Sentences with phrase «failure mechanisms for»

Provide expert support for yield analysis, process engineering, materials characterization and characterization of failure mechanisms for integrated circuits.

Not exact matches

This doubt is considerably strengthened by the failure of science to uncover any specific hereditary mechanisms sufficient to account for drinking pathologies.»

If you introduce an artificial nipple into the situation, you are setting yourself up for failure as the mechanisms for sucking on an artificial nipple and breastfeeding are very different.

I was searching for coping mechanisms on how to overcome my failure at breastfeeding.

It seems as though SIDS occurs when a vulnerable baby encounters an external stressor during a critical developmental period and experiences some catastrophic failure of the normal protective physiological mechanisms that kick in for all other babies when they experience the stressor.

«The new imprinting mechanism may eventually offer a target for treating such developmental failures,» Zhang says.

This basic fact makes it difficult for researchers to discern the underlying mechanism of the disease: «It's very difficult to figure out what's wrong, because the bone marrow is nearly empty of these cells,» said Bessler, the director of CHOP's Pediatric and Adult Comprehensive Bone Marrow Failure Center.

Jørgensen suspects the failure of mechanisms that repair such damage could be a primary reason for a thermal limit.

Their analysis involved translating the disaster scenario manual prepared by Japan's National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, which features comprehensive material enabling designers to appreciate possible failure mechanisms.

«We think this is a possible mechanism for the failure of these antibodies in human trials,» says Marc Busche of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

The current analysis highlights the need for meticulous evaluation of bioprosthesis mechanism of failure before attempting a valve - in - valve procedure,» the authors write.

Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.

Although the immune basis for corneal allograft rejection was formally established in experimental animals by Maumenee (33) over 50 years ago, the exact immune mechanisms that lead to the corneal graft failure remain poorly understood.

Other projects around developmental vascular biology study the mechanisms of closure of the ductus arteriosus as failure of ductus arteriosus (DA) closure after birth is a common complication of premature delivery with consequences for the developing lung and other organs.

BTK mediated apoptosis, a possible mechanism for failure to generate high titer retroviral producer clones.

Her work on the genetic mechanisms of cardiomyopathies and muscular dystrophies has identified several genes that are important for cardiac and skeletal muscle membrane stability and produced insights into how heart failure and muscle dysfunction occur.

First, we clinically and genetically characterize different cardiomyopathy cohorts to identify novel disease genes, to understand the mechanisms for heart failure, and to improve prognosis.

Future experiments to validate this model by directly manipulating signaling between conceptus and endometrium will allow for a more precise understanding of the mechanisms of pregnancy failures that occur during the periimplantation period after normal fertilization and SCNT cloning.

Depletion of glutathione is essential to the mechanism of acetaminophen (Tylenol) toxicity, for example, which accounts for half of all cases of acute liver failure in the United States and Great Britain.

The reason for my failure was that I didn't understand the basic mechanisms behind weight loss.

The principle is that schools can start to be turned around before the conversion to «sponsor academy» status - the current main mechanism for addressing failure, by which schools are put under new management.

Fuses are a safety mechanism for times when shorts and other unexpected failures occur.

The most important failure mechanism is not adjusting for valuations at all.

The FTC has a mechanism for reporting these failures.

Intermediate - term timing has a theoretical failure mechanism: you have to wait for favorable valuations.

Always look for a failure mechanism.

And remember, they have reached this stratospheric levels despite the Paulson rescue package, despite an alphabet soup of new Fed facilities that accept GSE paper as collateral (as the discount window did) now in place (although there were raspberries all around for the bailout bill, due to its failure to make any changes in the operation, management, or policies of the GSEs and its lack of specificity as to triggers and what mechanism would be used).

Of course, the Lena river delta, with its rapidly warming waters, is central to the ESAS methane situation, and slope failure might be a potential mechanism for sudden releases there.

In doing so I provide a new conceptual overview of Earth's climate mechanism which appears to fit all observed changes in atmospheric temperature trends and, in view of the failure of existing climate models, I suggests a path forward for further research.

The position taken by the Australian government in UNFCCC negotiations has been largely counterproductive, including: its membership of the Umbrella Group of delayer countries; its prioritization of a post-2020 agreement over raising ambition as is urgently required; its insistence on a meaninglessly weak Kyoto Protocol second commitment period target for Australia; its unreasonable conditions for Australia to increase its Kyoto target; its refusal to countenance even conditional targets deeper than 25 % below 2000; its pursuit of creative accounting rules for LULUCF (land use, land use change, and forestry) in both Kyoto commitment periods [v]; its intended reliance on international offset mechanisms; and its failure to provide finance for developing countries.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

The failure of the industry to take a moral stand on this issue demonstrates the need for international mechanisms to curb the trade in conflict resources», said Natalie Ashworth, Campaigner, Global Witness.

There are several counts against you: 1) the formulae are arbitrary and numerological 2) the mechanisms are un-physical, e.g. your fusion argument ignores the fact that it takes 250,000 for the fusion energy to exit the core washing out any shorter periodicities 3) you misuse data, e.g. the auroral data we discussed at length already 4) failure to account for e.g. the Maunder Minimum.

The law and OMB guidelines also direct federal agencies to provide adequate administrative mechanisms for affected parties to review agency failures to respond to requests for correction or reconsideration of scientific information.

And, as in this case, when that mechanism fails as it has here, and hen it causes them acute public discomfort, it really ill - becomes them to blame the receiver for the failure.

As we have shown here on Climate Resistance, some argue that psychological mechanisms might be to blame for our failure to respond to climate change, and devise techniques that might «encourage» us to behave «responsibly».

Finally, they direct federal agencies to provide adequate administrative mechanisms enabling affected parties to review agency failures to respond to requests for correction or reconsideration of the scientific information.

I've appreciated the no - nonsense tone that some negotiators have taken so far this year, opening meetings that are normally filled with self - congratulation and fake formality are being filled with strong statements about the conditions for success or failure of this meeting, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) stated that if we do not establish a mechanism to address Loss and Damage from climate change that addresses compensation at this meeting they will consider it a failure, I sincerely hope they hold strong to that position.

Omar, the article you linked for «criticism» of homeopathy is — perhaps unintentionally — an article by a prominent U.K. homeopathic practitioner attempting to explain away the consistent failure of homeopathy to «work» by arguing that double - blinded clinical trials interfere with the mechanism.

iii) Prosecution for Workplace Harassment: Prosecution, the most serious enforcement mechanism, has not yet been utilized in relation to workplace harassment, although several Canadian employers have faced prosecution now for failure to protect workers from workplace violence.

1932: The firm works to develop a more efficient mechanism for handling railroad failures and helps produce Section 77 of Chapter VIII of the 1933 Bankruptcy Act, which established the goal of getting the bankrupt company back on its feet with the cooperation of creditors and under the supervision of a trustee.

«The failure of two police services to notify the SIU about Dafonte Miller raises concerns of systemic discrimination and ineffective mechanisms to hold police accountable for it.

It should also include a penalty mechanism that establishes consequences for the customer's failure to perform.

What's certain is that a combination of deformation at the upper corners, a thin separator and the mechanical stresses due to natural cycling make for a major failure mechanism.

failures in the past have emphasised the importance of policy that is evidence based and incorporates ongoing mechanisms for evaluation and review.

While Aboriginal people in Victoria have successfully fought for important mechanisms such as the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement and Traditional Owner Settlement Act, our failure to pay reparations for stolen children or stolen wages, deliver land justice, close the gap in life expectancy or prevent overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in prison, shows we have much to do to make amends and achieve equity.

In fact, some childhood adversities may affect later health not through psychological processes, such as distress symptoms, but through other mechanisms, for example, failure to receive proper early health care.

However, even where framework agreements based on human rights principles are a preferred option, the failure of the legal system to provide mechanisms for Indigenous parties to enforce them requires a political solution.