Sentences with phrase «for wide range of»

This feature can be controlled for a wide range of uses, such as in optical discs, computer memories and displays, as well as artificial muscles and drug delivery systems.

We built MusicNet to give researchers a large labelled dataset to automatically learn more expressive audio features, which show potential to radically change the state - of - the - art for a wide range of music analysis tasks,» said Zaid Harchaoui, a UW assistant professor of statistics.

Chair of Trustees, Harry Cotterell OBE, said: «These are exciting results and support our hope that immunotherapy will in future become a generally accepted treatment for a wide range of cancers, improving both survival rates and quality of life.»

Researchers say the diamond probes could be used for a wide range of applications, but Jaque suspects they'll be most useful for observing the nanoscopic world, in particular the minute temperature fluctuations in living cells.

The technique, published in Nature Communications, could be developed for a wide range of applications — for example, a sonic production line could transport delicate objects and assemble them, all without physical contact.

Animals need these as essential nutrients for a wide range of basic bodily chores, such as gene regulation, cell signaling and amino acid breakdown.

What the modeling really made clear, said Meena Palaniappan, author of the report and director of the Pacific Institute's International Water and Communities Initiative, was that Indore needs to prepare for a wide range of water threats.

For over 50 years, chemists have developed metal - based dye molecules for a wide range of different applications, such as displays and solar cells.

For a wide range of activities — from office lighting to loft insulation, vehicle engines to refrigeration — existing products or available technologies can bring benefits on this scale.

«Our inkjet printing demonstration makes possible for the first time the scalable mass fabrication of black phosphorus based photonic and optoelectronic devices with long - term stability necessary for a wide range of industrial applications,» tells Professor Zhipei Sun at Aalto University in Finland.

A new and stable phase of gold with different physical and optical properties from those of conventional gold has been synthesized by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) researchers [1], Singapore, and promises to be useful for a wide range of applications, including plasmonics and catalysis.

James D. R. Buchanan and his colleagues at Imperial College London report today in the journal Nature on the potential for this characteristic to «provide strong, in - built, hidden security for a wide range of paper, plastic or cardboard objects.»

Stress is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome.

Dubbed as the material of the future, graphene exhibits unique electronic properties that can potentially be employed for a wide range of applications such as touch screens, conductive inks and fast - charging batteries.

In the new study, neurobiologists Maribel Franco and Efthimios Skoulakis at the Alexander Fleming institute in Athens and biophysicist Luca Turin and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tested whether these vibrations could account for our wide range of smell.

By monitoring the motion of the nanoparticle over time, the scientists determined the rate at which the nanoparticle hops between the wells for a wide range of frictions, which can be accurately tuned by adjusting the pressure of the gas around the nanoparticle.

They also discovered just how their catalyst works, knowledge that could be used to design more efficient catalysts for a wide range of applications.

They are studying graphene for a wide range of applications, from computer chips to communication devices to touch screens.

Essentially, in exchange for a DNA sample and a fee ranging from $ 399 to $ 2,500, clients receive a profile summarizing their risk for a wide range of illnesses and conditions, from back pain to breast cancer.

In addition, we sought to identify modifiable predictors of CRC screening in non-African American and African American veterans by using a conceptual framework accounting for a wide range of clinical and demographic characteristics,» said study lead author Fola May, MD, MPhil, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

At ABclonal, we have nearly 100 existing chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)- validated antibodies with a higher specificity than most commercial antibodies, which are used for a wide range of epigenetics studies, from those investigating developmental processes to those researching various diseases.

Cake - cutting is a metaphor for a wide range of real - world problems that involve dividing some continuous object, whether it's cake or, say, a tract of land, among people who value its features differently — one person yearning for chocolate frosting, for example, while another has his eye on the buttercream flowers.

Understanding the true scope of the planet's microbial diversity is of interest to the DOE in order to learn how they can be harnessed for a wide range of energy and environmental challenges.

This discovery lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the role progenitor cells can play in immune system response and could lead to the development of more effective therapies for a wide range of diseases.

Mixing and matching ultrathin compounds — each with unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties — may produce tailored materials optimized for a wide range of functions

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

It will create an open Smart City platform that provides a comprehensive technological basis for a wide range of Smart City applications.

Ultimately, we'd like to have motion estimates on the order of 5 - 10 hertz to accurately capture the dynamic response for a wide range of infrastructure,» says David McCallen, who leads an ECP - supported effort called High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments.

«And it works for a wide range of complex surface geometries and materials.»

However, in reality this synthesis method could be used for a wide range of materials outside the biomedical field.»

Constructed of layers of atomically thin materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), graphene, and boron nitride, the ultra-thin LEDs showing all - electrical single photon generation could be excellent on - chip quantum light sources for a wide range of photonics applications for quantum communications and networks.

«Prescription medicine and therapy are effective for a wide range of psychiatric disorders, thus the need for precise diagnosis is often unnecessary.»

Furthermore, this discovery was made using streptococcal bacteria, which are responsible for a wide range of human illnesses, ranging from sore throat and pink eye to meningitis and bacterial pneumonia.

Sand is mined for a wide range of uses, from making concrete, glass, asphalt and electronics to reclaiming land and aiding in the extraction of fossil fuels.

«The champagne industry could benefit from the results of this paper, which, for the first time, presents a detailed description of jet velocity formed by bursting bubbles for a wide range of physical parameters.»

Russell, her advisor, points out that the advance holds promise for a wide range of different applications including in drug delivery, biosensing, fluidics, photovoltaics, encapsulation and bicontinuous media for energy applications and separations media.

At a minimum, fostering a more diverse workforce in science, technology and health care requires attending to difference, nurturing a sense of belonging for a wide range of individuals and giving someone the responsibility for achieving diversity goals.

By combing through tens of thousands of published judicial opinions with the help of 17 law students and three undergraduates, using search terms such as «brain disorder,» «biological,» and «CT scan,» however, Farahany's team found that use of such evidence is growing for a wide range of violations including robbery, fraud, and drug possession.

Professor Heath said: «Wildlife everywhere capitalizes on waste from human activity, and discarded fish are food for a wide range of seabirds, marine mammals, seabed animals and other fish.

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

In the Science paper, Harutyunyan and her team describe just that: the efficient creation of carbon - carbon bonds with a high chiral selectivity for a wide range of nitrogen - containing heterocyclic molecules.

«Our approach is likely to «revive» genome - wide association studies as a strategy to identify genetic risk factors and to develop novel treatment options for a wide range of diseases, just as people had hoped for when the genetic code was deciphered a decade ago.»

Self - guided online therapy may offer relief for a wide range of disorders.

The patients who had been prescribed opioids before surgery spent an average of an extra half a day in the hospital after their operations, the researchers found — even after they adjusted for a wide range of co-existing factors such as medical conditions and demographic characteristics.

Scientists and entrepreneurs are developing some ingenious processes for turning CO2 emissions into the raw materials for a wide range of products.

In fact, the parietal cortex is critical to auditory and tactile awareness as well as visual concentration, so Lavie's results are likely to have implications for a wide range of activities.

In particular, they measure the «nuclear - to - cytoplasmic - ratio» (NCR): a recognized biological marker for a wide range of cancers.

With our breakthrough platform, we are developing this new class of medicines for a wide range of diseases and conditions, in many cases by addressing currently undruggable targets.

These findings should «be of value for a wide range of research areas, such as the study of nonwetting surfaces by the Leidenfrost effect and nanotextured features, enhanced liquid droplet bouncing, and film boiling of liquid droplets on heated Cassie surfaces,» he added.

The researchers say this advance in nanoscience opens vast opportunities for a wide range of applications that includes catalysis (the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst), energy storage (batteries or supercapacitors), and bio / plasmonic imaging, among others.