Sentences with phrase «produce useful systems»

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Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

The human immune system wants to produce antibodies that bind to the glycoprotein to stop infection, but the glycans block immune cells from seeing their targets and developing useful antibodies.

Predicting these systems through computational models based on data is a powerful tool useful for basic research as well as for commercial biotechnology (such as producing nutraceuticals and biopharmaceuticals).

Because the insertion can be placed so that it interrupts a protein's function, the insertion and repair system may be useful for producing certain pharmaceuticals or protein products, such as cancer drugs, in culture, which would otherwise kill the cell.

The metabolic activities performed by these bacteria resemble those of an organ, and these microorganisms perform a host of useful functions, such as training the immune system, attacking foreign invaders (like food poisoning compounds, toxins, etc.), preventing growth of harmful, pathogenic bacteria in your gut, regulating the development of the intestinal lining, producing vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K, and even producing hormones (10).

the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.

Too many tests put our children under a lot of stress, and also stress the education system when the results produced aren't really useful.

In this session, participants will learn about what makes some assessments better than others, why student progress measures are almost entirely useless, why most tests will never produce useful diagnostic information on students, and why most school assessment systems do not do the things they are intended to do.

CEA's voice on the council has resulted in a framework which is consistent with the goal of elevating the teaching profession by holding everyone accountable, while producing a new evaluation system that is fair, valid, reliable, and useful.

«We went ahead, implementing this incredibly expensive and elaborate strategy for changing the education system without creating enough ways to test whether what we are doing is useful or not,» said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and member of the committee that produced the report.

The 7 - inch touchscreen on the dash is large enough and crisp enough to produce a useful display (a rearview camera is standard), and the audio system is easy to control with the command knob on the console between the front seats.

Although it would certainly be useful to know what the underlying climate attractor of the Earth system is, any estimate we produce is subject to error.

«With our innovative toilet system, we can use simpler and cheaper methods of harvesting the useful chemicals and even produce fuel and energy from waste.

It's a parabolic dish and stirling engine system, which concentrates sunlight to produce useful solar power (Wikipedia).

«(I) issue tradeable renewable energy credits for the useful electric and thermal output from a facility that produces the output from biomass, using a system under which --

Non-hydro «renewable» electrical energy is also more expensive to produce from a system viewpoint than most fossil fuel energy; non-hydro «renewable» sources have a much shorter useful life and operate for much less of each year at much less of their rated capacity.

The tool also estimates a payback period for the system it proposes as well as explains any anticipated savings, anticipated incentives, estimated utility payments during the expected lifetime of the solar array and any savings the system should produce during its useful lifetime.

Organizational psychologists carry out research on the organizational structure, motivation and communication system of a firm to obtain data useful in producing a technical report for the establishment.

Some mechanical systems produce useful heat, others generate electricity.