The Ames test is a biological assay to assess the mutagenic potential of chemical compounds.

The procedure is described in a series of papers from the early 1970s by Bruce Ames and his group at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Ames test uses several strains of the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium that carry mutations in genes involved in histidine synthesis i. e. it is an auxotrophic mutant, so that they require histidine for growth.

Another example is CFD, a special variant of Fortran designed specifically for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, running at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University ( ISU or SciTech ), is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.

He works for a while as a substitute teacher and comes to the town of Ames Crossing, where he meets a girl named Harriet Ames who is no taller than he is.

Leon Ames is seen and heard in the train wreck sequence.

It is the second-oldest alternating current power plant in the world, the first being the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant near Ophir, Colorado, also in San Miguel County.

Ames White ( Martin Cummins ), a government agent introduced early in the second season trying to eliminate the loose transgenics, is revealed to be a member of the cult.

When a strange message written in Max's genetic code makes an appearance on her skin, it is revealed that Sandeman is a renegade from the breeding cult and Ames White is his son, who is still loyal to the cult and hates his father's transgenic creations with a passion.

The Ames Research Center ( ARC ), is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) major research center.

Although Ames is a NASA Research Center, and not a flight center, nevertheless it has been closely involved in a number of astronomy and space missions.

Ames is also a partner on the Mars Science Laboratory, a next generation Mars rover to explore for signs of organics and complex molecules.

Smith DeFrance, Ames ' founding director, is second from the left.

Ames is the home of NASA's large research and development divisions in Advanced Supercomputing, Human Factors, and Artificial Intelligence ( Intelligent Systems ).

Ames operates one of the world ′ s fastest supercomputers, Pleiades, which will be further enhanced and is scheduled to reach 10 petaflops of processing power by 2012.

Ames Research Center also houses the world's largest wind tunnel, part of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex ( NFAC ): it is large enough to test full-sized planes, rather than scale models.

One of the projects between Ames, Google, and Carnegie Mellon University is the Gigapan Project — a robotic platform for creating, sharing, and annotating terrestrial gigapixel images.

The NASA Ames Exploration Center is a science museum and education center for NASA.

Authorities were satisfied that Ames had no knowledge of the case, as he did not work for the FBI and is not thought to have had access to the case files.

In one notable and lengthy land rights case, ' The Queen v. Ames ', Hayward acted on behalf of the town of Lyme Regis in securing the permanent right of way for its citizens, across the cliffs to Axminster.

The fax was allegedly written by ex-CIA officer David Sullivan, and addressed to members of Congress investigating CIA issues, including the Aldrich Ames spy case.

He held open hearings to bring the intelligence community's post – Cold War activities to light and began a committee investigation into the Aldrich Ames espionage case.

Aging private detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old Mel Ames to her home.

* On the TV series Bored to Death, unlicensed private detective Jonathan Ames investigates a case based at a Russian nightclub in Brighton Beach.

The story of A. V. Swanson, who in 1911 left Bjuv at age 20 and settled in Ames, Iowa eight years later is a case study in farming and business success.

Luka won the case, but he and Abby were stalked for months by a vengeful Ames.

He was the case officer for both Aldrich Ames, a CIA counter-intelligence officer, and Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent, when they spied for the Soviet Union.

When Ames moved to the Warner Music Group, he took the label with him, and so almost all of London's recent back catalogue was acquired by Warner, which also acquired the London name and trademark from Decca ( which still owns pre-PolyGram back catalogue ).

An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls parallel to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling.

Curtis found the land wall lightly defended and was prepared to attack, but was prevented from doing so by Ames.

Les Ames agreed with Wyatt's view and said that, though the majority of the England players were morally opposed to Jardine's tactics, Sutcliffe took the pragmatic view that " the ball is there, it's short, so hook it ".

England wicket-keeper Les Ames, himself a top-class batsman, commented on their running together between the wickets by emphasising the placement of the stroke, which was so correct that they could " just play and run ".

Ames was much influenced in terms of method by Ramism, and opposed the residual teaching of Aristotle.

There is a large gypsum formation extending across much of western Oklahoma, and the Ames Structure, which is buried under 3, 000 meters of sand and soil and is possibly the result of a meteorite impact.

Not only did Ames believe that there was " as much money as could ever use " in betraying these intelligence assets, but their elimination would also reduce the chance of his own espionage being discovered.

Ames owed much to the investigations of others.

In that year Ames offered to members of Congress shares of stock in Crédit Mobilier at its discounted value rather than market value, which was much higher.

Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English / Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation.

Though he received much of his experience and training by observing and working with his father, Ames attended Rush Medical College in Chicago and received his M. D.

Processes developed at Ames Laboratory resulted in the production of the purest rare-earth metals in the world while at the same time reducing the price of the metals as much as 1, 000 percent.

His role as Mingo led to an famous tomahawk-throwing demonstration on The Tonight Show, that was rerun on anniversary clip shows for decades afterward, in which Ames threw a tomahawk at a target of a man and the hatchet landed between the cutout's legs, much to host Johnny Carson's amusement.

He played 24 Test matches for England, but as a wicket-keeper he was in direct competition in his later years with Les Ames, who was a much better batsman.

He spent much of his working life at the Dartmouth Eye Institute, to which he was appointed by Adelbert Ames, Jr ..

Young Boughton, the apple of his parents ' eye but deeply disliked by Ames, seeks Ames out ; much of the tension in the novel results from Ames's mistrust of Jack Boughton and particularly of his relationship with Lila and their son.

Although there is action in the story, its mainspring lies in Ames ' theological struggles on a whole series of fronts: with his grandfather's engagement in the Civil War, with his own loneliness through much of his life, with his brother's clear and his father's apparent loss of belief, with his father's desertion of the town, with the hardships of people's lives, and above all with his feelings of hostility and jealousy towards young Boughton, whom he knows at some level he has to forgive.