Sentences with phrase «by military»

The paper, written by authors at King's College London and Baylor College of Medicine, reviews contraceptive devices available including those already used by military and aviation personnel, and calls for more research into the effect of hormone treatments on bone mineral loss in space.

Real - World Tech: Laser technology patented by military contractor Applied Energetics can make — and aim — artificial lightning, sending bolts down a path cleared by picosecond - long pulses of light.

The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.

Cislunar space — the region surrounding Earth between Earth's surface and the moon's orbit — is seen by the military as the new high ground.

More generally, the group argues that repeated overflights by military planes — in some cases only 30 metres from the ground — make life very difficult for species which are already under pressure.

We then transferred our equipment and ourselves, plus several researchers from Tomsk State, into the belly of a huge Mi 26 heavy - lift helicopter (formerly used by the military).

The Navy wanted to know if hydrates under the seafloor were interfering with acoustic signals picked up by an underwater hydrophone array used by the military to track Soviet subs.

He also believes that it underscores calls from marine biologists to explore how sonar produced by military and commercial ships could garble low - frequency signals sent by sea mammals.

The elements are integral to modern life, and are used in everything from disc drives, hybrid cars and sunglasses to lasers and aircraft used by the military.

Low - profile platoons like Stewart's, deployed by the military's Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) program, are part of the U.S. - led military coalition's counterinsurgency strategy, which aims to coax Afghans to rely on their government rather than the Taliban.»

In the meantime, disseminating the lessons already learned by military surgeons will bring medicine closer to the National Academies» goal of eliminating preventable deaths from injury — «a lofty but eminently achievable objective,» Cannon said.

«Now you're seeing not just student projects, but CubeSats deployed by the military, by space agencies — doing real jobs,» he says.

Genetic tests to detect these microbes could be used by public health researchers trying to find and quarantine outbreaks of bird flu, for example, or by military personnel looking for evidence of a bioterror agent.

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

This technique, first developed by the military in the 1960s to identify submarine locations with pinpoint accuracy, allows oceanographers to map the seafloor with as much detail as the moon.

If the FCC can create a way to provide television white spaces to wireless users, the agency might take a similar approach to free up other unused or underused areas of the spectrum, for example those currently utilized by the military, radar and fire and police departments, says Luke D'Arcy, head of cognitive radio technology at Cambridge Consultants, a technology development and consulting firm.

A year into the Great War there was an interesting difference between the accuracy of reporting in some articles and the haze of obscurity drawn by the military censors over still - volatile events.

M.Y.: There were a number of lessons that had been learned by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan that I think had a direct impact on the number of patients who survived this disaster.

Get this: they're created by a Marine Corps veteran and are designed for use by the military and law enforcement.

Most of the new plastics discovered in the 1930s were monopolized by the military over the course of World War II.

Menczer's work, which is also supported by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and by the private James S. McDonnell Foundation, is part of a growing field that examines what are called complex, nonlinear feedback systems.

Military Grade: We rated something military grade if it was the same quality that is used by the military.

Our correspondent learnt that Alkali claimed that he ran from Sambisa Forest after the place was captured by the military.

It could be recalled that the late Bashorun MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections in Nigeria; an election universally acclaimed as the freest, fairest and most credible in the political annals of Nigeria but was ironically annulled by the military high command under Gen Ibrahim Babangida MKO Abiola was later hounded into detention by the military junta under Gen Sanni Abacha, where he later died for refusing to renounce his electoral mandate

«They were promptly repelled by military and police reinforcement.

This has been supplemented by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.

The Acting Defence spokesman stressed that the issue of the danger posed by the herdsmen would be accorded the deserved attention by the military.

In a strongly - worded statement which was released in the wake of the Minister's comments, Joyce Bawah Mogtari stated emphatically that the former President had not taken possession of any land owned by the military.

The measure is supported by the Military Officers Association of America, the National Military Spouse Network and the National Military Family Association.

Ejiofor who made the allegation in a statement on Tuesday issued in reaction to insinuations that Kanu has gone into hiding said he was abducted by military operatives on September 14 and probably killed.

Sustaining the tempo of the successes being recorded by the military will see to it that agriculture is not completely disrupted in our land.

Buratai, who was represented by the Chief of Policy and Plans, Maj. - Gen. Rasheed Yusuf, warned that resorting to the social media was highly prohibited by the military.

He said the «tired old science fiction» had been debunked by military experts, and said Labour must maintain its backing for Trident if it wants to «retain any credibility on defence whatsoever».

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a planned release of a report by Amnesty International on an unfounded storyline of mass killings of MASSOB / IPOB protesters by the military between August 2015 and August 2016.

The recent appointment of an Army Engineer for a PR job is therefore clearly a deviation from established norms and practices by the military.

«Wontumi has misled the media and police in a wild goose chase of large cache of ammunition and thumb printed ballot papers across the region, from an initial false claim of an impounded ammunition by the military in Kumasi, to the search of house numbered AS2015S at Asouyeboa for weapons and ended with another in Tanoso yesterday.»

«It is instructive to note that with the recent successes recorded by the military in the North East against the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT), intelligence reports revealed that due to the fierce attack on the sect, the BHT elements are presently in disarray and looking for soft targets to strike especially military installations.

We went through three decades in which we saw brief periods of constitutional rule interrupted by military dictatorships.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) had earlier observed that The Gambia's president - elect Adama Barrow will struggle to govern, if embattled President Yahya Jammeh is forcefully ejected by military assembled by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

In the meantime, the state has not released a plan for testing them or checking nearby water supplies that may be missed by the military.

The lawyer, who noted his role in the enthronement of democratic rule in Nigeria, including his malicious prosecution and detention for over six months by the military junta, claimed that Buhari had upon taking office reorganised the EFCC to hound the opposition.

Saraki had on Monday described IPOB's proscription by the military and South - East governors as unconstitutional.

According to Suswam, Operation Cat Dance (Ayem a Kpatuma) being carried out by the military will ultimately restore our lost pride.

surely he should be rated for the his job in Shadow Cabinet and from what I hear he is not highly rated by the Military.

«The joint operation between the Brigade and Nigerian Air Force who provided air cover and tracking, was part of the determined effort by the military to rout out terrorists in the general area and open more roads hitherto held by the terrorists for public usage.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) says in the next few months she is going to revive her military sexual assault bill, which changes how those types of crimes are prosecuted by the military.

In another development, seven (7) suspected militants arrested by the Military in Ondo were handed over to the Lagos State Police Command also yesterday.

He's apologized for mischaracterizing portions of his 21 - year military career, and the Pentagon confirms that the candidate was counseled by the military twice in the last two years for violating rules that bar members of the armed services from partisan political activities.

The attack, which was reportedly staged by some military men, was to protest the arrest of their colleague who attacked a taxi driver.