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The inside back cover image of the Nov. 20, 2017 issue of Advanced Materials illustrates how ion migration in a hybrid perovskite crystal affects solar cell performance in different areas of the crystal.

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Bentley - based information technology company ISA Technologies has become the first organisation in the southern hemisphere to use revolutionary new IBM Cell chip technology for high performance computing and visualisation.

Narrowly speaking, bankrupt Suniva filed a complaint with the ITC claiming that cheap Chinese solar panels and cells were instrumental in the company's declining performance.

Sam created high - performance semiconductor chips and related software with low power usage algorithms that dramatically improved voice and sound quality in cell phones, video phones, desktop phones, conference call phones and automotive communication systems.

The maximum difference between load cell output readings for repeated loadings under identical loading and environmental conditions; the ability of an instrument, system, or method to give identical performance or results in successive instances.

• Loss - In - Weight: The compact trapezoid shape is identical to both the volumetric & gravimetric feeder with either a single high performance digital or analog load cell.

Total urinary As was measured by collision cell ICP - MS using germanium as an internal standard.30 Arsenic species were obtained by a high - performance liquid chromatography GP50 pump (Dionex Corp) and a PRP100X column (Hamilton Co) connected to a collision cell ICP - MS.29, 31 - 33 Approximately 10 % of samples were run in duplicate for both analyses.

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3M Delivers Early Purification with New Hybrid Purifiers, Single - use functionalised media provides scalable purification performance in cell culture

The goal of synthetic biology, which combines biology with engineering, is to (re) program cells in order to improve their performance in a specific task, or so that they can efficiently perform a new task.

A pre-clinical study of two drugs designed to boost T cell performance, has revealed the agents, when give in combination, may enhance the immune system's ability to kill melanoma tumors deficient in the tumor suppressor gene PTEN.

A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Dr. Riad Nechache from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), both in the Montreal Area (Canada).

Used as a counter electrode in a dye - sensitized solar cell, the material enabled the cell to convert power with up to 6.8 percent efficiency and more than doubled the performance of an identical cell that instead used an expensive platinum wire counter electrode.

Stimulating brain cells with light has been shown to improve mental performance in monkeys.

In solution form, their solar absorber layer — the part made from the copper indium diselenide or CIGS materials and critical to the performance of the cell — can be easily painted or coated onto a surface.

But what [was] really interesting in this study of the sled dogs, of Larry the sled dog in particular, was the discovery that some of these high performance dogs appear to have the ability to draw fat directly out of their and blood right into their muscle cells and immediately burn it that way, which is a more efficient way than normally what you'd see.

«As we continue to work on enhancing the performance and efficiency of the solar cells, we also look forward to opportunities to collaborate with industry in order to develop this technology further,» Yang said.

That's a potential plus for solar cells, which could more efficiently use the sun's energy for a boost in performance.

«We watch the bromine ions migrate within minutes and see that the resulting bromine - rich areas have the potential to become better solar cells while the performance is degraded in bromine - poor areas,» Fenning said.

«All the exciting efficiencies and any energy claims that are associated with [perovskite solar cells] should be taken with a grain of salt,» according to Keith Emery, the manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) photovoltaic cell and module performance characterisation group in the US.

This enzyme (P45 - IKKα) is generated in the endosomes, a cellular organelle that transports material which has just been added to the cells and which needs a specific acidic environment for optimal performance.

Sruti: I started to conduct a study on driving performances because, as a 16 - year - old, I'm going to be a future driver and I wanted to know the risks that I would be putting myself in by talking on a cell phone while driving or using a Bluetooth device while driving.

Oxygen electrochemistry plays a key role in renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells and electrolyzers, but the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limit the performance and commercialization of such devices.

They also gave old mice infusions of young blood plasma (the liquid component of blood containing proteins and hormones but no cells), which significantly improved their performance in learning and memory tests.

«Despite the fact that the literature describes only correlation between verbal memory tests and hippocampal cell densities in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis, we found a correlation between right hippocampal cell densities and performance on visual memory tests, including both immediate and delayed recall,» says authors Sandra Mara Comper and Anaclara Prada Jardim, students in the laboratory of Dr. Elza Marcia Yacubian at the Federal University of São Paulo.

In addition, the tubes allow easier electron transfer, which improves biofuel cell performance.

Giving the rats oestrogen implants not only improved their performance in learning tests but also helped to preserve the brain cells, reported Meharvan Singh, a graduate student at Gainesville.

This improves the performance of the mitochondria in their role as the power plants of the cell, thus ensuring that enough energy is available for a complex event like cell division.

Silent strokes are frequent in sickle cell anemia (the most common form of sickle cell disease), occurring in approximately 3 percent of school - age children with the disease, and can cause poor school performance and limit performance of complex tasks.

It thus seems quite likely that this new signaling path also links the performance of the cellular power plants and cell division in human cells,» says Meisinger, who now plans to analyze these mechanisms in tumor tissues.

EPO concentrations and red blood cell volumes had risen in each of the four groups, suggesting that contrary to long - held wisdom, these adaptations aren't the only reason altitude training enhances performance.

Many perovskite solar cells experience a severe drop in performance after only a few hours, but Tan's cells retained more than 90 per cent of their efficiency even after 500 hours of use.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

«The most outstanding observation, in my view, is the existence of a limiting concentration of lignin, the glue between wood cells, to maximize the mechanical performance of the densified wood.

An unconventional solution is now presented by Singaporean and Chinese scientists: as reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they coated live, electroactive bacteria with a conducting polymer and obtained a high - performance anode for microbial fuel cells.

Changing the configuration to a high - performance, tandem solar cell connected in tandem yielded a conversion efficiency to hydrocarbons and oxygenates exceeding 5 percent at 1 - sun illumination.

«This study breaks new ground because it focuses on boosting beta cell performance and shows that beta cell preservation is possible even in the face of such immune attack,» said senior author Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism at HSPH.

Last year, Dr Joe Briscoe and Dr Steve Dunn from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science found that playing pop and rock music improves the performance of solar cells, in research published with Imperial College London.

The film kept the lithium - sulfur compounds together in one place, preventing them from leaching into the electrolyte and degrading the cell's performance.

In solar cells, for example, electrons must be efficiently liberated from their pairing with holes to harvest their energy and improve solar panel performance.

In addition, the Honeycomb Maze enables researchers to study the correlation of spatial navigation performance with the activity of place cells in the hippocampus where there is a map of an animal's location in spacIn addition, the Honeycomb Maze enables researchers to study the correlation of spatial navigation performance with the activity of place cells in the hippocampus where there is a map of an animal's location in spacin the hippocampus where there is a map of an animal's location in spacin space.

«New discovery could improve organic solar cell performance: Science team unravels mystery of a multiplier mechanism in an organic crystal.»

On larger surface areas, however, the performance of the cells falls considerably,» stressed Etxebarria, who has reached the following conclusion: to be able to manufacture cells with a large surface area it is necessary to build modules, to which cells with a smaller surface will be connected in series or in parallel, on the substrate itself.

Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).

With support from the Energy Department, private industry, and the Department's national laboratories, significant progress has been made in reducing costs and improving performance for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies.

For instance, even though the effects are similar, WADA currently tolerates athletes who increase their red blood cells (and therefore, presumably, their performance) by sleeping in a tent that simulates high altitude, but not those who do so by blood doping or EPO.

However, we found an association between decreased navigational performance and deficits in grid cell activity,» says Prof. Thomas Wolbers, a DZNE senior scientist and supervisor of the current study.

The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

Topics for the scientific sessions are: Single cell genomics and gene expression Genetic interactions RNAi and somatic cell genetics Protein - DNA interactions Cancer The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

That rapid improvement in performance is promising, and researchers are racing to start using perovskite cells in commercial products.