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2 unusual facts about Sensing


Sensing

Sensor operation, that is, the detection of a physical presence and the conversion of that data into a signal that can be read by an observer or an instrument

Zankou

Sensing (including the movements of magical beings and their weaknesses)


A Royal Flush

Sensing a chance to make the Trotter family millionaires, Del decides to assist Rodney's blossoming friendship with Lady Victoria, such as by acquiring tickets for the opera Carmen.

Alan Killigrew

Sensing a lack of support from the club board, Killigrew departed to Adelaide and the SANFL.

Atmospheric physics

RADAR, LIDAR, and SODAR are examples of active remote sensing techniques used in atmospheric physics where the time delay between emission and return is measured, establishing the location, height, speed and direction of an object.

Azoteq

capacitive sensing are touch detection with gloves, higher RF immunity, elimination of false detections, Braille-friendly touch sensing and water immunity.

Battle of Gefrees

Jérôme, sensing defeat was inevitable, ordered a general retreat to Schleiz and the battle was merely a rear guard engagement.

Chinese water dragon

Like many other reptiles the Chinese water dragon possesses a small, iridescent, photosensitive spot between their eyes referred to as the pineal gland (or colloquially as the third eye) that is thought to help thermoregulate their bodies by sensing differences in light to assist with basking and seeking shelter after sunset.

Dallas County, Alabama

Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.

DCTN6

This activity facilitates phosphorylation of important downstream kinetochore targets (such as tension-sensing 3F3/2 phospho-epitope) of Plk1, which is important for recruitment of spindle assembly checkpoint proteins such as Mad1 and proper kinetochore-microtubule attachment.

Dielectrophoresis

Impedance sensing: particles collecting at the electrode edge have an influence on the impedance of the electrodes.

Displacement receiver

Examples of displacement-responding sensors include the mechanical action of tracker organs, as well as the force-sensing resistors found in music keyboards that had polyphonic aftertouch capability.

Earl Bakken

Sensing an opportunity, Bakken and his brother-in-law, Palmer Hermundslie, formed Medtronic (the combination of "medical" and "electronic") in a small garage, primarily working with the University of Minnesota hospital.

Eddie Futch

Sensing trouble, Futch vetoed (Ali-Foreman ref) Zach Clayton as referee, as well as two others suggested by Ali's promoter, Don King.

Fullpower Technologies

Its MotionX mobile sensing technology is licensed by companies such as Nike, Jawbone, Pioneer and JVC.

Infrared open-path detector

In 2001 the PLMS Pulsar, soon afterwards acquired by Dräger as their Polytron Pulsar, was the first detector to incorporate sensing to monitor the mutual alignment of the transmitter and receiver during both installation and routine operation.

Insig1

#INSIG1 plays an important role in the SREBP-mediated regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis: by binding to the sterol-sensing domain of SCAP (SREBP cleavage activating protein) it makes the SCAP/SREBP complex stay longer in the ER, thus prohibiting SCAP from carrying activated SREBP to the golgi complex.

Jamrud

In 1837 when the Sikh army was concentrated at Lahore to celebrate the marriage of Kawar Nau Nihal Singh, the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Afghans sensing the opportunity and led by Akbar Khan laid the siege to Jamrud, trapping about one thousand Sikh troops with Afghans army of twenty to twenty five thousands troops.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

JOGMEC's Geological Remote Satellite Sensing Centre in Lobatse, Botswana was created in partnership with the southern African nation's Department of Geological Survey in July 2008.

LCSR

JHU LCSR: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at Johns Hopkins University

Lenna

A 2012 paper on compressed sensing by Deanna Needell and Rachel Ward uses a photo of the model Fabio Lanzoni as a test image to draw attention to this issue.

Level sensor

Ultrasonic level sensors are used for non-contact level sensing of highly viscous liquids, as well as bulk solids.

Lorenzini

Ampullae of Lorenzini, special sensing organs, forming a network of jelly-filled canals in cartilaginous fishes

Mars Space Flight Facility

Scientists, researchers, and students there specialize in using instruments on spacecraft at Mars for remote sensing research primarily concerning the geology and mineralogy of the planet.

Michael Minsky

Minsky, sensing his death was near, completely devoted himself to the organization of the Dutch celebration of the thousand-year anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church.

National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law

National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law is a research facility that is part of the University of Mississippi School of Law.

New Life Radio-Moscow

Sensing the need to make Christian programming available in every community throughout the former Soviet Union, the station's management entered into a partnership with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination (based in Chicago, Illinois) and HCJB World Radio (noted for developing the world's first Christian shortwave radio station in the early 1930s from Quito, Ecuador).

No More Games/The Remix Album

Sensing this, group member Donnie Wahlberg led the group in coordinating this remix album, which fused the "harder" elements of hip-hop and urban dance into the New Kids' sound, resulting in No More Games/The Remix Album — with a significant portion of the album remixed by Robert Clivilles and David Cole (of C+C Music Factory fame).

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre is a regional space centre established in September, 2000 by joint initiative of Department of space, Government of India and North Eastern Council to expedite the usage of remote sensing technology to discover natural minerals uncovered in the North-Eastern states of India and to promote overall growth of North Eastern states of India using space science and technology.

NRSA

National Remote Sensing Centre (formerly the National Remote Sensing Agency): A central organization of the government of India responsible for managing data from imaging satellites.

Object Action Complex

Cognition is based on reflective learning, contextualizing and then reinterpreting OACs to learn more abstract OACs, through a grounded sensing and action cycle.

Oldsmobile Expression

Among other features showcased were: rain-sensing windshield wipers, in-car vacuum cleaner, TV/VCR with a Nintendo system, and unique four-wheel steering.

Operation IceBridge

Operation IceBridge uses four different radar instruments operated by the operated by the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas.

Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite

The Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRS), commercially known as Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS) is a dual purpose Earth observational and optical satellite which is schedule to launch in 2014 for the replacement of Badr-II satellite.

Piezoelectric sensor

Although the piezoelectric effect was discovered by Pierre Curie in 1880, it was only in the 1950s that the piezoelectric effect started to be used for industrial sensing applications.

Population and energy consumption in Brazilian Amazonia

The spatial and temporal dimensions of the occupation processes in Amazonia suggest the use of remote sensing data provided by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), with the Operational Linescan System (OLS).

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

Sensing an opportunity, a coalition of opposition parties, including the National Democrats and Social Democratic party, nominated Ochirbat as their candidate.

Qrr RNA

It is believed that these RNAs, guided by a protein, Hfq, can mediate the destabilisation of the quorum-sensing master regulators LuxR/HapR/VanT mRNAs.

Receptor

Nuclear receptor, a receptor found within cells that is responsible for sensing steroid and thyroid hormones and certain other molecules

Remote Sensing Systems

Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) is a private research company founded in 1974 by Frank Wentz.

Robotic Lunar Observatory

Its purpose was to enable the Moon to be used as a radiance calibration source for Earth-orbiting remote-sensing spacecraft.

Sathyabama University

The chancellor, Dr. Jeppiaar was unanimously elected as President of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) - Chennai Chapter for the term 2010 to 2012 .

Stationary-wave integrated Fourier transform spectrometry

In 2004, two French researchers, Etienne Le Coarer from Joseph Fourier University and Pierre Benech from INP Grenoble, coupled sensing elements to the evanescent part of stationary waves within a single-mode waveguide.

Sterol regulatory element-binding protein

In addition to S1P and S2P, the regulated release of transcriptionally active SREBP requires the cholesterol-sensing protein SREBP cleavage activating protein (Scap), which forms a complex with SREBP owing to interaction between their respective carboxy-terminal domains.

Submarine warfare

Modern submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using weapons (like torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons), as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.

Thiolactone

Thiolactone rings can also be found in peptides synthesized by bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus in order to regulate their quorum-sensing system.

Videography

The arrival of computers and the Internet created a global environment where videography covered many more fields than just shooting video with a camera, including digital animation (such as Flash), gaming, web streaming, video blogging, still slideshows, remote sensing, spatial imaging, medical imaging, security camera imaging, and in general the production of most bitmap- and vector-based assets.

Zafar Muhammad Khan

Sensing a deteriorating military scenario with the move of Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant close to East Pakistan, the Pakistan Navy launched a covert reconnaissance mission codenamed "Operation Falcon".

Zytronic

As a result the touch display can be completely protected from external factors and has a far greater resistance to rough treatment of all forms – abrasion, shock, vibration, extreme heat levels, adverse weather conditions and exposure to harmful chemicals in contrast with other traditional touch sensing techniques, such as optical, acoustic, capacitive, infra-red or resistive screens.


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