Sentences with phrase «by radiation effects»

Some physicists believe that the wormhole may close up as you enter it, or that you might be killed by radiation effects.

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Just look at this list of benefits from a recent study done at the Yale - Griffin Prevention Research Center by David L. Katz, MD, and his colleagues: «Cocoa can protect nerves from injury and inflammation, protect the skin from oxidative damage from UV radiation... and have beneficial effects on satiety, cognitive function, and mood.»

By the time the team left the pool, this version of the story goes, they were already suffering the effects of acute radiation syndrome (ARS).

Other effects, such as light scattering from cosmic dust and the synchrotron radiation generated by electrons moving around galactic magnetic fields within our own galaxy, can also produce these polarisation twists.

Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

The radiation produced was acutely dangerous in local areas, and caused cancer risks downwind, but the overall effects were dwarfed by many other man - made disasters.

This energy may even have far - reaching effects outside the galactic center by driving energetic jets of radiation outward.

Modifying the vegetation cover alters the surface properties — such as the amount of heat dissipated by water evaporation and the level of radiation reflected back into space — which has a knock - on effect on local surface temperature.

Mild gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicity as reported by doctors was observed more frequently in patients getting the higher daily dose, shorter frequency radiation, but no differences were observed in more severe side effects, which were rare (less than 5 percent) with either regimen.

«Other risks like being hit by lightning,» he adds, «are three or four times greater than radiation - induced health effects from coal plants.»

We also showed by theoretical calculations that such a system is capable of probing the quantum effects of horizons, in particular Hawking radiation.

This separation is essential for the study of gravity because the effect of gravitational radiation — the steady conversion of orbital velocity to gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein — is incredibly small and would have negligible impact on the orbit of the pulsar.

In particular, although radiation treatment regimens for some other cancers have been found to unleash an anti-tumor response by the patient's own T - cells, the team found no such effect in their pancreatic cancer model.

Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing Earth to absorb less solar radiation.

Phillips says, for instance, that sometimes the body will respond to radiation by initiating a series of intrinsic repair mechanisms designed to fix the harmful effects.

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

In extreme cases, the application of X-rays is limited by these side effects, known as «radiation damage».

By far the most rigorously researched of the Tintin stories, it features nuclear fission, the effects of gravitation in space and why meteorites make lunar craters, as well as side references in Professor Calculus's log book to the «constant of solar radiation» and the «limits of the solar spectrum in the ultraviolet».

The greenhouse effect is the process in which the emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface.

However, because it remains heavily contaminated by radiation, the region represents an accidental ecological experiment to study the effects of ionizing radiation on wild animals.

The Unruh effect is closely related to Hawking radiation, extremely faint radiation emitted by a black hole at a temperature determined by its mass.

An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues, has identified a new type of solar event and dated it to the year 5480 BC; they did this by measuring carbon - 14 levels in tree rings, which reflect the effects of cosmic radiation on the atmosphere at the time.

The researchers traced the waves» height along the trajectory an accelerating observer would have taken, which produced a pattern analogous to a temperature: When broken up according to their frequencies, the distribution of ripples matched the frequencies of the radiation that would be associated with the temperature predicted by the Unruh effect.

The treatment's effect on the original tumor was less dramatic, but still impressive: The combination of Listeria and radiation shrank the tumor by 64 %, and Listeria alone by about 20 % compared with saline - treated mice.

And the researchers induced similar effects by exposing normal butterflies to radiation from cesium particles like those that escaped Fukushima Daiichi.

The current study, led by John Regan, a postdoctoral researcher at Ireland's Dublin City University, modeled the process using software developed by Columbia's Greg Bryan, and includes the effects of gravity, fluid dynamics, chemistry and radiation.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

For instance, Chumak and his colleagues developed a way to estimate doses people received by analyzing tooth enamel for effects of ionizing radiation.

Such clouds show a strong increase in cooling due to the reflected short waves, but that effect is partly cancelled out by the enhanced, trapped, long - wave radiation coming from underneath.

The effect can be demonstrated by sending terahertz radiation through the material: The polarization of the terahertz beam is changed if the multiferroic material exhibits magnetic ordering.

So the observed «interactive effect» is nothing more than the standard inhibition of cell growth by radiation.

It will study the effects of space radiation on DNA and will be strictly confined to a platform on the station run by NanoRacks, the company that Chinese researchers have contracted to run the experiment.

He suggests that current estimates of cancer risk from low doses of radiation — say, from naturally occurring radon and diagnostic tests — may underestimate the danger by failing to take into account bystander effects.

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

One way of treating cancer is by inhibiting VEGFA, which decreases leakage and edema and improves the effects of chemo - and radiation therapy.

The smaller debris / meteoroids produced get spread around the orbit quite quickly (read: centuries or millennia) by various physical effects (ejection speeds from the comet; radiation pressure; Poynting - Robertson effect; Yarkovsky effect).

«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»

By obtaining continuous estimates of how much surface solar radiation would have occurred had clouds not been present, they were able to determine the effect of clouds on the solar radiation reaching the surface.

By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified

Obviously CO2 is not just a lid on the atmosphere so there must be some effect of the vertical gradient (even if small), and since it depends on the absorption and reemission of radiation, there must be some effect by latitude.

June 13, 2016 Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents.

The generated ROS plays an important role in the biological effects induced by ionizing radiation.

AMiBA, a millimeter interferometer like ALMA, was constructed by ASIAA (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and National Taiwan University for polarimetry of microwave background radiation and detection of distant clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan has demonstrated the effects of radiation reaction by hitting electrons with an ultra-intense laser.

Given such low penetrance, this CO2 radiation will be much more effected by mist, spray and foam, and should more directly impact evaporation than radiation which penetrates 10s of meters.

Ultraviolet radiation is detected by photographic plates and by means of the photoelectric effect in photomultiplier tubes.

«Any noise in the system — pressure created by solar radiation, thermal, magnetic and gravitational effects — could perturb the gravitational wave,» ESA project scientist Paul McNamara explained via a Skype call last week.

Even if animals in the area are being affected by radiation in the area, the effects of this contamination are overshadowed by the fact that this area is now essentially a wildlife reserve relatively free of human disturbances.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Side effects You're likely to feel more fatigued as the weeks of radiation treatment go by, and the skin around the area being treated may suffer.