Sentences with phrase «determined by the object»

The distribution of this light along the electromagnetic spectrum (called the spectrum of the object) is determined by the object's composition.

unit of measurement (abbreviated m) determined by an object's resistance to change in the speed or direction of motion.

The narrative of each episode is determined by The Object — a white haired and white suited man whom the inhabitants do not recognise as human.

Not exact matches

Ecommerce companies should be taking feverish notes: A recent demonstration of AR technology by Florida - based startup Magic Leap showed one way retailers might integrate AR technology into an e-commerce environment: The demonstration showed how a user could superimpose virtual models of lamps and other room décor atop a real - world dresser, with the digital objects shown to scale, to help the user determine how those items might look within the space.

«Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person's preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color.

We live here for so many decades, I would hate to think that the truth of the object of my faith would be determined by centuries of contradictory theologies, all bringing something to the conversation, none having all the answers.

Since what something is is determined by its function, the same datum can be implicated by different prehending occasions with different eternal objects.

I object to Stanton Jones» use of the words homosexuality and heterosexuality as equivalent descriptions of different kinds of sexual behavior, because doing so ignores the facts that 1) «heterosexuality» is the result of the allocation of genetic material at conception that determines which reproductive organs people are born with» male or female» and 2) «homosexuality» is sexual action by people who are heterosexual.

Even though the object is to determine as far as possible what the physician should do, nevertheless objectivity as the conscious will to be guided by the object rather than by prejudices (even by moral ones) is itself a moral attitude.

Yet for Aristotle this direction is completely determined in advance by the essential nature of the object, whereas for Whitehead the direction is a function of several variables: the object in relation to its environment (PW 187/206).

As being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hitherto.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Thus intellect and will, usually distinguished by their formal objects, the true and the good, are joined in mutual causality whereby choice determines understanding as much as understanding determines choice.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

There does seem to be something fundamentally wrong with activity exclusively determined by the pursuit of power, or claims to «know» which simply reflect the imposition of the perspective of the knower upon the object known.

Thus, Newton's laws of motion are a relationship determining an unfolded order of successive positions occupied by an object at a series of successive times.

The «how» of a conceptual reaction is not completely determined by the «what» of its object.

they are genuine properties and causal powers, which supervene on, or are determined by the microstructural makeup of the objects that have them.

You can help your child practice this skill by encouraging listening for beats — and determining if they're steady or not — in everyday objects.

Disruptus asks players to look at objects and ideas and use different approaches, as determined by the roll of a die to innovate.

In the Ho West Constituency, Seven (7) out of the 171 names being objected have been directed by the court for deletion while the fate of the remaining 164 are yet to be determined by the Dzolokpuita Magistrate Court.

From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined that the camera must have been hit by a tiny meteoroid, a small natural object in space.

The shape of the universe can be determined by measuring the average density of matter within it, assuming that all matter is evenly distributed, rather than the distortions caused by «dense» objects such as galaxies.

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

The first tool detects burned earth by gauging fluctuations in its magnetic field; the second determines how long ago an object was heated by measuring the photons it emits when baked in a lab.

Instead, we determine its mass by measuring how its gravitational pull influences the motion of objects around it.

The «Three - Body Problem,» determining all the patterns three objects orbiting each other could take if influenced only by gravity, has puzzled physicists for 300 years.

The amount of redshift (z) is determined by the apparent wavelength of the spectral lines from this object by (1 + z) longer than that of the rest frame wavelength (i.e., when it is static object with respect to the observer).

Active sonar systems, such as on submarines, determine the position of objects by sending out an acoustic pulse.

The researchers» discovery hinges on a technique developed at Princeton that allows scientists to efficiently analyze thousands of signals Kepler has identified to determine which are most likely to be caused by planets and which are caused by non-planetary objects such as stars.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

Magnesium lines are critical for determining a black holes mass, but for objects at this distance, the redshifting of the light makes them extremely difficult to capture from the surface of our planet due to absorption by atmospheric water vapor.

By measuring the surface temperature of a Kuiper Belt object, and combining this with optical observations, its surface reflectivity and hence its diameter can be determined accurately.

By understanding this process, reported online today in Science, researchers say they hope to better determine how curved nanoscale objects, such as viruses, put themselves together.

The measurement technique relies on radio telescopes picking up radio waves emitted by objects in space; the more accurately scientists can determine the positions of the radio telescopes, the more precisely they can measure various characteristics of the Earth.

The accuracy of the model is determined by whether it groups similar objects into similar clusters within the representation.

Prof. Leticia Tarruell comments: «These droplets are fascinating macroscopic objects: even if they are made up of thousands of particles, their behavior is still fully determined by quantum fluctuations and correlations.

Now, MIT mathematicians have derived a formula for determining the maximum amount of heat exchanged between two objects separated by distances shorter than the width of a single hair.

To determine whether the objects on their list were planets rather than other stars, the researchers looked at the shape of the light curve caused by the transits; U-shaped curves generally indicate a planet, while V - shaped curves would usually indicate another star interacting with the one being observed, Kipping explains.

Kipping and his colleagues, including lead author Guillermo Torres and Francois Fressin, set out a year - and - a-half ago to study a list of a dozen objects observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft to determine whether they were genuine planets and whether they might be inhabitable.

We tested memory both immediately after encoding and after a week delay; associative memory accuracy was determined by asking participants to indicate if object pairs were intact (a pair of objects studied together), rearranged (a pair of objects studied in different combinations), or new (at least one object was new).

By looking at how these brain cells reacted to light and dark stimuli, the team was able to determine that the brain could accurately visualize the size of a dark object.

Through this process, the astronomers eventually were able to determine that the event was caused by the magnifying of a single star's light due to the foreground passage of an orbiting planet - type object with a mass of approximately 0.5 times that of Jupiter.

A spectrograph spreads out the light gathered by a telescope so that it can be analyzed to determine such properties of celestial objects as chemical composition and abundances, temperature, radial velocity, rotational velocity, and magnetic fields.

With a half year's worth of images, the astronomers determined that the star and the object moved together through the sky with the high common proper motion exhibited by nearby objects in the Solar neighborhood, confirming that the two are physically associated.

Based on the duo's calculation, they determined that a Mars - mass planetary object located approximately 60 AU from the sun, with an orbital tilt of eight degrees, would have enough gravitational influence to warp the orbital plane of distant KBOs by around 10 AU to either side.

A spectrograph spreads out the light gathered by a telescope so that it can be analysed to determine properties of celestial objects such as chemical composition or their radial velocity through the Doppler effect.

The researchers conclude in their article, «Gamblers may have seen dice throws as no longer determined by fate, but instead as randomizing objects governed by chance.»

As determined by the International Astronomical Union, any celestial object with a mass greater than 13 Jupiters should be considered a star.But according to Jonathan Fortney, an exoplanet and brown dwarf theorist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this definition leaves a lot of researchers cold because it doesn't take into account how the object was formed.

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