Sentences with phrase «choice as an artifact»

Over the last decade, strained nanomechanical oscillators have emerged as an important paradigm owing to their anomalously high quality factors; however, this trend is not as much a design choice as an artifact of large stresses naturally produced at the nanoscale.

Not exact matches

The subjects had to navigate 21 different mazes, with two choices to move forward or down based on whether they sensed a visual stimulation artifact called a phosphene, which are perceived as blobs or bars of light.

Wilkerson sees his film, no less than his family, as caught up with these cultural artifacts in the continuing movement of history — a history in which you might decide to be a liberal (if you're content to congratulate yourself) or, as a better choice, a radical.

BlackBerry People's Choice Documentary Award: Artifact directed by Bartholomew Cubbins [TIFF] Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, Artifact gives intimate access to singer / actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album This Is War.

Create, edit and publish curated files and artifacts organized and tagged with tags of your choice as «best practice» exemplars in your own private online library; share and distribute exemplars across your organization.

But as Pat Wolf, one of the authors of that study, noted — the score increase may well be just an artifact of private choice schools deciding to start prepping students for that high - stakes test now that they were required to take it.

Rated second on the island on Tripadvisor only after Masala Bay, the Pink Plantation house is, as the name suggests, an old plantation house that is full of history, charm, and old artifacts with a perfect hilltop location and view (hey, they had the choice of spots!)

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

The fact that we fully subsidize litigation, while offering scant support to less adversarial dispute resolution processes, strikes me as a wrong - headed choice of priorities in the allocation of public dollars; it is peculiar, and probably an artifact of older values and priorities, that we direct 95 % or more of our justice system funding toward the dispute resolution mechanism that is the most destructive, most expensive, least efficient and least expeditious.