Sentences with phrase «for traces of chemicals»

I've no idea what the Devolver thing was, as I was too busy sniffing my empty cup for traces of chemicals.

Medical professionals might also be able to use such a sensor to check a patient's breath for traces of chemicals that indicate liver disease or internal inflammation.

Besides searching for water, geologists will use Webb to study the formation and evolution of global dust storms and cloud systems over dormant volcanoes, and search for traces of chemical changes in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

On Wednesday, Poznikhir alleged that the White Helmets — a Syrian civil defense group — had «staged chemical attacks for the cameras» and that Russian chemical weapons specialists and medical personnel had found no trace of chemical weapons in the affected area.

The embassy say there is no evidence for a chemical attack: «Russian services for chemical and radiological security visited the suspected site of the incident and did not find any traces of chemical substances.

Traces of phthalates, a chemical found in food packaging and equipment, were detected in products of powdered macaroni and cheese mixes, according to a study by the Coalition for Safer Food Processing & Packaging.

We provide an extensive range of chemical analyses on plant, soil and water samples for inorganic nutrients, trace elements and heavy metals.

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 90 percent of Americans have traces of the chemical in their blood streams.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has found traces of chemicals that can pollute waterways in children's clothing and shoes made by luxury brands, challenging the sector's reputation for higher standards than those of mass fashion.

A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 - billion - year - old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron Formation (Canada) as an archive.

And with the right tools, scientists can mine these traces for date details and chemical composition to get a rare snapshot of early Earth.

Affordable gas sensor setup developed by Tohoku University team monitors trace levels of health - indicating chemicals, paving the way for future non-invasive studies.

In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

NIST chemist Tom Bruno, who invented a method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence, uses a portable version of the instrument to sample vapor inside an old paint can.

The most common «smelling» devices are trace detection portals, known as puffers, which work by loosening particles on a passenger's clothing with blasts of air and then analyzing them for traces of explosives or other suspicious chemicals.

One possibility is to sample the sewage of a city and look for chemical traces of the drugs themselves or metabolites created when a drug passes through the human body.

Scientists have, for the first time, traced the nanoparticles taken up from the soil by crop plants and analysed the chemical states of their metallic elements.

Analyzing the chemical composition of those shells «acts like a fingerprinting» for the water's temperature, Hillenbrand said, enabling researchers to trace the intervals when relatively warm water welled up onto the continental shelf.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

«Nighttime chemical evolution of aerosol and trace gases in a power plant plume: Implications for secondary organic nitrate and organosulfate aerosol formation, NO3 radical chemistry, and N2O5 heterogeneous hydrolysis.»

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

In the field of chemical oceanography it has been found impact the speciation of trace metals that are both critical for life at low levels and toxic at higher levels.

Yet, the full star formation and enrichment history of a galaxy can be traced directly only if two key observables can be determined... ▽ More Red giant stars are perhaps the most important type of stars for Galactic and extra-galactic archaeology: they are luminous, occur in all stellar populations, and their surface temperatures allow precise abundance determinations for many different chemical elements.

Yet, the full star formation and enrichment history of a galaxy can be traced directly only if two key observables can be determined for large stellar samples - age and chemical composition.

Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters

Glycan functionalised NPs offer several advantages: (i) their synthesis can be performed under biomimetic conditions resulting later on in nanoparticles without traces of chemicals responsible for adverse cellular responses.

Studies have demonstrated how traces of a specific chemical can linger for years in indoor environments.

Green vegetables are important sources of potent phytochemicals that can have a major impact on your health; they are an excellent choice for those with a yeast infection looking for an instant way of gaining many valuable minerals, trace elements and many other important plant based chemicals not stored in your body.

Different types of rennet [yes, they're also produced in multiple ways, and carry traces of chemicals etc] can be aggravating, so choosing a rennet is really a matter of trial and error, but a friend who always got super sick when eating parmesan [standard for all pastas, creamed potatoes etc] has gone for organic parmesan and introducing it 1 - 2 grated bits at a time, and very slowly, is now up to a small chunk.

According to the Center for Disease Control, we are still carrying in our bloodstream traces of dangerous chemicals that were banned in the Unites States more than 25 years ago.

Over 50 % of protein powders randomly tested off shelves in stores you and I probably shop in contained traces of arsenic, heavy metals, and some of 10,000 chemicals approved by the FDA for use in foods that can cause cancer at worst and prevent the kind of results you want at best.

Iodine is an essential trace mineral needed for the body's production of thyroid hormones, which regulate metabolism — the chemical reactions that occur in every cell in the body and provide energy for life.

DefinitionSamarium — neodymium dating uses the radioactive decay of 147Sm to 143Nd and 146Sm to 142Nd to measure the age of rocks and minerals and to trace and date geochemical processes responsible for the chemical differentiation of the Earth and the terrestrial planets and to the geochemical and cosmochemical communities in the early 1970s, the Sm — Nd radioactive decay systems have grown into essential tools in geochronology and particularly for the Sm - Nd dating of gabbro - and garnet - bearing contact metamorphic / anatectic rocks from Krutfjellet, Nordland, and some geochemical aspects of the intrusives

Vinegar breaks down crystals rust scale and so on - yes... Its very important to flush a radiator every once in awhile - kits are sold at auto parts stores as well as better flushing chemicals and agents for this purpose including one that you hook to a water hose to remove all trace of the distilled water and any deposits which also stay behind.

The Thompson Island Pool, slated for dredging later this spring, is the hottest hot spot, he said, explaining that the pool alone is thought to contribute perhaps 440 pounds of PCB's per year to waters downriver --- a huge amount for a chemical that is a health concern in traces of a few parts per million in fish.

«The chemicals released into streams from valley fills contain a variety of ions and trace metals which are toxic or debilitating for many organisms, which explains why biodiversity is reduced below valley fills,» says co-author Dr. Emily Bernhardt, of Duke University.

Rapid identification of trace gases — offered by IRcell — is critical when working to detect toxic industrial chemicals, disease indicators or when monitoring for the proliferation of nuclear or chemical weapons.

Reintroducing bald eagles to the Channel Islands has had mixed results... an understanding of their diet is critical to successful reintroduction, so we looked for chemical traces of the foods the eagles consumed over many millennia.

Flossing with PFCs leaves traces of the chemicals behind in your mouth, where they can get absorbed into your body, particularly if you're doing it once or twice a day for many years.

One product he recommends has an elongated spout - type applicator that gets right into the pile of the carpet (or other nooks and crannies), bringing the chemical right where it's needed, and can be used with a special black light that exposes all traces of urine, for thorough cleanup.