Sentences with phrase «at macroscopic»

«Upfront surgery aiming at macroscopic complete resection is the goal in patients with primary advanced ovarian cancer,» said Philipp Harter, MD, PhD, of the Kliniken Essen - Mitte in Germany, during his presentation of the LION study (abstract 5500) at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

The HCP seeks to map brain connectivity at a macroscopic scale, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Publishing in Physical Review Letters, scientists at EPFL have put forward an experimental protocol for demonstrating QE at the macroscopic scale by using a device that can be controlled by light.

At the macroscopic scale, we are familiar with the idea that sensors and actuators have to deal with the physical world, but the information - processing unit is isolated from the physical world.

In the familiar heat engine model at macroscopic scale, referred to as the Carnot heat engine, the efficiency increases as a function of the ratio between the temperatures of the low - and high - temperature baths.

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics.

To this end, researchers must find ways to convert motion at the molecular level to motion at the macroscopic level.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

I think at the macroscopic scale any life we discover will have evolved by Darwinian evolution; at the microscopic scale it will be based on carbon chemistry.

Statistical mechanics was developed to study solids, gasses and liquids at macroscopic scales, but is now used to describe a variety of complex states of matter, from magnetism to superconductivity.

X-ray imaging will allow them to visibly see materials and features at the macroscopic level as they evolve during deformations, while simultaneous X-ray diffraction measurements will permit them to examine the deformations at the microscopic scale.

Water's behavior was tested with three different approaches: ultrafast optical measurements, which revealed the arrangement of molecules on the nanometric scale; a computer simulation on the atomic scale; and measurement of the water's surface structure and tension, which was done at the macroscopic level.

At the macroscopic level societies of occasions are preserved in their dominant patterns through adaptation to their environment.7 This adjustment is pursued ultimately not for its own sake, but for the sake of providing a stable actual world in which the constituent occasions may be nurtured toward the achievement of greater intensities of self - realization.

On the other hand, one can study water at the macroscopic level, at which level the laws of thermodynamics apply (allowing us to predict the phase of water undergiven conditions, for example).

The author notes that one can not predict the properties of water at a macroscopic level on the basis of knowledge of water molecules.

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It functions in the nature of the Buddhist middle way, attaching to nothing either substantial or non-substantial and involving in its train the dharmadhatu, which is at once the content of experiential fact in the microscopic as well as macroscopic processes.

21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars» for «universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22

As with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there is an interconnectedness at the subatomic level that defies simple causal explanations from the macroscopic world.

Any group of occasions composing a macroscopic event located approximately at the focal region will probably overlap or fail to exhaust precisely that region.

These data are worked in CE, at least by conceptual valuation and perhaps by reversion so as to attribute to macroscopic nexus eternal objects found among or possible for the occasions that belong to the nexus.

Recently F. Bradford Wallack has claimed that the orthodox interpreters have all been mistaken; that Whitehead intended the category of actual entity (actual occasion) to include such macroscopic, long - lived, and diverse entities as Julius Caesar, the Castle Rock at Edinburgh, a system of nebulae.

While such simplifying assumptions were deemed acceptable in the past, they can no longer be regarded as a correct reflection of the underlying dynamics of any realistic natural system.12 Above all, we have shown the contingent (or probabilistic) nature of all dynamically evolving systems at both the microscopic (atomic and sub-atomic) and macroscopic (terrestrial) levels.

They are synthesized in macroscopic quantities by slow decompression of benzene frozen at high pressures and brought to ambient conditions.

There, I got to study tuberculosis not only on the level of macroscopic bone changes as before, but also look at the molecular level and search for the pathogen's DNA.

The result was flakes spinning at 60 million rotations per minute, faster than any other macroscopic object (Physical Review B, vol 82, p 115441).

Designing materials for use in the large variety of gadgets and structures that support our everyday lives involves understanding them at their atomic, electronic and macroscopic scales.

If there were a way to observe the speck without disturbing it, we would see quantum strangeness laid bare: a macroscopic thing sitting in two places at the same time, confounding reality as we know it.

For example, she says, they might try to put the resonator into a Schrödinger cat state, in which it would contain a macroscopic sound wave, comprising many vibrational quanta, and at the same time be devoid of vibrations.

Quantum theory allows tiny things like atoms or photons to be in two places at once, but nobody has ever seen such behavior in a macroscopic material object.

Chen's coworker Baile Zhang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as John Pendry at Imperial College London, and their coworkers have shown that a compromise of partial visible - light cloaking of macroscopic objects can be attained using blocks of transparent materials such as calcite crystal, in which light propagates at different speeds in different directions.

Around the mid-1980s, however, scientists discovered that gold's chemical aloofness only manifests at large, or macroscopic, scales.

The system thus takes advantage of physical measurements at the microscopic scale, while enabling computationally efficient evaluation of macroscopic designs.

Up to now, science has focused more on the macroscopic functionality of textiles, for example clothing, explains Dr. Ji - Woong Lee, who recently completed his doctorate at the Max - Planck - Institut für Kohlenforschung under the supervision of Professor Benjamin List, head of the Institute's Homogenous Catalysis Group.

The molecules coming to rest — at least on the macroscopic level — is the result of thermalization, or of reaching equilibrium after they have achieved uniform saturation within the system.

Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have observed how microtubules and motor proteins assemble into macroscopic networks.

Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.

At the University of Vienna, Anton Zeilinger's work with huge molecules called buckyballs pushes quantum reality closer to the macroscopic world.

«It is a macroscopic cloak that you can look at with your bare eyes and hold in your hands,» said Schittny.

One strategy she uses is to cool the macroscopic components of the device (i.e., the mirrors) into a coherent quantum state; such components, large enough to see without magnification, exhibit bizarre quantum properties previously observed only at the atomic level.

«We've been able to seal defects, at least on the lab scale, to realize molecular filtration across a macroscopic area of graphene, which has not been possible before,» Karnik says.

«This accurate local structure is the important piece in relating the microscopic to macroscopic, or intrinsic properties of the ions in solution to collective properties,» said Mundy, who led the studies at PNNL.

Decreasing the size would be good only to a point, as the smallest particles tend to plasticize at low loadings and aggregate at high loadings, both of which harm macroscopic... -LSB-...]

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

I want one of those super computers that create 3D images in real space that you can interact with — expand / collapse models, move them here and there, zoom in for close look and then out again for a macroscopic vantage — not because I actually have anything important to do, but because Tony Stark spends more time with one in Iron Man 2 than he spends battling super villains (or any villain at all for that matter).

Her extraordinary and highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room - size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room - size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Departing from elements of landscapes like Berlin's construction sites or micro - and macroscopic pictures as a raw material, she rearranges those forms, structures, colors and fields in an image making process which arrives at abstract compositions of ambiguity and multiple meaning.

Ding's crosses, then, may have become simply the language he uses, but their accumulated units prove ambiguous enough to allow both microscopic and macroscopic projections from the world, and at the same time to trigger multiple echoes of other abstract painters.

Quantum mechanical weirdness that operates at atomic scale does not invalidate this physical description of the macroscopic range that is of interest.

The researchers have managed to make the catalysis work at a molecular level, but have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness on a macroscopic scale.