Sentences with phrase «from conventional technology»

This new MRI probe technology is detecting something different from conventional technology: toxic amyloid beta oligomers instead of plaques, which occur at a stage of Alzheimer's when therapeutic intervention would be very late.

Not exact matches

SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.

But a staff analytical paper from the Bank of Canada is peeling back the layers of blockchain's proposed advantages and suggests most of its assets actually come from more - conventional technologies such as encryption and smart contracts.

Furthermore, Theranos employees even improperly operated conventional blood testing machines (as opposed to the «nano - prick» blood test technology that CEO Elizabeth Holmes had claimed would revolutionize the diagnostics industry)-- and the firm failed to ensure that all patients who may have received inaccurate test results from Theranos has been duly informed.

The opportunity from Global Opportunity Report 2017, Business of Power, showcases how decentralised, peer - to - peer platforms and innovative energy storage technologies are disrupting the conventional concept of utility delivery and better preparing cities and residents for energy and climate resilience.

Accordingly, blockchain has been touted as everything from a replacement for conventional stock exchanges to a new distribution mechanism for digital music, but most viable uses for the technology are decidedly more practical.

Apart from offering potential cost savings, the adoption of distributed ledger technology could start to threaten financial institutions by effectively removing the need for conventional, regulated payment systems.

Using a technology that helped render the protein molecule while helping cut away the oftentimes off putting dry taste of the ingredient, Ripple has raised more than $ 44 million in funding from Silicon Valley investors such as Google since launching in 2014, and has expanded from the natural channel into the conventional retailers like Target.

From their analysis, which is not based on omic technologies but represents the most comprehensive compilation of GE crop composition data to date, the authors conclude that compositional differences between GE varieties and their conventional comparators are «encompassed within the natural variability of the conventional crop and that the composition of GM and conventional crops can not be disaggregated.»

The patented extrusion porosification technology (EPT) process can dry numerous products and ingredients from thicker slurries than conventional spray drying can, which gives products a unique internal honeycomb structure.

The technology enables a 15 percent weight reduction from an earlier Vitaminwater ® bottle with enhanced vacuum absorption capabilities compared to conventional bases used for hot - fill containers.

Dr Oliver Kuras, from the British Geological Survey, who led on the development of geo - electrical imaging technology, said: «It is traditionally difficult to reliably «see inside rock walls» using conventional electrical imaging methods, particularly when repeating surveys over time.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

Conventional asphalt works fine, but Kjellberg is working with the Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth to make a microwave - specific mix from recycled shingles and taconite tailings, especially since improved oil - refining technology is reducing asphalt supplies.

He also notes that the report may underestimate emissions reductions from improved conventional cars, biofuels, and other technologies.

Ultimately, the researchers believe their device design — a combination of a carbon nanotube antenna and diode rectifier — could compete with conventional photovoltaic technologies for producing electricity from sunlight and other sources.

While conventional tabletop microscopes shine light through the sample from above, the Shih lab's technology launches the light from the side of the slide, which is about one millimeter thick.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a transistor with good enough performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands of those transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»

Then along came a pair of archaeologists from the University of Denver with a noninvasive, nondestructive technology to topple conventional thinking.

A new and stable phase of gold with different physical and optical properties from those of conventional gold has been synthesized by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) researchers [1], Singapore, and promises to be useful for a wide range of applications, including plasmonics and catalysis.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

As the graphic shows, THz image waves are received by a metamaterial spatial light modulator, which in turn sends multiple data points from the THz scene to a single - pixel detector, which computationally reconstructs the image faster, more efficiently and with higher - fidelity than conventional THz imaging technology.

From Barro's perspective, it is unlikely that gene editing technologies will completely replace conventional plant breeding methods.

These potentially game - changing technologies, developed by Peter Rogan, PhD, students and his collaborators from Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, reveal gene variants that were missed by conventional genetic testing.

This inherent elasticity and translucence also means that the device shows promise as an alternative to current LCD or conventional LED technology, potentially offering everything from modest lighting products to multifaceted graphical displays.

The physicians at Five Stones Healing Arts & Wellness Center in Leesburg, Virginia utilize a variety of tools and technology to diagnose and treat Lyme Disease from both a conventional and integrative approach.

The episodic model of care from conventional medicine is outdated in technology and failing in approach.

We practice a new model of medicine that incorporates the best diagnostic tools and technologies from conventional medicine, as well as emerging tests and tools that help us identify the critical imbalances that are at the root of all illness.

But this is a relatively conventional Second World War story about seizing Nazi radar technology from occupied Norway and he's all the better for it.

Especially for pupils who benefit from the accessibility technology offers compared to conventional methods of learning.

Simply refining conventional technology (and reducing weight) has delivered benefits - on popular economy - tracking site Fuelly, owners of the latest generation MX - 5 are getting 6 - 8mpg more than their counterparts in the previous - generation car, while also benefitting from better performance.

Although the Japanese automaker has tinkered with a number of advanced propulsion systems over the past decade, it feels there's plenty of life left in conventional, fuel - burning engines, albeit not without a little help from new technologies.

Yet this hasn't deterred a growing number of automakers from pouring vast amounts of money into the development of hydrogen fuel - cell technology, which can provide a car with range commensurate with conventional gasoline - engine models while emitting nothing but water in the form of steam.

The hood of the BMW M3 CRT was made from two CFRP moldings encasing an aramid honeycomb structure, its bucket seats featured two CFRP layers wrapped around a recycled - paper honeycomb, and a carbon layer made using conventional production technology was added to visible areas.

The plug - in technology enables the battery to fully charge from a standard electrical outlet, enabling pure electric propulsion in many driving situations, especially urban commutes in which fuel efficiency may double that of a conventional hybrid.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

Tank - to - wheel CO2 equivalent emissions of 684.9 g / km are 37 % lower than those of a conventional Euro VI diesel bus, making the Enviro400H with Series - E technology an Ultra Low Emission Bus and qualifying it for funding from the Department for Transport's ongoing # 48 - million Ultra Low Emission Bus Scheme.

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Weight savings also come from its inner - CFRP and outer - aluminium doors (50 % lighter than conventional doors), high structural rigidity allowing a reduced number of components (10 % weight saving) and the use of foam plastic technology in the air - con ducts (60 % weight saving, also improves acoustics by absorbing noise).

In many acute situations, treatment may involve aspects of surgery and drug therapy from conventional Western technology, along with alternative techniques to provide a complementary whole.

The aragami also take on traits from their environment, and can not be defeated with conventional weapons technology.

«We're huge fans of sci - fi from every part of pop culture and history, so we went to that and imagined a web where you start in the middle, surrounded by techs that are relatively recognizable based on conventional technology, and you go outward into any frontier you can imagine,» says David McDonough, Civilization: Beyond Earth's co-lead designer.

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A history of DIY jamming and hacking presents the way artists have continued to subvert conventional uses of technology and challenge the status - quo, from the internet as militarily - designed, to corporately - exploited, civilian - employed, artistically - manipulated, and back again.

From Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particuFrom Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particufrom Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particufrom Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particular.

With it, they retool and question conventional approaches to urbanism, raising themes such as reconstruction following natural disaster; historical recovery from war; the influence of government policy on cityscapes; and the implications of technology on architectural development.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than... conventional plant breeding technologies.

The world, including China, India and other developing nations, needs affordable clean technologies now to avoid the lock - in of massive carbon emissions from conventional coal plants.