• Spatial distribution of large adjusted incidences shifted away from highly agricultural zones in the later periods, and clustering was not statistically significant. (medscape.com)
  • Significant spatial clustering was present in Hispanics infected with B. abortus during 1978-1982 ( Table 5 ) and also in Hispanic populations infected with B. melitensis for all 5-year periods except 1983-1987. (medscape.com)
  • Spatial clusters ('hotspots') of recently-diagnosed TB were identified using a space-time scan statistic. (nature.com)
  • Spatial clusters of recently-diagnosed TB were identified in a region characterized by a high prevalence of HIV and population movement. (nature.com)
  • This extension allows us to estimate space-time interaction as a function of spatial and temporal separation, and provides a useful reinterpretation of a popular test, due to Knox, for space-time interaction. (nih.gov)
  • We used a spatiotemporal cluster detection algorithm to monitor SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics and defined spatial cluster persistence as the time in days from emergence to disappearance. (frontiersin.org)
  • Using spatial cluster persistence measured outcome and a deprivation index based on neighborhood-level census socioeconomic data, stratified survival functions were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier estimator. (frontiersin.org)
  • Population-adjusted Moran's I (I pop ) analysis for spatial clustering of reported human brucellosis cases due to Brucella abortus and B. melitensis in Hispanic populations, California, 1973-1992. (cdc.gov)
  • a Percentage of estimated spatial clustering attributed to cases in same counties and in adjacent counties. (cdc.gov)
  • Specific statistical and mathematical approaches of interest include: density estimation, point pattern analysis, time geography, spatial optimization models, and network analysis. (bepress.com)
  • A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Artibonite, Haiti, to identify and characterize spatial clustering of malaria infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Associations among individual, household, and environmental risk factors for malaria, recent exposure, and living in spatial clusters of these outcomes were evaluated. (cdc.gov)
  • Two predominant overlapping spatial clusters of infection and recent exposure were identified. (cdc.gov)
  • spatial clusters are primarily associated with household-level risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • The smallest looser 'open clusters' have only a few stellar members, whilst the largest tightly bound 'globular clusters' have as many as several million stars. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Clusters of stars are found throughout our own and other galaxies and most stars are thought to have formed in them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • And the blue-colored regions show the space-time curvature, inferred from gravitational lensing which deforms the shape of galaxies behind the cluster. (blogspot.com)
  • Galaxies which combined in clusters, too, were moving too fast, indicating more pull than expected. (blogspot.com)
  • As the CMB photons travel toward Earth along their 14 billion-light-year journey from the universe's infancy, they occasionally pass through the hot, gaseous atmosphere that resides in gaps between galaxies in large clusters. (astronomy.com)
  • Galaxy clusters are enormous collections of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies and vast reservoirs of hot gas embedded in massive clouds of dark matter, invisible material that does not emit or absorb light but can be detected through its gravitational effects. (astronomynow.com)
  • The optical data shows galaxies in the clusters and other, more distant, galaxies lying behind the clusters. (astronomynow.com)
  • At cosmic distances, a huge cluster of galaxies in the foreground has so much mass that its gravitational pull bends beams of light from distant galaxies, producing distorted images of the faraway objects. (astronomy.com)
  • SatScan v9.1.1 was used to identify statistically significant retrospective space-time clusters. (uib.no)
  • A statistically significant excess of cases of a disease, occurring within a limited space-time continuum. (nih.gov)
  • Now Dr Sambaran Banerjee, Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, has worked with his University of Bonn colleagues Dr Holger Baumgardt and Professor Pavel Kroupa to develop the first self-consistent simulation of the movement of black holes in star clusters. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The scientists assembled their own star clusters on a high-performance supercomputer, and then calculated how they would evolve by tracing the motion of each and every star and black hole within them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Banerjee S., Baumgardt H., Kroupa P. Stellar-mass black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational wave radiation . (sciencedaily.com)
  • The size of gene clusters can vary significantly, from a few genes to several hundred genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Historically, four models have been proposed for the formation and persistence of gene clusters. (wikipedia.org)
  • It postulates that gene clusters were formed as a result of gene duplication and divergence. (wikipedia.org)
  • These gene clusters include the Hox gene cluster, the human β-globin gene cluster, and four clustered human growth hormone (hGH)/chorionic somaomammotropin genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conserved gene clusters, such as Hox and the human β-globin gene cluster, may be formed as a result of the process of gene duplication and divergence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Species who have gene clusters have a selective evolutionary advantage because natural selection must keep the genes together. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hox gene clusters, ranging in various sizes, are found among several phyla. (wikipedia.org)
  • I speculate that the origin of the three gene clusters was related to the origin, patterning and diversification of the three bilaterian germ layers. (nature.com)
  • Ca2+ generates large clusters (6% are pentamer or larger) by adding existing PIP2 dimers formed by strong O‒Ca2+‒O bridging interactions of unprotonated P4/P5 phosphates. (nih.gov)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world 1 , with epidemics being spatially heterogeneous, as indicated by evidence of geographic clustering at different resolution levels 2 , 3 . (nature.com)
  • Time-space analysis identifies increases in HIV diagnoses in a particular geographic area or population. (cdc.gov)
  • In many reports of cluster investigations, a geographic or temporal excess in the number of cases cannot be demonstrated. (cdc.gov)
  • SARS-CoV-2 spreads via close contact during daily activities which results in geographic clustering of cases ( 5 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Analyses should include time-space and molecular cluster detection. (cdc.gov)
  • Statistical analyses were made of the time-space configuration of 406 acute leukemia cases in DeKalb and Fulton Counties, Georgia, over the 13-yr period 1956-1968. (ashpublications.org)
  • Separate analyses were performed for each of three age groups, 0-14 yr, 15-49 yr, and 50 yr-plus, cases being assigned to 2- and 3-yr time segments and to census tract units according to date of onset and place of residence at diagnosis. (ashpublications.org)
  • Analyses done for various periods of time showed that degree of clustering depended greatly on placement of time boundaries. (ashpublications.org)
  • The analyses were conducted to determine sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) of case reporting to the PCR, estimate cancer incidence rates, and evaluate the presence of cancer clusters. (cdc.gov)
  • Results of cross-space-time clustering analyses. (nih.gov)
  • To investigate the association between socioeconomic deprivation and the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 clusters. (frontiersin.org)
  • Population density adjusted Cox proportional hazards (PH) regression models were then used to examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 clusters. (frontiersin.org)
  • The location and duration of persistence of these clusters-monitored using spatiotemporal cluster detection techniques-can provide unique insights into the determinants of transmission ( 6 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In the case of the Hox gene, a shared ancestral ProtoHox cluster was duplicated, resulting in genetic clusters in the Hox gene as well as the ParaHox gene, an evolutionary sister complex of the Hox gene. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the four gene model, the ProtoHox cluster contained four genes which resulted in two twin clusters: the Hox cluster and the ParaHox cluster. (wikipedia.org)
  • As its name indicates, the two gene model gave rise to the Hox cluster and the ParaHox cluster as a result of the ProtoHox cluster which contained only two genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • however, rather than the Hox cluster and the ParaHox cluster resulting from a cluster containing three genes, the Hox cluster and ParaHox cluster were as a result of single gene tandem duplication, identical genes found adjacent on the same chromosome. (wikipedia.org)
  • The formations of the Hox cluster and of the ParaHox cluster were results of intrachromosomal duplication, although they were initially thought to be interchromosomal. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hox, ParaHox and NK genes are related ANTP-class homeobox genes that are organized into chromosomal clusters in several metazoan lineages. (nature.com)
  • Both Hox and ParaHox clusters are thought to have arisen by duplication and divergence from an ancient ProtoHox cluster that was present in an ancestral animal. (nature.com)
  • Phylogenetic and chromosomal reconstructions indicate that the Hox and ParaHox clusters, as well as other ANTP homeobox classes (Evx, Meox, Gbx, Mnx and En) originated after successive gene duplications and chromosomal breakages from a founder ProtoHox -like gene. (nature.com)
  • A large array of ANTP-class homeobox genes - the homeobox megacluster that includes the Hox, ParaHox and NK clusters - existed early in metazoan evolution. (nature.com)
  • Hox, ParaHox and NK cluster genes are preferentially expressed in ectodermal, endodermal and mesodermal derivatives, respectively. (nature.com)
  • The linkage constraint is maintained for the Hox and ParaHox clusters in animals that have a slow mode of development, and for the NK cluster in insects. (nature.com)
  • Comparative genomics studies indicate that the more recently discovered ParaHox and NK clusters were linked to the Hox cluster early in evolution, and that together they constituted a 'megacluster' of homeobox genes that conspicuously contributed to body-plan evolution. (nature.com)
  • Figure 1: Genesis and evolution of Hox and ParaHox clusters. (nature.com)
  • The objective of this study was to assess the effect of mass distribution of bednets and indoor residual spraying (IRS) with insecticides on the spatio-temporal clustering of malaria in one malaria endemic village in south Ethiopia. (uib.no)
  • There was space-time clustering of malaria episodes at a household level. (uib.no)
  • however, the time-span of the spatio-temporal clustering of malaria cases ended after IRS with Deltamethrin. (uib.no)
  • The presence of clusters on the south-east edge of the village was consistent with the finding of an increasing risk of acquiring malaria infection for individuals who lived closer to the identified vector breeding site. (uib.no)
  • Free mass distribution of ITNs did not influence the spatio-temporal clustering of malaria, but IRS might have eliminated malaria clustering. (uib.no)
  • It could be distributed in just the right amounts wherever necessary and that way the data of every galaxy and galaxy cluster could be custom-fit. (blogspot.com)
  • That's because the SZ effect is the single most effective way to find every last galaxy cluster above a certain mass - 10,000 times more massive than our Milky Way Galaxy. (astronomy.com)
  • The rate of galaxy-cluster formation is critically dependent on how much matter is in the universe, including dark matter, as well as how matter was initially distributed. (astronomy.com)
  • Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACS J0416. (astronomynow.com)
  • This image shows the galaxy cluster Abell 1689, with the mass distribution of the dark matter in the gravitational lens overlaid (in purple). (astronomy.com)
  • The team measured the properties of the gravitational lensing in the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. (astronomy.com)
  • HIV cluster detection identifies communities affected by rapid HIV transmission . (cdc.gov)
  • CDC has provided Secure HIV-TRACE, a secure, web-based application for health departments to use for molecular cluster detection. (cdc.gov)
  • Numerous related issues--such as the epidemiologic workup of infectious disease outbreaks, the assessment of the health effects of environmental exposures, the prospective detection of clusters, and the investigation of interpersonal networks--are not addressed. (cdc.gov)
  • We investigated this hypothesis by combining spatiotemporal cluster detection with cluster survival analysis, an approach similar to the one applied to cancer data by Huang et al. (frontiersin.org)
  • First, the general situation of genetic algorithm and fuzzy genetic algorithm is introduced, and then, an improved genetic fuzzy clustering algorithm is proposed. (hindawi.com)
  • Compared with traditional clustering algorithm and improved genetic fuzzy clustering algorithm, the effectiveness of the algorithm proposed in this paper is proved. (hindawi.com)
  • Based on the analysis system development related tools and methods, in response to the needs of the student information management system, a simple student information management system is designed and implemented, which provides a platform and data source for the next application of clustering algorithm for performance analysis. (hindawi.com)
  • Finally, clustering the students' scores with a clustering algorithm based on fuzzy genetic algorithm, the experimental results show that this method can better analyze the students' scores and help relevant teachers and departments make decisions. (hindawi.com)
  • We show that the stricter requirement that if an algorithm accurately approximates the error of every bucket or every cluster produced by it, then these upper bounds are almost the best possible. (upenn.edu)
  • By modeling the behavior of stars in clusters, the team finds that they are ideal environments for black holes to coalesce. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Today's test flight also had a commercial element to it: Unity carried several payloads for NASA's Flight Opportunities program , including experiments designed to measure electromagnetic fields, study the behavior of dust in space conditions, and test technologies for doing surgery in space . (universetoday.com)
  • Do lexical concepts cluster in terms of their behavior in similar constructions across languages (of a particular family or area)? (linguistlist.org)
  • The black holes sink to the centre of the cluster, where a core that is completely made of up of black holes forms. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Especially on Saturday when Venus is in the centre of the cluster, which will drown out all but the dimmer members of the cluster. (blogspot.com)
  • An increasingly common public health problem is the perception that disease incidence has increased or a cluster of disease has occurred in a community. (nih.gov)
  • The analysis showed the existence of a cancer cluster, but overall cancer incidence and mortality in the BGA neighborhood were not elevated. (nih.gov)
  • however, over a long, evolutionary time period, the genetic information in the duplicated copy may undergo additional and drastic mutations in which the proteins of the duplicated gene served a different role than those of the original essential gene. (wikipedia.org)
  • ATSDR is overseeing 18 projects related persons with ET and PMF.2 Factors leading to this acquired to this cluster with partners including the PADOH, the genetic mutation are unknown. (cdc.gov)
  • Most of the clustering effect during 1973-1982 in Hispanic cases was found in southern and Central Valley counties. (medscape.com)
  • Clustering was present in both counties whether examined separately or combined, and it was more clearly seen in case distributions in DeKalb County. (ashpublications.org)
  • c All identified clustering due to cases in the same counties. (cdc.gov)
  • CML), essential thrombocytopenia (ET), primary myeloid significant cluster of PV cases near the intersection of the 3 fibrosis (PMF), and other related and unclassifiable MPNs, counties. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to having epidemiologic and statistical expertise, health agencies should recognize the social dimensions of a cluster and should develop an approach for investigating clusters that best maintains critical community relationships and that does not excessively deplete resources. (cdc.gov)
  • To provide epidemiologic and statistical source material to state and local health agencies to aid in their development of a systematic approach to the evaluation of clusters of health events. (cdc.gov)
  • In dealing with cluster reports, the general public is not likely to be satisfied with complex epidemiologic or statistical arguments that deny the existence or importance of a cluster. (cdc.gov)
  • We consider the problem of detecting and describing space-time interaction in point process data. (nih.gov)
  • Health departments can identify HIV clusters through analyzing surveillance data. (cdc.gov)
  • Health departments should analyze HIV surveillance data monthly to quickly identify and monitor HIV clusters. (cdc.gov)
  • There are different approaches to analyzing molecular data to identify clusters, and not all focus on identifying rapid transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • The Cluster Active Archive (CAA) (URL: http://caa.estec.esa.int) will contain the entire set of Cluster high-resolution data and other allied products in a standard format and with a complete set of metadata in machine readable format. (esa.int)
  • The CAA became operational in February 2006 and as of Summer 2008 has data from most of the Cluster instruments for at least the first 5 years of operations (2001-2005). (esa.int)
  • In the below image of the Bullet Cluster you see three types of data overlaid. (blogspot.com)
  • It has the highest rack-space efficiency and is available with Seagate Secure™ advanced data security. (nor-tech.com)
  • No unusual features of the cancer data other than the initiating cluster were identified and no environmental hazard likely to impact the BGA neighborhood was discovered, hence we conclude that the most likely cause of the cancer cluster was random variation in cancer rates. (nih.gov)
  • These new images of MACS J0416 and MACS J0717 contain data from three different telescopes: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, and blue), and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). (astronomynow.com)
  • The Chandra data shows gas in the merging clusters with temperatures of millions of degrees. (astronomynow.com)
  • An investigation of a reported cancer cluster in Randolph, Massachusetts. (nih.gov)
  • Purpose: The objectives of this study were 1) to assess PV reporting to the PCR in 2006-2009, 2) to determine whether a cancer cluster persisted, and 3) to determine whether other myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), including essential thrombocytopenia (ET), were subject to similar reporting problems. (cdc.gov)
  • Virgin Galactic's schedule calls for an assessment of the flight test's results, to be followed by another space shot with four company employees riding along as passengers. (universetoday.com)
  • Introduction: The results of a 2001-2005 polycythemia vera (PV) investigation in Eastern Pennsylvania revealed a disease cluster plus underreporting and false reporting to the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry (PCR). (cdc.gov)
  • So you will be reporting individual subject results in original space? (nih.gov)
  • But still, such a mask need not be applied until actually clustering or otherwise correcting the results. (nih.gov)
  • An NK cluster of seven homeobox genes existed before the divergence of protostomes and deuterosomes. (nature.com)
  • Astronomers can trace this history more closely by looking at how clusters have evolved over time. (astronomy.com)
  • To learn more about clusters, including how they grow via collisions, astronomers have used some of the world's most powerful telescopes, looking at different types of light. (astronomynow.com)
  • An open question for astronomers about MACS J0416 has been: are we seeing a collision in these clusters that is about to happen or one that has already taken place? (astronomynow.com)
  • An international team of astronomers, using gravitational lensing observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has taken an important step forward in the quest to solve the riddle of dark energy, a phenomenon that mysteriously appears to power the universe's accelerating expansion. (astronomy.com)
  • however, models exist suggesting that the duplicated Protohox cluster originally contained four, three, or two genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was independent of duplication of the ancestral ProtoHox cluster. (wikipedia.org)
  • They call it the "Bullet Cluster. (blogspot.com)
  • The Bullet Cluster. (blogspot.com)
  • The Bullet Cluster comes to play an important role in the humanoids' understanding of the universe. (blogspot.com)
  • They needed an observation able to rule out one of these ideas, a smoking gun signal - the Bullet Cluster. (blogspot.com)
  • The scientists estimated the probability for a Bullet-Cluster-like collision to be about one in ten billion, and concluded: that we see such a collision is incompatible with the concordance model . (blogspot.com)
  • And that's how the Bullet Cluster became strong evidence in favor of modified gravity. (blogspot.com)
  • However, a few years later some inventive humanoids had optimized the dark-matter based computer simulations and arrived at a more optimistic estimate of a probability of 4.6×10 -4 for seeing something like the Bullet-Cluster . (blogspot.com)
  • Either way, the Bullet Cluster remained a stunningly unlikely event to happen in the theory of particle dark matter. (blogspot.com)
  • The Bullet Cluster isn't the incontrovertible evidence for particle dark matter that you have been told it is. (blogspot.com)
  • It's possible to explain the Bullet Cluster with models of modified gravity. (blogspot.com)
  • How come we so rarely read about the difficulties the Bullet Cluster poses for particle dark matter? (blogspot.com)
  • If the clusters were being observed after colliding the dark matter and hot gas should separate from each other, as seen in the famous colliding cluster system known as the Bullet Cluster. (astronomynow.com)
  • A spacewalk last set for Thursday (Oct. 19) will now happen later in 2023 as NASA and Russia's federal space agency, Roscosmos , continue their analysis, NASA officials stated . (space.com)
  • During 1988-1992, substantial clustering of Hispanic cases also occurred in the San Francisco Bay area and southern California. (medscape.com)
  • Non-Hispanic cases were significantly clustered in the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay area during 1983-1987. (medscape.com)
  • Cases also clustered in southern California during 1988-1992. (medscape.com)
  • Cases in the non-Hispanic population were not clustered during any period. (medscape.com)
  • Evidence of inhomogeneity of time-space configurations, based on case clustering, was found among cases in the 0-14 age group but not at older ages. (ashpublications.org)
  • We did not identify any PV cancer clusters, but we did identify a cluster of 9 ET cases in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area. (cdc.gov)
  • These merger events produce ripples in time and space (gravitational waves) that could be detected by instruments from as early as 2015. (sciencedaily.com)
  • These waves of curvature in space-time are known as gravitational waves and will temporarily distort any object they pass through. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In the cores of stars clusters, black hole binaries are sufficiently tightly bound to be significant sources of gravitational waves. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The extreme events created disturbances in space that sent gravitational waves rippling across at least 900 million lightyears to reach Earth. (nor-tech.com)
  • Virgin Galactic noted that Sturckow, a former NASA astronaut, is now the first person to take part in space launches from three states. (universetoday.com)
  • NASA officials have again postponed one of two forthcoming spacewalks in the wake of a recent coolant leak on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. (space.com)
  • The coolant is not toxic or hazardous for the crew, but experts are discussing how to best keep small traces of the substance from getting into some internal systems to avoid equipment degradation over time," NASA officials wrote in a blog post Monday (Oct. 16). (space.com)
  • The first postponed spacewalk (already delayed a few days due to the leak) will include NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen. (space.com)
  • The humanoids concluded that their theory, according to which gravity was due to space-time curvature, had to be modified. (blogspot.com)
  • The organization of the cluster has been maintained largely intact in fruitflies and mosquitoes, but has been split into three in chordates. (nature.com)
  • SARS-CoV-2 clusters persisted significantly longer in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. (frontiersin.org)
  • Health departments can also develop their own approaches to time-space analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Review of Cluster Analysis Software. (nih.gov)
  • Network-theoretic analysis of multimicrosecond atomistic simulations of PIP2 containing asymmetric bilayers under protein-free conditions, presented here, reveals how design principles of PIP2 clustering are determined by the specific cation effects. (nih.gov)
  • In this short paper we give a brief review of the DSP mission and show its joint capability with Cluster by showing examples of use of some early and more recent analysis techniques and their application to (more than) four spacecraft. (esa.int)
  • Bayesian analysis of time evolution of earthquakes. (ncl.edu.tw)
  • Techniques for analysis of disease clustering in space and in time in veterinary epidemiology. (ajtmh.org)
  • Re: Is it needed to use -mask_apply epi option for subject-individual-space analysis? (nih.gov)
  • This will also be good in medium power telescope eyepieces (high power eyepieces will miss most of the cluster). (blogspot.com)
  • They point their telescope at the clusters' relics and admire its odd shape. (blogspot.com)
  • Earthquakes cluster in time and in space. (bioedonline.org)
  • People think 'well you've had your bad luck', but earthquakes cluster in time and in space. (bioedonline.org)
  • A space-time clustering model for historical earthquakes. (ncl.edu.tw)
  • Despite their irregular appearances, the avalanche patterns are highly organized in space and time obeying precise rules similar to those found for earthquakes. (nih.gov)
  • Significant clustering was also observed in the Hispanic-specific California population for all study periods except 1983-1987. (medscape.com)
  • From these simulations, the scientists could tell the frequency by which galaxy clusters should collide and the typical relative speed at which that should happen. (blogspot.com)
  • In fact, scientists for the first time have detected "avalanches" of cortex activity in awake monkeys at rest. (nih.gov)
  • You can set up your personal account to receive an email alert each time this article is cited by a new article (see the menu on the right-hand side of the abstract page). (aanda.org)
  • They have focused long observations with these telescopes on a half dozen galaxy clusters. (astronomynow.com)
  • A gene cluster is a group of two or more genes found within an organism's DNA that encode similar polypeptides, or proteins, which collectively share a generalized function and are often located within a few thousand base pairs of each other. (wikipedia.org)
  • Genes found in a gene cluster may be observed near one another on the same chromosome or on different, but homologous chromosomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • An example of a gene cluster is the Hox gene, which is made up of eight genes and is part of the Homeobox gene family. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over the long, evolutionary time period, the two similar genes would diverge so the proteins of each gene were unique in their functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • When gene duplication occurs to produce a gene cluster, one or multiple genes may be duplicated at once. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the case where a gene cluster is duplicated, some genes may be lost. (wikipedia.org)
  • Loss of genes is dependent of the number of genes originating in the gene cluster. (wikipedia.org)
  • When stars are as close together as they are in clusters, then although still rare events, the likelihood of collisions and mergers between stars of all types, including black holes, is much higher. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A cluster model for space-time disease counts. (nih.gov)
  • A study of space-time clustering in Hodgkin's disease in the Manchester region. (bmj.com)
  • CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/cluster_response.htm . (nih.gov)
  • As the disease progresses to cirrhosis, an elevated bilirubin level, a prolonged prothrombin time, and a decreased albumin level can be found. (medscape.com)
  • this mutation, JAK2V617F , is found in more cluster area.3 In 2009, Congress funded ATSDR to continue than 90% of persons with PV and in approximately 50% of this investigation. (cdc.gov)
  • 2005 . Community clusters of childhood leukemia and lymphoma: evidence of infection? (nih.gov)
  • Today's flight sees New Mexico become the third U.S. state to launch humans to space," after Florida and California, Virgin Galactic said in a post-mission press release . (universetoday.com)
  • The others include Florida space shuttle launches and Unity's California test flight in 2018. (universetoday.com)
  • A privately funded orbital flight in SpaceX's Crew Dragon is scheduled for liftoff by as early as September, and another all-civilian crew is training for a SpaceX ride to the International Space Station in January. (universetoday.com)
  • But searching the sky for these distortions is worth the effort for a University of Chicago team and for their collaborators at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Columbia University, and Caltech. (astronomy.com)
  • Mesoscopic scales are 10 times the duration of the action potential (1 ms) and 100 times the diameter of the synapse (1 micron). (scholarpedia.org)
  • Definition, Background, and Characteristics of Clusters As used in these guidelines, the term 'cluster' is an unusual aggregation, real or perceived, of health events that are grouped together in time and space and that are reported to a health agency. (cdc.gov)
  • 3. Time trends and characteristics of childhood cancer among children age 0-14 in Shanghai. (nih.gov)
  • We are able to prove a local (in time) existence result in arbitrary space dimensions. (projecteuclid.org)
  • The primary goals of the Cluster mission include three-dimensional studies of small-scale plasma structures and turbulence in the key plasma regions in the Earth's environment: solar wind and bow shock, magnetopause, polar cusps, magnetotail, and auroral zone. (esa.int)
  • The four-satellite Cluster mission investigates the small-scale structures and physical processes related to interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma. (esa.int)
  • Remarkably, though, the strength of the SZ effect is independent of distance, so the SZA is capable of finding galaxy clusters as far back in space and time as such structures have existed. (astronomy.com)
  • As space expands, it becomes harder for gravity to sculpt matter into huge structures like galaxy clusters. (astronomy.com)
  • Following the discussion, weather permitting, we will enjoy flatbread and time to learn about about the shmita adjacent practices of the Knoll. (middlebury.edu)
  • Additionally, HIV clusters can be identified by providers, partner services and frontline staff, and community members. (cdc.gov)
  • Clinical providers or community members may help identify HIV clusters. (cdc.gov)
  • Underscoring the gravity of the situation, the county saw its first COVID-19 death on May 17 - a 97-year-old woman who'd been residing at Alder Bay Assisted Living - followed by its second on May 19, another resident of the facility, which has become the epicenter of an outbreak cluster, with seven residents and five staff members having tested positive for the virus in recent days. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • CDC http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/fallon/study.htm . (nih.gov)
  • It also lets them study the effect of dark energy on the geometry of space in the light path from the distant objects to the lensing cluster and then from the cluster to us. (astronomy.com)
  • The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it," said Priyamvada Natarajan from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. (astronomy.com)
  • The cluster in the upper left contains a compact core of hot gas, most easily seen in a specially processed image, and also shows evidence of a nearby cavity, or hole in the X-ray emitting gas. (astronomynow.com)
  • According to a key prediction of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, black hole binaries stir the space-time around them, generating waves that propagate away like ripples on the surface of a lake. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity and was used by the team to probe how cosmological distances, and thus the shape of space-time, are modified by dark energy. (astronomy.com)