To use this motion - sensing technique
in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long, made of silicon nitride.
Not exact matches
Lasers and high tech optical crystals have
practical applications
in almost every field; laser scanning
devices are the interface between user and computer.
This book provides
practical solutions that allow readers to better leverage the
devices they already carry with them to increase their efficiency at home, work, and all the places
in - between.
The importance of the changes that have taken place
in economics largely since the Keynesian revolution does not lie principally
in the many new
practical devices and theoretical discoveries that have been made, but
in the picture of human nature implicit
in the newer views.
Particle accelerators and all the new telescopes and
devices in space and on earth that probe the Universe are expensive things that may also have no
practical purpose.
In order to help you choose the best electric breast pump for your needs we prepared a short summary of available
devices along with a buying guide describing important features and
practical tips.
If your baby falls asleep
in one of these
devices, transfer him to a crib or play yard as soon as is
practical.
In this 4 hour parenting workshop for parents and professionals I share
practical strategies to help kids and teens learn healthy habits online and on
devices.
If an infant falls asleep
in a sitting
device, he or she should be removed from the product and moved to a crib or other appropriate flat surface as soon as is
practical.
This area of discussion is very interesting and also touch on
practical issues such as transporting three kids across the back seat, side impact protection provided by interior of the car and the issue of kids using electronic
devices in the car.
If an infant falls asleep
in a sitting
device, he or she should be removed from the product and moved to a crib or other appropriate flat surface as soon as is safe and
practical.
For most people, the two most important factors
in choosing any type of infant wearing
device are how simple it is to use and how long their purchase will be
practical.
The 2009 Nobel Prize
in physics goes to Charles Kao of Standard Communications Labs
in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the invention of
practical optical fiber communication, and George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs
in New Jersey, for inventing the charge - coupled
device, the CCD, making digital cameras possible.
It provides a summary of current progress
in the field of vehicle energy harvesting and a detailed account of the theory and the
practical development of his
device, designed for installation
in a heavy good vehicle.
Other researchers have tried changing cell behavior by creating protein switches from scratch, but Lim's approach — mixing and matching naturally existing proteins — may be more versatile and
practical: «It can be useful as a biotechnology
device or for repairing cells
in humans.
The work is a big step toward a
practical holographic data storage
device, says Hans Coufal, who works on such systems at the IBM Almaden Research Center
in San Jose, California.
Now Tittel's group, and a separate team led by Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva
in Switzerland, have created
practical, solid - state quantum - memory
devices.
However, all these
devices are often power - hungry, tend not to work very well
in low - light conditions, and need to be placed somewhere at a distance from the person signing, which is not always
practical.
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In this way, the switch chip achieves polarization «insensitivity» without doubling the size and cost of the chip, which is important for broadening the
practical application of such photonics integrated
devices, said lead author Ken Tanizawa of AIST.
This opens up opportunities for
practical use
in electronic
devices.
«This provides another handle on how material properties can be tuned or controlled for
practical applications
in devices based on electrical and magnetic properties.»
Practical applications of spintronic
devices in information processing require accurate knowledge of the strength of the electron spin interaction with phonons.
The findings,
in the June 23 Nature, could influence research into illnesses such as dementia, but Quian Quiroga sees a more
practical application: implantable prosthetic communication
devices, so - called brain readers.
Researchers said the gains are a significant advance
in their ongoing work to develop and test a
practical BCI assistive technology that people with paralysis could use easily, reliably, independently, and on demand to regain control over external
devices.
This is the latest twist
in a story that began
in the late 1980s, when Kip Thorne and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena suggested that although the construction of a time machine might pose considerable
practical difficulties, there is nothing
in the laws of physics as understood at present to make such a
device an impossibility.
She says that there may be
practical applications
in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid
in the development of technologies such as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic
devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just as valuable for developing quantum intuition
in the next generation of physicists.
In a real - world application, that probably translates to a power savings of 90 to 99 percent, which could make voice control
practical for relatively simple electronic
devices.
The TSA plans to continue using the portals already installed
in airports; right now, they are the best and most
practical explosive - detection
devices available, says Herbert Hill, a chemist at Washington State University and a pioneer
in the field of ion - mobility spectrometry.
Some even have
practical uses —
in memory storage
devices, for instance.
Gimzewski, a physicist at ibm's research laboratory
in Zurich, made the
device — which admittedly has no immediate
practical application — to demonstrate the sophistication of the techniques he and his colleagues have developed for manipulating individual molecules.
«We learned that
devices that can be worn for a week or longer for continuous monitoring were needed for
practical use
in medical and sports applications,» says Professor Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering whose research group had previously developed an on - skin patch that measured oxygen
in blood.
«To make electroceuticals
practical,
devices must be miniaturized, and ways must be found to power them wirelessly, deep
in the brain, many centimeters from the surface,» said Newsome, the Harman Family Provostial Professor and professor of neurobiology at Stanford.
A black - hole laser could also find
practical uses
in devices that probe a material's properties without damaging it.
The effect now found
in the two - dimensional magnetic structures comes with the promise that it will be of
practical use
in nanoscale
devices, such as magnetic nanomotors, actuators, or sensors.
The
devices will last even longer
in practical applications because the tests are performed at extreme brightnesses to accelerate the degradation.
«While interesting, this is not a
practical means for controlling
device properties
in use,» says Yildiz.
These results therefore represent an important step forward
in understanding the light - induced electron dynamics
in a semiconductor on the attosecond timescale, which will be of
practical relevance for future electronics and optoelectronics
devices, whose dimensions become ever smaller, and the electric fields involved ever stronger and the dynamics ever faster.
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devices in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology A
practical challenge to be solved: which physical principle can be turned into clinical reality, and when?
M. Gurram: «A poor injection and detection of spins
in graphene has been a bottleneck
in realizing graphene spintronic
devices for
practical purposes.
SNL is an internationally recognized leader
in the development of MOFs for
practical applications, with several MOF - related «firsts,» including integration with MEMS
devices, measurement of mechanical properties, catalytic nanoreactors for hydrogen storage, and luminescent MOFs for radiation detection.
Certainly nothing like this would be
practical for a medical nanorobot, but as engineers work to improve these CO2 sequestration
devices, they might invent improvements that would also be
practical for medical nanorobots, or at least encourage thinking
in that direction.
Many parents let children use their
devices for
practical reasons; 73 % of parents
in the survey said they let their kids play with mobile
devices while they were doing household chores, and 65 % did so while running errand.
I can't keep them straight, honestly, though I do believe the framing
device of little Liv and little Emma making a time - capsule pact was
in Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood and, er...
Practical Magic?
When a very rough beta version of what industry insiders are calling the «paper phone» emerged last year, people began to wonder exactly how this new, bendable mobile
device could be used
in a
practical way.
And most agree that the «series» hybrid - one
in which the heat engine generates only electricity to supply a traction motor or an energy storage
device and is not directly linked to the driveline - appears to be the most
practical hybrid arrangement.
For business users who want something that is lightweight and
practical but includes the multimedia and apps featured
in the newest generation of mobile
devices, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 could be their next smartphone.
But
in practical terms, it's actually quote «open,» because it works on so many
devices.
1) The OS (Android ICS for example) know when the battery is fully charged and usually stops charging the
device once the 100 % charge has been reached and it should for all
practical reasons be safe to use the tablet then when still plugged
in.
In practical use, it's certainly a two - handed
device that you can't use lazily with one hand.
From a
practical standpoint, I bought the
device to subscribe to newspapers and magazines, a feature that was initially expected
in May 2010.