Sentences with phrase «by prisms»

This accent boasts a gorgeous copper base surrounded by prisms of crystal to create a shimmering effect.

In a recreation of Theodore Engelmann's 1883 experiment, in which he discovered that blue and red light were most favorable for photosynthesis, a skylight in the lobby will admit light that will be refracted by a prism and lenses intended to represent the optics of a microscope.

The pack feeds a video signal from a TV tuner, VCR or camcorder to a small colour LCD screen mounted inside the top of the spectacles, from where it is picked up by a prism and a lens.

This is because white light is in fact a mixture of photons of different energies, and the greater the energy of the photon, the more it is deflected by the prism.

One of the big advantages offered by the PRISM reactor is that it offers a considerable advance in the ability to recycle used fuel and plutonium.

One fact that Loewen pointed out that enabled greater fuel use by the PRISM (or any fast spectrum reactor) is that all neutron cross-sections are one Barn.

Set of golden rings by Balenciaga, iphone case by Saint Laurent Paris, slippers by Zara, ipad case by Acne and sunnies by Prism.

These sunglasses I was wearing in this post are The Capri by Prism They retail for $ 408 but you can Rent it for only $ 24 / mo.

There is a constant ethereal sense of difference, as the light inside the Shimmer seems slightly off (it's too colorful, as if it is constantly being partially broken by a prism).

The users of PRISM are presented with an electronic form detailing the Rules of Behavior established by PRISM operators to alert users of notice and consent to monitoring their actions prior to login.

PII is not collected directly by PRISM from vendors and neither CCR nor DELPHI is designed to collect personally identifying information from individuals who are not acting in their entrepreneurial capacities.

7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Gays in Comics Mixer and Silent Auction — A reception hosted by PRISM Comics, the nonprofit organization that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered comics, creators, and readers.

The grant was established by Prism Comics in 2003 to assist in the publication, and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender comics.

Accompanying the exhibition was a catalog published by PRISM and PictureBox, edited by Mike Kelley and Dan Nadel with an essay by Nicole Rudick.

Accompanying the exhibition was a catalog published by PRISM and PictureBox, edited by Kelley and Nadel.

Not exact matches

Instead of selling their own SLRs, which use a mirror and prism mechanism to allow a scene to be viewed by the photographer and recorded on film, Panasonic, Olympus, and others started selling selling smaller cameras that relied just on digital sensors.

By viewing everything through the distorting prism of «engagement,» Facebook has undermined the economics of the news business and degraded the quality of information available to users in a way that directly fuels our «post-fact politics.»

The authority behind PRISM comes from Section 702 of the FISA Act, created by Congress «and has been widely known and publicly discussed since its inception in 2008.»

Under the direction of its head of digital service and transformation Wayne Butterfield, the telecom provider turned to software robotics made by my company, Blue Prism, after fully exhausting other methods of reducing costs while increasing efficiency of the back - office transactions it completes for customers.

In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.

«Last year's problems resulted in multiple extensions to the certifications» expiration dates which cost millions of dollars for Prism providers to implement each successive extension — costs covered by Special Source Operations,» it says.

Special Source Operations, described by Snowden as the «crown jewel» of the NSA, handles all surveillance programs, such as Prism, that rely on «corporate partnerships» with telecoms and internet providers to access communications data.

The authoritative interpretation of Vatican II by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI has focused this evolution through the prism of what these two men of the council have called the New Evangelization, which is now the grand strategy of the Catholic Church for the twenty - first century and beyond.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

For her part, Crowley stuck by her performance, telling The View that «People are going to look at this through the prism they look at this through.

What's even more incredible is that PRISM extolls a piece of music written by a man whose very character PRISM would call into question because of his s3xual orientation - except PRISM is so ignorant he failed to educated himself sufficiently to know that Barber was openly gay.

It is in last moments, in the greatest poverty of loss, that we behold eternity — and falling, blinded by the brilliant prism of our tears, begin to believe.

PRISM, the monthly published by Evangelicals for Social Action, has called the series «the most pro-family, God - preoccupied, home - based program on television.»

Nevertheless, in the Western world, the problem of poverty is generally seen by Catholic commentators through the prism of the welfare state.

PRISM, how about you try actually responding to Bob's post instead of trying to dodge the issues by asking a question.

It is a characteristic of these «spectral colors» that they can not be further resolved into constituent hues by passage through another prism; that they stand in a one - to - one correspondence with a particular angle of refraction (i.e., with a spatial property); and that, in the context of physical optics, each turns out to be quantifiable in terms of a spatial periodicity (the wavelength).

If you can make a room very dark you might also be able to see a rainbow by shining a torch through a prism.

Her comment of Camille as a «tough woman» could not have come at a more interesting time, as I had just stumbled upon a study, «Black Marriage Through the Prism of Gender Race, and Class,» by Kecia R. Johnson, an assistant professor at Florida State University, and Karyn Loscocco, a sociologist at the University of Albany.

The electorate failed to see the values and instincts we lived by in Government, and instead remembered us through the prism of what we had to give up.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

US government officials have insisted there have been «significant misimpressions» about Prism, which reportedly uses personal material like photos, emails and videos held by internet companies.

Documents obtained by the Guardian, which disclosed the Prism system last week, suggested that GCHQ had generated 197 intelligence reports from Prism last year.

In June 2013, the newspaper broke news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by Barack Obama's administration [15] and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

A British MEP has been criticised by privacy groups for trying to water down EU rules which would protect citizens» data in the wake of the Prism controversy.

The secretive intelligence and security committee (ISC) said allegations that GCHQ had broken the law by gaining access to Prism, an internet surveillance scheme which whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed had been tapping private online communications since 2007, were «unfounded».

According to the NSA documents, work had begun on smoothly integrating Skype into Prism in November 2010, but it was not until 4 February 2011 that the company was served with a directive to comply signed by the attorney general.

The departure of Mr Blair in June means the party can do so no longer constrained by the «prism» of Blair and Brown, the authors say.

It has been used as the legal basis for mass surveillance programs disclosed by Edward Snowden in 2014, including PRISM.

PRISM reports have been used in 1,477 items in President Obama's daily briefing last year, according to an internal presentation to the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate obtained by the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers.

While it is probably wrong to view voting behaviour too much through an ideological prism (models of electoral behaviour these days tend to be more dominated by voters perceptions of compentence, rather than ideology), throughout the 1980s the left - of - centre vote tended to be split between two parties.

And conversely, she has developed ideas related to her research by looking at bird behavior through the prism of her own experience.

EPRI's technology assessment, called its PRISM analysis, assumes that energy - efficiency strategies will reduce expected power consumption by 8 percent by 2030.

The artificial agent then tries to develop new experiments by virtually placing mirrors, prisms or beam splitters on the table.

By happenstance, the alternating layers act as tiny prisms, adding rainbow tinges to the light they reflect.