A student writes that a self-operating light fixture was recently installed outside M.I.T.'s library, with an electric-eye control designed to switch the globe on automatically when darkness falls.
To illustrate how complex and self-operating free markets are, Kernen pays homage to Leonard Read's legendary 50-year-old essay elucidating the numerous efforts and processes involved in the manufacturing of the seemingly simple pencil.
The car is self-operating, so use the wall-mounted phone to ring the mountain station before boarding, then pay the 13 Swiss franc round-trip fare as you exit.
Executive function is all about controlling self.
Apart from the improvement in the phenotyping throughput, the FlyCatwalk also reduces the necessary labor to one person, because it is fully self-operating after the flies have been loaded.
In sum, the traditional system of procedure was largely self-operating.
The user occasionally needs to reload flies but otherwise is free to leave, as the FlyCatwalk is fully self-operating.
In this paper, a self-operating photocathode based on CdS quantum dots sensitized three-dimensional (3D) nanoporous NiO was designed and created, which showed highly selective and reversible response to dissolved oxygen (acting as electron acceptor) in the electrolyte solution.
As a permanent solution, the board sought, and received, approval from unit owners for a $130,000 plan to install self-operating "mini-lifts," one on each side of the lobby, that can be used to reach the passenger elevators.
"Plants are able to create scalable networks of self-maintaining, self-operating, and self-repairing units," he said.
For instance, families will be able to see how Goldberg (1883-1970), a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, imagined a "self-operating napkin".
