Sentences with phrase «of mechanical structure»

The official trailer for this new Neir game opens with some concept art of an open green field with ruins in the middle before curring to the inside of a mechanical structure quite similar to those found in the first Neir.

In addition, straightness error of spindle, thermal expansion error of mechanical structure is analyzed to detect movement error property in ultra-precision machining.

Normally, extensive manual adjustments to each of the individual components of the mechanical structure would have been necessary — a task that is tedious if not downright impossible for non-experts.

As you work through your curriculum, you may take classes like Pharmacy Practice, Dosage Calculations, Anatomy and Physiology of Mechanical Structures, Pharmacology for Mechanical Structures, Pharmacy Law and Ethics, Visceral Structures, and Parenteral Compounding.

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They look for simple mechanical causes that might account for the imperceptibly slow evolution of complex organic structures.

It is the that each line of a Turing machine table, that fixed structure that determines the nature of the Turing machine, can be considered to be a simple mechanical structure or action on which the complex structure of the machine depends.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

This view does not deny the importance of the mechanical abstraction of the structure of the living organism.

He and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito introduced legislation that mandates inspections of cooling towers, which are rooftop mechanical structures used to cool large buildings.

«We discovered a surprising mechanical chewing device inside the female reproductive tract lined with a spectacular array of tooth - like structures that can gnaw through the hard outer shell in a matter of hours,» says Morehouse.

Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.

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.

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.

«By allowing us to grow structures much faster with a broad range of precursors, this technique really opens up a whole new direction for making a hierarchy of complex three - dimensional structures with nanoscale resolution at the rate that is demanded for manufacturing scalability,» said Andrei Fedorov, a professor in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In their publication in the journal eLife, the team headed by the biophysicist Enno Oldewurtel showed how specific mechanical forces can be the key to the structure of a biofilm.

Now evidence is mounting that there is yet another crystal structure to add to carbon's catalogue of wonders: a material that could find applications in mechanical components whose hardness varies depending on the pressure to which they are exposed.

Mechanical constraints such as soft wire, or glass substrate which chemically binds with the gel, can also be used to manipulate the self - assembly and formation of hydrogels into complex structures.

«Mechanical behavior of tiny structures is affected by atomic defects.»

«When you get a lot of structures forming next to one another that are different but still have similar internal energies, you get a sort of frustration as the material tries to crystalize,» said Eric Perim, a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of Stefano Curtarolo, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Center for Materials Genomics at Duke.

Using this formula would also improve the mechanical strength of concrete and give the material a glassier and less crystalline structure, which would make it more fracture - resistant.

In QM / MM simulations, an accurate but computationally complex and thus time - consuming quantum mechanical model is used to identify important features of the electronic structure of a chemically relevant region.

According to Zhang, the branching structure of the ligands protects the surface of the nanocrystals by occupying more space than straight - chain molecules, creating a mechanical barrier through an effect known as steric hindrance.

The researchers also can reversibly tune the optical properties of their structures by mechanical stretching, after they are formed.

Indeed, the structure of proteins determines their mechanical and catalytic properties (e.g. enzymes).

Researchers at NTNU's Nanomechanical Lab and from the university's Department of Chemistry and their collaborators in China and the Netherlands are interested in understanding the relation between molecular structures and the mechanical stability of materials.

Use of mechanical thrombectomy on qualifying stroke patients could result in major savings to the healthcare economy in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and other western countries with a similar healthcare structure, according to a new study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others at MIT, report on the details of the new steam - generating structure in the journal Nature Communications.

The lead author, BYU mechanical engineering PhD student Zhao Pan, took the first sets of data and hypothesized that the moss was indeed using the unique nano, micro and barb - like structures to collect and transport water at various scales.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the spongelike structure can be made from relatively inexpensive materials — a particular advantage for a variety of compact, steam - powered applications.

«It's exciting; I think it's a big step forward in being able to autonomously heal structures without intervention,» says University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, mechanical engineer Ellen Arruda.

Francesco Panerai of Analytical Mechanical Associates Inc., a materials scientist leading a series of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab for NASA Ames Research Center, discusses a 3 - D visualization (shown on screens) of a heat shield material's microscopic structure in simulated spacecraft atmospheric entry conditions.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

To use this motion - sensing technique in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long, made of silicon nitride.

«Researchers have long studied ways to modify the molecular structure of polymers to engineer their mechanical, optical or electronic properties, but very few studies have examined molecular design approaches to engineer their thermal properties,» Pipe said.

He said: «Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration for structures that have excellent mechanical properties.

However, these mechanical structures are optimized to fit exactly one particular shape of the toy.

Furthermore, these mechanical events shape both the structure of prefeathers and their molecular identity.

The team used an analytical model to relate the variation in local mechanical properties to the changing dynamics of the structure, which agreed fairly well with the experimental dynamics tests.

By combining emulsion polymerization and microemulsion the were able to synthesize structured hydrogels which present degrees of swelling and have better mechanical properties than conventional hydrogels, said the researcher.

From fish to monkeys, every kind of vertebrate needs to breathe, eat and move in its environment, so a lot can be inferred about these basically mechanical properties from the bony structures preserved in the fossil record.

The DSI tests allowed the team to target small volumes of material in specific locations on the structure and determine variations in the micro - / nanoscale mechanical behavior at different stages of fatigue life.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have shown that early fatigue damage behavior in structures may be predicted through the study of the microscale mechanical behavior of the material.

«Our new material provides support for the liquid silicone as it is 3D printing, allowing us create very complex structures and even encapsulated parts out of silicone elastomer,» said lead author Christopher O'Bryan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student in UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and lead author on the paper.

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.

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).

These network - like structures maintain the cell's shape, provide mechanical support, and are involved in critical processes of the cell's lifecycle.

The engineers said control of mechanical behavior could potentially lead to increased aerodynamic stability in rotorcraft structures.

«In this instance, the development of advanced structures to enable leap - ahead Army aviation capabilities not currently feasible due to limitations in mechanical properties of current materials,» Glaz said.

In addition, controllable mechanical response will allow for the development of adaptive aerospace structures that could potentially accommodate mechanical loading conditions.