Sentences with phrase «which nudges»

What really happens is that the battery forms a «dipole» which nudges the local environment into an unbalanced state which pours out energy in every direction, and some of that energy from the environment flows around the circuit attached to the battery.

Where he says that the «battery forms a dipole which nudges the local environment into an unbalanced state which pours out energy in every direction.»

There's parties to be had at Cancun at the Yucatan tip which nudges itself into the Caribbean Sea.

A whirlwind of circumstances, coincidences, and consequences bring Doc, Squib, Hunger, Hazel, and Mildred together in a perhaps ill - conceived plot for revenge, which nudges Leonard Pelf, a broken, angry, and desperate foster kid, squarely onto Christopher's path.

Lane keep assist, which nudges the car back into lane, is a step beyond lane departure warning.

A sound enters the ear and triggers a stream of action potentials, which nudge the waves of electrical activity coursing through the cortex into a particular chaotic pattern, or attractor.

This is not to dispute the importance of additional research to investigate the particular settings in and populations with which nudge strategies are most effective, or the mechanisms through which nudges affect students» decisions, but rather to observe that, in fact, multiple researchers have demonstrated, through well - designed experiments, positive impacts from nudge strategies.

I've had a couple of good craft books recommended to me lately, which nudged me to pull out some of the keeper craft books I already have on my shelves.

Not exact matches

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

Woods is the co-founder of a Toronto - based startup called Nudge, which is developing a software platform to help business professionals keep track of their weak ties, meaning people they don't keep in touch with regularly.

Which is to say it could nudge China toward a kind of governance we in the West are more comfortable with, but that's just one scenario.

But Cook's words may have sent a signal to the market, which gave the stock a $ 2.04 (1.83 %) nudge the next day.

All of which encouraged Barclays to nudge up its 2017 call for global growth to 3.5 %, from an expected 3.1 % this year.

All of which is entirely commendable and hopefully a positive example that will nudge other companies to follow suit.

He always speaks with a bit of a wink and a nudge, which you'll have to imagine here.

Sterling also nudged higher to just under $ 1.28 and 87.42 pence per euro as formal negotiations got underway on Britain's exit from the European Union, which are expected to generate plenty of headlines for the currency in the weeks ahead.

The revamped Coinmarketcap website is reporting a 24 % jump in BCN which has nudged Zcash out of the top 25 this morning.

Today, Singapore's Straits Times Index nudged higher, boosting this year's gain to 6.2 per cent in local currency terms, and took the top spot from Vietnam's VN Index, which plunged 2 per cent.

Thus did academic and theological dissent promiscuously issue permission slips for an era of wink - wink, nudge - nudge, the consequences of which are now on scandalous public display.

This trend attracted increasing numbers of physicists, mathematicians and engineers into economics, which in turn nudged the level of «mathematicality» up even further.

He constantly directs us towards understanding our relationship with God as a living and lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding out into the world in service of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Christ.

It's an enlightenment kind of «knowing,» which is very different than biblical knowing — the latter being intimate enough to sometimes be used as a euphemism (wink wink, nudge nudge).

So «miracles» are not an interruption of the laws of nature; but more like beating the odds, which may (or may not) involve a Divine «nudge.»

And, by contrast, a world in which charity was magnified was one in which friendship was nudged more and more toward the periphery of life.

If the shells are cooked through (they don't budge more than a millimetre on the foot when nudged gently) but they won't come off the parchment easily, slide the parchment back onto the baking sheets and pop them back into the cooled oven, which is turned OFF, and run the fan for a few minutes.

Not only is the stew delicious, but it is also loaded with immune boosting properties from ginger, curry, and turmeric which give your body that extra nudge of defense.

One being the equipment resource page of the site, which I've had many of you reach out to me about (thank you for the nudges, it's a doozie of a project!).

Westbrook has his sidekick, which hopefully nudges him closer to committing for the long haul.

Which makes it easier to for him to hold out for at least one side of this offer to nudge north and be more to his liking.

His first goal was a rather controversial one after he converted a penalty which seemed to be not more than a nudge on him.

Working with your children to design features this is one idea which you can «nudge» them to pick as it's cheap to buy and easy to apply.

Programs like FIND, which trains parent coaches to work with low - income, stressed parents, focus less on pointing out what parents do wrong and more on what parents do right, in order to nudge parents toward behaviors that help their kids.

Sometimes they even fall asleep, which I allow of course, only to be gently nudged by the bottle when they are still drowsy after sleeping a bit.

You can nudge your child toward becoming an honest person by creating an environment in which he feels safe telling the truth.

Of particular note was Vilsack's announcement of an additional $ 8 million in federal funding for schools to assist with professional training as well as implementation of the «Smarter Lunchroom» techniques, which are proven to nudge kids into making healthier choices.

The «Mobile Pollwatcher» integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL Democratic campaigns can share information about which voters need a little nudge to get them to the polls.

The labor - backed Working Families Party, which generally doesn't field its own slate but cross-endorses candidates who support progressive policies, has played an outsized role in nudging the Democratic Party to the left.

«The L.A. increase nudges it forward,» said Dan Cantor, the national director of the Working Families Party, which was founded in New York and has helped pass progressive economic measures in several states.

«NYPIRG believes that New Yorkers are entitled to a neutral ballot proposal — not one which subtly or overtly nudges a voter in a particular direction,» NYPIRG said.

«Simply put, NYPIRG believes that New Yorkers are entitled to a neutral ballot proposal — not one which subtly or overtly nudges a voter in a particular direction,» the brief states.

«The Federal Government is also using the data to generate «nudge» letters which are being sent to those identified as being potential tax defaulters,» said Adeosun while responding to questions raised by journalists during the submission of progress report on tax laws reform.

The new Queens club is modeled after two other political clubs, the Manhattan Young Democrats and the insurgent New Kings Democrats in Brooklyn, which have successfully infused the Democratic apparatuses in their boroughs with progressive committee candidates and nudged the organizations in a more transparent, tech - friendly, outreach - focused direction.

I don't believe some of the nudges and winks being directed at John Randall, which infer that the Deputy Chief Whip wanted his prickly superior out of the way.

In 15 randomized, controlled trials, people in need of social services either encountered the standard application process or received a psychological nudge, in which the information was presented slightly differently — a postcard reminded them of deadlines, for example, or one choice was made easier than another.

The resulting disk has a series of vibrational «modes,» rather like resonances in a tuning fork, that might be excited by small disturbances — think of a planet - forming stellar disk nudged by a passing star or of a black hole accretion disk in which material is falling into the center unevenly.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

Nudges — which are now being tested and implemented by government agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States — diverge from traditional policy tools in that they encourage certain behaviors without restricting an individual's options or exacting financial penalties.

That tiny recoil nudges each asteroid's orbit toward or away from the sun, depending on which way it spins — a reaction called the Yarkovsky effect.

And there are many cases in which traditional tools — such as prohibitions and mandates — are essential for achieving specific policy objectives, and nudges might not be of value.

Surprisingly, Jarillo - Herrero and colleagues report, the same material can also be nudged into becoming an insulator — in which electrons are stuck in place — by using an electric field to remove electrons from the material.