Sentences with phrase «by focusing light»

By focusing the light, researchers can target the release of their caged molecule in a very small volume — roughly a cubic micron.

By focusing light onto nerve bundles that researchers thought ran below these «microlenses», the arrangement would allow the animal to form an image.

Even though those glimpses proved fleeting, mere projections created by focused light beams reflected from the things of the world, the camera obscura emerged as the device of choice for painters by bringing the world directly onto the canvas.

Not exact matches

Specific areas to focus attention on are: switching off all lights and electronics at night, turning thermostats down by one or two degrees, and having timers on heating and lighting systems so they are only on when required.

Journey is a great example of an early 80s bands that focused on business as well as art by plowing earnings back into stage, sound, and lighting equipment; purchasing their own trucks and transportation gear; and providing their label (CBS) not only with finished records but also with artwork and merchandising material.

In the Netherlands, one school is taking classroom tech to another level entirely by focusing on the way a learning space is lit.

While the fact that the FBI is investigating had been reported previously by the New York Times and other media, these officials shed new light on both the precise number of inquires and their focus.

One study by Sheffield Hallam University found that an organized workspace with plenty of light and free of distraction contributes greatly to your ability to focus on the task at hand.

According to a study (PDF) of 1,000 full - time office workers commissioned by Energy Focus and conducted by Wakefield Research, 69 percent of participants reported problems with office lights including glare, brightness, and excessive flicker.

The lenses support the eye's effort in focusing at ultra - near distances that are typical of handheld devices by filtering out «harmful blue - violet light emitted by digital screens.»

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

Anyone following tech stories from month to month will recognize LG Display as those tech people focused on «bendy» and «rollable» displays, bolstered by the company's aggressive attention toward novel organic light - emitting...

The device by the South Korean technology giant will have a strong focus on audio quality and the management of connected home appliances such as lights and locks, said the people, who asked not to be identified talking about private plans.

try reading further:» «To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

Mucous secreted by the cells would bend the light and focus it.

I do not think the church will change by focusing on our «intrinsic goodness», but by seriously examining itself under the penetrating light of truth.

The Prologue represents this Word of the Lord as the Light which, shining in the darkness, stage by stage grows in intensity to the point at which all its rays are focused on one spot of blinding glory in the Incarnation.

Oh, btw, the entire quote is» «To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of Spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

My central point now is that it is only in light of this theory of Whitehead's own intellectual project that one could do what Lewis has now proposed doing: show its completion or fulfillment in his own theory of God as the subjectivity of the future, a profoundly difficult and complex notion discussed at greater length in other essays by George Allan and Robert C. Neville in this Special Focus.

The aumbry in which the reserved sacrament is kept in a church may be marked by a nearby light and be a focus of devotion.

Christian understanding of God's transcendence raises questions about the extent of the claims of every historical community or movement or ideal, but these questions are given clearer focus by the fact that they are asked in the light of the revelation of God's solidarity with all men in Christ.

That is, instead of taking up the question of the autonomy of consciousness in its most general sense, I will attempt to focus the debate on a central concept of self - awareness which is capable of corresponding to one of the major traits of the idea of revelation brought to light by our analysis of biblical discourse.

That judgment is convincingly vindicated by the Novaks, who, while focusing on his religious belief and practice, cast new light Washington» a man whose gravitas, contrary to some accounts, was not a pose but a reflection of his deep humility before the God of history Whom he sought to serve.

MacTiernan said she had encouraged farmers to focus on boosting the boxed meat trade to key live export markets in the Middle East and North Africa in light of the «risk» posed by high profile animal welfare violations.

We simplify by focusing on the light of the season: how can we bring more light into the world as a result of our actions?

The fact is that this team has waited a long time to have such a vocal and focused leader on the pitch who likewise possessed such talents, whereas this club, instead of embracing his passion to succeed by bringing in the necessary transfers and handing him the armband, they seemed to side with the overpaid and under - performing lesser lights.

To get the balance right, focus on creating layers of light by using a number of lamps and fixtures to brighten the room as needed.

While other books suggest a one - size - fits - all method for grief management or focus on understanding specific causes of child loss, Hope for Today, Promises for Tomorrow offers comfort for the reader, whatever her situation, by helping her focus on the light of the ultimate Promise, the hope of a Savior, Jesus Christ.

Food & Wine, the glossy, chef - focused food magazine, is moving from New York to Birmingham, Ala., joining a stable of other publications owned by Time Inc. that includes Cooking Light and Southern Living.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

This implementation plan will focus first on the largest and most inefficient buildings, as determined by state building energy data, and perform complete overhauls on lighting fixtures and controls, heating, ventilation, air - conditioning systems, electric motors, and automated energy management systems.

The technology works by focusing sound waves inside the body to generate a tiny hot spot, much like a magnifying glass focuses light.

He's done so by precisely focusing infrared laser light to selectively ionize, or steal the electrons from, air molecules at the beam's focal point, generating a flash of bluish - white plasma.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

In the new study, the team focused on neurons called amacrine cells and horizontal cells, which have a known role in «preprocessing» — or adjusting — electrical signals transmitted to the brain from the photoreceptors after they have been stimulated by light photons.

Instead, IceCube's focus is on the big picture: It catalogs an increase of light in its detectors produced by neutrinos interacting in the ice in time slices of two billionths of a second, says IceCube leader Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

In a healthy eye, light entering the pupil is focused by the lens and then passes through the vitreous humour — the jelly like central region — to the retina at the back of the eyeball.

A spiral track of microscopic pits in the disc is read by a finely focused laser emitting infrared light at a wavelength of 780 nanometres.

A beam tightly focused by a telescope could greatly outshine a planet's host star at a particular wavelength, Townes realized, popping out as clearly as a red laser pointer aimed at someone from across a stadium flooded with white lights.

To simplify the problem of studying how the brain makes a spatial map, a team lead by Jean - René Duhamel and Werner Graf of CNRS - Collège de France in Paris trained two macaque monkeys to focus their eyes on a spot of light on a screen; the dot would appear for a few seconds, disappear, then appear a few seconds later somewhere else on the screen.

WHAM telescope The Wisconsin Hydrogen - Alpha Mapping telescope focuses on the light emitted by hot hydrogen gas.

Dubbed the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, it's the focus of a multimillion dollar research project catalyzed by a commando's death during a hostage rescue in Afghanistan.

By changing the polarization of light, the size of this center region can be changed to focus different - sized features.

Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat surface.

Thermal - and night - imaging equipment used by law enforcement and the military make use of the mid-infrared region of the light spectrum, which is where Hoffman, Gmachl and their fellow researchers have focused their work.

Such rules include perspective (parallel lines appear to converge in the distance), stereopsis (our left and right eyes receive horizontally displaced images of the same object, resulting in the perception of depth), occlusion (objects near us occlude objects farther away), shading, chiaroscuro (the contrast of an object as a function of the position of the light source) and sfumato (the feeling of depth created by the interplay of in - and out - of - focus elements in an image as well as from the level of transparency of the atmosphere itself).

There is «elongation of the eye» which results in the light being focused in front of the retina, causing blurred vision that has to be corrected by glasses, contact lenses or laser eye surgery.

Kataoka also said that Sharp is trying to improve the brightness of LCDs by focusing ambient light onto them, with the help of microlenses.

For example, people in the study consistently associated narrowed eyes — which enhance our visual discrimination by blocking light and sharpening focus — with emotions related to discrimination, such as disgust and suspicion.

In 2010, the researchers showed that such a lens could focus light into a spot one - tenth the size of that produced by an ideal transparent lens of the same size, making the focus 10 times as sharp.