Sentences with phrase «at the material structures»

In explaining people's individual and collective behaviours, it is essential to look at the material structures in which they are embedded.

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«Employers don't just want their employees to do the same job faster, they want them to do a different job due to changing technology, materials and structures,» says Nancy Jackson, a recently retired associate professor in Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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A similarly structured study looking just at academic science jobs found that application materials from female candidates received lower rankings and lower starting salaries than male candidates, even when a job application reviewer was female.

The structures of some nanomaterials bend and change shape when given an electrical jolt, so that a material's properties can be altered at the flip of a switch — it can change color, for example, or become transparent.

At all events the physicist and the philosopher have a choice: either the infinite supporting the finite structures of intelligibility is material and hence meaningless or there is a personal Infinite, whose intelligibility surpasses human intelligibility even while supporting its analogous understanding.

At the heart of modern nihilism, for Nietzsche, is the problem presented by the ascendancy of the modern scientific project - the mathematization of matter or the arbitrary formalization of material structure conceals the real chaos of Being.

Living together, «open» relationships, divorce, material belongings, wealth, church structure and hierarchy, what the «true» church is, the role of women in the church... the New Testament has some pretty challenging, and at times conflicting, views on these and other issues.

The immense amount of material accumulated has shown that analogous structures have been found over and over again in different religions and that it has therefore been possible to state some general laws which permit us to think in terms of an ordered unity and at the same time to differentiate the religious datum at various levels in its historical totality.

The exhibitor is responsible for providing at their own expense all other elements in the assigned space including, but not limited to, booth structure, furniture, floor covering, electrical and booth cleaning / vacuuming services, as well as labour to install / dismantle your exhibit or move exhibit materials including fresh produce and material handling.

Utilizing an interesting mix of new materials and unique design elements to present a soft structure carrier that is simple to use, yet highly configurable and stylish at the same time.

No containment structures exist over the spent fuel pools; the pools are vulnerable to a loss - of - coolant scenario; mock attack drills reveal accessibility to and vulnerability of spent fuel buildings; and two of the spent fuel pools at Indian Point have been leaking radioactive materials.

Churchill was fascinated by intelligence and in wartime gave the agencies the resources they needed and relied upon the committee structures to process the raw material, but at his worse consumed too much of the unrefined data and jumped to too many conclusions to browbeat the chiefs of staff.

The key was to look at the lattice properties of these solid materials» crystalline structures.

This new way of looking at the structures turned out to allow accurate predictions of the materials» actual properties.

She has spent decades studying the crystalline structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.

Specifically, Yevgeny Raitses, working at PPPL; Marlene Patino, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Angela Capece, a professor at the College of New Jersey, have in the past year published experimental findings on how secondary electron emission is affected by different wall materials and structures, based on research they did at PPPL.

The structure may be the result of an impact that blasted material off Himalia, suggest Cheng and colleagues in a study presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, earlier this month.

Using these structures as oil absorbers might potentially solve two problems at the same time — the removal of unwanted plants and the production of natural and selective oil sorbent material at low - cost.

Immediately type or write down as much as you can remember: You will notice that by doing it straightaway a surprisingly large part of the material, and at the very least the structure of your argument, will come back to you.

I was both fascinated by the task and appalled at the quality of teaching materials being used (they had an awful book called The Structure of Scientific English which bored students to death).

Together, this zigzagging hierarchical structure increases the material's resistance to the proliferation of cracks beyond that of each material on its own, says Motomichi Koyama at Kyushu University in Japan.

Materials may have very different properties at these conditions; structures may exist there that would collapse at the surface.

Zhang worked together with the research group of John A. Rogers, the paper's third co-corresponding author and a Swanlund Chair and professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, in developing the structural designs of 2 - D structures to form various classes of 3 - D configurations.

Leaving the material in a sealed container for a few days «nicely produced a cellulose film on top of the printed structure,» says study coauthor Patrick Rühs, a food scientist also at ETH Zurich.

Researchers led by Olexandr Isayev, Ph.D., and Alexander Tropsha, Ph.D., at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used data on approximately 60,000 unique materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to create a new methodology they call Properties Labeled Materials Fmaterials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Inorganic Crystal Structure Database to create a new methodology they call Properties Labeled Materials FMaterials Fragments.

«When you get a lot of structures forming next to one another that are different but still have similar internal energies, you get a sort of frustration as the material tries to crystalize,» said Eric Perim, a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of Stefano Curtarolo, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Center for Materials Genomicsmaterials science and director of the Center for Materials GenomicsMaterials Genomics at Duke.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

This allows them to control properties such as the material's strength, its surface structure, and the rate at which the drugs are released.

A close look at the material's crystalline structure showed that part of the problem was that its pores were too small.

Making fusion neutrons efficiently, at a small scale, could lead to advances in neutron - based imaging, and neutron probes to gain insight on the structure and properties of materials.

Tuning the material structure at the nanoscale level can be really hard to achieve — but what if we had small particles, which assemble all by themselves, creating the required structure?

Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University, with an international team of colleagues, recently identified the atomic structure of a group of perovskite - related materials showing interesting 2D conductive properties.

Moreover, research has shown that materials which become superconducting at relatively high temperatures have layered structures.

In 2007, he won a 2 - year research - fellow position within István Hargittai's Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at BME, which has allowed him to continue his doctoral work without worrying about funding.

«It has been long known that structuring the surface of a material can increase light transmission,» said study co-author Viktor Podolskiy, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

As part of a larger project on «Biological Design and Integrative Structures,» researchers at the Plant Biomechanics Group of the University of Freiburg have been working with civil engineers and material scientists to investigate how this specialised structure could be applied in architecture.

«The research performed at NSLS - II will probe the fundamental structure of novel materials and help drive the development of low - cost, low - carbon energy technologies, spark advances in environmental science, and spur medical breakthroughs,» Moniz said.

Designing materials for use in the large variety of gadgets and structures that support our everyday lives involves understanding them at their atomic, electronic and macroscopic scales.

Researchers at NTNU's Nanomechanical Lab and from the university's Department of Chemistry and their collaborators in China and the Netherlands are interested in understanding the relation between molecular structures and the mechanical stability of materials.

«Based on their work, neutrons have been used by thousands of chemists, physicists and materials scientists to look at the structure of all classes of materials,» says Jack Rush, head of neutron scattering at the National Institute of Standards and Technology near Washington DC.

This calculation method enabled us to more accurately perform theoretical prediction of IMFP compared to the experimental value, which was obtained by applying spectrometry (extended X ‐ ray absorption fine structure spectrometry) to low - speed electrons of Copper and molybdenum at the high - brilliant synchrotron radiation facility, and to explain the relationship between energy measurement and the types of materials.

To do this, they «chemically assembled a series of double - dot SETs by anchoring two gold nanoparticles between the nanogap electrodes with alkanedithiol molecules to form a self - assembled monolayer,» explained Yutaka Majima, a professor in the Materials and Structures Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

While researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology don't have a specific application for the doughnut - shaped droplets yet, they believe the novel structures offer opportunities to study many interesting problems, from looking at the properties of ordered materials within these confined spaces to studying how geometry affects how cells behave.

Finally, researchers are seeing the importance of these materials, and the ease at which new structures can be synthesized.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

The research team verified that the electronic structure of the nickelate resembles that of cuprate materials by taking X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements at the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and by performing density functional theory calculations.

To that end, Ceder is working with a group at MIT on software that reads papers in experimental materials science and automatically extracts information on crystal structures in a standard format.

The key is expanded microchannel structures, says Pearce, who is an associate professor of materials science and engineering along with electrical and computing engineering at Michigan Tech.