Sentences with phrase «mechanical control of»

At levels of autonomy below Level 5, the driver remains an additional factor in the liability framework and, crucially, it becomes important to understand who or what has mechanical control of the vehicle at any particular point and how the human - machine interface deals with handover of driving functions from machine to human and vice versa.

We are currently dependent on the mechanical control of sealed indoor environments, rather than the designed exploitation of climatic and other natural processes, to satisfy our comfort requirements.

A major feature of the advanced nanotechnology to be implemented in nanofactories will be positional mechanosynthesis — precise mechanical control of how reactive molecules and molecular fragments interact.

Not exact matches

• Huron Capital made an investment in Pueblo Mechanical & Controls Inc, a Tucson, Ariz. - based provider of HVAC replacement, retrofit and repair services primarily for facilities in education, municipal, and healthcare end markets.

While weather is a factor in roughly half of all flight delays, Gerchick writes in his book that nearly a third can be attributed to factors that regulators consider to be within an airline's control, including mechanical problems and crew scheduling mix - ups.

There are three animating spirits in the magic of the new mechanical and electronic arts: First, the mass media are tools for advancing the interests of those who control them.

Cloning, anti-aging technology, human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries of science pushing god further into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting conversations about population control, pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.

Though conditioned by mechanical and organic necessities of nature, the human self transcends them to determine its purposes and control natural necessities to realize them.

Their resistance may be motivated by a fear that nature will slip out of the control of our mechanical and mathematical models for understanding physical reality, or it may be occasioned simply by our innate passion for order and intelligibility.

We can now turn from this all too familiar phenomenon to the upward traffic in the hierarchy: the abrupt transfer of the controls of an ongoing activity from a mechanical to a mindful level, and the concomitant experience of free will governing choice and decision.

According to the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC), which grows the majority of the organic cotton in the U.S., its growers do not use any inputs for weed control, preferring to use mechanical tillage and hand weeding.

I was always under the impression that Scoville ratings are based on organoleptic testing of a group of people in controlled conditions and HPLC ratings are based on» mechanical» test equipment.

The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

This is the result of higher energy input for mechanical measures like weed control in organic production and of lower mineral N - fertilization use in conventional production.

Mechanical failures, especially of the brakes, made runaway trains common in the early days of railroading — mindless monsters rolling out of control for many miles up and down grades until they crashed into another train or derailed at high speed on a curve.

There is a lift - out storage basket, and the mechanical,... MORE adjustable temperature control is on the front of the freezer for easy access.

Remote monitoring and control of the new mechanical units was provided.

Human milk feeding was associated with a 57 % reduction in the odds of infection, in general, controlling for gestational age, mechanical ventilation days, 5 - minute Apgar score, and days without enteral feedings and a 53 % reduction in the odds of sepsis / meningitis, in specific, controlling for gestational age, mechanical ventilation days, and days without enteral feedings.

Human milk feeding was independently associated with a reduced odds of infection (odds ratio [OR] = 0.46, 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 0.24 — 0.87;P =.016), controlling for birth weight, 5 - minute Apgar score, mechanical ventilation days, and days without enteral feedings.

Human milk feeding was independently correlated with a reduced odds of infection (odds ratio [OR] = 0.43; 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 0.23 — 0.81), controlling for gestational age, 5 - minute Apgar score, mechanical ventilation days, and days without enteral feedings; and was independently correlated with a reduced odds of sepsis / meningitis (OR = 0.47, 95 % CI: 0.23 — 0.95), controlling for gestational age, mechanical ventilation days, and days without enteral feedings.

Studying lactation with real mother - infant pairs presents two challenges: Visualizing the flow and tissue mechanics is either impossible or very difficult, and manipulating the mechanical properties of the maternal gland in a controlled way that gets at the factors significantly affecting infant feeding can not be done.

Data from these studies will provide the controlled mechanical environment for studies of breast cancer mechanobiology.

In his Keir Hardie lecture, Miliband spoke of how the Labour movement was «built on ethical relationships that were forged between people through common action», and how Hardie embodied this: «Hardie was not a mechanical reformer who tried to bring about change through external control.

Then, by controlling the qubit with an external magnetic flux, they were able to inject individual mechanical quanta into the resonator, the first step toward the quantum control of a mechanical system.

This somewhat surprising discovery enriches our fundamental knowledge of the atomic - level segregation structures at general grain boundaries, which are important in controlling a broad range of mechanical and physical properties of polycrystalline alloys.

By altering the quantum - mechanical wave nature or wave functions of the reactants, we are now able to control, to an extent far greater than was previously possible, the final product.

Integrative biologist Robert Full of the University of California, Berkeley, suspected that some of the insect's balance - preserving reflexes may be too fast to be controlled by its nervous system alone and are also built into its mechanical structure.

This inherent optical adaptation of the lens is passive, avoiding the use of complex mechanical or electrical mechanisms to independently control each lens of the array.

Other biomedical engineers are developing a new generation of prosthetic limbs that amputees can control with neurosensors, with assists from computer science, neuroscience, and electrical and mechanical engineering, among other disciplines.

By carefully controlling the composition of the droplets and the strength of the magnetic field, the forces applied by the droplet can be controlled, and the response of the surrounding tissue reveals its mechanical characteristics as well as the cues that cells are exposed to as the tissue grows.

Suture zones are complex and more heterogeneous than the rest of the ice shelf, containing ice with different properties and mechanical strengths, and therefore play an important role in controlling the rate at which rifts grow.

Silvia Ferrari, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls, sees the emergence of neuromorphic computer chips as a way to shrink a robot's payload.

The result may lead to ultrasensitive force detectors and to ways of controlling an object's mechanical vibrations as deftly as we now control electricity and light.

«We need to instead look back before the Industrial Revolution, before we had mechanical means of controlling indoor climate.»

«Our results introduce a new framework to explore the mechanical properties of active fluids and suggest that partially ordered active matter can be guided and controlled via gradients in the intrinsic geometry of the underlying substrate,» the authors wrote in a summary of their paper.

By programming cells to produce different types of curli fibers under certain conditions, the researchers were able to control the biofilms» properties and create gold nanowires, conducting biofilms, and films studded with quantum dots, or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties.

The hope is that recycling systems can be automated, with the mechanical segregation of plastics controlled by meters preprogrammed to recognise the charge fingerprints.

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.

Among 304 members of the general public, recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the donations were 50 percent higher, relative to control.

Wings based on humpback flippers could do away with wing flaps and flow - control devices, minimizing risk of mechanical failure and increasing fuel space, the researchers recount in the May issue of Physics of Fluids.

Therefore, the results achieved in this study have shown that nonlinear effects in graphene nano - mechanical resonators reveal a hybridization effect at high energies that, if controlled, could open up new possibilities to manipulate vibrational states, engineer hybrid states with mechanical modes at completely different frequencies, and to study the collective motion of highly tunable systems.

Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and his colleagues wired the brains of owl monkeys to mechanical arms such that the animals» thoughts controlled the robots» actions.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

On behalf of the University of Twente (UT), Raffaella Carloni and other members of the Robotics and Mechatronics group (CTIT institute) and the LEO Centre for Service Robotics are working on the mechanical design, the control mechanism and realizing the robotic arm.

Instead of relying on mechanical manipulations, Majumdar and his colleagues speculated that silicon transistors might electrically control ions dissolved in fluids as well as they could electrons.

In addition, organoids lack a vasculature and the mechanical movements caused by normal peristalsis and blood flow, which are vital for many processes in the gut, including its regeneration and control of bacterial overgrowth.

The biggest problem was that most of these attempts relied on deforming the wing through the use of mechanical control structures within the wing, but these structures tended to be so heavy that they canceled out any efficiency advantages produced by the smoother aerodynamic surfaces.

In mechanical microdevices, this method of transport moves fluids without a separate pump - saving precious space in lab - on - a-chip and futuristic organ - on - a-chip devices — but this transport method is difficult to finely control.

«Methods of controlling and manipulating subwavelength acoustic and elastic waves have proven elusive and difficult; however, the potential applications — once the methods are refined — are tremendous,» said Guoliang Huang, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at MU.

«Many applications, such as power plant reactors, require the management and control of the movement of water droplets at very high temperatures,» says Wang, an associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at City University.