Sentences with phrase «control laboratory using»

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This year, though, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed an approach that uses a regular laser - sintering printer to control the microscopic grain structure of the metal.

Instead, Amorim applies the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part of its quality control measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be used in production.

Instead, Amorim applied the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part of its quality control measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be used in production.

The reliability and stability of these methods were described by Wu et al. 27 Illumina tag sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene V4 - V5 hypervariable region was performed at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using established methods.28, 29 Details of sequencing methods, quality control and filtering, and statistical modeling are presented in the eAppendix in the Supplement.

«This matters not only for redistricting and control of Congress, but also for using states as laboratories for progressive policy as well,» he said.

So the researchers used both field data and controlled laboratory experiments.

This project,» Tele - Education in Aerospace control and Mechatronics,» allows students from both universities to use equipment for interesting laboratory experiments in the areas of mechatronics and aerospace control across the Atlantic via the Internet.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

As an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problems.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

The researchers also plan to continue collaborating with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to continue vetting their atmospheric model using cloud chamber simulations and controls.

The Well Living Lab occupies a scientific sweet spot — more controlled than the real offices used for field studies and more realistic than many laboratories.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG) that measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant's nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting.

To compensate for the effect, robot designers may need to consider adding controls that will help adults monitor the use of robots by children, said Waddell, who worked with S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, and Eun Hwa Jung, a doctoral candidate in mass communications.

Furthermore, the team devised a technique to control the number of neurons labeled — labeling too many neurons makes it impossible to distinguish individual ones — that allows researchers to visualize individual neuron shapes and trace their connecting fibers through intact tissues using another technology the Gradinaru laboratory has helped develop, known as tissue clearing.

Roy has been working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, since 2001 to study how plasma could be used to control the flow of air — pushing air in different directions — and thereby the vehicle's movements.

The new relationship between sleepwalking and conscious movement control offers new insights into the brain mechanisms of sleepwalking and could potentially be used to aid diagnosis of sleepwalking while the subject is awake, rather than requiring an overnight stay in a sleep laboratory.

Now, the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology Team at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, headed by Professor Cevayir COBAN, have used mouse malaria models to show that robust immune activation and invasion of parasite by - products into the bone marrow during and after malaria infection leads to an adverse balance in bone homeostasis - a process usually tightly controlled - by bone forming osteoblasts and bone resorbing osteoclasts.

Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in St. Petersburg, and colleagues in France and Russia described how the team searched for traces of bacterial DNA in ultraclean laboratory conditions and used four sets of controls to reduce the chance of contamination.

«We truly are working to disarm a «cereal killer» and to do so using a natural, organic control,» says Bais, in his laboratory at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.

Its first target was the regulatory network involved in controlling the differentiation of THP - 1 cells, a line of human leukemia cells used in laboratory experiments.

The specialized cameras, which debuted in a few laboratories at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past couple weeks, are affixed to heating equipment used to kill dangerous substances and to cabinets where pathogens are kept.

C57BL / 6 wild - type mice (The Jackson Laboratory, 000664; n = 8) were used as an additional control for comparison purposes, but were not included in any statistical analyses.

Using a powerful microscope that lets researchers see the formation of crystals in real time, a team led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that negatively charged molecules — such as carbohydrates found in the shells of mollusks — control where, when, and how calcium carbonate forms.

They used a similar setup in a laboratory on Earth as a control.

Designed by Gabriel Nistor, a scientist in Keirstead's laboratory, the quarter - million dollar system housed at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will allow scientists to dissect single cells using lasers, manipulate cells using robotic instruments, and control the climate in the work area.

In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.

Supported by National Institutes of Health grants, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT), and the UT — ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) discovered a molecular «switch» in a receptor that controls cell behavior using detailed molecular dynamics simulations on a computer called Anton built by D. E. Shaw Research in New York City.

On Monday, Sept. 7, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) controlled a rover located at ESA's technical center in the Netherlands while onboard the orbiting laboratory placing a rounded peg into a hole using the robot's arm.

My laboratory uses the zebrafish to elucidate the genetic circuitry that controls regeneration of two organ systems in response to injury: the adult heart and the caudal fin appendage.

In a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, physicist Ibo Matthews and his team are experimenting with a new research - based metal 3D printer, one of only four of its kind in the world, using a customized software platform capable of unprecedented design control.

In this context, the use of live stimuli in laboratory experiments only permits minimal flexibility for controlling and dissecting specific behavioral responses.

Using this new technology, he found that improving the synchronization of brain waves, or oscillations, between these two regions enhanced their communication with each other, allowing participants to perform better on laboratory tasks related to learning and self - control.

The team used temperature - controlled photoelectron spectroscopy in EMSL, the DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on the PNNL campus, to determine how tightly one cyanide ion and one to three water molecules interact at the very low temperature of -438 °F (12 Kelvin) and again at ambient temperature of 80 °F (equivalent to 300 Kelvin).

Testing of 51 specimens from CFS patients and 56 matched and healthy controls from the US was performed independently in three laboratories for XMRV DNA by using several PCR tests and for anti-XMRV antibodies using different serological assays.

«Instead of gene therapy being done in the patient, as is the case in cancer, it's being done in the cells in a laboratory before doctors use them for therapy so that they still have control of these cells,» Dr. Crystal explains.

Azim, who is a member of Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, uses a multidisciplinary approach to identify how neural circuits control skilled movements, taking advantage of modern techniques in neurobiology, genetics and computer vision to investigate how diverse neural pathways are involved in different aspects of motor control.

Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, N.Y. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet.

[2] There is also laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no - calorie sweeteners found in diet beverages may actually make it harder for people to control their food intake and body weight.

The cornerstone of our quality control process is our laboratory results analysis, which uses an advanced statistical logic program to verify lab results against current and historical data.

In 2007, HFL Sport Science, a sports doping control and research laboratory, analyzed supplements often used by athletes in the United States.

(v): changing your environment from the inside - out so you have full control of your biology; using your body as your personal laboratory, finding the exact hacks that work for you.

Moreover, previous studies7, 8,9 have used laboratory stimuli, controlling for low - level visual properties for the purposes of drawing inferences about the visual system.

During school security Access control technology can also be used during school hours to limit the access of unauthorised persons to certain specific areas of the site such as science laboratories, IT suites and offices, to protect schoolchildren and staff.

The Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance issued a final rule on April 13, 2015 that allows employers, collectors, laboratories, and Medical Review Officers to use the electronic version of the Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form (eCCF) in the DOT - regulated drug testing program.

Further ergonomic improvements to ensure ease of reach and control have been meticulously evaluated and executed using a specially - designed laboratory tool created to measure occupant operational force for ergonomics.

The authors used very long control runs of both the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and Hadley Centre climate models (5,000 years for the GFDL model) to assess the probability that the observed and model - predicted trends in Arctic sea ice extent occur by chance as the result of natural climate variability.

In a controlled laboratory environment, coal can be used to synthesize methane gas.

ENERGY STAR laboratory grade equipment can reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills through the use of technologies such as more efficient cooling compressors, advanced microprocessor temperature control and defrost sensors, more efficient high - capacity air circulation systems, and innovative refrigerants.