Sentences with phrase «driven by material»

This very limited view of humanity causes environmentalism to conceive of people as helpless without it: unable to adapt to changing environmental conditions, incapable of overcoming their dependency on natural processes, and driven by material instincts to consume until everything is gone or the waste overwhelms the consumer.

His practice in a sense can be viewed as an ongoing narrative driven by material curiosity and anchored by a constellation of people and moments from his life.

Driven by materials and an interest in transformation, Hawkinson continues to create unlikely and thought - provoking associations by repurposing ordinary materials into extraordinary works of art.

There are lots of great houses, enough drive by material to last you a lifetime.

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This increase was driven by the High Performance Materials and Industrial Specialties divisions.

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

Earnings from Corning's specialty materials unit, which makes Gorilla Glass, surged 71.4 % to $ 71 million in the third quarter, driven by demand from smartphone makers such as Apple (aapl).

«Even if they only get half of what they're proposing done, the change that would drive in terms of how they think about the business and how they manage the business would be pretty material,» Kenric Tyghe, an analyst with Raymond James Securities said by phone from Toronto yesterday.

The market size of online supplemental education opportunity in India is expected to touch $ 2.5 billion in 2016 and is poised to grow at 15 % over the next three years, driven by innovative ways of delivering courses and study material by players in the space, according a report by research and advisory firm RedSeer Consulting.

With this issue on the minds of marketers, there has been no material move by agencies to find ways to drive down production costs and improve cycle time.

A major problem for many LinkedIn groups is the amount of spam or self - promotional materials posted by marketers and other content creators hoping to drive traffic to their websites.

Tesla's decision to move into its current Sparks, Nevada home for Gigafactory 1 was ultimately driven by economics — close proximity to the Tesla Factory in Fremont and access to lithium and other raw materials required for battery and pack production.

Mr. Robertson underscored the importance of these impending investments by U.S. parties, noting that they are «both economically material and strategically important to driving positive impact in Romania, and it is critical to support a free and independent media in this important region.»

The ethical paradigm of neoclassical economics centers on «homo economicus,» who is driven by self - interest to seek the maximization of subjective material preferences — which is shown to be achievable (under highly restrictive assumptions) by competitive markets.

We believe the rumors that Apple will introduce an Apple - branded car by 2020, and we believe it is no coincidence that many believe visibility on autonomous driving will gain material traction by then.

This recession was driven by the collapse in oil prices and the extremely negative knock - on effects that had on the energy, materials and industrial complexes.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The majority of the schools — nearly six in ten — try to combine the view of a material universe driven by natural laws with a God who, in principle, can miraculously intervene.

For the foreseeable future, however, consumerism - understood as inordinate concern for things material - will be driven by extreme deprivation.

Driving down that road I've always been curious about has nothing to do with biblical womanhood, but it promises better material than if I just passed by again... so I take it.

Theologically, we shall seem to have gone absurdly far in a Pelagian direction; and all the more so if our descendants have been driven the other way by the grief and pressure of events, and have come to remember that this religion of the Resurrection starts with the Cross, has evil and suffering and death as its raw material, its prime subject - matter.

In addition, the binder contains a flash drive that consists of IPC logos / clip art that retailers can incorporate into their own POS materials or advertising campaigns, as well as clips of the many programs and public relations successes by the IPC over the last year; our new national TV commercial, a highlight reel of our hugely successful Big Idaho ® Potato Truck Tour, and a consumer program highlights reel.

I stumbled upon an interesting article in the Columbia Spectator, the second - largest college daily paper, written by Noel Duan, a Columbia College senior and «proud career - driven feminist» — «Are You Marriage Material?»

For us it came down to a risk benefit analysis: were the risks associated with co-sleeping outweighed by the risks of a parent sleeping only 1 - 2 hours a night for months on end and also attempting to drive / conduct experiments involving dangerous materials / operate large machinery each day.

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Though both have recorded plenty of material since their initial hits, their appearance to kick off America's third - largest county fair will be colored by those career - defining, guitar - driven tracks — ones that can still turn back the clock like bites of a candy apple.

Over the next six years, scientists noticed that the plumes varied in brightness (a proxy for how much material is gushing from the moon) on a daily cycle, probably driven by Saturn's different positions in Enceladus» sky.

After the optimal point of needs is met, people may be driven by desires such as pursuing more material gains and engaging in social comparisons, which could, ironically, lower well - being.

The Sun's activity — including changes in the number of sunspots, levels of radiation and ejection of material - varies on an eleven - year cycle, driven by changes in its magnetic field.

By redirecting that energy to a genetically modified part of the cell capable of producing various complex chemical materials, we induce the light driven biosynthesis of these compounds,» says Post Doc Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen, who along with colleagues Post Doc Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran and PhD student Artur Jacek Wlodarczyk has been the main researcher behind the study.

«Despite their attractive properties, discovering new disordered materials has been mostly driven by trial - and - error and by relying on human intuition,» Urban said.

In a pair of papers published this month in Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters (PRL), a team of scientists led by Gerbrand Ceder has come up with a set of rules for making new disordered materials, a process that had previously been driven by trial - and - error.

«Technology is often driven by the discovery of new materials, but the process of discovering these materials has always been rather haphazard,» Tropsha said.

These protons, driven by pressure differences and temperature, are conducted through the material of the membrane.

Now, a team led by physicist Yimei Zhu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced definitive evidence that the movement of electrons has a direct effect on atomic arrangements, driving deformations in a material's 3D crystalline lattice in ways that can drastically alter the flow of current.

The idea for this high - throughput, data - driven approach to materials discovery hit Ceder in the early 2000s, when he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and found himself inspired by the nearly completed Human Genome Project.

Since the 1970s, prevailing opinion has held that Yellowstone's activity is driven by a giant plume of hot material rising up from the mantle, the thick middle layer of Earth's interior.

Their results show that by judiciously choosing two materials (silica and gold) immersed in a fluid (bromobenzene), quantum fluctuations can be seen to drive the materials apart.

«Today, nanosecond lasers — lasers that pulse light at one - billionth of a second — are used to record information on DVDs and Blu - ray disks, by driving the material from one state to another,» explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study.

The synthesis method is based on a liquid - free process that allows for intercalation — insertion of guest ions into a host material — and ion substitution with those in the host material by driving ions with protons.

This suggests a large fraction of the dangerously high lead readings are probably not being driven by the service line material but instead by other factors.

For instance, if the transportation sector one day shifts to a smaller fleet of self - driving vehicles and if builders are able to reduce steel demand by using alternate materials — like, say, wood - framed buildings — it could drastically reduce the overall metal footprint.

The overwhelming current focus on graphene, discovered by A.K. Geim and K. Novoselov in 2004, is driven by the considerable and tantalizing potential that this material offers in conventional as well as radically new fields of ICT applications.

«Our work is significant also because it anticipates the realization of electrically driven laser devices by utilizing carbon dot * - supported silver nanoparticles (CD - Ag NPs) as plasmonic materials.»

«The melting we see appears to be driven by subduction — the downwelling of mantle material from the surface.»

Catalysts are needed to drive this reaction, and this study answers a fundamental question about these catalysts by showing how to design proton relays that achieve fast, energy - efficient materials able to work in water.

His most recent studies are driven by outstanding and unresolved questions in materials and environmental science that require advanced characterization tools and multi - disciplinary / multi-modal approaches.

The simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings allowed us to explore how theta power fluctuations driven by the movie correlate with local synaptic activity in auditory cortex, as indexed by the BOLD signal (Magri et al., 2012; see Materials and Methods).

A bimorph is an assembly of two materials — in this case, graphene and glass — that bends when driven by a stimulus like heat, a chemical reaction or an applied voltage.

This strategy sets out the roadmap for continuing progress towards the goal of making Ireland a Global Innovation Leader, driving a strong sustainable economy and a better society, underpinned by excellent research that is defined within six designated enterprise themes (ICT; Health and Medical; Food; Energy; Manufacturing and Materials; Services and Business Processes).