Sentence examples for terminal act from inspiring English sources
He survived for a very long time, and then chose not to survive, the terminal act perhaps not at odds with survival but continuous with it: a decision to leave the prison on his own terms, in his own time.
This paper studies a new automated container terminal (ACT) system which utilizes multi-storey frame bridges and rail-mounted trolleys to transport containers between the quay and the yard.
In the considered automated container terminal (ACT) that is designed for Shanghai Yangsha Terminal, two automated stacking cranes (ASCs) are configured for each block and they interact with automated lifting vehicles (ALVs) at the two ends of a block individually.
The stimuli determined the course of the appetitive sequence, and this sequence progressed from general behaviour to specific behaviour, culminating in the terminal act, which was supposed to "use up" the remaining motivational impulses.
Flower and inflorescence reversion involve a switch from floral development back to vegetative development, thus rendering flowering a phase in an ongoing growth pattern rather than a terminal act of the meristem.
Lead binds to calmodulin, a protein which in the synaptic terminal acts as a sensor of free calcium concentration and as a mediator of neurotransmitter release.
If this is the case, how is it possible that GABA released from the nerve terminal acts so specifically on a subsynaptic region but not on another in the same inhibitory synapse?
The terminal acts as conduction point that connects the amplifier to the speaker.
In addition, these terminals act as feeding point to different transport modalities such as rail, road, naval and air.
In a relay enhanced cellular (REC) network, where multiple mobile terminals act as relaying nodes (RNs), multiuser diversity gain can be exploited.
Instead of ignoring this signal as is the case in a classical communication system, in a cooperative system, these nearby terminals act as relays, forwarding to the destination the information received from the source and thus creating additional signal paths [7, 8].
