Sentences with phrase «wires acting as»

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

It is a high - wire act as the Coalition has committed to a root - and - branch review of the competition legislation with particular reference to grocery retail and banks in its first 100 days.

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But as the Fed's stock market «high - wire juggling act» continues, the valuation of the stock market becomes increasingly dislocated from the underlying economic and financial market fundamentals.

Often the Big Six generate the power, sell it, keep the wires operating — they do everything... Certainly, they have too much market power, and tend to act as a chorus.

Sigfredo Gonzalez, 40, a Throgsneck medical supply salesman who ran unsuccessfully three times for the 79th Assembly District, ended up wearing a wire for the feds and acting as a go - between for bribes from his shady bosses to Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, according to a federal complaint.

Small radio frequency (RF) coils strategically placed around a patient's head — the twisted copper wires shown in the image at right — act as antennas, detecting that hum and transmitting it to domino - sized green amplifiers, which read the signal and pass it on to an external computer.

In this process, the gallium droplets act as catalysts for the longitudinal growth of the wires.

A few years ago, biologists discovered that some produce hair - like filaments that act as wires, ferrying electrons back and forth between the cells and their wider environment.

Researchers have taken yet another step toward creating super-tiny circuits using nanotubesthose miniature straws of pure carbon that can conduct electricity, mimic transistors, act as quantum wires and perform a number of other neat electrical tricks.

One lizard was trained to act as a «demonstrator», opening a wire door which covered a hole in a wooden board.

This is surrounded by the main insulation followed by another layer of carbon black, and finally, braided wire, which acts as an earth.

It controls several small motors that push and bend a wire to represent the sound of the user's words: effectively acting as a real - time jeweller.

To prove the principle, they embedded a transparent polymer with quantum dot light - emitting diodes, plus wiring made from silver nanoparticles, and organic polymers that could act as circuit components.

As subjects ran on a treadmill wearing the exosuit, the actuation unit pulled on the wires, which acted as a second pair of hip extensor muscles applying force to the legs with each stridAs subjects ran on a treadmill wearing the exosuit, the actuation unit pulled on the wires, which acted as a second pair of hip extensor muscles applying force to the legs with each stridas a second pair of hip extensor muscles applying force to the legs with each stride.

The researchers also show that a pair of metal wires can act as terahertz endoscopes.

Ironically, the key to extracting the electrons is to make it almost impossible for them to cross these wires by applying a high voltage that acts as a barrier, says Schönenberger.

They patterned the indium arsenide wires over other even smaller metal wires that act as gate electrodes, which control the energy levels in the dots.

It was created by «wiring together» two natural proteins - one that detected virus entry, and another that acted as a suicide switch that kills the infected cell.

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

For people who can't stand the thought of ever being single, online dating is like a great big safety net as they walk the high wire act of dating and relationships.

The story goes from Philippe's youth, as a boy transfixed with the high - wire act at a local circus, to his young adulthood, performing in the streets of Paris.

In the 2008 documentary about his walk, Man on Wire, the talking heads and archival footage unveiled his feat, in all its danger and its daring, as an act of human transcendence of the kind we call art.

It is an intimate high - wire act, completely open to interpretation, but with Weisz and Shannon as our guides, Complete Unknown doesn't leave us stranded alone.

Petit takes through his life — from discovering wire walking when he snuck into a circus as a kid — the head of said circus, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) later becomes his mentor; to his devotion to his art leading to his being thrown out of his parents» home; to meeting a beautiful street singer named Annie (Charlotte Le Bon, The Hundred - Foot Journey); to his first illegal act of artistry — wire walking between the towers of Paris» Notre Dame cathedral.

Pike is also attached to the Tony Gilroy - scripted High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm, about a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut as well as Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy In New York opposite Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges.

She also has Scott Cooper's Hostiles opposite Christian Bale in production as well as Brad Anderson's High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.

It's such a psychological high - wire act, unfolding with such austere formal commitment (usually in claustrophobic, locked - off medium - shot interiors) as to become almost unbearable, but if Chastain's is the titanic performance, Farrell's is the iceberg on which Julie wrecks herself — all the more lethal for how much is concealed.

The Neil Patrick Harris High - Wire Act, also known as the 87th Oscars, has gained some major star power.

Whether it's former generals happily describing how they strangled innocent people with razor wire, government officials openly extorting business owners, a talk show audience applauding war crimes, or the sight of one of these generals dry heaving as he comes to understand what he did, The Act of Killing has no shortage of completely surreal and unbelievable moments.

British actor Idris Elba has joined a new Tv talent show.The Wire star will act as a mentor on a new U.K. series called Launching People, which aims...

It's a captivating choice that serves as an unlikely thematic throughline of the film about a high - stakes high - wire act of negotiation and military maneuvers between Israelis and Palestinians in the 1970s.

A work of nonfiction that dances along the edges of documentary and fiction, confession and characterization, Actress follows Brandy Burre, former featured player on The Wire, as she struggles to revive her acting career while playing the real - life roles of mother and homemaker.

Mazur's high - wire act is contrasted with his daily life as a suburban dad with a wife he adores (Juliet Aubrey), who wishes her husband would take a retirement offer rather than risk all of their lives.

What Blazing Saddles does do well with regard to satire is a high wire balancing act, at once taking shots at racism and government politics, as well as satirizing and sending up the Western genre and the Hollywood industry, what would become a trademark of Brooks» work (Spaceballs, anyone?)

«Brandy Burre is Actress,» the surprisingly ostentatious (for nonfiction) title card announces, and so it goes: Burre stars as herself, a Master's - holding former supporting player from «The Wire» who took a break from acting after the birth of her first child, and who now seeks to get back in the game at a moment when her long - term relationship appears to be breaking apart like the dishware.

The Telecommunications Act of 1934 established: «For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world - wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting -LSB-...]

My best guess is that the connection inside the fan speed switch (which also acts as a master) or the A / C switch, or the wiring between them, is loose or corroded, but I haven't been able to figure out how to remove the control panel to open it up and test it without pulling off the air mix control cable for the heater, and it looks difficult to reconnect.

The spark plug wire was wiggling around bouncing up and down (the part that covers the spark plug) it acts as if it is loose.

A high - wire act with psychological insights, this daring novel confirms McKeon as a major voice in Irish fiction, alongside the masterful Edna O'Brien and Anne Enright.

The epub: trigger element is a little more complex to handle, since it acts as an interface to audio / video, but you could wire up the events yourself using the JavaScript API functions as a fallback.

These act as trip - wires, that prevent the automated processes from moving too far ahead, in the event something «out of the ordinary» occurs within the portfolio.

COLUMBUS, Ohio --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SubscriberWise ®, a leading provider of analytics driven subscriber decision management technology, announced today that the company president is offering his credit and policy guidance, suggestions, and expertise to Congresswoman Maxine Waters and the House Financial Service Committee as she and the committee evolve the «Fair Credit Improvement Act of 2014.»

Part of what makes wired hair dogs unique is that their coats act as a weatherproof jacket.

Furthermore, the habitat comes with four plastic clips, as well as a clip located on the front door which acts as a latch that can lock the wire top of the cage to the pan on the bottom.

Aside from that, the wire fox terriers are great with kids, so they also act as the perfect home dogs.

Amaze yourself as you take each challenge head on, from speedy Rippin» Zip Lines, midair jumps, suspended gravity defying climbing walls, walk the plank and high wire acts that will have you coming back for more!

Acting as a metronomic accent amidst a room of otherwise subtle sounds, New York - based artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler's newly commissioned work using piano wires crisscrosses the gallery, periodically struck by mechanical beaters.

The Mexican artist often works with local artisans to fabricate her labor - intensive objects; for her solo presentation at the New Museum Lobby Gallery in January of 2016, Camil installed a maze of free - standing wire - frame panels that acted as a display system for a ceremonial gift exchange.

The nanotubes act as an electrical conductor, capturing the electrons from the plant material and sending them along a wire.

If the tube is conductive of heat it will act as the silver wire - which will diminish the lapse rate.