Platforms provide flat workspaces to accommodate scientists and large equipment at the study site and serve as
field laboratories for water scientists.
Not exact matches
'' [M] oving our work from the
laboratory to the
field is not only an important milestone
for our group of biologists, engineers, and automation experts, but it's also a critical step in bringing our long - term vision to reality,» Verily scientist Jacob Crawford wrote in a blog post announcing the trial.
Dangerous resistant bacteria tend to develop spontaneously in the bodies of patients being given powerful antibiotics
for long periods, and virtually never by accident in the
laboratory or in the
field.
IRRI's support
for partners includes initial breeding of the Golden Rice trait into selected varieties, which involves
laboratory work, greenhouse tests, and some preliminary
field evaluation.
The ESL has over 40 years of expertise in the use of
field and
laboratory spectroscopy
for mineral, organic complex, soil and soil organic matter, sediment, waste and water analysis.
Primary scientific research conducted in the
Field Laboratory to develop stress - tolerant rice varieties is then transferred to IRRI's Centre of Excellence at the IRRI South Asia Regional Centre in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
for further localized testing.
Seconding the idea of using scarcity to breed opportunity, Jason Osborne, a
laboratory instrument designer, and Aaron Alford, a psychiatric epidemiologist, came up with an outrageous concept: Get the education system to pay
for field work in paleontology.
When I returned to my studies, I converted my Ph.D. project into a master's thesis, as it was not feasible
for me to go back into the
field to collect more samples and perform
laboratory work.
Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the
field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute
for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary
laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.
In 1960 a Harvard
laboratory measured the warping of time in a gravitational
field, and some 20 years later researchers found indirect evidence
for the existence of gravity waves.
EERE oversees the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, which is also the site
for its Golden
Field Office.
In the study, which included a series of
laboratory experiments,
field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center
for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the
field study.
• On Tuesday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser wrote about bioRxiv, a new preprint server launched by Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory that hopes to do
for biology what arXiv did
for physics and related
fields.
For those five summers he taught a six - week
field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine
Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.
It is not currently possible to reproduce this distinctive turbulence either by
laboratory experiments or by computer simulations.2 Until now, it was therefore impossible
for geophysicists to determine its role with regard to the magnetic
field.
For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic
field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carrière in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Brévault from the Center
for Agricultural Research
for Development (CIRAD) in France scrutinized the available
field and
laboratory data to test predictions about resistance.
«Most instruments used
for chlorophyll fluorescence imaging are only suitable
for laboratory use, but we want to develop a system that can monitor crop health in a
field or greenhouse,» said Haifeng Li, a member of the research group.
Video is a powerful tool
for presenting visual data from the
laboratory or
field to show,
for example, how a praying mantis jumps or how an artificially intelligent computer can master a video game.
The American Association
for Laboratory Animal Science defines laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and
Laboratory Animal Science defines
laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and
laboratory animal science as «a
field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of
laboratory animals used in biomedical research and
laboratory animals used in biomedical research and education.
The data indicated that helmet rating scales may be somewhat misleading to parents or schools considering helmet purchases as higher ratings based on
laboratory testing did not necessarily correlate to increased protection «on the
field»
for high school football players.
By the time Silva took his first staff position at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory in New York in 1992, Eric Kandel, the Columbia University neuroscientist who would win a Nobel
for his work in this
field, was already on the trail.
«
For LIDAR systems that will be operated full - time in the
field, eye safety is an important consideration,» said Haiyun Xia, the principle investigator of the Quantum Lidar
Laboratory at USTC.
«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated
fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate
Laboratory Director
for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.
The theory of plasmas was,
for me, a particularly attractive
field because of the interplay of mechanics, electrodynamics, statistics, and thermodynamics, and also because of its relevance to astrophysics and many
laboratory applications.
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.
«It's startling what the potential
for growth in this
field is,» says report co-author David Greene of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in Tennessee.
«Different playing
field»
for researchers Harold Brooks, a senior research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms
Laboratory, said that the trend in increasing tornado density is something that he has been talking about at scientific conferences
for almost two years.
Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln
Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett
Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..
Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized
for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in
laboratory cultures and contaminated
field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential
for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.
The
field work was complemented with high - temperature high - pressure experiments in the
laboratory to replicate the hydrothermal observations and to suggest mechanisms
for the processes.
Co-author Professor Eric Achterberg, from the University of Southampton, said: «The beauty of this approach is that with both
field and
laboratory experiments we were able to prove how the mechanisms operate
for the removal of organic carbon in the deep ocean.»
«And all of these tests need to be done in a
laboratory with expensive equipment — they're just not suitable
for the
field.»
The measuring spheres are not only ideal
for microbiological culture and process development in the
laboratory, but could also be used in drug production, environmental measurement or screening in the
field of medicine.
The new approach, termed «bacterial - instructed synthesis», has the potential
for use in the developing world, in the
field or in less specialised
laboratory settings.
«Chile is a natural
laboratory and rapidly becoming a world leader in important
fields for science diplomacy: astronomy, oceanography, polar research and climate change,» said Marga Gual - Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center
for Science Diplomacy, who joined Holt in Chile.
Join chemists John Turner of the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory and Richard Eisenberg of the University of Rochester on Thursday, 21 November, at 3 p.m. EST on this page
for a live video chat where we discuss this burgeoning
field of research and take your questions.
Scientists at the Central Veterinary
Laboratory in Weybridge are conducting
field trials on a kit developed
for diagnosing tuberculosis in live badgers.
He called it the International Institute
for Applied Physics and High Technology, which Smirnov now describes as an organisation
for promoting relations between Western and Russian
laboratories, particularly in the
field of technology transfer.
Previous
field research by Bargar's team and collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL) at the site of a former uranium mill in Rifle, Colorado, has provided a possible explanation
for the longevity of the uranium contamination.
«Although
laboratory tests can predict effects in the
field, care should be taken when using the lab data
for 303 (d) listing if alternative
field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.
So - called extremely low - volatility organic compounds, which are produced by plants, could be detected
for the first time during
field and
laboratory experiments in Finland and Germany.
Riley Duren, chief systems engineer
for the Earth Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory who is unaffiliated with the study, said he agrees with the study's findings that locating and mitigating methane emissions are important both in cities and in oil and gas
fields.
His
laboratory has made several seminal contributions to the
field of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), from their conceptualization and optimization to their clinical translation
for cancer immunotherapy.
Research underway at the National High Magnetic
Field Laboratory may one day answer those questions — and perhaps even help pave the way
for future colonization of the Red Planet.
Endowments
for museums and universities across the country have been hit hard by the economic recession, but the
Field Museum has been pushed to its financial limits in part by recent expansion projects, including the $ 65 - million Collections Resource Center, a storage and
laboratory facility that opened in 2005.
APS President Barry Barish presents a plaque to commemorate the honor, and several speakers â $» including
Laboratory Director Sam Aronson â $» recap Brookhavenâ $ ™ s longstanding contributions to advancing the
field of physics and highlight its plans
for the future.
A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National
Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic
fields and could pave the way
for new computing technologies.
Dan Winske is recognized
for his seminal and definitive work in the
field of basic plasma physics and its application to both
laboratory and space plasmas.
The
Laboratory advances the coupled
fields of fusion energy and plasma physics research, and, with collaborators, is developing the scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as an energy source
for the world.