Sentences with phrase «as a probe»

Government officials should avoid the temptation to define an «acceptable level of fraud», MPs have said, as a probe into allegations of malpractice at a major government contractor continues.

All research projects rely heavily on chemical and analytical methods to identify specific reactions / products, their mechanisms of formation, and their use as probes to elaborate pathways responsible for disease.

So as the probe scans across the surface of a sample the current falls as the surface rises to meet the probe.

By pairing the vibrations of a charged molecule and a charged atom, researchers can use the atom as a probe to observe and control the more complex molecule without disturbing it.

As the probe magnetic field needs to be in close vicinity to the memory, this technique offers a more secure technology.

They are very important in medicine — most medications available now are small molecules — as well as in biology as probes to uncover the inner workings of cells and tissues.

This acted as a probe, interacting with a wave packet each time its elliptical orbit brought it close to the nucleus.

As the probe gets closer to the right place, the popping gets louder.

Many of SORT's investigations, such as probes of the Ontario lottery system and the province's newborn screening program, have resulted in major reforms.

«This new protein profiling method allows us to expand the universe of proteins that can be targeted by small molecules, which in turn should encourage the development of new drugs as well as probes for studying protein biology,» said senior investigator Benjamin F. Cravatt, a professor of chemical biology at TSRI.

Interviewers know how to get correct details the first time around as well as probe for more information when necessary.

Other resources, such as probing questions and useful grids.

They were meant to decelerate Akatsuki to a speed at which it could enter Venus» orbit as the probe moved into the shadow of Venus and temporarily out of touch with the control center.

In our research we mainly use the fluorescent protein as a probe to examine the localization of (part of) a protein in living cells.

Molecular devices can interact directly with the ultimate molecular components of the cell and thus serve as probes of unique value in studying processes within the cell.

This must be done carefully so that the orbiter arrives at the planet just as the probe penetrates the atmosphere on 7 December this year.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft picked up the heat from one of these great curtains of fire in 2007 as the probe passed by Jupiter en route to Pluto.

Schreiber is a world leader in chemistry, using small molecules as probes in uncovering biological functions.

U.S. regulators and state attorneys general are increasing pressure on Facebook as they probe whether the company's data - collection practices have hurt the people who use its services.

US regulators and state attorneys general are increasing pressure on Facebook as they probe whether the company's data - collection practices have hurt the people who use its services.

As the probe nears Pluto, NASA TV will air daily updates from mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, at 11:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT), through July 14.

But he also made it clear that his familiarity with No. 2 was as important as any probes, prods or sensors that might be employed.

He's unselfish and has made his teammates better, and while not a physical specimen, Gilgeous - Alexander has a good understanding of on - court angles as he probes defenses.

GOAL: SPURS 3 - 0 REAL MADRID — CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN — 65 mins The pattern of the game was set now, Madrid enjoying the majority of the possession as they probed for an opening but we were so dangerous on the counter-attack, the visitors leaving themselves short at the back.

Nervousness among Cuomo aides heightened after Bharara on Thursday made a not - very - veiled reference to Cuomo's shutdown of the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission two years ago as it probed the then - leaders of the Legislature — both of whom Bharara's office has now convicted on public - corruption charges.

The city's Board of Elections suspended the top official at its Brooklyn office without pay as they probe the mysterious purge of more than 120,000 Democratic voters from the borough rolls that wreaked havoc on Tuesday presidential primaries.

Much of the drop in campaign cash is due to the wealthiest donors shunning Hizzoner as the probes heated up.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has subpoenaed the Weinstein Company as it probes any potential violations of state civil rights law or New York City human rights law in the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against former executive Harvey Weinstein.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

In an interview on Talk 1300's «Live from the State Capitol,» DiNapoli said that federal investigators had been given access to whatever they needed as they probed the alleged bribery scheme involving Navnoor Kang, but his office learned the depth of the issue when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced charges against Kang on Wednesday.

The Daily News reported on Oct. 3 that Cuomo had urged commissioners not to send a subpoena to the Democratic State Committee, which he has used to raise soft money for advertising campaigns, as they probed other party committees.

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

As the probe raced away from Earth, it was travelling 3.9 millimetres per second faster than it should have been, according to NASA's calculations.

Thomas Romer and Gordan Ugarkovic, graphic designers who specialize in astronomical images, produced this portrait by merging two Cassini shots taken minutes apart as the probe whizzed past Enceladus on May 18.

As the probe whizzes past, paint is already being dabbed, splattered and scumbled.

As the probe drew nearer to its home planet, just a sliver of Earth was visible, but the flyby nonetheless revealed striking detail — a swirl of clouds above Antarctica is discernible, as is highly reflective ice near the South Pole.

Electrons slip or «tunnel» across the gap, and as the probe slides across the surface, the changing current reveals the ridges and valleys of individual atoms.

In a new study published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chen - Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University reports photo - clickable miRNAs as probes for intracellular target identification of miRNAs.

This time, as the probe crossed an open tubule, the supply of mediator increased, leading to a sharp rise in current.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), PTO acting deputy commissioner of patents and trademarks Lawrence Goffney said that the office «has decided to allow claims to ESTs based on their utility as probes.»

The study by ALICE takes this research further as it probes the possibility of subtle differences between the way that protons and neutrons bind together in nuclei compared with how their antiparticle counterparts form antinuclei.

And wild the encounter will be, as the probe gathers bits of comet material — the first sample from deep space — and then fires its engine to head back toward Earth.

«Also, are these antibodies producing symptoms in everyone or do they function as a probe of an underlying, perhaps genetic, vulnerability for psychosis?»