Sentences with phrase «light as a phenomenon»

Moreover, she is interested in ecology and environmental issues, currently researching artificial light as a phenomenon, through the relationship between writer's block and the global energy crisis.

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Williams became something of an internet phenomenon, with his light show going as far as being featured in a Miller Lite commercial.

Aurora Borealis Otherwise known as «northern lights,» there are a variety of ways to enjoy this arctic phenomenon.

One recent New York Times homage to the phenomenon compared dropping out to «lighting out for the territories to strike gold,» with one young executive describing it as «almost a badge of honor» among startup entrepreneurs.

a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.

We need a renewed understanding of the concept of «natures» which enables us to see the dual nature of Christ as a harmonious phenomenon, especially in the light of modern knowledge of matter.

In particular this discovery of a consciousness existing beyond the field, or subliminally as Mr. Myers terms it, casts light on many phenomena of religious biography.

But as the sciences began to develop, they gradually brought to light quite natural explanations for some aspects of observable phenomena which had previously been regarded as of supernatural origin.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquAs one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.&raquas a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

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The model has novel implications both for when people choose to obtain or avoid information, and it sheds light on phenomena, such as political polarization and emotionally charged beliefs relating to topics like the cause of autism and the reality of climate change.

But most alluring, Li says, would be showing that light could tear electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, from empty space — a phenomenon known as «breaking the vacuum.»

It successfully explained phenomena such as radioactivity and antimatter, and no other theory can match its description of how light and particles behave on small scales.

Their findings shed new light on the physics of black holes with the first laboratory evidence of the phenomenon known as the superradiance, achieved using water and a generator to create waves.

Meanwhile the light - subtracting techniques may improve measurements of other phenomena, such as large - scale galaxy motions and the expansion of the universe.

That's because light rays bend at the interface of the water and the air, a phenomenon known as refraction.

However, even in visible light, the tranquil name remains misleading as the region is packed full of violent phenomena.

What we see as a mere light in the sea is a phenomenon occurring in nearly all the organisms living in the seas and oceans, from bacteria to large fish, and which impacts the behaviour and dynamics of the entire system.

Published today in PLOS ONE, the research shows that biofluorescence — a phenomenon by which organisms absorb light, transform it, and eject it as a different color — is common and variable among marine fish species, indicating its potential use in communication and mating.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

This phenomenon also allows the amplifier to operate as a tunable broadband light source, enabling cheaper and more efficient spectroscopic sensing and molecular fingerprinting than what is available today.

In effect, gravitational - wave telescopes allow scientists to «hear» phenomena at the same time as light - based telescopes «see» them.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

But there is another digital - world pop phenomenon — a haptic one — that says at least as much about the future of VR, even though it hasn't been widely considered in that light: the Wii controller.

Astronomers refer to this Doppler - like phenomenon as «redshift»; the more distant an object, the farther its light has shifted toward the red, or infrared end of the spectrum.

Mafi, an associate professor of electrical engineering, and graduate research associate Karbasi harnessed a phenomenon called «Anderson localization» to design an optical fiber with a strong scattering mechanism that traps a beam of light as it traverses the fiber.

For example, in 2008 Jonathan Feng and Jason Kumar, both then at the University of California, Irvine, showed how a phenomenon known as supersymmetry could produce a hypothetical class of particles much lighter and more weakly interacting than WIMPs.

In this phenomenon, two quantum particles (in this case, particles of light known as photons) are so intimately connected that changing the quantum state of one particle simultaneously alters the state of the other particle, even when the two particles are separated in space.

Now, as astronomers report online today in Nature, they've seen the same phenomenon on a dim sun located 18.5 light years away in the constellation Lyra.

In such substances, the material itself generates the new light — a phenomenon known as second harmonic generation.

The phenomenon has been shown to be a general wave phenomenon and to apply to light and sound as well as to electrons.

This new study shows that a Black man who is associated with being educated is remembered as being lighter in skin tone than he actually is, a phenomenon the study authors refer to as «skin tone memory bias.»

For inventing the world's fastest two - dimensional receive - only camera and enabling real - time imaging of the fastest phenomena such as light propagation and fluorescence decay.

Redshift, a phenomenon used to measure distances of galaxies and stars from the earth, refers to the «stretching» of light waves as the object moves away from the observer.

With this, two new phenomena have been discovered: the fast flares in the early light curve seen from days 9 - 15 (which have no proposed explanation) and the optical dips seen out of eclipse from days 41 - 61 (likely caused by raised rims of the accretion disk occulting the bright inner regions of the disk as seen over specific orbital phases).

As time marches on, we are pressed by new challenges to better understand the phenomena of life not yet illuminated by the light of science.

Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.

Since other phenomena, such as a plague of star - spots, or a close binary system of two orbiting stars, can also cause a star's light to appear to dip, how do astronomers know that they have really detected a transiting planet?

... discerned through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing — matter acting as a lens by bending space and distorting the passage of background light.

Observations of two phenomena strongly suggested that light propagates as waves.

Varga's research focuses on the interaction of lasers and matter at the atomic scale and is part of the new field of attosecond science — an attosecond is a billion billionths of a second — that is allowing scientists to study extremely short - lived phenomena such as the making and breaking of chemical bonds and tracking the real - time motion of electrons within semiconductors by probing them with attosecond pulses of laser light.

As we show here, these excitons rather involve several light - harvesting rings, in a phenomenon that can be verified unambiguously through polarized absorption spectra.

Aberration of Light, a phenomenon in which a star or other celestial body, as viewed from the earth, appears to be slightly displaced from its true position.

A long - standing goal of the LIGO project has been the development of multi-messenger astronomy — the near - simultaneous observation of cataclysmic events such as neutron star mergers or supernova explosions in both gravitational waves and light, providing details about the astrophysics of these phenomena that can't be revealed through either alone.

Los Angeles Sex Guide (LA Sex Guide) advises where to find sex, working girls, prostitution, street hookers, brothels, red - light districts, sex shops Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

Filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia probe this phenomenon, jarring viewers with an inside look at one of these «reform» centers, as well as shedding light on the mindset of these Internet «addicts.»

It really picks up steam as Walter becomes a phenomenon for his idiosyncrasy, appearing on talk shows since people love to watch a personal train wreck (As much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themas Walter becomes a phenomenon for his idiosyncrasy, appearing on talk shows since people love to watch a personal train wreck (As much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themAs much as we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of themas we want to keep distance between the performance and the performer, it is almost impossible to watch these scenes without considering Gibson's numerous appearances in the media spotlight, and Gibson's portrayal is especially daring in light of them).

Powerful pre-assessment has the potential to address a worrisome phenomenon reported in a growing body of literature (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999; Gardner, 1991): A sizeable number of students come into school with misconceptions about subject matter (thinking that a heavier object will drop faster than a lighter one, for example) and about themselves as learners (assuming that they can't and never will be able to draw, for example).