Sentences with phrase «with adaptive system»

... 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.

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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 celWith 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 celwith 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 adapSystems 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 adapsystems 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 Systesystems, Adaptive Optics SystemsSystems III.
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