Sentences with phrase «only in certain directions»

Because they propagate only in certain directions, and with wavelengths that are much smaller than that of light in free space or standard waveguides, they could help to miniaturize optical devices for sensing and signal processing.

«On such surfaces, called hyberbolic metasurfaces, the waves emitted from a point source propagate only in certain directions and with open (concave) wavefronts», explains Javier Alfaro, PhD student at nanoGUNE and co-author of the paper.

Moreover, because of limitations inherent in their design, metamaterials of this type designed for infrared and visible wavelengths have, so far, been shown to impart a negative index of refraction to light that is traveling only in a certain direction, making them hard to use for imaging and other applications that rely on refracted light.

Not exact matches

For God to know how Peter would respond and then communicate this to Jesus, God would only need to know that the character Peter had freely acquired throughout his life had become solidified in a cowardly direction to the point that it was certain he would respond the way he did under these circumstances.

If change really involves self - transcendence even, in certain circumstances, to a new essence, even though only in virtue of the dynamism of absolute Being, which of course does not, let it be repeated, alter the fact that it is a question of self - transcendence; if matter and spirit are not simply disparate in nature but matter is in a certain way «solidified» spirit, the only significance of which is to serve to make actual spirit possible, then an evolutionary development of matter towards spirit is not an inconceivable idea.15 If there exists at all by virtue of the motion of absolute Being, a change in the material order whereby this rises above itself, then this self - transcendence can only occur in the direction of spirit, because the absolute Being is spirit.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

We ended up driving around for two hours, being given directions to one hospital and getting lost, stopping at a pharmacy that couldn't help us, going to a clinic that wouldn't accept children under the age of six, visiting hospital that only accepted patients with a certain type of insurance, until finally being taken in at an ER.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

«By coordinating the traffic lights, what happens is, we can tell the traffic light not only how long to be green in a certain direction, but when to go green,» explains Harry Carlson of the city's public works department.

Two years ago, the team observed an odd behavior in their gyroscopes: at certain frequencies, they could set off a wave that traveled around the edges of the material in one direction only.

A first sign that these cells might do directional computations came in 1965, when scientists showed that some of them respond only to objects moving in a certain direction.

Previous studies have identified neurons that only fire up when an animal points its head in a certain direction — some for east, others for south, for example — but reports of neurons that respond to changes in an animal's speed are sparse and largely anecdotal, says Jeffrey Taube, a neuroscientist at Dartmouth College who was not involved in the work.

Hasegawa: Inside the disk, dust and gas are making rotational movement to a certain direction, but estimating from the scale of a disk like HL Tau, the size of dust would be only 1 mm in diameter.

Rather than nature (i.e. genes) and nurture (i.e. environment) each kicking in a fraction of the influences that nudge traits in one or another direction, new studies show the innate potential we call nature becomes reality only when exposed to a certain kind of nurture.

Escape Dead Island has a fairly liberal checkpoint system though, so I never found myself with too much time lost, and certainly not as much time lost as some of the unbalanced later encounters in the game that were only beaten through enemies getting stuck, about 45 rounds of shotgun ammo fired wildly in no certain direction, and perhaps my wife doing some kind of voodoo magic so that I would stop cursing at the TV.

Not only does it sound like Iger is open to Disney broadening their library and the MPAA ratings of certain titles, but he specifically mentions Deadpool as being a franchise they they intend to continue in that direction.

Placing your trust in the wrong henchman may not only be detrimental regarding the direction the story takes, but may also put you at a disadvantage with the various power - ups that siding with certain characters offers — turn down Vito, for example, and you will have to pay a princely sum the next time you're trapped in a firefight and require his goons as reinforcements.

There are still many activities that must be completed by a certain time on a certain day or that content is missed and the story irrevocably altered, but the time allowed per mission is beyond generous, so only those utterly unable to focus their non-stop zombie destruction in the direction of an objective marker will miss out.

Certain logs can only be split in one direction, while others require multiple cuts.

Interestingly, some fore - edge paintings were so secret that you could only discover them when the book was fanned in a certain direction.

«Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc,» she added.

Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment â $» funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc..

, yet for some strange reason, certain groups only consider it exists in one direction.

«Certain areas you would stand in you could look one direction and see only empty nest cups, every single chick was gone and the ground was brown.

«One of the most remarkable facts of nature is that certain processes take place in only one direction.

As said before, there are certain neighborhoods you definitely want to stay away from in Providence but, as a whole, the city only has one direction to go and that's up.