... We could undoubtedly remove all the so called «natural» forests from the world safely and replace
them with adaptive systems of greater value to humans... Tropical forests will go, it is essential that foresters insist and demonstrate that they go productively and that they are replaced by systems of maximum benefit to as many humans as possible...,» he wrote.
Not exact matches
It turns out that these long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an
adaptive immune
system with human beings.
(«Biological
systems are really complex,
adaptive systems with many moving parts, that we've only begun to scratch the surface of understanding,» he says.)
The Russian supplied air defense
systems in use in Syria that include the S - 400 missile and its 92N6E «Gravestone» fire control radar along
with other
systems are highly mobile and highly
adaptive.
In his recent best seller, Alvin Toffler argued that many among us are already suffering from «future shock,» an illness
with both physical and emotional symptoms resulting from exposure to change beyond the
adaptive capacities of the human
system.
We are aware of the types of
adaptive technology used by people
with disabilities and are redesigning pages across our portfolio of websites to ensure compatibility
with as many of these
systems as possible.
The Eddie Bauer TriTreck travel
System, like others on the list, is fitting
with cups holder, snack trays and a storage basket but one key feature that sets it apart is the
adaptive phone holder.
She works directly
with stakeholders to build models that foster
adaptive learning about the dynamics of coupled human - natural
systems and to integrate stakeholder knowledge
with academic knowledge.
Another step is to integrate ecosystems into infrastructure development — by «building
with nature» rather than on top of it, using a
system that will be more
adaptive.
When the coronagraph and
adaptive optics work in tandem, the
system can capture a sharp image
with the detail that comes from a long exposure time.
This 2 - decade - old idea, called the hygiene hypothesis, suggests that lack of exposure to dangerous parasites in childhood makes the
adaptive arm of the immune
system more likely to overreact when it comes into contact
with benign allergens.
T cells, along
with B cells and others, comprise the
adaptive arm of the immune
system, the body's second line of defense which quickly attacks and «remembers» specific pathogens.
As
with innate immunity, the
adaptive immune
system — the T cells and antibodies produced by B cells that target specific molecules on invading cells — contributes to pathology or may also fight against it.
They lavished their attention, instead, on the more advanced
adaptive immune
system, which can marshal antibodies and other weaponry that identify and then target an intruder
with a specificity lacking in the untamed innate
system.
If parasitic infestation occurs sufficiently early in development, it can produce minor deviations from symmetry — hence the
adaptive advantage of using asymmetry as a marker to avoid potential mates
with poor health, weak genes or a challenged immune
system.
Working
with voice - recognition software — maker Nuance Communications, Ford is also adding voice command controls that have real - time
adaptive learning capabilities allowing the
system to recognize a driver's particular speech inflections or accent.
Until now, most researchers have focused on one of two strategies: attacking tumors
with antibodies, which activate the innate immune
system, or stimulating T cells, which form the backbone of the
adaptive immune
system.
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) / CRISPR - associated (Cas)
systems provide bacteria and archaea
with adaptive immunity against viruses and plasmids by using CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) to guide the silencing of invading nucleic acids.
Level 2 applies to cars that combine two or more level 1
systems; a common example is
adaptive cruise control combined
with lane centering.
Observations
with the W.M. Keck Observatory used the Natural Guide Star
Adaptive Optics
system with the NIRC2 camera on the Keck II telescope.
These data were obtained on November 17, 2013 during the first week of operation of GPI and in relatively challenging weather conditions, but
with GPI's advanced
adaptive optics
system and coronagraph the planets can still be clearly seen and their spectra measured (see Figure 2).
NIRC - 2 (the Near - Infrared Camera 2) is a versatile instrument specifically built for use
with the Keck II
adaptive optics
system.
These studies are made possible by the high spatial resolution of Keck's large aperture combined
with a state - of - the - art
adaptive optics
system to correct for distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere.
With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune system, with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cel
With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune
system,
with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cel
with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of
adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cells).
With its
adaptive optics
systems, which remove much of the blurring effect of the earth's atmosphere, the VLT's vision is sharp enough to allow someone, theoretically, to read a newspaper headline at a distance of over 10 kilometres.
The group also has experience in the creation of custom panels for the analysis of pathogen specific immune responses
with focus on innate and
adaptive arms of the immune
system.
Capturing the creation of this type of large, short - lived star body is extremely rare — the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds, said the scientists, who relied primarily on data from Keck Observatory's NIRC2 fitted
with the laser guide star
adaptive optics (LGSAO)
system.
NIRSPEC can also be used
with Keck II's
adaptive optics (AO)
system to combine the powers of the high spatial resolution of AO
with the high spectral resolution of NIRSPEC.
The
adaptive immune
system has the capacity to produce antibodies
with enormous numbers of binding specificities.
We precisely characterized the host stars
with adaptive optics imaging and analysis... ▽ More We present a catalog of 11 multi-planet
systems from Campaigns 1 and 2 of the K2 mission.
Methods: In this study, a physically based routing model, the MOdel for Scale
Adaptive River Transport (MOSART), was coupled
with the land component of Community Earth
System Model (CESM) called Community Land Model.
Abstract: We present $ H$ - band scattered light imaging of a bright debris disk around the A0 star HD 36546 obtained from the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme
Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)
system with data recorded by the HiCIAO camera using the vector vortex coronagraph.
We tested several configurations using the sub-
system Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) in parallel and simulating long coronographic exposures on a star, calibrating instrumental ghosts, checking the performance of the
adaptive optics
system and reducing data
with the consortium pipeline.
-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9)
Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adap
Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions
with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform
adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support
systems to provide guidance for managing for adap
systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.
Despite the absence of a high - order high - bandwidth closed - loop AO
system, observations conducted
with SCExAO show that even in poor - to - moderate observing conditions, speckle nulling can be used to supp... ▽ More This paper presents the first on - sky demonstration of speckle nulling, which was achieved at the Subaru Telescope in the context of the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme
Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) Project.
He teamed
with Dr. Janeway in the search for the gene in the innate immune
system that activates the
adaptive system — to address the questions, how does the human body know when it has an infection, and how does a microbial infection trigger an immune response?
A critical effect is on the immune
system with a decrease in function of both, the innate and
adaptive immune
system.
Newshost: Boris Zupanic from Croatia asks:
With improvements provided by
adaptive optics
systems, do we need space - based telescopes?
Thirty Meter Telescope Technology Milestone: First Component of
Adaptive - optics
System Passes Test
with Flying Colors
From the results of a first observing run, we show that the use of matched filtering improves our
adaptive optics
system performance,
with increases in on - sky H - band Strehl measured up to about a factor of 1.1
with respect to a conventional centre of gravity approach.
In June 2001, Liu took high - resolution pictures of 15 Sge using the University of Hawaii's QUIRC camera and Hoku «pa'a
adaptive optics (AO)
system on the 8.1 - meter Gemini North telescope, followed by second and third epoch imaging
with the Keck AO
system in August and December 2001.
We observed 228 stars
with adaptive optics
systems, in order to find companions at separations of 0.13» - 1.12» (60 - 500 AU), and detected 13 new binaries.
Experience
with wavefront sensor and deformable mirror interfaces for wide - field
adaptive optics
systems
Follow - up high - contrast imaging observations were then taken in 2012 using the NIRC2 instrument on the Keck II telescope
with the
adaptive optics
system revealing the companion as shown above.
The Center engages faculty members, graduate students, research staff, and undergraduates to work on research leading to smart lighting
systems with adaptive and controllable properties that will change the way society uses lighting.
The new
adaptive optics / lattice light sheet microscopy (AO - LLSM)
system addresses two fundamental flaws
with traditional microscopes.
That might result in a naïve (
adaptive) immune
system,
with an impaired ability to be re-educated...
Zebrafish have both an innate and
adaptive immune
system with the full repertoire of immune and inflammatory cells found in mammalian
systems.
Over the past 15 years, he has dedicated his research to the study of our solar
system using mainly ground - based telescopes equipped
with adaptive optics.
Quantitative solar
system science
with AO
systems, Adaptive Optics Syste
systems,
Adaptive Optics
SystemsSystems III.