Sentences with phrase «by human motion»

«We studied the possibility of charging commercialized portable and wearable devices by utilizing the mechanical energy generated by human motion,» said Hyeon - Jin Shin, research master at SAIT and one of the authors of the study.
Electrical energy is created when the device is compressed by human motion, or mechanical energy.

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And all this labour was set in motion by the active, creative awakening of his soul inasmuch as that human soul had been chosen to breathe life into the universe.
In this form of fantasy the powers are always mysterious, but by certain rites, incantations or motions they can be drawn upon by humans and used to human ends.
Darling and Juliet of the Spirits, originally rated A - «morally unobjectionable for adults, with reservations,» by the old Legion of Decency, were cited by the National Catholic Office on the Motion Picture for their «artistic vision» and «expression of authentic human values.»
The Arsenal and Germany play maker Mesut Ozil continued his fine run of form and capped another very good game with a well taken goal and could have scored more, but he was edged out for my Man of the Match award by the human perpetual motion machine that is Alexis Sanchez who also scored two great goals and assisted Ozil's.
Newer motion - activated floodlight systems are better — they react only to larger profiles, meaning they'll be triggered by humans and bears, but not raccoons and opossums.
The motion, filed at the Human Rights Court, said «the decision to suspend was communicated to the country (Ghana) through the media by the Communication Director of the» NPP Nana Akomea.
By putting forward the motion, Davis and Straw acknowledged the UK's treaty obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, while asserting that this is an issue to be decided by parliament, not judges in EuropBy putting forward the motion, Davis and Straw acknowledged the UK's treaty obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, while asserting that this is an issue to be decided by parliament, not judges in Europby parliament, not judges in Europe.
That's why we humans have invented the word ball to refer to the entire unit, enabling us to save time by simply describing the motion of the whole unit.
Unfortunately, the approach works only if the object's motion can be described by a linear equation, and that's rarely the case with motions involving human agency.
Thus, by monitoring the activity of motion - detecting neurons in animals and simultaneously exploring human motion perception using cunningly contrived displays such as a, b and c, scientists are starting to understand the mechanisms in your brain that are specialized for seeing motion.
In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.
The combinatorial possibilities are so immense that many of M - TRAN's patterns of motion aren't designed directly by human programmers.
It does this by measuring the force and motion of the wearer's arms and using those measurements to control the action of a pair of robot arms; a computer keeps the robotic force at a constant multiple of the human one and transmits appropriate feedback to the wearer.
Obesity in these mice resembles several important clinical features of human obesity such as weight gain and disturbance of metabolism, and this mouse model was ideal for unraveling any underlying biological mechanisms of pancreas cancer that are put in motion by obesity.
By following the paths of individual cell phone users (inset), scientists have found that humans may obey well - defined rules of motion.
Thus, more than a century after two enterprising American pharmacists set in motion their pioneering partnership, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund remains committed to the belief that fostering research by the best and brightest scientists offers the fullest promise for improving human health today and in the new millennium.
â $ œWe canâ $ ™ t be that hard on Penfield, because the number of cases where he was able to study head movement was quite limited, and studying head motion as he did, by applying an electrode directly to the brain, creates some challenges, â $ says lead author Buz Jinnah, MD, professor of neurology, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.
During every warmup, I want my athletes to get into, hold, and explore fundamental human positions (which Kelly Starrett calls archetypes), have them move through full ranges of motion across multiple planes, and progressively ramp up the nervous system so that by the time the workout starts, everything is fired up and ready to roll.
At first, thanks to a cleverly deceptive storyline, Black Panther may lead you to believe the big battle will involve defeating the caricature - like evil white guy, Ulysses Klaue, played by Andy Serkis, appearing in his human form rather than through motion capture, with a good dash of Eurotrash.
China's stark mountains and lush woodlands comprise beautiful backdrops while a host of cameras, many motion - activated, some manned by humans, deliver surprisingly intimate portrayals.
The Adventures of Tintin also offers some of the more effective usage of the motion - capture technique, which transfers an actor's performance upon an animated avatar, by bypassing the uncanny valley altogether and creating characters that are a hybrid of humans and artist Hergé's cartoonish designs (Only the hero and central villain weigh heavily toward the former).
Promising to be a darker take on the Kipling classic, Warner Bros adaptation mixes motion capture and live action for Mowgli, a new 3D adaptation of the story of the human child raised by a wolf pack in the jungles of India.
Disc 1: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** 11 Deleted Scenes ** The Genius of Andy Serkis ** Scene Breakdown ** A New Generation of Apes ** Breaking Motion Capture Boundaries ** The Great Apes ** Mythology of the Apes ** Composing the Score with Patrick Doyle ** Audio Commentaries by Director and Writers ** Character Concept Art Gallery ** Digital Disc 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Journey to Dawn ** Andy Serkis: Rediscovering Caesar ** Humans and Apes: The Cast of Dawn ** The World of Dawn ** The Ape Community ** Move Like an Ape: An Artist's Medium ** Weta and Dawn ** The Fight for a New Dawn ** Deleted Scenes With Optional Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Feature Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Gallery ** Digital Disc 3: War for the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Deleted Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Waging War for the Planet of the Apes ** All About Caesar ** WETA: Pushing Boundaries ** Music for Apes ** Apes: The Meaning of It All ** The Apes Saga: An Homage ** Concept Art Gallery ** Theatrical Trailers ** Digital
On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge (which served as a key human / ape battleground in Rise) is Caesar (played again by Andy Serkis via motion capture), who since the last movie has built a thriving community of fellow apes and led them to a harmonious existence, tucked away in the towering redwoods of Marin County.
His frames are packed with chromatic and textural details and often separated from the viewer by environmental scrims (curtains, door frames, windowpanes, human blurs of foreground motion).
There's a strong story involving the relationship between two families who reach across the species divide, led by Caesar (Andy Serkis in a brilliant and rich motion capture performance), who is both husband and father to his family and benevolent leader of the simian tribe, and Jason Clarke as an engineer trying to repair an electrical damn to power the human reclamation of San Francisco.
By the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin KonovalBy the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konovalby the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).
Plus BioRID's segmented neck can produce the motion observed by human necks in real - world crashes in which vehicles are struck from behind.
He's an affectionate little dog who — though he still gets scared by strange objects and sudden motions — gets along well with both other dogs and humans, according to Paula Monarch, who's serving as his foster mom through Little Rascals Rescue.
Like humans with an injury, dogs with hip dysplasia may compensate for the loss of rear end motion and the pain involved in weight - bearing exercise by shifting balance, a disturbance that can cause spinal problems.
CatStop: This motion - activated, ultrasonic alarm emits a high - pitched sound that repels cats, but can't be heard by humans.
Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.
In his manifesto, The Ergonic Messenger, Dugger explains how in Participation Art, the body or hand of the viewer is «used to give forceful impetus to the artwork by articulating or positioning the sculptural elements manually... relying on the power of the human hand to provide action or motion
Truitt's works accomplish this task by revealing the interactive motion of our embodied relations and how material objects can actually help to ground our reality and hence human potentiality.
«Study from the Human Body» takes its title from a major painting by Francis Bacon which conveys a naked man in motion rendered in characteristic brush strokes of pink, purple and white.
Koch also presents a selection of the canonical «Motion Studies» of humans and other animals made in Palo Alto in the 1880s by Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904).
Marc Van Cauwenbergh is inspired by the human body in motion to work with a well - defined visual language that is poetic and sensual.
October 6: Art in Motion Bring that bike, wagon — any artistically decorated human - powered vehicle, for that matter — and join in the procession, presented by Dallas Observer!
Some people, however, experience it in the form of pathological symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, or motion sickness, which appear to be caused by the excitation of resonances inside closed structures and the human body itself.
10 Most past changes in world climates were caused by natural factors Volcanic activity Motion of the continents Recently scientists have observed climate changes that are the result of HUMAN ACTIVITIES GLOBAL WARMING
So while this particular ice circle is crafted by a human and put into motion artificially, it's nevertheless quite a wondrous winter distraction that goes around... and around... and around.
The motion was brought by members of the BMA's Retired Members Forum as well as several local committees and follows an editorial published in the British Medical Journal in March that called for divestment from fossil fuels because of the «scale and immediacy of the threat to human survival, health and wellbeing» posed by unmitigated climate change.
The Earth revolves around the Sun; organisms, including the Great Apes, evolve by natural selection; the Earth is billions of years old; the tectonic plates of the Earth are in constant motion; humans adding CO2 to the atmosphere now warms the climate more quickly than natural cycles do.
• Acting for Leicester City Council in R (on the application of Jewish Human Rights watch) v Leicester City Council [2016] EWHC 1512 (Admin), a challenge to the adoption of motions by the defendant local authorities expressing support for the boycott of Israel (led by Andrew Sharland);
On Friday the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a non-binding motion put forward by Pakistan aimed at «combating the defamation of religions.»
[1] The moving party, Amnesty International («Amnesty»), brings this motion for an Order granting it leave to intervene in three related actions brought by the individual plaintiffs, Mayan Q'eqchi» individuals from Guatemala, who claim alleged human rights abuses committed against them by the subsidiaries of Canadian mining companies.
The appeal by Maple Leaf arises from the motion judge's decision concluding that Maple Leaf owed a duty of care to the franchisees «in relation to the production, processing, sale and distribution of the RTE Meats» and a duty of care «with respect to any representations made that the RTE Meats were fit for human consumption and posed no risk of harm.»
When signals received by the eyes don't match those being understood by your inner ear (the center of balance in the human body), motion sickness occurs.
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