Sentences with phrase «mechanical basis of»

Akanksha Jain: Molecular, cellular and mechanical basis of epithelial morphogenesis during Tribolium embryogenesis

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• Huron Capital made an investment in Pueblo Mechanical & Controls Inc, a Tucson, Ariz. - based provider of HVAC replacement, retrofit and repair services primarily for facilities in education, municipal, and healthcare end markets.

• Gemspring Capital acquired the assets of Therma Corporation, a San Jose, Calif. - based mechanical contracting services provider.

The company confirmed a New York Times report that it has acquired Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts - based maker of such noted mechanical beasts as BigDog, Atlas, Petman, Cheetah, and Wildcat.

Although aspects of our trading system, such as the timing model, are mechanical and rule - based in nature, discretion still plays a major role in our overall trading strategy.

Costco Serves Up Robot - Prepared Pizza A mechanical saucing process distributes tomato sauce over the base of the pizza — making it easier to create pies in bulk — while spreading the sauce evenly and all the way to the crust.

Then there is the content - based model of discipleship, which Matt referred to as the «Mechanical - Linear» model.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

Although not specifically intended for pastors, bloggers and other «famous» Christians, the book — written by a Christian and published by faith - based publisher Thomas Nelson — details an almost mechanical method to get noticed in an age of self - promotion.

Here we see why an ontology based on the metaphor of habit rather than law or mechanical action and reaction is superior for describing the order in nature.

He sympathetically affirms Polanyi's «ontological gap between the living and non-living», the former exclusively having an «internal finality», and that «the emergence of life can not be accounted for on the basis of purely mechanical principles.»

He was vice president of facilities engineering for Resorts International Casino Hotel in Atlantic City and vice president of service and maintenance for Liber Rich & Sons, Inc., a New Jersey - based mechanical and plumbing construction firm.

I was always under the impression that Scoville ratings are based on organoleptic testing of a group of people in controlled conditions and HPLC ratings are based on» mechanical» test equipment.

This seat does have some small mechanical drawbacks in that it requires you press two buttons to adjust the tilt of the base and can be trickier to release from the base than other seats.

Museum collections include 19th - and 20th - century toys such as board games, puzzles, blocks and educational toys, paper dolls, transportation toys, and mechanical toys, all of which are displayed on a rotating basis throughout the museum.

3M, the diversified technology company, has signed a deal with one of the UK's leading suppliers of mechanical & electrical (M&E) components to the construction industry, Sunbury - on - Thames based Kem Edwards Ltd..

Brumer and Shapiro base their theory around the most fundamental of all quantum - mechanical phenomena — the two - slit experiment.

In addition, because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large - scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

Freeman found forecasts of Ph.D. production based on models that incorporated the response of enrollments to salary considerations to be «remarkably accurate while those based on mechanical extrapolations were orders of magnitude off base.»

The team used calculations based on quantum mechanical equations to predict the chances of a CO2 molecule absorbing different colours of light, which have defined energies.

In a separate case involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, the court ruled that the college's mechanical point system, which granted a prespecified number of points on the basis of race, was not legitimate (14).

William Dunn, the Steven M. and Kay L. Theede chair in engineering and department head of mechanical and nuclear engineering, and his research team have created a template - based system that identifies explosives hidden underground or in car trunks.

Despite missing final exams due to his arrest, Tamer passed all four of his courses that quarter after the chair of the mechanical engineering department persuaded Tamer's professors to base their grades on what he had already done.

Based on the tests, the team has built a mechanical prototype with the goal, says biologist and lead author Emmanuel de Margerie, of improving wing designs based on further refinements from the algorBased on the tests, the team has built a mechanical prototype with the goal, says biologist and lead author Emmanuel de Margerie, of improving wing designs based on further refinements from the algorbased on further refinements from the algorithm.

The researchers, led by Tak - Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the Wormley Family Early Career Professor in Engineering, call there invention SLIPSERS, which is a combination of Wong's slippery liquid - infused porous surfaces (SLIPS), which is a biologically inspired surface based on the Asian pitcher plant, and SERS.

Using as their basis a system published today in Nature Communications, mechanical engineers Tom Krupenkin and Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison are now developing «in - shoe technology» that could generate up to 10 watts of power per footstep.

The paper is based on a series of experiments the researchers conducted, using the Amazon Mechanical Turk survey system, in which subjects were presented with a series of sentences — some evidently sensible, and others less so — and asked to judge what those sentences meant.

Developing a better understanding of the large - scale mechanical changes that occur over longer distances, specifically the process by which the extracellular matrix is pulled into compact, highly - aligned «bridges,» could eventually form the basis of treatments for related diseases.

«My group had been looking at the early mechanical changes associated with liver fibrosis, which progresses to cirrhosis, but then, by collaborating with Vivek, we started to wonder if these large scale changes in the architecture of the liver could have a mechanical basis and if something similar to what is seen in gels might be occurring in the liver.

«This work marks, to the best of our knowledge, the first identification of a genetic basis for a mast - cell - mediated urticaria induced by a mechanical stimulus,» said Dean Metcalfe, M.D., chief of NIAID's Laboratory of Allergic Diseases and a study co-author.

Natural materials have extraordinary mechanical properties, which are based on sophisticated arrangements and combinations of multiple building blocks.

Wings based on humpback flippers could do away with wing flaps and flow - control devices, minimizing risk of mechanical failure and increasing fuel space, the researchers recount in the May issue of Physics of Fluids.

In their work, the team of researchers used a graphene based nano - mechanical resonator, well suited for observing nonlinear effects in energy decay processes, and measured it with a superconducting microwave cavity.

The body, made from a rubbery - to - rigid gradient of plastic, helps the bot bounce high and stick its landings, while offering mechanical bits a supportive base, researchers report in the July 10 Science.

Ernesto Rodriguez Leal, native from Monterrey, in northern Mexico, and a PhD in mechanical engineering, told us that the ring is placed only at the time of the test, a button is pressed and activates a needle that draws blood, which is transported by capillary action and taken to a lab - on - a-chip, a recent concept based on immobilizing reagents to look for changes and make measurements.

Mechanical values could be calculated based on the elastic deformation of the micro-structure.

Until now such devices, based on a variety of technologies from mechanical to laser - based, have often been bulky and prone to error after prolonged use.

The device replicates, for the first time, all mechanical, optical, and electronic functions of a lab - based blood test.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

«Haptic feedback,» or feedback that is based on the sense of touch, «is the future of computing interfaces,» says Allison M. Okamura, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Therefore, Siqueira and his colleagues developed a second, polymer - based recipe that had a decisive advantage: after printing and hardening using UV radiation, the CNC «cross-linked» with polymer building blocks, which gave the composite material a significantly higher degree of mechanical rigidity.

«Due to their mechanical strength and excellent charge and heat conductivities, graphene - based materials have generated enormous excitement,» said Ryan Tian, associate professor of inorganic chemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Harvard's Kim says that this work «is an important step toward building novel electronic applications, based on the unique relativistic quantum - mechanical behavior of electrons in graphene.»

Following up with a series of experiments to understand the role of ECM in determining lumen shape and elongation, the researchers proposed a mechanical basis for the regulation of lumen morphology.

Based on a systematic review of medical studies, the committee's recommendations for acutely hospitalized adults on mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours are:

The difficulties of such an enterprise have forced researchers to work on developing a mechanical aid based on the technology for milking.

Measuring the mechanical properties of the carbon - based material also makes sense because it offers excellent potential for a whole range of applications in the field of coatings and micromechanical switches.

Kamiel and Wei Yang and Yaolin Lin, associate professors at the Wuhan University of Technology in China developed a holistic and integrated model which considered the building enclosure, the mechanical systems, the external environment, the proportion of window opening and the shading factor based on data collected from 270 households including single and multiple units, as well as different heating methods.

The microfluidic device designed by his team captures cells based on their distinct internal structure — a mechanical analysis instead of the blood chemistry analysis used in conventional medical diagnostic techniques.

It has been demonstrated that silk properties (in terms of different reeling methods [32], [42], environmental conditions [8], [20], types of silk [e.g. dragline, viscid or egg sac silk][22], [24], [34]-RRB- are species - specific and lead to silk - based peptide fibrils or protein aggregates with different structural and mechanical properties.