In
Field Techniques for Sea - Ice Research.
In December Prasher won a six - month, $ 70,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop
a field technique for categorizing tick specimens according to their mitochondrial genes, in hopes of limiting the diseases a doctor might diagnose.
Not exact matches
Figure out what
technique works best
for you, whether it's interviewing colleagues, writing about current events, emulating the top thought leaders in your
field, or surveying your own audience to find out what they want to read.
The annual ICS Security Summit brings together in - the -
field practitioners and leading experts to share ideas, methods, and
techniques for defending control systems.
In partnership with Olympus, you're invited to a webinar on
Techniques for Rapid and Accurate Sample Analysis in the
Field
A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil
field fracking operations used around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new fracking
techniques call
for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a well.
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.
The central mark of this order, according to Ellul, is
technique, «the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (
for a given stage of human development) in every
field of human activity.»
The amount of introduction required
for your
field, each
technique and each problem will depend on how much the audience knows about your topic.
With a year left, you can also take some of the «intro» classes
for your new
field, or if those are too broad (given your background), think about taking an upper level
techniques class or a graduate seminar (even if it seems way over your head).
For the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used a
technique recently borrowed from the computer science
field by neuroscientists — multivariate pattern analysis — to examine brain scans that were taken while people looked at a picture of someone who had rejected them.
«The researchers have taken a
technique that most in the
field thought would be impossible
for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.
«We're always using the new
techniques from other
fields, and this is a case where the new
technique is developed just
for this.»
NSF provides state - of - the - art imaging tools to academic labs; supports efforts to develop new microscopy
techniques; and funds training
for young scientists and engineers in the
field.
As part of his studies, Mackey has found himself struggling with a question facing the fMRI
field as a whole: when is the
technique ready
for use outside the lab?
Arnd Pralle, a physics researcher at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has developed a
technique for employing magnetic
fields to heat up nanoparticles that have been implanted in neurons.
Well - trod forums have connected her with both «graduate students who have been hammering away at a
technique for a couple of years and know it inside - out» to scientists who are «leaders of their
field, sharing their immense knowledge.»
At a meeting of the Materials Research Society here yesterday, scientists described a pair of
techniques for wiring up nano - sized chips — one that uses electric
fields, the other DNA.
Sally Entrekin and colleagues wanted to flesh out this picture
for the Fayetteville Shale play, an active gas
field in Arkansas where more than 5,000 gas wells were drilled using fracking
techniques between 2004 and 2014.
You can work in your research
field «
for years and no one knows you, and suddenly you win a prize using the same
techniques as [in] other
fields of research and people get interested.»
The concept of synthesizing life has been around
for quite a while in scientific — and science fiction — literature, but only in the past 5 years have rapid advances in DNA synthesis
techniques allowed the
field to crystallize.
In many respects, synthetic biology — a
field that «aims to apply standardized engineering
techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission
for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.
More broadly, Zweben says the trend toward using «big data»
techniques to fish
for novel correlations and patterns in enormous data sets is driving hiring of computer scientists in many
fields.
One group turned to an electrochemical approach, which can be adapted
for in - the -
field use, but their
technique involved toxic mercury as the electrode.
Since market forces do not drive the search
for new antibiotics, why not try using
techniques from another
field?
If the
technique can be replicated in humans, it would be a significant step forward
for the
field of bacterial cancer therapy.
These doctors assembled care packs
for use in the
field, jammed with supplies and dressings, presaging the modern first - aid kit, and some railway surgeons trained workers in common first - aid
techniques.
For example, in transcranial magnetic stimulation, a magnetic
field is passed over the scalp above this part of the brain; a similar study could explore whether this
technique could be made more effective.
For example, mature fields to be tendered soon have a great approach for Mexican companies, which also use these techniques, since the maximizing of the oil recovery factor is priority.&raq
For example, mature
fields to be tendered soon have a great approach
for Mexican companies, which also use these techniques, since the maximizing of the oil recovery factor is priority.&raq
for Mexican companies, which also use these
techniques, since the maximizing of the oil recovery factor is priority.»
Besides being organized, other critical skills required
for a consultant are the ability to actively listen, being proficient at data collection, developing an arsenal of
techniques and methodologies to analyze situations, and networking with colleagues, clients, and peers within your
field.
A study assessing 13 patients using this improved
technique for visual
field testing has been recently published in the journal Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.
My research focus was in the
field of ion beam analysis (IBA), which is essentially an offshoot of nuclear physics in which accelerator - based
techniques are applied to a large variety of analytical problems, and an opportunity arose
for me to continue my work at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
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.
«Most of the other
techniques used in the petroleum
field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center
for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.
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.
The
technique is relevant
for diverse scientific
fields including investigations into biomolecules and semiconductor materials.
The future is bright
for the
field, Carden believes, and the day will arrive when a patient's own cells will be used with the printing
technique to create new replacement organs.
The
technique may have applications ranging from the detection of bio-magnetic
fields, and characterization of micro-electronics, to searches
for extra-terrestrial civilizations.
«I'm very excited about what this
technique can do
for field workers,» Meagher said.
«Down to the quantum dot: Ultrahigh - resolution 3 - D microscopy
technique for electric
fields.»
A
field worker in a vector control district collects and prepares mosquito samples, which are then sent to a lab
for testing using sophisticated PCR
techniques.
In a study published in Physics Review Letters, and highlighted by APS Physics, ICFO researchers demonstrate a new
technique for the coherent the detection of radio frequency magnetic
fields using an atomic magnetometer.
Second, they use a new
technique developed in the group to allow the coherent detection of an rf
field with a changing frequency - as is used,
for example, in an FM radio broadcast.
LANP researchers and others have spent years developing
techniques to bolster the
field - intensity enhancement of photonic structures
for single - molecule sensing and other applications.
But many in the
field will be waiting
for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the
technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.
He shares, «Our hope is that this paper will now open the doors
for other people in other
fields that previously couldn't use these
techniques to now use them.»
I was working mainly in the
fields of electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry, and the research plan
for my yearlong stay at the training site, drawn up before I left
for Germany, was to extend my use of these
techniques.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a
technique that co-opts an immune system already present in bacteria and archaea to turn off specific genes or sets of genes — creating a powerful tool
for future research on genetics and related
fields.
Within the next one to two years, researchers are interested in exploring the applicability of their newest
technique in a wider variety of environments:
for example, video games other than Atari Bowling and additional simulation environments to better represent the types of agents and environments found when
fielding robots in the real world.
Candidates with a keen perception and passion to establish new
techniques in the
field of rodent transgenesis are encouraged to apply
for this job.