Sentences with phrase «as by fusion»

Alloys are typically defined as substances which are composed of two or more metals intimately mixed as by fusion.

Not exact matches

The inertial confinement experts, such as those at NIF, are attempting to ignite a fusion reaction by firing powerful lasers at plasma contained in a pellet the size of a pea.

As a result, there is a pack of private companies, fueled by high - profile investors, looking to make commercially - viable fusion into a reality.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

Here by «one thing» Whitehead does not so much mean «one feeling» as the fusion of all feelings into one being, the superject.

Indeed, the ability to clone animals, such as Dolly the sheep, by fusion of an adult cell to an enucleated oocyte demonstrates that the epigenetic programming responsible for maintaining an adult cell in a stable state can be erased by factors present in the cytoplasm of the oocyte.

Accordingly, «effective historical consciousness» becomes indispensable in summoning explanation as primordial understanding extends itself into interpretation and by the fusion of horizons attempts to render near what is far.

Between the naivete of uncritical fusion with the horizon of one's own heritage and the sundering of that unity by the distance of objectification lies a moment of negativity which can be variously described as suspicion, alienation, doubt, detachment, temptation, or death.

I believe that the sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.

Here, in a strange fashion, the original fusion of supposed fact and faith - image, after an interim period of being dismissed by the religious mind as purely symbolic and crudely so, becomes in our day once again the vivid symbol for a faith - interpretation of literal fact.

As Voli perfects its new flavor fusions to be introduced to the market, Kamenstein says the brand plans to enter new spirit categories by the end of this year.

South Bronx Band Plays Last Show Even if you haven't heard of ESG, chances are you've heard of artists influenced by ESG: The Wu - Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys, and Gangstarr are reportedly among the hip - hop acts who have sampled the band, whose sound is described as something of a fusion of hip - hop, post-punk, and soul.

and as far as Casey is concerned, this PIG is crying for one reason, because she finally has realized that she will never again slide down a pole at Fusions, but instead will spend the next 50 years in a 10 by 10 cell like the animal that she really is.

NEW YORK: Thanks to Howie Hawkins «campaign for Governor, with Brian Jonesrunning for Lt. Governor, the Green Party made history by establishing itself as the third party in a state crowded with alternative parties because of New York's election rules, which allow fusion.

Since relatively little matter piles up before it fuses — and fusion is a relatively weak source of X-rays — the X-rays produced in this way on a normal pulsar are dwarfed by the X-rays produced by hydrogen as it falls onto the pulsar.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

What is more, heating caused by entry into the atmosphere is unlikely to heat anything more than a thin layer around the outside of rocks, forming what is known as a «fusion crust».

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy.

Then, the first stars appeared, and heavier elements (referred to as «metals,» meaning anything heavier than helium) were created by thermonuclear fusion reactions within stars.

These projects are being backed by entrepreneurs such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Paul Allen, which suggests that fusion is becoming less speculative.

Owing to such quantum beams with large current, we can make a big step forward not only for creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures to contribute to our future life of longevity, safety, and security, but also for realization of laser fusion energy triggered by fast ignition.

But as it turns out, many people actually like the density of urban environments, precisely because they offer diversity: Peruvian / Japanese fusion restaurants, live performances by Scandinavian doo - wop bands, a thousand quirky bars and cafés teeming with potential friends and crushes.

In neurons, the protein complexin clamps otherwise spontaneous fusion by SNARE proteins, allowing neurotransmitters and other mediators to be secreted when and where they are needed as this clamp is released.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

Trebananib (formally known as AMG 386; Amgen) is a first - in - class peptide - Fc fusion protein (or peptibody) that targets angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels into cancerous tumors) by inhibiting the binding of both angiopoietin 1 and 2 to the Tie2 receptor.

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) seeks to create those conditions by taking a tiny capsule of fusion fuel (typically a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium) and crushing it at high speed using some form of «driver,» such as lasers, particle beams, or magnetic pulses.

Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell, toils alone in a stark - white base, working as a glorified handyman for Lunar Industries, an ominously glossy corporation that extracts helium - 3 from the lunar surface to fuel fusion reactors back on Earth.

By viewing this fusion as another disease imposed onto tumor cells, scientists could devise new therapies against metastasis, the researchers say in the May Nature Reviews Cancer.

As research continues in other fusion installations worldwide, DEMO will put fusion power into the grid by the middle of this century.

If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

A. Cho's story «Commitments, ideology clash over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of Science in a flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.

In some cases, it is embodied in areas of research like cold fusion / LENR that simply will not go away, even when given up on as false by a majority of scientists.

Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.

On the other hand, the House bill would boost spending on fusion energy science by 6.7 % to $ 540 million — as opposed to the 17.8 % cut called for by the White House.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

Known as Magpie (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) and being built by the plasma physics group at Imperial College, it is a tangible break from the traditional approaches to fusion research.

In an important experiment published one year later, Jim Rothman, a Lasker Prize winner in 2002 honored for his work on fusion in non-neuronal cells, provided the experimental support for Scheller's idea by demonstrating that Scheller's VAMP, or as Rothman called it the v - SNARE, interacted with Scheller's syntaxin or t - SNARE, together with a second t - SNARE, to initiate fusion.

Kinases are also druggable targets, as seen by the success of kinase - inhibitors in earning FDA approval (including, for example, crizotinib against ALK - fusion and erlotinib against EGFR).

originate from fusion reactions in the heart of stars and are spewed out when those stars explode as supernovae, the relatively high metallicity of the galaxy suggests that it had already seen the birth and death of generations of stars by the time the universe was 700 million years old.»

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) found that lithium powder can eliminate instabilities known as edge - localized modes (ELMs) when used to coat a tungsten plasma - facing component called the «divertor» — the unit that exhausts waste heat and particles from plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is located at 100 Stellarator Road off Campus Drive on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J. PPPL researchers collaborate with researchers around the globe in the field of plasma science, the study of ultra-hot, charged gases, to develop practical solutions for the creation of magnetic fusion energy as an energy source for the world.

However, as explained in Figure 201 on page 390, heat was absorbed by elements heavier than iron that were produced by fusion.

The concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

Also, genes that code for receptor tyrosine kinases, a family of receptors on the surface of cells, may rearrange to form multiple distinct gene fusion partners, as evidenced in an article by Kulkarni, et al, on a translational study involving a patient who developed a BRAF fusion following treatment with a BRAF inhibitor1.

Originally proposed in a 2010 Sandia theoretical paper, the concept uses a laser to heat fusion fuel contained in a small cylinder (called a liner) as it is compressed by the huge magnetic field of Sandia's massive Z accelerator.

There, researchers are working to achieve fusion by using 192 laser beams in an approach known as indirect - drive, in which the laser light is first converted into x-rays in a gold enclosure called a hohlraum.

During the Clinton administration, Dr. Holdren served as a member of PCAST through both terms and in that capacity chaired studies requested by President Clinton on preventing theft of nuclear materials, disposition of surplus weapon plutonium, the prospects of fusion energy, U.S. energy R&D strategy, and international cooperation on energy - technology innovation.

Plans also include a moon rocks display from NASA, lectures on fusion by PPPL Director Stewart Prager, a cryogenics show, firefighting demonstrations and numerous other activities as well as refreshments and give - aways.

Synakowski said his own journey to joining the quest for fusion energy began as a child when he was fascinated by space.