Measurement in Biological News

NPL Cavimeter receives 2009 UIA Outstanding Product Award

... In response to a longstanding industrial need for measurement tools, a novel design for a spatially-sensitive ... Outstanding Paper Award for 2003. In 2006, a measurement for Innovators Joint Industrial Project (MfI JIP) ... of the NPL Cavimeter is to license the measurement technology to third parties, and discussions are ...

Behind closed eyes

... and resting states. But fMRI is an indirect measurement of brain activity; it can't catch the nuances of ... the researchers found a unique source of direct measurement of electrical activity in the brain: data ... who underwent extensive testing, including measurement of neuronal pulses in various parts of their ...

GKSS to invest 12 million euros ($15.48 million) in a new observation system for the North Sea

... prediction", Colijn continues. For the COSYNA measurement network, the Helmholtz Association is providing ... method of the researchers: The automated measurement systems used by the scientists, such as radar technology, measurement buoys or satellites observing the planet, ...

NIST awards $24M in grants for new research facilities

... and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in ways that ... Center for Integrated Precision and Quantum measurement (CIPQM) University of California at Berkeley ... an emerging discipline focused on the measurement and control of mechanical properties of ...

'Gray's Paradox' solved: Researchers discover secret of speedy dolphins

... community. But now, armed with cutting-edge flow measurement technology, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic ... technology by modifying and combining force measurement tools developed for aerospace research with a video-based flow measurement technique known as Digital Particle Image ...

Detecting tiny twists with a nanomachine

... is central to understanding experiments, from the measurement of angular momentum of photons to the measurement of the gyromagnetic factor of metals and a very ... "This is perhaps the most sensitive torque measurement every reported," said Mohanty. "The size of the ...

Radioactivity: Discover the lowest amounts with new methods

... 26th September 2008 to exchange ideas about new measurement and analytical techniques and possible ways of ... on Radionuclide Metrology Low-Level Radioactivity measurement Techniques". PTB scientists contribute to this ... Concept and Application Abstract: For the measurement of the thoron progenies, a reference field has ...

Measuring calcium in serpentine soils

... management of serpentine soils requires accurate measurement of the calcium they hold. Research published this ... Society of America Journal shows that multiple measurement techniques are needed to accurately measure ... harmful to the land and its crop yield. Accurate measurement of the available calcium in serpentine soils is ...

'Top Secret' Technology To Help U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics

... in Troy, N.Y., is using experimental flow measurement techniques to help American swimmers sharpen ... technologies, modifying and combining force measurement tools developed for aerospace research with a video-based flow measurement technique known as Digital Particle ...

'Top secret' technology to help US swimmers trim times at Beijing Olympics

... in Troy, N.Y., is using experimental flow measurement techniques to help American swimmers sharpen ... technologies, modifying and combining force measurement tools developed for aerospace research with a video-based flow measurement technique known as Digital Particle Image ...

OSU technologies funded for development

... Prabhakar R. Pagilla, A Fiber Optic Sensor for measurement of Web Lateral Position and Flutter, School of ... technology, which Pagilla says give an indirect measurement of the web lateral position. The fiber optic ... which according to Pagilla will provide a true measurement of the web lateral position. Pagilla also ...

Three Dimensional Visualization of Right Ventricle Provides Important Information for Treatment of Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot, According to a Study in The American Journal of Cardiology

... 15 patients with repaired TOF. "Right ventricle measurement is a critical component in understanding the ... to rapidly and easily provide right ventricle measurement in multiple disease areas, including tetralogy of ... breakthrough diagnostic tool that can provide measurement of a heart's volume and ventricular ejection ...

Worldwide atmospheric measurements will determine the role of atmospheric fine particles

... South Africa, China, and India. They cover measurement areas that are geographically important for the ... and various kinds of pollution. The month-long measurement period is part of a wider 15-month (1 March 200831 May 2009) intensive EUCAARI ground-based measurement campaign involving measuring stations in and ...

Measurement Specialties, Inc. Announces Impact of 'German Business Tax Reform 2008' Resulting in Lower Combined German Tax Rate - Impacts 2Q08 Reported Financial Results

... HAMPTON, Va., Oct 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- measurement Specialties, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEAS ), a designer ... effective tax rate for fiscal year 2008." About measurement Specialties. measurement Specialties, Inc. (MEAS) designs and manufactures ...

K-State chemistry professor to receive Masao Horiba award

... a company that manufactures, sells and markets measurement and analysis tools used in fields ranging from ... research activities in the field of analysis and measurement technology by researchers working at universities ... of the research being developed into unique measurement instruments. The award is designed to support the ...

When children have breathing problems

... analysis: "Firstly," says Leipzig-based biologist Andrea Mller, "we used measurement techniques to draw accurate conclusions about the actual pollution of ... blow into measuring devices first hard and then slowly. This provided a measurement of the extent to which their bronchial tubes were constricted and ...

All in sight

... Bremerhaven, July 2nd 2009. A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of ... time during the current expedition of RV Polarstern. The underlying measurement method, infrared thermography, registers both at day and night the heat ...

University of Houston diesel testing center teams with state transportation agency to cut emissions

... the team will monitor the unit's performance using a portable emission measurement system, which is connected to the vehicle during operation in the field. ... engines, using a control strategy that relies on a NOx concentration measurement by a sensor positioned upstream of the SCR catalyst. "The NOx ...

UCSD researchers make first direct observations of biological particles in high-altitude ice clouds

... to create precipitation. The A-ATOFMS also allowed the unambiguous measurement of biological particles in the cloud ice, which scientists previously ... of the dust as Asia or Africa. "This has really been kind of a holy grail measurement for us," said Prather. "Understanding which particles form ice nuclei, ...

Protein structure determined in living cells

... possible to calculate a three-dimensional structure. "About two days of measurement time are required to measure a multidimensional NMR spectrum", says Peter ... his colleagues compensated for the concomitant drastic reduction of the measurement time by computational reconstruction of the complete spectrum. Then, they ...

Probing and controlling 'molecular rattling' may mean better preservatives

... science. Now, however, the NIST team has developed a relatively accessible measurement method for precisely quantifying the slowing down (or enhancement) of the ... of high-frequency rattlings effects, and it addresses enhancements in measurement and analysis that should allow researchers to optimize the preservation ...

Athletes not spared from health risks of metabolic syndrome

... of HDL cholesterol, which affected the athletes' cholesterol ratio, a measurement that offers more health information than a total cholesterol reading. The ratio refers to how the total cholesterol measurement relates to HDL cholesterol, and is obtained by dividing the HDL ...

A BBVA Foundation project comes up with a system enabling detection of cetacean hearing loss

... system for measuring cetacean hearing sensitivity. This audiogram measurement system facilitates in situ diagnosis of cetacean hearing loss, allowing ... team with the aid of the BBVA Foundation are its electrical autonomy, measurement speed just a few minutes suffice to detect any auditory lesions and its ...

Research around the North Pole

... of the Arctic Ocean during the last 90 million years. Seismic, an acoustic measurement method, allows peeking into the deep layers under the ocean floor down to ... birds, seals, whales and polar bears along the route. An almost continuous measurement of the seafloor and a programme for water probes rounded off the ...

RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea

... who founded the theory on continental drift in 1915. They employ seismic measurement methods which shall allow a glance at the geological units and sediments. ... whether Polarstern could transit the Northwest Passage; an alternative measurement program for Greenland Sea had been parked in the drawer. Current satellite ...

Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness

... experiments designed to demonstrate the limitations of the senses as measurement devices, by exposing how perceptions can be fooled by illusions. Videos ... undertaken by a unique set of multidisciplinary of researchers called the measurement of Naturalness (MONAT). This is one of a series of EU projects trying to ...

Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality

... of bitter orange in three forms that represent different analytical measurement challenges: ground fruit, extract and solid oral dosage form (tablets). ... SRMs are packaged together as SRM 3261. The SRM materials for analysis and measurement come with certified concentration values for synephrine, octopamine, ...

NJIT start-up company NeuroTrax named best in show

... professionals and pharmaceutical companies with real-time objective measurement of cognitive function. This is critical for empowering early diagnosis and ... international conferences. Simon has 20 years experience in computerized measurement systems design. Chief marketing officer is John Rooney who has held ...

Science and technology take center stage this election year

... Other participating panelists include Dr. D. James Baker/Global Carbon measurement Program, The William J. Clinton Foundation; Dr. John Byrne/Center for ... 17: 8:00 AM 1:30 PM The Development of Computer Relaying and Phasor measurement Technologies at Drexel University/Edmund D. Bossone Research Center ...

NASA satellite measures pollution from east Asia to North America

... measured the trans-Pacific flow of pollution in teragrams, a unit of measurement of the mass of pollution aerosol (1 teragram is about 2.2 billion pounds). ... time frame so that the overall result is a better estimate than any other measurement method weve had in the past, said study co-author Lorraine Remer, a ...

Scripps scientists develop new tests that identify lethal prion strains quickly and accurately

... the week of December 3, 2007. These new assays vastly accelerate the measurement of prion infectivity and the determination of those cell lines that are ... will replace the current mouse brain-bioassays. The current method of measurement and identification involves injecting a prion-containing sample into the ...

The key to unlocking the secret of highly specific DNAzyme catalysis

... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Using an extremely sensitive measurement technique, researchers at the University of Illinois have found clear ... almost always precedes the enzyme reactions. Using an extremely sensitive measurement technique called single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer, ...

AIBS to cohost symposium on evolution, disease and human health

... of the Host." Romero-Steiner has developed numerous methodologies for the measurement of the immune response to licensed and candidate vaccines to Streptococcus ... influenzae, and Neisseria meningitides. She has developed assays for the measurement of functional antibody activity specific for pneumococci and Haemophilus ...

Genes, Environment and Health Initiative invests in genetic studies, environmental monitoring

... Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Development of an Integrated measurement System to Assess Physical Activity $411,000 Stephen Intille, Ph.D., ... of Technology, Cambridge Enabling Population-scale Physical Activity measurement on Common Mobile Phones $681,000 Kevin Patrick, M.D., University of ...

Reveal the enemy

... it does not react to bacteria other than Salmonella typhi . "Our new technique makes the detection of micro-organisms as fast and simple as the measurement of pH value," say Riu and Rius. ...

Innerscope Research Adds to Its Advisory Board Two Pioneers in the Measurement and Application of Emotional Engagement

... firm, announced today that it has added two new members to its Advisory Board who will continue to position the company as the industry leader in the measurement and application of Emotional Engagement. The additions of Dr. Joseph Plummer, former Advertising Research Foundation Chief Research Officer, and ...

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home

... in this study was supplied by two cellular providers Cellcom and Pelephone in Israel. Can texting save lives? "Our method provides reliable measurement of moisture fields near the flood zone for the first time," notes Prof. Alpert, who also works with NASA on developing models to study global warming ...

Genetically engineered mice yield clues to 'knocking out' cancer

... The researchers state that their results emphasize the role of DNA repair in preventing carcinogenesis. The work may lead to the development of new measurement methods and reference materials for accurate and reproducible assessments of DNA damage and repair and contribute to understanding the role of ...

Complications early in pregnancy or in previous pregnancies adversely affect existing or subsequent pregnancies

... For example, in pregnancies with increased risk of preterm or very preterm delivery or intrauterine growth restriction, extra ultrasonic measurement of the cervical length and foetal growth can provide a better prediction of pregnancies at risk and better therapeutic care can be given, such as bed ...

Measuring intellectual disability

... spectrum disorders." In future studies, Dr. Hagerman and colleagues plan to explore "further large scale studies to recognize the value of the measurement and how FMRP influences the multitude of phenotypes associated with the FMR1 gene and variations seen in the normal population." ...