Sentences with phrase «on laboratory scale»

For example, they could make it possible to recreate on a laboratory scale states of matter found in the interior of the Sun or in the inner recesses of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.

Such atomic layers are challenging enough to manufacture on a laboratory scale, let alone in industrial mass production.

Not exact matches

In many dark energy models, we would expect to see significant effects on both laboratory and cosmological scales.

Dr Sarri explains: «We thought that the best way to work out how gamma ray bursts are produced would be to mimic them in small - scale reproductions in the laboratory — reproducing a little source of these beams and look at how they evolve when left on their own.

In fact, in the basement of Princeton's sprawling Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Kasdin is already working on a test bed: a meter - wide, 75 - meter - long tube with a camera at one end, a laser at the other and a scaled - down starshade in between.

He and researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)-- which is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and based on Princeton's Forrestal Campus — had an idea for solving this problem by using continental - scale data.

«We have in the Luzon Strait an oceanic laboratory where we can test our theoretical models and simulations to see them play out on a small scale.»

This technique was then implemented on a micron - scale mechanical device in Schwab's low - temperature laboratory at Caltech.

The data indicated that helmet rating scales may be somewhat misleading to parents or schools considering helmet purchases as higher ratings based on laboratory testing did not necessarily correlate to increased protection «on the field» for high school football players.

In the longer view, one of the insights of the book is the impact which Los Alamos had on the build - up of large scale, publicly funded research laboratories in the postwar years.

Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the laboratories and testing pools, past scale models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted on their sides (no photos allowed).

PhysiScore outperformed not only the Apgar scale but also three models that rely on invasive laboratory tests, the team reports online today in Science Translational Medicine.

Gathering and processing data on this scale — data obtained from people who are going about normal daily life rather than being tested in a laboratory — is the true potential of ResearchKit.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working on a small - scale reactor, and Westinghouse has been working on an advanced Generation IV small reactor, the International Reactor Innovative and Secure, which is under review at NRC.

In a research collaboration with Sydney Water, the team has demonstrated the success of the approach in laboratory tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water Filtration Plant in western Sydney, and is working to scale up the new technology.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

By contrast, a proliferation of pilot schemes, such as the Shanghai Free Trade Zone trumpeted as a laboratory for sweeping financial market reforms, could signal a lack of political consensus to roll out the changes on a national scale.

«It's very challenging to go from something that works on the bench to something that works on a large - scale,» comments David E. Chavez, a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the research.

In order to guarantee the compatibility of these tests on a global scale, the laboratories use model species specified by international guidelines, including a species of earthworm.

In a recent publication it was shown that the research on clusters is now also possible with intense XUV pulses obtained in a laboratory - scale environment with a newly developed light source that makes use of the high - order harmonic generation process.

Varadan and researchers in his laboratory have tested the system on a small scale for real - time application.

We need better performing transistors as we continue down - scaling, and transistors based on silicon won't give us improvements anymore,» said Heinz Schmid, a researcher with IBM Research GmbH at Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland and the lead author on the paper.

«On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes,» said Clarence Korendyke, principal investigator for VERIS at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes.»

Through the integration of such large - scale data sets within computational models, his laboratory is unraveling condition - dependent networks of active regulation process and novel principles on the operation of metabolic networks.

SciLifeLab (Science for Life Laboratory) was established in 2010 and is a centre for large - scale biosciences with the focus on health and environmental research.

For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experiments.

«Titan is an especially interesting target for exploration because the organic chemistry now taking place there provides the only planetary - scale laboratory for studying processes that may have been important in the prebiotic terrestrial atmosphere,» the report added, meaning that on Titan is chemistry that could have been similar to what was present on Earth before life arose.

NEWSOME: I don't view the BRAIN Initiative as a big science project on the scale of a national laboratory, for example.

Abstract: Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have devised a clever combination of materials — when used during the thin - film growth process — to reveal that particle atomic layer deposition, or p - ALD, deposits a uniform nanometer - thick shell on core particles regardless of core size, a discovery having significant impacts for many applications since most large scale powder production techniques form powder batches that are made up of a range of particles sizes.

The new technology, known as a gene drive, is genetic engineering on an entirely new scale: It makes it possible not just to modify organisms in the laboratory, but to edit the genes of entire populations in the wild.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Heriot - Watt University in Scotland put the tetrahedral ammonium radical, made from a nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms, on the electronegativity scale.

The Orion experiment which is the first academic experiment on this facility, confirms that these accretion shocks, which could not be studied in laboratory a few years ago at exact scale, can now be produced commonly in laboratory.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

A physicist turned computational scientist, Graber comes to the MDI Biological Laboratory from The Jackson Laboratory, also located in Bar Harbor, where he focused on computational approaches to understanding post-transcriptional gene regulation and interactions, while also working intensively to process, analyze and interpret the genome - scale data sets generated within the Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) cancer study program.

«The proteomics field is now entering a third generation phase where large - scale protein analysis will provide unique quantifiable data on a subcellular level «says one of the participants in the EU funded PROSPECTS project Dr. Emma Lundberg from the Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm.

Before long, Southern Research was testing 1,500 compounds a year, making it one of the first laboratories outside the NIH evaluating AIDS compounds on a major scale.

To understand if leaf uptake of atmospheric mercury is important on the global scale, Martin Jiskra and Jeroen Sonke, from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse laboratory, teamed up with scientists who monitor atmospheric mercury and CO2 levels across our planet.

I sat for hours on the bench beside a sixty - two - year - old jazz pianist as he practiced his scales and played me some of his new compositions, and I observed Roma, the fifty - seven - year - old laboratory scientist in her first year of teaching adolescents in an after - school program.

The foundation finances the Education Innovation Laboratory, run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, which carries out large - scale experiments in schools districts, focused on teacher pay for performance and rewarding students for good test scores and grades.

Commenting on the Schaeffler 4ePerformance, Simon Opel, Director of Special Projects Motorsports, Schaeffler Group said, «For Schaeffler, this vehicle is a test laboratory on wheels thanks to its free scaling options for the drive power.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

What began as a platform to support emerging artists through a means of exhibiting works that encourages intervention, both on a domestic - intimate level and on an urban scale, and exchange between participating artists, organisers and the community where the event takes place, has eleven years later become a massive contemporary art laboratory that triggers endless readings and interrelations.

Early employment at a photo laboratory creating white - to - black test strips on photographic paper instilled in the artist a fascination with the transformative properties of light as registered upon a grey scale.

«The laboratory approach» of the Marina Abramović Studio has the goal of supporting the growth of performance art by promoting the works of emerging artists on an international scale, organizing and collaborating on events using a network of people converging at Location One.

Comprised of found material seen every day on city streets, such as old billboard signs and orange traffic cones, this large - scale speaker sculpture turned the gallery space into a laboratory for art and sound.

So, we proceeded to the laboratory to test whether unpredictable shifts in temperature at daily and monthly time scales could indeed cause an increase in chytrid growth on a model frog species [link].

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

A team from the Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences reports on a pilot - scale biomass - gasification - reforming system with optimized catalyst to produce synthesis gas for liquid... Read more →

On the basis of these estimates, we will perform laboratory experiments using seabed samples to simulate groundwater erosion and weathering [e.g., Morz et al., 2007] and derive geomorphic rate laws for seepage weathering and erosion at the fine scale.

The design of the community is aimed at demonstrating, on a large scale, the practicalities of net zero energy as a living learning laboratory.