Sentences with phrase «field researchers sample»

Field researchers sample the birds» blood to study their genetic diversity and attach transmitters to track hunting and nesting habits.

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Complicating matters further is the fact that, as the field matures, researchers need to collect and analyze sequences from multiple specimens to prove that their results are not based on the idiosyncrasies of a single sample.

Researchers in the Czech Republic then tested the UV light - assisted biopsy technique in the field, using it to collect small samples from areas of bat wing that fluoresced under UV light.

Field Sampling: VIMS post-doctoral researcher Yuehan Lu samples one of the many sources of dissolved organic matter entering Chesapeake Bay.

Using a portable, miniature DNA sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore MiniON), the researchers show for the first time that not only can the tool be used for examining environmental samples in extreme and remote settings, but that it can be combined with other methodology to detect active microbial life in the field.

In the field's gold - standard experiment, researchers measure the ratio of the two fractions by placing a sample in a cylindrical metal container suspended by a wire.

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

In the field, the researchers often had to use their vehicle batteries to power the centrifuges used to separate out white blood cells from their samples, and then add buffering chemicals to stabilise the DNA so it would not degrade under the African sun.

To determine the structural and chemical composition of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission gun scanning electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.

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.

Greg Holland, a postdoctoral researcher in isotope geochemistry at the University of Manchester in England, and his colleagues measured the amounts of various isotopes of noble gases in the Bravo Dome gas field in New Mexico, where magmatic gases — primarily carbon dioxide — that allow the mantle to be sampled are buried hundreds of meters below.

Zeggini believes that collaborations will become increasingly important in her field as researchers use ever - larger sample sizes and generate ever - larger volumes of genetic data.

The researchers tested 1,556 fecal samples from 11 field sites and identified a high prevalence of Laverania infections in an area called Tshuapa - Lomami - Lualaba (TL2), a remote region in the eastern DRC.

Other scholars are sending samples and entering the field as well: Researchers studying the Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel are reportedly getting ancient DNA from those parchments.

Data shared through RD ‐ Connect is accessible beyond the usual institutional and national boundaries and researchers across the world can benefit from the opportunity to work with others with an interest in the same field, pool data to create larger cohorts, find confirmatory cases, and access samples for further study.

«Samples collected in the field are precious, and the data that they generate is really valuable to the researchers who are leading their own scientific study.

Instead of scanning the entire field of view with a single beam, the sensitive imaging sensor on the SpinSR10 captures snapshots of the entire sample area in one step for fast imaging, enabling researchers to observe high - speed biological phenomena.

Such limited investigation however, may in part be due to the difficulties associated with population access, systematic sampling, cultural and language barriers, limited cross culturally validated measurement techniques, and wariness of parents and participants to trust researchers (Richman, 1993; Silove, Sinnerbrink, Field, Manicavasagar & Steel, 1997).