Sentences with phrase «performed with»

Amplification was performed with a thermocycler PTC - 100 (MJ Research Inc., Waltham, MA, USA), starting with 30 s at 94 °C, followed by 30 cycles consisting of denaturation (20 s at 94 °C), annealing (1 min at 55 °C) and extension (10 min at 65 °C) and a final extension at 65 °C for 10 min.

Similar cuts were also performed in rabbit corneas in vivo and compared with cuts performed with mechanical blades.

In a follow up study, Arzy et al. showed that the location and timing of brain activation depended on whether mental imagery is performed with mentally embodied or disembodied self location.

They composed the song, performed it with friends, and made the animation.

At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), research performed with collaborators from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has shown how plasma causes exceptionally strong, microscopic structures known as carbon nanotubes to grow.

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was performed with cDNA prepared from total RNA isolated as described above, using the Roche Universal Probe Library technique (Hoffmann - La Roche, Basel, Switzerland).

Bootscanning analysis was initially performed with all 95 unique, fully - sequenced adenovirus genomes in GenBank (data not shown).

Unlike the SNP - based analysis described above, single - sample genotype calling was performed with no particular ascertainment scheme, and we restricted our analysis to eight canid genomes with coverage ranging from 8 to 24 ×.

Data analysis was performed with Genespring GX v7.3 (Agilent Technologies) and CGH - miner.

These new findings are the result of one of the longest observation campaigns ever performed with Chandra.

Analyses were performed with the use of FSL software, version 4.1.13 Data analysis included standard functional MRI preprocessing steps (functional MRI acquisition and preprocessing are described in the Supplementary Appendix).

The write operation, performed with a laser beam, works by preserving a certain spatial model, a hologram, in the form of atomic excitations.

In the last decade, around 80 different CTA surgeries have been performed with success.

All in vivo experiments, including controls and inocula, were performed with male Tg mice.

But the analysis will also be performed with all data values.

However, «past studies performed with viruses containing higher populations of 7U viruses using other MAbs did not protect [non-human primates] against Ebola - Zaire, whereas studies using different antibodies containing high populations of 8U did.

Younger infants, who have little to no experience with solid food, also showed evidence of a plant - based bias: Six - month - old infants looked longer at in - mouth actions when they were performed with fruits from the artifact, suggesting that this violated their expectations for edibility.

«If our new understanding of this fundamental process can be confirmed by future experiments, it can have significant impact on future experiments that are performed with high X-ray intensities and can lead to novel diagnostic methods of matter.»

Measurements were performed with different microgel barcodes and one in particular focused on specific microRNA targets, demonstrating the specificity of the assay for multiplex measurement conditions.

With the new probe, imaging techniques that previously required bulky table - top instruments can be performed with a handheld device measuring only 8 millimeters in diameter, about the same diameter as a ballpoint pen.

Many diseases can be detected at the surface of tissues, including cancer, while many pre-clinical studies are performed with animal models and engineered three - dimensional tissues that can benefit from being monitored non-destructively.

The trained neural nets performed with 90 % and 96 % accuracy respectively (or 94 % and 99 % if the most challenging specimens were discarded), confirming that deep learning is a useful and important technology for the future analysis of digitized museum collections.

On the contrary, the experiments had been performed with great care by well - respected senior scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Among the Japanese participants, the risk gene variant had a similar frequency in centenarians (46.4 %) and in healthy controls (47.3 %), but it was less frequent than in controls performed with cardiovascular disease (57.2 %).

Conor Purcell from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings.

The experiments were performed with ultra-high quality graphene.

The new portable kit collects trace chemicals while analysis is performed with other instruments such as gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which can also be made portable.

Existing rapid diagnostic tests can help with diagnoses, but these tests require multiple processing steps that still need to be performed with lab equipment in specialized facilities.

Brain MRI exams are often performed with a gadolinium - based contrast medium (Gd - CM).

Finally, surgery — previously performed with a scalpel and now with a laser — removes some of the vibratory tissues from the back of the airway.

The team then compared those numbers with the number of operations actually performed with minimally invasive surgery.

A special visual field test performed with both eyes open is required to assess the driving field of vision.

Specifically, the IOM committee says NIH should support only biomedical research with chimpanzees if it promises to advance public health, can not be done with another research model or ethically performed with humans, and the animals are kept in ecologically appropriate housing or habitats.

The result of this increase is that either a higher resolution image can be obtained over the same time slot or faster examination can be performed with the same resolution as in an ordinary MRI scanner.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

The purpose of the present study, performed with doctoral students Svetlana Dachkovsky of the University of Haifa and Christina Healy of Gallaudet University, was to determine whether the facial intonation of sign language is the same for all sign languages or whether, like spoken languages, intonation takes on different characteristic patterns in each language.

«Normally, a gallbladder removal would be performed with four incisions across the abdomen.

Augmenting and regulating telomerase function will have to be performed with precision, walking a narrow line between cell rejuvenation and a heightened risk for cancer development.

Face recognition can be performed with only 0.62 mW of power consumption, and the chip can show higher performance than the GPU by using more power.

However, shortly before the rover left Earth in 2011, NASA's participating scientist program asked researchers from all over the world to submit new ideas for experiments that could be performed with the MSL's already - designed instruments.

Telesurgery is essentially robotic surgery performed with very long cables — in this case, a sophisticated fiber - optic system specially engineered by France Telecom.

Through a «mapping» performed with magnetic resonance, they identified the affected part and the type and size of the lesion, and analyzed the connectivity between the different areas of the brain.

They then tested for differences in model fits using annual nest count data to see how the model performed with respect to environmental factors.

Like the map view of an Earth imaging program, this image of a brain section takes cues from actual imaging performed with highest - energy X-rays at a synchrotron and turns them into a graphic depiction.

Remote sensing of atmospheric gases — from a satellite, for instance — can be performed with conventional instruments called spectrometers, but while satellite instruments have global coverage, they sample specific regions on Earth infrequently.

When the conversation turned to Youngís famous double slit experiment, performed with a beam so feeble that only one particle passes through the apparatus at a time but acts as if it is going through both slits simultaneously, Hurst mumbled: «I just donít understand that!»

Take for example the perpetual motion monomaniacs such as Yvonne X, whose faith in her eventual discovery of this grail does not preclude dangerous experiments performed with home - made machinery.

Within five years, one in three U.S. surgeries - more than double current levels - is expected to be performed with robotic systems, with surgeons sitting at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms.

The team ran a baseline test to see how the converter performed with a simple control system directing its movements and actions.

«It is worth noting,» says Arbona, «that this work is being performed with woody crops such as citric fruits, which are hard to handle in a laboratory, but have the advantage that the results are easily extrapolated to real life conditions.»