Sentences with phrase «mirnas as probes»

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

It is therefore legitimate to introject the characters in the Gospel story as probes into one's own self - understanding.

A player and three bettors were charged with fixing games, and more revelations are expected as the probe continues

He's unselfish and has made his teammates better, and while not a physical specimen, Gilgeous - Alexander has a good understanding of on - court angles as he probes defenses.

GOAL: SPURS 3 - 0 REAL MADRID — CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN — 65 mins The pattern of the game was set now, Madrid enjoying the majority of the possession as they probed for an opening but we were so dangerous on the counter-attack, the visitors leaving themselves short at the back.

They can also respond to questions as you probe a child's symptoms.

The city's Board of Elections suspended the top official at its Brooklyn office without pay as they probe the mysterious purge of more than 120,000 Democratic voters from the borough rolls that wreaked havoc on Tuesday presidential primaries.

Much of the drop in campaign cash is due to the wealthiest donors shunning Hizzoner as the probes heated up.

And as the probe has continued, his campaign funds have dried up — he spent more money on legal fees than he raised last year.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has subpoenaed the Weinstein Company as it probes any potential violations of state civil rights law or New York City human rights law in the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against former executive Harvey Weinstein.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

But despite Rechnitz's name cropping up in the arrest of Seabrook as well as the probe into the police department, de Blasio said he was not worried that the scandal could extend further into the city's workforce.

In an interview on Talk 1300's «Live from the State Capitol,» DiNapoli said that federal investigators had been given access to whatever they needed as they probed the alleged bribery scheme involving Navnoor Kang, but his office learned the depth of the issue when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced charges against Kang on Wednesday.

What started out as a probe of Whitewater ended up as a completely unrelated investigation into infidelity.

The Daily News reported on Oct. 3 that Cuomo had urged commissioners not to send a subpoena to the Democratic State Committee, which he has used to raise soft money for advertising campaigns, as they probed other party committees.

Currently, his office is looking into a case related to a top adviser of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as well as a probe into allegations that New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and his allies engaged in a pay - for - play.

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

Similarly, the folks running the Pluto - bound New Horizons mission solicited help from forum members at UnmannedSpaceflight.com (run by the Planetary Society), seeking photo opportunities as the probe flew by Jupiter in 2007.

As the probe nears Pluto, NASA TV will air daily updates from mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, at 11:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT), through July 14.

In particular, radioactive atomic nuclei are synthesized in the hot, innermost regions during the explosion and can thus serve as probes of the unobservable physical processes that initiate the blast.

Thomas Romer and Gordan Ugarkovic, graphic designers who specialize in astronomical images, produced this portrait by merging two Cassini shots taken minutes apart as the probe whizzed past Enceladus on May 18.

Kahlenberg and Wrangham analysed data from 14 years of observation of wild chimps and categorised stick - use into four classes: as probes to investigate holes; as weapons during aggressive displays or attacks; as a prop during solitary play; and, in essence, as dolls.

As the probe whizzes past, paint is already being dabbed, splattered and scumbled.

They are very important in medicine — most medications available now are small molecules — as well as in biology as probes to uncover the inner workings of cells and tissues.

As the probe drew nearer to its home planet, just a sliver of Earth was visible, but the flyby nonetheless revealed striking detail — a swirl of clouds above Antarctica is discernible, as is highly reflective ice near the South Pole.

As the probe magnetic field needs to be in close vicinity to the memory, this technique offers a more secure technology.

Electrons slip or «tunnel» across the gap, and as the probe slides across the surface, the changing current reveals the ridges and valleys of individual atoms.

If a planet is to be used as a probe for Planet X, its orbit must be well determined so that astronomers can pick out small deviations.

In a new study published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chen - Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University reports photo - clickable miRNAs as probes for intracellular target identification of miRNAs.

Simms built a longer 300 - nucleotide mRNA to use as a probe.

So as the probe scans across the surface of a sample the current falls as the surface rises to meet the probe.

With atoms being so well characterized, it is possible to use them as probes — to look for tiny changes in their properties stemming from interactions with other atoms or the environment.

Just as the probe's namesake Rosetta Stone helped archaeologists translate Egyptian hieroglyphs, researchers hope the ambitious mission will help them decipher the early history of our solar system.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), PTO acting deputy commissioner of patents and trademarks Lawrence Goffney said that the office «has decided to allow claims to ESTs based on their utility as probes.»

The study by ALICE takes this research further as it probes the possibility of subtle differences between the way that protons and neutrons bind together in nuclei compared with how their antiparticle counterparts form antinuclei.

And wild the encounter will be, as the probe gathers bits of comet material — the first sample from deep space — and then fires its engine to head back toward Earth.

«Also, are these antibodies producing symptoms in everyone or do they function as a probe of an underlying, perhaps genetic, vulnerability for psychosis?»

«A carbon monoxide molecule adsorbed onto the tip of the AFM «needle» leaves a single oxygen atom as the probe,» Fischer explains.

This acted as a probe, interacting with a wave packet each time its elliptical orbit brought it close to the nucleus.

As well as probing these responses, the experiment examined unconscious negative responses to race.

Electromagnetism strengthens a little bit as you probe to higher and higher energies; to strong force seems to weaken a little bit as you probe to higher and higher energies; gravity seems to strengthen as you probe to higher and higher energies.

The researchers inserted molecules of the amino acid tryptophan into the protein as a probe, and measured how water moved around it.

Just short of physically shaking the system, the group «created a displacement between the atoms and the laser beam,» moving the laser beam from side to side as it probed the cloud of atoms.

But high - flying volcanic debris frustrated space physicists» attempts to use Jupiter's powerful magnetic field as a probe of Io's interior.

«This study is a first step toward using polarization lensing as a probe to measure the mass of neutrinos, using the whole universe as a laboratory,» Feng said.

«We therefore used these as a probe in a competition binding assay and screened approximately 8,200 chemical compounds, including both approved drugs and other known bioactive compounds.»

The problem bedeviling him was how to create an intense beam of microwave energy to use as a probe.

Cassini Probe Spots Weird Waves in Saturn's Rings: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe headed into its final days at the gas giant.

As the probe wandered past Saturn's moons, the findings it sent back to Earth revealed new things about their environments and appearances.

In 2014, the world looked on eagerly as a probe landed on a comet for the first time, as a test flight brought humans one step closer to Mars, and as astronauts tweeted home striking images from space, giving those left behind on Earth the sense that they were along for the ride.