Sentence examples for a chain of diffusion from inspiring English sources

In April 1940 a short paper by Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, expanding on the idea of critical mass, estimated that a superweapon could be built using several pounds of pure uranium-235 and that this amount of material might be obtainable from a chain of diffusion tubes.

Standardised mechanisms within the Facebook API are used to record 'invitations', Timeline posts and subsequent 'acceptance' or click-throughs by individuals, allowing a clear chain of diffusion to be established back to an initial adopter and a precise calculation of R at each degree of separation.

A chain of participants.

A chain of transmission.

The children's game called 'Telephone' in the USA ('Chinese Whispers' in the UK), provides an example of diffusion chains under which what is transmitted is not stable.

In order to determine finite-size effects deviations from the mean-field limit due to the finite size of the populations in the network we analyze the fluctuations of this Markov chain and set up an approximating system of diffusion processes.

Absorption and distribution are represented as diffusion in a catenary chain of alternating aqueous phases and membranes, with rapid equilibration within the bulks of the compartments.

(B) There is a positive correlation between network centrality, as measured by the classification of nodes in high k-cores, and cascade sizes, suggesting that users at the core of the network are more likely to be the seeds of global chains of information diffusion.

A different molecular mechanism of chain diffusion has been found for this system.

A quantitative description of diffusion follows.

This behavior was attributed to the reduction in crystallizability particularly to the decrease of chain diffusion with the addition of stiffer non-crystallizable PMMA chains.