Sentences with phrase «new chain reaction»

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«They also help increase existing inventory through a chain - reaction effect: buyers of new homes often sell their existing one, which frees up a home for someone else, who in turn decides to buy it and sell their home, which then becomes a home for a first - time home buyer.»

So we may say that since by a sort of chain - reaction consciousness, itself borne of complexity, finds itself in a position to bring about «artificially» a further increase of complexity in its material dwelling (thus engendering or liberating a further growth of reflective consciousness, and so on...) the terrestrial evolution of Life, following its main axis of hominization, is not only completely altering the scale of its creations but is also entering an «explosive» phase of an entirely new kind.

A new invention can set off a chain reaction of changes all through society.

Before Alex can consider the chain reaction he has set off, the BlackBerry pings the arrival of a new message.

A chain reaction accident on Grand Island last night has caused minor injuries to a New York State Police Officer.

The new test uses quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which amplifies fungal DNA to identify the species present and measure the extent of infection.

The new work is similar in spirit to the polymerase chain reaction, which amplifies virtually any snippet of DNA and attaches a fluorescent probe to the copies.

After Szilárd fled the Nazis, he made his way to England and then New York, where he worked at Columbia University on ways to create a nuclear chain reaction, an idea he had conceived while waiting at a stoplight in London a few years earlier.

At the same time, new questions have emerged, and there's still a lot to learn about the basic nuclear properties that drive the chain reaction and its impact on energy production here on Earth and elsewhere in our universe.

According to Teller's notes, Einstein's dictated draft not only raised the question of the Congo's uranium but also explained the possibility of chain reactions, suggested that a new type of bomb could result, and urged the president to set up formal contact with physicists working on this topic.

Comprehensive panel of real - time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction assays for detection and absolute quantification of filoviruses, arenaviruses, and New World hantaviruses

A chain reaction of toxic proteins may help explain Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other killers — an insight that could lead to desperately needed new treatment options

Last week, they announced that a sensitive polymerase chain reaction test had picked up traces of viral genetic material in three Culex samples in Fort Totten, an historic site in the New York borough of Queens.

Dopamine, the neurotransmitter that helps keep body movements fluid, can kick off a toxic chain reaction that ultimately kills the nerve cells that make it, a new study suggests.

We need to go back to the earliest events that trigger the chain reaction that ultimately results in disease so we can focus new therapies on the cause, not the consequences.»

Researchers gained new insight into how earthquakes can interact from a magnitude 7.9 quake along Alaska's Denali Fault in November 2002 that involved a chain reaction of fault shaking.

Chemical reactions of small biopolymer sub units or complex polymer chains under the influence of traction forces and catalytic nanoparticles could be investigated with this new method.

The new method makes use of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a standard method for quantifying RNA and DNA.

In 1985, Kary Mullis (shown at right) invented a precise and radical new method of selecting and amplifying a section of DNA — the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Remember that oxidative stress is a chain reaction — when a free radical steals an electron from a balanced atom, the chemical makeup of the atom is changed, a process is started, and new one is created.

This triggers a chain reaction of T2Rs all the way down your digestive tract, revving up your digestive organs for a new wave of half - chewed food.

The time is 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, where soldier Paul Sutton (Reeves, Chain Reaction) has come home to the United States to his seemingly ambivalent wife and to start his new career as a lowly chocolate salesman.

To illustrate chain reactions in nuclear fission, a table filled with mousetraps represents the atoms and pingpong balls stand in for the new neutrons created from the split.

Soon he teams up with a smuggler named Beckett (Woody Harrelson) to pull off a heist, which starts a chain reaction of events that lead him to Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), the Millennium Falcon and, eventually, to becoming the Han Solo we see in A New Hope.

Far too often, new findings are misunderstood and disseminated by the press and other media — setting in motion a series of chain reactions and the establishment of some myths that are sometimes both entertaining and damaging.

Set for a Summer 2009 release, it will feature three new missions: Chain Reaction, Proving Ground, and Critical Mass..

In Warmind, players are headed to a new section of Mars where the AI entity known as Rasputin has awoken, setting off a chain reaction of events that's revealed the Warmind's birthplace.

The fun part is disrupting those routines to bring about reactions and new chains of cause and effect.

Titled with variations on the phrase «chain reaction,» they reference the bombing of Hiroshima but also suggest that Kudo was seeking an energy that would generate a new society and a new art.

1983An Environmental «Light» Opera for Fog, Film, and Recombinant News, Chain Reaction, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York

Cheryl Pope will debut two new video works during her upcoming exhibition, «Chain Reaction,» which opens June 28th, 2014.

Alongside major exhibitions in New York, Istanbul, and London, «Chain Reaction» made the national highlights list for the online publication.

It is rather like Fermi at Los Alamos taking bets on whether the Trinity test would initiate a catastrophic chain reaction in the atmosphere and incinerate the entire state of New Mexico: As Fermi was present at the test, his motive was certainly not profit, but rather to assess relative how much confidence people had that the test would not have catastrophic results.

«Columbus Blamed for Little Ice Age --» By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and other explorers who followed may have set off a chain reaction of events that cooled Europe's climate for centuries.»»

February 25, 2013 — The recent Washington, D.C., rally against the Keystone XL pipeline garnered a wide range of reactions — among the most notable of which was a chain begun by New York Times» Dot Earth writer Andrew Revkin, who on Twitter discussed his long - standing critique of the protesters» strategy.

Chain - Reaction Truck Accidents on New Mexico Highways, New Mexico Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, September 8, 2017.

Chain - reaction accidents are common on New Mexico highways, where motorists travel within feet of one another at high speeds.

When a New Mexico truck accident occurs, several motorists may be involved, especially if the initial collision resulted in a subsequent chain - reaction accident.

Determining liability in a New Mexico chain - reaction accident can be difficult, given the number of motorists involved and the task of determining which motorist was responsible for causing the initial accident.

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New research shows how projecting your romantic feelings onto a friend can sometimes set off a chain reaction that leads to romance.