Sentences with phrase «taken up by»

At Argonne it will give way, over the next 20 to 30 years, to ecological restoration, as the pollutants are removed and the worker trees replaced by bur oaks and other hardwoods native to the Great Lakes region — trees that grow slowly and draw only a fraction of the water taken up by the hasty, thirsty poplars and willows.

Via a combination of computer modeling, laboratory experiments, and field studies, the researchers looked at how many oVOCs were taken up by a poplar tree leaf sample.

Enzymes and other proteins (blue and green dots) that prevent inbreeding are taken up by pollen tubes (outlined in light blue) and released when inbreeding is imminent.

Although plesiosaurs could reach 14 metres, much of their length was taken up by their necks.

The next year, the researchers found that crops had absorbed around half of the fertilizer, with most of the rest taken up by microorganisms and released back into the soil.

«You just add them directly into your cell culture, and they are taken up by the cells,» says Kai Johnsson.

A receptor is a molecule placed on the cell membrane which, in some cases, can direct material from the surroundings to be taken up by the cell and degraded, In the degradation of bone tissue, the receptor uPARAP plays a central role.

Today, the question has been taken up by cognitive scientists who want to link facial expressions to emotions in order to track the genes, chemicals, and neural pathways that govern emotion in the brain.

If successful, it could be taken up by many more airports around Europe.

The biggest culprit is caesium - 137 which is being taken up by plants.

The team speculates that sul1 genes are more «promiscuous», or more readily taken up by bacteria in the environment and spread around, whereas tet (W) is more limited.

The excess proton is taken up by a base.

They found that nitrogen - 15 in the soil decreased slowly, with small amounts taken up by plants or leached into groundwater each year.

Eventually scientists may be able to «force feed» cells with whatever they want, such as drugs or nanoparticles that are not actively taken up by cells.

When the water evaporates, drains away or gets taken up by the plants, the salts that were dissolved in it accumulate in the soil, eventually forming a bright white crust that can leave fields toxic and infertile.

But acidity can make some metals more soluble, meaning they can be taken up by plants and animals.

Some of the panel's recommendations have already been taken up by funding agencies, John Savill, chief executive of the MRC said at today's briefing.

Duez found that in 1974, Mitterrand spoke relatively quickly with about 30 per cent of his speech taken up by pauses.

And, in 1988, fighting an election again, just over 36 per cent of his speech was taken up by pauses.

«If there is enough space around cropland, excess nutrients would have the chance to be taken up by other plants, reducing the content of the runoff that reaches the ocean,» Shantz said.

In a speech he gave in 1973, 53 per cent of the speech was taken up by pauses, with those at the ends of sentences lasting 2.2 seconds on average.

Dr. Srivastava says the team plans to investigate precisely how antigens are transported outside the cell and taken up by non-infected cells.

The UB researchers found that low testosterone levels were associated with significantly decreased insulin sensitivity; this was demonstrated by a 36 percent decrease in the rate at which glucose is taken up by tissues when patients with low testosterone were administered a set concentration of insulin.

The advantage of a digital satellite is that it can transmit up to ten programmes in the same frequency range taken up by one analogue programme.

To do this, divide the volume of air taken up by each cup of rocks by the total volume of water the cup could hold (without rocks in it).

Its miniature sensors gather real - time data on the amount of oxygen being taken up by the liver cells at any instant.

They inserted the cassette into a circular piece of DNA called a plasmid and allowed it to be taken up by another bacterium, Escherichia coli, which then started using the foreign genes, an indication that they had inserted into E. coli's own integron.

And will be taken up by the plant and will increase the concentration of carbon dioxide around RuBisCo inside the plant and increase its activity and photosynthetic yields.

«For the first time, we have shown that nutrients from ant waste are taken up by the leaves and transported to other places in the tree,» says senior scientist Joachim Offenberg, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, who was in charge of the studies.

As cattle raising in the country has intensified, meaning there are more cows on less land, those acres are taken up by sugar cane growers.

MIT engineers designed RNA - carrying nanoparticles (red) that can be taken up by endothelial cells (stained blue).

Neurons release neurotransmitters that are taken up by specific receptors, but many glial cells receive and emit neurotransmitters that float through the brain as free agents.

For example, the researchers thought if arsenic was taken up by rice plants, that poison might be detrimental to the blast fungus.

As Antarctic ice melts, the bacteria frozen inside may revive and be taken up by microbes in the ocean, says Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers University biologist who directed the bacteria project.

Any matter taken up by the Council shall be considered adopted if a majority of the members present vote in favor of it, with five exceptions: (i) A resolution shall require an affirmative vote of two - thirds of the members present.

As temperatures rise today, most of the heat is being taken up by the surface layers of the oceans.

The amount of processing space taken up by the fingers in this brain region is almost equivalent to the space devoted to the entire area extending from the forearms to the mid-torso, Medina points out.

It occurs, for example, if barren land is planted to crops because all that carbon taken up by the crops would otherwise be in the atmosphere.

«For 150 years, we did not know how iron got taken up by the liver — how it got in there,» said Mitchell Knutson, a UF associate professor in food science and human nutrition.

These particles will easily be taken up by cells, claim the researchers.

Studies show that only about 30 percent of the nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture are actually taken up by the crops they are intended to feed.

The team determined that the dead macrophages release the pigment into their surroundings, where, over the following weeks, it is taken up by new, monocyte - derived macrophages before it can disperse.

Moreover, she found, once the toxins are taken up by cells lining the mammalian gut, these sections become activated, setting in motion a chain of intracellular events that causes intestinal inflammation and tissue damage.

Green tattoo pigment is taken up by dermal macrophages (left).

Once inside cells, they are taken up by cellular protein - making machinery and induce the production, over weeks, of the viral proteins they encode.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

Approximately 40 % of the EU's overall energy consumption is taken up by buildings.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

As the amount of antibiotics in the soil increased, so too did the levels taken up by the corn, potatoes and other plants.

The exhibit moves on to explore how race has been constructed in different societies at different times in history and how those constructs have been taken up by states to justify institutionalized racism.