Sentences with phrase «study of the life cycle»

The University of Alaska Fairbanks lent both brain and supercomputing power to a recently published international study of the life cycle of massive under - the - ocean waves called internal waves.

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Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

Rangeland Engineering Company Ltd Technology, Media, Telecommunications Calgary, AB Visit website» A full - service firm, Rangeland supports the entire life cycle of a project, from feasibility studies to

The IDC Study features ten emerging companies that are innovating and excelling with a variety of mobile and wireless technology solutions including: mobile marketing, couponing, analytics, smart grid enablement, TV and video on demand — even for traditional phones, mobile money services, mobile enterprise Apps and product life - cycle management.

They view Scripture study as an act of worship, and center life around a cycle of feasts and celebrations.

The study revealed that packaging disposal represents a fraction of a product's environmental impact across its entire life cycle.

«The association between marital history at midlife (in 1950) and mortality (as of 1991) was studied in a group of intelligent, educated men and women (N = 1,077) who participated in the Terman Life - Cycle Study initiated by Lewis Terman in 1921.

Cycle of «Compulsive Consumerism» Leaves British Family Life in Crisis British parents are trapping their children in a cycle of «compulsive consumerism» by showering them with toys and designer labels instead of spending quality time with them, a Unicef study has fCycle of «Compulsive Consumerism» Leaves British Family Life in Crisis British parents are trapping their children in a cycle of «compulsive consumerism» by showering them with toys and designer labels instead of spending quality time with them, a Unicef study has fcycle of «compulsive consumerism» by showering them with toys and designer labels instead of spending quality time with them, a Unicef study has found.

Studying the life cycle of the butterfly and hatching a few in the classroom is a popular springtime science project in primary schools, but Sandburg School in Wheaton is hoping to keep those butterflies around.

«The children have been studying the life cycles of plants,» Jackson said.

Chu says the study emphasizes that healthy cells need more than functional mitochondria — they need to support a kind of mitochondrial life cycle that involves continuous genesis, repair and recycling.

The scientists studied 24 men and women (11 of whom were in their 20s and 13 of whom were in their 60s) who lived for more than three weeks in an environment with no time cues other than a weak cycle of light and dark that was artificially set at 28 hours and that gave the subjects their signals for bedtime.

Researchers at the University have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of microwave appliances, considering their whole life cycle, from «cradle to grave».

The study used life cycle assessment (LCA) to estimate the impacts of microwave appliances, taking into account their manufacture, use and end - of - life waste management.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Abrams says the system could also help to automate the study of plants» life cycles.

The new study revealed the Ebola VP40 protein assumes different structures to perform multiple roles in the virus's life cycle — membrane trafficking, virus assembly and control of replication.

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.»

An unprecedented study titled, «Lifecycle Assessments of Railway Bridge Transitions Exposed to Extreme Events,» published in Frontiers in Built Environment, benchmarks the costs and carbon emissions for the life cycle of eight mitigation measures and reviews these methods for their effectiveness in three types of extreme environmental conditions.

As some of these ABA transporters are also expressed in plants throughout their life cycle, this research will pave the way for studies that examine other stress - and development - related reactions that require the coordinated short - and long - distance transport of ABA within the plant.

With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.

Harty and colleagues have studied how viruses interact with host proteins with the long - term goal of finding ways to interrupt the virus's life cycle.

The basic lines of his current work are three: in the first place, the study of evolutionary relations within aphids as well as the evolution of their life cycles; in the second place, the molecular bases that control the seasonal and circadian rhythms in aphids (and in insects in general) and their relation to vital cycles; and finally, myrmecophily in aphids, recently included.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

The life cycle optimization method has previously been used by researchers at U-M's Center for Sustainable Systems to study replacement of automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners.

She also ran its product - stewardship program for 3 years, studying the life cycle of products and finding ways to reduce their environmental impact.

The data analysed in the study was processed using an advanced life - cycle assessment tool — SCEnAT — developed by Professor Lenny Koh, Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University's Management School and co-author of the paper.

In the new study, Alexander Zhyvoloup of University College London, U.K., and colleagues sought to gain more insight into the life cycle of HIV - 1 by comparing a normal, «wild type» strain of the virus to a mutated strain.

The study also showed that the number of eggs retrieved after ovarian stimulation in one cycle does not influence the live birth success rate in subsequent cycles.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

The battery outperforms the Department of Energy's cycle - life and price targets for grid - scale energy storage, as the researchers report in their latest study.

The study concludes that another $ 312 million is spent on postapproval development — studies to test new indications, formulations, and dosage strengths — for a life - cycle cost of $ 2.9 billion.

For the first time, their study combines the strengths of simulations based on integrated energy - economy - climate models that estimate cost - optimal long - term strategies to meet climate targets with life cycle assessment approaches.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

The analysis, published this month in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, stops at actual wine production, which other studies estimate represents roughly 20 % of a bottle's total carbon footprint.

HCV can not be grown reliably in the laboratory, a failing that has slowed critical studies of everything from drugs to vaccines to basic knowledge of the virus's life cycle.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

The relative proximity of N103B allows astronomers to study the life cycles of stars in another galaxy in great detail.

Studies from a group at the University of Glasgow, which are published in the same issue of the journal, show the importance of calcineurin through different stages of the malaria life - cycle, implicating the protein as a potential target for blocking malaria transmission.

This shows that identifying inconsistent observations is a pre-requisite for studying and interpreting the impact of climate change on the timing of life cycle events.

Titan's methane cycle is probably not biologically driven, but studying chemical reactions there could provide clues to the processes that led to life on Earth billions of years ago.

One limitation to all studies that aim to quantify the environmental impacts of human diets is that many of the life - cycle analyses used by researchers are conducted in other countries.

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

The study, commissioned by CHEOPS - a perovskite research project co-funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, is being conducted by SmartGreenScans, a CHEOPS member, specialising in Life - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxfordLife - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxforCycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxfordlife - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxforcycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxford PV.

Further studies using PNNL's ice nucleation chamber will simulate the life cycle of aerosol in a cloud.

Oxford, 04 April 2018 — Oxford PV — The Perovskite Company, the leader in the field of perovskite solar cells, today announced that its perovskite - on - silicon tandem solar cells, currently being used to conduct a life - cycle environmental impact study, have shown positive first results.

The study did not investigate the implications of dust size and aging fraction at various temperatures and cloud life cycles.

It covers a broad range of topics, from basic scientific processes to specific concepts such as the electromagnetic spectrum, the life cycles of stars, the reasons for Earth's seasons, exploration of the Moon, and the ways in which we detect and study extrasolar planets.