Sentences with phrase «sensitive tool»

CT is a highly sensitive tool in determining the cause of the bleeding or discharge from the nose.

Considering these issues, it is important to develop a cultural sensitive tool in measuring the work - family balance for urban Chinese.

Regular studies by federal agencies have been using ever more sensitive tools to seek out first parts per million, then billion, then trillion of substances in our tissues and bodily fluids.

By measuring the displacement, we've built a very sensitive tool for measuring electrical forces.»

The result illustrates that metagenomics is a very sensitive tool and that it might be used to screen novel nanomaterials in the future for their potential environmental impact and so also help in the development of more focused testing, adds Pruden.

Imaging with 18F - fluoride PET is highly sensitive tool but has low specificity for detection of metabolically active benign bone disease, while MR imaging provides excellent soft - tissue contrast and high resolution which helps in specifying a diagnosis.

«It is fundamentally wrong,» warns Selwyn Sharrock, a director of Theta Systems, a company in Oxfordshire that calibrates pressure - sensitive tools.

Sensitive tools.

Using this highly sensitive tool, the scientists found that each person indeed has an individual unique pattern — an olfactory fingerprint.

The eye's tendency to latch onto visual oddities makes it a sensitive tool for picking out the most distinctive aspects of the Martian environment, the sights that stand apart from the terrestrial norm.

The team used electron microscopy and other surface - and bulk - sensitive tools, located in EMSL, to probe the structural evolution of active materials.

Regarding carbon nanostructures, she pioneered Raman spectroscopy as a sensitive tool for the characterization of materials one atomic layer in wall thickness, namely carbon nanotubes and graphene.