Sentences with phrase «imaging experiments in»

The composite images in this book are the result of five years of original imaging experiments in close - up nature photography.
To confirm that these differences were driven by the intrinsic value of social praise, we performed a second imaging experiment in which the praise was withheld on a subset of trials.

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Using penumbral imaging to measure micrometer size plasma hot spots in Gbar equation of state experiments on the National Ignition Facility
«This imaging was part of an experiment checking the opacity of the atmosphere at night in Curiosity's location on Mars, where water - ice clouds and hazes develop during this season,» said camera team member Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station.
Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)-- A student experiment provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in Cambridge, which will observe the X-ray spectrum to identify chemical elements on Bennu's surface and their abundances.
In cellular experiments, live cell imaging was used to monitor VP40 localization in human cellIn cellular experiments, live cell imaging was used to monitor VP40 localization in human cellin human cells.
Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.
After starting her doctorate work in neurology in 2003 at the University of British Columbia, Lidstone led a rather odd brain - imaging experiment.
The new study is an example of what happens when epidemiology experiments — studies of patterns in health and disease — crash into studies of brain imaging.
The results provide a strong argument for scientists to pay more attention to who, exactly, they're studying in their brain imaging experiments.
Researchers who located and studied the scarp sites with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on MRO reported the findings today in the journal Science.
Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.
Perin began experimenting with electromechanical imaging in 2001.
Ojha first noticed these puzzling features as a University of Arizona undergraduate student in 2010, using images from the MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).
In earlier experiments, the defects have always rapidly evolved into more complex structures or converted back into crystalline graphene, thus preventing the continuous imaging of their diffusion over long periods of time.
In each experiment, researchers embedded one piece of normal cervical tissue and one piece of cervical lesion from the same person in a cylindrical phantom for simultaneous photoacoustic imaginIn each experiment, researchers embedded one piece of normal cervical tissue and one piece of cervical lesion from the same person in a cylindrical phantom for simultaneous photoacoustic imaginin a cylindrical phantom for simultaneous photoacoustic imaging.
The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.
Published in Nature Photonics, this work might lay a foundation for in vivo experiments that use light in biomedical imaging, optogenetics, tumor treatment, and for recharging implanted medical devices.
Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.
The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.
This approach has never before been considered in brain imaging experiments of music,» notes Scott Grafton.
Then, at Harvard, he conducted experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to search for hard evidence of psi activity in the brain.
Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.
Since his prediction, Alfvén waves have been associated with a variety of sources, including nuclear reactors, the gas cloud that envelops comets, laboratory experiments, medical MRI imaging and in the atmosphere of our nearest star — the Sun.
They performed Micro-beam in - situ stress experiments in the mySpot BESSY facility of HZB, Berlin, Germany and analyzed the local orientation of the mineral nanoparticles using the nano - imaging facility of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.
The researchers used computer models and simulations in tandem with physical experiments and microscopic imaging to reveal how and why the material effectively controls lithium deposition.
The researchers evaluated the effects of the experiment at the beginning and at the end of the exercise, six months later, using two different measurements: cognitive performance tests and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure variations in the volume of gray matter.
All together INRA facilities power up (1) Research in multi-disciplinary domains through academic and industrial collaborations for the development of large animal models, therapeutics or new imaging devices, and (2) Training under several topics (biocontained experiments, introduction of new imaging methods for large animal models etc.), welcoming external teams which do not possess such an instrumental park for Transnational access.
Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.
Detailed biochemical and sophisticated imaging experiments are employed to delineate the molecular signaling cascades that couple receptors to the translational apparatus during long - lasting synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, amygdala, cortex, and striatum, and whether these types of translational control are required for memory formation, social behaviors, and behavioral flexibility.
Tornabene is also actively involved with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (or HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)-- now celebrating its 10th [Earth] year anniversary in orbit.
The Linac Coherent Light Source supplied the team with camera frames each lasting about 150 femtoseconds, about 1,000 times faster than any seen in an X-ray experiment before and rapid enough to allow the imaging of the fastest reactions.
«This imaging was part of an experiment checking the opacity of the atmosphere at night in Curiosity's location on Mars, where water - ice clouds and hazes develop during this season,» Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University and a member of the camera team, said in a statement.
Recently featured in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to measure neural responses triggered by emotionally sensitive images.
Editorial note: Although the research team here is careful and confirms the findings in independent groups and in brain imaging and fear discrimination experiments, this is a preliminary result.
This talk will describe a series of experiments imaging neurons in the brains of live rodents.
By applying biophysical techniques to elucidate the overall shape of ALC1 and combining these approaches with cell - based and live - cell imaging experiments, the authors of the article in Molecular Cell dissect the molecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macro domain.
The group he left at the Lab has continued to work on this kind of imaging after he moved on to his work in Germany, and I think they were stimulated by the drive that Henry brought when he was here — his passion for these kinds of experiments made a lasting mark on those who have continued them in his absence.
Since his departure from the Lab, Chapman has continued with his interest in molecular imaging with FELs and in 2009 led an international collaboration to carry out the first experiments in this area at LCLS, where a global team introduced a new technique now called serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX).
She has remarkable expertise in all aspects of biological imaging, including designing experiments, preparing samples, and processing and analyzing images.
These range from visual stimulation experiments that allow us to tap into the specific sets of retinal ganglion cells that are most vulnerable early in the disease, to the evolution of new imaging techniques, largely thanks to Alf Dubra and Vivek Srinivasan's work in those areas, and the ability to image retinal ganglion cells and their component parts like their axons which degenerate very early in glaucoma.
The impact is thought to have occurred between 2008 and 2014, but NASA's High - Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera revealed in 2016 that two large impact craters were surrounded by up to 30 smaller craters.
Expertise in conducting behavioral neuroscience experiments in rodent models, as well as in vivo imaging and / or optogenetics techniques, is desired.
The Liquid Xenon Gamma - Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon - borne experiment which uses a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) to image gamma - ray emission from cosmic sources in the 0.15 -10 MeV energy band.
Ulvestad was involved in an experiment more than a decade ago in which a NASA communications satellite, TDRSS, was used to test the idea of doing radio astronomical imaging by combining data from space and ground radio telescopes.
By using modern imaging, image analysis and modelling techniques, we will develop an integrated approach to perform experiments in soil physics, bio-chemistry, to reconstruct soil structure in 3D and to model soil processes.
The team used the High - Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to look at the deposits up close in visual wavelengths.
For quantifying the performance of Amrose in deep tissue optical imaging experiments, DT40 cells expressing no FP (control), Amrose v1 and mRaspberry were used.
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In an experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), participants were exposed to acute stress while trying to empathize with another person.
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