Sentences with phrase «mechanical environment of»

«We know that the mechanical environment of cells is important,» explained Campàs, who holds the UCSB Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Systems Biology and Bioengineering.

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The effect of the environment upon them is also by external, mechanical causes.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

There is the random, that is purposeless, mutation of genes, and there is the mechanical selection among the resulting organisms by the environment.

With animals and men it also depends to a large extent on the experimental situation — the contingencies of the environment — whether their mentalistic or mechanical aspect will dominate.

Data from these studies will provide the controlled mechanical environment for studies of breast cancer mechanobiology.

Conference organizer Anil Agarwal, a mechanical engineer and director of the Center for Science and Environment, praised Norphel's «simple but elegant technology,» and Indian President K. R. Narayanan hailed him as the «invisible rural engineer.»

However, my father's keen interest in machines, mechanical tools, and puzzles of all sorts — and my older siblings» strong interest in books, music, and higher education — maintained an academic type of environment in the household, compared to the other business families in town.

«This discussion isn't taking place with the public,» says Tim Fox, head of the environment and energy division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London.

This report was authored by Genevieve Cullen, vice president, Electric Drive Transportation Association; Alan Epstein, vice president, technology and environment, Pratt & Whitney; paul Genoa, director, policy development, Nuclear Energy Institute; Daniel Ingersoll, program manager, nuclear technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Connie L. Lausten, principal, cLausten LLC; Jeffrey Stein, mechanical engineer, University of Michigan; Amadeu K. Sum, chemical engineer, Colorado School of Mines; Donald Weeks, biochemist, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

«Growing stem cells on synthetic surfaces with different levels of compliance showed that stem cells would become a different cell type depending solely on the mechanical environment they perceive.

If your goal is to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, then maybe you should switch to LEDs now,» said Lixi Liu, first author of the study and a doctoral student at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

This osteocyte lacuno - canalicular network (OLCN) is believed to play important roles in sensing and maintaining the bone's constant internal environment, and for the mechanical properties of bone.

Previous research has already demonstrated that substantial quantities of self - motile or active agents such as bacteria in a fluid environment can be harnessed to do mechanical work like moving microscopic gears and ratchets.

The demonstration project, called the Stanford Rhinological Virtual Surgical Environment (VSE), uses a haptic interface — mechanical feedback that simulates the sense of touch — developed by SensAble Technologies of Woburn, Massachusetts.

From fish to monkeys, every kind of vertebrate needs to breathe, eat and move in its environment, so a lot can be inferred about these basically mechanical properties from the bony structures preserved in the fossil record.

«This means clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature, like the atmosphere or the ocean, should tend over time to arrange themselves to resonate better and better with the sources of mechanical, electromagnetic or chemical work in their environments,» England explained.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

Mechanical means of transportation might dominate its movement in the environment, such as being attached to sediments.

Of particular interest are changes in mechanical and thermal transport properties with which researchers try to determine the lifetime for safe use of the material in engineering systems within radiation environmentOf particular interest are changes in mechanical and thermal transport properties with which researchers try to determine the lifetime for safe use of the material in engineering systems within radiation environmentof the material in engineering systems within radiation environments.

But it's turned out to be an exciting career transition that has allowed me to make use of my background in mechanical and biomedical engineering in a fast - moving, fun business environment.

«Even mostly surrounded by weak tethers, cells still can sense the mechanical property of their environment at the level of one or two single molecules.»

The silk — produced naturally by the spiders, incorporating graphene and carbon nanotubes (rolled up graphene sheets) introduced in their environment — had enhanced mechanical properties of up to three times the strength and ten times the toughness of the unmodified silks.

To find out, they asked people from a sample of 987 diverse participants recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to think about either the pride they would feel after taking pro-environmental actions or the guilt they would feel for not doing so, just before making a series of decisions related to the environment.

«When cells land on these surfaces, they will sense the mechanical characteristics of the environments and change their properties correspondingly,» Roein - Peikar said.

«We find that cells can sense the mechanical property of their environment at the level of single molecules.»

The discovery of cells» ultra-sensitivity for mechanical property of their environment is crucial to understanding basic physiological processes that underlie embryo development, tumor metastasis, wound healing and many other aspects of human health and disease.

However, not all types of cells in their experiments showed such sensitivity for mechanical environments.

The scientists from PTB have therefore developed a resonator whose frequency is among the most stable worldwide: with a length of 48 cm and ingenious thermal and mechanical isolation from its environment, it reaches a fractional frequency instability of 8 × 10 - 17.

«The μTUM is capable of traversing complex terrains in both dry and wet environments,» said David Cappelleri, an associate professor in Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering and director of Purdue's Multi-Scale Robotics and Automation Lab.

Kamiel and Wei Yang and Yaolin Lin, associate professors at the Wuhan University of Technology in China developed a holistic and integrated model which considered the building enclosure, the mechanical systems, the external environment, the proportion of window opening and the shading factor based on data collected from 270 households including single and multiple units, as well as different heating methods.

The paper is authored by Ryuho Kataoka (National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan and Graduate University for Advanced Studies [Sokendai], Hayama, Japan), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Solar - Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Japan [STEL]-RRB-, Kai Shigematsu (STEL), Donald Hampton (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, USA), Yoshiki Mori (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan), Takayuki Kubo (Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan [DPE]-RRB-, Atsushi Yamashita (DPE), Masayuki Tanaka (Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Toshiyuki Takahei (Orihalcon Technologies, Inc., Japan), Taro Nakai (Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan), Hiroko Miyahara (Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan) and Kazuo Shiokawa (STEL).

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The sensing part, SIS device * which is the heart of the receiver has been developed and fabricated in the ATC clean room environment, while optical parts and their supporting structures to transmit radio waves to the SIS device in the ATC mechanical engineering shop.

As a hydrogen - specific capability in the INL Environmental Effects Laboratory, the suite of capabilities includes controlled exposure to flowing pure hydrogen at varying temperatures and mechanical testing in a vacuum environment.

The ILL neutron scattering facilities provide an indispensable analytical tool for the analysis of the structure of novel conducting and magnetic materials for future electronic devices, the measurement of stresses in mechanical materials, and investigations into how complex molecular assemblies behave, particularly in a biological environment.

«Imagine that the tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide energy storage for the renewable energy grid of the future, instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,» said Cary Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.

For mechanical and physical approaches to offer viable therapeutic options, a number of challenges relating to both cell membranes and the intracellular environment must be overcome in addition to the technique - specific refinements mentioned above.

The mechanical properties of tumors and the tumor environment provide important information for the progression and characterization of cancer.

You can actually build lots of muscle by training in every one of the rep ranges mentioned above, that is, if you put enough mechanical stress on your muscles, use gradual progressive overload in small weight increments, have a solid nutrition plan and rest adequately to create the optimal environment for muscle growth.

Marine Collagen, especially fish collagen, is the major component of the extracellular matrix and is useful for mechanical protection of tissues, organism and physiological regulation of a cellular environment.

Dry clean delicate, carefully not to overload in the cleaning process in terms of chemical, mechanical, thermal and carefully not to let the environment wet.

To confuse the gamer, sometimes the environments change (ala Dark City) as the world of Cybertron is a living mechanical entity which makes for some trippy gaming.

The visuals on the other hand, are a mixed bag — due to the nature of the story quite a bit of the game is spent in desolate industrial environments and grim mechanical facilities, but when the vast majority of Sonic games are hyper - colorful romps through technicolor wonderlands I'm willing to give Sonic Team a pass for trying something different.

This issue highlights Competence & Communication to support 21st century education, the grand opening of the Maple Grove Community Gymnasium, Blayne Parkos as ATS&R's Director of Mechanical Engineering, and 5th graders rethinking their learning environment.

«It is evident that by the end of the 19th century, scientists who studied animal behavior in natural environments learned that the mechanical approach could not explain all behavior.

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Although we are very sorry for any of your time lost due to a mechanical failure not caused by your own actions, we must stress that Fraser Island is a remote off road environment.

Destructible environments are a great touch and add to the sense of chaos during large firefights, and nothing says wow like a huge mechanical spider exploding after a few seconds of melting it with your satellite laser.

AIRSCAPE: THE FALL OF GRAVITY Developed by Cross-Product Captured from its undersea home by a mechanical alien race, the player — a «Grimpoteuthis abyssicola» (Dumbo Octopus) must journey through a strange and disorienting environment where gravity follows the contours of the land and blobs of water float suspended in the aiOF GRAVITY Developed by Cross-Product Captured from its undersea home by a mechanical alien race, the player — a «Grimpoteuthis abyssicola» (Dumbo Octopus) must journey through a strange and disorienting environment where gravity follows the contours of the land and blobs of water float suspended in the aiof the land and blobs of water float suspended in the aiof water float suspended in the air.