Sentences with phrase «laboratory conditions at»

Quantified preparations of Polybacter spp were then cultivated in laboratory conditions at a constant temperature of 6 °C and a constant pressure of 41 atmospheres and an oxygen content of 2.3 % to simulate averaged conditions in the benthic environment (Ragnsdottir 2003).

Typically sprouting will remove somewhere between 20 - 30 % of phytic acid after two or three days for beans, seeds and grains under laboratory conditions at a constant 77 degrees Fahrenheit.

The scientists said they created their mice from the brain cells of rodents that had been kept in laboratory conditions at -20 C.

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William Dudley, President and CEO (Speaker) Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Time: 4:30 PM EDT Subject: The Importance of Financial Conditions in the Conduct of Monetary Policy Event: Financial Literacy Day & Laboratory Dedication Organizers: University of South Florida Sarasota - Manatee and Cumberland Advisors Location: University of South Florida Sarasota - Manatee at the Selby Auditorium 8350 North Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34243

behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Donald Yeomans, who calculates the orbits for near - Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that comets flung out from that belt pummeled our planet shortly after its formation and could have left behind water, possibly creating the conditions that allowed Earth to become a cradle for life.

During the new study the scientists replicated the conditions of a freezing environment in the Permafrost Laboratory at the University of Sussex and monitored the freeze - thaw of six hard and soft limestone blocks during an experiment that simulated 27 years of natural freezing and thawing.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

The team synthesized samples of bridgmanite in the laboratory and subjected them to the high - pressure conditions found at different depths in the mantle.

Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.

We published our findings in a report called «Establishing Adequate Living Conditions for Research Associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory.»

A team of physicists and geochemists at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that instead of just passively observing surface reactions of minerals, they can use X-rays to create the conditions by which reactions happen while simultaneously observing them.

Technologies developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, and Texas A&M University may replace these surveys with microwave sensors that constantly monitor the condition of bridges.

With this tool, a team of physicists and geochemists at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that, instead of just passively observing surface reactions of minerals, they can use X-rays to create the conditions by which reactions happen while simultaneously observing them.

«Of course we learned quite a bit from that technique, but at the same time they were also using completely [artificial conditions],» recalls Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

In thinking about how to restore today's forests to more balanced conditions, the researchers at the tree - ring laboratory favor the standard combination of mechanical thinning and prescribed burning.

MBANs at Home If all goes well, look for MBANs to fall into three categories in the near future — those used to monitor a patient's general health or «wellness,» those measuring the health of the elderly, and those used to monitor patients with long - term medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, says Paolo Bonato, director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School..

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and NASA are using X-rays to explore, via 3 - D visualizations, how the microscopic structures of spacecraft heat shield and parachute materials survive extreme temperatures and pressures, including simulated atmospheric entry conditions on Mars.

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

Researchers simulated the environment found inside these planets by creating shock waves in plastic with an intense optical laser at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray free - electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

To handle such conditions, Ruud Schoonderwoerd and Janet Bruten, both then at Hewlett - Packard's research laboratories in Bristol, England, and Owen Holland, then at the University of the West of England, invented a routing technique in which antlike agents deposit bits of information, or «virtual pheromone,» at the network nodes to reinforce paths through uncongested areas.

«Global change affects so many different environmental aspects, and across such a range of conditions, that it can be difficult to study in the laboratory,» said Erik Sperling, assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, lead author of the study, which was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps.

«There is no doubt in our minds,» Naveen wrote to the DA just days before the statute of limitations expired in late 2011, «that criminal prosecution, against the university and the professor, will be the single most effective deterrent to unsafe laboratory conditions in the future at UCLA, and at other universities.»

Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves — also called as freak waves — can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean.

«It is hoped that future studies distinguishing differences in responsiveness between sexes, age groups or disease conditions could lead to better tailored exercise prescription for health benefits,» said Benjamin F. Miller, Ph.D., study author from the Translational Research on Aging and Chronic Disease Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO..

A previous study by Segev at the laboratory for research of molecular and cellular mechanisms, directed by Prof. Kobi Rosenblum in the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa, found a connection between a genetic condition known to be a risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's and premature aging as manifested in ongoing metabolic stress.

The second type «looked at the variability within laboratory treatments — taking corals into the lab and raising them under constant or variable conditions, then providing them with an additional stress and seeing if the variability they experienced in the lab influences their response to that stress.»

Now research at Pennsylvania State University is putting this trait to practical use: measuring heat flow in large machines under laboratory conditions.

«We have little data on the ocean and ice shelf conditions in this region,» says Fernando Paolo, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Physicists at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP), a joint venture between the Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität Munich (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), have now succeeded in meeting the conditions necessary to achieve this goal.

The images used in this study — relevant to particle - collider nuclear physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron Collider — recreate the conditions of a subatomic particle «soup,» which is a superhot fluid state known as the quark - gluon plasma believed to exist just millionths of a second after the birth of the universe.

Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in St. Petersburg, and colleagues in France and Russia described how the team searched for traces of bacterial DNA in ultraclean laboratory conditions and used four sets of controls to reduce the chance of contamination.

In these conditions, tumor growth drops nearly in half,» explains Cermakian, who is also Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Chronobiology at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, one of the research centres of the CIUSSS de l'Ouest - de - l'Île - de-Montréal.

A laboratory blood test developed at Johns Hopkins for the diagnosis of a rare genetic red blood cell disorder also shows promise in identifying HELLP syndrome, a life - threatening high blood pressure condition affecting 1 percent of all pregnant women that causes hypertension along with end organ damage, researchers report in the May issue of the journal Experimental Hematology.

The panel recommends construction of new facilities including a linear system to simulate tokamak conditions, as well as beefing up an existing neutron irradiation source — possibly one at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

To test this idea, the team used sophisticated tools at Argonne National Laboratory to examine the propagation of seismic waves through samples of iron peroxide that were created under deep - Earth - mimicking pressure and temperature conditions employing a laser - heated diamond anvil cell.

«The one thing that I think that is useful is maybe when people write knockout papers they might describe the housing conditions in more detail,» says Chris Paszty, scientific director at the biotech company Amgen, Inc., headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a mouse model for the study of sickle cell anemia.

In a paper published today in Nature Physics, a research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester provides experimental evidence for superionic conduction in water ice at planetary interior conditions, verifying the 30 - year - old prediction.

When seeds are placed before germination either i) in a vertical position with their embryonic roots pointing down or ii) subjected to microgravity conditions, a peg develops on each side, explains Hideyuki Takahashi, a member of the Space and Adaption Biology Laboratory at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Life Sciences.

Laboratory experiments show that under the conditions prevailing at these vents, ultramafic silicates — rocks rich in iron or magnesium, such as olivine and pyroxene — can react to produce hydrogen in a process commonly referred to as serpentinization.

Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory have also identified two drug candidates for the treatment of chemotherapy - induced peripheral neuropathy, a painful, disabling condition that affects at least 20 million Americans.

For example, geophysicists studying the intense density and pressure at the core of the Earth will be able to use the NIF lasers to create laboratory conditions that produce similar extreme states of matter.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement in 2013.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

«This field site exhibits a typical North Atlantic biofouling community, most notably a population of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), which allowed to compare the findings obtained in the laboratory with observations in real - world conditions,» says Stefan Kolle, a Research Associate in the Aizenberg lab at the Wyss Institute and SEAS who is also a co-first author of the paper.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found the first evidence that, when environmental conditions are right, cells «reprogram» to create faster and more efficient cellular machinery.