One path to finding life on other planets — or moons — involves looking for
signature patterns of amino acids, which are organic molecules that are critical to life on Earth.
A SIGNATURE pattern of brain activity has been found that could help determine whether brain - damaged patients are conscious.
Earlier studies had shown that inheriting two copies of the more common val version leads to a slightly higher risk for schizophrenia and
a signature pattern of midbrain dopamine activity.
Identifying a reliable
signature pattern of altered RS activity for chronic pain could provide strong mechanistic insights and serve as a highly beneficial neuroimaging - based diagnostic tool.
Or does it show
the signature pattern of powerful radio frequency / microwave transmissions interacting with aircraft - dispersed atmospheric aerosols?
Like previous ZenFone devices, you will notice ASUS»
signature pattern of concentric circles above the display, on the bottom chin, and along the power button and volume rocker that are both located on the right side.
Not exact matches
Based on personal testing and research, the Skip Hop Duo
Signature is the best diaper bag for most parents, with a reasonable price tag, loads
of pockets, several stylish
patterns, and easy - to - wipe fabric that can take a beating.
for Herbert ClanceyLike the
signature in maplewood
of sun - splashed rain, this man's bright
pattern must remainbeside the workbench where he stood smoothing the grain.Deprived
of work, he would not rest for....
Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, Updike believes that God's
signature is written on the
patterns of life for the person who will look.
Supporters
of the Park District had filed objections to the petitions, alleging that the 3,800
signatures were tainted by forgeries and a
pattern of fraud.
Thick, plush blankets are their
signature products, with a variety
of elegant
patterns and sizes ranging from 14» x 14» blankies to 29» x 35» receiving blankets.
Here are some really fabulous babywearing options: the Beco Baby Carrier in Sky Temple for $ 125 (a hot soft structured carrier), EllaRoo Ring Sling in Lilac Passion (Lilac is Baby Diva's
signature color), the Bella Hotslings Baby Pouch Sling Carrier for $ 58.99 (one
of my friends swears by these pouch slings), the ZoloWear Ring Sling in Solstice for $ 87.99 (the design prevents red marks on baby's legs and this
pattern is stylish), Sachi Carriers Solarweave or Solarveil Mei Tai (provides sun protection and dries quickly), or the Mamma's Milk Invisibly Adjustable Pouch in Inclination for $ 55 (because I'm a Red Hot Mamma).
The complaint described a
pattern of misconduct, mismanagement and corruption in the governor's
signature economic development program.
This is reflected by a
pattern of widespread distribution
of petition
signatures compared to the other candidates (as well as the numerical lead
of signatures submitted).
[3] This was achieved through the detection
of signatures characteristic
of young stellar populations and with a velocity
pattern consistent with that expected from stars formed at high velocity in the outflow.
Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world antidoping agencies «will look for those
signatures and
patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence
of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.
In fact, the
pattern looked like that
of a protracted hospital outbreak in which patients had been infecting each other over many years, with viruses becoming isolated, building up very different
signatures of mutations, and reinfecting patients via surgical equipment or blood supplies.
The so - called Columbian theory
of syphilis's spread was based on finding skeletal remains bearing the
signature of the disease — thickened leg and arm bones and skull scars — in a suggestive
pattern.
Importantly, these three developmental
signatures were found in distinct genetic clones — cells with identical
patterns of genetic mutations —
of tumor cells.
Researchers from the University
of Georgia compared visual observations
of redhorse fish species in northern Georgia rivers with sound recordings to identify spawning
signatures —
patterns of sound waves related to the disturbance
of gravel as the fish released eggs and milt.
Although a bad outcome was possible without the gene expression
pattern, patients with the genetic
signature were found to survive for less time than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition
of Nature Genetics.
Sure enough, salmon with a certain
pattern of gene expression in their gill tissue were 13.5 times more likely to die than those that didn't carry the «you've not got long to live»
signature, as co-author and University
of British Columbia (U.B.C.) fish physiologist Tony Farrell puts it.
The scientists then subtracted the EEG signals taken in response to a face sequence from those
of a
pattern - only sequence to extract the unique
signature associated with the face stimulus and tracked how this electric signal evolved over time.
Surveillance organizations like the U.S. and world agencies «will look for those
signatures and
patterns that can be tied, with confidence, to the existence
of a foreign gene,» Friedmann says.
The honeycomb
pattern of Webb's mirrors might likewise imprint itself on the stars in the images, like an artist's
signature.
The
patterns, so - called «B - mode polarization,» are the
signature of gravitational waves, or ripples in space - time.
Patterns in the waves, when analyzed as if seen by an accelerating observer, appear to re-create the expected
signature of the effect, researchers report September 7 at arXiv.org.
However, all regions
of the human brain have molecular
signatures very similar to those
of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human
patterns of gene activity that mark the brain's evolution and may contribute to our cognitive abilities, a new Yale - led study has found.
Given a big enough database
of a person's writing style, and algorithms that can accurately find
patterns in it, researchers can compile a style
signature that can be used to check whether a piece
of text was authored by that person.
Based on these
patterns, the researchers were able to accurately predict the neural
signature of formerly untested scents.
Epigenetic
signatures in older cells —
patterns of chemical marks on DNA that dictate what genes are expressed when — were reset to match younger
signatures in the process.
Our next step is to start exploring our dataset in the search
of such
patterns of selection, for new
signatures of gene flow among chimpanzee subspecies.»
These mutations form
patterns - mutational
signatures - that can be detected, and give us clues about the causes
of cancer.
Even before they determine the genetic culprit in a disease, however, scientists can use its SNP
pattern to identify those who have the genetic
signature of risk for that disease.
So the stored
pattern is an average
of all authentic
signatures to date.
When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the
signature brain
patterns seen in others reporting an out -
of - body state.
Wang added, «With this type
of machine learning, we are trying to identify a certain
pattern or correlation
of patterns that is a unique
signature of the equation
of state.»
The research also suggests that people have distinct social «
signatures,» or
patterns of intimacy with others, which they tend to maintain over time.
Schiff's team is now looking at the details
of the shift, seeking
signature patterns that could be detected with EEG.
Can we identify some
signature in the
pattern of collagen that will help us understand which patients are going to do well and which are not?
The
patterns of these polymorphic genes and their expression profiles comprise the molecular
signatures of unique pathophenotypes, offering the promise
of diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic specificity; the definition
of disease becomes «personalized», as does its specific therapeutic targets.
Cyclotron resonance scattering creates telltale
signatures in a star's spectrum
of light and the presence
of these
patterns, called cyclotron lines, can provide information about the strength
of the star's magnetic field — but only if the cause
of the lines, whether it be protons or electrons, is known.
Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO
pattern is simply a product
of natural multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point
of view, for the large - scale polar amplification
signature of anthropogenic surface warming.
The changes in MHW properties (Fig. 1b, e, h, k) also clearly indicate
signatures of a negative PDO
pattern (SST decreases in the central and eastern tropical Pacific and in the eastern extra tropical Pacific Ocean; Supplementary Fig. 2A) and
of a positive AMO
pattern (SST increases in the North Atlantic particularly away from the mid-latitudes; Supplementary Fig. 2B).
The impulses in the RA coincided with individual notes, each lasting just a few hundredths
of a second, while the
signature firing
pattern from the HVc corresponded to a syllable, or group
of notes, lasting in the range
of a quarter
of a second.
A detailed comparison
of gene expression
signatures between ETP ALL tumors and and normal human hematopoietic progenitor cells revealed a somewhat surprising finding: ETP - ALL expression
patterns were less consistent with early T - cell precursors, as might have been expected, but more similar to the expression profile
of normal hematopoietic stem cells and granulocyte macrophage precursors.
Collaborating with the labs
of Salk Professors Joseph Ecker and Alan Saghatelian, the Izpisua Belmonte team performed extensive characterization
of the new cells and found rsPSCs showed distinct molecular and metabolic characteristics as well as novel epigenetic
signatures — that is,
patterns of chemical modifications to DNA that control which genes are turned on or off without changing the DNA sequence.
What we can potentially see is the
signature that they imprint into the
pattern of the microwave background at about 400,000 years after the beginning.
Large - scale localization
of these
signatures via deep sequencing reveals a
pattern within a
pattern: within each DNAase I «peak» (100 to 200 bp) are small «footprints» (6 to 20 bp)
of sequences that were bound by the regulatory protein, and hence protected from cleavage.
We developed several computational and machine learning methods to successfully identify behavioral
patterns or
signatures associated with different classes
of reference drugs, from which to predict the class
of novel compounds (Brunner et al., 2012, Alexandrov et al., 2015), and more recently developed methods to allow us to compare animal models
of AD and its progression, and to identify (in silico) novel compounds from our existing database
of thousands
of novel and reference compounds with the potential to reverse the AD model behavioral profile.