Sentences with phrase «as an antenna for»

I'm working with a bandana around my head today and hoping that it will act as an antennae for some good mojo.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.

The stethoscope is a rod about the size of a finger which is passed over the skin and acts as an antenna for a microwave receiver.

There are also optical digital and analog inputs for cable and satellite receivers, as well as antennas for FM and AM radio reception.

And the Watch's display itself acts as its antenna for LTE and UMTS.

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Meanwhile, these new services have also proved a boon for a small antenna company that styles itself as an important piece of the cord - cutting puzzle.

You can watch more than 260 hours of Olympics coverage on the flagship NBC broadcast channel for free with an antenna in most U.S. locations and the antenna itself can cost as little as roughly $ 10.

Unlike streaming services such as MobiTV or Verizon's VCast, China's mobile TV will transmit signals directly to a UHF / VHF antenna built into the phones, thus bypassing the cellular network and allowing for 50 times the bandwidth.

Of course, if you're a cord - cutter who doesn't want to pay for a fancy subscription streaming package, there's always an even cheaper, though not quite as fruitful, option: get a digital antenna.

Subtle distress signals such as a catch in the voice, a slip of the tongue, tension in a marriage relationship, or a change in the pattern of church participation can often be picked up if the minister has his psychological antenna out to catch these cries for help.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

Children in such a home are always walking on eggshells, antennae up in the air, trying to sniff out which parent will show up that evening — the caring one or the neglectful one, the one who disparages and demeans them or the one who overindulges them by drowning them in kindness as compensation for past abuse.

As such, you can access it for free with an over-the-air digital antenna, provided you live close enough to an ABC affiliate to pick up a signal.

For our illuminated antenna topper, it is best to transport in the small box in which we mail them as they are soft and can dent if tossed in a bag.

It was Montauk night at an East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals hearing on Tuesday as members considered an application for cellphone antennas on the six - story fire control tower at the Montauk Lighthouse and learned that an expert has been...

Buffalo Public Schools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding communities.

There are still plenty of problems to tackle — such as how to keep the antennas powered during the two - week - long lunar nights — but MIT team leader Jacqueline Hewitt is confident, as the group heads to Australia for testing, that by 2025 U.S. astronauts could begin building the very first lunar observatory.

Aside from greater autonomy and resiliency, Ferrari said her lab plans to help outfit RoboBee with new micro devices such as a camera, expanded antennae for tactile feedback, contact sensors on the robot's feet and airflow sensors that look like tiny hairs.

-- No earlier than around midnight PDT on April 26 (3 a.m. EDT on April 27): Earth has its first opportunity to regain contact with Cassini as the giant, 230 - foot (70 - meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, listens for the spacecraft's radio signal.

For converting heat to electricity, the principle is the same as for light — capturing oscillations in a field with the broadband carbon nanotube antenFor converting heat to electricity, the principle is the same as for light — capturing oscillations in a field with the broadband carbon nanotube antenfor light — capturing oscillations in a field with the broadband carbon nanotube antenna.

Layne Berge, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NDSU, is presenting a paper titled «A UHF RFID Antenna for a Wireless Sensor Platform with a Near - Isotropic Radiation Pattern,» as part of the IEEE conference.

As part of the IEEE International Conference on RFID, Bauer - Reich will discuss research at NDSU's Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop on - metal RFID tags that use the structure of the tagged object as the antennAs part of the IEEE International Conference on RFID, Bauer - Reich will discuss research at NDSU's Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop on - metal RFID tags that use the structure of the tagged object as the antennas the antenna.

Disruptions to one or other of this gene cluster leads to distinctive mutations in which legs develop in place of antennae, for instance, as pictured here.

The Antennae galaxies, named for their insectlike appearance (left, from ground - based telescope) are two merging spiral galaxies that have spawned over 1000 young star clusters visible as bright blue spots from t

* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

However, we can demonstrate that it works at a greater range of frequencies making it more useful for other engineering applications, such as nano - antennas and the aerospace industry.»

A few nerve - wracking hours will follow for scientists and controllers on the ground, as the spacecraft's heaters warm up its systems, its startrackers get a fix, it turns its solar arrays towards the sun, and, finally, points its communications antenna toward Earth.

But the test, called «first fringes», bodes well for ALMA's future, Mangum told New Scientist: «It verifies that ALMA can make measurements not just as single telescopes, but as a collection of antennas, which is the primary mode of operation.»

As a proof - of - concept for the new antenna - reactor catalysts, Swearer, Halas and colleagues conducted acetylene conversion tests at LANP and found that the light - driven antenna - reactor catalysts produced a 40 - to - 1 ratio of ethylene to ethane, a significant improvement in selectivity over thermal catalysis.

Just as we're discovering more Earth - like planets, budget cuts force the shutdown of SETI's array of antennas that hunt for extraterrestrial life.

LIG can be written into target materials in patterns and used as a supercapacitor, an electrocatalyst for fuel cells, radio - frequency identification (RFID) antennas and biological sensors, among other potential applications.

American researchers have now used a photonic crystal as a reflector for a miniature microwave antenna which could one day be fabricated on a single chip along with control electronics.

Current studies, such as those of Michael Reth, for example, indicate that these antennas are not randomly distributed over the surface of the cell.

The narrow, 27 - inch - long Dotcast antenna, which should be available this year for about $ 120, is supposed to function as well as a five - foot - long roof antenna.

But the low - flying Telstar didn't stay in one place, so it could be used only for short periods at a time, and gigantic swiveling ground antennas required complicated electronics to keep them pointed toward the satellite as it passed overhead.

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory has taken another step forward and upward, as one of its state - of - the - art antennas was carried for the first time to the 5000m plateau of Chajnantor, in the Chilean Andes, on the back of a custom - built giant transporter, on 2009 September 18 (JST).

Ground - based radars using large antennas including the GBT could be used as a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues, in future robotic and human missions to the moon.

This extreme - precision antenna is used exclusively for research in radio astronomy, both as a stand - alone instrument as well as for Very Long Baseline -LSB-...]

A 32 - meter parabola antenna which had been used for satellite communications was donated by a telecommunications company, and its system modification is underway to make it usable as a new radio telescope.

Created in 2005 as an Association de loi 1901, IPF France was created as a local antenna for the International Polar Foundation.

For example, while still in its scientific checkout phase, scientists using ALMA have found evidence for Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurseriFor example, while still in its scientific checkout phase, scientists using ALMA have found evidence for Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurserifor Earth - mass planets around nearby stars; as it nears its full complement of 66 antennas, ALMA will deduce the presence of many more exoplanets and study the chemical composition of the planetary nurseries.

The innovative aspect of this activity was the notion that the concept of macroscopic devices could be extended to the molecular level, and that it was possible to design supramolecular systems that, upon stimulation with external energy stimuli such as UV / Visible light, are capable of performing a variety of specific functions: (i) systems for information processing (e.g., wires, switches, antennas, plug / socket systems, extension cables, memories, logic gates, encoder / decoder, rudimentary neuron - like systems), (ii) devices that when powered by chemical energy or electrochemical energy or by light exhibit machine - like behavior (e.g., piston / cylinder systems, shuttles, lifts, rotary rings, dendritic photo - switchable boxes), and (iii) components for artificial photosynthetic systems.

For the event, the Radio Astronomy Division of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) provided the images of the moon in the radio spectrum and a parabola antenna as well as a documentary film about the construction of ALMA.

Since then, Dong has established his small lab as a key player among researchers interested in the assembly of the centriole, a barrel - shaped cellular structure central to the formation of cilia, antenna - like cell surface protrusions essential for cell motility and signal transduction.

You have most likely seen the giant antennas and radio telescopes, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that was featured in the James Bond Movie «Golden Eye» and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia featured in the movie «Dish» that look out into interplanetary and deep space for answers.

The development of the pipeline software has been jointly conducted in cooperation of three regional teams of East Asia, North America and Europe, but Japan led the development for the part of processing of output data from the 12 - m antennas of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) that is also known as Morita Array.

It will continue to transmit scientific data for as long as its thrusters can keep Cassini's antenna pointed at Earth.

The selected site satisfies all the necessary conditions for radio observations such as dry air with a low rate of water vapor absorption of radio waves and a wide flat space that allows an extended configuration of multiple antennas.

Mizuno: In a conventional method, railroad tracks and wagons were used for antenna transportation in radio interferometers with multiple antennas like ALMA, such as the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA * Ended its scientific operations), and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA * One of the large radio telescopes operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in New Mexico.

For another example, there's a project that's been going on almost as long as LIGO called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Project, or LISA.