Sentences with phrase «of structural»

Yesterday was the birthday of Friedrich Kekulé, a German chemist born in 1829 who laid the foundations of structural organic chemistry.

We know that a number of structural changes also occur during this developmental period, and we now can attempt to link those changes to the changes in circuit function.

Nicola G. A. Abrescia, group leader of structural biology at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias, CIC bioGUNE), is funded by Ikerbasque.

After some investigation I found out that the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School) at the University of Pavia, in northern Italy, had the status of a Marie Curie Training Site in civil engineering, more specifically in the field of structural - earthquake engineering.

Because of the lack of structural data for membrane proteins both in the presence and absence of anesthetics, it remains unclear whether anesthetics exert their primary effects by direct interaction with these proteins, or indirectly via interaction with the lipids surrounding them.

«With existing techniques, you can only see the outline of the virus,» said author Thomas D. Grant, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Structural Biology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and the Department of Materials, Design and Innovation in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Hauptman - Woodward Medical Research Institute.

«And the materials retain the low density of the pure semicrystalline polymerso that we can keep the weight of a structural component low, a property that is critical to applications such as cars and planes, where weight is a critical consideration.

Understanding Peripartum Depression Through Neuroimaging: a Review of Structural and Functional Connectivity and Molecular Imaging Research.

«Other types of structural colour — for example butterfly wings or opals — have a specific pattern in their structure which results in vibrant colour, but to produce white, the structure needs to be as random as possible.»

The researchers, led by J.S. Chen, the William Prager Professor of structural engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, presented their findings on the development of this method at the CompIMAGE»14 conference in Pittsburgh this month.

The researchers were «very clever about how they connected this quite complex set of structural elements,» says Michael Haberman, a mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, who wasn't involved in the work.

Millar's group and her clinical collaborators, including Emily Chu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology and John McGrath, MD, from King's College, London, also discovered that cracking and scaling of palm and foot sole skin in WNT10A patients is due to decreased expression of a structural protein called Keratin 9, which is specifically expressed in these regions of skin and contributes to its mechanical integrity.

Recent research led by The University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) suggests they result from the degree of structural ordering in the fluid.

Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the structural integrity of white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.

«White is a very special type of structural colour,» said paper co-author Dr Olimpia Onelli, from Cambridge's Department of Chemistry.

Still, it wasn't until Raoult sought the assistance of Jean - Michel Claverie, a bioinformatics specialist at the Institute of Structural Biology and Microbiology in Marseille, that the true weirdness and wonder of their monster was revealed.

Jeremy Lakey, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at Newcastle University who led the study explains: «Our model of the bacterial outer membrane can be used as a simulator to test how antibiotic molecules can be made to cross this critical barrier.

The report is silent on the total amount of funding required to study the changing Arctic, but it suggests a number of structural changes to funding mechanisms.

The new technique, described in Nature Communications, could produce steel that performs better in a number of structural applications.

Department of Structural Biology, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.

«Our shake table enables researchers to test structural specimens at full - scale for severe earthquake ground motions, which is crucial for making the kinds of structural engineering advances that save lives and enhance the resilience of communities after natural disasters.»

But it is all too common, and causes immense distress, says John Knapton, professor of structural engineering at Newcastle University.

The pace of structural studies in this field is breathtaking, and there is still a lot unknown.»

«It sounds like a fun tool,» says Judith Howard, professor of structural chemistry at the University of Durham.

Introduced in the March 6 Physical Review Letters, the mirror is the latest device constructed from metamaterials — synthetic substances composed of structural elements that manipulate desired wavelengths of light.

Now that the team can generate genetically engineered HAMLET, they can make changes in it, helping them learn the function of its structural parts.

The approach, which was validated in well - known contexts, can now be used for more reliable protein structure predictions as well as to shed light on the functional implications of structural domains.

«Now it is time to start making a serious impact on the field of structural biology of G protein - coupled receptors and other challenging membrane proteins and complexes.

They then roll up the sheet and allow the cells to produce an interpenetrating mixture of structural support proteins, known as collagen and elastin.

McIntosh said, «While biosynthesis of structural materials is relatively well established, harnessing nature to create functional inorganic materials will provide a pathway to a future environmentally friendly biomanufacturing based economy.

Our foot differs from theirs in myriad ways, and its evolution from theirs would consequently have required an extensive series of structural changes.

They conducted lab tests involving large fires and the heating of structural components.

This achievement has been made possible by using high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy, a technique brought to the CNIO thanks to Óscar Llorca, director of the Structural Biology Programme and lead author on the paper published in Nature Communications.

However, they wrote that the recent NAACP travel advisory for the state of Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, reflects the perception that laws, policies, and institutional practices can create cultures of structural racism at the state level.

In the natural world, many of the structural materials (wood, shells, bones, etc.) are hybrid materials made up of simple constituents that are assembled at ambient temperatures and often have remarkable properties.

«The problem of police killings of unarmed black victims should not be viewed merely as a problem of flawed action on the part of individual police officers, but more as a consequence of the broader problem of structural racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

However, they wrote, there are accessible and validated measures of structural racism in the public health and social science literature, such as redlining, sundown towns, and mass incarceration.

They're one of the key ingredients in a new way to craft a spectrum of structural colors — hues created when light interacts with special nanostructures.

Even controlling for rates of arrest, the researchers found a strong association between the racial disparity in unarmed fatal police shootings and a range of structural racism indicators, with residential segregation showing the most pronounced association.

The theory of the structural unity of the Pacific is well established, and, according to it, the Pacific Ocean must be bounded on the south by a coast of the «Pacific type.»

Two unique clinical features of heart failure in children, say the guidelines» authors, are the possible coexistence of structural congenital heart lesions, with simultaneous over-circulation to the lungs, and under - perfusion to the body (when the two circulations are linked in parallel by an intracardiac shunt or a patent arterial duct); and a change in symptom complexes over time from infancy through adolescence.

A slew of structural and molecular changes may have led to these fetuses» demise.

In nature, crystals are never 100 percent perfect, and they have various kinds of structural defects.

Dr. Kasra Momeni, Director of Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Laboratory and faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, elaborates that the presence of structural defects including stacking faults can significantly alter the stress distribution.

Synovitis (inflammation of a membrane that lines the joints) is common and is associated with progression of structural characteristics of knee osteoarthritis.

Researchers at Umeå University show in a new, detailed structural study, published in the journal Nature Communications, how the binding of the signal - sequence triggers a number of structural changes within the SRP particle.

«We could visualize this complex dance between the virus and the antibody and understand exactly how the virus was teaching the antibody to be a broadly neutralizing antibody,» said Peter D. Kwong, Ph.D., chief of the Structural Biology Section at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center.

But that supercharged job market might be unique to Silicon Valley, says Philip Bourne, professor of structural bioinformatics at the University of California, San Diego, and co-founder and editor - in - chief of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

This is caused by a defect in or deficiency of the structural proteins of the skin.

A combination of structural and economic considerations drives the use of three slender blades on most wind turbines — using one or two blades means more complex structural dynamics, and more blades means greater expense for the blades and the blade attachments to the turbine.