Science news articles about 'measurement system'

  • Biosensor for measuring stress in cells

    ... dynamically. This is guaranteed with our biosensor, which works down to the scale of seconds.” The measuring system allows researchers to determine those short-term variations that occur when reactive ...
  • New LIDAR system sees the sky in 3-D

    ... Foundation and Switzerland's National Weather service, MeteoSwiss, will inaugurate a new LIDAR measurement system in Payerne, Switzerland. This technically innovative installation, unique in the world ...
  • Error message! How mobile phones distort measurements

    ... cases rejected the verification of vehicle scales. The awareness that the interference resistance of measuring systems is very decisively dependent on the configuration and the installation on site ...
  • A BBVA Foundation project comes up with a system enabling detection of cetacean hearing loss

    ... world's first portable system for measuring cetacean hearing sensitivity. This audiogram measurement system facilitates in situ diagnosis of cetacean hearing loss, allowing assessments to be run on ...
  • Dose Measurement During Prostate Cancer Treatment

    ... to check the exact amount of the dose. For this purpose, scientists have now developed a measuring system in the case of which the amino acid "alanine", whose radiation transport properties resemble ...
  • All in sight: Scientists test infrared system for the protection of whales

    A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the ...
  • Nano measurement in the third dimension

    ... intercomparisons on step-height standards and lattice structures have shown that the measuring system is worldwide one of the most precise of its kind. For step heights, measurement uncertainties in ...
  • Nanoengineered barrier invented to protect plastic electronics from water degradation

    ... IMRE project team has developed a highly sensitive moisture and oxygen permeation measurement system in tandem with the development of the film which is able to effectively measure permeation of less ...
  • New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision

    ... color-coded graphics. The findings are an extension of research to create an ultra-precise measuring system for devices having features on the size scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter. ...
  • Hotline to the cowshed

    ... Economic Affairs and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Gelderland province. The new measuring system is slated to go into service as of mid-2008, and will be tested on pilot farms ...
  • Hotline To The Cowshed

    A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.
  • Introducing the next generation of chemical reactors

    ... of smart "small footprint", greener reactors. The responsive reaction systems we are investigating could make the measurement systems currently used in reactors redundant." The technique is being ...
  • A new approach in tsunami-early warning

    ... sea, are still relatively low. Innovative measuring and filter procedures allow the normal sea ... wide innovation. Since data from the different measuring systems complement each other, a precise matching ...
  • Angular observation of joints of geckos moving on horizontal and vertical surfaces

    ... of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) used a three-dimensional locomotion video-recording and measuring system to observe and measure the angular rotation of joints in gecko's limbs when they were ...
  • Faces and race

    ... . Brown University and University of Victoria researchers learned this through a new measurement system and protocol they developed to train Caucasian subjects to recognize different African American ...

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