I knew that Russian engineer Victor Veselago had theorised a lens made
out of material with a negative refractive index.
Turbine blades made
out of materials with higher melting temperatures would require less fuel consumption and lead to lower CO2 emissions.
He did this by measuring not only the energies and momenta of the electrons, but the number of electrons coming
out of the material with particular energies over a wide range of temperatures, and after the electronic properties of the material had been altered in various ways.
Not exact matches
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To get an idea
of how impressive the CGI was, check
out this video
with a split - screen comparison
of the edited version alongside its source
material.
«You could not possibly sustain a sector
with that sort
of policy globally because it's too big a marketplace, and the best technology, the best
materials will win
out,» he says.
Their strategy
with the Montney is to acquire a
material acreage position, prove up its value
with a small but targeted drill campaign and then monetise the asset, possibly via a take
out by one
of the gaggle
of really big players in the area.
The lawsuit, filed
with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York, argued the platform «knowingly provided
material support and resources to Hamas... facilitat (ing) this terrorist group's ability to communicate, recruit members, plan and carry
out attacks, and strike fear in its enemies.»
It's made
out of foam that Tuft & Needle engineered in - house to do away
with tired standard
materials like memory foam and latex.
The Mi Pad, the first version
of which came
out in 2014, is a cheap - ish Android tablet
with the same screen size and resolution as the iPad Mini, and the same colorful plastic
materials as those used for Apple's cheaper iPhones.
The case is made
out of shock - absorbing
material to help your iPhone from the perils
of the laws
of physics, and the physical shutter button works
with the default camera app.
The business is trying
out a different sort
of flexible display
material — carbon nanotube technology that can be applied to special surfaces
with an inkjet machine.
To get the most
out of each conversation, I recommend asking your team members to come prepared
with questions and ideas regarding strategy, as well as philosophical conversation
material.
An anti-commodities stance was also evident
with moves
out of energy and
material stocks while defensive weightings were increased, the bank said.
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One
of the reasons employees deride internal marketing
materials is that they are usually developed from on high and therefore seem
out of touch
with day - to - day business realities or, even worse, patronizing.
Our board
of directors has undertaken a review
of the independence
of each director and considered whether any director has a
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with us that could compromise his or her ability to exercise independent judgment in carrying
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It could eventually enable engineers and
materials scientists to create parts
with new functions and properties by depositing various combinations
of materials — for example, printing
out a magnetic metal next to a nonmagnetic one.
In Startup50 2017: OfBusiness stands
out for being a first -
of - its - kind technology - driven SME financing platform for procurement
of raw
materials with a product fulfilment engine.
 Itâ $ ™ s even more disturbing when these are produced by people who reportedly are trained as economists.  They are doing a disservice to the public, to their small business members and to the economics profession by putting
out material with such misinformation and gross manipulation
of the real underlying facts.
He repeats his description
of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove
out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes
of poverty as exclusively
material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers
of poor people
with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role
of volunteers in favor
of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.
Armed
with these
materials, one could mark
out an intelligent path from the earliest
materials in the Hebrew Bible to Dante's portrayal
of the final end
of humanity in the beatific vision.
The way this works
out for me is that when I don't believe Jesus is enough, I try to fill the void
with the approval
of others, or by comfort in
material things, or by power over others, or by controlling others.
In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete
with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience,
material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms
of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call
out to our inner demons.
He cited the explanation given by a wealthy district for its request to back
out of a cross-busing plan
with a poor district: The wealthy district did not want to integrate
with the poor district because
of the latter's «old and dilapidated buildings, lack
of adequate equipment and
materials, [and] lack
of science programs.»
According to our present knowledge
of physics, as already pointed
out, the Second Law
of Thermodynamics presents us in the
material realm
with the picture
of a running - down universe which will ultimately be impossible for human life.
Rather, every culture is the product
of the human spirit, as the spirit
of man wrestles
with its total environment and seeks to work
out a satisfactory adjustment to the
material world, to other men, and to such invisible powers as are believed to control its destiny.
Above all, churches should ask for justice from religious institutions that continue to ignore Hispanics» existence: monocultural denominational and ecumenical agencies; theological institutions that refuse to hire Hispanic professors (and even discourage Spanish - speaking students from working toward doctorates); religious journals and magazines that fail to publish
materials dealing
with the life and faith
of Hispanic churches; and mainline churches that do not make an all -
out commitment to ministry among Hispanics.
Frei believed that those who develop theology that way, beginning
with existential questions arising
out of the human situation, will start reading the biblical stories as either historical raw
material or timeless truths and moral lessons.
Once you KNOW the
material you're working
with you can figure
out how to condense it into a format that is both easy to read and
of a reasonable length.
Although his way
of working this
out may not appeal to us,
with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians
of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the
material world and the physical body and their ways
of working.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation
with the various types
of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement
of the first decades
of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy
of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task
of a sociology
of religion and to organize the
material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names
of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students
of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand
out.
But it may be pointed
out that (1) no one has ever «unstrung» the Marcan sequence more completely than the author
of Matthew did in revising and reorganizing the Gospel
of Mark for his special purposes: the book is taken apart and put together again in a new order, combined
with the «Sayings Source» (Q) and
with other
materials, and arranged apparently for didactic use — as a manual, one might say, for the religious educators
of the early Syrian church!
The methods
of form criticism help us to pick
out aspects
of the gospel accounts
of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching
of his day, and which it would not have been in the earliest church's interest to introduce into the
material: for example, Jesus» attitude to women, his table - fellowship
with «tax collectors and sinners», his refusal
of the epithet «good», and Mark's comment — altered by Matthew — that in Nazareth «he could do no mighty work».
This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt
with, if we leave
out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity
of God within the natural world and its history for the origin
of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories
of living things, unless
of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis
of its own for life could have been created into the
material world from the beginning.
What useful
material is a stick
of wood, he seems to say, You can cook your meals
with it, you can heat your house, and, if any is left, you can make a god to which you may pour
out the deepest aspirations
of your soul!
But to find religion is only one
out of many ways
of reaching unity; and the process
of remedying inner incompleteness and reducing inner discord is a general psychological process, which may take place
with any sort
of mental
material, and need not necessarily assume the religious form.
For example, Celsus in his work The True Doctrine, written during the reign
of Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180 C. E.), criticised Christians and Christian practices by «tailoring
out» certain statements
of Scriptural
material available to him and also by making «some adjustments so as to fit in
with his purpose
of criticising Christianity.»
But the continued war
with the Northern Alliance, imposition
of severe Islamic code
of conduct by the Taliban, and three years
of draught escalated the misery and suffering
of the population
out of proportion to the means they possessed and the
materials provided by the rest
of the world.
Those who voice this charge look upon the traditional procedure
of stating the thesis and dividing it into points as straightforward, «coming right
out with it», while induction is sneaking up on the congregation and slipping in your biblical
material when they are not looking.
The primary sense
of this title — irrespective
of what arrogant or naïvely
material claims may be combined
with it — is that this people is a holy people; it is lifted
out of the world,
out of the world's interests and ideals, and has its centre
of gravity in the beyond.
Science as it is usually understood is simply incapable
of addressing the question
of the possible purpose
of nature since the
material it deals
with has already been abstracted
out of the «qualitative» realm
of value and placed in that
of the merely quantifiable, subject only to mathematical calculation.
John Milton (Christian author
of Paradise Lost and good acquaintances
with Isaac Newton) was a «
material monist» — that is, he believed that all creation came
out of God's being.
He was pointing
out that the Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality are part
of the same law code which condemns many things, such as the eating
of pork and the wearing
of garments that are woven
with two kinds
of material.
At the summit
of material animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage
of complexity in brain function would be
out of kilter
with the natural environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the
material environment alone.
It is, then,
with a certain confidence that he attempts the rather prodigious task
of explaining the simultaneous engendering
of intelligence and
material bodies: ~ we are now, then, to attempt the genesis
of intellect at the same time as the genesis
of material bodies — two enterprises that are evidently correlative if it be true that the main lines
of our intellect mark
out the general form
of our action on matter, and that the detail
of matter is ruled by the requirements
of our action» (CE 2040.
Whereas Vermes first stakes
out a topic and then works his way to particulars by adducing historical considerations, Crossan isolates a cluster
of sayings on a topic, considers only the earliest and doubly attested, and then compares the treatment
of the theme
with Greek as well as Jewish
materials in order to develop an interpretation based on anthropological studies
of Mediterranean peasants.
This reduced the amount
of trash generated at the facility and ensured that
materials with recyclable value are kept
out of landfills.
And much
of this success is ensuring training around any new initiatives; for example, as we rolled
out organic recycling in 2014, dedicated training
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with our teams.
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