Sentences with phrase «mechanical point of»

Overall, the game feels a lot less Final Fantasy from a mechanical point of view.

From a mechanical point of view, FIFA 15 is an absolute phenomenon.

From a mechanical point of view, however, the system is a lot of fun, letting you play to your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses.

Perfectly competent from a mechanical point of view, yet somewhat lacking in appeal over the long term.

Because they have a small footprint and low weight, they're relatively simple from a mechanical point of view, and are motivated by powerful engines.

The starter is also the first possible mechanical point of failure in the chain of events the user described.

Overall, the game feels a lot less Final Fantasy from a mechanical point of view.

Not exact matches

At one point, David, now a Donald W. Whittier Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, addressed design jargon.

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

In every sphere, physical no less than intellectual and moral, and whether it be a question of flowing water, a traveler on a journey, or a thinker or mystic engaged in the pursuit of truth, there inevitably comes a point in time and place when the necessity presents itself, to mechanical forces, or to our freedom of choice, of deciding once and for all which of two paths is the one to take.

We are then inclined without warrant to apply this strong impression of mechanical causation to all of nature, even to the point of explaining life and mind as the passive, determined results of the aimless and blind movement of a dead and unconscious past.

It is important to make it abundantly clear at this point that the crucial problem is the spiritual problem, and we here mean by spiritual that area which is the object of attention in philosophy and theology as against that area in which the object of attention is mechanical contrivance.

This mechanical efficacy denies freedom, although the novel successfully uses an objective point of view (not, of course, an omniscient point of view) to make the reader infer a self behind the evidence.

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.

John points away from the mechanical act of baptism to the incarnate Word of God, who alone can baptize the believer with his own spirit and infuse into him or her the power of everlasting life.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

Whitehead was apparently the first to wonder why this plane - like geometry should not be applicable in nature, when its parallel, the point - like geometry, is so ubiquitous; he did begin noticing projective elements in the science of statics, and F. Klein's student, E. Study, explored the «plane-wise» representation of mechanical rotation, an idea further developed by G. Adams (in unpublished manuscripts).

At points where material properties differs, mechanical stress occurs, which in turn will cause tearing and disruption of the material exposed to the shockwave.

It's easy to understand Max's frustrations though - three of his four retirements have been down to mechanical issues and he's now way down in sixth place in the championship with less than half the points of his teammate, despite often having the edge on him in races.

His call was backed by New York's Congressional delegates including Representatives John Hall (D - NY), Maurice Hinchey (D - NY), Eliot Engel (D - NY), Nita Lowey (D - NY), and Senator Charles Schumer (D - NY) and then - Senator Hillary Clinton (D - NY), who introduced legislation in February 2007 that would require an in - depth review of Indian Point's vital safety and mechanical systems, spent fuel pools, and radiological emergency evacuation plans.

He received support from some of New York's top Congressional delegates, who introduced legislation requiring an in - depth review of Indian Point's vital safety and mechanical systems, spent fuel pools, and radiological emergency evacuation plans.

In a separate case involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, the court ruled that the college's mechanical point system, which granted a prespecified number of points on the basis of race, was not legitimate (14).

«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device.»

Paglen shot these photographs with a host of cameras and telescopes using a computer - guided mechanical mount for accurate «pointing», and to compensate for the rotation of Earth.

At the point where this powerful jet strikes the bubble wall, it «fractures» the liquid, releasing energy in the form of light, says Andrea Prosperetti, an internationally respected expert on the mechanical properties of bubbles.

As it turns out, quantum mechanical formulas predict a slim (but nonzero) chance of the cosmic egg universe collapsing to zero size, at which point the erstwhile universe would completely disappear.

We have demonstrated that mechanical shock waves can cause the formation of diamond - like atoms further away from the point at which the impacting atoms hit the target, reports Caro, who performed the simulations on CSC (IT Center for science) supercomputers, modelling the deposition of tens of thousands of atoms.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

«Our approach reduces the cost of nanolithography to the point where it could be done in your garage,» says Dr. Chih - Hao Chang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

While conventional engineering would consider bucking to be a mechanical instability and a point of failure, in this case the team leveraged this instability to develop VAMPs (vacuum - actuated muscle - inspired pneumatic structures).

Thuo and Bartlett said the popping point can be tuned to make the liquid metal flow after varying amounts of mechanical stress.

Ever since Archimedes made an ingenious mechanical device to demonstrate the motions of the sun, moon, and planets, visionary sky watchers have developed increasingly elaborate tools for creating the illusion of seeing the universe from new vantage points.

Second, energies at the droplet - wrapper interface and mechanical properties of the sheet are irrelevant in the new model, which allows greater functionality, the authors point out.

When distributed measurements were performed at 100 points with 10 times averaging, a repetition rate of 100 Hz was verified by tracking a mechanical wave propagating along the fiber.

«If you really want to make an engineering structure, at this point it's not practical to use graphene,» says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The latest investigations on the thermal properties of silicon, the most common material in electronics, micro - and nano - electro - mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and photonics, have pointed to nanostructuring as a highly efficient approach to acoustic phonon engineering [1 - 3].

With far greater transparency, white graphene is also chemically inert, and features the high mechanical strength, high melting point, and thermal conductivity properties of graphene.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

But what if there was a way to extend the mechanical tension during an exercise so that it stays more or less equally intense at all specific points of the range of motion?

PAP allows you to perform two very similar movements while training different points on the Force - Velocity Curve (see below) while enhancing mechanical power and the performance of your chosen movement.

Remember, the quicker and more efficiently you move through the complex, the less rest time you will need to be ready for the next set, so make sure you're pushing to the brink of your cardiovascular limits and mechanical breakdown points on each movement!

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I guess it speaks to a simpler time in film, where economy of writing wasn't of absolute importance and not every moment in the screenplay had to fulfill some greater mechanical purpose, but it stresses its point in an awfully longwinded way.

This unkindness is usually attributed to an inexplicable, temporary insanity on HAL's part, the point of said attribution usually being something interesting about the potential for madness even in purely rational artificial minds, or — roughly the opposite idea — likening insanity to a state of mechanical failure.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

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