Sentences with phrase «on a complex system of»

But all previous versions of liquid batteries have relied on complex systems of tanks, valves, and pumps, adding to the cost and providing multiple opportunities for possible leaks and failures.

The development of bone structure depends on a complex system of hormones and proteins.

Wood focuses on the complex system of identification Hitchcock establishes in this scene, and Bellour details the ways in which the film plays with doublings (or «rhymes») of looks and framings, point - of - views shots and eyeline matches.

When work agreements are made, the two parties must agree on a complex system of compensation, and they must do so days, weeks or even months in advance.

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WLES underpins other, more complex skills, so if you organize formal or informal higher levels of training — such as quality - assurance systems or computer use — you could be missing out on the full value of those programs if your employees don't have foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Complex systems are characterized chiefly by these elements: many interacting components, non-linearities, discontinuities (i.e. the occurrence of something unexpected), and emergent properties, which come about when systems take on a «life of their own» and develop into something that often looks quite different than the original inputs.

The International Monetary Fund, in a recent financial stability study on China, said the lack of inter-agency coordination in financial supervision could breed risks in the increasingly large and complex banking system.

U.S. - educated Yi, 60, a protege of respected predecessor Zhou Xiaochuan, is widely seen as a safe pair of hands, ensuring policy continuity as China persists with its crackdown on risks and a debt build - up in its increasingly complex financial system.

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

Artificial intelligence has quickly become part of our daily routine — it powers everything from simple features like automatic image tagging on Facebook and purchase prediction on Amazon to more complex systems like smart cars and connected homes.

Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Moon Express occupies Launch Complexes 17 & 18 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast, where many of the robots that explored new worlds and unlocked the secrets of our solar system began their journeys.

The tricky issues faced by family businesses are often centered on people — both in and out of the family — and involve multiple, complex, interrelated systems with many nuances.

We focus on creating dynamic, award - winning online brand strategies, complex eCommerce platforms, content management systems, catalog integrations, and mobile web solutions for businesses of all sizes.

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His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt - deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».

I don't think that is the answer, because a cap on wages would only encourage the development of a more opaque and complex system.

Mako was a financier's dream, too: a complex, valuable fusion of hardware, software, and smart sensing systems, brought to market on time and within cost.

And on this very day are bound together through a complex system of acquired / learned expression through a more simpler medium of binary transports and constructs to counter one theory over another.

The Institute's proximity to the ruins of the Anasazi civilization provides an appropriate setting for the program's serious and admiring reflection on the successes of past societies to function as complex adaptive systems within their environments.

Thus the system evolved in complex ways, as converts kept one foot anchored on the (seemingly) stable rock of the Bible and the other immersed in the rushing, turbulent river of current events.

In particular, Mays interprets Process and Reality in light of two central notions: «the postulational method of modern logic with its emphasis on complex relational systems, and the field theory of modem physics with its emphasis on the historicity of physical systems» (PW 20/14).

However, there are some, along with a number of biophysicists, cosmologists, astrobiologists, and complex systems specialists, who strongly support this conclusion on scientific grounds.

Mr. Carson points out that the term «chaos theory» is a misnomer because it is based on a mathematically demonstrable set of conclusions regarding certain kinds of determinate but complex physical systems.

On the pre-biotic Earth, it seems likely that there were vast numbers of locations, including many energy - rich ones, where such complex reaction - systems existed.

It is part of a complex system of message - making that relies on color, movement and sound, a high degree of participation of a listener, and a nearly universal presence that captivates our attention.

But if an irreducibly complex system of, say, ten elements is to evolve, then element one has to add some fitness, element two has to add some fitness, and so on until all the parts are in place.

But that is an arbitrary decision based perhaps on their lack of a complex nervous system.

Perhaps one could call it a simplification of and variation on the English class - system which had a hereditary monarchy on top, followed in descending succession by clearly demarked classifications of nobility, a complex church hierarchy, a landed gentry, a rising merchant class, simple yeomen, and vast numbers of unfranchised people who fitted none of those categories.

I read a lot of stuff on other religions and spirituality, but my own belief system is very complex and personal, challenging and ever - developing.

Nichols goes on: «When looked at more closely, this «human ecology» is in fact a series of interlocking ecologies, as indeed is the complex of ecological systems which make up our natural environment.»

The organismic view of society on the part of process thought has much in common with systems theory, which holds that human societies are systems, at times sub-systems intertwined in complex ways and parts of a larger system.

Eagle's pioneering dual energy x-ray technology «Material Discrimination X-ray» (MDX)-- ideal for detecting and removing contaminants in mid-sized, packed products with complex density levels such as pre-packed salads, snack items and frozen vegetables — is a star attraction on the company's booth (# 615), through the presence of the Eagle ™ Pack 430 system.

I have to admit I even had one auditor just give up on a complex traceability exercise, which led to an overhaul of the system I was managing.

The complex houses CPUT's department of food technology, formed in 2006 from the consolidation of the existing units on its Cape Town and Bellville campuses, and the Agrifood Technology Station, a government - subsidised consulting system that assists small businesses.

The entry point into using the Kano system are the instruction booklets which show the user (adult or child) how to connect up all of the equipment and get the pre-loaded Kano software literally telling you what to do (using the speaker of course) Once you have (satisfyingly) managed to boot up the Raspberry Pi, Kano's built in software installed on the operating system guides you through increasingly more complex tasks teaching you how to use the computer and start to write your own code.

ORLAND PARK — International Health Management Systems Inc. of Flossmoor plans to start construction next month on a 109,000 - square - foot office complex in southwest suburban Orland Park.

In the rush to supposedly protect mothers and babies from misfortune and death, modern western obstetrics has neglected to pay its dues to the Goddess, to Mother Nature, whose complex and elegant systems of birth are interfered with on every level by this new approach, even as we admit our inability to understand or control these elemental forces.

Therefore, the complex and dynamic nature of breast milk is thought to be in synchrony with the infant's changing needs and has important implications on immune system development.

Furthermore, Assini said the money would be better spent on investing on New York's complex system of roads and bridges.

The Home Office has prickled at any suggestion that it be characterised as a database, even though it admits the system would «speed up complex enquiries» — which is typically the kind of work carried out on a database.

Instead, poverty and development exist on a continuum, one that is linked through complex systems of exploitation (Walter Rodney argued this in his book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa).

The investigation into New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's income sheds a rare spotlight on a small group of lawyers who specialize in challenging tax assessments in New York City's complex property tax system.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

On the issue of welfare, Labour created an overly complex and expensive tax - credits system which enabled employers to be subsidised by the tax payer when paying low wages.

Also signed off on were three bond resolutions one for a document management software system that will modernize government and save taxpayer dollars ($ 2 million); one for a playground for court - ordered visitation at the Pomona complex in service to child and parent visitation requirements ($ 375,000); and one for the continued repurposing of the Pomona complex with an eye on ensuring a complete one stop shopping hub for health and human services here in Rockland ($ 300,000).

The probe into Silver's outside income sheds a rare spotlight on a small group of lawyers who specialize in challenging tax assessments in New York City's complex property tax system.