UBC Life Sciences Centre

[life SCIENCES]

F unctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive, powerful tool that has been utilized in both research and clinical arenas since the early 1990s [1] and has provided valuable insights to the understanding of the human brain function. fMRI has enabled researchers to directly study the temporal and spatial changes in the brain as a function of various stimuli. Because it relies on ...

X. National Centre for Laboratory Animal Sciences

During the nine months period 18195 animals were bred and 16,307 animals were supplied to various institutions including the parental organisation. However, the number of animals supplied to NIN including the animals for health monitoring is only 528 which is 2.1% of the total number of animals available. Rest of the animals were supplied to various research institutions including pharmaceutica...

Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Cluster Evolution at the Genome Sciences Centre

High Performance Computing has become a leading technology in the field of Bioinformatics. This is partly due to the completion of the Human Genome Project and many various other genome projects around the globe. These projects generated a lot of genetic data, which when mined, could improve our understanding of the many mysteries of biology and diseases like cancer. OSCAR has helped us de-myst...

Russian Academy of Sciences Dorodnicyn Computing Centre

Airline operations are disrupted frequently. The most impor-tant factors are unstable weather conditions and unpredictable techni-cal aeronautics problems. In a disrupted situation, an airline operatorneeds to quickly adjust the timetable and the resource schedules sothe importance of re-assignment of facilities to flight is much moreclearer. In this study, we considered the...