Sentences with phrase «heracles test beds»

Santiago, Chile, has made a name for itself as one of the most foreign - entrepreneur - friendly cities on the planet, and as a test bed for launching into Latin America.

Russia has used its involvement in Syria as a sort of «test bed for showing off its new submarine capabilities,» including the ability to launch cruise missiles from subs, Nordenman said.

I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment.

«I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment,» Wheeler said after the decision was announced Tuesday.

Based on Ethereum, the network will be a test bed for promising use cases.

Does it not enable a test bed for economic theories?

«I believe that the government of Canada should look at Atlantic Canada as a test bed for the application of healthcare technology,» McKenna said.

Following a car accident involving one of its self - driving cars, Uber is officially pulling out its autonomous testing program in Arizona, in addition to pausing its Pittsburgh test bed.

In 2005, caterer Greg Christian launched the Organic Schools Project in Chicago Public Schools, with Louisa May Alcott School in Lincoln Park as the test bed.

Today, it appears Lambeth council will be the test bed for a new scheme of «John Lewis - style» cooperation.

«As taxpayers we pay for a police service that puts the public first not profits, and that is why we must continue to vehemently oppose any attempts to turn Surrey and the West Midlands into a test bed for the nation.»

«If the Report recommendations on the workforce are implemented it will be akin to using schools as a test bed for removing the employment rights of workers in the public sector.

The eight - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program

Event horizons seem to be the best theoretical test bed for combining general relativity and quantum mechanics into a unified theory of quantum gravity.

That still allows planners to use the model as a test bed to game out the consequences of taking action A, B, or C.

While the 2009 pandemic was, in retrospect, a mild pandemic (R0 was estimated to be 1.35, and pC was estimated to be 7 %), it served as an ideal test bed for developing a general predictive tool that can be applied in the early stages of a future pandemic.

In fact, in the basement of Princeton's sprawling Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Kasdin is already working on a test bed: a meter - wide, 75 - meter - long tube with a camera at one end, a laser at the other and a scaled - down starshade in between.

By the end of the summer, he predicts, the test bed will have demonstrated the necessary contrast ratio that, scaled up to full size, could enable the imaging of Earth - like planets.

The experiment also serves as a test bed for the 500 - times - more - sensitive Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will study the metamorphoses of neutrinos during an 800 - mile journey through the Earth.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

New investments in mini grid systems aimed at bringing power to rural Africa and other remote areas may provide a test bed for the rural energy infrastructure of the future.

Investments in mini grid systems aimed at powering up remote parts of Africa may provide a test bed for rural energy infrastructure elsewhere in the world

The reason is that the unique qualities of an electron - positron plasma makes it the ideal test bed for understanding the fundamental workings of more readily available plasmas.

To demonstrate the versatility of their model, the team used the fictional city of Batman, Gotham City, as a test bed.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

«We're pushing the envelope with this project,» he says, «but we'll be a test bed for future observatories around the world.»

All this and more were plugged into Spirae's test bed for the Fort Zed experiments, which took place on several days in July and August.

ESA has plans to launch «evolved LISA» or eLISA on its own, and its test bed LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has been performing beautifully.

After the powerful current of the East River — which is actually a tidal channel — damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades, the company earlier this month whittled its test bed down to two turbines with new aluminum — magnesium blades 16 feet (five meters) in diameter.

The Water Resource Observation Network (WRON), located on the leafy campus of Canberra's Black Mountain Laboratories, is both the test bed and the nerve center for the campaign.

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples performance measures of sea generators that investors and electric utilities crave.

The newest telescope, the boxy WIYN 3.5 meter, inaugurated in 1994, serves as a test bed of new astronomical technologies.

It was designed to serve as a test bed for future robotic missions, like Spirit's in 2004.

► Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Juan David Romero reported that IBM and more than 60 scientists are teaming up for the Jefferson Project, an effort that will use New York's «Lake George as a test bed for an array of sophisticated «smart» sensors that will monitor 25 different variables, including biological characteristics and water chemistry and quality.»

Rather, the 8 - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program, including docking technology.

While the FutureGen plant was to have been a test bed for several technologies, if another nation plans to pursue one particular project, it would not have to be part of FutureGen, Chu said.

Rio Praaning, the Foundation's secretary general, says Russia regards the Komsomolets as a test bed for dealing with its other nuclear problems.

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty, assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead author of the study.

College communities make sense as test beds for gigabit networks because they include highly concentrated population of heavy Internet users as well as institutions already connected to Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR) and other high - speed Internet backbones, says Gig.U Program Director Elise Kohn, a former policy advisor in the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

Using enrollment of thousands of people in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers that included Erez Yoeli, a researcher at the Federal Trade Commission, Moshe Hoffman, a visiting researcher at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), David Rand, formerly a post-doctoral fellow at PED (now a professor at Yale University), and PED Director Martin Nowak, showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable — through the use of sign - up sheets posted in apartment buildings — produced a three-fold increase in sign - ups.

Although there is no formal connection between Google and Gig.U, Kohn says she would welcome Google's involvement with the project, which is being led by Blair Levin, who headed development of the National Broadband Plan and has stressed the importance of test beds for high - speed connectivity.

DARPA's Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) created the Network Challenge to acknowledge this important moment in Internet history as well as to provide a test bed for better understanding the dynamics of social networking.

Importantly, genome research and high - throughput data production at an industrial scale will generate a wealth of data, which can serve bioinformatics researchers as a «test bed» for the development and validation of algorithms.

And the public spaces at Fusionopolis serve as test beds for innovations.

It will serve as a test bed for developments in high - speed communication and it will allow computers to be used in new ways.

The Red Planet is a critical test bed for the hypothesis that life is likely to arise wherever the appropriate physical conditions — notably, the presence of liquid water — prevail on a planet for a sufficiently long time.

The new structures are a test bed for theories of low dimensional materials physics, but more practically, the optical manipulation of electron charge and magnetic order can lead to new modes of solar energy conversion and flexible, transparent computation devices.

That said, Nick and others have been working on a test bed called GENI, the Global Environment for Network Innovations project that will allow us to experiment with alternative futures.

PULSAR PAIR A system of two radio beam — emitting pulsars locked in tight orbits, illustrated here, is an ideal test bed for measuring gravitational waves and other effects of general relativity.