Sentences with phrase «is the unit of»

It's not the Vision Fund, but SoftBank Ventures Korea is another unit of the Japanese conglomerate looking to invest in start - ups.

(NBC and CNBC are both units of NBCUniversal.)

Zappos is a unit of the online giant Amazon.com, which acquired the company in 2009.

Physio - Control, founded in 1955, is a unit of Bain Capital Private Equity.

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

It is believed that it will be the unit of the company based in Japan that will be working on this project, not the units in Asia - Pacific and the United States.

It's a unit of the digital currency Bitcoin.

It is a unit of change in an exchange rate or currency pair.

The customer acquires the virtual currency «bitcoin» which in the opinion of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzaufsicht (BaFin)(Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) are units of account and therefore regarded as financial instruments pursuant to § 1 para. 11 KWG.

An example of a high risk instrument is a share to a stock, and an example of a low risk instrument is a unit of a mutual fund.

They are the primary participants in religious experience; they are the unit of value; the social group, the church — while it is conceived to be in unbroken continuity the true «commonwealth of Israel» (Ephesians 2:11 - 12.)

It was a unit of weight, apparently... and as a monetary unit, the English Standard Version (ESV) notes that One (1) talent equaled 20 years wages for a laborer.

In the language of physics, the simplest «physical feelings» are units of energy transference; or, rather, the physicist's idea that energy is transmitted according to quantum conditions is an abstraction from the concrete facts of the universe, which are individual occasions of experience connected by their «physical feelings.»

Unlike Mexico, however, public education was not inhibited in this promulgation from using religious symbols as long as they were thought common to all, which again meant politically defined, not denominationally defined, units were the units of reference.

When government agencies use religious symbols, they are typically not sectarian symbols but those common to all believers in the United States, which means political units (chiefly the nation), not ecclesiastical units, are the units of reference.

«The organism is a unit of emergent value, a real fusion of the characters of eternal objects, emerging for its own sake» (SMW 107).

This would be an odd point to make if Whitehead wanted to retain the notion that all these events are units of experience.

Each is a unit of becoming (B) which attains what he calls its «satisfaction» and perishes.

I think I am a soul trapped inside this outer physical body and I hope that me, as a soul, will continue to be a unit of awareness long after the death of this physical body.

A talent is not a type of coin, but is a weight, it is a unit of measurement.

He believes that every real individual is a unit of feeling, and that all feeling is feeling of other feelings.

One thing I have a crap shit ton of (yes, that is a unit of measurement) is granola.

Sensient Flavors LLC is a unit of Sensient Technologies Corporation and is one of the world's leading flavor companies, operating in 30 countries.

Newage Lake Las Vegas LLC is a unit of Kam Sang Co., based in Arcadia, California.

* Denier is a unit of measurement that is used to determine the fiber thickness of individual threads or filaments used in the creation of textiles and fabrics.

Wearable Blankets Often used in the textile industry, a TOG is a unit of measurement for thermal insulation.

Me, I'd rather listen to Brian Cox or Stephen Hawking explain the origin of the universe than the man down the road who thinks parsecs are a unit of time and isn't sure whether or not he believes Genesis is literally true.

Cluster - randomisation was used, with hospitals being the unit of randomisation.

The programme is a unit of N - power programme which is part of Social Security programmes introduced by President Muhammadu Buhari led administration.

The Specialist Operations directorate is a unit of the Metropolitan Police Service responsible for providing specialist policing capabilities including national security and counterterrorism operations.

Motor: Volts are the units of measurement for electrical power, so we've noted the peak volt capacity of every single heat gun motor listed below.

(A becquerel is a unit of the rate of radioactive decay — or radiation emitted by a substance.)

It's a unit of magnetic flux!»)

(As I explain in my book «Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation,» a millisievert or mSv is a unit of radiation dose that can be used to estimate cancer risk.)

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

Qubits are units of quantum information that are integral to quantum computing because they exist in a superposition of two states and can hold a much larger amount of information compared to a regular bit used in normal computers.

What is the unit of Darwinian evolution?

(A sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems; a rem is a dosage unit of x-ray and gamma - ray radiation exposure.)

The dig site — the Prince Creek Formation — is a unit of rock that was deposited on an arctic, coastal flood plain about 69 million years ago.

(A person - year is a unit of time.)

(A giga -, or a billion, electron volts is a unit of particle mass or energy.)

A kilogray is a unit of absorbed energy from ionizing radiation.

Bp (base pairs) is a unit of length, with one bp corresponding to approximately 3.4 Å of length along the DNA (brown) strand.

Cells are the units of organic life and store in their nuclei what constitutes the instruction manual for proper cellular functioning, the DNA molecule.

One very stupid question I have, which I hope you don't mind my asking: If I share 70 % of my genes with sea sponges, and 98 % of my genes with chimpanzees, and genes are the unit of selection, why doesn't Hamilton's rule say that I'd be willing to sacrifice myself for 1.02 chimpanzees or 1.43 sea sponges?

The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge.

We know that calories can't disappear because calories are units of energy and so that would contravene the first law of thermodynamics (see # 2 above).

A calorie is a unit of energy.

A calorie, as commonly referred to on food nutrition labels, is a unit of energy.