Sentences with phrase «conventional techniques of»

«Conventional techniques of producing transgenic animals, such as microinjection of genes into eggs and the retroviral transduction of genes into embryos, often produce many animals that are mosaic, which means they do not contain the foreign gene in all their cells.

That's partly because the conventional technique of marking birds with bands has failed miserably at clarifying the bird's migration patterns — only one or two out of tens of thousands of banded birds are ever recovered.

Digitally coding these shapes requires less data than the conventional technique of making a «bit map» of an image, which divides it into a mosaic of tiny picture points or pixels, and describes each pixel in digital code.

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This calls into question the reliability of industry asset allocation and diversification strategies and the prediction capability of conventional portfolio risk modelling techniques.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

This approach applies microwave at a frequency of 2450 MHz to heat products to sterilisation temperatures, resulting in a shorter heating time compared to conventional food processing techniques.

New research showing organic farming more effectively restores soil carbon and reduces the cause of climate change compared to conventional techniques could sway more shoppers to buy organic — especially as conscious consumerism continues to rise.

CSIRO research programs use both conventional and genetic modification (GM) approaches, with careful consideration being given to the most appropriate technique, or combination of techniques, to achieve the desired goal.

However, the very nature of flexible packaging; lightweight and mixed materials, food contamination, inks, adhesives and difficulty in collection and sorting; renders conventional thermal - recycling techniques impractical.

Although they fit the mould of a conventional striker much more snugly than Salah, with their searing pace, individual skill and unerring finishing technique, Torres and Suárez are perhaps better analogs for the new star of Anfield than any of the aforementioned names from the more distant past.

The technique of CCS after conventional in vitro fertilization is to grow embryos to day 5 - 7, the blastocyst stage.

While the on - your - back, epidural - numbed labor has long been the American standard, some women are opting for less conventional birth methods and pain control techniques — and even moving out of the hospital room.

Accordingly, the principles of attachment parenting don't prescribe specific techniques or conclusions for most issues parents must consider, but rather reminds them to educate themselves and make informed choices about what's best for their children instead of simply accepting conventional parenting practices without question.

Created by a Minnesota - based company called Recombinetics, the hornless cattle are the first of a new wave of farmed animals developed using techniques that, unlike conventional genetic engineering, involve no «foreign» DNA (see «How to tweak a genome «-RRB-.

The new imaging system is the first to demonstrate the imaging capabilities of some of these unusual focusing techniques by replacing conventional, solid lenses with the combination of a malleable lens and a liquid iris - like component.

«The computer image is still created with conventional methods, then we modify it with our SSSS - technique, improving the appearance of the surfaces.»

This technique can define the identity of active plant constituents with greater accuracy than the conventional practice of measuring selected main constituents.

During last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, conventional oil - collection techniques were found to be woefully inadequate.

Casadio's team used a variety of techniques to determine the palettes, including conventional methods like investigation with stereo microscopes as well as more sophisticated techniques like micro-X-ray fluorescence.

Conventional techniques for recovering ancient human DNA typically require the destruction of bone or tooth tissue during analysis, and this has been a cause of concern for many Native and indigenous communities.

Both of these computers use superconducting qubits built using techniques from the conventional computer chip industry.

Conventional tracing techniques can only show which reference sites a new DNA sample matches best, Wasser says, but chances are it didn't come from any of those locations.

Racing to stay ahead of food demands In the medium term, conventional crossbreeding helped by molecular biology techniques (a technique called «marker assisted breeding») may suffice.

A new technique which colour codes DNA for laser sequencing may offer a faster and cheaper way of sequencing genomes compared with conventional methods.

«It took us 35 minutes to get the first ever electron density map of HIV protease, and I estimate it would have taken 300 years using conventional techniques,» he says.

For example, acupuncture is something that seems to bring at least as much relief to people who suffer some kinds of back pain as a lot of other surgical or other conventional techniques do; but we also want to try to warn people away from the sorts of remedies that are being prescribed that maybe or [are] not really backed up by much science at all.

He notes that the technique can't yet match the resolution of conventional photolithography and that it needs improvements to keep the patterns aligned if the array is used repeatedly on different parts of a surface.

Associate Professor Rika Numano explained, «The W / O droplet electroporation technique has several advantages over conventional transfection techniques: small cell number required, as low as 1000 cells; small amount of DNA required, which makes it applicable for various cell types including neural cells; and changeable genome DNA.

Citing how this new technique represents a broad range of chemical structures unlikely to be found using conventional means, Helbling said, «These results are not only interesting from a novelty perspective, but demonstrate the breadth of chemical coverage that our suspect screening affords.»

With this knowledge, Gasser observes, humans may be able to create other varieties of seedless fruits, such as cherimoyas and tomatoes, that have so far defied conventional breeding techniques.

Writing in Physical Review Letters, the research team at Southampton has provided the first proof - of - principle demonstration of a new laser cooling technique, based on a proposal by Martin Weitz and Nobel laureate Ted Hänsch in 2000, which is in principle applicable to atoms and molecules as yet untamed by conventional laser cooling.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

In a pair of recently published papers, a team led by Berkeley Lab researcher Jonathan Ajo - Franklin announced they had successfully combined a technology called «distributed acoustic sensing,» which measures seismic waves using fiber - optic cables, with novel processing techniques to allow reliable seismic monitoring, achieving results comparable to what conventional seismometers can measure.

Work by Yeh's group and international collaborators later revealed that graphene made using the new technique is of higher quality than graphene made using conventional methods: It is stronger because it contains fewer defects that could weaken its mechanical strength, and it has the highest electrical mobility yet measured for synthetic graphene.

He dismissed conventional data acquisition techniques because «information gained by «surveys and experiments with controls» is likely to be distorted by the artificiality of the gathering situation».

The technique is «very important,» he says, because it will extend the capabilities of conventional electron microscopes and should allow «atom - by - atom magnetic analysis in the near future.»

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

In addition to being able to detect NMR in far smaller samples than conventional machines, our technique does not require the application of microwave fields that might disrupt biological samples» said Hollenberg, who is Deputy Director of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) and Thomas Baker Chair at the University of Melbourne.

Although the technique still needs refinements, physicists believe that in the future it will beat the precision of conventional methods — and hopefully solve apparent discrepancies between measurements that have long puzzled physicists.

«In proof - of - concept testing, our process was much faster than any heterogeneous techniques, but still marginally slower than conventional homogeneous processes,» Abolhasani says.

In 2013, Dr Shapour Jaberzadeh and his group, from the Department of Physiotherapy at Monash University, discovered a new technique that compared to conventional tDCS, significantly increases the brain excitability.

Such wholesale reprogramming would be prohibitively expensive with what he calls the «laborious and outdated» techniques of conventional genetic engineering, which make one alteration at a time to the DNA of organisms.

Researchers in the field say future versions of this system could take clear x-ray photographs with cheap cameras — no need for lenses and multipixel detectors — and less cancer - causing radiation than conventional techniques.

Most conventional lithography uses a variety of techniques to focus light on a photosensitive film to create 2 - D patterns.

Betzig was the developer of a technique called near - field scanning optical micro-scopy which can achieve a much greater magnification than conventional optical microscopes.

The plasma torch technique produces the same amount of hazardous exhaust gases as conventional incineration.

The technique may also give patients a higher quality of life than conventional hip replacement surgery.

Although the study was small with limited follow - up, the paper clearly demonstrates the feasibility of distant access thyroid surgery using conventional surgical techniques.

The novel sensor created by researchers in OIST's Micro / Bio / Nanofluidics Unit, measures charge using the same technique as conventional sensors but has the additional function of measuring mass.

Experts have long been experimenting with techniques to create solar fuels, which allow all the advantages of conventional fossil fuels along with the environmental benefits of renewable energy.