Sentences with phrase «researchers mapped areas»

By looking at the dynamics of how the unfolded protein moved in the cell (A), the researchers mapped areas in the cell with different rates of diffusion (B and C).

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Researchers have previously used environmental measures to map areas most at risk of yellow fever outbreaks.

By methodically sampling the area inside and outside this halo — a laborious task of mapping, examining pottery, and digging small test pits — the researchers concluded that Brak covered 320 acres in the period between 3900 and 3400 B.C..

Miracle and Tonko Rajkovaca, a native Bosnian and fellow Cambridge archaeologist, are leading a team of researchers in piecing together a map of who lived in the area, using clues found in the Bosnian landscape including a scattering of stone tools going back some 100,000 years.

In the study, the researchers then used a combination of different techniques to map the connections from the habenula to the frontal area of the brain, and to precisely control the activity of neurons in these regions.

1985 Researchers commissioned jointly by the U.S. Navy and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution set out to find and map two sunken nuclear submarines lost in the same area.

The researchers were particularly interested in emotion - specific brain maps, that is, maps on the localisation of emotions in various areas across the entire brain.

The map can't directly help with the dust controversy — the area of the sky mapped by BICEP2 is masked in the early map because the emission is very weak and researchers are still analyzing it.

Stressed areas propagate the polarized light differently, and by processing the light with techniques similar to those used for medical computerized tomography scans, the researchers were able to map out the different layers of stresses inside the drop.

The researchers produced forest microclimate maps for an area of 16,000 km2 in central Sweden (covering parts of Värmland, Örebro län, Västmanland and Dalarna) with the help of small temperature data loggers, not larger than a finger nail.

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers outline how satellite imagery, geolocation technology, small area surveys, statistical methods and computing power can come together to map high - resolution national population estimates, comparable or exceeding the level of detail of those derived from census material and with the ability to interrogate information down to the local scale.

To arrive at their results, researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison calculated the difference in size of urban areas, from 2000 to 2010, by closely scrutinizing maps of urban extent and urban expansion developed from MODIS 250m satellite data.

NIRSIT allows the researchers to monitor the subject's brain activation changes and analyze the results in an intuitive way, using both the 3D brain mapping images as well as the oxy - deoxy graphs covering the prefrontal area of the brain.

For the new study, researchers looked at the brain's structural connectome, a map of white matter tracts that carry signals between different areas of the brain.

Numerous bathymetric maps, sediment cores and seismic surveys already exist in the Nyegga area, which the researchers used as a basis for the new study.

Using previously documented information about soil distribution, the researchers were able to map potential areas where belowground ecosystems are more likely to be vulnerable to deforestation.

According to the researcher, the approach currently used to analyse seismic risk is not fully correct and, in fact, there are many risk maps which are downright incorrect, «which is what happened with the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, where the area contained an under - dimensioned risk.»

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

Using maps dating as far back as 1833, the researchers modeled the urban sprawl process as Groane developed from agricultural land into a residential and industrial area, and then into a postindustrial suburb of the Milanese metropolis.

By developing this method, the international team of researchers has been able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability across the world.

In the study now published in the scientific journal Nature the researchers have compared the genomes in a large number of dogs and wolves, and mapped areas of the genome that show clear differentiation between the two groups.

February 11, 2011 Research funding to accelerate South Side health and wellness community - mapping project The University of Chicago Medical Center announced $ 500,000 in new public and private - sector support that will help researchers, in partnership with South Side residents, take the next steps in a groundbreaking effort to compile and publish maps of all of the area's health, wellness and commercial resources.

Focusing on these initial Factors, the LPS researcher uses the Digital Promise Research Map and other research databases (e.g. Google Scholar, ERIC) to find journals and studies that examine the relationship between one or more Factors and student outcomes in the content area (e.g. the relationship between working memory and K - 3 Reading).

Area hazard maps that predict flood risk, such as those used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, need to account for both sinking land and rising seas, the researchers suggested.

According to the the new map, the researchers found that the alpine regions worldwide, tropical rainforests, parts of the boreal forest belt and areas in the Arctic tundra are ecologically sensitive regions with heightened responses to climate change.

Having created a partial map 3 years ago, the researchers, known collectively as the Greater Angkor Project, released an updated one on Monday that contained an additional 386 square miles of urban area, 74 temples and more than 1,000 newly observed artificial ponds.

But even more astonishing, when compared to similar mapping research conducted in the 1990s, the researchers found that an estimated 3.3 million km2 — almost 10 percent — of wilderness area has been lost in the decades since.