Sentences with phrase «electrical system which»

A highlight of the battery - powered drivetrain will be the 800 - volt electrical system which offers the benefits of shorter charging times and lower curb weight.
The new BMW HP4 RACE comes with an extensive package of electronic control and assistance systems as well as a weight - optimised on - board electrical system which has been optimised to meet racing needs.
The researchers have estimated that at least # 150m annually is being spent on unnecessary services and maintenance which could have been avoided if schools very better designed, particularly with less complex mechanical and electrical systems which are difficult to operate and have a short lifespan.
They are understood to have only mild hybridisation via 48 - volt electrical systems which are becoming common across the car industry.

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And Power Design wins its share, as exemplified by the 44 - story Luma Tower in the Miami Worldcenter, for which it designed and built the lighting and electrical systems.
But to understand how it works, you first need to know the science behind the eel's electrical system, which is made up of low - voltage electric plates that are each capable of driving.15 volts of charge.
Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.
Those are converted into electrical impulses that pass to the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus, which governs our endocrine system and hormones, and much of our activity.»
Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.
Medical device giant Medtronic has received FDA clearance for its latest non-medication pain treatment: Intellis, a system which stimulates the spinal cord with electrical impulses to block pain messages from making it to the brain.
This project is the largest ever for the Black & Veatch's Smart Integrated Infrastructure Team, which also supports Tesla Motors and their channel partners in design and construction of stationary storage systems nationwide.Working with Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Black & Veatch is building the biggest connected electrical vehicle charging system in the world.
For example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollars.
And because Puerto Rico doesn't have money, it can't pay the billions of dollars it needs to fix the electrical system, which was already in bad shape before the hurricane.
Standard x-ray systems have one detector containing individual elements called diodes, which convert the level of detected x-ray energy into an electrical signal that's sent back to the machine's on - board computer.
In 2004, the indoor pool facility underwent a $ 5 million expansion which included the addition of an activity pool, family changing rooms, upgraded HVAC, electrical and filtration systems, expanded locker rooms and increased ADA accessibility with the addition of an elevator.
Residents of the park, which had fallen into foreclosure, were facing an uncertain future, confronting major infrastructure deficiencies including failing sanitary systems, inadequate water and electrical systems and deteriorating roadways.
These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions
A new tax system is due to be introduced in December which would mean that for certain electrical goods, including mobiles and games consoles, only the final retailer would be able to charge VAT.
The linemen and other workers are provided by National Grid, which has a contract with LIPA to manage the electrical system.
Conventional systems simply send the braking electric power to resistors on the train, which convert the electrical energy to heat, which is then released into the air.
The work contributes to a larger Masdar Institute - MIT research project, which is aimed at developing a solar - powered, combined electrical power plant and cooling system.
The new 3 - D structure, which was obtained using X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, revealed that the outer surface of the Zika NS1 protein has substantially different electrical - charge properties than those of other flaviviruses — indicating it may interact differently with the members of an infected person's immune system.
Lead researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, Dr Biagio Forte, said: «With increasing dependency upon GNSS with the planned introduction of 5G networks and autonomous vehicles which rely heavily on GNSS, the need for accurate and reliable satellite navigation systems everywhere in the world has never been more critical.
But the FAA also took another highly unusual, and perhaps illuminating, step: it decided to investigate its own certification process, asking in particular how it could have guaranteed as airworthy an aircraft whose electrical system has suffered a dangerous battery failure so soon, and which also has a history of electrical fires and circuitry failures, some even during the certification process itself.
Among the features that determine the catalytic efficiency of a nanoparticle is its electrical charge, which is difficult to quantify in technologically relevant systems, where the particles interact with the surfaces of other materials.
Led by Professor Christopher James, Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine at the School of Engineering, technology has been developed which allows electronic devices to be activated using electrical impulses from brain waves, by connecting our thoughts to computerised systems.
The system takes electrical signals from the participant's brain, which then travel down to electrodes placed around his knees to create movement.
The rise and fall with each wave alternately pressurizes and depressurizes the air at the top, which can drive a turbine; Wavegen in Scotland, partly owned by Siemens, the giant electrical company, recently opened a 100 - kilowatt generator based on this system.
Then there's the surgical approach, «which lets us actually look into the brain of the AI system,» says Alan Fern, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University, who is leading one of 12 projects funded under Gunning's program.
Neurons are specialized cells of the nervous system that communicate using electrical signals, which propagate down long, wire - like projections called axons.
The latest development of the system was carried out in close collaboration with researchers working under Tomaso Zambelli, Privatdozent at ETH Zurich's Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Martin Pilhofer, Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, and the ETH spin - off Cytosurge, which markets the FluidFM technology.
Although the device has a diode - like structure, its light - emitting system is not based on a diode system, which are made from layers of semiconductors, materials that act like a cross between a conductor and an insulator, the electrical properties of which can be controlled with the addition of impurities called dopants.
However, in 1992 Zapol and the MGH were issued a patent for a system his team had developed to produce NO — which can be naturally produced by lightning bolts — from air by means of an electrical spark.
«What this now means is that complicated effects like color correction, which in a conventional optical system would require light to pass through several thick lenses in sequence, can be achieved in one extremely thin, miniaturized device,» said principal investigator Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS.
Furthermore, Hoope has an anesthetic system by which an electrical pulse generates numbness, preventing pain at the time of the puncture.
Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.
Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: they have thick electrical insulation so that they can quickly relay stimuli from the body and signals from the brain to a toe, for example.
GeckoLogic firm developed an evaporative cooler that has an integrated photovoltaic system isolated from the electrical network, which enables to refresh an area of approximately 200 square meters.
The new system, which Tomescu developed together with his thesis advisor, Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, defends against such «equivocation.»
«When electrical currents are created in such a system of flows, they can cause a magnetic field which in turn increases the electrical current and so forth — and finally the magnetic field becomes so strong that we can measure it on the surface of Earth,» says Alessandro Toschi.
One of the difficulties involved in developing thermo - electric systems that convert heat into electric current is the need for materials exhibiting high electrical conductivity but low thermal conductivity, which is only possible with complicated crystal structures.
We will discuss the electrical system of the heart, how it can be thwarted to produce arrhythmias and the field of cardiac electrophysiology, which is the study and treatment of arrhythmias.
To gain an understanding of how electrical synapses specifically form between neurons, we are interested in determining which gap junctions identified in the reconstruction of the nervous system have UNC - 7 as a component, which other innexins contribute to these junctions, what determines specificity for forming complete channels, and how these gap junctions function to direct information flow in the nervous system.
Similar, yet distinct movements can cause your nervous system to send a different set of electrical signals to your muscles, which will stimulate different contraction patterns in your muscle fibers.
George Crile shows in «The Phenomena of Life» (TPOL) how the glands govern the bodies electrical systems «It is at once clear that there is within the organism an energy - controlling system which is activated by the special senses primarily.
While science has not yet discovered the full means by which Chinese Medicine works, it has been shown to effect the electrical and nervous systems of the body, impact neurotransmitters, and reduce substance P (which is responsible for the sensation of pain).
Excitation - contraction coupling describes the way in which the electrical signal sent through the nervous system leads to muscular contractions at the sarcomere level.
The training session at Trade Skills 4 U — the UK's no 1 provider of electrical training which regularly hosts Gate Safe Aware training — was attended by 17 delegates, including 4 from Acctive Systems, signifying 1,000 trained Gate Safe Aware installers in the UK.
For example, students could be building a speaker from scratch (in which amplified electrical signals are converted into magnetic fields) and the system would display the flow of electrons, magnetic forces or sensor values.
Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
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