World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
... Provisions have been made for video equipment to capture not only the speaker, but also the audience. The full dynamics of intellectual interaction can now be transmitted to physicists worldwide. Accordingly, the auditorium is much wider than long with three rows of fixed seats in a semicircle facin...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...m individual to individual. The model attempts to capture the diversity of laughter while aiming to produce highly individualized expressions of mirth. People use laughter to express a happy or funny context or to render a positive response in conversation. Similarly, this technique aims to make the express...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
...f rapid echolocation click buzzes 'creaks' in prey capture by Dr PJO Miller, Dr MP Johnson and Dr PL Tyack Sperm whales produce long series of clicks interspersed with buzzes called "creaks" while foraging at depth. Using sound, depth and orientation-recording tags attached to 23 sperm whales using suction...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...rmful cells by making them stick, and devices that capture rare but crucial cells such as stem cells and then release them as needed. The team brings a unique engineering viewpoint to a domain the human body that is often governed by physicians. The engineers are building artificial systems to simulate th...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...aneously. When completed, Williams group plans to capture up to 20,000 human genes on a glass slide and to read out all of their sequences simultaneously, greatly speeding up the process and dramatically lowering the costs. A single slide could provide sequence data about 10 times more rapidly than today's ...Fat buildup found in hearts of obese or diabetic heart failure patients
... this occurs because the person's fat cells, which capture and store excess triglycerides, fill up. Because people have a set number of fat cells, once they are full, excess fat lodges in muscle tissue, where it wreaks molecular havoc. "The heart is a muscle, too, and it's not spared from this onslaught of f...Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
... emergency medicine. The goal is to electronically capture and add clinical data from emergency room visits, hospitalizations and specialty clinic visits, to patients' ambulatory health records. "This consolidation of health records will considerably diminish fragmentation of care," said the grant's princ...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...ure, but picked collections are handy because they capture rare organisms that don't persist or preserve well in the environment. They are also helpful for studying a large number of a particular species, although collection of nicer, often larger, specimens can mean there are few examples of hard-to-see juv...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
...ly game theoretic framework, we can simultaneously capture how humans respond to the virility of a disease, and how viruses respond to treating a disease." "We are then in a position to design better responses to viral diseases, applying the full knowledge of what their 'rational' reaction is likely to be," ...Tiny exosomes extracted from donor cells may be 'magic bullet' for drug-free transplants
... dendritic cell. Only immature dendritic cells can capture antigens efficiently and are believed to participate in the induction of transplant tolerance. By contrast, once mature, dendritic cells are capable of triggering the T cell activation that leads to transplant rejection. Additional research will be ...Sex-determining genes of infectious fungus resemble human Y chromosome
... similar history, characterized by the "sequential capture of genes" on four separate occasions, Heitman said. The fungal mating type locus later underwent processes that suppress recombination, they found. Recombination is the process whereby each member of a pair of chromosomes exchange segments o...HIV, diagnostic health care tools top of list for UH researchers
...s and dendrimers for the controlled adsorption and capture of DNA and proteins," Advincula said. "We are looking at applying these methods for microfluidic devices and biosensors." Coming a long way from applications in such mundane gadgets as ink-jet printers, microfluidic devices one of Advincula's ...Six reporters reach the 'Pinnacle of Excellence'
...gh the radio medium, traveling a great distance to capture the story and conducting impressive interviews while on location. She expertly captured her journey, the science and the sounds of Iceland. "It is the ultimate honor to be recognized by AAAS for my work," said Cynthia Graber. "I was stunned when I r...Menssana research at NJIT receives kudos for FDA-approved breath test
...ps came up with a way to use activated charcoal to capture these compounds, concentrate them with intense heat, and then use a gas chromatograph to separate the compounds and a mass spectrometer to identify them. The resulting graph will show a distinctive pattern that can determine health or illness, Phill...Spider silks, the ecological materials of tomorrow?
...he strong and stretchy flagelliform silk forms the capture spiral of the web. Biotechnologists are currently ...tical copies of natural silk fibers, but rather to capture key structural and functional features in designs that could be useful for engineering applications"...Argo robotic instrument network now covers most of the globe
...an important milestone in the program's mission to capture valuable data around the globe. The Argo floats, which are robotically programmed to record and transmit data, are uniquely positioned to provide important information about climate and weather phenomena. Other applications of Argo information inc...JCI table of contents, December 1 2004
...on: cells known as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) capture and internalize foreign material processing it into smaller peptide fragments, that are then presented on the cell surface to activate nave T cells to kill the pathogen. Natural killer (NK) cells are among the first cells of the immune response that ......hrases." Rose and colleagues obtained permits to capture sparrow nestlings, hand-feeding and raising them in the laboratory in sound-proof cages so they didn't hear each other. When the sparrows were 2 weeks old, the researchers began trying to teach them to sing by playing them segments of the complete ...Researchers improve predictions of cloud formation for better global climate modeling
...te within 10 to 20 percent. "We never expected to capture the physics to that degree," Nenes explained. "We were hoping for a 50 percent accuracy rate." Another challenge in predicting climate change is to understand how aerosols' chemistry affects cloud formation. Each particle has a different potential f......in taken with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To capture such brain images, physicians inject a contrast dye into a patient's bloodstream and look for accumulation of dye around the tumor. Though dye accumulation may be a sign of tumor progression, it is unclear whether that is always the case, particularl...