Sentences with phrase «what kind of surface»

In addition to the torque - vectoring rear differential, Honda has developed the Intelligent Traction Management system, allowing drivers to choose what kind of surface they're driving on, including Normal, Snow, and Mud and Snow, further improving inclimate weather capability.

Not exact matches

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

What they show, I think, is that whatever may be the ultimate meaning - status of the function «X is a powerless actuality» and Premise X, Griffin is clearly supposing that they have some kind of surface meaning — enough to permit an investigation of their logical connections to one another and to the claim that actual beings are completely determinable.

Those are the stories that will come to the surface and help us as Christian readers to kind of think through and put ourselves in that spot and say, «What does this mean for me?

I must admit I find it very hard to say no to a bowl of that kind of deliciousness when I'm offered it, but a little scratch beneath the surface of what we currently accept as ice cream has turned the traditional version of this gorgeous treat into a colossal turn - off.

The company's expansion plans have left some wondering if Meyer and Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti can continue to inspire the same kind of frenzied demand that fuels regular, hour - long waits for what is, on the surface, just a burger.

And some lobbyists grumbled that they had to be at the Capitol just to play a kind of what - if defense in the event some issue dear to one of their clients suddenly surfaced.

Using the model, we can, for example, predict what kind of carbon surface would be best for measuring neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin», says Laurila.

The key to predicting what kind of life Europa's ocean could support will be figuring out how quickly this occurs and how many thousands or millions of tons of oxidative chemicals are formed on the surface and injected into the ocean each year.

In order to find out what kind of rubber would make the best replica, the Leicester team made multiple copies of a rough and a smooth surface using different rubber compounds, which involved mixing the rubber and then pouring it onto a surface until it solidified.

The surfaces have scratches that were created as the dinosaur fed on vegetation 67 million years ago, and measuring the roughness can reveal what kind of food they ate.

The team stresses that what they found is likely to be a general approach that can be applied to all kinds of alloys that form oxidation layers on their surfaces, as most do.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

These receptor proteins are located on the surface of plant cells and enable the plant to recognize what kind of attacker needs to be repelled.

Scientists suspected that cell surfaces contained some kind of recipient for hormones, but didn't know what they looked like or how they worked.

«You could spend all your time — and all your students» time — scanning the literature for this kind of secondary drug effect and only scratch the surface of what's out there,» Page says.

I think the answer to this lies in what kind of changes or flexibility you are trying to develop: fasical, muscular, capsular, neural, other sliding surfaces?

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So again, infections kind of burrow in to the gut lining deeper into the gut walls, so the gut's gonna heal from the outside in and being deeper into the gut wall where those fingers meet your hands so to speak, and that's what tends to happen we get these infections come into the surface.

What I would do is use my anaerobic allotment to train for course - specificity: If the course is particularly rocky, I'd go out for a run after doing lower - leg stability work to challenge those muscles further (you can swap this out for running on sand), or if the course is particularly hilly, I'd train hills comparable in surface, slope, and length to the kind of stuff I'll find of the course.

^ ^ Sure, the water looks gorgeous, but you don't know what kinds of deadly critters are lurking below the surface.

Speaking of that kind of driving, I'll be on track tomorrow, and will be able to report more about what the M5 does on grippy surfaces.

As the rumor mill starts spinning and new spyshots of camouflaged next - generation Jeep Wrangler mules surface, a new document sheds some light onto what kind of punch will the new Wrangler JL pack.

No matter what kind of slick surface you're traveling on, your vehicle will have the grip it needs!

Though I twiddle and stroke the beard compulsively, in fact I don't know what it looks like, as I've been doing my best to avoid mirrors and reflective surfaces of any kind out of fear of what I'm liable to see staring back at me.

As we await some kind of official word on just what we'll be getting for the next PlayBook, a few pictures of a tablet labeled the 4G PlayBook have surfaced, showing off the new hardware.

No matter what kind of coat your dog has - short, long, curly, or wiry - your dog's coat health shows on the surface and can be influenced by environment, diet, and medical issues.

Cats will also lick all kinds of textures — from cotton to rubber — so it's important to pay attention to what your cat may be ingesting while he appears to be kissing every surface.

It frequently tops those kinds of lists and that's just scratching the surface of what the SNES had to offer.

The nature of making, of building, of putting paint to surface wouldn't be so much fun if it didn't require a kind of backwards trek (often made while facing forwards), stumbling over what the painter is «expected» to make.

In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use different kinds of materials because I was looking for some kind of new way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings, in images that already exist, in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.»

Frankly, this sounds to me to be exactly what the email suggests it is... an attempt to protect volunteers from harassment by the kind of conspiracy nuts that Surface Stations is likely to inspire.

«I think one of the most aggravating, restricting facets of lunar surface exploration is the dust and its adherence to everything no matter what kind of material, whether it be skin, suit material, metal, no matter what it be and its restrictive, friction - like action to everything it gets on,» said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing.

Of equal importance is what will happen as the ocean warms, and what kind of changes in ocean temperatures at the surface and at depth can be expecteOf equal importance is what will happen as the ocean warms, and what kind of changes in ocean temperatures at the surface and at depth can be expecteof changes in ocean temperatures at the surface and at depth can be expected?

I've only started scraping the surface of what's possible myself; if you can see a use for this kind of functionality in your own project, please share in the comments below!

Microsoft hasn't stated a price other than to say the Surface will be «competitively priced,» and we don't know what kind of battery life to expect, either.

And so one of the things we're doing is we are kind of surfacing business intelligence for things like what's the estimated length from commencement to trial for this particular venue or what's the average length of a motion in this particular Los Angeles Superior Court, something like that.

Who knows what kind of shape they're going to leave this planet in, or if they'll settle the surface?

Now I'm not saying Microsoft should remove the phone functionality from whatever kind of Surface phone they plan to announce, what I am saying is perhaps we shouldn't exactly be expecting another Windows phone from Microsoft.

Recent job adverts for hardware products at Spotify have surfaced, and while none of them revealed exactly what Spotify is planning, the logical assumption would be a smart speaker of some kind, given their popularity.

Still early in the process, exactly what kind of features might arrive have yet to surface.

The company posted an image of what appears to be a new kind of hinge mechanism for the new surface book.

With title insurance, if a legitimate claim to the home surfaces, the insurance company will compensate your mortgage lender or you, depending on what kind of title insurance you have.

I like old stuff, time worn patina and pieces of furniture that make me want to run my fingers across their surfaces and wonder what kind of stories they'd share if they could talk.