Sentences with phrase «by radio systems»

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Chris Urmson, director of the Google self - driving car program, asked the FCC on January 26 to renew an experimental authority license that allows it to test radio transmitters in the 76 GHz range — likely used by the radar system on its cars.

But when the inevitable happened and the same system was used to influence political change by people who had already been doing so by other means for 25 years, suddenly #DeleteFacebook is such a mainstream idea that BBC Radio 4 is asking people --- ironically via its Facebook page — whether they intend carrying it out.

It already has one of the airline industry's best luggage handling records — just 1 out of every 500 bags failed to arrive on time — but hopes that by deploying a RFID, or radio - frequency identification, tracking system globally it can improve further.

The result was the rapid buying up of stations by large networks, which made possible the centralization of power in the hands of only a few multinational corporations who now own every part of the broadcasting system — radio, TV, cable, and satellite.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «Can the politicians not put at the front of their minds the needs of the United Kingdom to come out with a functional, working system for Brexit, and agree that certain things that, as it were, «off the political table» and will be decided separately in an expert commission, or commission of senior politicians led by someone that is trusted in the political world?»

And the centrality of the power significance of the communications technology is attested by the pivotal importance of which faction controls the radio - TV stations and the telephone systems whenever a coup or revolution takes place in an African, Asian or Latin American country.

Even when there is no intent, subconscious or otherwise, to teach ethnocentrism and prejudice in our nation - state systems, the presentation of news (e.g. of damage done to people by earthquakes, avalanches, or wars) about distant peoples in a context of passive entertainment and commercial announcements as typically happens In western TV, radio and press fosters indifference.

RAW began life as University Radio Warwick in the 1970 - 71 academic year by students who spent their summer vacation installing an induction loop transmission system in the Rootes residence buildings.

He said, it was a space - based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force, explaining,» It is a global navigation satellite system that provides geo - location and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.»

Already common in security systems and tollbooths, radio - frequency identification tags and readers stand poised to take over many processes now accomplished by human toil

Originally developed by the US government for military navigation, satellite navigation systems are now widely used by anyone with a GNSS device, such as an in - car SatNav, mobile phone or handheld navigation unit, which can receive the radio signals that the satellites broadcast.

His career took an unexpected turn when one of his mentors noticed his that final - year research project — a system to control heavy machinery from a distance by radio — «would be very useful during a nuclear meltdown.

By measuring the radio - signal strength from all the transceivers while Wilson walked around inside the array, the system could calculate his location with an accuracy of about 1 meter.

The agency wants more flexible charging so that those who waste spectrum by using old - fashioned radio systems will have to pay more than those who use the more efficient new technologies.

The Deep Space Network, managed by JPL, is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe.

Paul Marks reports on the European SAVELEC consortium's system to disable the cars of uncooperative drivers by firing radio pulses...

In their new paper, Pineda and colleagues report discovering the star system in the act of forming within the «stellar nursery» region of the constellation Perseus by following up on intriguing observations made by the Very Large Array (VLA), an astronomical radio observatory in Socorro, N.M., and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, in West Virginia.

Then in 2011, a team of radio astronomers led by Matthew Bailes of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology found a third planetary system around a pulsar, one unlike either of the previous two.

So Ocado and the technology company Cambridge Consultants have developed an entirely new wireless system that can communicate with each robot up to 10 times a second and could scale to even larger operations.The new system uses 4G telecoms technology and broadcasts in the same 5 GHz part of the radio spectrum used by Wi - Fi.

These too can be disturbed by magnetic storms — navigation systems can have positioning errors, radio transmission can be blacked out, and power grids can become unstable.

The new system transmits messages by reflecting and encoding audio and data in these signals that are ubiquitous in urban environments, without affecting the original radio transmissions.

Because radio signals travel faster than particles, the completed e-CALLISTO can also work as an early - warning system for radio bursts, alerting space mission control centres to upcoming disturbances caused by coronal mass ejections from the Sun.

The system, built by L - 3 Communications in Woburn, Mass., emits beams of radio - frequency energy that are tuned to reflect well off human skin.

First conceptualized in the early 1960s, GPS is a space - based navigation system that allows a receiver to compute its location and velocity by measuring the time it takes to receive radio signals from four or more overhead satellites.

The volumetric impedance phase shift spectroscopy (VIPS) device (Cerebrotech VisorTM, Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Pleasanton, CA) works by sending low - energy radio waves through the brain that change frequency when passing through fluids.

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio transmitter.

The transit zone is rich in host stars for planetary systems, offering approximately 100,000 potential targets, each potentially orbited by habitable planets and moons, the scientists say — and that's just the number we can see with today's radio telescope technologies.

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.

For example, this is an image of a forming triple protostar system L1448 IRS3B 750 light years away from the Earth, which was first clearly imaged by ALMA and the US radio telescope JVLA.

A foldable, paper - based, urine - fueled, microbial fuel cell system that powers an emergency radio beacon has been developed by researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).

They studied the galactic system as a spiral nebula by using radio - telescopes in the Netherlands and Australia.

Using super-distant, super-bright radio sources, such as quasars, as a wallpaper of stable reference points, this system of radio telescopes helped scientists measure the tiny shifts in the Earth's crust caused by continental drift and clock the movements of the atmosphere and oceans.

The possibility, however remote it might have seemed, didn't escape the attention of the SETI Institute which swiftly focused the Allen Telescope Array on KIC 8462852, in the search for any radio signals of artificial origin that could have potentially been emitted by an advanced alien civilisation native to the neighboring star system, with initial results finding no such detection to date.

The world's most powerful radio telescope has peered deep into a system of stars and found they're surrounded by chemicals that are necessary for life to form.

However, the recent discovery by the ALMA radio telescope of a planet - forming disk more than 100 astronomical units from the star HL Tauri, which is younger than the Sun and more massive, suggests that planets can form several hundred astronomical units away from the centre of the system.

Found through the analysis of data from radio telescopes by astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), this tiny cluster of baby stars occupy a small volume only 10,000 AU across — meaning that they'd all easily fit within the confines of the boundaries of our solar system (yes, the Oort Cloud is the solar system's outermost boundary).

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The system will provides automatic registration of recorded - delivery mail and international mail passing through the postal network by means of radio frequency identification tags (RFID - tags).

Among them, as reported by Jose Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) and coauthors in a recent publication, is PSR J1411 +2551: a new double neutron star with one of the lowest masses ever measured for such a system.

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«We should always acknowledge that Australia has a high performing education system by world standards with hard working principals, teachers and good school communities,» Minister Birmingham told ABC Radio.

The letter to the prime minister, seen by BBC Radio 4's PM programme, demands «urgent action» to change the funding system.

In a recent radio program, Huff characterized the program as a «win - win situation by creating a little competition within the public school system.»

Just recently on National Public Radio (NPR), current Stanford Professor and former runner - up to being appointed by President Obama as the US Secretary of Education (Obama appointed current secretary Arne Duncan instead) Linda Darling - Hammond was interviewed about why she thought «School Testing Systems Should Be Examined In 2014.»

«Turn Blue» by the Black Keys came on the radio, so we stopped talking and turned up the Infinity audio system.

MSRP (with destination): $ 31,970 PRICE AS TESTED: $ 37,805 ENGINE: 3.6 - liter DOHC V - 6 Horsepower: 285 hp @ 6400 rpm Torque: 260 lb - ft @ 4800 rpm TRANSMISSION: 5 - speed automatic DRIVE: Four - wheel WHEELS AND TIRES: 18 - inch aluminum wheels 255 / 70SR -18 Bridgestone Dueler A / T tires FUEL ECONOMY (city / highway / combined): 16/20/18 mpg CURB WEIGHT: 4294 lb CAPACITIES: Doors / Passengers: 4/5 Cargo (rear seats up / down): 46.4 / 86.8 cu ft Legroom (front / rear): 41.0 / 37.2 in Headroom (front / rear): 41.3 / 40.4 in Towing: 2000 lb EXTERIOR / INTERIOR COLOR: Black / Black STANDARD FEATURES: 6 - speed manual transmission Stability and traction control Hill start assist Roll mitigation Part - time four - wheel drive 3.21 rear axle ratio Transfer case and fuel tank skid plates Cruise control 115V auxiliary power outlet Air conditioning 7 - speaker Infinity audio system w / subwoofer Auxiliary audio jack SiriusXM satellite radio w / one - year subscription Tilt steering wheel Temperature gauge and compass Leather - wrapped steering wheel w / audio controls Height - adjustable driver's seat 60 / 40 - split folding rear seats Rear compartment covered storage OPTIONS ON THIS VEHICLE: Altitude Edition - $ 2995 18 - inch painted aluminum wheels Black Jeep grille badge Front and rear bumper body - color appliques Gloss black interior accents Red interior stitching accents Altitude floor mats and hood decal Heated front seats Body - color 3 - piece hardtop Mopar fuel filler door Freedom panel storage bag Rear window washer, wiper, and defroster Connectivity group - $ 385 USB port Electronic vehicle information center UConnect voice control w / Bluetooth 5 - speed automatic transmission - $ 1125 Hill descent control Track - Lok rear limited slip differential - $ 295 UConnect 430N - $ 1035 40 GB hard drive w / 28 available GB SiriusXM travel link w / one - year subscription 6.5 - inch touchscreen display Navigation KEY OPTIONS NOT ON THIS VEHICLE: Dual top group - $ 890 Trailer tow group - $ 295 3.73 rear axle ratio - $ 95 ADDITIONAL SPECS: This is the one of the top - tier Wrangler Unlimited trim levels, only trumped in price by the «Call of Duty: MW3 Edition» Wrangler Unlimited model.

Leather seats give way to cloth ones; Benz's COMAND infotainment system is replaced by a simple radio; and the floors have been stripped of carpet and are washable thanks to drainage outlets.

The inner door handles have been replaced by little pieces of red rope to save weight, but somehow it's still okay to have a navigation system and air conditioning (Spyders can be ordered with no radio or A / C).

Some will be put off by the need to dive into menus to control heating or radio, and although this is often frustrating in other cars, the Tesla's clear interface makes it much less distracting than most touchscreen systems.