Sentences with phrase «as a grid rather»

The Open Adoption grid: Why I think of open adoption as a grid rather than a spectrum, and why openness is not the same as contact.

The Open Adoption grid: Why I think of open adoption as a grid rather than a spectrum, and why openness is not the same as contact.

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They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

By using smaller grids — with spacing of just a few kilometers rather than several tens of kilometers as in conventional current models — they were able to show that they could more realistically model the amount of black carbon aerosols, mitigating the underestimation in more coarse - grained models.

Funding efficiency Nevertheless, another $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (better known as the stimulus) was made available on March 2, to be awarded via ARPA — E to the best proposals for new grid - scale storage devices, better power converters and more efficient air conditioners, such as the ones being developed by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that rely on sound waves rather than mechanical pistons to drive compressors.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

Rather than a grid of apps, or a selection of widgets, the PlayBook balances a grid app offering with what is best described as a «Cover Flow» approach to displaying the applications you have open.

The point being that you can find an opportunity at the back of the grid and work your way through to the senior team in most cases as has been happening for a few years in F1; therefore it is quite disappointing to be able to immediately start at a team at the front of the F1 grid as it somewhat defeats the purpose of having a career mode in the first place as the entire point should be to earn your way into the sport as a reserve driver or a feeder series such as GP2 followed by moving your way closer to the front of the grid, but rather unfortunately none of that gameplay experience is in F1 2016.

The point being that you can find an opportunity at the back of the grid and work your way through to the senior team in most cases as has been happening for a few years in F1; therefore it is quite disappointing to be able to immediately start at a front running team on the F1 grid as it somewhat defeats the purpose of having a career mode in the first place as the entire point should be to earn your way into the sport as a reserve driver or from positive performances in a feeder series such as GP2 followed by moving your way closer to the front of the grid, but rather unfortunately none of that gameplay experience is in F1 2017.

Although her work tends to favor biological forms rather than a rectilinear grid system, Donovan's use of singular materials and adherence to rule - based systems has aligned her with the legacies of Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse.

While the tubes were sometimes arranged in geometric shapes such as grids or simple lines, the focus of the art was typically on the light emitted rather than the form of the tubes themselves.

Lassaw's welded grids in particular evoke the order of natural and celestial systems, as well as Taoism's emphasis on moving through the spaces between things rather than forcing a way through life.

At the completion of each series Winters combined the numerous blocks with their corresponding mirror - image impressions into a grid construction rather than, as is customary, destroying the materials of the process.

Grids were everywhere, and Krauss was to cite them as a reason to think of art outside of time, like a chemical reaction rather than a history.

Fragmenting a subject across the grid rather than as photo collage sets the series apart from Surrealism on the one hand and digital culture on the other.

They look a little sculptural — as if we are looking at an object rather than a flattened grid.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

The so - called «e-dumper» is being built from a massive Komatsu dump truck that weighs 45 tons when empty and has tires as tall as a person, and although that might initially seem like a strange choice for electrification, its intended usage is expected to produce a net surplus of electricity rather than draw a huge amount of grid power.

For their part, the utilities stand to gain revenue as consumers turn to the grid rather than the gas station as the source of power for cars, analysts have said.

September 12, 2016: The gridding process was slightly modified at the poles: Rather than treating the 40 sub-boxes ending at the North pole and at the South pole as individual boxes with centers at 84N and 84S respectively, they are now combined into a single box centered at the pole.

Simplistic without the grace of simplicity, generality - strewen without general applicability, relying on inference from dataset rather than mathematical analyses of data, following none of the usual rules of hypothesis testing nor verifiability, unvalidated, sometimes specious and occasionally jumping from the subject to throw in a slide about a red dot on a grid that could only be described as propaganda, unless one chooses to describe it as false, the «Pope Theory» is far from infallible.

As we add new power plants to our electricity grid, new capacity must be based on clean energy sources, rather than gas or other fossil fuels.

For its part, natural gas could still play a useful — but more limited — role in the transition to a clean energy system, not as a replacement for coal but rather as an enabler of grid flexibility in support of renewable technologies.

Rather than focusing on big - ticket solutions such as storm - surge barriers, Rosenzweig calls for a range of initiatives, from increasing redundancy in the electric grid to sealing off tunnels and making coastal areas more resilient to flooding.

Meanwhile, adding a touch of poetry to the whole shebang, the June moon was known as the Strawberry Moon to early Native American tribes, who measured time by things like the moon, rather than a grid on a piece of paper or an electronic device.

It's still probably going to be much better to make a battery once and then use it for years with progressively cleaner electricity (as the grid incorporates more and more renewable energy) rather than fill up a gas tank with non-renewable fossil fuels from halfway around the world every week, but even in that scenario, it's going to be better if we can get the lithium cleanly and close to where we'll use it.

I prefer to use a reanalysis product as the base rather than gridded observational datasets because the reanalysis product provides a dynamically consistent gridded state estimation that includes assimilation of available surface and satellite observations.

The Criminal Code give judges a wide range of sentencing options that are to be guided by the sentencing principles rather than constrained by sentencing grids and minimums as occurs in other countries.

As well, you'll find a toggle for «Subgrid Positioning», which gives you to option to position and move your icons around the grid in half - square increments rather than having to keep each app centered in each square.

Rather than laying out all the apps separately in grids as with Android and iOS, Ubuntu Phone is bringing in the revolutionary idea of «Scopes», which as Cristian Parrino, VP of Mobile at Canonical claims, is «a game changer».