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Anisotropy: - In hydrology, the conditions under which one or more hydraulic properties of an aquifer vary from a reference point.
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Hitachi, HGST Achieve 610Gb/inch2 HDD Recording Density by Using ...  -  04 Aug 2008
Tech-On English,Therefore, on the recording layer of the graded medium, thermal stability-related anisotropy field is altered in accordance with the film-thickness

Abnormal anterior cingulum integrity in bipolar disorder ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription),Fractional anisotropy in the anterior and posterior cingulum was compared between 42 participants with bipolar disorder and 42 healthy participants using

Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
PhysOrg.com,A recording layer was developed with an anisotropy field gradually increasing in the thickness direction. Generally, the greater the anisotropy field,

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Findings in First-Episode and Chronic ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)METHOD: Fractional anisotropy data generated by diffusion tensor imaging with a 3-T Siemens Allegra head-dedicated MRI system were compared between 40

Influence Of Mesoscale Porosity On Cortical Bone Anisotropy ...  -  Jul 16, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),The directional dependence of its material behaviour (anisotropy) arises primarily from two sources - anisotropy of the matrix and the so-called mesoscale

Current Topics in Refractory Metals Research  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,Worse still, the anisotropy coefficients traditionally used for deformation processing calculations aren't constant during deformation and the

MDS Analytical buys Blueshift Biotechnologies  -  Jul 6, 2008
LabTechnologist.com,The system's unique optics enable it to generate anisotropy measurements about the degree of polarized emission from an excited molecule in a range of

Production of Thermal Insulation Composites Containing Bamboo Charcoal  -  Aug 1, 2008
RedOrbit,They found fabric architecture, the degree of fiber anisotropy, and the relative magnitude of fiber and matrix conductivity significantly affected thermal

Ordure, ordure, ordure!  -  Jul 31, 2008
spectroscopyNOW.com (subscription),1 H- 13 C heteronuclear correlation NMR, 13 C chemical shift anisotropy filtering, CH-signal selection, and other spectral-editing techniques,

Full Text  -  Jul 31, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)...in the cosmic microwave background, carried out by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), place constraints on the onset of reionization.

Shimmering Ferroelectric Domains  -  Jul 25, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Anisotropy Contrast in Phonon-Enhanced Apertureless Near-Field Microscopy Using a Free-Electron Laser. Physical Review Letters, 2008; 100 (25): 256403 DOI:

Functionalizing hydrogen-bonded surface networks with self ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
Nature.com (subscription),Role of interaction anisotropy in the formation and stability of molecular templates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156101– (2008) | Article | PubMed | ChemPort

Water-diffusion Technology Identifies Brain Regions Damaged By ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Furthermore, an indicator of white matter integrity called "fractional anisotropy," and a measure of average water diffusion called "mean diffusivity," were

Differential Modulation of Membrane Structure and Fluctuations By ...  -  Jul 25, 2008
RedOrbit,Bernsdorff and Winter (39), in turn observed, using steady-state fluorescence anisotropy measurements on dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC)/sterol

Phase Transitions of Dirac Electrons in Bismuth  -  Jul 24, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)We report the observation of sharp field-induced phase transitions into a state with striking magnetic anisotropy, consistent with the breaking of the

Archimedean-like tiling on decagonal quasicrystalline surfaces  -  Jul 24, 2008
Nature.com (subscription),High frictional anisotropy of periodic and aperiodic directions on a quasicrystal surface. Science 309, 1354–1356 (2005) | Article | PubMed | ChemPort

Anti-basal ganglia antibodies not associated with brain changes in ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
Medicexchange,Similarly, diffusion tensor imaging showed no significant difference in white matter fractional anisotropy for any of the regions of interest.

DOE Funded Research Projects Win 30 R&D Awards for 2008  -  Jul 23, 2008
PressZoom (press release),2-MGEM: Optical Anisotropy Factor Measurement System – used to characterize light polarization properties of a sample more accurately and reliably than

Storage Mania – Seagate's 1.5 Terabyte Drive  -  Jul 18, 2008
TMCnet...of bit (or magnetic grain) volume times the uniaxial anisotropy constant Ku, which in turn is higher for a material with a higher magnetic coercivity.

CGA Mining Limited - Announcement to the Australian Securities ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),...variograms was controlled locally using the orientation of the mineralisation through the application of Datamine Studio's dynamic anisotropy method.

Site Rio Tinto HQ Paddington, London W2  -  Jul 18, 2008
Building Design,The heat strengthening creates internal stresses that appear as coloured areas in polarised light, and are referred to as “anisotropy� or more commonly as

Tournigan Upgrades Portion of Kuriskova Resource to Indicated ...  -  Jul 16, 2008
Market Wire (press release)...the block model within domain wireframes was carried out using an inverse distance to the power three method and a dynamic anisotropy search option.

Studying protein folding using laser tweezers  -  Jul 14, 2008
pro-physik.de,...ii) unfolding and refolding pathways, iii) magnitude of the forces that hold together secondary and tertiary structures; iv) anisotropy of the protein’s

Show heralds a bright future for  -  Jul 9, 2008
Laboratory Talk,Thursday: Yanzhou Zhou - 'Frequency Domain Imaging of Lifetime and Anisotropy Spectra'. Life Science Light Microscopy: Steve Lowry - 'Portion of

Preseismic velocity changes observed from active source monitoring ...  -  Jul 10, 2008
Nature.com (subscription),70, 381–389 (1965) | Article | Nur, A. Effects of stress on velocity anisotropy in rocks with cracks. J. Geophys. Res. 76, 2022–2034 (1971) | Article | ISI

QUE FORMA TIENE EL UNIVERSO?.  -  Jul 29, 2008
Diario Digital de Alcorcón,Es lo que parece deducible a partir de los datos de la radiación difusa del fondo cósmico proporcionadas por WMap-3, (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

La masa “oscuraâ€? del Universo crece linealmente con la distancia  -  Jul 16, 2008
Tendencias Científicas,Página de la NASA del proyecto del satélite MAP (Microwave Anisotropy Probe ), con enlaces a todo tipo de temas astronómicos, incluida la materia oscura.

Electromagnetic Anisotropy Detects Prostate Cancer Noninvasively  -  Nov 15, 2007
Cancerpage.com,By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK NOV 14, 2007 (Reuters Health) - The tissue-resonance interaction method (TRIM) for analyzing electromagnetic anisotropy can be

Page to deliver first President's Lecture, Dec. 4  -  Nov 28, 2007
Princeton University,Page will discuss recent results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite experiment, a collaboration between NASA and several

Possible Evidence for Parallel Universe  -  Nov 28, 2007
Methuselah Foundation,Last August, astronomers working on the analysis of data being acquired by NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite announced that they

Cosmological Data Affected By An Unexpected Source Of Radiation In ...  -  Nov 12, 2007
Space Daily,This anisotropy may represent the first step in the structural evolution of the universe, a middle ground between the ultra-smooth cosmic microwave

Big Bang Residue? Or Nearby Clouds Of Gas?  -  Nov 13, 2007
Wired News...very slightly across different portions of the sky, an observation confirmed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) launched in 2001.

Disruption of White Matter Integrity in the Inferior Longitudinal ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
Archives of General PsychiatryMain Outcome Measures Fractional anisotropy, trace, and radial diffusivity of diffusion tensor and quantitative tractography.

Technologies pave way for magnetoresistive RAM  -  Nov 11, 2007
Electronics Talk (press release),In making these major advances, Toshiba applied and proved the spin transfer switching and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) technologies in a

The Cosmic Geometer  -  Nov 30, 2007
Walrus Magazine,The results would be compared to reality – that is, the data soon to arrive from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).

Full Text  -  Nov 7, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Anisotropy of the cosmic rays with the highest energies could manifest as clustering of events from individual point sources or through the correlation of

Full Text  -  Nov 22, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)The requirement of developing sufficient shape anisotropy and rigidity in the aggregate units puts considerable constraints on the sDNA structure in order

Toshiba Proposes Technique to Reduce Variation in Bit in Spin ...  -  Nov 12, 2007
Tech-On English,It should be noted that the evaluation was made on a device based on the in-plane magnetic anisotropy, not the one using the perpendicular magnetic

Heart Defects in Newborns Linked to Brain Abnormalities  -  Nov 8, 2007
MedPage Today,Fractional anisotropy of white-matter tracts, which increases with maturation. The study found that, compared with the normal infants, those with congenital

Abnormal Brain Development in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease  -  Nov 7, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),...average diffusivity (which decreases with maturation), and fractional anisotropy of white-matter tracts (which increases with maturation).

Big Bang or Big Goof? Astronomer Challenges 'Seeds' Proof  -  Nov 15, 2007
Wired NewsIn 2003, higher-resolution images of the seeds were taken by another satellite, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, known as WMAP, showing numerous

Big-bang satellite data 'not flawed'  -  Nov 14, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite has been investigating the afterglow of the big bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB)

New Polymer istailored For Optical Applications  -  Nov 9, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The source of this effect is a crystal lattice that has different optical properties along its various axes (anisotropy). Birefringent optical components

Has first evidence of another universe been seen?  -  Nov 24, 2007
iTWire,Several teams of astronomers have used data from the NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to make

TGS Secures New $40 Million Pre-commitment for First Wide-Azimuth ...  -  Nov 24, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),Additionally, TGS is re-processing its existing Mississippi Canyon Revival 3D data using Turning Wave Kirchhoff PSDM with anisotropy correction in order to

Heart Defects Can Delay Baby's Brain Development  -  Nov 7, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution,Finally, babies with heart defects also displayed a decrease of 12 percent in white-matter fractional anisotropy, meaning the brain's white matter was less

End-to-End Stacking and Liquid Crystal Condensation of 6– to 20 ...  -  Nov 22, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...found to exhibit nematic and columnar liquid crystal phases, even though such duplexes lack the shape anisotropy required for liquid crystal ordering.

Analysis confronts model of universe’s formation  -  Nov 16, 2007
physicsworld.com,Data taken by the COBE satellite in 1993, and to a greater extent by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in 2003, showed that tiny temperature

TGS Secures New $40 Million Pre  -  Nov 16, 2007
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung),Additionally, TGS is re-processing itsexisting Mississippi Canyon Revival 3D data using Turning wavekirchhoff PSDM with anisotropy correction in order to

Sand could shed light on quark-gluon plasma  -  Nov 13, 2007
physicsworld.com,They measured this anisotropy using the same dimensionless parameter used to characterize the RHIC plasmas and found them to be very similar.

Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Spinocerebellar Ataxias Types 1 and 2  -  Nov 12, 2007
AJNR (subscription),We aimed at determining whether measurements of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) may enable their differentiation.

Toshiba makes mram breakthroughs  -  Nov 12, 2007
New Electronics,In particular, Toshiba has appliced two technologies: spin transfer switching and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). With spin transfer switching,

Hitachi Improves Laminated Ferri Structure in Spin Injection MRAM  -  Nov 12, 2007
Tech-On English,This structure can provide equivalently large anisotropy fields and thereby enhances the thermal stability. Hitachi and the university investigated how to

Full Text  -  Nov 8, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Systems with chemical anisotropy have great promise for forming new structures with otherwise unattainable properties (2). Theoretical studies by Zhang et

Full Text  -  Nov 8, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Such "anisotropy" suggests that researchers are finally on the trail of the rays'origins and gives scientists a new way to view the heavens, Cronin says:

New Options Add Functionality to Lake Shore Vibrating Sample ...  -  Nov 5, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),Vector/torque and automated sample rotation options extend the utility of the 7400 series VSM for magnetic anisotropy studies. A Helmholtz coil option is

Frac-pack in Ultra Deep Water: Lessons Learned from a Hundred of ...  -  Nov 2, 2007
Revista Fator,...efficiency is affected by prior calibration tests, horizontal stress anisotropy for unconsolidated sands, stress contrast for layered sandstones, etc.

Special to Page 2  -  Nov 13, 2007
ESPNThe latest estimate from nasa's Microwave Anisotropy Probe suggests that space is 4 percent ordinary matter, 22 percent dark matter and 74 percent dark




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