Sentences with phrase «act as a scaffold»

Warnke and colleagues then filled the mesh with bone mineral blocks of bovine origin, that would act as a scaffold for the growing bone.

These signals can then act as a scaffold that, after interaction with a second copy of the data signal in a second fibre, removes the noise and generates a pristine version.

The mycelia also appeared to act as scaffolding, attracting fibroblasts and anchoring them, ready for the next stage of wound - healing when collagen scar tissue forms.

Then, one of four other metals (nickel, cobalt, copper, or iron) acts as a scaffold, known as a nucleation site, on which the nanofiber continues to grow.

Many of these women choose to undergo major surgery, to insert the more rigid polypropylene mesh which acts as a scaffold to support the prolapsed pelvic organs.

The EB family of proteins helps regulate this process and can act as a scaffold for other proteins involved in pushing the microtubule chain forward.

The folded DNA then acts as a scaffold onto which researchers can attach and organize all kinds of nanometer - scale components, from fluorescent molecules to electrically conductive carbon nanotubes to drugs.

May act as a scaffolding protein within caveolar membranes.

There are many types of connective tissue and these two amino acids feature prominently in most of them, from the cartilage that forms our joints to the extracellular matrix that acts as a scaffold for the cells in our individual organs, muscles, arteries etc..

They act as the scaffolding that strengthens all of the teaching and learning for you and your students and assists students to engage more effectively with the concepts being taught.

Like scaffolding used at a building site, parents and carers act as a scaffold to support children's learning by coming up with possible solutions to a problem together.

Based in existing research and best practices, this report is designed to act as a scaffold for the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs.

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Last year, during his re-election campaign, Cuomo said paid family leave would have to wait until after the Legislature passed a 10 - point package of bills known as the Women's Equality Act, which he had made both a centerpiece of his campaign and the scaffolding for a new political party he created to advance passage of the W.E.A.

The order of bases in each short strand acts as a blueprint that dictates the scaffold DNA's final, 3 - D shape.

To achieve significant regeneration of spinal circuits, the scaffold must act as a bridge, not a cul - de-sac,» he says.

While previous research had shown that TTLL7 modifies microtubules (hollow tubes that transport cellular components and act as highways and scaffolding in the cell) by adding one or more molecules of the amino acid glutamate, exactly how has remained a mystery.

Repeat proteins are ideal choices for development of such systems as they: (i) possess a relatively simple relationship between sequence, structure and function; (ii) are modular and non-globular in structure; (iii) act as diverse scaffolds for the mediation of a diverse range of protein — protein interactions; and (iv) have been extensively studied and successfully engineered and designed.

But for all the map's confirmatory power, it still tells us little about the true identity of dark matter, which acts as an invisible scaffold for galaxies and cosmic structure.

Does the High Possibility Classrooms framework for technology enhanced learning act as a pedagogical scaffold for teaching and learning in the STEM subjects?

Information is by definition «meaningless,» but can act as a kind of scaffolding upon which meaning is built and transferred.

While the virtual surround was again on display, it acted more as scaffolding for the film's complex layers of sound.

Developmental scholars have long been interested in documenting the social experiences that help explain within - and between - group variation in children's early language and learning.1, 2 This work is anchored in the writings of scholars such as Bruner3, 4 and Vygotsky, 5 who posited that learning occurs in a socio - cultural context in which adults and primary caregivers support or «scaffold» young children to higher levels of thinking and acting.

Swartz and colleagues (2011) found that parents acted as «scaffolding» and «safety - nets» to assist children en route to adulthood.