Sentences with phrase «known as grid»
Moser and his colleagues are focusing on the role of neurons known as grid cells.
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The Midwestern state that launched the political careers of Presidents Lincoln and Obama isn't as well known for its leadership in electric grid technology.
As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as ManhattanhengAs in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhengas Manhattanhenge.
Apart from there obviously being more races this year, having two extra cars on the grid (Haas) no doubt helped, as did the number of times fast cars were out of position on the grid due to mechanical issues, penalties, or weather conditions in qualifying.
The final round of the Toyota Racing Series - known as the New Zealand Grand Prix - takes place this weekend and will have a veteran driver on the grid
The grid features well known drivers such as Montoya and Heidfeld as well as plenty of names you might have forgotten.
The pre-race grid procedure will take on a slightly different flavour in Austin as Michael Buffer (who's especially well known as a boxing announcer) is set to introduce all the drivers ahead of the race, presumably in a similar way to what happens in IndyCar and Nascar
Either way it could be bad news for Vettel as his gearbox will no doubt need replacing for Suzuka now, which'll mean a five place grid penalty.
«It's a terrific statistic, as we know there are many drivers who can get a great grid spot and then throw it away at the first corner in silly incidents.
They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.
Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.
The researchers found that a single 8 x 8 grid with novel unique port assignments could take the place of two synchronized grids, and thus be used to simultaneously manage both polarizations of light, a method known as polarization diversity.
Funding efficiency Nevertheless, another $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (better known as the stimulus) was made available on March 2, to be awarded via ARPA — E to the best proposals for new grid - scale storage devices, better power converters and more efficient air conditioners, such as the ones being developed by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that rely on sound waves rather than mechanical pistons to drive compressors.
Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»
«We know how individual SSTs work, but the question since 2010 has been how they might work as part of a microgrid — and how those microgrids may work in the context of the larger grid,» says Aranya Chakrabortty, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and co-author of the paper.
To be precise, it is the kind of program known as a cellular automaton, in which patterns form and evolve on a grid according to a simple rule.
The principle crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1, with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].
The more we know about these particles, the better able we'll be to protect astronauts and infrastructure such as power grids.
On my free days, I like to mosey around my little patch of this grid - plan city, humbly known as Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Crafts and S - Crafts, special attacks, are learned by simply leveling up, while spells, known as Arts, require players to carefully arrange Quartz on the Arcus, a grid - like system and an evolution of the Orbment system of the Trails in the Sky games.
objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!
We know this is working too because rooftop solar is showing up as reduced demand on the national grid (the grid works a bit like the road network — the main transmission lines are like motorways, and local grids are like B roads.
As you know a plug - in hybrid relies even more on the electrical power grid to generate its transportation energy and I think that that also holds great promise.
Olly yesterday obliterated the previous qualifying lap record at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, formerly known as Mosport, but was edged out of pole position for the GT grid by his Corvette Racing team mate Jan Magnussen.
As a thank you to our loyal young Spidey fans and in honor of the relaunch of Marvelkids.com, Marvel has created a brand new «Ultimate Spider - Man: Web - Warriors» Friends and Foes Character Guide filled with over 20 pages of content — character bios, power grids and backstories — everything kids who love Spider - Man and the «Marvel's Ultimate Spider Man» animated series would ever want to know about their favorite Web Warrior's friends and foes.
When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off - the - grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine make for combustible, uneasy bedfellows — and that Glenn has fallen under the spell of a disenfranchised countercultural sociopath known simply as Freeboot, who claims that a revolution «of the people» is already under way.
It's the only gadget that encourages me — no, forces me — to go off the grid and get away from, as Mike Butcher puts it, the «background hum» of being always - connected.
But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.
A planned city, Adelaide has a grid formation, surrounded by a ring of parks known as the Adelaide Parklands and with the Mount Lofty Ranges on the horizon.
The ARC, as it is affectionately known, has a 1000 acre primate research grid where you can find several different Amazon monkeys, such as capuchins, tamarins, howler monkeys, sakis, squirrel monkeys and possibly uakaris.
No longer used for roller - skates, the Circle Pad is now simply used for standard player movement — taking you off the strict grid as in earlier iterations, and being similarly useful for the new DexNav feature.
The maps no longer follow mazes of lines, but instead are more like grid - based arenas themselves, allowing players to head off in any direction as they hunt down items to hurt each other or coin balloons to instigate mini-games.
Within weeks society as we know it ceases to exist with massive electrical grid failures, lack of clean water, fuel, or access to food.
Though the grid - based strategic gameplay is simplified from its console and handheld brethren, for those who only know Marth, Ike, and Robin from Super Smash Bros for Wii U, this app serves as a wonderful introduction to what the franchise has to offer, letting newcomers have just enough of a taste that they may get hooked.
GRID features a unique gameplay mechanic known as Flashback which allows the player to rewind gameplay by up to ten seconds and resume from their chosen point.
Crafts and S - Crafts, special attacks, are learned by simply leveling up, while spells, known as Arts, require players to carefully arrange Quartz on the Arcus, a grid - like system and an evolution of the Orbment system of the Trails in the Sky games.
Known for expansive grid panoramas and painted installations, Bartlett's art was aptly described by New York Times critic John Russell as enlarging «our notion of time, memory, and of change, and of painting itself.»
(Holland Cotter The New York Times) Some of the more significant creations about spirituality, beauty, and painting itself that modernism has ever known... She used the grid as a forum for belief - a space where the viewer as well as the artist could contemplate the hand making the thing being observed.
Her House Paintings (also known as the Addresses series) were painted from 1976 - 1978 and represented her own house and the houses of her friends that she painted in an archetypal yet unique style, using the grid of enameled steel plates that she often uses.
No longer meditative statements of repetition, as, for example, Agnes Martin's grids, Scully's works of the past several years are...
No longer meditative statements of repetition, as, for example, Agnes Martin's grids, Scully's works of the past several years are increasingly physical and painterly.
De Stijl sought the eradication of non-essential formal elements as exemplified by Piet Mondrian in his well - known grid compositions in primary colors, black, and white.
Though the large - scale square grids and striped canvases she's best known for sooner recall those of the Minimalist Sol LeWitt than any Abstract Expressionist, she thought of her work as belonging to the latter group.
Probably best known for her paintings of lines and grids using understated colors, Martin's work has been hailed as «pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics, and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.»
Some of the more significant creations about spirituality, beauty, and painting itself that modernism has ever known... She used the grid as a forum for belief - a space where the viewer as well as the artist could contemplate the hand making the thing being observed.
He may be best known in the UK for his group of paintings and sculptures The Plantation Series — forms held in strict lines and grids, connected as if with chains or a series of bars, analogous he has said, to the system whereby one group of people are kept in economic and political subjugation by another.
In a modern city we not only live on a grid that we know to exist imaginatively; it also exists as a continuous presence in the structuring of buildings and the interior spaces that we experience.
Charles Gaines, whose work is featured in ICA's presentation of The Freedom Principle, is best known for his utilization of the grid as a means to better understand the relationship between the creation of form and meaning and systems or rule - based procedures.
I realize this will sound nonproductive as a response, but my stalled elevator speech would be that we need to stop providing energy to a world that has grown too populous and that theh world, like it or not — and I know nobody is going to like what I am going to say — must stop its current way of life and go back 300 years or so to a lifestyle without energy grids or consumer product planning and manufacturing groups.
Advocates of a decentralized approach, known as distributed generation or distributed energy, envision a day when grids will no longer be one - way systems.