Sentences with phrase «feasibility of»

VTT has proven the feasibility of the method in its own pilot manufacturing unit, using commercially available materials.

These findings are part of the three - year HPTN 065 (TLC - Plus) study, which explored the feasibility of implementing a community - focused strategy to expand HIV testing, diagnose patients, and link them to medical care to begin and stay on treatment.

The research scientists have tested the feasibility of the method by printing leaf - shaped photovoltaic cells.

In their latest research project, they demonstrated feasibility of a quick search for a small database of four elements.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

The authors demonstrated the feasibility of their system by fabricating functional multi-colored OLED arrays and note that their method may enable high throughput manufacturing of OLEDs using many technologies, including inkjet printing, in the future.

In order to evaluate the feasibility of this program and describe the overdose risk knowledge, opioid use, and overdose response actions among patients receiving overdose prevention education, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and BMC conducted a telephone survey of Project ASSERT patients between January 2011 and February 2012.

This selectivity — the ability to control the chemical reaction so that it generates the desired product with little or no side - products — is an important factor in determining the cost and feasibility of industrial - scale reactions, Zhang says.

Now that we have demonstrated the scientific feasibility of verification, we can use this to ensure that energy technology upgrades emissions reported by China and India are accurate, Dubey said.

To explore the feasibility of this approach, Gittes and first author Xiangwei Xiao of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine engineered an AAV vector to deliver to the mouse pancreas proteins called Pdx1 and MafA, which support beta cell maturation, proliferation, and function.

Loeb and his co-author Manasvi Lingam (Harvard University) examined the feasibility of creating a radio transmitter strong enough for it to be detectable across such immense distances.

Health Education & Behavior published the new study's quantitative results: «The Feasibility of Reducing Sitting Time in Overweight and Obese Older Adults.»

This period lets the companies study the site for feasibility of the technology.

«Our aim with this project was to use this method to demonstrate the feasibility of making 3D in - vitro pigmented human skin constructs, with uniform skin pigmentation.»

This proof - of - principle study highlights the feasibility of applying a semiautomated MRI analysis pipeline for atlas - based texture feature extraction from T2 - weighted MRI at the epicenter of acute spinal cord injury (SCI).

Dynamical analysis for nonisolated galaxies demonstrates the feasibility of their ejection from host clusters and groups by three - body encounters, which is in agreement with numerical simulations.

This mission represented the first stage in demonstrating the feasibility of the «ice core archive» project.

«In general, using a prosthesis is an unnatural act that requires training, extra effort and can have a certain amount of awkwardness to it,» explains Douglas P. Murphy, MD; from Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center who is also an associate professor of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead investigator (along with Ou Bai PhD from Florida International University) in a recent study that sought to establish the feasibility of manipulating a prosthetic knee with BCI.

«Zombie apocalypse» would wipe out humankind in just 100 days, students calculate: Physics students explore feasibility of surviving viral infection.»

The authors say that it is imperative that new MPAs are systematically identified and take into account what has already been protected in other places, in addition to socioeconomic costs of implementation, feasibility of success, other aspects driving biodiversity.

Moving forward, the team is looking into ways to assess the feasibility of enhancing RUNX tumour suppression or inhibiting RUNX mitotic function to kill rapidly proliferating cancer cells,» said Prof Ito.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the feasibility of sending supportive text messages to low - income mothers of racial and ethnic minority backgrounds with postpartum depression and gauge the perception of receiving such message for depression.

We further demonstrate the feasibility of this technique by tracing back with high probability the identities of multiple participants in public sequencing projects.

A Saint Louis University research paper published online March 16 in JMIR Mental Health explores the feasibility of helping low - income mothers through postpartum depression using text messages.

The eSurge project, which is funded by the European Space Agency, has also demonstrated the feasibility of offering near - real time data about recent and predicted storms, which can be viewed on the new eSurgeLive web page.

The study entitled «Feasibility of photoacoustic / ultrasound imaging of synovitis in finger joints using a point - of - care system» was conducted and published by Pim van den Berg, Khalid Daoudi and Wiendelt Steenbergen from the University of Twente research institute MIRA in cooperation with rheumatologist Hein Moens of Ziekenhuis group Twente.

«Further prospective [exploratory] investigation is needed to assess the replicability and feasibility of forced cold water swimming as a potentially effective, natural intervention to enhance recovery outcomes from common postoperative complications,» they write.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plants.

Demonstrating here the feasibility of designing antivenoms that target specific pathologies, rather than focusing on a specific region of the world, should enable the development of a suite of pathology specific antivenoms that could be used globally in a modular manner across the world.

«It's worth getting into field trial as soon as possible to test and evaluate the feasibility of its industrial development and deployment,» Bergounioux adds.

Earlier this year, a project to test the feasibility of pumping sun - blocking particles into the stratosphere was cancelled after a mix - up over intellectual - property rights.

Engineers are good at assessing feasibility of design but we do not necessarily include a dialogue about...

He asked very important questions concerning the feasibility of the project, but did not do so sceptically, which indicated to me that he was not afraid of entering a grand challenge; he was already preparing to take on the challenge» when he arrived.

The addition of Pay for Success financing in the Chicago Public School District shows the feasibility of scaling CPC P - 3 while continuing to improve effectiveness.

Rice graduate student Lifeng Yang, lead author of the study, designed a preclinical experiment to test the feasibility of a multidrug approach.

Camp Century, a United States military base built within the Greenland ice sheet in 1959, doubled as a top - secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War.

Mead has experimented with small - scale models to prove the feasibility of light propulsion, and Davis has investigated how to get the most out of the laser's energy.

In the study, the research team has demonstrated the feasibility of a next - generation hybrid anode using silicon - nanolayer - embedded graphite / carbon.

Belbruno got his chance to attempt the impossible when NASA decided to explore the feasibility of using electric propulsion to get a small probe to the moon.

Overall, Govindarajan said the project met the primary objective, testing the feasibility of SUPR - REMUS for sampling in coastal waters: «We were thrilled with the first results for robotic sampling coupled with genetic analysis.

As phone - makers, retailers and credit card companies work out the feasibility of NFC as a gateway to facilitating commerce, others see the technology as opening doors — literally.

«While the value of large data sets in health care has undoubtedly been the subject of substantial hyperbole, our results add to a growing body of work indicating the feasibility of leveraging such data sets with standard computational tools to make predictions that may be applied to stratify risk.

«Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of classifying cancerous and normal breast tissues using DESI mass spectrometry imaging,» said Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory, BWH Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, senior study author.

«Long - term data of the population dynamics of wildlife are lacking, but are indispensable for estimating the feasibility of wildlife utilisation.»

They will examine the safety and feasibility of administering cancer - fighting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that have been reprogrammed to target the CD22 protein expressed by some leukemia cells.

Purushotham points out, «The feasibility of intraoperative CLI as shown in this study, in combination with the wide applicability of F -18-FDG across a range of solid cancers, provides a stepping stone for clinical evaluation of this technology in other solid cancer types that also experience incomplete tumor resection due to close or involved margins.»

During her half - hour of interaction with the class, McNutt said, students asked questions ranging from the feasibility of the OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.»

Their goal is to explore the feasibility of photoacoustic imaging for the diagnosis of cervical cancer, he added.

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

BlueFire has already operated such a plant to convert wood waste into ethanol in Japan to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology.