Sentences with phrase «by the diffusion of»

«We believe that, between now and 2023, a new wave of automation will ripple through the economy, driven by the diffusion of such major technologies as artificial intelligence, robotics, genomics, 3D printing, self - driving cars and the blockchain,» says Shalett.

This unification of the world through science has been accompanied by a diffusion of democratic ideas among peoples of every land.

Researchers disagree, though, whether the research shows that farming spread by diffusion of ideas in this part of Asia rather than being introduced by a major wave of farmers, as in Europe.

Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation.

The void is an important compositional element, emphasized by the diffusion of highly - keyed color and accented by a harder - edged application of black.

Thirdly, the rate of methane oxidation is limited by the diffusion of oxygen into the sediments or wetlands.

The first rate seems to be far slower because there are no winds in the stratosphere so that equilibrium can only be reached by diffusion of heat which is really slow; on the other hand we are pumpimg around 1.5 ppm of CO2 into the troposphere every year, over a base value of around 380 ppm.

(1) Venus, Earth and other planets and moons with atmospheres verify the existence of thermal gradients caused by diffusion of kinetic energy at the molecular level.

Not exact matches

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

One of the major «means of the transmission and diffusion of imperial ideology» was the construction, throughout the empire, of buildings associated with the pursuit of specifically Roman forms of leisure: public baths, circuses, amphitheatres, and Roman - style theatres — a phenomenon recognized as one of the defining features of Roman culture (both by the Romans themselves and by others).

Typically, innovations are disseminated by diffusion agencies, like the U.S. Department of Agriculture extension services, which research and develop innovations and then dispense the technologies «down» to the public.

In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

But by his reckoning, «the available signs all suggest we are not at the end of the age of diffusion.»

The rise, fall and diffusion of the charismatic movement that erupted over 35 years ago in mainline Protestantism may have been driven in part by changes in American culture.

form of government, and emboldened by the wide diffusion of a false conception of tolerance, has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution.

A profound blow to this possibility has been forever dealt by the videocassette recorder, a technology whose diffusion and usage is defiant of public control».

Through the diffusion of information by modern methods of travel and communication, democratic ideals are transmitted from one people to another.

And, in the next place, since evil is specially characterized by its diffusion, and attains its greatest height when it simulates the appearance of the good, for that reason are signs, and marvels, and lying miracles found to accompany evil, through the cooperation of its father the devil.

I would now write «individual selection» and «selective diffusion» in place of «individual adaptability» as referring to coefficients which are actually used in the mathematical formulation but which nevertheless represent processes which may involve choices made by individual organisms.

Giroud was a scapegoat last season because he had the expectation that every goal was to be scored by him when Walcott and Rambo were injured, remember we had 5 midifelders compared to 1 striker — a little phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility present concerning our everchanging midfielders.

These molecules are absorbed by your blood, and when they get close to the breast they are transported into the milk making cells of the breast via diffusion.

Social democrats in Europe are the heirs of a pluralist tradition encapsulated by Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Thomas Paine and Pierre - Joseph Proudhon which champions the diffusion of property rights and economic control, spreading power as widely as possible.

Whereas the «political practices» and «identity» panels focused on the ways in which migrant identities, senses of belonging, forms of political participation and destinies are shaped by the act of remitting, the last panel considered the varying roles that nation - states play in the diffusion of political remittances.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

As such, the rate of diffusion of misinformation can be very rapid as evidenced by recent events driven by panic spreading online regarding so - called «swine» flu in 2009 and a mass exodus from an Asian nation also driven by unnecessary online panic.

Now, many think that GE Hitachi, which uses a proprietary enrichment technique known as separation of isotopes by laser excitation, or SILEX, may have finally found a way to make the method more efficient than processes involving gaseous diffusion or centrifuges (See Risky Business).

In his view the best model of Pama - Nyungan family relations is the parallel tines of a rake, not a tree, and the many similarities in these languages can mainly be accounted for by diffusion — in which language A gets word X from language B because the speakers interact or many people speak both languages.

In real life, once Groves decided to kill centrifugal separation in favor of uranium enrichment by gaseous diffusion, Karl became one of the planners for the big gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

In this environment, the diffusion can be readily set and the motion of the atom be tracked by a camera.

Another finding was that all the possible forms of the patterns directly matched to the array of patterns predicted by the famous Turing reaction - diffusion model published in 1952, what Russian scientists confirmed not by mere observation, but by mathematical modeling as well.

They found that substructures in the material could transform by a diffusionless mechanism, while the rest of the atoms underwent short - range diffusion transformations.

Trans - gender persons as well as female and male control subjects were examined by way of diffusion - based magnetic resonance tomography (MRT).

Electron microscopy images of the porous graphene - based structure created by diffusion driven layer - by - layer assembly.

With additional funding support from NIBIB, Wang recently overcame the optical diffusion limit, which is the depth at which light can be used to take images of tissues in the body by other existing high - resolution imaging technologies.

Current testing requires a series of methods including a spirometry test, which measures the amount (volume) and the speed (flow) of air during breathing, followed by a body plethysmography test measuring static lung volumes and airways resistance and finally a diffusion test, which measures the amount of oxygen and other gases that cross the lungs» air sacs.

By looking at the dynamics of how the unfolded protein moved in the cell (A), the researchers mapped areas in the cell with different rates of diffusion (B and C).

The people who were aspirin resistant also had larger areas of the brain affected by the stroke, as measured by MRI diffusion weighted imaging, with infarct size of 2.8 cc compared to 1.6 cc for those who responded to aspirin.

Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.

If the organoids get too big, the centre dies, because not enough nutrients can penetrate by diffusion, says Ben Waldau at the University of California at Davis.

As recently as the 1980s, scientists collected genetic data by laboriously tracking the diffusion of DNA molecules through slabs of gel.

«We show that the diffusion of protons and hydroxide ions occurs during periods of intense activity involving concerted proton hopping, followed by periods of rest,» wrote primary author Ali A. Hassanali of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in the publication.

Studies by Pekka Lappalainen laboratory at Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland, now reveal that BAR domain proteins not only bend membranes, but also generate extremely stable lipid microdomains by inhibiting the lateral diffusion of certain lipids nearly completely.

Funds received from patrons in the Pacific Coast region and from gifts, bequests or other similar sources, shall be invested as trust funds by the Executive Committee, and the income therefrom shall be expended for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge.

Sea spiders also have an unusual need to move oxygen from their extremities to the core of their bodies because they lack gills, and most oxygen is taken up by diffusion through the surface of their long legs.

Our experiments demonstrate that motile microorganisms such as Tetrahymena pyriformis swim actively with the PAHs, and it is important to notice that the ciliates can swim faster than PAHs can be transported by means of diffusion.

By incorporating the complexities of channel geometry, fluid flow rates, diffusion coefficients and possible chemical interactions into a numerical model, the behavior of a particular system can be accurately predicted when an intuitive prediction may be extremely difficult.

Among other white matter tracts, the white matter organization of the cingulum tract (as reflected by the level of fractional anisotropy measured with diffusion tensor imaging) was found to be positively associated with IQ.

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

He devised a three - chambered cell - culture system in which the chambers were separated by impermeable barriers of sterile silicon grease, preventing the diffusion of fluid from one chamber to another.