Sentences with phrase «with radiation data»

So far, the Curiosity rover has provided scientists with radiation data that will help protect astronauts in the future.

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This means that computers could have the benefits of data delivered by light — high speeds, no heat caused by electronic resistance, and no interference from electromagnetic radiation — but would also be able to slow that data down enough so that computers chips could do something useful with it.

The researchers combined these «universal relations» with data on gravitational - wave signals and the subsequent electromagnetic radiation (kilonova) obtained during the observation last year of two merging neutron stars in the framework of the LIGO experiment.

Using data from a randomized trial of 206 men treated with either radiation or, radiation and six months of hormonal therapy, researchers compared early markers of prostate cancer death to identify men at risk of dying early.

Although researchers don't yet know exactly why it was effective, Reynolds said preliminary data show that the modified diet also appears to make glioblastoma tumors more sensitive to treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.

«Most of the existing data on hypofractionation, however, draws on cases of moderately accelerated radiation treatment of the prostate, in contrast to our study with more extreme hypofractionation.

The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

Colonisation routes, habitat shifts, disruption of populations by volcanism, dispersal by massive landslides, and other relevant aspects for adaptive and non-adaptive radiation, are largely discussed and confronted with previously published data referring to other groups of beetles or to other biological organisms (spiders, bush crickets, plants, etc.).

The research team used data from the recently published EORTC 22991 trial to study men with intermediate - risk prostate cancer randomized to either radiation therapy or radiation therapy and 6 months hormone therapy.

New climate models — made by using estimated radiation levels from that time, along with data from the Magellan spacecraft about Venus's current surface — suggest that Venus would have been only 11 °C (52 °F).

The first results from the FIRAS experiment, using only 9 minutes of data, showed that the cosmic background radiation has exactly the black - body spectrum expected in the hot big bang theory, with a temperature of 2.735 + / - 0.060 kelvin.

«The high - intensity X-ray beamlines at the ESRF, equipped with state - of - the - art Dectris detectors, were crucial for getting high quality crystallographic data from the weakly diffracting and radiation sensitive crystals of the large polymerase complex,» says Cusack.

Overall, these results reveal considerable ILS during the neoavian radiation and that, even with genome - scale data, ILS may affect the inference of small local relationships in the deep branches of the species tree that have long been more challenging to resolve.

Data collected with the Hubble Space Telescope is helping astronomers map dark matter in space along with X-ray pictures of colliding galaxies, measurements of cosmic background radiation, and analysis of the way stars on the ends of galactic arms rotate.

In the study, long - term historical meteorological data were combined with relatively short measurements of air pollution particles in China in an innovative way to clarify interactions among the solar radiation, surface wind and air pollution.

But among those who are diagnosed, only 8 percent fewer are getting initial surgery or radiation treatments — even as data shows those with low - risk disease can substitute surveillance.

The dramatic data visualization of ions escaping Mars» atmosphere due to solar wind radiation, along with a display of energy of the escaping particles in a brown to white plume was cited for its impact, originality, execution and editorial relevance.

Starting with data taken from observations of the cosmic background radiation — a flash of light that occurred 380,000 years after the big bang that presents the earliest view of cosmic structure — the researchers applied the basic laws that govern the interaction of matter and allowed their model of the early universe to evolve.

This is from the journal Science: Measurements of Energetic Particle Radiation in Transit to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory «These data provide insights into the radiation hazards that would be associated with a human mission to Mars.

They were able to combine their data with observations from other telescopes and revealed an almost featureless spectrum that could not be completely explained by a blackbody model (blackbodies are opaque objects that emit thermal radiation).

Forster and Gregory (2006) estimate ECS based on radiation budget data from the ERBE combined with surface temperature observations based on a regression approach, using the observation that there was little change in aerosol forcing over that time.

At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2017 Annual Meeting, we presented monotherapy data of nine patients who received G100 with radiation (no pembrolizumab) that showed 100 % DCR rate, with 44 % of the patients achieved a partial response (PR) based on WHO criteria, which requires at least a 50 % tumor reduction to qualify as a PR.

The past century has unveiled a plethora of preclinical data that has suggested the potential of a ketogenic diet as an aid in cancer treatment.7, 8 The benefits of a ketogenic diet, and dietary manipulation in general, may be a potent adjunct to current cancer treatments by synergistically working with chemotherapy and radiation therapy to starve cancer cells, leaving them more susceptible to damage from these treatments.7 - 10

The top panel shows compact sources of submillimetre radiation detected by APEX as part of the ATLASGAL survey, combined with complementary data from ESA's Planck satellite, to capture more extended features.

Though there are serious issues with the quality of some of the data (birds drinking out of uncovered evaporation pans, drift and inhomogeneities in the solar radiation measuring instruments), in the most global assessment, Beate Liepert estimated that there was globally a reduction of about 4 % in solar radiation reaching the ground between 1961 and 1990.

In my current incarnation as a radiation engineer, I often find issues with electronics and rush to the satellite design engineer and say, «Did you know...» More often than not, they say, «Yeah, and this is what we did to mitigate that...» Orbiting observatories like Hubble are a devils playground for radiation effects, which can corrupt data and cause systematic drifts over time as radiation dose mounts.

The basic ingredients are easy to list: — absorption / emission properties (or spectroscopic parameters) of CO2 at atmospheric pressures, i.e. data presently available from HITRAN - database combined with models of line broadening — observed properties of the atmosphere where most important features include clouds and moisture content, but many other factors have some influence — computer model of the transmission of radiation along the lines of MODTRAN or GENLN2

Our observational studies (Gray and Schwartz, 2010 and 2011) of the variations of outward radiation (IR + albedo) energy flux to space (ISCCP data) vs. tropical and global precipitation increase (from NCEP reanalysis data) indicates that there is not a reduction of global net radiation (IR + Albedo) to space which is associated with increased global or tropical - regional rainfall.

The GCM calculations of the radiation budget are indeed consistent with measured data.

«These data, together with newly available surface observations from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) from 1990 to present, show that the decline in solar radiation reaching land surfaces seen in earlier data disappears in the 1990's.»

Equinox Instruments Limited specialises in providing class leading instruments to its customers with a product portfolio that includes solar radiation sensors, compact weather stations, ultrasonic wind sensors, anemometers, wind vanes, sun tracking systems, scintillometers, sky radiometers, data loggers, temperature profilers, chart recorders, and data acquisition recorders.

The way I see it, if you get various data points of ocean heat content, you then have to plot a trend to see how that is changing with the other changes in incoming and outgoing radiation and greenhouse gases andland use etc..

«Our results demonstrate how synergistic use of satellite TOA radiation observations and recently improved ocean heat content measurements, with appropriate error estimates, provide critical data for quantifying short - term and longer - term changes in the Earth's net TOA radiation imbalance.

Main activity there is the support of IEC TC 117, project 62862 -1-2 dealing with creation of annual solar radiation data sets frequently known as TMY for CSP / STE performance simulations.

This requires ground - based meteorology in tandem with remotely sensed data for a series of variables, including information on precipitation, soils, land cover, surface radiation, status of the vegetative canopy, topography, floodplain extent, and inundation.

«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»

The limitations of OLS on data with a near unit root is well taken, but to claim that the temperature just changes stochastically, within bounds that are very far off what one would expect just from natural variability, is not convincing: Many parameters of the earth system are simultaneously showing signs of warming, plus there's still a positive radiation imbalance at the top of the atmosphere: The earth hasn't even warmed up yet to the full extent that the change in forcing implies.

His research has been closely aligned with the development of increasingly sophisticated satellite platform measurements, such as the terrestrial radiation budget, ozone and weather - related data, and the need for increasingly sophisticated atmospheric models to assess and evaluate the information content and utility of these measurements.

It has been the object of my previous investigations to find this relation; hence, if the temperature and humidity at the earth's surface are known, together with the temperature gradient and the humidity gradient, I can from these data calculate the radiation at different altitudes.

This study uses satellite radiation budget measurements along with satellite microwave sea ice data to document the Arctic - wide decrease in planetary albedo and its amplifying effect on the warming.

The team examined data on carbon - dioxide flux, evapotranspiration, sensible heat, air temperature, net radiation and photosynthetic active radiation from five FLUXNET grassland sites in Canada, the US and Hungary, along with leaf - area index information derived from satellite data.

Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC) to be deployed * All software development was in C and met all of NASA's flight - critical standards 2003 according to FARs 14 CFR Parts Interfaced with Low - level Linux drivers and FPGA hardware to collect radiation data to be used to protect the Health and Lives of Astronauts at the ISS.