Sentences with phrase «of chemical processes involving»

Vanda Glezakou and B. Peter McGrail, PNNL, discuss computational studies of the chemical processes involved in wet supercritical carbon dioxide, which is used in carbon sequestration.

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The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

Of much more importance, by accepting the policy of the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicalOf much more importance, by accepting the policy of the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicalof the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicalof water laced with deadly chemicals.

The fund invests in companies involved in the exploration, production and processing of petroleum, natural gas, coal, alternative energies, chemicals, mining, iron and steel, and paper and forest products, and can invest in any part of the world.

nor does it know how to filter out the amount of chemicals, sugar and refined vegetable oils a highly processed food diet involves.

The process involves injecting large volumes of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

The SGEIS, or Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, is a review of potential regulations for hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to access the gas underneath.

As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Many of these projects involved working closely with engineers, and so we had the idea that we could combine both sciences and develop automated solutions for chemical and environmental processes in the lab.

Studies of embryonic stem cells revealed that NANOG protein levels can be lowered by a chemical process known as methylation, which involves putting a methyl group chemical tag on a protein's messenger RNA (mRNA) precursor.

The algorithm generated a model that makes accurate predictions for the full system of this basic metabolic process to consume glucose, which involves seven chemical species.

Bacterial chemotaxis, the process by which a bacterium changes direction in response to environmental cues, involves a complex array of chemical receptors (red, elongated molecules) and other sensory proteins (blue and green molecules), which work together to process sensory information.

According to scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, many proteins involved in the highly sensitive odor perception of insects emerged rather late in the evolutionary process.

As Manel del Valle, the main author of the study, explains: «The concept of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial neural networks.»

The water process is natural (that is, it does not involve any chemicals), but it is not very specific for caffeine; it removes 94 to 96 percent of the caffeine.

The country's entire supply is produced in one well - guarded and famously secretive facility in Alabama, where truckloads of common table sugar are shipped in weekly, to be modified via a complex chemical process involving chlorine and phosgene gas.

«Evidence from Kipp and co-workers for substantial ongoing change in the chemical environment of the Arctic Ocean emphasizes the need for sustained study of these changes and of the processes involved,» said Bob Anderson, an Ewing - Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the director of the U.S. GEOTRACES Program Office.

This process involves injecting a slurry of water, chemicals and sand into wells at high pressure to fracture the rock and create veins that can carry trapped gas to the well.

Theoretical physicists of Paderborn University could compare these results with quantum chemical computer simulations, thus obtaining information about the defects» positions within the layers and the processes they are involved to decrease the cells» efficiency.

To narrow down the number of chemical compounds that could be potential drug candidates, scientists utilize computer models that can predict how a particular chemical compound might interact with a biological target of interest — for example, a key protein that might be involved with a disease process.

The chemical mechanism, discovered by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, could also broaden our understanding of basic chemical reaction processes involving common helpers, called catalysts, like copper and gold.

Some critics point out that the process of converting bamboo to fabric can take a heavy environmental toll, with the most cost - effective and widespread method involving a harsh chemical - based hydrolysis - alkalization process followed by multi-phase bleaching.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

Synapses operate by means of a chemical called a neurotransmitter that is released from the presynaptic terminal by a process involving the influx of Ca2 +, whose molecular bases our two Lasker Basic Science Prize winners, Richard Scheller and Thomas Sudhof, have pioneered in defining.

These processes are the key to understanding chemical and biochemical reactions, as it is the «redistribution» of electrons that is involved in the formation of new chemical bonds.

As Manel del Valle, the main author of the study, explains to SINC: «The concept of the electronic tongue consists in using a generic array of sensors, in other words with generic response to the various chemical compounds involved, which generate a varied spectrum of information with advanced tools for processing, pattern recognition and even artificial neural networks.»

The process often involves a combination of many methods that exploit differences between various proteins in binding affinity, physico - chemical properties, size and biological activity.

It's really about revolutionising processes which involve chemical transformations of mineral and materials,» Dr McGregor says.

Why It Matters: The traditional view of the mineralization process involves some very slow chemical reactions between carbonic acid and the host reservoir rock that take centuries or even millennia to convert a significant amount of injected carbon dioxide into carbonates.

The freezing process is far too slow to stop such dynamic processes as action potentials and synaptic transmission; short - term memory, however, is suspected to involve chemical modification of the neurons, and long - term memory is believed to involve the growth and modification of neuronal structures, particularly synapses (15).

The laboratory is also using chemical crosslinking - based structural mass spectrometry techniques coupled with molecular modeling to determine structures of large protein complexes and characterize protein conformational changes involved with physiological processes.

Trans fats are a type of artificially produced unsaturated fats also known as hydrogenated fats, created by a chemical process that involves pumping hydrogen molecules into vegetable oils.

Micro-filtration is a natural non-chemical process which employs high tech ceramic filters, unlike ion exchange, which involves the use of chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.

Like all modern vegetable oils, canola oil goes through the process of refining, bleaching and degumming — all of which involve high temperatures or chemicals of questionable safety.

The production of this oil involves no chemicals during extraction or processing so this is also a good one!

It is likely that naturally grown tobacco rolled in untreated paper poses less cancer risk; the chemical production and treatment processes involved in manufacturing a pack of cigarettes are definitely an added cause for concern.

I've also read that the process of making it light tasting often involves a lot of bad chemicals.

While swelling allows important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it's potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs.

Elevated blood sugar attaches to proteins in the body and this process dramatically increases the production of both free radicals and chemicals involved in inflammation.

Finally, we would like to note that caramelization of food (as exemplified by the heating and browing of onions) is not a protein - based chemical reaction but a reaction only involving food sugars and is not the same as the above - described AGE formation and acrylamide formation processes.

I have avoided it based on your research findings, but see some trusted companies defending their use of Canola Oil, stating that it's «high» in monounsaturated fat and that their refining process doesn't involve chemicals.

Organic food is not only free from a lot of processing and chemicals found in non-organic options, like pesticides, but it's sustainable for the Earth (and usually a lot more kind if there are animals involved).

Matthew Murdock (Scott Terra) is the son of a washed - up prize - fighting boxer (David Keith), who one day has an accident on a boat dock involving chemicals, destroying his eyesight, but amplifying his other four senses in the process.

This could involve placing the learner into the middle of a disaster like a chemical spill or the aftermath of a hurricane, or into a more benign environment like a retail store where a person is in the process of shop lifting a smartphone.

The development of tissues involves a lot of chemical processes which, in turn, require tremendous energy in the form of calories.

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Physical, chemical, and biological processes are involved in the interactions among the components of the climate system.»

The next 8 links below provide further documentation and examples of the climate engineering chemical ice nucleation assault (and the processes involved).