Sentences with phrase «nuclear regions of»

We present the first results of project SUNBIRD (Supernovae UNmasked By InfraRed Detection), where we aim to uncover CCSNe that otherwise would remain hidden in the complex nuclear regions of LIRGs, and in this way improve the constraints on the fraction that is missed by optical seeing - limited surveys.
According to Kool the results coming from SUNBIRD reveal that their new approach provides a powerful tool for uncovering core - collapse supernova in nuclear regions of galaxies.
Remarkably, these supernovae were spotted as close as 600 light years from the bright nuclear regions of these galaxies — despite being at least 150 million light years from the Earth.
Right inset: e-MERLIN maps of the nuclear region of NGC 5195 at 1.4 GHz (left) and 5 GHz (right).
The nuclear region of M87 is known as an «active galactic nucleus» due to its brightness in visible, x-ray, radio, and other wavelengths of light.

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Those regions are home to a majority of the nuclear reactors now expected to go offline.
But if Iran were to continue to enrich uranium in secret and develop a nuclear weapon, it would change the balance of power in the region.
The «routine» drills closely follow North Korea's sixth nuclear test last week, and comes amid talk between South Korea and the United States of deploying aircraft carriers and strategic bombers to the troubled region.
There is the situation in Syria, there is security in the entire region and I think, in any case, we share a common goal of avoiding an escalation and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region.
Tensions in the region have been high since January when North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and then followed that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, a war with North Korea is the markets» biggest geopolitical black swan, because it would likely be cataclysmic, with hundreds of thousands dead, the world's fifth - largest metro area, Seoul, suffering massive destruction, and perhaps even nuclear or chemical weapons unleashed on Japan or U.S. bases in the region.
Or they could devise new sanctions legislation from scratch technically designed to penalize Iran for activities that aren't related to its nuclear activities, like its backing of terrorist networks in the region.
True, the security implications of a nuclear armed North Korea provide a rationale for US military involvement in the region, in particular missile defence, which runs counter to China's interests.
Russia — the only potentially hostile major power in the UK's region — continues to deploy thousands of nuclear warheads, and has just launched a new class of ballistic missile submarine.
«On the issue of supporting the state of Israel, while I am certain both Grace Meng and Elizabeth Crowley do support Israel, I have found Rory Lancman's knowledge and insights to be superior on what has to be done on the part of the United States to provide our ally Israel with security against its many enemies in the Mideast region and protect it from the existential nuclear threats of Iran,» he wrote.
When we face a new threat to our country from terrorist organisations, destabilised regions of the world or cyber attacks, is a nuclear deterrent designed for the Cold War era still relevant?
The issue that should be seriously talked about is whether Israel's survival is dependent on possession of nukes; and how does this nuclear arsenal create incentives in the middle - east to proliferate nukes throughout the region
So if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons putting them in a position of undeserved authority, then all the Arab countries in the region would recognize this as a direct threat - not simply because Iran would bomb them but because it could help them support their local enemies and put pressure them.
Entergy Corp. on Thursday announced it plans to shut down the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant on Jan. 27, 2017, a move that is expected to result in the loss of about 500 jobs for the central New York region.
Wind and solar energy will become major sources of power in New York — just in time to replace the 30 percent of the region's energy supplied by the Indian Point nuclear plant, which is closing.
A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the region.
For less massive stars like the Sun the process that brings them into existence is quite well understood — as clouds of gas are pulled together under gravity, density and temperature increase, and nuclear fusion begins)-- but for the most massive stars buried in regions like RCW 106 this explanation does not seem to be fully adequate.
In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is giving plant operators in central and eastern parts of the country 18 months to revise their hazard assessments, following a new report reconsidering the risks posed by the region's geological faults.
When Pääbo's team looked at patterns of nuclear genome variation in present - day humans, it identified 12 genome regions where non-Africans exhibited variants that were not seen in Africans and that were thus candidates for being derived from the Neandertals, who lived not in Africa but Eurasia.
«This method has important implications for the way future systematic studies are conducted as it provides researchers with a way to strategically target regions of interest in their study organism, such as single - copy regions of the nuclear genome or portions of organellar genomes, to produce large data sets at low costs,» says Uribe - Convers.
In addition to tapping $ 1.5 billion in core facilities that include the first supercomputer in the region, an industrial - class a nofabrication lab, a top - rated visualization center, and a dozen state - of - the - art nuclear magnetic resonance machines, faculty members will get from $ 400,000 to $ 800,000 apiece per year for 5 years to outfit and staff their labs.
Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border.
One of the most harmful phenomena these investigations have discovered is the drift instability, which leads to small - scale turbulence of the plasma that efficiently transports heat and particles by convection to the outer regions, where they are lost and unable to contribute to nuclear fusion.
This discovery confirms a long - held theory in nuclear physics that there is a region of enhanced stability at the margin of the periodic table.
[1] The nuclear stellar bulge is the compact component in the innermost regions of the Milky Way (and other galaxies) extending to a size of about 400 light - years.
«To accelerate reconstruction and rebuilding of Fukushima as a region, and the lives of locals, the key is to reduce the mid - and long - term risk,» says Satoru Toyomoto, director for international issues at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Nuclear Accident Response Office.
In a place like Paris or the Pacific Northwest, where much of the region's electricity comes from nuclear or hydropower, respectively, the Model S or Roadster can tout itself as a near — zero - emission vehicle.
Contaminated soil in regions surrounding the nuclear power plant must either be removed or the area should be turned into a de facto nuclear «park,» much like Chernobyl's exclusion zone in Ukraine and Belarus or the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado, which is the former home of a nuclear - bomb making facility.
Long - term, but not short - term, alcohol consumption promotes proteasome - mediated degradation of the nuclear histone deacetylases HDAC4 and HDAC5 in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region critical for reward - based memory.
And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.
Part of this effort should focus on events that have the potential to affect large geographic regions and multiple nuclear plants, including earthquakes, tsunamis and other geographically extensive floods, and geomagnetic disturbances.
Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.
The researchers suspect that the presence of orbiting planets may increase convective mixing in the host star, plunging the lithium into its hotter regions where nuclear reactions consume the light element as fuel.
Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.
Such a shortfall is particularly prominent in luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), which have high star formation (and thus CCSN) rates and host bright and crowded nuclear regions, where large extinctions and reduced search detection efficiency likely lead to a significant fraction of CCSNe remaining undiscovered.
When compared to the total sample of LIRG CCSNe discovered in the near - IR and optical, we show that our method is singularly effective in uncovering CCSNe in nuclear regions and we conclude that the majority of CCSNe exploding in LIRGs are not detected as a result of dust obscuration and poor spatial resolution.
A conserved domain of ∼ 300 amino acids that is found in the amino - terminal region of nuclear factor - κB (NF - κB)- family members.
To avoid including reads sequenced from regions of the nuclear genome sharing high similarity with mitochondrial DNA (NUMTs), reads that did not map uniquely to the mitochondrial genome were discarded using SAMtools [32, 33].
Over-activation of the inflammatory protein nuclear factor κB (NF - κB) in the brain region leads to a number of aging - related changes in mice, from cognitive decline to muscle weakness.
Further to my research and clinical activities, as President of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, the peak global Nuclear Medicine organisation, I am engaged in strategic planning for training, health care policy, and advocacy for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine therapy within the US, European, South American, Asia - Oceania, and African regions, and with the IAEA aNuclear Medicine and Biology, the peak global Nuclear Medicine organisation, I am engaged in strategic planning for training, health care policy, and advocacy for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine therapy within the US, European, South American, Asia - Oceania, and African regions, and with the IAEA aNuclear Medicine organisation, I am engaged in strategic planning for training, health care policy, and advocacy for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine therapy within the US, European, South American, Asia - Oceania, and African regions, and with the IAEA anuclear medicine therapy within the US, European, South American, Asia - Oceania, and African regions, and with the IAEA and WHO.
A unique sequence in the N - terminal regulatory region controls the nuclear localization of KLF8 by cooperating with the C - terminal zinc - fingers.
The lead author, Karen Reddy, a postdoctoral fellow in the Singh laboratory, proposes that, such compartmentalization «implies the existence of DNA segments that encode for «nuclear addresses» acting like a nuclear zip code to direct or predispose genes to associate with specific regions within the nucleus.
Here we show variation between incompatible Culex strains in two Wolbachia ankyrin repeat - encoding genes associated with a prophage region, one of which is sex - specifically expressed in some strains, and also a direct effect of the host nuclear genome on CI rescue.
If the first repository sited is done so on grossly inadequate standards, a terrible precedent will have been set for all future repository sites (which may very well be in the West despite the region's comparative lack of nuclear generating capacity).
'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.
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