MIT develops filters for wastewater treatment, more
...wanted to make a system where we could control the spatial distribution of ligands on the surface more specifically. Often cell signaling events require clustering of ligand receptors on the surface of cells, and that's what we hope to induce by mixing comb polymers modified with multiple ligands with those ...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatial ecology, recently spent about a year working in the Amazon as part of a larger project funded by NASA. He and his colleagues studied development patterns in Brazil in recent decades and used information from those trends to project the future impacts...Dynamics of natural communities
...e largely neglected the consideration of how those spatial patterns and processes affect the structure and functioning of food webs -- the basic descriptions of who eats (and does not eat) whom and the consequences for determining how species affect other species. Speakers will describe new evidence that cro...... car or a person's footsteps can provide important spatial cues. One the other hand, absolute pitch also has important implications for learning language, Saffran says. Consider that one-third of the world's languages are tonal languages, and absolute pitch is needed to understand the subtle differences be...The enemy of my enemy is my friend
...rey (which are also small) in the vast spatial expanses of green plants. By releasing these volatile signals, plants assist these predators, essentially saying: "here's one". This phenomenon has been reported from studies with corn which attracts parasitic wasp...UC Davis science, engineering and technology newstips -- March
...ill went for the full flowers. To test the bird's spatial memory, Irwin set up full and empty flowers in an aviary and let the birds get used to them. Then she moved the flowers around. The birds still went to the full flowers, without wasting energy on empty ones. Irwin has some more theories to test on w......and his colleagues have found evidence of a fourth spatial dimension in plants. In short, size matters even...eart attack." This scaling is known as the fourth spatial dimension because it relates mass to the other three dimensions, width, length and depth. Now, Nikla...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...through an ecosystem. This means that at the large spatial and temporal scales at which these waves operate, one can not think of biology as a functional block separate from physics. If you want to guess what the productivity will be at a given location and time in the future, you can not use a purely biolog...New technique illuminates events obscured in the geologic record
...ssil records, archeological studies or any type of spatial geologic data, says William Zinsmeister, a profess..." he says. "When you look at the occurrence from a spatial perspective, it tells you right away that this is not an artifact, it's something real. "This tell...Remote sensing study defines "edgy" cities
...reflectance, and elevation. ASTER is the only high spatial resolution instrument on the Terra platform. "ASTER is Landsat on steroids," said Stefanov. "It's a wonderful tool for studying surface materials." The ASTER instrument was built in Japan for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. A joint...GIS, bioinformatics collaborations offer promising new perspectives
...he joining of genomics and proteomics with GIS and spatial epidemiology has the potential to provide an enormous breakthrough. "In the past, GIS and spatial epidemiology focused on finding and monitoring large-scale, population-based occurrences such as dis...World land database charts a troubling course
...ed land cover data sets that have recorded a broad spatial picture of human land-use and land-use change over the past 20 years. The resulting database, made available in Amsterdam in CD ROM format along with a Dutch database, represents the first dynamic picture of global land use for the 300-year period be...Across the countryside: How ecology predicts the movement of parasites and disease
...tors in the spread of this disease. Predicting the spatial dynamics of infectious diseases: raccoon rabies as...mic waves in the dynamics of measles: wavelets and spatial hierarchies. Bryan Grenfell from the University of Cambridge and Ottar Bjornstad of Penn State Univ...Virtual lung models every breath you take - and its impact
...nostic medicine - but characterized by much higher spatial resolution. With the NMR technology, laboratory scientists captured images of a rats upper respiratory tract and lungs in unprecedented detail. Then, a semi-automated software package called NWGrid analyzed the data, reconstructed it into a compu...Brain scan patterns identify objects being viewed
...ography" of responses, large and small, with finer spatial resolution than could be accommodated by category-specific areas, somehow represents how complex attributes of objects and faces are "related visually, structurally or semantically." Such an architecture "has the capacity to produce unique represent...NASA unveils spectacular suite of new global data products
...provides exciting improvements in spectral detail, spatial resolution and accuracy over previous sensors. Col...e biosphere. MODIS' data products are available at spatial resolutions ranging from 250 meters per pixel, to 1 kilometer, to 1 degree; and range over time from......able, with strong genetic influences on verbal and spatial abilities, reaction times, and even some personality qualities, including emotional reactions to stress. These genetic relationships persist even after statistical adjustments are made for shared family environments, which tend to make members of th...Geologists develop new database using GIS for study of evolution of continents
...ons within a certain age range, and we can see new spatial relationships of plutons and the regions they are ...on said. The GIS allows the scientists to look for spatial relationships within the data. For example, they can zoom into an outcrop (any rock formation in th...Researchers discover precise olfactory map
...ith the same receptor are scattered in one of four spatial zones. In the olfactory bulb, however, the axons of neurons with the same receptor converge in a few invariant glomeruli, creating a map of odor receptor inputs that is nearly identical in different individuals. But what happens to odor signals at h...Female vulnerability to drugs tied to estrogen, U-M researcher reports
...ngs, improvement in verbal abilities, decreases in spatial abilities, and enhanced sensory and motor functions, including lower thresholds for visual, olfactory and tactile stimuli and more rapid complex motor sequence abilities. Recently, Becker and others have been examining the hormone's impact on neurot...