to basic research that advances knowledge of biological systems at the molecular level, in order to understand them better and thus be able to resolve the problems that arise in patients.»
Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.
A few years ago, Densmore was doing postdoctoral research at Berkeley when Voigt commissioned him to make a prototype computer system that streamlined biological engineering's testing process to avoid redundancy.
His research seeks to take inspiration from the biological olfactory system to develop a device for noninvasive chemical sensing.
Her research centers on engineering the network of proteins that interact with DNA to control the expression of inherited traits (epigenetics) with the aim of rationally designing new biological systems with predictable, reliable behavior, and replacing «magic bullet medicine» with «smart medicine.»
For example, in a recent Nature Physics paper, physicist Neill Lambert of the Advanced Science Institute in Japan called out new photosynthesis research as remarkable just for suggesting quantum effects can happen in biological systems at room temperature.
«Biological research is moving toward complex systems that extend across multiple dimensions, the interaction of multiple elements over time,» said postdoctoral fellow Francesco Cutrale.
John Hemminger, a chemist from the University of California, Irvine, and chair of DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, noted that within biological and environmental research, the Republican bill specifically favors research on biological systems, genomics, and the effects of low - dose radiation.
We hope that these insights will help to build a foundation for better understanding, and perhaps one day better combatting, decision - making biases in the legal system,» said co-author Owen Jones, professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt and director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.
«Since conventional methods, such as X-ray crystallography, capture only averaged frozen structures, it is not possible to investigate how the dynamic of the protein could be involved in key aspects of their function,» explains physicist Alipasha Vaziri, a joint group leader at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) and the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and head of the research platform «Quantum Phenomena & Nanoscale Biological Systems» (QuNaBioS) of the University of Vienna.
His research group focuses on big data network biology, exploring biological systems by developing and deploying algorithms aimed to predict cell behavior, in particular looking at cellular signal processing and decision making.
Thanks to a new four - year $ 15.8 M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia Engineering Professor Ken Shepard, a pioneer in the development of electronics that interface with biological systems, is leading a team to do just that: invent an implanted brain - interface device that could transform the lives of people with neurodegenerative diseases or people who are hearing and visually impaired.
Wesley Gunkel, professor emeritus of agricultural and biological engineering at Cornell University in New York state, is developing the robot system together with research associate James Throop and graduate Elke Ochs.
The research team is now exploring additional biological applications for the new system and is working to extend the method to other microscope modalities, such as confocal microscopy.
Manuel Eguren has analysed the biological consequences of Cdh1 elimination in rapidly dividing cells, as part of his doctoral research project in Malumbres's group; he focused on progenitors from the nervous system during embryonic development in mice.
In the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biologicaBiological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biologicalbiological systems.
As part of the research projects SOPRAN (Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene) and BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) the KOSMOS system was deployed in the Raunefjord at the west coast of Norway, were blooms of Emiliania huxleyi regularly occur in late spring.
Densmore's research centers on extracting design techniques from electronic design automation and applying them to the design of synthetic biological systems.
The researchers view their system as an alternative to the microfluidic devices now commonly used in biological research, in which biological solutions are pumped through microscopic channels connected by mechanical valves.
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, Center for Research in Biological Systems, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Through the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge program, Thornton's team was awarded 85 million compute hours to improve the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) effort, a project sponsored by Earth System Modeling program within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.
Rodent Research - 1 is the maiden voyage of the new Rodent Research hardware system that provides the capability to conduct repeated long - duration biological research studies onboard the space Research - 1 is the maiden voyage of the new Rodent Research hardware system that provides the capability to conduct repeated long - duration biological research studies onboard the space Research hardware system that provides the capability to conduct repeated long - duration biological research studies onboard the space research studies onboard the space station.
The research partnership attempted to more fully understand the destructive forces of the typhoon by looking at the influence on chemical cycling among the interacting biological and geological systems.
The timing is critical to the research, she says: «We want to be there in July and August, because we're looking at biological activity, carbon cycling, the physics of the system as the ice pulls back.»
«We have shown that with the right combination of signals, the endogenous immune system can routinely overcome large immunosuppressive tumors, which was an unanswered question,» says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
He maintained that «this is an era of the biological scientist, but our education and research systems must be flexible yet robust and innovative yet traditionalist to deal with this exciting — but at the same time unsettling — environment.»
On October 15, 2013, a malicious actor gained unauthorized network access to FDA's Center for Biological Evaluation and Research (CBER), an online submission system that houses approximately 14,000 current and former accounts and user information.
Working together with colleagues in Spain, Japan and Australia, researchers led by Luis Serrano, ICREA research professor and leader of the Design of Biological Systems laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, focused their attention on the organisation of DNA within an organism with an extremely small genome — the pneumonia pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
For Coleman, the research highlights that biological systems transcend political boundaries and that current management practices need to be developed in coordination with other countries in order to protect grouper and other species living in the Gulf.