Sentences with phrase «using conventional design»

We are pleased to announce that Holtec International's engineers and scientists have successfully modified the core of the Company's SMR - 160 small modular reactor to increase the cycle life (operating period between successive refuelings) to nearly 4 years from 3-1/2 years previously achieved using a conventional design.

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We've designed Darico as a crypto asset that avoids these problems because gold, which for centuries has been used as a physical reserve asset, gives Darico holders exposure to the conventional asset markets.»

Unlike conventional pocket diapers, GroVia diaper systems revolutionalized the cloth diaper industry by introducing diaper designs that are more logical, easier to use by parents and more comfortable for babies.

In fact, it outperformed conventional aerofoil designs, such as those used for aircraft wings.

Now that has changed: Forward thinkers see it as an important energizer for the tiniest of machines, devices on the nano scale, and a few labs are working on ways to use the force to defy the conventional limitations of mechanical design.

«Our design incorporates conventional silicon transistor switches to «turn on» operations between qubits in a vast two - dimensional array, using a grid - based «word» and «bit» select protocol similar to that used to select bits in a conventional computer memory chip,» he added.

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.

He claims that preliminary measurements of how muscle groups work in people using his shovel instead of a conventional one show that his design saves a lot of energy: it can, he says, reduce the effort of shifting a truckload of mulch by at least 30 per cent.

Wurst's idea is to mate the engine with a new airplane design, take the craft up to an altitude of about 30 miles, at which point the ramjets can no longer be used, coast to an altitude of 60 miles, then release the satellite payload with a small conventional rocket attached.

A specially designed airplane could use conventional jet engines to take off and rendezvous with a tanker plane at between 15,000 and 30,000 feet.

The new technology is designed for conventional lithium - ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices, as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.

In fact, the UFO shape outperformed more conventional aerofoil designs, like those used to construct the aircraft wings.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

The lenses were used in the work reported in Biomedical Optics Express, which details how the researchers combined simple LED lighting with a 3 - D printed cartridge designed to hold a conventional glass slide.

Mechanisms based on this design could engage in complicated motions that would be difficult to accomplish using conventional motors, gears and linkages.

It is designed to be used in situations where there are very few good quality sperm available for conventional in vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques.

«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.

The «SQ» limit describes the maximum efficiency of a solar cell using a conventional single - layer design with a single semiconductor junction.

Intel and its partners developed the tablet model, because it is easier to use and carry, as opposed to the more conventional clamshell laptop design, which is more difficult to use when being held in one hand.

Instead of using conventional computer - aided design (CAD) software to draw thousands of individual hairs on a computer — a step that would take hours to compute — the team built a new software platform, called «Cilllia,» that lets users define the angle, thickness, density, and height of thousands of hairs, in just a few minutes.

«Conventional control systems are designed or «tuned» using models on the ground,» he added.

The microfluidic device designed by his team captures cells based on their distinct internal structure — a mechanical analysis instead of the blood chemistry analysis used in conventional medical diagnostic techniques.

GLS - 5700, which was designed and tested in seven months, differs from conventional vaccines, which typically use inactivated or killed versions of a virus and can take years to develop and test.

His new design required the development and use of new 3D computational methods, and the component itself could not have been manufactured using conventional technologies.

The Science Division is designed to be a theoretical and experimental laboratory to challenge conventional thinking with the discovery of a new world of physics and consciousness - related possibilities and exploring how to use them to affect the world positively.

An emerging strategy in early drug discovery entails using fragments, i.e. molecules smaller than conventional drug candidates, as starting points for design of novel therapeutic compounds.

SMR - 160 is a conventional fission reactor, using water as the cooling medium, and is designed with six decades of world - wide industrial operating experience with pressurized water reactors.

Using an functional approach (which means taking the best bits from both conventional scientific thinking & alternative therapies) this course is designed to target the REAL cause of your conditions — not just the symptoms.

These conflicting findings may result from geographic differences in organic production regulations governing antimicrobial usage, use of antimicrobials in conventional dairy production, and baseline prevalence, as well as laboratory methods, study designs, or methods of analysis employed.

This textbook is designed to teach healthcare practitioners how to use nutritional therapy as an alternative or adjunct to conventional medicine.

A camel coat with a belt gives a more conventional trench look, but you can easily go for a modern interpretation of the design that doesn't use the belt, giving you a less busy finish.

Although the course content was treated using conventional learning design methodologies, we engaged the learners by presenting them with challenges at the end of a topic and rewarding them with a key card to move to the next topic.

Designed when a colleague struggled to use conventional probability exercise with a bottom set with low literacy ability - instantly successful; can be used with any ability to discuss basic probability.

«My contracts are not as conventional as some, but they work for me,» adds McConnell, who believes that the key to using MI in the classroom is to find out what works for you and then design ways to incorporate that discovery into your teaching.

By using innovative financing and a fixed - price, lump - sum design - build contract for SH 130 Segments 1 - 4, the project was completed 25 years sooner than conventional pay - as - you - go financing would have allowed and the final cost is less than the original 2002 cost estimate.

The GT rides higher than a 5 - series wagon for easier ingress and egress and offers a clever hatch design that really does let the owner decide whether to use the cargo hold as a closed - off conventional trunk or as a hatchback.

Use of innovative financing and a fixed - price, lump - sum design - build contract for SH 130 delivered the CTTS components 25 years sooner than conventional pay - as - you - go financing would have delivered.

The new V - 12 uses the six - into - one headers we saw on the 599GTO rather than the conventional three - into - two - into - one design, so the FF's exhaust note is more like a muffled GTO — meaning it's an angrier sound, combining a thundering bass component and a screaming upper register.

Formulated using technologically advanced chemistry designed to protect the most advanced high - pressure common rail and conventional systems.

A futuristic teardrop body design and enclosed rear wheels, as well as so - called e-mirrors using rear - facing cameras in place of conventional mirrors and a flat underbody, have netted an exceptional 0.19 coefficient - of - drag rating — a record for a road - legal production car.

Based on a four - seater configuration and using a front - engine layout based on the Falcon, the Mustang II was much more conventional in design and concept and closely resembled the final production variant that would appear in 1964.

This makes packaging more efficient, as the two - mode systems function using compact and powerful electric motors designed to fit within the approximate space of a conventional transmission.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

Though vehicles like the Mercedes - Benz E-Class sedan and Volvo S90 have moved the game on by noticeable margins, the Lexus GS still boasts an interior that's beautifully put together with high quality materials, is smartly designed and (bar the touch pad tool, which some may feel to be more obtrusive to use to use than a conventional rotary dial) is easy to operate thanks to the intuitive control layout.

It's a trait of cars in this class to look a little less conventional than their hatchback counterparts and the Kona follows this trend, with a design that's funkier and slightly more eye - catching than more utilitarian Hyundai models we're used to, such as the i20.

The attractive wireless charging case in BMW design is a one - piece unit with a fold - up lid and is used in a similar way to a conventional mobile phone protective case.

Not only will the A6 be receiving the A7's design, but it will also be built on a conventional steel chassis that uses numerous aluminum parts to keep the overall weight down.

The Gorilla Glass hybrid window is a three - ply window, versus the conventional two - ply design used in automobiles for almost a century.

The four - door body was fairly conventional and used a similar style to the existing Alfa Romeo Alfetta, and in fact both vehicles share a great number of parts, including door panels; Design work on the 6 was done prior to the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, but the fuel crisis of 1973 delayed further development and led to the 6's belated 1979 debut.

The system gets optimal air flow, too, thanks to the use of the center connection to the hat, better dissipating heat and reducing the stress normally present in a conventional full - cast design.