Sentences with word «calorimeter»

Furthermore the human body is in complete polarity from a bomb calorimeter as it readily recognizes where calories come from.

On both visits, 24 h energy expenditure was measured in whole body room calorimeters and blood samples taken 2 hourly (0900 to 2100 h).

Atwater soon learned how to use whole - body calorimeters for performing energy balance studies in humans and, after two years in Europe, returned back to the US.

The Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, shown here in Antarctica before a 2005 launch, detected cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere.

b. ReeVue ™ Metabolic Testing: This is an indirect calorimeter which is used to estimate the resting metabolic rate (RMR).

Scrap materials can even move on to a life outside of research: Calorimeter crystals can be reprocessed for use in airport baggage scanners or medical gamma cameras.

Further detectors inside the tank look for decay particles: a magnetic spectrometer measures the momentum of charged tracks from kaon decays, a ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector tells the team the nature of decay particles, and electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters measure their energy.

«We hope to take enough data to measure the neutrino or at least produce the world's most accurate measurement using calorimeter techniques by the end of 2017,» Tully said of the prototype.

The first calorimeter could handle small objects a few inches on each side.

The red and blue bars represent the energy measured by the instrument's two sets of calorimeters.

The particles finally strike a so - called calorimeter, a device made of cesium iodide that measures the energy of the ray captured by the orbiting observatory.

Wang continues his research at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, performing analysis and working on the operations of a Zero Degree Calorimeter maintained by KU.

By 1889, Rubner had built a remarkably accurate bomb calorimeter which lead to many of his findings, most notably: the thermic effect of protein, the energy laws of physics applying to caloric balance, and his most fundamental finding that a calorie is a calorie.

While I was stealing pizza from seminars and running an isothermal titration calorimeter, they were talking about «maximizing outflow» during «breakout sessions.»

For the past 22 years he has been setting fire to bedrooms, office cubicles, and kitchens, all constructed beneath a huge calorimeter.

Later, Babrauskas designed a model big enough to test burning furniture, aptly called the Furniture Calorimeter.

The cone calorimeter resembled a vent hood with a series of ducts attached to the top of a small sealed chamber.

Tracking devices reveal the path of a particle; calorimeters stop, absorb and measure a particle's energy; and particle - identification detectors use a range of techniques to pin down a particle's identity.

De Jong received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands for his contribution to the design of a novel multiprocessor system for the ZEUS calorimeter trigger at Germany's DESY laboratory.

Compared with nibbling, neither gorging nor a morning fast affect short - term energy balance in obese patients in a chamber calorimeter.

Our study, «Study of the Effect of Mobile Indirect Calorimeter on Weight Management» takes a closer look at calorie - counting, step - counting, and REE - counting.

It was also around this time scientists began to develop bomb calorimeters to measure the energy value of food.

Pierre Auger's water tanks represent one way to do it; experiments borne by balloon, like the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, are another.

By 1895 Atwater had completed building his own whole - body calorimeter and began a series of experiments.

She then studied neutrinos from stellar collapses at the underground laboratories of Mont Blanc and Gran Sasso, and extensive air showers at the EAS - TOP observatory, where she lead the analysis of the data from the hadronic calorimeter.

Using calorimeters and other thermal measuring devices, they observed how the samples responded to the temperature and moisture conditions likely to develop inside a rubble pile warming under the sun and exposed to the elements.

Seeing as Lavoisier was, you know, significantly fucking rich he could afford to have various apparatuses built to help him with his research, amongst these was the first calorimeter: an apparatus for measuring the amount of heat involved in a chemical reaction.

A ring image Cerenkov counter analyzes the spray of light given off by particles as they crash through a porous material called an aerogel; that light reveals the particles» speed before their final collision into the energy - measuring electromagnetic calorimeter — a lead brick laced with optical fibers.

The researchers used a room calorimeter, a 25m3 furnished chamber that measures movement, oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature and pressure, to assess how dietary changes affected energy expenditure and the way nutrients were processed by the body.

Traditionally, scientists calculated the energy content of foods using a large piece of machinery called a bomb calorimeter.

The original method used to determine the number of kcals in a given food directly measured the energy it produced.The food was placed in a sealed container surrounded by water — an apparatus known as a bomb calorimeter.

He will ensure that BaBar's crystal calorimeter, superconducting coil, particle identifiers, and other parts find happy new homes — if there are takers.

First, a silicon charge detector measures the electrical charge of incoming particles, then layers of carbon provide targets that encourage impacts, producing cascades of particles that stream into electrical and optical detectors below while a calorimeter determines their energy.

By having study participants stay in a room calorimeter, researchers can determine how many grams of carbohydrate, protein and fat they are using and how many calories they are burning every minute.

Instead of using an oven they freeze - dried the samples before testing them in a calorimeter.

Before a sample can be tested in a calorimeter it has to be dry, and in this case the authors had dried their sample by leaving it overnight in an oven heated to 103 degrees Celsius,.

That's why the results from the NASA - funded Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) balloon experiment sparked interest last fall (Science, 21 November 2008, p. 1173).

It turned out that one problem was that the original experimenters failed to stir their calorimeter thoroughly.

But a balloon - borne detector flying over Antarctica called the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) has detected 70 more high - energy electrons than the normal background level attributed to supernova blasts.