Sentences with phrase «as a lens on»

The firm's Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of people around offices and shops as a proxy measurement for employment and consumption activity.

He blogs using soccer as a lens on the Middle East and North Africa's fault lines.

Laurel Schultz is a photographer and multi-media artist whose work explores fragments and figments of the natural world as a lens on human nature.

This exhibition takes a look at the major issues that have arisen over the decades in a medium that can function as both a lens on the moment and a tool for truth — or a persuasive instrument for twisting and enhancing the moment.

«The singular nature of this jug,» said Dr. Susan J. Rawles, VMFA's associate curator of American painting and decorative art, «both as a work of art and as a lens on a world largely muted by bondage — makes it one of the most compelling objects in VMFA's collection.»

Not exact matches

«I think there's so much potential for female entrepreneurs, because we are driving the bulk of e-commerce and influencing a huge amount of it as well,» Fleiss tells Inc. «I think we have a unique perspective and lens on the world.»

You also must discover things and put on new lenses once in a while as you take your business to the next level.

Indeed, until the VC - entrepreneur relationship gets back on track, Davis is determined to use his unique lens as a venture capitalist to help other young companies succeed.

So, as you start to grow, spend your money on glass, and by glass, we mean lenses.»

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

Join the GSAM workshop to explore EM through a multi-asset lens; looking at investment techniques for allocating across the spectrum of EM asset classes, as well as sharing our views on the most attractive opportunities for generating capital growth and income.

On Friday, the company declined to provide a comment beyond a statement it issued on Thursday, in which it said it would evaluate the situation «as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests, including consumers, customers, shareholders and related communities.&raquOn Friday, the company declined to provide a comment beyond a statement it issued on Thursday, in which it said it would evaluate the situation «as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests, including consumers, customers, shareholders and related communities.&raquon Thursday, in which it said it would evaluate the situation «as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests, including consumers, customers, shareholders and related communities.»

If indeed «Sharia» is meant to function as it takes into consideration what would be best for society on a whole through a lens of compassion and mercy», it should also ensure that animals will be dispatched «kindly» — as humanely as possible.

My religion is based on the observable universe... and that lens is expanding as we move forward in time.

This year I'm writing a book on hate as seen through the lens of the most intense rivalries in sports, and back in February I went to Scotland to watch Celtic and Rangers play soccer.

And from our Christian perspective, is it possible that Jesus, as Incarnation, has become for us a lens through which we understand all incarnations, so that we can say, from our perspective, that Jesus was in that, and in that, and in him and her and so on?

Clearly, if a theological school is going to focus its study through the lens of questions about congregations as the way to truer understanding of God, it is dependent on there being congregations to study and refer to.

Only when we see global South Christianity on its own terms — as opposed to asking how it can contribute to our own debates — can we see how the emerging churches are formulating their own responses to social and religious questions, and how these issues are often viewed through a biblical lens.

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

To write off various portions of Scripture as error is to miss out on some of what God wants to teach us about Himself, when viewed through the lens of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

The Community Tech Fair will feature on - site demonstrations and exhibits of practical technology devices such as smartphones, tablets, DSLR (digital single - lens reflex) and mirrorless cameras, virtual reality, video games and other smart devices.

Simply betting on every visitor on Monday's would have produced a minimal profit, but as you begin adding a contrarian lens to the equation, the return on the investment (ROI) quickly ascends.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

Holding and adjusting the lens from underneath (rather from the side, as I typically do) gave me greater control and steadiness when shooting on the go.

This lens is used for extreme close - ups, such as when you are photographing makeup swatches on skin.

As part of this work, this fall I will travel to Ethiopia — I can barely wrap my head around the magnitude of this upcoming trip; I know it will change my lens on, well, everything else in my life.

Raffia is not an old school videographer as he likes to be playful on the set and behind the lens.

Establishing a lens may be a good way to position you or your campaign as a go - to source on your chosen topic.

They've practiced every motion they'll make during the eclipse: Check that the sun is in each telescope's field of view; remove the lens caps at just the right moment, to get as much time watching the corona as possible without frying the delicate instruments; and so on.

Dragonfly's multiple lenses serve as checks on one another for stray light, and their internal surfaces are treated with an anti-reflective coating.

Thanks to its unique lens, and as the name suggests, it shoots extra-wide photos that are printed on 3.4 x4.2» paper - much larger than the standard 3x2».

On the probability of detecting nebulae which act as gravitational lenses.

Collapsible zoom lenses provide magnification as an added viewing feature and a flip - out scope allows kids to focus on objects of interest.

Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens can not become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.

The drone has a no - distortion lens that's as good as DJI's, and you can even control the white balance and light exposure on the fly.

Telescopes that rely on glass lenses, such as Galileo's designs, focus the light of various colors differently, creating a blurred image.

Like picture frames or camera lenses, the frames will draw visitors» eyes to aspects of the vista, such as an island in the Mississippi that's the site of an early 19th century Native American village, or an oil refinery on the horizon.

Based on Sallan's and her colleagues» examination of Tullimonstrum eyes, these creatures in fact possess what is known as a cup eye, a relatively simpler structure that lacks a lens.

The only way to correct this is by bending each ray of light differently as it falls on each location of the lens's surface.

Building such systems represents a daunting task, as all established camera technologies rely on bulk glass lenses and detectors constructed on the planar surfaces of silicon wafers which can not be bent or flexed, much less formed into a hemispherical shape.

As we get older, the lenses in our eyes become less elastic, and so can't readily be adjusted to focus on nearby objects.

He holds body and face still, as if conserving energy for the turning of mental wheels, and from that stillness emerges a steady stare, supercharged with intelligence, that is simultaneously wide - eyed and intensely focused — as if his lens were permanently set on both panorama and close - up.

But as lens - making techniques improved and microscopes became more widely available, others got in on the act and they became something of a craze.

After looking closer at the developing retinal cells the researchers found that spiders build their eyes as little embryos complete with all the retinal cells they will ever need and then put the lens on top.

The device is a unique example of microfluidics technology, sometimes called a lab - on - a-chip, that pushes water around in microscopic tubes and reservoirs made from the same cellophanelike plastic as soft contact lenses.

As general relativity predicts, space sags around the mass of the lens galaxy, making light from the source bend on its way to us.

As we age, loss of lens accommodation causes presbyopia — decreased ability to focus on close - up objects.

In a new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on 29 November 2013 (available on the ArXiv Preprint Server), a group of astronomers detected a large number of distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy candidates — all viewed through Abell 2744, with the galaxy cluster acting as a lens.

(In the image above the more distant quasar HE 1104 - 1805 is seen as the two larger images on either side of the smaller yet closer lens galaxy [WKK93] G.) The stars in that lens galaxy then act like ultra-high resolution telescopes (see the NASA video).

Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.