Sentences with phrase «glass structures of»
The Rocco Forte Hotel Abu Dhabi is a visually striking glass structure of fluid lines encasing 281 generously - sized bedrooms, with Abu Dhabi's largest spa, and three unique dining destinations, blending seamlessly into the future commercial district of the Emirate's capital.
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In polished glass - and - steel Calgary, where bulldozers stand ready to crush any structure older than your grandmother, Shantz has become a hound and hero to a growing cadre of designers, architects and home builders.
It's an absolute marvel — a mostly glass structure built onto the edge of the Chicago River.
But he's wearing a new set of Epson Moverio B200 glasses that allow an entire world of virtual characters, objects and structures to overlay and interact with his real environment through so - called «augmented reality.»
In general, «they seem to encounter «glass walls» that keep them from venturing out of big companies or structured academic settings to launch their own firms at the same rate men do,» says Lesa Mitchell, a vice president with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundationdevoted to entrepreneurship.
While Glass Lewis, along with the Company's shareholders, will not know the extent of the bid - rigging and its effect on the Company, we anticipate that concerns will be raised regarding the Company's corporate governance structure and internal controls.
Glass Lewis» approach to say - on - pay has two main components: (i) a qualitative assessment of the structure of a company's compensation program and the accompanying disclosure; and (ii) a quantitative assessment reflected in our pay - for - performance grade.
I explained they were harmless, and essentially highly compressed air slipping over a structure moving at greater than the speed of sound... or an explosive wave expansion that moves out and then rebounds in... and so, the compressed waves move into our area from the weapons test area, and shake the glass windows, and we hear the sonic «sound» (or the wave's double sound) and the vibrational aspect of the glass within the window.
And you will also need to have ready a long necked glass wine bottle (or similar structure that will fit into the opening of the tube pan) for inverting the cake right when it comes out of the oven.
Target applications for renewably sourced grades of Fusabond ® include applications like wood / plastic composites, starch / PE compounds and glass - fiber / PE compounds where use of a renewably sourced modifier significantly increases the renewable material percentage in the structures.
Relaxed and trendy, and showcasing the work of local artists, Lorimar Winery's Old Town tasting room is one of the most popular for a structured tasting or a glass of premium, handcrafted wine.
The structure will allow attendees to pose and be photographed with an ARIA of their own while holding a glass of Croser NV.
The Village Board voted Monday to keep the new 34 - foot - tall winding structure of fiber glass and concrete high and very dry, contending the drought has already caused drastic water conservation measures in the village.
The Park District of Highland Park was recently awarded a grant to include a geothermal heating and cooling system with a glass - walled structure at Rosewood Beach.
The medieval - style structure boasts intricately carved stairways of dark burnished wood, glowing sconces, mammoth hand - hewn oak beams and leaded - glass windows.
The Wyndham Gardens Chinatown, the site proclaims, «starts with a structure similar to a giant shard of blue glass that cuts through the Manhattan skyline to create an unforgettable presence in the new Chinatown.»
We're seeing farms stripped of their productive soils, replaced by concrete and glass structures — not to produce food, but rather plants for Walmart.
Architect Norman Foster has a track record of getting breathtaking structures built: He tossed a footbridge across London's Thames River and stuck a huge glass dome on top of Berlin's Reichstag.
The diffraction patterns of both silica and germania glasses are consistent with a structure in which nearly all of the atoms belong to tridymite - like regions of up to about 20 angstroms or more that are bonded efficiently together in a manner analogous to that found in twinned crystals.
Greenhouses are large houselike structures that are usually made mostly of glass (or clear plastic).
Mechanical constraints such as soft wire, or glass substrate which chemically binds with the gel, can also be used to manipulate the self - assembly and formation of hydrogels into complex structures.
A transmission electron microscopy image of the new material SAM2X5 - 630 shows the metallic compound's disorganized inner structure, usually a hallmark of glass.
As they described in Scientific Reports in March, despite its glass - like structure, this material, part of a class called bulk metallic glasses, is stronger than steel.
The more we learn about the structure - property relationship in metallic glass, the better we can predict the properties of other potential metallic glasses.»
Their goal was to look for fundamental rules correlating the structure and properties of metallic glasses that could aid their further discovery and synthesis going forward.
«High pressure compression is an extremely powerful tool for fine - tuning both the structures and the properties of materials such as metallic glasses and for looking for information that is consistent across samples,» said lead author Zeng.
Through their work on cerium - based metallic glass, the team was able to discover a consistent rule that establishes an exact numeric relationship between the decrease in volume of metallic glass under pressure in relation to changes in its atomic structure determined using advanced X-ray tools.
Now, forty years later, an international research consortium led by City University of Hong Kong developed a method that combined various measuring techniques, allowing them to directly correlate changes in the structure of Pd - Ni - P metallic glass to temperature changes.
«The exactness and universality of this rule we've discovered indicates that the atomic structures of metallic glasses are not totally random, even if they aren't as regularly packed as crystalline metals; they may share some predictable structural features.
In the case of the University of Cologne researchers, they wanted to get a more detailed insight into the structure of the silicate glass than their experimental efforts were able to provide.
The team, led by University of Cologne's Prof. Dr. Sandro Jahn and Dr. Clemens Prescher, has been using JSC's JUQUEEN supercomputer to simulate the structure of melts by studying silicate glasses as a model system for melts under ultra-high pressures.
Atoms in a solid can organize themselves in a variety of ways, and materials considered glasses have some of the more «chaotic» atomic structures possible in solids.
Researchers therefore had to find a way to retain the structure of the initial material while maximizing the capacity and also maintaining its ability to «take» the charges, which is how they devised the idea of using vanadium as a glass rather than in its crystalline form.
«On top of that, Sungazers seem to have a very complex social structure, and so keeping them in random combinations in a 1 metre long glass tank is not going to be very productive in terms of getting them to reproduce.»
Even the chemistry challenged know that the atomic structures of metal and glass are quite different.
Bio-X takes some of Stanford's best engineers, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, and clinicians and throws them together in the Clark Center, where an open, glass - clad structure makes communication unavoidable.
To make the new switchable glass, the researchers started by using 3D printing to make plastic panels with repeating retroreflective structures of various sizes for testing.
Researchers created a prototype smart glass that is retroreflective (left) and becomes clear (right) when a liquid with optical properties similar to the reflective structure is pumped into a chamber in front of the structure.
He said glass appeared to be structured randomly, but it was actually quite ordered at the microscopic level of a few atoms.
What's left is a thin layer of glass supported by an inch - thick honeycomb structure that is three feet deep at the perimeter and 18 inches in the center.
For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and magnetic properties.
«Gravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior: Data grid for GOCE gravity field measurements sheds new light on the Earth's structure.»
It turns out that the difference between good glass formers and bad ones depends on the number and energies of unstable crystal structures that «compete» with the ground state while the alloy cools down.
Researchers in the Caltech lab of Julia Greer, professor of materials science and mechanics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, have shown that metallic glasses do have an atomic - level structure — if you zoom in closely enough — although it differs from the periodic lattices that characterize crystalline metals.
The group did simulations and experiments to probe the atomic structure of metallic glass alloys of copper, zirconium, and aluminum.
An international collaboration of computational physicists and chemists have shed new light on how the polymer structure bears on this temperature in the forming of glass in atactic polystyrene (PS), a commonly used glass substance.
«Going glassy: Revealing structure and dynamics of glassy polymers during transition: Simulation of glass transition in a polymer film and offers fundamental insights about the influence of molecular structure on the transition temperature.»
Normand Mousseau, physics professor at the University of Montreal, said that the Princeton researchers took an atypical approach to answering an old question: «At low temperatures, can the most stable structure be something that is a glass?
«We generate a pattern of an organ that we want, creating a 3D hollowed - out structure, stick it on a piece of glass, then we can introduce a lot of different cell types,» Gillrie says.
Further microscopy of the nanowire showed that the structure of the tin oxide atoms had changed from an ordered crystalline arrangement to an amorphous glass - like form.