Sentences with phrase «from macroscopic»

In terms of protein quality, from a macroscopic level, quality is very difficult to assess based off pet food labels alone.

From the macroscopic standpoint, superconductivity is a property of certain materials that, when cooled below a given temperature, conduct electricity without any energy loss — i.e., with zero electrical resistance.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

Not only do birds flock together but so too do countless examples throughout life, from the macroscopic to the microscopic, including schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, groups of migrating cells and even some proteins.

«That allows me to develop insights and opportunities for new ideas that are different from others that are coming from the macroscopic level.»

His research career has ranged widely, from the macroscopic study of alloys to the microscopic study of thin films such as those used in silicon chips.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

As with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there is an interconnectedness at the subatomic level that defies simple causal explanations from the macroscopic world.

I analyzed the superficial plausibility of Perry's example before in pointing out that it is borrowed from the macroscopic realm which is for all practical purposes deterministic; the predictability of any macroscopic particle is only approximate and does not alter the basic contingencies of the elementary microphysical events of which a «particle» consists.

Not exact matches

He differs from Whitehead on a major point: «I do not agree with Samuel Butler, Whitehead, or Teilhard de Chardin that it follows from the mental character of the macroscopic world that the single atomies must have mental character or potentiality.

It is clear, however — and confirmed through an examination of his Harvard lectures from this period (see below)-- that the «evolution» to which Whitehead refers here is not macroscopic biological or geological evolution, but the transition from the immediate past to the novel subjective experience of the immediate present.

Any measuring device which was adjusted so as to gather information about the macroscopic changes which follow upon decision would not be able to register information about parameters which distinguish one sort of fluctuation (Irish) from the other sort of fluctuation (Ivory Coastian).

The view of actual entities as real existents (whether microscopic, macroscopic, or «hypothetical»), rather than as descriptions of the real, has vitiated the understanding of Whitehead from the outset.

I suggest Whitehead is drawing an analogy from the microscopic level to explain social institutions on the macroscopic level.

From the orbits of the planets to the flexing of your muscles, every movement in the macroscopic world arises from the interplay of these two aspects of natFrom the orbits of the planets to the flexing of your muscles, every movement in the macroscopic world arises from the interplay of these two aspects of natfrom the interplay of these two aspects of nature.

«On a macroscopic scale this is equivalent to observing the world through a set of louvers... that allow light to enter from one direction only,» Pendry says.

In macroscopic objects such as a current of water, the fact of observing the current does not affect the flow of the water and, in accordance with the laws of classical thermodynamics, this flow would take place from the upper to the lower part of the system.

We are developing a unified model and theory that goes from microscopic to macroscopic characterization of a network.»

The advantage: this approach accounts for disturbances stemming from the random motions of the solvent molecules and for macroscopic solvent fluid flows accompanying the motor motion.

Statistical mechanics was developed to study solids, gasses and liquids at macroscopic scales, but is now used to describe a variety of complex states of matter, from magnetism to superconductivity.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Our physical understanding of the macroscopic world is so good that everything from bridges to aircraft can be designed and tested on a computer.

«Within a macroscopic view of this problem, there's nothing that stops the puddle from spreading.

But although Palmophyllales split off early from other plants, its macroscopic size might not have developed until later in its evolution.

At the macroscopic scale, we are familiar with the idea that sensors and actuators have to deal with the physical world, but the information - processing unit is isolated from the physical world.

Surveying key experimental findings from the past three decades, the authors explore links between the microscopic quantum and macroscopic classical worlds.

This new discipline seeks to create a picture of biological function and behavior that spans the size scale from atomic to macroscopic.

Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers study nature's most intricate processes on scales from the subatomic to the macroscopic.

Recipient of several honors from the Humboldt Foundation and elsewhere, Xantheas conducts theory - based work on the structure and energetics of aqueous clusters and the development of interaction potentials to study the macroscopic properties of water and ice.

Pathbase is a database of histopathology photomicrographs and macroscopic images derived from mutant or genetically manipulated mice.

Current research includes spin relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots due to spin - orbit and hyperfine interaction; non-Markovian spin dynamics in bosonic and nuclear spin environments; generation and characterization of non-local entanglement with quantum dots, superconductors, Luttinger liquids or Coulomb scattering in interacting 2DEGs; spin currents in magnetic insulators and in semiconductors; spin Hall effect in disordered systems; spin orbit effects in transport and noise; asymmetric quantum shot noise in quantum dots; entanglement transfer from electron spins to photons; QIP with spin qubits in quantum dots and molecular magnets; macroscopic quantum phenomena (spin tunneling and coherence) in molecular and nanoscale magnetism.

Together, they will focus on the great opportunities that lie in scaling up from atomic assembly and individual nanodevices to macroscopic systems and structures with emergent properties and functionality.

The second macroscopic view we can get from the Popular Highlights is the location of the shared highlights.

From microscopic to macroscopic, parasites come in all sizes and shapes and cause a myriad of animal (and human) health issues.

The land can only be measured on a singular scale, yet the land presents us with a scale which spans from the micro to the macroscopic.

Soffer has been investigating various natural phenomena from the microscopic to the macroscopic, from geological, biological to cosmological.

Nepomuceno's works are chromatically, culturally and metaphorically rich, suggesting animals, plants, the human body and landscapes ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic.

Her work ranges from the microscopic to the macroscopic as she magnifies the minute details shown in images of disease cultures and enlarges them to cosmic proportions, or conversely references seductive mood - altering pharmaceuticals using blown glass.

There's an epiphany along all those different scales: from the detail moment of the string being wrapped around or next to a Fernand Léger or Max Ernst, to the object - ness of it — say, that room — to the macroscopic view of the whole exhibition in relation to 1 mile.

Appearing to grow from the walls, her works are abstract, but evocative of both microscopic and macroscopic world.

Departing from elements of landscapes like Berlin's construction sites or micro - and macroscopic pictures as a raw material, she rearranges those forms, structures, colors and fields in an image making process which arrives at abstract compositions of ambiguity and multiple meaning.

Ding's crosses, then, may have become simply the language he uses, but their accumulated units prove ambiguous enough to allow both microscopic and macroscopic projections from the world, and at the same time to trigger multiple echoes of other abstract painters.

, but it is the foundation for this question itself: How do microscopic material properties (which are the basis for macroscopic properties) arise from quantum mechanical properties of fundamental particles and atoms?

Fundamentally it is how we bridge the gap from our understanding of quantum systems to the collective systems that are macroscopic materials.

This is why (absent sufficient solar or other non-LW heating) the skin temperature is lower than the effective radiating temperature of the planet (in analogy to the sun, the SW radiation from the sun is like the LW radiation, and the direct «solar heating» of the part of the atmosphere above the photosphere may have to due with electromagnetic effects (as in macroscopic plasmas and fields, not so much radiation emitted as a function of temperature).

One has to look to the other macroscopic force which is conspicuously absent from the GHG assertions (can't call the «equations» because such don't exist), gravity, to explain the 3 %, in the case of Earth, and 125 %, in the case of Venus, greater surface than orbital temperatures (take those figures to the 4th power for equivalent energy densities) seen in all planetary atmospheres, and indeed all gravitational wells.

Even more amusingly, when you say «very little energy from the system» you are implicitly assuming on the one hand that the second law and its restrictions on the efficiency of heat engines is valid, so one is limited by the Carnot efficiency, while describing a macroscopic collective system that is 100 % efficient at converting heat into work.

I have read the paper mentioned in this thread from the «numerous authors», and I don't see one of them that agrees that an isolated, insulated macroscopic gas will have a temperature gradient.

, phrased more politely, perhaps accompanied by a strict requirement that all of the physics from the microscopic level to the macroscopic level be fully explained to show how the system does or doesn't violate the second law before accepting it for publication?

The simplicity I am referring to here is «emergent», roughly analogous to that of a macroscopic equation of state that emerges, in the thermodynamic limit, from exceedingly complex molecular dynamics.