While quantum mechanics primarily applies to the smaller atomic regimes of matter and energy, some systems exhibit
quantum mechanical effects on a large scale.
The same researchers who pioneered the use of a
quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.
Prior studies have used varying amounts of a fibrous protein called collagen to adjust the stiffness of the extracellular matrix, but Mooney's team recognized early on that collagen has more than a simple
mechanical effect on cells: it can also trigger certain signaling pathways.
Aharonov, now at Chapman with Tollaksen, was renowned for having codiscovered a bizarre quantum
mechanical effect in which particles can be affected by electric and magnetic fields, even in regions where those fields should have no reach.
He points out that the most recent model leans away from the concern for
concrete mechanical effects characteristic of the transmission model and leans toward what is loosely termed the ritualistic model more akin to anthropology and other cultural studies.
And while the exact reason why it works is not yet known, researchers at the Teaching Hospital of Brno in the Czech Republic believe it could be that salt water has a
simple mechanical effect of clearing mucus, or even that trace elements found in it may play a role.
These might arise
from mechanical effects — for example, selective radiation pressure or photospheric diffusion and element separation — rather than from nuclear effects.
Not only are there the different levels and kinds of browsing and grazing, but
mechanical effects such as pan-making, path - making, soil aeration, seed dispersal, keeping waters open, maintenance of drainage channels (the hippopotamus) and fertilization of waters (the hippopotamus, waterbuck and lechwe antelope).
Although these waves are far too feeble to detect directly, the researchers say, the radiation in principle could be used to try to detect weird quantum
mechanical effects among large objects.
This suggests that, as predicted, the neutron star's ultraintense magnetic field is distorting empty space through a quantum
mechanical effect involving ghostly «virtual» particles lurking in the vacuum — the sort of thing usually seen only on the atomic scale.
As electrons crossed from one material to the other through the well, quantum
mechanical effects altered their spins according to how positive or negative the field was.
Many scientists had attributed its light - emitting properties to quantum
mechanical effects created by the multitude of tiny columns left by the etching.
The other yak - track reunites makeup head and creature performer Walter Phelan, creature effects head (and head of the company who did the effects for the series) Todd Masters,
mechanical effects guy Thomas Bellissimo, and visual effects supervisor John van Vilet and is full of great information congenially delivered, along with a lot of fooling around.
This is smart as a result of the bacterial movie often called plaque» is the reason for periodontal illness This film is definitely disrupted by the
straightforward mechanical effect of brushing the enamel.
The vagaries in this surface catches the light at different angles and eases the
otherwise mechanical effect of the paintings, much like Newman's own matter - of - fact, but still luminous handling of paint.
Special production and
mechanical effects supervisor John Stears said they crafted a bigger monster but only used the tentacle as Lucas decided to combine the original, bigger dianoga encounter with the trash compactor scene.
Nuclear theorists believe that the combined quantum
mechanical effect of the protons and neutrons in a nucleus create a set of energy levels akin to the levels that govern electrons orbiting the nucleus.
If you accept diurnal variation as a proxy for net absorption, since the
quantum mechanical effect of absorption is to heat the air, then you can see from Fig. 2 that most of the net absorption occurs below 850 mb and that above 500 mb the tiny amount of net absorption slowly increases showing that it is the result of the absorption of solar not terrestrial radiation.
The agitator speed has also been reduced to decrease
the mechanical effects on the curds.
What is clear, however, is that the» bad result» of UKIP is first of all due to
the mechanical effects of the British electoral system, and not to a lack of popular support.
He also noted that the stretching and compressing changed the optical properties - the color - of the crystals due to the quantum
mechanical effects.
The experiments reported in Science establish these materials as a distinct state of matter «that exhibits macroscopic quantum
mechanical effects,» Armitage said.
That's not quite accurate — for example, quantum -
mechanical effects have been observed spanning hundreds of kilometres.
Thanks to quantum -
mechanical effects, below a certain critical temperature some materials become superconducting: electrons flow through them unhindered by the usual electrical resistance.
Other work has found that
the mechanical effects of movement can stimulate bone growth, which is why weight - bearing exercises, such as brisk walking and step aerobics, are often recommended for people with osteoporosis.
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The mechanical effect is that the waveguide is twisted [by light] by a very tiny amount that has not been previously measured.»
With sophisticated math and computational models, the researchers could estimate the strengths of the kicks, as well as
the mechanical effects, such as stresses and strains, that those kicks put on fetal bones and joints.
Thanks to subtle quantum
mechanical effects, a lightweight Higgs needs a heavier companion particle «acting as a sort of bodyguard», Tonelli says.
Scientists have come closer than ever before to creating a laboratory - scale imitation of a black hole that emits Hawking radiation, the particles predicted to escape black holes due to quantum
mechanical effects.
Though challenging, measuring that polarization would be a validation of an important quantum
mechanical effect.
Computer simulations revealed that
the mechanical effect on the earth crust resulting from a large lateral collapse, can promote the deflection of deep magmatic intrusions, favouring the formation of a new eruptive centre within the collapse embayment.
Wagenseil's novel approach, recently published in Heart and Circulatory Physiology, focused on the genetic signaling and
mechanical effects of mutations in lysyl oxidase, or LOX.
«In condensed matter physics, quantum materials — the materials and engineered structures in which interactions between the constituent particles show strong quantum -
mechanical effects — present largely uncharted ground for study and immense opportunity for discovery,» said Cyndi Atherton, program director for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, who will lead the new program.
This anisotropy of the peak on the right is a purely quantum -
mechanical effect and does not exist in the thermal distribution on the left.
Park noted that the stretching and compressing changed the color of the crystals due to the quantum
mechanical effects.
The helium core of a red giant continues to collapse until it is entirely supported by electron degeneracy pressure — a quantum
mechanical effect that restricts how closely matter can be compacted.
,» Schrödinger focused on how organisms, such as fruit flies, employ quantum
mechanical effects to combat entropy by producing order from disorder.
The sensitivity of all interferometric gravitational - wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, and GEO600) to the ripples of space - time from large cosmic events is fundamentally limited by quantum
mechanical effects.
Doing so will not only better oxygenate your blood, giving you the energy to train harder and more efficiently, it will also have
a mechanical effect on your ability to move the weight.
Over the past several decades, numerous studies have established that eccentric contractions can maximize the force exerted and the work performed by muscle... that they can attenuate
the mechanical effects of impact forces; and that they enhance the [good] tissue damage associated with exercise.
Another thing on which the video and makeup effects teams worked side by side was the «breathing screen,»
a mechanical effect in which the televised lips of Nicki Brand pucker and blow against the glass of Max Renn's TeleRanger TV screen, making it billow forth from the console frame like a swelling breast, as her seductive voice invites Max to push himself into her waiting mouth: «Don't keep me waiting.»
It lasts 15 minutes and 23 seconds and includes remarks from Edlund, Bruno, Windell, technical animator Annick Therrien, visual effects editor Conrad Buff, chief matte artist Matthew Yuricich, model shop supervisor Mark Stetson, chief visual effects cameraman Bill Neil, matte department supervisor Neil Krepela,
mechanical effects supervisor Thaine Morris, visual effects still photographer Virgil Mirano, and matte artist Michelle Moen.
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