Sentences with phrase «of southwest»

For example, the percentage of ANI ancestry ranges from a high of 71 % in the Pathan ethnic group of northern India to a low of 17 % in the Paniya group of southwest India, meaning that the degree of ancient admixture is still measurable and significant in even the most isolated and endogamous ethnic groups.

Holland acknowledges the limitations in the new data set: «These samples are just from one specific area of the southwest U.S.A.» But testing other mantle sources, he adds, is «our next line of work.»

«We can think about follow - up missions across the outer solar system, Mars sample return, even missions to Venus or Mercury,» says planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who was also an independent consultant for SpaceX between 2010 and 2012.

High mortality rate clusters in Appalachia, Oklahoma, parts of the Southwest, and northern California

Devoid of craters, the region must be less than 100 million years old, according to John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute.

Team member Kurt Retherford, also of the Southwest Research Institute, points out that «the plume variability supports a key prediction that we should see this kind of tidal effect if there is a subsurface ocean on Europa.»

Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, is the principal investigator and leads the mission.

«The discovery that water vapour is ejected near the south pole strengthens Europa's position as the top candidate for potential habitability,» said lead author Lorenz Roth of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Cracks in the aluminum skin of an aircraft are commonplace, but the hole that opened up in the cabin of Southwest Airlines Flight 812 last week could, and should, have been prevented

«Overall we're seeing some positive signs, as the ocean returns to a cooler and generally more productive state,» said Toby Garfield, a research scientist and Acting Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

The FWS move was certain to have «a chilling impact» on biomedical research, warned John VandeBerg, the former director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) in San Antonio, Texas, at the time.

«There has always been the odd pellet here and there, but all of a sudden, we were talking in terms of hundreds and hundreds a day,» says George Balazs of the Southwest Fisheries Science Centre in Honolulu.

His colleague Peter Abrahams told the conference that «there are elevated levels of skin and stomach cancers in the mineralised areas of southwest England.

By JAMES PAPIKE and JOHN EICHELBERGEREighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

«We are not saying Enceladus has life, but the discovery does move the moon higher on the list of potentially habitable places in the solar system,» says study coauthor J. Hunter Waite of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«With me being a board member of the Southwest Turfgrass Association, I am closely connected with the industry,» Leinauer said.

«We're at the «man in the moon» stage of viewing Pluto,» said John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, deputy leader of the Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team.

The thumb - sized millipede that crawls around the forest floor of Southwest Virginia's Cumberland Mountains has more color combinations than any other millipede discovered.

That may have been in part because the plumes are intermittent, but also because previous scans were done in visible light, says Lorenz Roth of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

«Imagine being in the most severe thunderstorm you've been in, where it's really dark and ominous - looking,» says team member Scot Rafkin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Planetary scientists Robin Canup and Julien Salmon of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, presented their simulations at a conference late last year.

The civilian scientists who attended, notes astronomer Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute, «went expecting it to be unusual, and we weren't disappointed.»

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, says the mission now is writing the textbook on Pluto.

The research provides insight into the ecological niche that the oversized creature may have filled in the wetlands of southwest China, where it lived.

Laterite rock formations are prominent landscape features in the coastal plains of southwest India.

«If we didn't have Superfund here, then we would look to the Legacy Act,» said Jeff Spoelstra, head of the Kalamazoo River Watershed Council, which coordinates the remediation of that southwest Michigan stream.

asks William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

«This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,» says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Space scientist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says the findings reveal much about the physical evolution of asteroids.

Valley fever, a potentially fatal dust - borne infection caused by a soil - dwelling fungus, has lurked in the deserts of the Southwest United States for hundreds of years, if not longer.

Amalthea probably arose in Jupiter's youth as a solid body near its current orbit, says planetary formation theorist Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Planetary scientist Alan Stern, director of the Southwest Research Institute in

His analysis is based on a computer simulation carried out with Dan Durda of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

So researchers including Eliot Young of the Southwest Research Institute and Daniel Bowman of Sandia National Laboratories are looking for quieter places to position these sensors — in this case tethering them to high - altitude balloons.

Indeed, such pairs are probably a fairly common result of collisions in the Kuiper Belt, notes Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

«People made this assertion for decades,» said Canup, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. «But it doesn't work very well.»

Last week, astronomers Marc Buie of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Eliot Young of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, also found the two tiny moons on Hubble photos made on 14 June 2002.

Planetary scientist Alan Stern, director of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the principal investigator for the mission.

In much of the Southwest, as well as select parts of the Northwest and the central Rocky Mountains, a fundamental ecological shift is taking place with new tree seedlings being outcompeted by grasses and shrubs.

The ponderosa pine is the premier tree of the Southwest.

The ship will collect data near and far from shore in Terrebonne Bay, about 125 kilometers west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi Delta, and Atchafalaya Bay, another 150 kilometers west.

Previous search efforts might have missed the plumes in part because they are intermittent, says Lorenz Roth of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Explore an ancient desert city For 300 years the Chacoan culture of the ancestral Pueblo peoples thrived in the Four Corners region of the Southwest.

Mark Bullock of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is impressed with the results.

That's not the case with the new cluster, reported in the 13 June issue of Nature by planetary scientist David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his colleagues.

«We think that the mean motion resonances are acting like a rut, collecting debris from the accretion epoch of Charon,» says New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who also contributed to the new research.

Using mathematical models of the subtle forces that knock them loose — the tug of passing stars, interstellar gas clouds, and especially the gravitational fields of the galaxy itself — Harold Levison of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, has estimated how many other objects populate the Oort cloud.

The region known as the Lower Pecos is an arid 21,000 - square - mile expanse of southwest Texas and northern Mexico surrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande.