Sentences with phrase «field laboratory at»

Following a PhD in transmission electron microscopy at Cambridge, she spent three years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos looking at the behaviour of the low temperature phases of strongly correlated electron systems.

The team measured the hardness of the beta form of the crystal in conjunction with colleagues at Texas A&M University's Turbomachinery Laboratory and at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, Morosan and Svanidze also performed other comparisons with titanium.

Los Baños, Philippines — Nov 13 2017 — Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Resilient Rice Field Laboratory at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) today.

Not exact matches

Executives at Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose business includes supplying equipment to research laboratories, have fielded questions about an Amazon impact as far back as five years.

With fandangle marketing suggesting green fields with cows, and «traditional» «pure» farm motifs, a quick look at an ingredients list on the current top selling supermarket ice creams show that they're nothing more than a mix of trimmed, skimmed and adulterated ingredients and numbers formed in a chemical laboratory, not a kitchen!

Work to develop Golden Rice currently includes laboratory, greenhouse, and field studies at IRRI, national agricultural research institutions, and other institutions around the world to

Primary scientific research conducted in the Field Laboratory to develop stress - tolerant rice varieties is then transferred to IRRI's Centre of Excellence at the IRRI South Asia Regional Centre in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh for further localized testing.

Dr. James McKenna is a leading researcher in the field of bed - sharing and has quite a few studies quoted on the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame website: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/media.html The more important point here is that no professional should tell you what to do.

Cuomo's address — far shorter than his father's in order to fit into a jam - packed program, and delivered to a distracted room that at times forced him to bellow — offered a reprise of a concept that the governor had been field - testing all week: that New York, the home state of both 2016 major - party candidates, was the laboratory and proving ground of progressive ideas.

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before moving to the University of Washington, seeks the subtle signatures — just a trillionth of a trillionth of a watt — left by axions as they're snagged by a strong magnetic field.

Naming this act «detoxification behavior,» LeBrun and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin's Brackenridge Field Laboratory set up experiments to see if something in those acidopore secretions really could detoxify fire ant venom.

Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.

But, in Gadgil's opinion, most cookstoves at that time failed to catch on because, while their testing in idealized laboratory settings might have been top - notch, field testing was practically nonexistent.

Scientists hired in professional support positions will probably end up doing forensics work at the FBI laboratory, although some positions may be field offices.

Shortly after track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), banned Pistorius in 2008 from competing against so - called «able - bodied» competitors, he underwent a series of tests at Rice University's Locomotion Laboratory in an attempt to be reinstated.

For those five summers he taught a six - week field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.

Two of their labs gave me an offer: the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory [now Glenn Research Center] in Cleveland and Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carrière in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Brévault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) in France scrutinized the available field and laboratory data to test predictions about resistance.

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

By the time Silva took his first staff position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York in 1992, Eric Kandel, the Columbia University neuroscientist who would win a Nobel for his work in this field, was already on the trail.

«For LIDAR systems that will be operated full - time in the field, eye safety is an important consideration,» said Haiyun Xia, the principle investigator of the Quantum Lidar Laboratory at USTC.

Robert Bossio is currently working on his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry / high resolution - high mass accuracy mass spectrometry at Florida State University under Alan Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

In 1959 Minsky cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he designed and built robotic hands that could «feel» and «see» and manipulate objects, a watershed in the field.

A team led by Charles R. Carrigan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used field experiments to build a new, complex model that predicts isotopic ratios of noble gases that would be released from such explosions (Sci.

The biggest required high - energy — density explosives packed into a cylinder nearly a meter across and 6.7 meters long, says Beth Dzenitis, an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California who oversaw part of the field campaign.

Omega led the field from 1999 until 2005, when it was overtaken by the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, but it continues to do important work refining the fusion process.

«Different playing field» for researchers Harold Brooks, a senior research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory, said that the trend in increasing tornado density is something that he has been talking about at scientific conferences for almost two years.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

Basley and Goulson report on a combined field and laboratory experiment aimed at assessing the impact of neonicotinoids on the common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus).

Chris Curtis, an entomologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says laboratory and field experiments in Britain, the US and Canada have found no evidence that female mosquitoes are repelled or bite less within «earshot» of a wide range of frequencies tested.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory compared similar materials and returned to a long - established rule of electron movement in their quest to explain the phenomenon of extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR), in which the application of a magnetic field to a material results in a remarkably large change in electrical resistance.

The Cornel lab at Kearney and the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District are conducting myriad laboratory and field research trials to evaluate insecticide treatment options, to minimize potential mosquito breeding sites, and to understand Aedes aegypti biology and behavior in order to inform control decisions should such an outbreak occur.

Ambros and Lee, who recently moved their laboratory to the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, are amazed at the quality and quantity of talent that has flooded their field, once a backwater of science.

Jose Camberos, research aerospace engineer and lead of design space exploration at the Multidisciplinary Science & Technology Center of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, said that the work will hopefully give the field better insight into where the design of airplanes is going.

«We examined the scalar quantum field around a black hole and a compact object and found that around the collapsing object — the black hole, there are no bound states, but around the compact object there are,» explains FedorPopov, a member of staff at MIPT's Laboratory of High Energy Physics.

The electrical measurements revealing the signature half - integer quantum Hall effect were performed at the National Science Foundation's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

«Chile is a natural laboratory and rapidly becoming a world leader in important fields for science diplomacy: astronomy, oceanography, polar research and climate change,» said Marga Gual - Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, who joined Holt in Chile.

«Age - related muscle loss has been associated with a myriad of other health problems,» said senior author Roger A. Fielding, Ph.D., director of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA at Tufts University.

«It combines knowledge from the field of microfluidics, which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.»

Join chemists John Turner of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester on Thursday, 21 November, at 3 p.m. EST on this page for a live video chat where we discuss this burgeoning field of research and take your questions.

Scientists at the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Weybridge are conducting field trials on a kit developed for diagnosing tuberculosis in live badgers.

In the young field of using plants to clean up toxic substances, the latest work is «the most revolutionary thing so far,» says Brian Hooker, a biochemical engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

But many scientists and administrators — including Dean Peterson, director of the Superconductivity Technology Center (STC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — still believe in the field's technological potential.

Via a combination of computer modeling, laboratory experiments, and field studies, the researchers looked at how many oVOCs were taken up by a poplar tree leaf sample.

Previous field research by Bargar's team and collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the site of a former uranium mill in Rifle, Colorado, has provided a possible explanation for the longevity of the uranium contamination.