Sentences with phrase «as test beds»

Physical books will continue to be produced, because they probably at least cover their costs and serve as test beds where new concepts and characters can be created that might yield real revenue down the road.

Clevers and other scientists have developed organoids of the gut, liver, lung, brain, and many other human organs that can be used to model disease or to serve as test beds for drugs.

And the public spaces at Fusionopolis serve as test beds for innovations.

College communities make sense as test beds for gigabit networks because they include highly concentrated population of heavy Internet users as well as institutions already connected to Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR) and other high - speed Internet backbones, says Gig.U Program Director Elise Kohn, a former policy advisor in the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

Santiago, Chile, has made a name for itself as one of the most foreign - entrepreneur - friendly cities on the planet, and as a test bed for launching into Latin America.

«I believe that the government of Canada should look at Atlantic Canada as a test bed for the application of healthcare technology,» McKenna said.

In 2005, caterer Greg Christian launched the Organic Schools Project in Chicago Public Schools, with Louisa May Alcott School in Lincoln Park as the test bed.

«If the Report recommendations on the workforce are implemented it will be akin to using schools as a test bed for removing the employment rights of workers in the public sector.

The eight - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program

That still allows planners to use the model as a test bed to game out the consequences of taking action A, B, or C.

The experiment also serves as a test bed for the 500 - times - more - sensitive Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will study the metamorphoses of neutrinos during an 800 - mile journey through the Earth.

To demonstrate the versatility of their model, the team used the fictional city of Batman, Gotham City, as a test bed.

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

The newest telescope, the boxy WIYN 3.5 meter, inaugurated in 1994, serves as a test bed of new astronomical technologies.

It was designed to serve as a test bed for future robotic missions, like Spirit's in 2004.

► Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Juan David Romero reported that IBM and more than 60 scientists are teaming up for the Jefferson Project, an effort that will use New York's «Lake George as a test bed for an array of sophisticated «smart» sensors that will monitor 25 different variables, including biological characteristics and water chemistry and quality.»

Rather, the 8 - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program, including docking technology.

Rio Praaning, the Foundation's secretary general, says Russia regards the Komsomolets as a test bed for dealing with its other nuclear problems.

It will serve as a test bed for developments in high - speed communication and it will allow computers to be used in new ways.

As such, astronomers generate model universes, where galaxies are simulated, which may act as a test bed for the assessment of theories.

Long a staple for studying a variety of diseases — most notably cancer — yeast has been neglected as a test bed for neurological conditions, Lindquist notes.

This region is being used as a test bed for both computational and biological genome - scale analyses at the BDGP.

The new platform has been launched under their WhiteLabelDating.com brand, supported by the launch of their very own site, FlirtFix.com, which is being used as a test bed to trial new features and functions to keep up with changing consumer demands.

Said to be acting as a test bed for new technology, the fuel cell car is a precursor to mass production hydrogen powered vehicles, which BMW says could arrive by 2020.

The Jaguar Formula E car, seen here, will serve as a test bed to allow the automaker to continue to develop its battery and electric - drivetrain technologies under punishing race situations.

McLaren threw everything it had at the P1, using it as a test bed on which to perfect and trial technology that would underpin and inspire later, larger production volume cars.

A fleet of zero - emissions vehicles, most likely Nissan Leafs, will serve as the test bed for the technology, and will allow for a demonstration of remotely controlled transportation, similar to the method in which NASA controls the planetary rovers remotely from a mission control center.

Though it took a knee at the 1962 Le Mans as a DNF, it continued to serve Ferrari as a test bed for future racing technology.

The concept, which signified the restart of relations between Ford and Shelby nearly four decades after the demise of the GT350 and GT500 Mustangs, was initially used for advertising, press photography, and public display, before later going on to serve as a test bed for optional upgrades.

Co-developed by BMW Motorsport GmbH and BMW Technik GmbH, this super-sports car was employed as a test bed for technology and innovations.

The price increase using Volt tech was gravy on making money out of the platform and using it as a test bed for future development.

Interest in the Z06x track car is very high but according to Fitzpatrick, the concept exists only as a test bed to showcase the racing accessories available from GM Performance Parts, as well as Pratt and Miller and Pfadt Race Engineering.

Nissan leads charge as founding partner of this race car project and the Nissan DeltaWing will act as test bed for new road car technologies.

The truck will also be acting as test bed for possible new parts for the ZR2 and regular Colorado from Chevrolet Performance.

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The A8 has frequently served as a test bed for new Audi technologies, and it has evolved over the past ten years into one of the most capable full - size sedans on the market.

Audi says the FE04 will be used as a test bed for new and upcoming technology that will eventually trickle down to its production vehicles, raising hopes that battery motivation alone will be enough to whet the appetites of future Audi performance enthusiasts.

In recent years, a modified Volvo XC90 was created as a test bed for the single - speed eTwinster system, while a BMW M3 has been taken apart by GKN engineers to replace its conventional rear differential with a mechanical Twinster unit — the first setup that shows the benefits of twin - clutch torque vectoring and «true» sailing functionality in a purely rear - wheel drive vehicle.

I have spent this academic year as a test bed for the new Computing Curriculum.

I wouldn't be surprise if they are using the UK as a test bed to see how this effects the sales.

It fits in nicely with the other expansions (aside from Warlords of Draenor which seemed to act as a test bed) and with WoW lore.

As a testing bed, the festival is a success.»

As a test bed and laboratory for curatorial research, the faculty and students of the Center for Curatorial Studies increasingly require access to more flexible and adaptive spaces for non-exhibition driven forms of research and practice.

The original project foresaw a single plant as a test bed, with government paying more than 70 percent of the cost.

The Environmental Security and Technology Certification Program uses military installations as a test bed to demonstrate and create a market for innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies coming out of the private sector and DoD and Department of Energy laboratories.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

240 hectares of land is being developed in Vienna as a test bed of smart city technologies, bringing 8,500 hi - tech housing units to the city.

The Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC) hydrologic model setup for the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada, was used as a test bed for the two systems.

Honda took the same car and used it as the test bed for its fuel cell program, re-christening it the FCX.

The Olympic Games has often served as a test bed of new broadcasting technology and NHK has often been one of the broadcasters at the forefront.