Sentences with phrase «of radiation sciences»

«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.

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Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

I could sit here and point out how stupid you are for believing in science, a group of people that once believed the Earth was flat as early as a few hundred years ago, or believed that bleeding someone out was the best way to cure the flu... or as early as the 40's and 50's that it was okay for people to drink water with high levels of radiation because it would give you energy and cure what ails ya.

The Big Bang has been settled science for over 50 years, ever since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Still, the prediction was enough to secure him a prime place in the annals of science, and the quantum particles that stream from the black hole's edge would forever be known as Hawking radiation.

The Moores Cancer Center's Molecular Tumor Board brought together medical, surgical and radiation therapy oncologists, biostatisticians, radiologists, pathologists, clinical geneticists, basic and translational science researchers, and bioinformatics and pathway analysis specialists to discuss the intricacies of tumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard therapies.

In particular, ELETTRA, a third generation synchrotron radiation facility dedicated to many aspects of materials science such as crystallography, spectroscopy, and lithography, has put me in touch with a very broad scientific community and allowed me to find opportunities.

Sulfate particles, on the other hand, reflect solar radiation and act as seeds for cloud droplet formation, cooling the climate as a result,» says Juan Acosta Navarro, PhD student at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University, and co-author of the study.

His colleagues have publicly stated his writing children's books on science had an adverse effect on his scientific reputation, and people could not take him seriously when he and his colleagues proposed that there should be a cosmic background radiation, which we now know to be one of the greatest discoveries of 20th - century physics.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

Echo of the Big Bang Michael D. Lemonick Princeton University Press, $ 24.95 Lemonick, a science writer for Time, traces the creation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which measures microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.

A final - year Italian Ph.D. student in materials surface science, Erik Vesselli describes how the presence of many big institutions in Trieste, in particular the synchrotron radiation facility at ELETTRA, have contributed to offer him a dynamic, international, and creative scientific environment.

Currently a professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, he says it was his job to «examine how radiation in space affects solar cells and semiconductors.»

Ultimately, doctors might be able to reduce a person's risk for cancer by analyzing the levels and types of intestinal bacteria in the body, and then prescribing probiotics to replace or bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties, said Robert Schiestl, professor of pathology, environmental health sciences and radiation oncology at UCLA and the study's senior author.

Astrobiologists, who will be presenting their work at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2013 in London on Monday 9 September, have shown that Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation, as is encountered on the Martian surface.

Although Mycio's account suffers from a shortage of hard science about the effects of radiation on these people, her finely detailed first - person investigation of the ecology of the world's most famous disaster area has a haunting grandeur that should appeal to naturalists and fans of the apocalypse alike.

However, some of these cancers become resistant to the effects of radiation over time, according to Venu Raman, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology and radiological science and of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

While Juno is replete with special radiation - hardened electrical wiring and shielding surrounding its myriad of sensors, the highest profile piece of armor Juno carries is a first - of - its - kind titanium vault, which contains the spacecraft's flight computer and the electronic hearts of many of its science instruments.

Dwight Duston, director of science and technology at the Pentagon's Star Wars office, says the free - electron laser, once trumpeted as a weapon for destroying incoming enemy missiles, could be used to produce a beam of high - quality X-rays that would reduce a woman's exposure to radiation during mammography.

Vinković's model «shows how dust grains propelled by radiation pressure can travel from the disk's hottest regions to its icy outer edges,» says astronomer Dániel Apai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

The general population in northeastern Japan, however, has considerably less access to accurate, non-invasive radiation dose measuring equipment, a troubling situation made more so by Wednesday's announcement by Japan's science ministry that small amounts of cancer - causing radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants outside the 30 - kilometer zone around the plant where the government has advised people to stay indoors.

However, Juno's special orbit allows the radiation dose and the degradation to accumulate slowly, allowing Juno to do a remarkable amount of science for 20 months.

Understanding the processes that control the formation and ultimate loss of such relativistic electrons is a primary science objective of the Van Allen Probes and has important practical applications, because of the enormous amounts of radiation trapped within the two Van Allen radiation belts.

«This study draws attention to the common consensus that the use of low - dose CT scans for image guidance for children is important for quality treatment and to ensure treatment accuracy,» said Stephanie A. Terezakis, MD, co-author of the study and assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore.

As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technology.

Kerie Hammerton of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation argued that ionising radiation can usefully prevent spoilage and food - borne disease, and that many overseas studies suggest there are no safety issues.

But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Alizadeh and assistant professor of radiation oncology Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD, share senior authorship of the study, which will be published Nov. 9 in Science Translational Medicine.

Professor Masanobu Izaki and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have analyzed the structure of a zinc - based buffer layer in a CIGS solar cell at SPring8 (the world's largest third - generation synchrotron radiation facility, located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan).

«This process isn't completely new to space science — electrostatic discharges can occur in any poorly conducting (dielectric) material exposed to intense space radiation, and is actually the leading cause of spacecraft anomalies,» said Timothy Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a co-author of the paper.

To investigate this life - saving stitchwork, Abraham Minsky and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and elsewhere exposed thousands of bugs to high doses of radiation.

After a radiation insult, the DNA initially holds its doughnut shape in each of the four compartments while repairs begin, the team reports in the 10 January issue of Science.

When you consider that during this 10 - year period the number of physical science job openings is projected to be about half the number of physical science degrees granted by U.S. universities, occupations such as radiation therapy (median salary $ 74,980, according to BLS) and nuclear medicine technology (median salary $ 68,560) start to seem attractive.

So he started manually grabbing radiation readings from Japan's sensor network, known as SPEEDI, which is released every 10 minutes by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

This is from the journal Science: Measurements of Energetic Particle Radiation in Transit to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory «These data provide insights into the radiation hazards that would be associated with a human mission to Mars.

A set of references was developed by the IOMP Science Committee covering the medical physics aspect of radiation therapy, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation safety.

The Space Science Laboratory (as part of the wider Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at The University of Sheffield) was recently awarded the STFC grant «Dynamics of key radiation belt emissions» (April 2018 to March 2021) and the successful applicant would have the opportunity to contribute to this active research project (depending on the topic of PhD chosen).

HPCAT was established to advance cutting - edge, multidisciplinary, high - pressure science and technology using synchrotron radiation at Sector 16 of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) of ANL.

Other presentations addressed radiation concepts, radon occurrence and health hazards, risk and probability, the renal toxicity of uranium, ground - water science and water quality, uranium in situ leach mining, elements of the proposed NUAKHP, and requirements for approval of human health studies by the Navajo Nation's Human Research Review Board.

During her time at the Lab, she contributed to numerous programs, both internal and external, and has made fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of radiation detectors, micro-nano fabrication and materials science, opto - electronics and heterojunction transistors.

radiology The science dealing with X-rays and other high - energy radiation, especially the use of such radiation for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Blais is accustomed to covering space in his music by now — his recent piece on cosmic background radiation, to the tune of Circle of Life, lays down the science behind the search for evidence of cosmic inflation and gravitational waves in space's emissions.

Dr. Gregg L. Semenza is a professor of pediatrics, radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences, biological chemistry, medicine, and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chemistry Division, for innovations in synchrotron radiation spectroscopy research in revealing electronic and atomic structure of new materials; and strategic leadership in the field of chemical imaging, 2015

Professor Francis A. Cucinotta joined Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences during fall 2013 and teaches radiation biology, radiation dosimetry, and radiation science within the undergraduate and graduate programs.

«John Ultmann was an early proponent of the multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of lymphoma, which is associated with a tremendous improvement in the curability of the disease,» said Samuel Hellman, MD, the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor in the department of radiation and cellular oncology and former dean of the biological sciences at the University.

Radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences has been and remains a vital part of every advance against cancer.

They got 10 pages in Science, which is a lot, but in it they cover radiation balance, 1D and 3D modelling, climate sensitivity, the main feedbacks (water vapour, lapse rate, clouds, ice - and vegetation albedo); solar and volcanic forcing; the uncertainties of aerosol forcings; and ocean heat uptake.

Using its three main science instruments, Odyssey has mapped the global distribution of many minerals and chemical elements across the Martian surface, found evidence of large amounts of buried water ice near the planet's poles and measured the radiation environment in low Mars orbit, which could help NASA plan out future manned missions to the Red Planet.