Sentences with phrase «researchers as a signal»

That current is picked up by the researchers as a signal of the type of life they have captured.

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To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.

Understanding these brain wave basics, researchers from New York University found that rhythm serves as a type of «carrier signal» for information, with brain waves actually synchronizing to the tempo of sounds around you, including music.

In one study, researchers watched mothers and infants as they played together, and noted whether or not mothers heeded their babies» signals about being touched.

The Planck data strongly suggest that dust in the Milky Way galaxy might account for the entire signal interpreted as gravitational waves by researchers using BICEP2, the Antarctic telescope responsible for the initial...

The limiting factor has been a type of disturbance that arises when measuring how the wireless signals travel, known by researchers as «pilot contamination.»

At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.

As I spoke with various researchers, I realized that the disagreements signaled newly emerging views of how the brain ages.

Researchers there are examining the role of other signaling factory beyond BMP as well as conducting further studies using human cells and human scar tissue.

When researchers sequenced the sponge's genome in 2010, they found genes that help individual cells cooperate as a group: how to divide, send signals to one another, and distinguish between friends and outsiders.

So the researchers looked for a stronger signal, the wave of time shifts that would sweep across the whole 50,000 - kilometer - wide GPS network if Earth passed through a large domain wall as the galaxy rotates in its cloud of dark matter.

The findings call into question the designation of e-cigarettes as Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and suggest that the recent spike in the popularity of e-cigarettes among this age group doesn't signal a «nicotine epidemic» as feared, conclude the researchers.

«US teens more likely to vape for flavorings than nicotine in e-cigarettes: Recent spike in teen e-cig use doesn't signal «nicotine epidemic», as feared, suggest researchers.»

As the animals learned, the researchers recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in the amygdala, a brain structure that forms memories of fearful experiences.

NOT - SO - CLEAR SKIES The signal that BICEP2 researchers interpreted as gravitational waves may be due to interstellar dust.

This could allow researchers to watch complex processes such as cell signaling in cancerous and noncancerous tissue, according to a study published today in Developmental Cell.

In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers go against conventional wisdom to show that each neuron functions as a collection of excitable elements, where each excitable element is sensitive to the directionality of the origin of the input signal.

The researchers showed that their device can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal's amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.

The researchers were able to model that intuitive distinction as a statistical relationship between a mathematical model of an object's motion and the «noise,» or error, in the visual signal.

The researchers propose that as neurons pass these signals along, they can add tiny advances, some bigger than others.

By looking for signals based on how much DNA mutates over generations, researchers found clues that as much as 10 percent of the human genome may be linked to these recent adaptive genetic changes.

The researchers found that Rh7 could functionally substitute for Rh1 in flies missing Rh1, as measured by electroretinogram, which is an extracellular recording of a neural signal in the fly eye in response to light.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

Researchers used the new therapy to inhibit a pathway in the cancer cells known as mTOR signaling — putting the brakes on this pathway, combined with the current standard therapy, caused more of the cancer cells to die.

Although the researchers did not have Bob and Alice generating random signals as truly secure cryptography requires, they did show that the signal timings and measurements could be performed over such great distances.

Gifts such as Stanley's are an important signal to drug companies, young researchers, and federal funders that it is time to reinvest in psychiatric research, he said.»

The ability to track markers inside and outside a cell simultaneously, and to map them atop images showing the cell's shape, is also helping researchers study the metabolic effects of signaling molecules, such as G - protein - coupled receptors.

But the researchers discovered that when the bacteria glom onto responsive colon cancer cells, the microbes boost a signal sent through a relay chain known as the beta - catenin pathway.

The Planck data strongly suggest that dust in the Milky Way galaxy might account for the entire signal interpreted as gravitational waves by researchers using BICEP2, the Antarctic telescope responsible for the initial discovery, which was announced in March.

To extend their initial findings, the researchers seek to understand the signals that coax these cells to develop, and whether they play roles in other autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes.

Moreover, it suggests that we seem to use specific strategies for making sense of confusing information — the «noise» interfering with the signal conveyed in language, as researchers think of it.

In another test, the researchers looked to see if chemical signals released from the endothelial cells would cause the media layer to relax and constrict, as they do in the human body.

The researchers now want to study whether the signal molecules in higher animals, such as mice, have the same effect.

The researchers found that Takinib inhibits an enzyme called TAK - 1, which serves as a switch controlling cell survival in the TNF - alpha signaling process.

It was originally investigated in 1995 by pharmacologist Franco Borsini and a team of researchers at Boehringer Ingelheim Italia in Milan as an antidepressant because of its ability to regulate neurotransmitters — the brain's chemical - signaling molecules.

The researchers suggest that the reverse signalling etches information into the brains of the rats as part of the learning process.

In a study being published in the journal Neuron, researchers show that the signal molecule TGF - beta acts as a time signal that regulates the nerve stem cells» potential at different stages of the brain's development — knowledge that may be significant for future pharmaceutical development.

Interestingly, by recording the electrical activity in the spinal cords of mice depleted of NPY interneurons, the researchers discovered that the NPY neurons seem to selectively inhibit or gate light touch signals coming from hairy skin, but not the non-hairy (glabrous) skin, such as the skin found on your palm.

UCLA researchers looked at levels of these neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma - aminobutyric acid, known as GABA — in a brain region called the insula, which integrates signals from higher brain regions to regulate emotion, thinking and physical functions such as blood pressure and perspiration.

And although many insect species are too small to be detected in Doppler radar data, researchers are finding new ways to extract the signals of insects and track their migrations as they happen.

It was this calcium signal that researchers identified as the trigger of a genetic programme that controls the production of «memory proteins.»

The organization's researchers wrote algorithms that use signals from the collars to automatically detect when an animal stops moving (indicating it may be dead), slows down (suggesting it may be injured) or heads toward a danger zone, such as an area known for rampant poaching.

The researchers also demonstrated a signal processing technique to reduce environmental magnetic noise, such as from the electrical power grid, which otherwise limits the communications range.

As a step toward that goal, the NIST researchers demonstrated detection of digitally modulated magnetic signals, that is, messages consisting of digital bits 0 and 1, by a magnetic - field sensor that relies on the quantum properties of rubidium atoms.

imagine By Jonah Lehrer Inspiration may seem as if it comes out of nowhere, but researchers have found that certain brain regions signal they have arrived at a eureka moment a full eight seconds before that feeling hits.

The researchers show that, when ethylene is perceived, transcription of certain genes that function as circuit breakers of ethylene signaling occurs, but protein production becomes restricted until ethylene is removed.

The researchers» discovery hinges on a technique developed at Princeton that allows scientists to efficiently analyze thousands of signals Kepler has identified to determine which are most likely to be caused by planets and which are caused by non-planetary objects such as stars.

In addition, the researchers identified 428 candidates as likely «false positives,» or signals generated by something other than a planet.

As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, he investigated the use of small - molecule drugs to manipulate signaling pathways to enable otherwise senescent progenitor cells of the cochlea to divide and form new sensory cells.

When researchers took the gene away, the worms stopped making PRMT - 5; protein arginine methylation decreased; and dopamine signaling declined as a result.