Sentences with phrase «scales by pressure»

That means that any stress placed on the collagen fibers in the scales by pressure or movement generates an electrical charge.

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The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

The argument from Gavin and other who supported increasing the transaction capacity by this method are essentially there are economies of scale in mining and that these economies have far bigger centralisation pressures than increased resource cost for a larger number of transactions (up to the new limit proposed).

The trading business more broadly has shrunk since its heyday, pressured by a decline in active investment, an increase in low - cost electronic trading and a scaling back of proprietary trading.

A full - on globalization backlash could undermine hopes for shifting away from secular stagnation by derailing the nascent recovery in investment spending and productivity growth in the U.S. Global trade tends to boost productivity through fostering of competitive pressures, product specialization, scale economies, global value chains and technology transfer.

The pressure to succeed was illustrated by one couple who devised a ten - point scale on which they each attempted to rate the intensity of their orgasms.

An easy way to tell if you're on point: Grab a knife by the handle, place the blade on a baking scale, and press down until you hit 4 - 6 pounds of pressure — it's a lot more than you might think.

I watched that guy from Arsenal TV with 2 of his usual cronies being lime scaled by Gazidis on their own channel... It was f*cking embarrassing and you realise why Wenger, Gazidis and the rest have a freelance manoeuvre and the pressure is basically none...

Beginning with this fall's freshman class, Stevenson will scale back some academic pressure by no longer naming a valedictorian or salutatorian.

The investigation conducted into the large scale fraud by the Police and the anti graft agencies was compromised due to pressure from the Jonathan administration.

The researchers found that large - scale features of atmospheric circulation — in particular, the strength and position of the Aleutian Low, a semi-permanent, subpolar area of low pressure located in the Gulf of Alaska near the Aleutian Islands — largely determined the timing of snowmelt during spring in Alaska, by either facilitating or inhibiting the transport of warm, moist air into the region.

KNAW and other organizations praised its proposals to prioritize the country's scientific goals in a «National Research Agenda» to be produced next year, to reduce the pressure on scientists by putting quality over quantity in peer review and to boost large - scale research infrastructure.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

While we agree with their findings, we warn that «passive» management, seeking purely to minimize anthropogenic impacts is likely to be insufficient, given the local and large - scale inevitable pressures created by an unabatedly expanding human population.

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics.

Different chemicals used for the field include inhibitors for scaling, fouling, corrosion, asphaltene control, formation damage, differential pressures in multiphase environments which will be met by new synthesis methods including metathesis reactions, bio based feedstocks, new polymer surfactants, living polymers, and nanoparticle.

Once crushed to combine them either by hand or machine, they are placed in a lab - scale hydraulic press and subjected to 5 tons of pressure.

We also note that the modeled response of atmospheric pressure to the cooling effect of ice melt is large scale, tending to be of a meridional nature that should be handled by our model resolution.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

Dispersion in deep polar firn driven by synoptic - scale surface pressure variability, The Cryosphere, 10, p. 2099 - 2111.

Researchers determined that increasing average potassium intake to the recommended 4.7 grams a day would reduce systolic blood pressure by between 1.7 and 3.2 mm Hg on a population - wide scale.

But, in a predictable paradox, by attaching their incentives agenda to standardized testing, the reform movement has induced cheating on a never - before - seen scale, proving the maxim known as Campbell's Law: «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

Through the Open Wing Alliance, they have shared tools with and trained advocates at many organizations, and provided grants and support to individual advocates in countries with few animal advocacy organizations.153 They have developed resources that they share freely with OWA member organizations, including a corporate outreach campaign manual and a guide to pressure campaigns.154 THL has also collaborated with other organizations in a variety of ways, including by sharing training materials and campaign research.155 They feel that collaboration is highly valuable to the animal advocacy movement, and see it as part of their role to encourage organizations to coordinate on large - scale campaigns.156

Santa Ana winds result from a regional, large scale weather pattern caused by the atmospheric pressure differential between a Great Basin high - pressure cell and a Pacific Coast trough of low pressure.

Imbued with the power to heal himself by what was in the box, Carter's battlefield aptitude and composure under pressure makes him the perfect person to lead the fight against the large scale invasion being perpetrated by the alien group known as The Outsiders.

Budi Tek began collecting contemporary art in 2004 and now owns more than 1,500 artworks, including large - scale pieces by Xu Bing (a tiger pelt made from 600,000 cigarettes) and Sun Yuan and Peng Yu (a high - pressure fire hose that sprays water).

It is shown that the correlation coefficients between pressure in the troposphere and SA / GCR characteristics change the sign in the periods of transformations of the large - scale circulation caused by changes in the state of the vortex.

southern oscillation a large - scale atmospheric and hydrospheric fluctuation centered in the equatorial Pacific Ocean; exhibits a nearly annual pressure anomaly, alternatively high over the Indian Ocean and high over the South Pacific; its period is slightly variable, averaging 2.33 years; the variation in pressure is accompanied by variations in wind strengths, ocean currents, sea - surface temperatures, and precipitation in the surrounding areas

We are also putting enormous pressure on populations of wild species, both by hunting in the developing world and by large - scale industrial fishing in our seas.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

The government is concerned that the feed - in tariffs are cross-subsidised through increased energy costs for those who can not afford to install solar PV panels and that they are putting pressure on the federal small - scale renewable energy scheme, estimated to cost consumers $ 4.7 billion by mid-2020.

The considerable pressure exerted on behalf of the pipeline by industry interests and the Canadian government clearly indicate its importance for full - scale tar sands development.

This can be empirically tested by either directly observing velocities and pressure gradients or using a more indirect approach and estimating the dissipative power of smaller - scale eddies.

The kinetic energy generated by horizontal pressure gradients dissipates in smaller - scale eddies and ultimately converts to heat.

This power is generated by large - scale pressure gradients and dissipated via smaller - scale turbulent eddies.

Sales of popular hemp items like non-dairy milk, shelled seed, soaps and lotions have continued to increase, complemented by successful hemp cultivation pilot programs in several states, and increasing grassroots pressure to allow hemp to be grown domestically on a commercial scale once again for U.S. processors and manufacturers.

These guys (e.g. Lobell) try to explain the level and trend of crop yields (often on a grid scale covering the globe, given you have sufficient data) using statistical models that include all kinds of independent variables (soils, input use, varieties, pressure by pests, management etc.).

If a chemist was measuring the mass of samples and realized that they had been placing their thumb on the scale for some samples, they would not keep those measurements and try to «adjust them» by guestimating how much pressure their thumb was applying to the scale on average and then applying a correction factor to all their measurements.

With the release of the «Hydrogen Scaling up», the coalition explains how hydrogen can account for one fifth of the global final energy consumption by 2050 and contribute to almost 20 percent of the abatement required to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius reducing pressure on renewables and other clean energy technologies.

Since ocean water can't travel on the time - scales predicated by the models the scientists conceived to record these measurements (less than 10 - 20 years), they think that energy is transferred instead along a deep pressure wave.

The reason Gibbs cites the transition from most of forest clearing being done by small - scale farmers (as was the case in the 80s) to agribusiness (from the 1990s onward), is that «Big agribusiness tends to be more responsive to global economic signals as well as pressure campaigns from advocacy organizations and consumer groups than individual small farmers.»

The fluctuations in ocean temperatures during El Niño and La Niña are accompanied by even larger - scale fluctuations in air pressure known as the Southern Oscillation.

By dying the scales and treating them under heat and pressure, he can make them act much like a plastic.

And a recent paper by Helmut Haberl and others (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0704243104v1) finds that humans already use 23.8 % of the net primary productivity of the terrestrial biosphere resulting in severe ecosystem degradation and bio-geochemical changes, and that large - scale biomass expansion would greatly increase those pressures.

Once a hurricane develops, it is classified with the Saffir - Simpson scale by measuring its sustained wind speed and barometric pressure.

Once standard procedure, the cringe - worthy medical underwriting process of being poked with a needle, stepping on a scale, having your arm squeezed by a blood pressure cuff and providing (ahem...) liquid samples, is becoming less commonplace.

The March for Our Lives, scheduled for Saturday, was organized by the students to continue the national conversation about gun safety and legislation in the U.S. and to put pressure on politicians to sign into law new measures to make large - scale acts of violence like what happened at their Parkland school less common and more difficult to replicate.