Sentences with phrase «changes than an engineered»

«The advantage of synthetic DNA is that it allows even more radical changes than an engineered genome,» says geneticist George Church of Harvard Medical School.

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It is redesigning its deepwater oil platforms and onshore shale - gas projects to simplify them, a major cultural change at a firm that has long prided itself more for engineering prowess than for economic discipline.

Rather than quitting, many jobs can be reverse engineered to be more fulfilling, and even if a more radical change of course is required, chances are good that process will start with small experiments rather than one momentous, weighty decision.

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

The air conditioning was a bit poor in our room — to be honest we didn't really need it for the first 4 nights as there was a real strong wind on an evening which kept things nice and cool but half way through our stay the wind suddenly dropped and the room was stifling — Reception actioned this immediately and sent an engineer to our room — who couldn't get it fixed although it did get marginally better — reception offered to change our room but again this was more hassle than it was worth by this point during our stay so they provided us a fan instead which did the job.

Procrastinating politicians are in danger of turning next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen into little more than a talking shop, a body of leading scientists and engineers has warned.

The CECA survey of civil engineering workload trends, in which more than a third of the membership takes part, tests for changes over the past year in contractors» workload, workforce, order books, cost trends, and tender prices.

That's been changing since the advent of molecular gastronomy, which has brought cultural cachet to the kinds of work industrial food scientists do all the time — albeit that many foodies would still rather their food came au naturel than highly engineered.

«For example, working with [Founding Core Faculty member and Molecular Robotics co-lead] William Shih, we built tensegrity - based DNA nanodevices that can be programmed to change shape on demand for biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional robots.

The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

Commenting on his research, Dr Leon Sealey - Huggins said: «Climate change is more than a technical problem to be addressed by engineering or scientific actions.

More than 130 years ago, British physicist and engineer Osborne Reynolds described fluid flowing at low speeds as «laminar,» meaning it flows smoothly in a single direction, and fluid flowing at high speeds as «turbulent,» meaning it experiences chaotic changes in pressure and energy.

«For more than a decade, scientists and engineers have been trying to replicate this process and build these devices that can color match, color change, and camouflage just like the cephalopods, but many of them come nowhere near the speed or dynamic range of color that the animals can display,» Deravi said.

Brown University engineers have demonstrated a technique for making 3 - D - printed biomaterials that can degrade on demand, which can be useful in making intricately patterned microfluidic devices or in making cell cultures than can change dynamically during experiments.

Unlike these constructs, however, Cas9 allows you to easily change the sequence targeted by the activator by simply providing a new gRNA rather than engineering an entirely new protein.

«My research is grounded in the practical application of science and logic, which tells me it is far better to work with nature rather than trying to control or to change her,» Clemson University civil engineer David Prevatt told LiveScience.

It prepares students to participate in, rather than being at the mercy of, the rapid changes in occupations and communication using technologies developed through engineering and the applications of science.

These changes did more than increase the demand for a small cadre of scientists and engineers; they increased the demand for skilled and educated labor among the mass of workers.

By revising the construction of the panels that make up the truck's bed and by changing the way the wheelhouses integrate with it, engineers were able to create a bed that is 6.75 - inches wider than before.

AMG's engineers have also altered the compression ratio, refined the exhaust port design, changed the way the boost pressure builds and fitted a new dual - mass flywheel that's 0.7 kg lighter than that fitted to the GT S — all with the aim of sharpening throttle response.

Honda engineers claim that more than 90 percent of the Ridgeline's chassis is different from the Pilot's, and some of those changes - two additional crossmembers (seven total) and fully boxed frame rails - help explain the Ridgeline's rather porky 4500 - pound curb weight.

Jim and Mike have always pushed the boundaries of material science in their builds, but with the new computer - laden factory speed machines leaving the big three today, builders are becoming more like software engineers than mechanics in many ways — and this isn't a trend that will ever change as OEMs look to build more refined, complex machines.

The switch to turbocharging has meant a fundamental change in engineering philosophy for Honda, and it comes on a car that is reputed to be nothing less than the fastest front - wheel - drive hatch money can buy — faster, of course, around the Nürburgring than all of its rivals.

The original box - on - wheels shape, with no compound curves, was engineered for ease of manufacture; Jeep wouldn't dare alter it any more than you'd change the shape of a Coke bottle.

According to Chevy, the changes help the Camaro 1LE achieve more than 1.0 g of lateral acceleration, which also made the engineers beef up the rear - axle half - shafts to handle the increased traction levels and the ZL1's high - capacity fuel pump and additional fuel pickups were added to prevent fuel starvation during hard - cornering.

That the XF is also keen to change direction with quick response and little in the way of roll becomes even more impressive... and it actually feels smaller than it is when threading through, which is no mean feat; and a tribute to the extensive weight savings the engineers rendered in the new XF's construction (up to 190 kg saving, depending on spec).

At the launch of the M235i Coupe in Las Vegas last week, BMW's engineers pointed out the many changes they have incorporated in its chassis to provide it with a smoother ride than its predecessor.

More importantly than all of these changes are what engineers put ahead of the vehicle's firewall.

The weight change allows more weight to be hauled, yet also the engineers actually made the frame even stronger than ever before!

Hi John - thank you again for your recent response to my earlier letter... I believe I read somewhere on the site that you are a retired engineer, so let me speak for a second in math terms... more of a hypothesis than anything empirical yet, but it SEEMS to me that the partial derivative of the «ideal» stock allocation (let's assume for now this means the equity allocation that maximizes the SWR) with respect to changes in PE10 is less sensitive to changes in PE10 the longer your time horizon and / or the higher your target terminal balance....

Note: Mei Ling forgot that Samus was not just trained but literally enhanced, via Chozo genetics engineering; as such, Zero Suit Samus could possibly have the most changes compared to their own - universe counterparts, as she'd be very fast (probably only outrun by Sonic, who is himself much slower than he can be), quite strong, and (although rather irrelevant to Smash Bros.) highly tolerant of harsh environments, all without the Power Suit's aid.

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

However, in (a) blueprints smacks more of engineering solutions than scientific ones making me very uncomfortable with that choice and (b) since the challenge of global warming and climate change is the equivalent of fighting many battles in a virtual war with very unpredictable outcomes, chaos is the more likely outcome.

In addition, the committee believes that these approaches are more accurately described as «climate intervention» strategies — purposeful actions intended to curb the negative impacts of climate change — rather than engineering strategies that imply precise control over the climate.

We argue that human engineering is potentially less risky than geoengineering and that could help behavioural and market solutions succeed in mitigating climate change.

Endorsed by more than 100 independent scientists, engineers and economists who work in the field of climate change, the open letter calls on world leaders to abandon the goal of «stopping climate change» and focus instead on helping nations become resilient to natural changes by promoting environmentally - responsible economic growth.

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said efforts to address climate change should focus on engineering methods to adapt to shifting weather patterns and rising sea levels rather than trying to eliminate use of fossil fuels.

If a duration of this extent can be expected from the «Climate Change» meme, it suggests that we may look forward to several more decades before it plays out, particularly if Mother Nature or NASA are able to engineer a little more warming than they have managed for the past sixteen years.

Welcome to «geo - engineering», which holds that, rather than trying to change mankind's industrial habits, it is more efficient to counter the effects, using planetary - scale engineering.

if you went to a cardiologist and there were no engineers, the cardiologist would tell you of an irregular heartbeat and say sorry there is nothing we can do.really an absurd arguement... keep talking about the money and remember: «The US Government has spent more than $ 79 billion of taxpayers» money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, blah blah blah and you know where this came from so i leave out the note peace, rich

[55] In this latter connection, the defendant called Mr. Goudie an engineer who testified the change of velocity at the time of the collision was probably less than 8 km / h.

(Their current problem is a consequence of senior people there not understanding rapidly changing political dynamics but they'll learn about politics faster than the politicians learn about engineering.)

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General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5

Beth Tubbs, senior staff engineer at the ICC, says the code was created to «facilitate the reuse of buildings, rather than tearing down and building new,» but its application often depends on how much you're changing the structure.

While you could level the shelf in your back mudroom with a few coins under the back legs, you'll need a bit more than pocket change to level the back of the home after an engineer confirms the footings have slowly and steadily dropped four inches since the underground sprinklers flooded the yard a few years back.

There are more individuals leaving the industry through retirement or career changes to high - tech jobs than there are coming into the industry through apprentice schools and engineering / architecture universities.

«Robust and reliable, engineered wood can prove a far better choice than natural wood because it's unlikely to alter when exposed to changes in temperature and humidity levels»