Sentences with phrase «nuclear data from»

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

Not exact matches

US Navy Rear Adm. Dave Johnson said, during a 2014 symposium at the Naval Submarine League, that he was so impressed by the new Russian nuclear guided missile submarine Severodvinsk that he had a model of the submarine built from unclassified data.
China's National Nuclear Safety Administration said data from radiation monitoring stations near the North Korean border showed no impact on «China's environment or populace».
To estimate economic impacts, the report uses publicly available economic data from announced pipeline projects, energy demand forecasts, and announced retirements of nuclear generators.
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In the more difficult areas of physics, such as theoretical nuclear physics or the quantum physics involved in cosmology, the procedure may be deemed a success if there is some convergence between the results obtained from the model and the existing data.
Blanch says using the Freedom of Information Laws, he obtained data from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the risk study they conducted, and what he saw concerns him.
In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.
«For chloroplast genome recovery from total DNA sequence data, the deliberate identification of reads that represent chloroplast DNA inserts into the nuclear genome allowed us to attain a higher - quality chloroplast genome assembly in a time - and cost - effective way,» Garaycochea explains.
After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.
Unlike other techniques that depend on the ability to calculate the nuclear structure from the original data, which works best for small molecules, we only need to know the properties of our electron beam and experimental setup.»
Integrated data analysis and report generation frees nuclear analysts from time - consuming calculations and makes reports available the same day.
In any case, however, high quality nuclear genome data from more than one individual would be necessary to fully investigate this proposed wave of human migration out of Africa, and is an intriguing area for future study.
With 54 nuclear reactors generating 280 billion kilowatt - hours annually, Japan is the world's third - largest producer of nuclear power, after the U.S. and France, according to data from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.
Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.
By combining data from two high - energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a remarkable property of exotic matter known as quark - gluon plasma.
After a nuclear «event», the computer checks its two memories, discards data from whichever store is corrupted, and loads data from the clean store.
Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.
Experts at the workshop suggested scientific evaluation of vast amounts of data from a wide range of sources will be a means of detecting clandestine nuclear weapons activity.
Using data from a series of experiments that led to the discovery and first exploration of the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012, the group established what they call the Madala hypothesis, in describing a new boson, named as the Madala boson.
The magenta X-ray data come from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array, and are overlaid on a visible image from the Digitized Sky Survey.
The standard model of how the Sun works is constructed with the aid of a computer from the most accurate data concerning solar nuclear reactions, the most precise available physical description of the solar interior,...
«These unique data showing a wide range of animals thriving within miles of a major nuclear accident illustrate the resilience of wildlife populations when freed from the pressures of human habitation,» says Jim Beasley, a study co-author at the University of Georgia.
By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.
White house officials are blocking the release of data from fusion experiments carried out at nuclear weapons laboratories in the US.
However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.
Now, however, physicists with Daya Bay report data that support a much simpler explanation: Scientists are merely overestimating the number of neutrinos born from the various radioactive nuclei produced in the fission of one component of standard nuclear fuel.
«In the nuclear physics community, the holy grail is to see phase transitions in these high - energy interactions, and then determine the equation of state from the experimental data,» Wang said.
«Our expectation is that the data from our nuclear physics experiments can be combined with the results from atomic trapping experiments measuring EDMs to make the most stringent tests of the Standard Model, the best theory we have for understanding the nature of the building blocks of the universe,» Butler said.
The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.
Data from the 2004 World Nuclear Symposium and the U.S. Department of Energy support this discussion of the future availability of uranium.
Response: In designing SMR - 160, Holtec has carefully analyzed operating plant data from the nuclear power industry in order to identify the underlying reasons for current O&M costs.
New data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has, for the first time, begun to pinpoint large numbers of the black holes sending out the high - energy X-rays.
Test cases are illustrated from data obtained within the IDREAM EFRC - specifically examining the behavior of aluminum in solutions that begin to approach the conditions of nuclear waste stored at the Hanford site in Washington State.
We recovered material from 42 herbarium accessions of sweet potato collected worldwide from the 17th century to the early 20th century and obtained data on chloroplast microsatellites for all of them and reliable data on nuclear microsatellites for 30 accessions.
These topics span a wide range — everything from the Fed to the U.S. dollar (or other currencies) to housing starts to Treasury rates to budget deficits to Congressional legislation to elections to the calendar («sell in May and go away» etc.) to manufacturing data to foreign stock market performance to scandals (Bernie Madoff was a popular one) to tragedies (Japan's nuclear mess - up, Hurricane Katrina) to technical stock indicators (MACD, Stochastics, Bollinger Bands and RS) to earnings reports from bellwether companies to opinions of other people (especially analysts who set price targets).
The 16 mm film collage, Wikipolis, juxtaposes a scene from Metropolis, Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film on urban dystopia, with an image of a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm that now houses a data centre with 8,000 computer servers, two of which belong to WikiLeaks.
I made the prints by combining time - lapse photographs of both the Hanford Reach and the mouth of the Columbia River with layers of text derived from stories told by Nagasaki bombing victims, data regarding the environmental and health effects of nuclear processing at Hanford, and poems by Dylan Thomas and Mary Oliver.
Now the change is so small, that it is not really noticeable until you see the data from nuclear reactors and particle accelerators.
More: Gallup data from the spring are also illuminating: «Gallup Finds Concerns Rising Over Global Warming and Nuclear Energy Solution.»
Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.
The report reviews publicly available data on energy and capacity prices and nuclear unit costs from the Nuclear Energy Institute for 2013 througnuclear unit costs from the Nuclear Energy Institute for 2013 througNuclear Energy Institute for 2013 through 2017.
From 2016 to 2032 as Ontario phases out nuclear capacity to make room for wind and solar, CO2 emissions will double (2013 LTEP data).
Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.
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It would also be useful, were one to be given the opportunity, to examine the entire end - to - end operational setting of these government - funded GCM models to see how they are being handled from a code base management perspective and design basis management perspective, and a data management perspective — i.e., are the models developed and operated in a way that is consistent with the software lifecycle QA standards commonly aopplied to other government funded activities such as national defense and nuclear production operations.
Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.
The best come from Rothrock at the University of Washington who analyzed data from nuclear submarine cruises (Al Gore played a key role in getting these released).
«This is confirmed by data from electricity market monitors, SEC disclosures by coal and nuclear plant owners, and the simple fact that the vast majority of coal and nuclear retirements are occurring in regions with the least wind generation.»
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