Sentences with phrase «arms control which»

It is consistent to their world view and a prompt anticipation of the discussion of arms control which will inevitably follow.

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At the leading edge is Liberating Technologies in Holliston, Massachusetts, which has developed an artificial arm capable of reading as many as 10 different signals from the wearer's nerves to control five motors simultaneously at variable speeds.

Companies that make «smart» devices for the home, which can be controlled via an app, and mostly reside in the Amazon Home Services arm, which launched in 2015.

But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.

The sixth, and most extensive, form of co-operation is where individual countries cede control over an arm of policy to an international body, which conducts that policy in pursuit of a collective goal.

Eramet, which is 25.6 per cent controlled by an investment arm of the French government, has apparently been invigorated over the past 18 months by the appointment of a new chief executive, Christel Bores, and by the material recovery of markets for its major products, manganese and nickel.

And the White House, which shifted Trump's calls for comprehensive gun control toward a proposal that looked a lot more like the National Rifle Association's platform (including arming teachers), has been preoccupied with Cabinet shake - ups and hardline immigration rhetoric.

The wearable technology company is the maker of the Myo armband, which detects the electrical activity of arm muscles and translates them into computer input, so users can control technology using gestures.

Scientists have developed a program that lets monkeys control a virtual arm with brain waves, which they say could help paraplegics through the development of wearable exoskeletons.

It was about equally characteristic of the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russian, and the Dutch possessions — those in which the policy of autocratic control by the secular arm was most marked.

The core muscles, which include the abdominals, back and hip muscles, need to be strengthened to maintain postural control, provide a base of stability, reduce loads on the spine and to facilitate movement in the arms and legs.

I have been swaddling her still and trying to take away the soother but she gets even madder when I take it away and she's swaddled but when I unswaddle her she either sucks on her hand (which I'm sure will be her thumb soon) or she knocks herself in the face from not being able to control her arms and then still wakes herself up.

Munchkin teamed up with Arm & Hammer for their Step diaper pail, which means you get world - class odor control when it matters most.

Another recent breakthrough was the ARM & HAMMER (tm) Diaper Pail, which neutralizes odors in the nursery through a patented odor control system.

Saferworld says the EU code of conduct on arms control must be overhauled to address the loopholes through which this process takes place.

In a situation where the state has failed and armed groups proliferate, events on the ground could escalate in such a way, which no doubt is one of the factors prompting the speedy assertion of Russian military control in Crimea.

Miner awarded Jewett a no - bid contract through an obscure arm of city government, the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which Miner controls without oversight from the city council.

There was «seriously inadequate communication» between the Speaker, Clerk of the House and Serjeant at Arms, but «Mr Speaker Martin failed to exercise the ultimate responsibility, which was his alone, to take control and not merely to expect to be kept informed.»

A viewer could be forgiven for not recognizing that entity as the political arm of the statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions education.

Conservatives (in the US) oppose gun control because they favor the semi-historical viewpoint of rugged individualism of the Wild West, and they respect the traditions of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees the right to bear arms, and they want to maintain the status quo of not prohibiting / controlling gun ownership.

The armed group, which controls areas of eastern Syria and northern Iraq, has frequently denounced the Saudi monarchy and has claimed previous attacks on Shia mosques in Qatif and elsewhere in the kingdom.

LG Kathy Hochul is in Western New York, where she'll spend some time with GOP Sen. Cathy Young, who also chairs her conference's political arm (interesting in advance of a political year in which there will be yet another fight for control of the majority).

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

Before the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel defeated the Arab invasion and took control of the West Bank and Gaza (which had been under the arm of Egypt), there had never been demands from Palestinians in the disputed Territories for a second Palestinian State, as they were under Jordanian rule.

First, it determined that VOTE / COPE Committee, which has attacked Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Hanna's positions on hydraulic fracturing, women's health and gun control, is actually the political arm of the teacher's union, New York State United Teacher.

«Secondly, they want the CBN to fold its arms and allow currency speculators to drive the naira down to a level at which it will be easy for their paymasters to buy up and take control of the Nigerian economy.

The calls for more armed officers in schools is one side of the many argued nationally about gun control in America following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 which claimed the lives of 17 people.

It even comes with foldable arms and spring tension control, which allows you to easily take it with you wherever you go.

EEG is less invasive and less expensive than the implanted electrodes, which have previously been used to control robotic arms and computer cursors by thought alone, he says.

In the augmented reality environment, the patient can see himself with a superimposed virtual arm, which is controlled by muscle signals from his arm stump.

To overcome gravity that would otherwise prevent him from raising his arm and reaching, Kochevar uses a mobile arm support, which is also under his brain's control.

The active arm support is controlled by electrical (EMG) muscle signals or minimum muscle strength from the arm, which makes movement as intuitive and natural as possible.

Which controls two jointed arms.

The participants, a 51 - year - old woman who retained some movement in her fingers and wrists and a 54 - year - old man who could still move one of his index fingers slightly, are participants in the BrainGate2 trial, which is testing a neural interface system allowing thoughts to control computer cursors, robotic arms and other assistive devices.

The task force also wants to expand a type of trial that tests different drugs in separate arms against the same control group, which they say is more efficient than running a control group for each drug.

The researchers acknowledge some deterioration in S3's array, which was implanted more than 5 years ago — but it is still fully capable of recording her brain activity for control of the robotic arm.

The operator, strapped in the main cab, controlled the legs with the motion of his own arms and legs — one of the earliest examples of force - feedback design, which ultimately helped lead to the joystick.

The real advance of the study, he says, is that the team was able to figure out which neurons they needed to record to control two arms working together.

Estimates of data like temperature and wind velocity also had to be used in some border areas, which were under control of FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and were not easily accessible for measurements, he adds.

«But obviously, the fly wing and the vertebrate arm are so different that somewhere you have to start finding differences, and we have found the first: Engrailed controls Radical fringe in chicks, which it doesn't do in flies.»

Once the neuronal model had developed an accurate level of prediction the researchers switched the control of the cursor from the joystick to the robotic arm, which in turn was controlled by the monkey's brain signals.

The important differences in treatment duration between intervention and control arm, which could be up to 36 weeks, partly made it impossible to interpret differences in side effects.

For example, now that we've used brain signals to control an artificial arm, we can progress to experiments in which we change the properties of the arm or provide visual or tactile feedback to the animal, and explore how the brain adapts to it.»

The majority of neurons in an octopus are found in the arms, which can independently taste and touch and also control basic motions without input from the brain.

They are relying on insights acquired during a previous European research project, in which they developed a dual - arm robot control system with efficient task - oriented programming for Workerbot I — a humanoid robot capable of industrial assembly.

The study, entitled, «Interferon ß - 1a for the treatment of Ebola virus disease: A historically controlled, single - arm proof of concept trial,» published in PLoS One, a high - impact journal which is freely and immediately available to everyone.

The vacation arm serves as a relaxation control for the meditation arms of the study, which take place at a vacation resort, given those in the vacation arm experience all of the amenities of the vacation resort and are at least partially removed from the demands of their daily lives.

The biceps and triceps are «antagonising» muscles to each other, which means that they act against one another and have opposing effects on the joint they control — where the biceps bend the arm, the triceps straighten the arm.

The way we lose fat from our abs is the same way we'd lose fat on our thighs, hips, arms or anywhere it's being stubborn about leaving: fat comes off our body in an order it came on, which is largely controlled by our DNA.

One of these trials was a 12 - wk study of weight loss in 32 nonobese individuals, which confirmed the loss of 6.5 % of body weight in the ADF intervention arm compared with the nonfasting control arm (36).