Sentences with phrase «detecting small increases»

This revealed which parts of the brain were most active by detecting small increases in the blood flow to these brain areas.

Not exact matches

The nanoplasmonic material is also highly sensitive: It can detect an increase in cells as small as 16 in 1000 cells.

They will now be entering a period of rapidly increasing mortality,» said Lumey, «and this will provide significantly more study power in the future to detect small but important associations between famine exposure by stage of gestation and even more narrowly defined causes of death.»

The ATRAP group, Gabrielse says, made the choice to increase the number of atoms in the trap rather than increasing the sensitivity of the instruments to detect small numbers of anti-atoms, as ALPHA has done.

Increasing the maximum distance between the antennas increases the resolving power of the interferometer, allowing it to detect smaller details.

We therefore added more animals to this study to increase the power to detect such changes (n = 5 per group) and found that exercise does produce a small increase in hippocampal progranulin in young adult mice.

Each detected PNB - specific signal of such duration will be counted as a confirmation of PC cell destruction; (2) theranostic dual - pulse treatment: the first pulse will be close to the PNB generation threshold to generate small non-invasive PNBs; upon detecting such signals the system will increase the energy to the ablative level and will generate the second pulse in the same direction to expose the same area or volume and to detect ablative PNBs.

These two indicators of cheating — unusually large increases followed by small gains or even declines in test scores the next year and unexpected patterns in students» answers — form the basis of our method for detecting evidence of suspected cheating.

As a consequence, the national sample size increased, and smaller differences between years or between groups of students were found to be statistically significant than would have been detected in previous assessments.

Today's 1 °F (0.5 °C) change in ocean temperatures should correspond to about a one percent increase in hurricane strength, which is too small for modern instruments to detect, according to Landsea.

An increase in CO2 from current levels causes a rise in global temperatures that is so small that it can not be detected against the background of natural noise.

Jim Cripwell writes: «An increase in CO2 from current levels causes a rise in global temperatures that is so small that it can not be detected against the background of natural noise.»

It was likely that local conditions at scales finer than those detected by satellite observations increased or decreased the effect of the thermal stress within and among reefs at the sub-pixel scale (e.g., coral community structure, small - scale hydrodynamics, past bleaching; the analysis of which were beyond the scope of this study).

Instead, it uses a smaller amount of power and, when it detects a device is placed on the charger, it increases the energy output.