Its incredibly light weight (only three times that of air itself), coupled with its
strong structural properties, affords a host of possibilities for future construction and engineering of airborne vehicles.
What we are trying to do is introduce to biology techniques normally used in chemistry or physics, using inherent chemical or
structural properties of the human stem cells.
[33] Carbon — carbon braking is now used in most top - level motorsport worldwide, reducing unsprung weight, giving better frictional performance and improved
structural properties at high temperatures, compared to cast iron.
«The hypothesis is that inorganic fertilization combined with conservation tillage — strip till, no - till, and others — may improve
soil structural properties relative to conventional tillage systems.»
The resulting materials are lightweight and usually show interesting combinations of strength and toughness, even though these two
key structural properties tend to be mutually exclusive.
They analyzed the chemical and structural characteristics of each amine, and grouped them into families of chemicals with
similar structural properties.
Typically, a laser consists of two mirrors on either side of a gain medium — a material
whose structural properties allow it to amplify light.
The method provided scientists not only with a simple and robust way to
assess structural properties of 2D materials but also with new means for controlling the complex properties of optical radiation at subwavelength scales.
They designed experiments to reduce lignin amounts by nearly two - thirds, and were apparently able to maintain the structural integrity of the plant, so that it maintained the
requisite structural properties, e.g. for growth, development and harvesting.
Also shown are the 5 to 95 % approximate ranges for two estimates from the LGM (dashed, Annan et al., 2005; solid, Schneider von Deimling et al., 2006) which are based on models with
different structural properties.
The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the
incredible structural properties of the spider's silk, but also spider's sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations.
Further development of the artist's work began in 2002: exploiting the iridescent colours and
formal structural properties of pieces of her clothing, she created «The Fabric Drawings,» astonishing works alternating between floral figurative pieces and chromatic abstractions.
These plastic lattice panels have very
weak structural properties but attached together into the molecular spherical shape it becomes a strong structure that can hold it's own weight.
CLT has
unique structural properties that allow architects and designers increased flexibility of design allowing for distinctive and innovative projects.
These maps were created using the lidar technology, allowing researchers to easily identify
various structural properties of forests, evaluate different types of forest management regimes, and monitor compliance of forestry practices with legal restrictions to logging.
He cautions, however, that more research is needed over a wider range of management and climatic conditions, particularly since studies of fertilizers» impacts on
soil structural properties, such as aggregate stability, are currently few.
Keywords: global warming, climate change, greenhouse effect, OLS trends, Hurst exponent, persistence, Brownian motion,
structural properties of time series data, long term memory, rainfall, precipitation, drought, floods, hydrology
Substituting honey for sugar in your recipes is definitely a science, as it has many different chemical and
structural properties than sugar or other sweeteners, like xylitol, erythritol, or coconut palm sugar.
The ultimate goal of research is to develop indicators that can be obtained at national scales and used for pan-European comparison of
structural properties of forests.
The CRaTER observations have validated the models and the ground - based measurements, meaning that lightweight shielding materials could safely be used for long missions, provided
their structural properties can be made adequate to withstand the rigors of spaceflight.
«Physicists determine 3 - D positions of individual atoms for the first time: Finding will help scientists better understand
the structural properties of materials.»
Headed by researcher Natàlia Carulla, currently group leader at IECB, the team at IRB Barcelona and IECB has studied the chemical and
structural properties of beta - amyloid dimers in close collaboration with IRB Barcelona's Mass Spectrometry Facility, managed by Marta Vilaseca.
Thanks to the barrel top's
structural properties, the transfer of the pigment is carried out in the correct orientation to a clearly defined spot of the target protein surface.
In the last decade, graphene has been intensively studied for its unique optical, mechanical, electrical and
structural properties.
But the technique's most valuable application will likely be using sound to probe
the structural properties of objects — studying metal alloys, for instance, by blasting sound at them.
A team from the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attempted to solve this by building a honeycomb scaffold that mimics
the structural properties of heart tissue.
Now, the geomicrobiologists from Tübingen have been able to demonstrate that, by examining the identity and
structural properties of the iron minerals, it is possible to tell that the minerals were deposited by iron - oxidizing microbes and not by oxygen made available by the action of cyanobacteria.
«NMR is a great technique for detecting signals and interpreting
the structural properties of molecules in solution,» said Rienstra, who led the NMR work with graduate students Mary Clay and Tom Anderson.
The gene encoding this channel and
the structural properties of the proton channel were unknown.
The discovery suggests that this level of organisation and genetic control is common to all living cells, from the largest to the smallest, and can be achieved with little more than a handful of DNA binding proteins and
the structural properties of the DNA itself.
«No single model for the formation of these star clusters can currently reproduce the diversity of
structural properties we have observed for old star clusters,» Professor Forbes said.
Starting from the constituent protons and neutrons and the fundamental interactions among them, this method has brought a leap forward (unimaginable until only nine years ago) in the ability to accurately describe reactions between light ions in a thermonuclear environment, as well as
the structural properties of exotic nuclei.
In practise the estimated covariance function of the joint output / input signal obtained by a closed loop experiment will [b] never [/ b] have
the structural properties associated with the feedback system.
Throughout the course of this study, the teams compiled an extensive library of experimental and theoretical data including electronic, magnetic, optical, photoelectrochemical, and
structural properties, which are now used as feedstock in material genome work and near - term development of superior PEC materials through materials - by - design techniques.
«Invasive tree species often show biochemical, physiological, and
structural properties that are different from native species,» says Asner.
Experiments like this should help researchers to customize
the structural properties of catalysts to make them more effective in fostering chemical reactions.
Once the Vanderbilt small molecule library has been screened for potential modulators of the Y4 receptor, I will use the results to design efficient and accurate descriptors that can be used with artificial neural networks to predict activity at the Y4 receptor based on a small molecule's
structural properties.