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 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.

The largest single employers are North Bend Central Public Schools, which employs 76 people and serves Morse Bluff and Ames as well as North Bend ; and Birchwood Manor, a nursing home with 72 employees.

Ames Plantation, the former home of Hobart Ames, is also located in the area.

The town is also home to the National Field Trial Championships, which are held at Ames Plantation.

Ames died in 1933 at the age of 97 in his winter home, located in Ormond Beach, Florida, next to the former Southern plantation which had been seized by his friend John D. Rockefeller.

Frightened residents meet at the home of Henry Abhart ( Leon Ames ), an elderly ham radio operator.

Henniker is home to New England College, Ames State Forest and Craney Hill State Forest.

There is a National Old-Time Country Music Contest and Festival in Avoca, which draws upwards of 50, 000 people according to The Country Music Lover's Guide to the U. S. A ... Iowa is also home to the Iowa Women's Music Festival and the Central Iowa Traditional Dance and Music Festival in Ames.

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

England wicket-keeper Les Ames believed this was crucial to an England victory, or the home team would have batted in very difficult conditions.

Alleman is located approximately halfway ( five miles north of Ankeny ) between Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, and Ames, home of Iowa State University.

The Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex is home to the College staff that sponsors eight intercollegiate club teams featuring Ultimate Frisbee, Rugby, Lacrosse and Golf as well as an extensive intramural sports program offering Racquetball, Basketball, Soccer, Floor Hockey and Flag Football.

Burner's home on Ames Lake, near Carnation, Washington, was completely destroyed by a fire during the 2008 campaign for Congress.

NASA's Ames Research Center managed the probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

Research at NASA's Ames Research Center has demonstrated that a robotic Dragon would be capable of a fully propulsive landing on the Martian surface.

In September 2009, Ames launched NEBULA as a fast and powerful Cloud Computing Platform to handle NASA's massive data sets that complied with security requirements.

The theater shows movies with footage from NASA's explorations of Mars and the planets, and about the contributions of the scientists at NASA Ames Research Center.

Most of the funding for STScI activities comes from contracts with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center but there are smaller activities funded by NASA's Ames Research Center, NASA ’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the European Space Agency ( ESA ).

During this period at least one waverider was tested at the Woomera Rocket Range, mounted on the nose of an air-launched Blue Steel missile, and a number of airframes were tested in the wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center.

In the 1980s NASA issued a contract to Ames Industrial Company of Bohemia, New York to develop a small, low-cost aircraft to investigate Robert T. Jones's ( a NASA researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center ) oblique wing concept.

Robinson started work for NASA in 1975 as a student intern at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

He previously was head of the Computational Sciences Division ( now the Intelligent Systems Division ) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuroengineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making.

* Pete Worden ( 1949 -), Director of NASA's Ames Research Center

Harris completed a National Research Council Fellowship at NASA's Ames Research Center in 1987.

After completing his fellowship at NASA Ames, he joined NASA's Johnson Space Center as a clinical scientist and flight surgeon, where he conducted clinical investigations of space adaptation and developed countermeasures for extended duration space flight.

They were the PREsat from NASA's Ames Research Center, and the NanoSail-D from both NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center.

A circa 1943 Link Trainer with instructor's desk is on display at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, Calif.

Two " Ground controls "— exact copies of the equipment and experiments — will be run on the ground, one in Europe and one at NASA's Ames Research Center.

* Pleiades ( supercomputer ), a supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center, projected to be completed in 2012

" In 2005, responsibility for RLEP was moved to NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate ( ESMD ) and management assigned to the Ames Research Center ( ARC ).

* Kalpana ( supercomputer ), at NASA's Ames Research Center