Sentences with phrase «of air pressure by»

And outside, students further their studies of air pressure by racing hovercraft they have designed using large circles of plywood with plastic - bag cushion edges and leaf - blower engines.

Tensegrity structures, however, can be self - supporting without the use of air pressure by employing cables, interior vertical pipe struts and / or a perimeter concrete compression ring.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

Musk, proponent of hurtling people at 1,000 kilometres per hour through tubes powered by air pressure, has little time for common sense.

Cho repeated the phrase when a reporter asked her thoughts on the growing pressure on her family to resign and an upcoming rally by Korean Air employees protesting the family's abuse of power.

Expansion by other budget carriers, such as Norwegian Air Shuttle, Wizz Air of Hungary and Vueling of Spain, will add to the downward pressure on fares.

The explanation of a thunderstorm is to be found in meteorology, not theology; by studying humidity and air pressure, not by casting lots or seeking oracles.

In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.

I will never forget how those wings went round and round, and how, by the merest pressure of the fingers and a feeling for air, one might go away over the roofs.

With less air pressure weighing them down, leavening agents tend to work too quickly at higher altitudes, so by the time the food is cooked, most of the gasses have escaped, producing your flat tire.

When you hear reporters talking about 11 of 12 balls found to be under - inflated by as much as two pounds, that means the air pressure in the balls was as low as 10.5 PSI.

Explaining in great detail why this was a poor decision by the former Real Madrid manager, the Dutchman talked about the air pressure on the plane journey, as well as the effect of sitting down for so long on various joints.

Traveling by air can also place a pregnant woman's body under stress from cabin pressure, long flight times, layovers, and exposure to recycled air chock full of many passenger's germs.

Continuous positive airway pressure; nasal prongs (short or long) provide a small amount of air, oxygen and pressure into the lungs to help the baby breathe on his / her own by keeping the lungs from collapsing.

The upright position can ease the pressure on the diaphragm by letting the air rise to the top of the stomach.

Dr. Brown's is known for their Dr. Brown's Natural Flow ® bottle, which is the only bottle «to feature an internal vent system that helps reduce colic, spit - up, burping and gas by eliminating negative pressure and air bubbles, helps preserve vitamins C, A, & E by minimizing oxidation of breastmilk and formula, and provides vacuum - free feeding similar to breastfeeding.»

After years of pressure from advocates, legislators expanded the Clean Indoor Air Act by adding e-cigarettes to indoor spaces where smoking is banned, including bars, restaurants, movie theaters and office buildings.

The trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh, continued on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with the prosecution witness, Mustapha Yerima, further stating how he was pressured by the defendants to claim the property allegedly acquired with the proceeds of crime.

This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»

This double - action airbrush system allows you to adjust the intensity of the spray via the air pressure control knob or by pressing and releasing the trigger.

At depths of around 5 metres, the air is compressed by the greater water pressure, giving a buoyancy force exactly balancing her weight.

A new system that apparently kills chickens without distress by lowering the air pressure could soon be approved in Europe, offering a humane death for billions of birds

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

The new study, led by researchers at Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, reveals the impact of changes in temperature and air pressure on heart failure patients.

The European flooding of the past few weeks was caused by a low - pressure system over eastern Europe drawing warm, moist air from the Mediterranean region.

They developed a calculation to divide the sound into smaller pieces and then estimated the source location for all the small pieces, correcting for delays caused by the speed of sound in air at room temperature and at standard atmospheric pressure.

Although the reasons why colonoscopy increases the risk of appendicitis remain unclear, the article offers some theories, including asking if bacteria within the colon are altered as the bowel is prepared prior to colonoscopy in ways that increase the likelihood of inflammation, or if the increased air pressure caused by colonoscopy may have effects on the colonic mucosa that can predispose people to appendicitis.

One treatment option for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which helps keep the airway open by providing a stream of air through a mask that is worn during sleep.

Scientists in Italy are protesting a move by politicians to outlaw the use of high - pressure blasts of air to map the sea floor.

Whitesides designed the shape and thicknesses of the walls of the air sacs within the robot's limbs by using computer modelling to calculate the forces and pressures required.

The NOAA team has set up several arrays of sensors, spaced hundreds of miles apart, that register slight variations in air pressure — a sign of a lengthy sound wave passing by.

This is mainly due to indirect determination of the blood pressure from the oscillometric air - pressure wave measurements taken by automatic devices.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

Typically, lift was explained by Bernoulli's principle, which says that because air moves faster over the top of the wing than the bottom (the bottom of the wing is straight while top of the wing is curved, so air going over the wing goes futher in the same amount of time), the pressure of the air over the wing is lower.

For example, one 1965 study by researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas showed that dogs exposed to near vacuum — one three - hundred - eightieth of atmospheric pressure at sea level — for up to 90 seconds always survived.

Ever since human beings first began climbing the world's tallest mountains, they have struggled with a basic problem: altitude sickness, caused by lower air pressures which affect the ability of our bodies to take up oxygen.

An additional grant of $ 2.6 million was awarded by the US Air Force, demonstrating that increasing the cabin pressure in airplanes during air - evacuation of trauma patients to a level greater than what is currently used improves outcomes following exposure of rats to TBI caused by under - vehicle explosions, as published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care SurgeAir Force, demonstrating that increasing the cabin pressure in airplanes during air - evacuation of trauma patients to a level greater than what is currently used improves outcomes following exposure of rats to TBI caused by under - vehicle explosions, as published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgeair - evacuation of trauma patients to a level greater than what is currently used improves outcomes following exposure of rats to TBI caused by under - vehicle explosions, as published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Griffis adds that air - supported structures such as the Metrodome are a particular class of tensegrity structures supported by differential air pressure.

movement of air (from a high pressure zone to a low pressure zone) caused by the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun.

But the radiation fron the air above the surface is fixed by the pressure of the air which remains fairly constant at around one atmosphere.

While western states baked in abnormally warm winter and spring conditions fueled by a stubborn ridge of high pressure over the region, bouts of Arctic air kept the eastern half of the country in a distinct chill.

Unlike Earth or Mars, Pluto has no satellites or ground stations, so the types of data that are used by normal weather and climate people (air pressure, temperature, atmospheric composition, etc.) are not available for Pluto.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

This is done by taking a big breath of air and directing it to your belly instead of your chest and forcing exhaling with a closed throat, making your belly stick out and creating pressure to be built up in your midsection.

When you breathe out, the loss of air volume increases the pressure in the cylinder, compacting the body's center point gravity, allowing it to move as one unit initiated by the belly.

But, under pressure from its news director (played by Tracy Letts) to increase ratings, the station's reporting veered toward the sensational and toward crime — which is why, in her on - air suicide note, Chubbuck referred derisively to «Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts.»

There were the pressures of available airtime, a source who doesn't want to be named, and an old - boy network in Texas that brags, but doesn't want to go on the record to contend with, but when the story aired on 60 MINUTES II, reported by veteran newsman Dan Rather, during the 2004 presidential election, the reaction wasn't to the substance of the story, but instead on the minutiae of ancillary issues, and the credibility of Mapes and Rather themselves, which led to personal attacks that had nothing to do with their professional competence.

Among controlled installations, it includes lighting common areas (on and off, scheduling, etc.), energy management (display and recording of electrical parameters), pumping station of drinking water (pump status, levels and constant pressure) and the overall distribution network (pressure and flow), air conditioning and heating (on and off, temperature recording by zones), compressed air station laboratory (state of the compressors, room ventilation, pressure and flow supplied) and administrative management (incidents, warnings reviews, etc).