Sentences with phrase «new engineering study»

The seahorse tail is square because this shape is better at resisting damage and at grasping than a circular tail would be, a new engineering study published in the 3 July issue of the journal Science shows.

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Petroleum engineers conduct studies for new oil and gas fields, oversee drilling operations, and sometimes develop production equipment.
It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.
A new study using lab - engineered microtumors allowed doctors to better predict if a cancer drug treatment will work in a patient.
«We the public should feel safe,» said Wesley Cook, a structural engineer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology who authored the 2014 bridge failure study.
«We designed it to eliminate the need for clean - room facilities and trained personnel to fabricate such a device,» said Rahim Esfandyarpour, an electrical engineer who authored a new study on the chip, adding that a single chip can be made in just 20 minutes.
February 2, 2017 By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.
Near Kuala Lumpur the government has built a new International Islamic University, a truly impressive complex with students from all over the Islamic world (many subsidized), sparing no expense to build state - of - the - art programs in areas like electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as in Islamic studies.
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A new study now finds, that backcrossing of the genetically engineered Golden Rice, with the Indian mega rice variety Swarna, leads to morphological changes such as pale green leaves, a reduced plant height and a drastic reduction in yield.
By studying the needs of families with babies and toddlers, they have been able to create carefully engineered, safe, high quality and durable juvenile products that help meet the challenges of new parents during this very happy, yet busy stage of life.
New York uses personal service contracts for numerous areas and Cuomo's cuts will affect technology, engineering, health care, accounting, research, and environmental studies.
The study will compare the engineering, environmental, social, and economic impact of the tunnel to the other options - the community street grid or a new elevated highway to replace the existing viaduct.
At the time, the New York district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a statement: «The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers appreciates Sen. Schumer's continued interest in the South Shore of Staten Island Study and we're working with our partners at the federal, state and local levels to take a look at this issue.»
And that, they say, pales in comparison to the roughly 4,000 deaths that are associated with New York fossil fuel consumption each year, according to a 2012 study from Stanford and Cornell University engineers and scientists.
Also this week, New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said they want the Army Corps of Engineers to fund a new study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake OntarNew York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said they want the Army Corps of Engineers to fund a new study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake Ontarnew study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake Ontario.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-- New York's U.S. senators want the Army Corps of Engineers to fund a new study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake OntarNew York's U.S. senators want the Army Corps of Engineers to fund a new study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake Ontarnew study of what needs to be done to prevent future flood devastation along Lake Ontario.
A woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.
For this study, Yanik's team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids, previously designed by Daniel Anderson, an associate professor of chemical engineering, member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an author of the new paper.
ORLANDO, FLA. — What some people view as a flaw in a new genetic - engineering tool might actually be a safety feature, a study suggests.
Cells engineered to produce insulin under the command of a smartphone helped keep blood sugar levels within normal limits in diabetic mice, a new study reports.
One new twist came in comments regarding the growing numbers of foreign scientists and engineers studying and working in the U.S., which some speakers felt complicates efforts to address domestic workforce diversity.
In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.
Now, a new study shows how porous substances can act as thermoelectric materials — pointing the way for engineering the use of such materials in thermoelectric devices of the future.
Tissue engineering provides a more practical means for researchers to study cell behavior, such as cancer cell resistance to therapy, and test new drugs or combinations of drugs to treat many diseases.
So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.
The new study found that vitamin C activated TET2 function in mice engineered to be deficient in the enzyme.
A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.
In a new study, Colorado State University civil engineer Hussam Mahmoud offers an innovative approach to defining resilience that could help communities better prepare for hazards.
Delivering packages with drones can reduce carbon dioxide emissions in certain circumstances as compared to truck deliveries, a new study from University of Washington transportation engineers finds.
«At the time, I was fascinated with reports about efforts to create new bacteria that could break down compounds or genetic engineering studies to make plants that provide all of the essential nutrients in food and solve malnutrition,» he says.
Many products of nanotechnology, such as computer chips and self - cleaning windows, are no cause for new concern, says mechanical engineer Ann Dowling, who led the study.
However, a new study by VTT and the Finnish Meteorological Institute suggests that the uncertainties associated with climate engineering are too great for it to provide an alternative to the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Her studies on pseudotypes, especially between RNA and DNA viruses, demonstrate the spread of viruses to new host cells and provide important tools for genetic engineering.
Right now, astronauts on board the ISS filter wastewater and then distill it to recover pure water, says Layne Carter, a systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who is in charge of the space station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new study).
But a new study has found that those statistics are wrong and that, under a standard definition of an engineer, the gap disappears.
A new study shows that goat's milk engineered to be more similar to human breast milk reduces the amount of harmful bacteria in piglet guts.
The new research, which studied the immortalization process using genome - engineered cells in culture and also tracked skin cells as they progressed from a mole into a malignant melanoma, suggests that telomerase plays a more complex role in cancer.
Engineers and materials scientists began studying the collapse of New York City's 415 - meter - tall landmarks even before the dust settled.
«These chemicals are just everywhere,» said Keri Hornbuckle, an engineering professor at the University of Iowa and senior author of a new study.
In August, a team of engineers from Newcastle University and Imperial College London published a study of this new application of LSCF (lanthanum - strontium - cobalt — ferric oxide).
Although no U.S. sewage plants have followed suit, the new study adds to a growing push to rethink sewage as a valuable commodity, says Jordan Peccia, a Yale University engineer who was not involved in the work.
Someone with a visa to study engineering at the University of Manchester, for example, will have to apply for a new visa if he or she decides to switch to the University of Birmingham, a process that is likely to be expensive and slow.
Simple engineering analyses that estimate bone strength may yield overly optimistic results, a new study suggests.
In this new Nature study, EVMM was observed again by Tuting, Lugassy, Barnhill, and colleagues in a genetically engineered mouse model.
«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.
In this work, we present a new kind of light source that is more efficient than what's available today in terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the study.
Yuan Chen, a professor of chemical engineering at NTU led the new study, working with Dingshan Yu, Kunli Goh, Hong Wang, Li Wei and Wenchao Jiang at NTU; Qiang Zhang at Tsinghua; and Liming Dai at Case Western Reserve.
A new study finds that gender parity in small group settings helps young women engineers feel more confident as they pursue a challenge.
A new study shows that small groups with gender parity, or even a female majority, can help young female engineers feel less anxious.
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