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Characterization of x-ray framing cameras for the National Ignition Facility using single photon pulse height analysis

Smithers» comprehensive analysis segments this industry by flexible substrate; end - use application; geographic and key national markets.

In its analysis of Children's Centres» progress as of September 2005, the National Audit Office found that most families who used them were happy with the quality of services provided, valuing their role as one - stop - shop providers of advice and social networks.

Head Case will provide national stats data, when available, which may be used in the analysis as well.

While giving a detailed analysis of what transpired pertaining to the arms procurement, she said that Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), was part of a committee that deliberated on the use of repatriated funds looted by the late Sani Abacha, and that he requested for the deployment of about $ 322m for the military operations, which she processed after receiving assurances that the money would be well - managed.

A 1980 analysis by Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt concluded that European elections were fought on national issues and used by voters to punish their governments mid-term, making European Parliament elections de facto national elections of second rank.

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's preliminary analysis ranks the twister as an F4, the second - highest rating on the five - point scale used to classify tornadoes.

Using genomic analysis to study cancer in dogs can help develop new therapies for humans with cancer, according to a proof - of - concept study led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

Ice cores from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park and Mount Logan in Canada were used in an analysis of over 1,000 years of history of the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

«Based on our analysis, Medicaid expansion represents a key opportunity to improve the health of millions of uninsured individuals and reduce national costs associated with smoking and excessive alcohol use,» Chang says.

It was based on two national data sets used frequently in analyses of motor vehicle crashes: the Fatality Analysis Reporting System; and the National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 national data sets used frequently in analyses of motor vehicle crashes: the Fatality Analysis Reporting System; and the National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 National Automotive Sampling System's General Estimates System data sets (2006 - 2010).

Now, in a study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have investigated the mystery using protein analysis.

High - energy physicists at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana will use their connection to run data analysis on computers at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, says Larry Rapagnani, an information technologist at Notre Dame.

And a new analysis of the stopped STEP trial, published online Monday in Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually prime the immune system to be infected by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

Using version 5.1 of the Community Atmospheric Model, developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for use by the scientific community, Wehner and his co-authors conducted an analysis for the period 1979 to 2005 at three spatial resolutions: 25 km, 100 km, and 200 km.

Scientists from UCLA and the National Gallery of Art have used a combination of three advanced imaging techniques to produce a highly detailed analysis of a second century Egyptian painting.

Frenk used the analysis to drive national health policy in the Congress of Mexico.

In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report that they were able to more than triple the number of documented facial expressions that researchers can now use for cognitive analysis.

The National Geographic Society's annual Greendex analysis of global consumption habits finds that Americans are least likely of all people to use public transportation — only seven percent make use of transit options for daily commuting.

The analyses were based on data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions in 2001 - 2002 and 2004 - 2005, and responses from 34,639 individuals to questions about cannabis use and smoking status.

A new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark - and wood - boring insects, according to a study by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).

The study published in Environmental Research Letters is the first global - scale analysis with a focus on changes in national diets and their impact on the blue and green water use of food consumption.

By using genetic analysis to assess a subset of historical reintroductions into Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia, they found that orang - utans from a non-native and genetically distinct subspecies were unwittingly released and have since hybridized with the Park's wild population.

«Our review represents the first comprehensive analysis of the effect of using surgical safety checklists on major postoperative complications,» said Brigid Gillespie, Ph.D., R.N., National Health & Medical Research Council and Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Indiana University researchers have been awarded a $ 1.4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a study that will use social network analysis to examine «doctor shopping,» in which patients visit multiple physicians to get prescriptions for controlled substances.

On Monday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released its detailed analysis of energy use in the US during 2009, finding that energy use dropped nearly 5 percent over the last year.

A well - to - wheels analysis of the use of natural gas for passenger vehicles by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has found that, with a high... Read more →

Nanoparticle Size Measurement According to Vince Hackley, research chemist and project leader in the Materials Measurement Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ASTM E2859 provides guidelines for sample preparation, measurement and analysis of results related to the use of atomic force microscopy, or AFM.

The most recent National Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, part of a government analysis published in 2001, used two models to examine climate in the Southeast.

Extensive video analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that the African lungfish can use its thin pelvic limbs to not only lift its body off the bottom surface but also propel itself forward.

A program officer with the Physical Sciences in Oncology program at the National Cancer Institute learned about the results and encouraged Fredberg to do a similar analysis using cancer cells.

They say analysis of the 30 data points is more informative about likely future emissions than national figures in wider use because it allows errors to be tracked more closely.

The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

For example, users will be advised on how to most efficiently use SciLifeLab resources in a coordinated way, such as when the different platforms will be involved and when the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, NBIS, will be needed for analysis or systems support.

PNNL scientists Dr. Mary Lipton and Dr. Michael Wilkins carried out the proteomic analyses of the samples, using capabilities at EMSL, a national user facility located at PNNL.

The Broad Institute and its collaborating institutions have received two major grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) that will support the use of genome sequencing and analysis to identify the genes and genetic variation that underlie both rare and common diseases.

The average Arctic sea ice extent for November 2016 was 750,000 square miles (17.7 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.

The average Arctic sea ice extent for October 2016 was 980,000 square miles (28.5 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.

This was the fifth smallest September extent since records began in 1979, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.

The equipment used to perform the analyses is calibrated to standards traceable to the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and the personnel performing the measurements are skilled in the use of the equipment.

For the association analysis between the added sugar and the risk of CVD mortality, we used NHANES III (1988 - 1994) Linked Mortality Files (n = 11733) that were linked through 2006 with a probabilistic matching algorithm to the National Death Index to determine the mortality status.

If the Department of Education linked the administrative data on debt and repayment used here to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS) survey as well, the analyses above could be extended to a broader and more recent population of students.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

The brief progress report on student performance in those subjects, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is the latest study of scores in the long - term trends analysis that uses National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

According to a recent Education Week analysis of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the shares of 4th - and 8th - grade students using computers for math instruction grew rapidly from 2009 to 2015.

The School Time Analysis Tool (STAT) is a web - based application hosted by the National Center on Time & Learning to assist schools better understand how they are currently using time across a typical week and school year.

Before getting into the nuts and bolts of the analysis, it is important to note that the CRP authors do not offer any rebuttal to the criticisms we made concerning their use of national and state comparisons.

As a first step to find out, use the School Time Analysis Tool from the National Center on Time and Learning.

The level variable is highly correlated with the school quality measure (percent proficient) used in the national analysis, but the correlation between the growth variable and percent proficient is considerably weaker.