Sentences with phrase «on conventional technologies»

However, continued reliance on conventional technologies leaves the United States vulnerable to crude oil supply disruptions, with economic, energy security, and national security consequences.

«We're huge fans of sci - fi from every part of pop culture and history, so we went to that and imagined a web where you start in the middle, surrounded by techs that are relatively recognizable based on conventional technology, and you go outward into any frontier you can imagine,» says David McDonough, Civilization: Beyond Earth's co-lead designer.

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The piece looked at research done by Rutgers professor Keith Hampton, a Canadian sociologist, on whether technology really is causing separation between people, as the conventional wisdom goes.

But an overemphasis on conventional person - to - person customer engagement does not come close to areas of growing consumer interest: innovation, self - service and the use of contemporary technology.

For example, Google published a paper on Monday claiming that it had been able to perform a calculation with the technology that was significantly faster than what a conventional computer could crunch.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Food processors worldwide are increasingly relying on Eagle's superior MDX technology, originally pioneered for use in the security sector, to detect foreign bodies previously unseen by x-ray or other conventional inspection technologies in difficult product applications.

On the conventional press side a major launch is the FoodSafeUV project, which demonstrates to brand owners how the use of new dose measurement technology at the web surface can lead to a certified workflow to guarantee migration well below current Swiss Ordinance levels.

From their analysis, which is not based on omic technologies but represents the most comprehensive compilation of GE crop composition data to date, the authors conclude that compositional differences between GE varieties and their conventional comparators are «encompassed within the natural variability of the conventional crop and that the composition of GM and conventional crops can not be disaggregated.»

We are able to imagine new ingredients for products such as probiotics, bioactives or flavour that could not be made on standard and conventional drying technologies.

Steam Shell technology actually improves food quality, as compared to food cooked on a conventional griddle or clamshell.

Another benefit of the motion - control technology is the much higher stability of packs on transfer than with conventional packing.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

They jumped on wireless headphone technology in the late 80s, producing an infrared cordless headphone with a more powerful transmitter than the conventional systems of the time.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

Dr Oliver Kuras, from the British Geological Survey, who led on the development of geo - electrical imaging technology, said: «It is traditionally difficult to reliably «see inside rock walls» using conventional electrical imaging methods, particularly when repeating surveys over time.

Reporting in today's issue of Science, Gershenfeld and colleagues describe how they designed the new technology using the presence or absence of a sequence of bubbles as a substitute for the conventional «on» or «off» binary language of computer circuits.

In the race to build large - scale quantum computers, two contrasting strategies — one based on trapping ions, the other on more conventional technology — have drawn neck - and - neck.

They report on their technology, which could help us reduce our reliance on conventional energy sources, in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

The currently - used artificial intelligence works on the conventional framework of semiconductor - based integrated circuit technology.

Hyperion's 25 - megawatt prototype, which is based on technology developed at nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory and is similar to reactors long used on Russian submarines, gets by with more conventional levels of uranium enrichment but could still run 8 to 10 years without refueling.

By 2020, IEA expects photovoltaic technology fitted on residential and commercial buildings to reach «grid parity,» or the point at which solar power is consistently cost - competitive with conventional fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

However, until now, all prototypes of devices based on conventional ferroelectrics have not been compatible with silicon technology, which is used in the production of most modern chips.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

Fact # 3: The technology that conventional medicine uses to detect cancer in various parts on the body is based on a PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography), which takes advantage of cancer cells» voracious appetite for sugar.

After all, the very technology conventional doctors use to detect cancer is based on the premise that cancer LOVES sugar!

Those seniors, who need to embrace the technology or are scared of running across on - line scammers, can go conventional dating.

While the narrative was rather conventional, the technology on display was anything but, rendering the film an unprecedented global...

Simply refining conventional technology (and reducing weight) has delivered benefits - on popular economy - tracking site Fuelly, owners of the latest generation MX - 5 are getting 6 - 8mpg more than their counterparts in the previous - generation car, while also benefitting from better performance.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

Navigation data stored on the high - speed SSD can be accessed in a fraction of the time required with conventional hard drive technology, making the graphics incredibly responsive.

Despite not having a conventional hybrid on the market, the company appears to be very serious about electric - drive technology.

In terms of powertrain technologies, Renault focused on the introduction of new technologies for internal combustion engines and conventional transmissions, as well as outlining its commitment... Read more →

Acura technology firsts on the 2014 RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD also include an electronic gear selector that replaces the conventional, center console - mounted shift lever with an efficiently packaged push - button array allowing the driver to easily select the desired mode — Park, Drive and Reverse, as well as Sport and Normal driving modes.

It uses switch by wire technology where the conventional gear leaver is replaced by PRND buttons on the dashboard.

While Mazda adopted SkyActiv as its emissions - and - efficiency «silver bullet» (essentially, a holistic program to take conventional engineering and then optimize the heck out of it) the automaker does have one exclusive technology that arguably operates on the margins of mild hybridism.

On the technology front, the 2017 XT5 gets a new rear camera mirror system that improves the driver's rear vision by 300 percent, using a video display applied over the conventional inside rearview mirror.

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The brakes are around 12.5 kg lighter than a conventional system and on a GT in the price range of the DB9, CCM braking technology is rarely fitted as standard.

When driving on main roads and highways at largely constant speed and with proper anticipation, the CGI engine outperforms the fuel economy of the six - cylinder engine with conventional injection technology by up to 1.5 liters per 100 km, a saving of up to 15 %.

Based on DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) technology, it stands out as a genuine clean - break solution compared with conventional automatic transmissions thanks to:

Flashy name aside, Mazda's Skyactiv powertrains and chassis rely on fairly conventional technologies, and a fair bit of technology.

The Citaro hybrid buses are based on the hybrid technology unveiled by Mercedes - Benz last year (earlier post), and offer a fuel saving of up to 8.5 % compared with the conventional Citaro.

The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 features both a conventional 12 - volt on - board network fed by an absorbent glass mat (AGM) battery and an additional battery featuring lithium - ion technology operating at 120 - volts.

Electric power generated in overrun and when applying the brakes on BMW ActiveHybrid 7 in a neutral process without any additional consumption of fuel is fed into the car's two on - board networks: BMW ActiveHybrid 7 features both a conventional 12 - volt on - board network fed by an AGM (absorbent glass mat) battery and a high - voltage battery featuring lithium - ion technology and operating at 120 V.

However, reflecting the brand's continued focus on hybrid technology, the new Auris will offer customers just one conventional engine — a 1.2 litre turbo petrol unit — and a choice of 120bhp, 1.8 litre or 177bhp, 2.0 litre hybrid electric powertrains.