«This was made possible by my unusual position of working
on the symmetries of viruses whilst having a mathematical physics background and is thus a unique inspiration of mathematical biology back into mathematical physics.»
Horton told last month's meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco that this suggests the animals are somehow sensing this ratio, perhaps relying
on the symmetry of the bio-magnetite crystals they are thought to use to detect the magnetic field.
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On the symmetry of siblings: automated single - cell tracking to quantify the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells in a biomimetic setup» is featured on the February issue cover.
Scherf N, Franke K, Glauche I, Kurth I, Bornhäuser M, Werner C, Pompe T, Roeder
I On the symmetry of siblings: automated single - cell tracking to quantify the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells in a biomimetic setup.
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On the symmetry of siblings: automated single - cell tracking to quantify the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells in a biomimetic setup Authors: Scherf N, Franke K, Glauche I, Kurth I, Bornhauser M, Werner C, Pompe T, Roeder I Date: 2012 Publication Details: Exp Hematol.
Press Play created an interesting 8 - minute video essay
on The Symmetry of «There Will Be Blood `.
Pupils will be challenged to reflect
on the symmetry of pitch to playground.
The Black — Scholes model relies
on symmetry of distribution and ignores the skewness of the distribution of the asset.
But the TPG artists also followed Jay Hambridge's theory of dynamic symmetry, which claimed that artistic perfection could be achieved through mathematical principles based
on the symmetry of human and plant forms.
Not exact matches
Effects
of fuel - capsule shimming and drive asymmetry
on inertial - confinement - fusion
symmetry and yield
Symmetry: the University
of Alberta plans to confer an honorary degree
on David Suzuki, the environmental activist.
The impact
of laser plasma interactions
on three - dimensional drive
symmetry in inertial confinement fusion implosions
Development
of a krypton - doped gas
symmetry capsule platform for x-ray spectroscopy
of implosion cores
on the NIF
Early - Time
Symmetry Tuning in the Presence
of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer in ICF Experiments
on the National Ignition Facility
2) I don't know where you got this idea
of life not being capable
of symmetry, I've never heard such an argument, what is this based
on?
(The strong force is based
on a yet larger set
of gauge
symmetries, but this fact was obscured by a quite different effect and also was not discovered for a long time.)
For a long time it seemed that two other basic forces
of nature, the weak force and the strong force, were not based
on symmetries.
A sphere,
on the other hand, has an infinite number
of symmetries — doubly infinite, in fact, since rotating a sphere by any angle about any axis leaves it looking the same.
Sometimes they align with a sort
of poetic
symmetry — the gentle rain at the funeral
on September 11, the divorce papers arriving the day you get the cancer diagnosis.
For almost fifty years, the influence
of collectivist and totalitarian regimes created a confusing moral
symmetry between civil and political rights,
on the one hand, and economic and social rights,
on the other.
That man's «other» is other men or the community seems quite convincing until it is submitted to the law
of symmetry found
on all levels
of the evolving universe.
Mezsaros now seeks to project Congar back
on to Newman and show that his thoughts can be seen in
symmetry with those
of Newman.
Because I'm keen
on symmetry, I did measure each dollop
of meringue to 3/4 cup.
We've been learning about
symmetry by drawing butterflies, for this picture we folded the paper in half, opened it up again, put blobs
of paint
on one side and then folded again.
So what we did was once the plates were dry was draw a circle — some I did and some J did — as I wanted us to look at numbers and
symmetry but without J realising it so I drew a line down the middle
of the plate —
on one side I drew either 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 circles and then J copied them
on the other side
of the line he did it really well.
Her breasts were examined and any characteristics
of breast hypoplasia, presence
of stretch marks
on one or both breasts, and breast
symmetry were noted.
On the face
of it, this proposal is disarmingly attractive: it would produce a superficially pleasing
symmetry as between the positions that obtain in relation to Acts
of Parliament and statutory instruments, in turn taking to their apparently logical conclusion concerns — relating to the two chambers» relative democratic legitimacy — that underpin their already different powers in relation to primary legislation.
In 1611, German astronomer Johannes Kepler caught up with a treatise
on the six-fold
symmetry of snowflakes, but he was baffled as to how the intricate shapes were created.
As one can classify the shapes
of objects based
on the mathematical concept called topology, an exotic phase
of quantum matter can be understood with underlying topology and
symmetry in physical materials.
On the other was a mysterious entity that described a new kind
of symmetry, but might not even exist.
Prior studies
of atomic - level grain boundary and segregation structures have been mostly focused
on small - angle or special symmetrical tilt and twist boundaries with high
symmetries and well - defined periodicities in artificial bicrystals.
This theory was based
on Kibble's thoughts about special topological defects in the early universe: fractions
of seconds after the Big Bang, a
symmetry breaking took place, and the young universe had to «decide» which new state to adopt.
«The onset
of left - right
symmetry in vertebrates is still unknown, and our work may shed light
on this,» says Reiko Kuroda, who led the team at the University
of Tokyo, Japan, that reversed snail «handedness».
From that point
on, all the
symmetry of the snail was completely reversed from what would be expected from its ancestors, including the bodily position
of organs such as the heart or anus, and the direction
of coiling in the conical shell.
The spin - 1 states,
on the other hand, last for about 0.1 microsecond, and only decay by emission
of three gamma rays (for reasons
of symmetry).
By imitating the orbits
of satellites, researchers have imagined a choreographic crystal whose
symmetry is based
on periodic motions, not fixed positions
Dancing joins athleticism, musical ability and facial
symmetry on a growing list
of traits that increase a man's attractiveness and are associated with prenatal testosterone levels.
Superconductivity is characterised by the way the electrons interact: within a superconductor electrons form pairs, and the spin alignment between the electrons
of a pair may be different depending
on the type — or «
symmetry» —
of superconductivity involved.
«The hourglass theory is the first
of its kind that describes time - reversal - symmetric crystals, and moreover, the crystals in our study are the first topological material class which relies
on origin - translating
symmetries,» added Wang.
As with the gravitational pull
of a celestial body, the uneven solar heating
on Earth's dayside distorts the spherical
symmetry of the atmosphere, but in a more complex way.
A lovely showpiece
of symmetry, Saturn, is
on prime display this month.
All three men were rewarded for work done decades ago: Nambu for his description
of «spontaneous broken
symmetry» in the 1960s and Kobayashi and Maskawa for their work
on symmetries and elementary particles known as quarks in the 1970s.
It is as though the overall global
symmetry of the form
of the butterfly imposes its
symmetry on the perceived motion, which necessarily means opposite directions for the two halves
of the display.
In York, inspired by the «beauty and
symmetry»
of the dendritic organic molecules he had worked
on for his postdoc, Smith and his lab members worked to create similar molecules.
«Among the prominent advantages
of M - TIP is its ability to solve the structure directly from the correlation data without having to rely
on any
symmetry constraints, and, more importantly, without the need to solve the orientation determination problem,» Donatelli said.
Scientists in the last 20 years have learned to control the movement
of liquid droplets
on a solid surface by breaking the wetting
symmetry that results from the impact
of a droplet
on a surface.
Ever since Curie conjectured
on «the
symmetry in physical phenomena,
symmetry of an electric field and a magnetic field,» it has long been a dream for material scientists to search for this rather unusual class
of material exhibiting the coexistence
of magnetism and ferroelectricity in a single compound known as a multiferroic compound.
If so, it would mean that the force
of attraction exerted by the protons and neutrons
on the hyperon differs in the two nuclei, thus breaking the
symmetry between the components making up the nuclei.
«I love the mirrored
symmetry of the males as they engage in their violently ritualized, almost choreographed, fighting; the male
on the right
of the shot fixing his rival with a gimlet eye as he looks to land a decisive blow.
A selection
of Bentley's photos form part
of the Sixfold
Symmetry exhibition, currently
on at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.