Sentences with phrase «polarisation in»

Whatever the shortcomings of the recent Scientific American survey, it showed polarisation in the realms of > 30 %.

Now, however, the Japanese game scene is embracing experimentation, and it's something he chalks up against a polarisation in Western game development:

The polarisation in US politics is seeping into the world of online dating.

Distinctive patterns of light polarisation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation were in fact two for the price of one.

Another feature of 2011 may be an ever sharper geographical polarisation in British politics.

But isn't polarisation in politics healthy, an energising force?

This has created a polarisation in how society views women (the «Madonna vs whore» polemic), where mothers are vilified for daring to bare their breasts to feed their children.

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But while the variety of locales and experiences in the region may vary widely, the travelers there can be typecast into four different groups, according to Sabre and The Futures» «The Polarisation of Asian Travelers» study.

The globalisation is taking place in the form of a growing polarisation of the international economy.

If one doesn't believe in the big bang, then not only is there no reason to suspect that the CMB exists, or that it is polarised, but certainly not that the way the polarisation averages on particular angular scales should look like that.»

If the statistics are accurate, it indicates a massive polarisation about belief in Jesus in the UK.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

A team of astrophysicists had used the BICEP2 South Pole telescope to identify a pattern in the polarisation maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather like an echo of the Big Bang).

Mr Chaney, who will pass the chairman's reins to Richard Goyder at the end of the meeting, told shareholders that the stand - off over corporate tax in Canberra is «symptomatic of a polarisation of political debate that jeopardises common sense outcomes».

Although there are probably a fair chunk of people whose opinions can accurately be described by one of those two polarisations, I suspect the majority are somewhere in the intermediate, between believing in him but carrying doubts, and suspecting his time is closing but hoping for a glorious finale.

Intense political polarisation and protests took place in Bulgaria in 2013.

Mr. Jonah asked the parties to overcome the polarisation and division — to find a common ground, adding that, this was in the interest of everybody.

The irony, Dr Nyaho - Tamakloe pointed out, was that in the Fourth Republic, leaders such as John Agyekum Kufuor, Evans Atta Mills and John Mahama were bridge - builders, yet their efforts were often frustrated by political polarisation.

This should not surprise anyone given the politics of anger, violence and polarisation that are the stock - in - trade of the PDP.

Increasing polarisation marked divisions across the country: the Conservatives dominated southern England and took additional seats from Labour in London and the rest of the south, but performed less well in Northern England, Scotland, and Wales, losing many of the seats they had won there in the previous elections.

What's not quite clear to me yet is whether the new boundaries increase or decrease the geographical polarisation that we've seen since 2001 — where Labour have been losing ground in the South of England while gaining vote share in the North of England.

This polarisation causes the atoms to spiral towards the nanotube, speeding them up until the atoms circle it in just a few trillionths of a second.

Astronomers have at last observed polarisation of light by virtual particles in a neutron star's magnetic field, a long - expected quantum effect

This relies on the fact that solutions of pure enantiomers rotate the plane of polarisation of light passing through them; opposite enantiomers rotate it in opposite directions.

Donald Brooks and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, rearranged the particles in PC - groups to reverse their polarisation.

In addition to the observations with the SINFONI instrument the team has also made a long series of measurements of the polarisation of the light coming from the supermassive black hole region using the NACO instrument on the VLT.

Alternatively, if the wave function is not real, then there is no fuzziness and the photon is in a single polarisation state all along.

Each single photon can carry an OAM number, thus carrying more information than just one spin, or polarisation, as is common in the most recently proposed quantum experiments,» Krenn continued.

In a complicated setup that involved pairs of photons and hundreds of very accurate measurements, the team showed that the wave function must be real: not enough information could be gained about the polarisation of the photons to imply they were in particular states before measuremenIn a complicated setup that involved pairs of photons and hundreds of very accurate measurements, the team showed that the wave function must be real: not enough information could be gained about the polarisation of the photons to imply they were in particular states before measuremenin particular states before measurement.

In the 1930s, German physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler suggested that a strong magnetic field can give rise to a phenomenon called polarisation.

«We know that other animals use polarisation patterns in the sky, and we have at least some idea how they do it: bees have specially - adapted photoreceptors in their eyes, and birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles all have cone cell structures in their eyes which may help them to detect polarisation,» says Dr Richard Holland of Queen's University Belfast, co-author of the study.

It is still a magnetic field that is responsible for the fact that the polarisation is rotated, however, it is no longer the strength of the magnetic field that determines the strength of the effect, but the amount of electrons involved in the process, and this amount can be regulated simply by electrical potential.

Scientists have discovered that greater mouse - eared bats use polarisation patterns in the sky to navigate — the first mammal that's known to do this.

Very quickly, though, the BICEP2 finding became shrouded in doubt, as it was revealed that the polarisation pattern could have been caused by cosmic dust.

These waves were revealed as telltale twists and turns in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the remnants of the universe's earliest light.

Careful analysis of the polarisation results revealed these grains of dust to be comparatively large particles, 0.5 micrometres across, which may seem small, but grains of this size are about 50 times larger than the dust normally found in interstellar space.

As a result, this behaviour is distorting our world view and, in the process, our ability to compromise, which in turn, stimulates political polarisation.

In an FLCD, the molecules can be moved by a pulse of electric field between two stable positions: one in which the molecules shift the polarisation of light to let it through, and one in which they do noIn an FLCD, the molecules can be moved by a pulse of electric field between two stable positions: one in which the molecules shift the polarisation of light to let it through, and one in which they do noin which the molecules shift the polarisation of light to let it through, and one in which they do noin which they do not.

There is employment polarisation, with more part - time work, hourly (versus salaried) work, in sectors such as sales and services.

More recently, the BBC has been using antennas which transmit circularly polarised signals, in which the direction of polarisation rotates over time.

In a conventional LCD, applying an electric field to the liquid crystal makes the molecules line up in such a way that they shift the polarisation of light through 90 degreeIn a conventional LCD, applying an electric field to the liquid crystal makes the molecules line up in such a way that they shift the polarisation of light through 90 degreein such a way that they shift the polarisation of light through 90 degrees.

When the radio waves pass through the galaxy, a region in which there is both a magnetic field and ionised gas, the direction of polarisation is changed, or «rotated».

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Our models are compared to a suite of observational data for thermal and scattered light emission, ranging from the ALMA radial surface brightness profile at 1.3 mm to polarisation measurements in the visible.

The Ephrussi group dissects the mechanisms underlying intracellular RNA transport and localised translation — fundamental processes mediating the functional polarisation of cells during development and in the nervous system.

The Dockrell group is focusing on genes and cells that play a crucial role in polarisation of the immune responses and that could affect vaccine efficacy.

It is featured in the exhibition and its messages about race and polarisation still feel very timely, Farquharson said.

More unusually, the article also takes an introspective look at the role of scientists in communicating societally - relevant science to the public, and provides a critical review of how the science dealing with climate change impacts on tropical cyclones and hurricanes has been reported in the media, and how that reporting has occasionally deepened the polarisation on the issue.

«In both groups, attitudes towards climate change became significantly MORE Sceptical after reading the editorials, but we observed no evidence of attitude polarisation — that is, the attitudes of these two groups did not diverge.»