Sentences with phrase «of laboratory methods»

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behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

The church's minister of counseling led the group using a laboratory method.

When they were in the laboratory they were prepared to follow mechanistic methods to the very limit, but outside the laboratory and in other contexts they were eager to speak of mind, spirit, freedom, and God — yet without relating the two areas of concern.

Independent laboratory analysis shows that this new method produces even higher levels of antioxidants than first tested in 2006 by Professor Dia!

Laboratory tests (done on every batch shipped to the US) have continually confirmed that our traditional methods of testing the oil by sight (clarity), smell, and taste result in a very high quality oil.

Our friendly team of technical experts, include 2 master brewers offer services such as site audits and training days which cover beer clarity, yeast managemnt, laboratory methods and quality assurance and control.Our laboratory continually strive to improve performance and develop new products for our exciting industry.

The reliability and stability of these methods were described by Wu et al. 27 Illumina tag sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene V4 - V5 hypervariable region was performed at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, using established methods.28, 29 Details of sequencing methods, quality control and filtering, and statistical modeling are presented in the eAppendix in the Supplement.

Extensive research using improved epidemiologic methods and modern laboratory techniques documents diverse and compelling advantages for infants, mothers, families, and society from breastfeeding and use of human milk for infant feeding.1 These advantages include health, nutritional, immunologic, developmental, psychologic, social, economic, and environmental benefits.

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The following links provide access to general methods of testing used by the Laboratory, submssion guidelines, complaint procedure and the documents necessary for submitting evidence, filing a complaint or submitting a customer satisfaction survey.

He is an expert in the use of systems - based methods to improve patient outcomes, a leading researcher in use of large scale clinical laboratories and electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care, and a nationally recognized thought leader in the very methods needed to transition to the future of lower - cost, more patient - centered, health care for the 21st century.

These methods can expand upon the current toolkit of forensic anthropologists that work in exhumations, both in the field and in their laboratories.

It was while working in the Kent Laboratory building in the 1940s that Prof. Willard Libby and his UChicago associates developed radiocarbon dating — an innovative method to measure the age of organic materials.

Speaking at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris where he is presenting the methods to be adopted, Dr Ken Williford (who is also Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Astrobiogeochemistry Laboratory) said:

Muotri's work is a nice demonstration of the power of mini-brains to help understand the early, cellular features of neurological disorders, says Madeline Lancaster at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, who developed the organoid - growing method Muotri used.

Government inspectors at slaughterhouses would likewise benefit from an immediate on - site detection method, helping them identify carcasses of infected cows faster than current laboratory testing, which takes up to 48 hours to process tissue samples.

«Through the most modern cultivation methods and optimization of systems technology, we have succeeded in manufacturing high - grade natural rubber from dandelions — in the laboratory.

The mechanics of Tomsk State University (TSU) have left their warm laboratories to test their methods in practice.

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively map — «count» — the total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain.

For all laboratory animal experimentation described in the manuscript, the Science Journals require that authors state in the Methods section their adherence to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, or the elaboratory animal experimentation described in the manuscript, the Science Journals require that authors state in the Methods section their adherence to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, or the eLaboratory Animals, or the equivalent.

They treated laboratory pigs with each of the three methods, then after a week grafted the sites with split - thickness grafts much like Nelson's.

Using a method recently developed in Hudson's laboratory, the number of gene repeats can be accurately monitored by measuring the ratio between two genes.

The new method for replicating genetic markers, SNPs via MPS, were found to be successful in identifying the ancestry of a suspect in most tests in the laboratory, which can provide another avenue for testing degraded DNA samples.

The Bureau of Reclamation's Detection Laboratory has released two reports identifying a new sampling method to improve the accuracy of quagga and zebra mussel detection while still at the microscopic larval stage.

But confirming a previously unknown method of cheating — and finding a practical way of detecting it — often requires inspectors to regularly interact with IAEA's research laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria, to test their ideas and improve the inspection process.

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

The Singapore team used leading edge DNA sequencing tools, some of which were developed in - house, including specialised laboratory techniques and computational methods developed at Duke - NUS and GIS to characterise genetic alterations associated with the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver.

Of particular interest to stem cell and regenerative medicine researchers, the finding may lead to laboratory methods to create heart cells that function more like those found in adult hearts.

Researchers in the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore - ETH Centre, a research outpost of ETH Zurich, developed a method to map and quantify how street trees regulate ecosystem services.

The method was developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions.

The researchers were assisted by Kenneth Bruno, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who developed a method essential for the genetic manipulation of A. carbonarius.

says Niranjan Govind, a computational chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who collaborated with the Berkeley Lab team on the development of the method in the NWChem computational chemistry program.

The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion cells, and then using that cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting cells.

His laboratory develops and deploys new biochemical and computational methods in functional genomics, to elucidate the genetic basis of human disease and human physiology, and to create and deploy novel techniques in next - generation sequencing and algorithms for tumor evolution, genome evolution, DNA and RNA modifications, and genome / epigenome engineering.

After observing this natural evolution and once the base guideline had been established, the next challenge to be overcome was to check the viability of the method using spontaneously written documents whose exact age was known, such as diaries, laboratory logs and judicial evidence from judicial processes that had been closed.

Thanks to the development of a simulation model for the breathing process of a person in a dusty work environment, researchers from the J.M Madariaga Official Laboratory (LOM) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have designed a method capable to experimentally determine the efficacy of a series of existing filters and masks in the market.

The method combines two high - tech laboratory techniques and allows the researchers to precisely poke holes on the surface of a single cell with a high - powered «femtosecond» laser and then gently tug a piece of DNA through it using «optical tweezers,» which draw on the electromagnetic field of another laser.

Standard laboratory DNA isolation methods, such as sonication, ribonuclease (RNase) treatment, and ethanol precipitation may reduce the available pool of DNA enough to prevent recovering usable sequences from the oldest samples.

After developing the universal atom counting method at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and cofounding Atom Sciences, he joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in nearby Knoxville, where he helped create a research institute devoted to the extension and worldwide promulgation of atom counting.

The success of the new invention in finding a few atoms among trillions of others began to attract attention, and Hurst's method was soon adopted by laboratories throughout the world to tackle a great variety of practical problems.

However, declining human semen quality remains a controversial issue — many have criticised the variability of the data of the studies on the basis of changes in laboratory methods, training of laboratory personnel and improved quality control over the years.

«We found that commonly applied molecular methods did not give enough resolution to distinguish the dominant symbionts of Gulf corals from those in other parts of the world's oceans,» explains Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Head of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton.

Embryologist Jacques Cohen, who carried out the 1990s procedures and is now laboratory director of the biotech company Reprogenetics in Livingston, New Jersey, was a regulatory adviser on Zhang's study and welcomes the news that the spindle method seems to be effective.

In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methods.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel approach to materials characterization, using Bayesian statistical methods to glean new insights into the structure of materials.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a «one - pot» method for producing advanced biofuels from a slurry of pre-treated plant material.

She and her team dated the site by several methods with several dating laboratories and announced that some of the marks were footprints made by ancient humans.

The idea of the program, which originated with Claudia Koch - Brandt (Mainz) and Joachim Herz and Nancy Street (UT Southwestern), is to give life science graduate students from both institutions the opportunity to work in a foreign laboratory, learn new methods and technical skills, and experience another country with, possibly, a different philosophy of science.