Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...ing points. "The microarray information is like a noisy telephone call," says Fraenkel. "We needed to find the words in all the static before we could understand what they meant." The next challenge is to scale the platform so it can tackle human cells, something that the researchers are gearing up to do...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
... chirping chorus that brings in more food than one noisy cowbird chick could demand from its host parents. By eating more than its share, the researchers found, the cowbird chick actually grows faster when sharing the nest and food with two host chicks than it does when all alone in the nest. "The cowbird ...Loss of circadian genes results in epilepsy
... DBP/HLF double knockout mice were affected by the noisy vacuum cleaner. The researchers monitored brain electrical activity in the mice to confirm their observation that those mice lacking all three PAR bZip genes are prone to epileptic seizures. The recording of electroencephalograms (EEGs) durin...... adaptation rate could improve their prosperity in noisy systems. The researchers suggest that their model ... competitors can increase their odds of success in noisy systems such as stock markets 3) Searching for Supersymmetry with the Celestial Accelerator I. F. ...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
...t Fourier Transform. For instance, signals within noisy data recorded in the time domain can become more meaningful when analyzed in the wavelet domain. Wavestrapping was pioneered by University of Washington researchers, who applied wavelet transforms to an established statistical re-sampling technique k...New evidence suggests that monkey thought extinct still exists
...ers think that these primates once lived in large, noisy packs in the canopy rainforests of eastern Ivory Coast and western Ghana. Current evidence suggests that, if the monkey is still alive, it's range may be limited to the remote southeastern corner of Ivory Coast. If the monkey were indeed extinct, it ...Automated analysis of bee behavior may yield better robots
...bots that work effectively with people in dynamic, noisy and unknown environments such as those faced by military and law enforcement officials. Balch will present his research team's findings on the bee movement system at the December workshop to prominent biologists, mathematicians, engineers and com......debate, like that on genetically modified food, is noisy but often uninformative. Before the technology has even emerged, the debate has largely become polarised into utopian and dystopian visions. In a report published today (28th July 2003), a team at the University of Sheffield funded by the Economic a...Remote sub can patrol Shores. Sound Fishy? It is, but not like you think.
... this particular type of neural network works with noisy data. In the future, we hope to expand the classifier's library to include dozens of species." "We have only scratched the surface of this technology," said Zia-ur Rahman, research associate professor of Applied Science at the College of William and...White noise delays auditory organization in brain
...dult levels once the animals were removed from the noisy environment. And furthermore, they observed those plasticity effects consolidated during the extended critical period persisted into the future, suggesting that this exposure were indeed "critical." Chang summarized, "it's like the brain is waiting f...In a noisy world, how can the senses project and receive information at the same time?
...tain a fixed distance from each other, and to hear noisy predators This strongly suggests that the inhibition of the auditory pathway is the result of a corollary discharge from the stridulation motor network. Hyperpolarizing current injection into ON1 while it was responding to a 100 dB SPL sound pulse mi...Michigan researcher helps resolve the conflict between exotic birds and eco-tourists
...e where people drove right up under your nest with noisy motor boats, talking and laughing all the while?" Bouton says. In addition, she points out, when the parents leave the nests there are many predators waiting to attack the eggs and the chicks. Next, she and her team interviewed stakeholders in the co...Fluid flow technology takes a cue from fast-swimming sharks
...ew water away from a shark's "ears" to prevent the noisy sound of rushing water, which...en on a windy day we hear the noisy sound of air rushing past our ears," Koeltzsch said. "A fast-swimming shark lis...Hearing loss & rehab, stroke & depression among topics of Vol. 39, Iss 5, JRRD
...der participants. When speech rate was slowed in a noisy background, speech recognition was enhanced, but slow speech had an adverse effect in speech recognition in a quiet background....Stealthy new deep-sea camera system may find new deep-sea creatures
... The second reason is simple; stealth. "A big noisy submersible with its bright lights can be seen or heard or otherwise sensed by deep-sea creatures from a long way away, and that has no doubt scared away a lot of animals," Dr. Widder said. Dr. Widder has been trying since 1994 to make her Eye I...Snowmobiles can stress wildlife
Snowmobile lovers say the noisy machines don't harm wildlife but conservationists fear they do. However, there has been little solid evidence for either side. Now new research shows that snowmobiles can raise the stress hormones of animals in national parks. "Elk and wolves show ph...Genes reveal new clues about the first flower
... other researchers find and remove all excessively noisy components of their data, like the duplicate mitochondrial gene in Amborella, before they even begin their analysis," dePamphilis says. To do this genetic housekeeping task, the Penn State team used a software package called Relative Apparent Synap...Ice-breakers drive whales away
...ftware that might help ice-breaker crews-and other noisy industries-to work more quietly. Beluga numbers i... beluga's hearing. They found that the vessels are noisy enough to mask beluga communications, inducing behavioural changes almost 14 kilometres from the ice...Snapping shrimp drown out sonar with bubble-popping trick, described in Science
...able in French . The oceans' shallow waters are noisy places, what with the waves, rain, and those chatty marine mammals. Loudest of all are the colonies of snapping shrimp, whose underwater cacophony is the bane of military and scientific efforts to "see" through the ocean using sonar. In the 22 Septem......al what is going on. "Elephants are very noisy during mating, for instance, and the femaleusually makes a repetitious series of calls when she is mounted," Payne notes. "This will provide useful information in a monitoring program becausereproduction is one of the clearest signs of a population's...