While the Art Deco power station is to be converted into the inevitable shopping mall, it will be twinned with a huge office complex naturally ventilated by a transparent, 300m-high funnel rising from an enormous transparent dome.
German and Latvian biologists took a giant first step toward understanding the mysteries of bat migration today, setting up a 15-meter-high funnel-shaped net to waylay flying mammals traveling across Europe.
And some high schools funnel their best students into elite science competitions that require years of work and lengthy research papers: a few thousand students enter such contests each year.
Based on this, it has been inferred that a protein's energy landscape is shaped like a high-dimensional funnel with very many high-energy states surrounding a deep global minimum (native state) [15], [16].
The three ion funnels were operated as follows: high-pressure funnel RF 100 Vpp (peak-to-peak) at 1.5 MHz, 150 V DC; trapping funnel RF 100 Vpp at 1.2 MHz, 180 V DC; rear funnel RF 100 Vpp at 1.2 MHz, 200 V DC.
Thus, it might use proxies to set off car bombs in world capitals or funnel high explosives to insurgents in Afghanistan to attack American and NATO troops.
Submarine canyons have steep courses with high walls and funnel occasional dense slurries of water and terrigenous sediment (turbidity currents) to the abyssal seafloor.
The payments could range anywhere from $50 to $1,500, officials said, and could be used to reward a range of actions, from scoring well on standardized tests to enrollment in service learning programs, which would funnel high school students into community service work.
Deferred compensation plans allow high earners to funnel part of their salaries and bonuses into a tax-free account.
Because Google sits so high in the funnel, they have little to no context for what query is coming.
The run is named for Barry Corbet, a mountaineer who in 1960 spotted a narrow crease of snow shaped like an upside-down funnel, high up on the mountain now known as Jackson Hole.
